Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1887 — A Good Sidewalk. [ARTICLE]

A Good Sidewalk.

A widower and his daughter were going to church when they met the Mayor. “I wish you would order a new sidewalk constructed in front of my residence, Mr. Mayor,” said the widower. “I thought you had a sidewalk,” replied the Mayor! “Yes, there is a sort of a thing, but it is only one board wide.” “Law sakes, pap i ?” put in the young girl, “it is wide enough for me and Augustus to walk on, and you know he weighs two hundred pounds. Gus and me never likes wide sidewalks. We can walk on it and never scrouge.”— C. V. Walls, in Newman Independent.