Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1910 — C. Kelner, the lce Man More Troubles Than Job. [ARTICLE]

C. Kelner, the lce Man More Troubles Than Job.

C. Kellner, the ice man, is considerably broken down as a result of the hard work he has been doing. A few days ago he severely sprained his left hand and has since had it bandaged up. Yesterday he found that h$ had a carbuncle on his right hand and that member went into a sling. He has been suffering from the rheumatism and walks with a limp and in general appearance he looks like a boy that had been celebrating the 4th of July in an unsane fashion. There is one thing left that Cooney can do with comfort and that is to sit down; thus far nothing has developed to prevent him from doing that. This calls to mind a story told us a few months ago by Brother Crampton, of the Carrol County CitizenTimes. An order for vaccination had been made in a town where there were a number of colored people and one old washerwoman declined to be vaccinated. Finally the health officer called upon her and told her that she must be vaccinated. She said, “Now, look a heah, doctah, I ain’t got no time tc be vaccinated I can’t be vaccinated on mah arms, caze I use mah arms to wash with every day, and I can’t be vaccinated on mah legs caze I just stand up at the wash tub from mornin’ till night.”

The doctor was puzzled and finally said, “Well, Eliza, you will have to be vaccinated anyway, and you must make arrangements for it.” To which Eliza replied, “Well doctah, if I has to I has to I suppose, and I Jus now thought ob a place, I hardiy eber sits down.”If an order for vaccination was to be made now, Cooney would be in a terrible fix, for sitting down is about the only thing he can do.