Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1911 — Valpo Man Has Bureau That Belonged to Israel Putnam. [ARTICLE]

Valpo Man Has Bureau That Belonged to Israel Putnam.

Valparaiso Vidette. Down in Sol Ramsey’s second-hand •tore fa ft!) 014 bureau and if it could only speak it could probably fell an interesting story. It is a clumsy looking old piece of furniture and was made in the long ago by some patient workman who worked with tools 'of a crude nature, as can be seen by any careful observer. It used to be the property of Israel Putnam, the man who left his oxen hitched to a plow in the field and hurried away to war, and who according to the old talesmen, shot the wolf id* his den by the light of the animal’s eyes. This old relic is not in the second-hand store for sale, but Mr. Ramsey found it in his rambles and induced the owners to let him have it just to show to his customers.

It is owned by Charles and William Scarborough, two old men who. live together on West Chicago street. They will be done with it before many years, for they are both real old, 84 and 79 years respectively, and then the bureau will pass on to their heirs.

The bureau is an odd looking piece of furniture and, in this age, should a workman turn out such a specimen of his craft he would be considered a bungler indeed. BiPwthis was way back in the days when perhaps a knife was the sole tool with which to do the carving. Where the keyholes were cut and, the lock set in, it shows the crudeness of the olden times.

The brothers showed a reporter eh okl wooden wheel clock which has been in the family seventy-five ye'trs. It will not run for one of the wooden wheels has a few cogs missing.