Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1915 — Tries to Chop Foot Off His Neighbor’s Store [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Tries to Chop Foot Off His Neighbor’s Store

CHICAGO. —This happened in the suburb of Glencoe: Charles M. Dennis owns a candy and tobacco store on Park avenue. He had leased it to a young named Alfred Lawrence. The store adjoins a hotel owned and

conducted by Joseph Kalk. Kalk and Dennis do not speak, as Kalk maintains that the tobacco shop overlaps his property just 12 inches. Mr. Dennis decided to lay a new sidewalk in front of the store the other day. Mr. Kalk' eyed the workmen wrath fully, and turned and went back into the hotel. When he reappeared he carried an ax. Mr. Lawrence was selling an all-day sucker to a Juvenile customer when the ax crashed against the wall, caus-

Ing a Jar of gumdrops and ten Pittsburgh stogies to become embarrassed and tumble off the shelf. Mr. Lawrence ran out to find Mr. Kalk trying to chop out of the store the 12 inches which he claims. “Oh, my good man,” he said, “that can’t be done, really it’s impossible.” “Can’t, eh?” and the ax crashed again. “Can't? I'm going to take my loot off the plagued-taked store right now, and I’ll stop for nobody.” So it was that Town Marshal Cooper received the startling information that Mr. Kalk was cutting off his foot.in the tobacco store, and he came running to stop such a barbarous thing. He was immensely relieved to find that no blood had been shed—but he’s keeping his eye on Mr. Kalk to see that he “quits trying to make a chophouse out of a tobacco shop.”