Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1910 — WILLY WAS TOO LIBERAL [ARTICLE]

WILLY WAS TOO LIBERAL

Oversupply of Alcoholic Stimulant* Disturbed Schedule of Funeral Arrangements. Dean Ramsay’s memoirs contain ms anecdote of an old woman of Stratl»pey. Just before her death she solemnly Instructed her grandnephew—- “ Willy, I’m deein’, and as ye’ll hae th» charge o’ a’ I have, mind now that aa much whisky is to be used at my forneral as there was at my baptism." Willy, having no record of the quantity consumed at the baptism, decided to give every mourner as much as be wished, with the result that the f»neral procession, having to travexa* ten miles to the chruchyard on * short November day, arrived only ah nightfall. Then It was discovered that sh» mourners, halting at a wayside inm. had rested the coffin on a dyke and left it there when they resumed thefar journey. The corpse was a day lat* In arriving at the grave.