Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1914 — He Had Feared It. [ARTICLE]

He Had Feared It.

Fanner Hornihand drove up for his first visit to his son and new daughter-in-law in town. I

As he was'about to dismount from the wagon, he noticed a sign fastened to a little tree-box in front of their residence:; - * “Don’t Hitch Here.”

“Too dum bad,” he murmured. “I al'ays knowed they wouldn’t git t al6ng good, but mother’ll be awful beat out when I tell her they’re advertisin’ it!"