Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1916 — O BRIGHT NEW YEAR! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

O BRIGHT NEW YEAR!

O bright New Year! Hast thoh in store Health, happiness, success, complete— Or sorrow, sadness and defeat, With petty trials by the score? Be kindly lenient, we implore In blending bitter with the sweet, O bright (New Year! Grant us a faith to tide us o’er Whatever problems we may meet. And may our hearts be more replete With sympathy than heretofore. O bright New Year! * _ —Caroline Louise Sumner.