Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1916 — Roselawn Was a Bearded City Sunday; There’s a Reason. [ARTICLE]

Roselawn Was a Bearded City Sunday; There’s a Reason.

Recently a Rensselaer barber moved to Rose lawn, and heroin lies a tale as Shakespeare would Jjave .sipd. The said Rensselaer barber proved to be so efficient in his work and courteous to his patrons, that the one barber the town had formerly possessed was forced to abandon his chosen lield of work and look to something more lucrative for ins daily -bread. In the meantime the new barber went merrily ahead; happy in Ins new surroundings, with not a* cloud in the sky to blight his future. But it seems that the >oung fellows of Roselawn were used to getting-their shaves on Sunday mornings preparatory to ciftortaining then 1 best girl uurmg the day. Act 2, Scene—Shop of Rensselaer barber. Time, Sunday a. m. Enter the villain with officer’s star on his _ manlj? “Close 'lhis '-shop orI’ll have the law on you,” said this august personage. What could the poor barber do, for he had the Sunday closing law behind him? The shop was full of customers at this time awaiting their Sunday shave —but they didn’t get them. They raved and ranted, but "the minion of the law had foiled them, and stalked majestically away with lias chest protruding and chuckling to himself at his clever ruse, while the waiting customers hurled maledictions in his ■wake. Who was the officer? He was the fellow who ran the barber shop at Rosolawn before the advent of the Rensselaer barber in the field.