Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on April 8, 1941.
T’ Heck With the War! It’s Spring Again!
April showers may bring May flowers, but it takes Old Sol to bring out Valparaiso’s fairest blossomsーthe youngsters. Monday when the temperature started going up for the first time The Vidette-Messenger cameraman got the itch to record some of the first signs of a new season and this is the result. At Banta he found this group of kidsーhappy as the robins who have been raising such a turmoil these early spring mornings just under your bedroom window. On Monroe street, near Morgan, he spotted a black-eyed Susan riding her tricycle like mad down the sidewalk. Efforts to get the little sub-deb’s name were unavailing but she did favor the man with the camera by flashing a great big grin, even though it was a bit bashful. On Lafayette street the cruising picture-reporter found Mrs. Keith Brownell busy at her garden work. (The street department will shortly issue a plea to citizens asking that they refrain from burning litter on bituminous asphalt pavements. Mrs. Brownell is quite beyond criticism in the lower photo, however, since she is burning leaves on a brink pavement, which fire does not injure.)
