Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1910 — A Dead Town. [ARTICLE]

A Dead Town.

An old doctor who practises In a town not far from Chicago recently made this boast: “I have brought half the people of this place Into the world and buried the other half.” "I had an idea,” said the stranger to whom the doctor's remarks had been addressed, “that about half the people in this town were dead but ■till unburied.”