Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1912 — Too Much Smith. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Smith.

Because there are 111 Smiths in Middletown, without ooanting the children, and eight of the number having George as - their Christian name, George B. Smith, a life insurance man, has applied to the courts for permission to change his name to George B. Stanwood. Mr. Smith has come to dislike the name because he thinks that' half of the HI other .Smiths have been receiving his mail, and as he is a business man, he likes to get bis mall as quickly as possible What the other ill Smitha, who are, presumed to be proud of their ancestral name, think about the .matter can only be aurmlsed.—N#w York Bun.