Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1915 — Strictly Local Proposition. [ARTICLE]

Strictly Local Proposition.

“Are you going to vote for a big navy?” “Mebbe,” replied the rural statesman shrewdly; “that is, if you think there’s any chance of ’propriations to deepen the crick in our county so’s the battleships kin come an’ give the folks a look at ’em."