Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1913 — A Doubtful Transaction. [ARTICLE]

A Doubtful Transaction.

“I don’t know whether my oldest boy is treating me right or not,” said Mr. Bliggins rather gloomily. “I told him that if he wouldn’t smoke until he was twenty-one years old I would give him a thousand dollars.” "Did he keep his part of the agreement?” “Yes, but he took the thousand dollars and bought an interest in a cigar store.”