Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1910 — A Standing Joke. [ARTICLE]

A Standing Joke.

Trains were always slow and far between on the branch road. Nobody knew this better than the people at the .junction—except perhaps those on the branch itself. It was an old story to them, and the jokes about the situation were many and good. One day the news dealer at the junction station came home to lunch, grinning: broadly to himself. “What’s the joke?” asked his wife. “You look pretty well pleased with, yourself.” “Oh, nothing particular,” he replied, “excepting an odd fellow from the end of the line said a funny thing. “He’d missed m his train, and there wasn’t another for two hours. He came to the counter to buy some reading matter. eH asked for a joke book, and I said I didn’t keep them. Then he pawed over the stock, and finally said, ‘Well, I guess I’ll take a timetable instead.’ ”