Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1914 — MR SLICKSMITH BEETS A FROST. [ARTICLE]

MR SLICKSMITH BEETS A FROST.

Only Person Who Would Fall for Hl* Game was Busy. ~ “Now, my dear sir," earnestly began the suave stranger, with • the uptilted cigar and unauthenticated diamond, “these handsomely engraved bonds of the Consolidated Mexican Milkweed Ruber Compapy, which are positively guaranteed to return a 69 per cent semi-annual dividend, and "I don’t'really s’pose you can do much dealing in ’em around here, Mr. Slicksmith,” frankly Interrupted the landlbrd of the tavern at Skeedee Corners. “You see, the only man In the community who might otherwise take an interest In your glittering proposition has been for some time engaged In the payment of an election bet wherein he was solemnly sworn to roll a peanut eight miles by means of a toothpir’c, which, speaking in round members, will be likely to keep him busy till along about the latter past of next May that he won’t have time to make a fool of himself in any other way. Looks considerable like rain, off to the south’rd, don’t it?’’