Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1911 — Just a Trifle Embarassing is Question from Augusta, Wis. [ARTICLE]

Just a Trifle Embarassing is Question from Augusta, Wis.

Our old friend, Park Sample, writes from 1 Aligusta, Wls., renewing the sub-

scription of himself and his mother, Mrs. Lucy Sample, of Yoder, Colo., to The Republican. In a postscript Park says, ‘‘You didn’t say where you raised the X to break in on the apolonaris fest. Did you touch Parker for that, too? Such questioning is very leading and save for our devotion to our sub ■ scribers would go unanswered. No, Parker anticipated such a request and forestalled it with considerable diplomacy, remarking that collections were hard and Christmas near at hand, etc. It was very easy to gather thfe meaning between his lines of talk and so I didn’t brook the subject to him. Up to this point it had been my full Intention to tell where the tenner came from, but I recognize the injustice of it, for, should the public learn of the victim, he would be besieged with so many who wanted to duplicate my performance that it would break up all his Yuletide happiness. The one beneficial possibility about

this exposure is the influence it should have on delinquent subscribers, causing them to rush in their coin in an effort to relieve the depleted condition of our treasury.

Jesse A. Snyder and Frank Webber will go to Chicago tomorrow to attend the poultry show. Emmett Pullins is exhibiting barred rock chickens and bronze turkeys there.

The Jasper County Democrat undertakes to make light of the article in The Republican which told of democrats who had called at this office to talk about The Democrat’s opposition to Governor Marshall. The editor says that ‘he does not believe it, which of course, is the only manner he sees of getting around it If his egotism would leave Him long enough to see himself in the light the demo cratlc leaders of the county see him, he would be in position to believe things that his blind bridle won’t .per mit him to comprehend. In the me mtime, it is very noticeable that the Marshall supporters among the democrats here have prevailed upon him to pull in his horns, for there was not an anti-Marshall paragraph in the last issue of The Democrat. D. F. Venrick, who formerly lived <in Jasper county, and who has for several years been engaged in the furniture business at DeWitt, Neb., in sending a two years’ renewal for The Semi-Weekly Republican, says: “We have taken The Republican for twen-ty-eight years and get a great deal of pleasure from the perusal of its columns and in noting the improvements being made from time to time in Rensselaer, particularly your new. depot, public schools, etc.'* It is gratifying to know how loyal our fonqer residents remain to their old home and how closely they keep in touch with our advancement even if they have l>een absent for many year*. Xl tew years ago a woman visited Rensselaer after an absence of almost twenty-five years. During all that time she had read The Republican and her relatives here found that she was better posted on many matters that had occurred here than they were themselvea. The interest former residents take In Rensselaer is reciprocated by the friendly feeling here for those who go pway and one of the most pleasant things The iftpublican has to do is to record the success of •w native sons and daughters. Have your sale bills printed at Ths Republican office A raeeriftte Ase wfii ft.