Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1916 — He Believed It. [ARTICLE]

He Believed It.

Bacon —Lead-pencil manufacture in the United States Is consuming 73,000,000 feet of lumber annually, of which 'about one-half is estimated to be wasted in sharpening or throwing away short ends. Egbert—l can’t believe there can be as much waste as that. “You can’t? Say, did you ever see a woman try to sharpen a pencil?”