Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1911 — Our Grocery Clerk Says, What a Boy! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Our Grocery Clerk Says, What a Boy!

The errand boy's been at it again. You could drop that boy from the Washington monument and he’d never hurt himself, providing he had presence of mind enough to land on his head. The kid ran into the this morning waving a green back. “Mrs Tite wants $5 worth of persimmons,’ he fires at me. “Mussy,” I says, “I don’t believe we’ve got that many. I wonder wha» the stingy old dame is going to dc —give a persimmon r'»rty?”

“Dunno,” says bonehead, “but s'n* wants ’em.” Well, I certainly did scrap* around some for those persimmons Finally I chased the kid around th* corner to get a dollar’s amrth to com plete the order. They pretty nea filled his pushcart. In about 15 minutes Mrs. Tit* comes steaming in with the kid b; tpe ear. “I gave hijn $5 to give to Pa Sim mons and look what he brings me!' she yells. *“I won’t stand for It Bow! wow-wow!” Pa Simmons is the man of all work that hangs around the plac* when he's not working, and Mrs. Tlt< owed him a fiver. Pa Simmons, per simmons! Oh, say!