Mattoon

The mad gasser that he'd come to be known probably never existed.

In September 1944, the small town of Mattoon, Illinois, was dealing with the same thing everyone else in America was, World War II.

Husbands and sons were overseas.

Families were worried.

He immediately went outside to investigate and saw a figure running away from their house.

The next morning, the Kearneys reported the incident to the police, and that's when things spiraled out of control.

The local newspaper, the Mattoon Daily Journal Gazette, ran a story about the attack.

The headline was dramatic.

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Bruce and Mattoon, I won tickets.

What is one item I need to get?

Go ahead, Evan.

And I did recruiting in Springfield, Illinois.

And then I tried to get so good that they gave me a station in Mattoon, Illinois.

That's where I was.

Illinois university is.

In the latter part of May, Governor Yates detailed Captain Grant to look after Camp Yates, and that occupied him for a time, but gave no promise of advancement.

At last one day he came to Captain Chet Lane in camp and said to him, "They have asked me to go down to Mattoon to muster in a regiment which is going into camp there." And then he also confessed that his money had so completely given out that he would be unable to make the journey unless some friend would advance him fifteen dollars.

The small sum was found, and Grant went down to Mattoon, and spent a day or two with the new regiment, giving its officers the benefit of his military experience.

He returned to Springfield, and again there was a time of waiting.

Grant's services declined in four states.

Seeking out Colonel Chet Lane, he bade him good-by, and then returned to his home in Galena, utterly despondent, and believing that for the time at least there was no chance for an obscure military man, since the politicians were making the officers for the regiments and brigades.

A colonel at last, but without horse or uniform.

In his brief services at Mattoon, however, Grant had sown better seed than he knew.

In fact, not many places, the Office Tavern, as we know it today, didn't open until 95.

And I said, but a guy in Mattoon who I'd been to, a place called On Broadway, and they really appealed to – Mattoon High School graduates.

They had pictures and all over the place of memorabilia.

And I said, this will fly in Lincoln.

Ooh.

Um, there is a small town in Illinois called Mattoon-

Mm

... and they have a restaurant called Burger King.

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... and because the mom-and-pop Burger King burgers slap.

If you're ever in the middle of nowhere Illinois driving through Mattoon, it is absolutely worth a stop.

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His summer internship ended.

He took one week off to work at McHugh's in Mattoon, and he'll be back with us, I believe, on Friday.

There's a part of me that was kind of hoping we'd get Pierce on Mondays because I'd love to have him and Lehman work together.

I'd love to see what would happen.