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GRANT COUNTY, KANSAS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
ECHOES OF KANSAS TORNADO Ulysses Badly Damaged; Two Persons Injured Topeka, Kas., June 27 - Word has just been received here that Ulysses, Kas., ?00 miles southwest of Topeka, was struck by a tornado. Accompanied by a heavy hailstorm late last night. Two of the largest dwellings in the town, together with many barns and outbuildings were destroyed. The three daughters of A. S. Miller were injured, one of them seriously. Nearly all the windows in town were broken by the hail. Ulysses is ?? miles off the railroad. (Gazette-Telegraph, June 28, 1907, page 1) THE GOING OF ULYSSES A Kansas City man said he always preferred red-headed office boys to any other kind, as he had found them to be unusually sagacious and alert; but he discovered recently that some of them are too much so. One day, returning from a short out of town trip, he went to his office and mentioned interrogatively that Ulysses, his promising assistant, was nowhere in sight and the stenographer replied that he had not shown up. Lifting up the last mail on his desk he found a note addressed to him in a very familiar, broad, vertical handwriting. "Dear Mr. Cross," he said, "please accept my resignation to take effect yesterday. I got a better place with less work and more pay. Respectively. "Ulysses S. G. Parker." (Emporia Gazette, May 31, 1913, page 3)
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