Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1910 — A Disappointment. [ARTICLE]

A Disappointment.

Such a dreadful disappointment as the ladies of the Main street church had in the new minister,” sighs the caller. “Why? What was wrong? Wasn’t he orthodox?” asks the hostess. O, his principles were sound enough, but you know they had been without a pastor all fall, and engaged this man without seeing him, and—” “Bless me! What could have .been the matter?” "I’m coming to that. _ As he was to arrive the first of December, they thought they might as well have his Christmas presents prepared and out of the way of other things. And when he came, he proved to be a man who had both legs amputated after a railroad wreck, and now all the ladles who made carpet slippers for him are terribly put out over It.”