Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1915 — Didn’t Walt to Learn Details. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Walt to Learn Details.

A gentleman, clad in a plug hat and an air of determination, together with sundry other garments not necessary to enumerate, uprose on a dry goods box at the most prominent corner, in the village and, holding aloft a vile and wriggling serpent, invited, in stentorian tones, all good people within the sound of his voice to gather around him for profit and entertainment. “What d’ye s’pse is cornin’ off?” inquired a citizen, addressing the Old Codger. “D’know!” snarled the veteran. “Prob’ly he’s some infernal officeseeker who is going to promise, if we elect him, to get rid of all the snakes in the county by eating ’em. Anyhow, I’m going home! G’day, Ellsworth!” —Kansas City Star.