Mexico Evening Ledger, 9 April 1917:
Al Bennett, "Reuben Dill" is dead. Goodfellow, a writer of paragraphs and a friend of everyone, died Saturday night in the State Hospital at Fulton where he has been for several years. For many years he was a type-setter on Mexico papers, but for 15 or 20 years previous to his health failing he was the correspondent for the Ledger from Cottonwood Springs, Colorado. With his own particular style of humor he made this resort and the Hotel Waverly famous throughout the state. His paragraphs were often copied by the large papers as well as many of the smaller publications in Missouri.
He was well known to the Senior Editor of the Ledger from boyhood up, as he was a compositor in this office and later was a special writer under the nam de plume "Reuben Dill". Al was born a printer and grew up in a printing office. There must have been some printer's ink somewhere around when he took his first nourishment, because he repeatedly said he could "live on it". He was a confirmed bachelor.
When Jefferson Davis visited Fulton to speak at the county fair in 1875, Bennett was chosen as the official reporter to accompany the welcoming party to meet Davis' train & escort him to Fulton via Mexico.
Al Bennett, "Reuben Dill" is dead. Goodfellow, a writer of paragraphs and a friend of everyone, died Saturday night in the State Hospital at Fulton where he has been for several years. For many years he was a type-setter on Mexico papers, but for 15 or 20 years previous to his health failing he was the correspondent for the Ledger from Cottonwood Springs, Colorado. With his own particular style of humor he made this resort and the Hotel Waverly famous throughout the state. His paragraphs were often copied by the large papers as well as many of the smaller publications in Missouri.
He was well known to the Senior Editor of the Ledger from boyhood up, as he was a compositor in this office and later was a special writer under the nam de plume "Reuben Dill". Al was born a printer and grew up in a printing office. There must have been some printer's ink somewhere around when he took his first nourishment, because he repeatedly said he could "live on it". He was a confirmed bachelor.
When Jefferson Davis visited Fulton to speak at the county fair in 1875, Bennett was chosen as the official reporter to accompany the welcoming party to meet Davis' train & escort him to Fulton via Mexico.
Mexico Evening Ledger, 9 April 1917:
Al Bennett, "Reuben Dill" is dead. Goodfellow, a writer of paragraphs and a friend of everyone, died Saturday night in the State Hospital at Fulton where he has been for several years. For many years he was a type-setter on Mexico papers, but for 15 or 20 years previous to his health failing he was the correspondent for the Ledger from Cottonwood Springs, Colorado. With his own particular style of humor he made this resort and the Hotel Waverly famous throughout the state. His paragraphs were often copied by the large papers as well as many of the smaller publications in Missouri.
He was well known to the Senior Editor of the Ledger from boyhood up, as he was a compositor in this office and later was a special writer under the nam de plume "Reuben Dill". Al was born a printer and grew up in a printing office. There must have been some printer's ink somewhere around when he took his first nourishment, because he repeatedly said he could "live on it". He was a confirmed bachelor.
When Jefferson Davis visited Fulton to speak at the county fair in 1875, Bennett was chosen as the official reporter to accompany the welcoming party to meet Davis' train & escort him to Fulton via Mexico.
Al Bennett, "Reuben Dill" is dead. Goodfellow, a writer of paragraphs and a friend of everyone, died Saturday night in the State Hospital at Fulton where he has been for several years. For many years he was a type-setter on Mexico papers, but for 15 or 20 years previous to his health failing he was the correspondent for the Ledger from Cottonwood Springs, Colorado. With his own particular style of humor he made this resort and the Hotel Waverly famous throughout the state. His paragraphs were often copied by the large papers as well as many of the smaller publications in Missouri.
He was well known to the Senior Editor of the Ledger from boyhood up, as he was a compositor in this office and later was a special writer under the nam de plume "Reuben Dill". Al was born a printer and grew up in a printing office. There must have been some printer's ink somewhere around when he took his first nourishment, because he repeatedly said he could "live on it". He was a confirmed bachelor.
When Jefferson Davis visited Fulton to speak at the county fair in 1875, Bennett was chosen as the official reporter to accompany the welcoming party to meet Davis' train & escort him to Fulton via Mexico.
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