Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1916 — Diplomatic Parson. [ARTICLE]

Diplomatic Parson.

“The congregation paid up every cent of my back salary this morning,” announced the village parson. “How in the world did they happen to do that?” queried his wife.

“I announced from the pulpit,” explained the good man, “that unless I got it I’d not be able to take-the three months’ vacation they had planned for me.”