Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library

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then I went up to Joliet-awful long time I was up there in Joliet,
around there. I vent to Rockford and I went up to Rock Island and Moline
and all up through there. I been--I traveled all the time. The last
five or six years I w s on the road mst the time.
Q: About: when ws that, the last--you man the last-before you retired?
A: Yes, just about the last four or five years before I retired it ms
t'hat lay but . . .
Q: Did kanb ever go with you?
A: No she couldn't. She ms tmrkingl
Q: Oh I'm--yes she, she mrked £ran--she mrked right on up . . .
A: Yes she mrked tm years after I retired.
Q: Yes that's right.
A: k she was, no. . . . see she started out--oh yes she mrhd quite a
bit because when Mary and Sally =re born she ms off for a while Eut:
during the war they asked her to care back to mrk out there at Leader
Iron see and she writ back to mrk out to Leader Iron krks. And she
worked out there quite a dile until I think the man that she mrked for
died and then she c m haw for a little bit and saw gal, gal she knew
asked her--told her she ms going to quit her job with Engineering Service
and your gxandmther went dom there and asked her, got that job. And
she m s the secretary and treasurer of Fngineering Sewice until she
died. (tape turned off)
A: I got one here I want to tell you about a joke this fellow pulled on
us one tim out here at the signal depot when the United States government
had that during the kxld kr 11. They had a fellow out there that was
head of security and te ere putting in s m special equipent for him
out there--for the government--and this fellow was a retired Army man I
think because of the wy he acted. And he said--he wanted us to m e
s- equipnent that w weren't supposed to me, m e
it and vie said e
muldn't do it. And as we were wxking in his office there and he said
to the girl in his office--his stenographer there-he says, "Say, did I
wer tell you about the fellow that got hit in the head with a piece of
iron and it injured him real bad and he ws taken to the hospital and he
ms unconscious?" And he said, 'They took him to the hospital and they
operated on him and. . . . and it was a bad operation. 'Ihey had an
awful time kt they finally got through the operation and put him back in
his room to recuperate and everything and after they got through the
operation why, the surgeon looked around and he saw that he'd taken s-
of the guy's brains out of his head and hadn't put them back in. So he
says, 'Oh boy, I mde an awful mistake. Tnat 's going to be smthimg bad.
I'll tell you, ' he says, 'when that man canes around and m? can talk to
him were going to have to tell him abut it. ' " And, so, he said, "Finally
the fellow CUIE around so they go in and talk to him and the doctor went
in and said to him, 'Say, I got something that I have to tell you. I
hate to do it, but it WS smthing that happened. k were in such a
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