Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1910 — ’Tis the Kellys Who Are Proud Now [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

’Tis the Kellys Who Are Proud Now

CHICAGO. —Several hundred Chicago Kellys have received letters recently informing them that they are descendants of ancient Irish kings, and for the modest sum of one dollar they will be sent the famous Kelly coat of arms. The letters are pent out by a Philadelphia concern that makes a business of looking up “family trees,” and the Kellys all over the United States are receiving the glad news. The “discovery” that Kelly was once a king of Ireland was made by a representative of the Philadelphia concern “after years of research In the libraries of Dublin, Cork and Belfast.” The ancestral coat of arms is something that every Kelly should have—according to the letter—and as there are only a few thousand left, It behooves Kelly to remit his one dollar withoqt delay. The letter in part is as follows: Mr. Kelly—Dear Sir: We have Just received from our agent in Dublin a rare old engraving of the coat of arms

of the Kelly family. We are now producing this for framing and printing a pamphlet, describing it and giving the lineal descent of the first Kelly from. Heremon, first king of Ireland, and through a long line of Irish monarchal Only enough will be printed to fill advance orders. The price is only one dollar. Send cash with order.” Have you noticed Kelly since he got the word from Philadelphia? He holds his head higher than usual and he will hardly bow to the Gradys and the Reillyß. “What’s come over Kelly?” is ths question his neighbors are asking. When a Kelly meets a Kelly they, shake hands cordially and the conversation is about their ancestral coat of arms. ' "I always knew that Kelly was onb of the best names In Ireland,”’ said Edward T. Kelly, president of the E. T. Kelly company, publishers, “but 1 didn’t know we were descendants ofi kings until I got the letter from si ‘family tree’ concern the other day. More than fifty men of my name have spoken to mo about it, as they also received letters on the subject. “There is only one way to spell thw name, and that is K-e-double »-jr. Those who slip in the extra E between L and Y are not the real Kellys, tlw descendants of Irish royalty.”