Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1915 — Monument Shone as Ghost. [ARTICLE]

Monument Shone as Ghost.

“Ise seed dat ghost dar ev’ry night fob a week,” declared Henry W. Locksmith, a local colored man, as he stood with chattering teeth on North Hanover street, with his eyes riveted on" a white object In Pottstown cemetery. Henry was frightened sure, and Robert C. Hawk, a wellknown printer, to whom he had told his story, saw, too, the ghostly figure. Hawk, however, ridiculed the idea of such things, and the colored man became angry, but finally agreed to accompany him into the cemetery. The “ghost” never moved, and this caused Locksmith to tote along Very Slowly behind. Hawk braced him up with words of encouragement, and when they came close to the “thing in white” they found that it was a highly polished granite monument upon which the reflection from a distant arc electric light had played and made it seem pure white. —Pottatown (Pa.) Dispatch to the Philadelphia Record.