Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1916 — Strictly Literal. [ARTICLE]

Strictly Literal.

v A young girl was talking to a friend of the Illness of a society matron to whom both were devoted. “Why.” asked the girl, "do they want to get a surgeon from another city for that operation?” "I understand,” said the friend, “that there Is no specialist here to do it” “But," insisted the girl, “they told me at the hospital that the trouble was purely local.”