Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1916 — Civic Rivalry. [ARTICLE]

Civic Rivalry.

'1 hear you had a cyclone out this way last week.” “It was nothing to speak of,” answered the Kansas man. "Just blew away a few hencoops.” “But I heard that the county courthouse at Galesburg was blown away.” “Well, sir, we citizens of the enterprising city of Gadsville, the logical place in the country for that courthouse, always refer to Gadsville’s makeshift affair as a hencoop.”