Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1913 — Marshal After Porkers Who Expectorate on the Sidewalk. [ARTICLE]

Marshal After Porkers Who Expectorate on the Sidewalk.

Marshal Sheslcr has been trying to break up the habit of a number of people have of spitting on the sidewalks and he has so far avoided arresting any person for the offense, but'patience is apt to cease at almost any time and when it does arrests will follow. f > It is probable that tobacCo oh ewers often do not realize how offensive their habit is to others and they may enjoy looking at a big gob of their masticated quid and it, but to others the habit is disgusting and there is nothing uglier thap a tobacco stained sidewalk. The Republican believes in <t>rrection of these minor offenses Without arrests if possible and also has confidence that the great majority of the people desire-to conform tt> the law and to abide by measures calculated for the preservation of public health. To these ends we suggest that every person, tobacco chewers and non-chewerS, avoid setting on the sidewalks. Let us help the marshal by being respectable, all for the good of Rensselaer. Placards displayed in public places truthfully say: “Do not spit on the Aoots or sidewalks. To do so is a violation of the law and may be the means of sprea<Lng disease.”