Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1911 — The “Dear Fiends.” [ARTICLE]

The “Dear Fiends.”

A prominent sportsman, who is president of an equally prominent club of fellow sportsmen, recently had a scrap with them and it became necessary for him to write them, a letter. His stenographer, in gay and lightsome mood peculiar to the members of her craft, inadvertently dropped an “r” and began the letter “Deal* Fiends." The president, preoccupied with the subject matter of the letter, signed it without observing the omission and the communication reached the club as originally written. The president pro tern is a man of gentle voice, beseeching manners and limpid humor. In sweet, almost girlishly silver tones he announced at a club dinner, “I have here a letter from our esteemed president, who is not with us this evening, and it becomes my pleasure to read the communication to you at this moment It is as follows: ‘Dear Fiends.’ ” Here he paused solemnly, but for only a iaoment. The club members, recognizing the situation, yelled one mighty yell, as men may at a stag dinner, and the scrap with their president was over. Thus may one touch of the typewriter artist make the whole club kin.