"This replica of a monument, placed on the site of the old Sideboard Restaurant next to the Tompkins County Trust Company building some time Wednesday night, attracted considerable attention on Thursday and today.....
The 'monument,' constructed of heavy cardboard and shaped to perfection, read:
'In Memory of the Old Sideboard, 1841-1941,' with this epitaph:
Here lies the ghost of old Bow [Beau] Benton
Who started all the argumentin
That always made the Sideboard jolly
Those were the good old days by golly.'"

"A Monumental Matter," Ithaca Journal, November 21, 1941, 3.