Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1915 — UNIMPORTANT IF TRUE [ARTICLE]

UNIMPORTANT IF TRUE

The man who can seldom gt~ canned. -j And some people think undertakers make overcharges. Hitch your water wagon to a star, driver, and let 'er go. , And we suppose the price of eggs will begin to go down now. Funny, but when blacksmiths go on strike they just quit striking. Ride on the water wagon today and you won’t have a headache tomorrow. Well, the first four years of the new century have been hummers, haven’t they? Some people demand a great deal with the expectation of compromising on a little. The man who talks about it least is the one who is apt to stay on the water wagon the longest. What has become of the old-fash-ioned man who claimed to understand the Mexican situation? Mather and girls are knitting for the Belgians, and father has <£o buy a new pair of socks every week. You may look for an improvement in some of the paragraph columns, now that the new almanacs are out. A story is told of a tight-wad who refused to buy a calendar for fear he would not live the year out and would be unable to use it all up.—Washington Herald.