Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1913 — Building a Sandbar Tight Cement Fence Near Winamac. [ARTICLE]

Building a Sandbar Tight Cement Fence Near Winamac.

Pulaski County Democrat. J, T. Washburn, of Indian Creek township, <was in Winamac Saturday hauling oat to his farm part of 40 barrels of cement which he is using to build a fence. It is to be a tight fence, too—not only cattle, hog and chicken tight, but mouse, flea and sand tight as well. A sand hill adjoining his cattle yard has aggravated him for years by shedding over onto the cattle quarters when the wind was high. This fence, 165 feet in length, will faee two sides of the cattle yard and is calculated to keep the sand off the latter. It is to he 7 feet high, 16 inches thick at the bottom and tapered to 8 inches at the top. It will eat up a lot of material in the building, and probably will cost approximately $1 per lineal foot, but he expects it to do , him a lot of good. The editor of an exchange doesn’t want anyone to send him any more copies of hie paper in which they have found mistakes. If they find a perfect copy, however, he offers a big price for it. He adds: “If the fool critic who hunts for mistakes in the papers would find them all he would be kept busy. We will be pleased to buy copies of any paper which can be proven entirely free from errors, either typographically or in statements of fact. We will be pleased to find the merchant who never made a mistake in putting up an order; a lawyer who never lost a case through his own error; a doctor who never wrongly diagnosed a case; a druggist who never made a mistake; a posfcoffice official who never put mail into the. wrong box; a woman who never forgot to put in the salt while cooking or to put the tea in the teapot before putting in the water. Bring on some of your mistakeless paragons who find it so easy to criticize the papers and we’ll give them the chance of their lives to find out whether they arc human.”