Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — SMILES OUR NOBILITY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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OUR NOBILITY.

An Arizona man who wu In Chicago recently for the purpose of buying "■•▼ oral thousand dollars* worth of ' things that he needed In his business Was entertained at one of the country chibs. " “Now,** said his host before they pent into dinner, “I wish you would do the club the honor of registering. ' |We like to have the signatunes of all prominent men who come here.** The Arizona gentleman looked at the register for the purpose of die covering what other prominent citizens had written their names tbere. and up near the top of the page be noticed the name of Benjamin Hooper 1L A little below that was the name of Addison Bosworth 111. Evidently Mr. Bosworth had been followed by a humorist, for under his name was written John Smith XIV. "Well,” said the Arizonian, "these chaps ain't got nothin’ on me, 1 * guess.” So he wrote: "Hank Wattles I."