Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1914 — WONDERED WHY HE DIDN’T GET RESULT [ARTICLE]

WONDERED WHY HE DIDN’T GET RESULT

Rex Warner Spent Greater Fart or Day Trying to Pump Cistern Dry-Found It Was Well

A splendid Joke is told on Rex Warner.

We will let you in on the secret if you will promise not to tell anybody, for it is dredfully embarrassing for a newlywed to have things of this kind become public. Rex decide dto take advantage of the dry weather to have his cistern cleaned and he set in to pump the water out. He worked industriously and that means that he kept right on the job, for Rex Is a worker. Occasionally 'he would stop to look into the cistern to ascertain the progress and he found that ha Was not making much. He returned to the job each time with renewed determination. Finally, when it was about supper time he looked hi again and found that he had lowered the water only about three inches. Then he called the attention of some one else ,to the slow progress and it was found that he had been pumping at the well instead of the cistern. Rex lives in the former C. Kellner property and some one had given him a “bum switch” as to which was the cistern and which the well.