Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1916 — Relative Values. [ARTICLE]

Relative Values.

“Why don’t you pay your subscription in garden stuff?” Inquired the editor of the Punkintown Gazette. “Well,” replied Farmer Corntossel, “I’d hate to look stingy when 1 was handin’ you cabbage an’ tomatoes. The way the cost of food has been goln’, it ’ud be hard to give you anything noticeable that wouldn’t be worth more than the regular money.”