Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1911 — As You Value Your Pate Don’t Ask About the New Depot. [ARTICLE]

As You Value Your Pate Don’t Ask About the New Depot.

How many times a day do you think Agent Beam and his assistants have been asked the question, “When are you going to move into the new depot?" Well, it would be hard to answer,, but it is safe to say that practically every person that has had business at the depot has asked the question for the past month. Sometimes Agent Beam has tried to tell the truth, but not knowing just when the removal would be made, It has required a good deal of his time to explain to the satisfaction of every one. The aids at the depot have all become exhausted answering the question. Finally Dor P. Beam, the third assistant, determined upon a plan hoped to stall all inquisitions and the following bulletin was posted: NOTICE! NOTICE! To all concerned: , We expect to occupy our new station when it is completed. Signed W. H. Beam. G. E. Wilcox, F. X. Busha, D. P. Beam, C. A. Koepkey, Committee Notwithstanding this repulsing bulletin, which is posted just outside the ticket window, about every other person asks the question anyway. But the agent and his aids do not have to talk, they just point at the bulletin. Richard Burk, a big and jovial appearing gentleman, who as a clerk in the office of Mr. Cqldwell, one of the Monon officials, has been watching up the depot matters closely, was meekly approached by The Republican reporter. We did not know but he had joined the alliance and been committed to silence. He spoke reluctantly but politely and said in substance that the depot would be all completed by November Ist, ready for occupancy, BUT, all capitals, he did not know whether removal would be ordered before the water tank was erected. The tank will have to be up before the engines can be watered there and if the new defat was used it would require trains to make two stops. He said it would be about four days after the tank arrived before it would be ready for use. The present tank must be left standing until the other one is erected. Then the ent one will be torn down, as will the old depot, to provide for the track extension. This is the best information we have about removal and we hope it will keep you from troubling the agent. Whoever has the audacity to ask “When are you going to move?” after this notice, had'better put on the soft pedal and have has pants padded.