Backers

In Los Angeles, Charles Creighton and James D. Harris of St. Louis said that they had backed their automobile all the way from New York in 18 days at 8 m.p.h., the motor running continuously. Two friends in a refueling car accompanied them, will follow them when they back back.

Painter

At Oceanside, L. I., Samuel Cocks, painter, learning that he had inherited $1,000,000 from an uncle who was a rich Sioux Indian, said he would not give up his trade but would acquire a motor and chauffeur to drive him to & from work.

Pulp

In Woodbine, N. J., Justice Jacob S. Levin fined Leon Smith, 20, $10 and costs for taking Margaret Chambers to a cinema without her parents' consent. Soon Justice Levin received the following note from an anonymous, irate New Yorker: "I am going to be in Woodbine next week and if I catch sight of you I'm going to blow you to pulp for fining that young fellow for taking out that girl."

Snakebiter

In Wooster, Ohio, Allen Manson, 17, found a blue racer snake coiled around his neck, bit the reptile until it relaxed and freed him.

Nose

In Fitchburg, Mass., Donald Maegan received a bash on the face from an automobile accident which straightened his nose. His nose had been crooked since a similar accident five years ago.

Congregation

In Kansas City, Mo., the Rev. Carl C. Walker, operator of a prayer tabernacle, left town without paying his divorced wife's alimony. Mrs. Walker went to the tabernacle, seized 193 chairs, a vacuum cleaner, an electric refrigerator, a grand piano, a xylophone, a shotgun, offered them for sale. The congregation paid the alimony to get the church furnishings back.

Finished

At Valparaiso, Ind., Mrs. William Knoll, in nine years seven times married to and six times divorced from the same William Knoll, said that when she got her seventh decree, now pending, she was through with William Knoll.

Robber

In Joplin, Mo., a robber held up Mrs. Amy Haggard, filling station operator. Mrs. Haggard doused him with gasoline, he fired his revolver at her. The bullet missed Mrs. Haggard but the flame ignited the footpad's clothing, sent him away screaming, ablaze.

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