Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1911 — Compares Autoist’s Troubles to Republican “April Fool” Jokes. [ARTICLE]

Compares Autoist’s Troubles to Republican “April Fool” Jokes.

DeMotte Correspondence to Wheatfield Review. Chas. Shook certainly has a good auto in his Hudson 33, and although Charlie has been all swelled up ever since he got his Hudson, yet he has found out that his machine is just like any other auto when certain things happen out on the road. Charlie has been looking wise and giving Caleb Cheever the chesacat grin whenever he met Caleb on the road, but Caleb had the goods on him over about Virgie last week when Caleb found Charlie with his Hudson standing dead still on the road, and great big beads of sweat on Charlie’s forehead from cranking her over a hundred times, more or less and the machine refusing to budge an inch, and say, after Charlie had walked about a mile and borrowed about one half pint of gasoline (aft he had) from Uncle Bill Cooper and then going back the second trip to borrow a pail to get some gasoline from Caleb’s supply tank, maybe he wasn’t hot And then telling Charlie Curtin not to- tell The Review about it. Gee, who wouldn’t get mad Why, that’s worse] than some of them April Fool jokes which were printed in the Rensselaer Republican-.