The Coronation Review was the paper of the region, but the local districts would all have correspondents sending in the news of their area. Most of them did just that, very politely and pleasantly.
Then there was ‘Poke-a-haunt-us’ and ‘Keyhole’. Poke was from Federal and Keyhole was from Coronation, and these two were never polite and rarely pleasant.
I think they had some kind of feud going on with each other judging by the downright nasty remarks they would send to each other in their columns.
They never say their real names and this has my curiosity bouncing again. I study each column and everything that mentions them and cannot find even the slightest clue as to who these two are.
Poke disappeared in 1940 but Keyhole is still with us in 1942. I am pretty sure Keyhole is a man as he mentions ‘us bachelors’ often.
I am printing part of one of Keyhole’s milder columns in the hopes that this will jog someone’s memory and they will help me tame my curiosity.

November 5, 1942
Seen’n Heard
By “Keyhole”
“ According to our way of thinking Charley and Francis would have found their car easily had they glued some feathers on it before hand, tied the horn down and then sneaked up on it on their hands and knees.
Pranksters on the evening of October 31 placed the Town Secretary’s portable bath tub on the Mayor’s front lawn. We stuck around Sunday, hoping to see the Mayor scrub the Secretary’s back but neither showed up.
Seen ‘n Not Heard
Walter Petrow going collegiate with his overshoes flopping. Frank Burns spreading his usual ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. A new hair do, coat and hat admiring itself for the umteenth time. Rev. Jess wearing a hat forecasting the weather ‘very cold’.”
Who was that masked writer?

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