Show bricklayer aged 84 Is on job with boys rushville III all unmindful of the dis pleasures he Is causing the gentle I 1 nan llan with the hour glass and robert kobert a civil war veteran and veteran bricklayer as well celebrated his eighty fourth birthday hy by starting to work with the rest of the bys boys on the addition being built to ta the presbyterian church here sixty years of experience has given him uncanny skill as a brick mason 1 I am not happy unless I 1 keep at my work lie he said it look as though I 1 coufa retire it if I 1 wished there seem to be any young brick masons taking up the trade here wad and the jobs must be done be philosophized six months after taking up brick laying he responded to president lill I ln coins call for volunteers and served with troop tt seventh missouri caa airy for four years and twenty eight eloit days on his return he resumed ills his trado trade and Is still at it there were only two brick buildings in rushville Ru suville then and he claims to have worked on virtually all that have since been constructed ted keeps a n record of lils his dally worl work and Is often called on to verify construction dates |