Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1911 — WEATHER FORECAST. Joe Ellis Is Not Looking For a Housekeeper, By Jinks. [ARTICLE]

WEATHER FORECAST.

Joe Ellis Is Not Looking For a Housekeeper, By Jinks.

• ! Fair, warmer tonight; Tuesday increasing cloudiness and warmer. April 11.—Sun rises 5:29; sets 6:35. Resolved—That, having found the hoe, I will not lend 'it, but will direct all to the hardware store. Ditto rake and spade.

Joe Ellis Is a widower, but he is not looking for a housekeeper, so he says, and we believe he ought to know, Sherm Richards thinks he ought to have one or that is what Joe says, and again it seems that Joe knows what he is talking about. Sunday Joe whs called over to Sherm’s house and told that at the other end of the telephone line was a woman who wanted to get a home for herself and her little boy. Joe talked. The woman said she was at Shelby, but would come to Rensselaer on the milk train and start work. Joe said all right apd she came.

Joe did not meet her at the station and was not even at home. He had gone over to John Carmichael’s with his phonograph. The woman went to Sherm Richards’, house. Joe refused to negotiate for her services and refused to keep her overnight or to pay her railroad fare back to Shelby. He said he was just kidding about the housekeeper proposition and thought Sherm was kidding also. The disappointed woman went back to Shelby Monday morning. She thought she had not been treated right. Sherm says Joe treated her mean and Joe says Sherm was never commissioned to select a housekeeper for him. Joe says his eyesight is good and that he can find a housekeeper if he wants one, but at present he is not in the market. Sherm thinks it was a “dirty trick” to bring the woman here from Shelby and then not give her a night’s lodging. She was taken care of at the Richards home.