Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Painless Decapitation of Hirsute Appendage. [ARTICLE]

Painless Decapitation of Hirsute Appendage.

While Judson H. Perkins, county clerk, Was hanging around the court house Tuesday, anxiously waiting for Charley Warner to Blip off the stool* a bunch of “live wires” thought it was about time he was being ititiated. Sheriff Hoover suggested that the patch of alfalfa growing on Perkins’ chin was entirely too long for practical purposes, and expressed the fear that it might bathe its tossils in the ink well too frequently. The bunch was frenzied at the thought and wasted no time in reaping the hoary harvest. Mr. Perkins seemed somewhat pleased with the change it made in his appearance and went to the- barber shop and had ’em shave the rest of it away. He hadn’t looked his chin square in the face for severs! years, and the result was so satisfactory to him that he became enthused and pronounced the .death sentence on his mustache also. The barber, however, in his cooler judgment, pointed out the fallacy of such action and so the mustache will live to wag another day. Mr. Perkins is passing around-.the cigars and candy today, but whether it is in celebration of his entering office or of having been trimmed, we are not sure.