Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1910 — “What is Wrong at Winamac?" Asks a Peru Newspaper. [ARTICLE]

“What is Wrong at Winamac?" Asks a Peru Newspaper.

“Winamac, the little town on the Panhandle road, which only secured a place on the map because the editors of the two rival newspapers occasionally kick the stuffing out of each other when they meet upon the street, and thus break into the news columns of the city papers, is on the verge of race suicide,” says the Peru Chronicle. "The vital statistics for the months of May and June show that there was not one birth reported in that town during that period. Sixty long days passed without a visit from the stork. The old bird, which comes to Peru quite often, seemingly has forgotten the county seat of Pulaski county. It is possible that he has not had time to go there or it is probable that the old fellow has forgotten that the town is on the map. : “When Roosevelt appears in Indian?, this fall and delivers his speech, a committee of Winamac men will wait upon him and endeavor to have .Teddy journey to their home and Investigate. Something’s wrong in Winamac.” Buy your threshing coal at Maines & Hamilton’s. Phone 273.