Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1916 — Bliss of Companiouship Versus Pain of Blisters. [ARTICLE]

Bliss of Companiouship Versus Pain of Blisters.

Senior Editor Huff of the Monon News thus ruminates in the Current issue, removing all doubt about the love’s young dream working a half century ago just the same that it works £oday: « * , “Ed Thacker in his 'Monticello Musings’ in Saturday evening’s Journal, prints some interesting items from the Monticello Herald 40 years ago. We have files of the Herald dating back to 1870, when the senior of this paper had his introduction to White county journalism. Then there were but two papers in the'county— the Constitutionalist by James Me- ’ Ewen, still in the flesh at Rensselaer, | and the Monticello Herald. Mac had' most of th? .legal printing at that] time and according to his own standard, 3 lines of nonpanel constituted a “square.” This was before the pesky law was passed saying three times three lines of then some should be a “square.” The principal occupation of the Herald editor in June, 46 years ago, was row’ing a boat on the Tippecanoe for the joy of certain young damsels who have survived until this present time and are sitting in he twilight of maturity. The palms of the rower’s hands were blistered, but how trivial this irritation when compared with the bliss of ompanionship in shady nooks and babbling brooks. The campaign of 1870 was the most sensational and spectacularever experienced in the county on account of local animosities. When the political cauldron begins to bubble we will tuim to the 'file of that year and! reproduce a scrap from local history that will make present political pyrotechnics look tame.