Florence Hayes is a journalist for the Green Ville Journal, the daily newspaper in town.
Specifically she covers crime in the Green Ville area.
This responsibility takes her to many different places every week—the police station, the court and the hospital.
Most of the crimes that she writes about fall into two groups: violent crimes and crimes against property.
There isn't much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville, or at least not as much as in the large urban areas.
But assaults often occur on Friday and Saturday nights, near the bars downtown.
There're also one or two rapes on campus every semester.
Florence is very interested in this type of crime and tries to write a long article about each one.
She expects that this will make women more careful when they walk around Green Ville alone at night.
Fortunately, there were usually no murders in Green Ville.
Crimes against property make up most of Miss Heyes' reporting.
They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.
Miss Hayes enjoys working for a newspaper but she sometimes gets unhappy about all the crime she has to report.
She would prefer to start writing about something more interesting and less unpleasant such as local news or politics, maybe next year.