Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-21 | Page 11 | "Sure Thing" Men Are at Work on Streets

SURE THING MEN ARE AREAT AREAT AT WORK ON STREETS Well Dressed Young Men Approach Citizens Who They Attempt to Involve in Game II Sure thing men are working the principal streets of Salt Lake with a game the details of which doth not yet appear but which has been tried in tho the thorough thorough rough tough on several prominent citizens Com Corn Complaint Complaint plaint has been made to the police but If any have lost money they have pre preferred preferred preferred to keep the matter secret a Yesterday one citizen was approached by a man who asked him to define the meaning of the word transpire He Ho said he wanted to decide an argument he ho had Just had with another man He lIe said the other man hud had gotten the word con confused confused confused fused with the word perspire After AHer a short conversation the other man was galled called across the sidewalk Then with the citizen to decide the first man of offered offered feted to bet the j ther was wrong in his hla definition of the word From this a complicated argument arose which finally involved the citizen One of or the men said he had over at atthe atthe atthe the Wilson hotel which he would wager By this time the citizen had wearied of pf the argument and decided to of the new game whatever It was Later in the day another citizen was seen to be In the same kind of an argument argument ment mont with the same two men and then the police department was notified