Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1915 — Shooting Up the Town. [ARTICLE]

Shooting Up the Town.

Bill—l see for lighting gas burners an inventor has patented a pistol in which a spring shoots a rod of flint through a roughened steel ring, producing a shower of sparks. Jill —If it is adopted for street lighting I suppose it will be said at eventide that it is about time for the lamplighter to shoot up the town.