Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1914 — Dry Weather is Hard on Traveling Umbrella Menders. [ARTICLE]

Dry Weather is Hard on Traveling Umbrella Menders.

This is a bad season on umbrella menders. Five were in town Friday and all looked as disconsolate as so many sick cows. The reporter haled one of them, -saying: • “Well, Old Timer, there’s not weather, is there” • . - “Well I should say not, there are five rain shoot guys in the burg today and they -won’t none of us make bun money.” . • McLaughlin’s earry-us-all arrived here last evening unannounced and the owner today erected it on D. 8. MakeeveFs lot aL the corner of Cullen and Harrison streets, just east of the jail.’