Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1916 — Have You Paid Your Election Bet? Look What These Fellows Got Into. [ARTICLE]

Have You Paid Your Election Bet? Look What These Fellows Got Into.

Chicago, Ill.—A wild steer from the stockyards will go on a rampagethrough Halsted street, with Charles S. Wharton, republican, astride it when Wharton pays his bet on Hughes. Roseville, Ill.—Charlee Coningham, republican, will eat crow on the main street of the village when he pays his election bet. Ernest Musk, the winner, has invited the public from the city and surrounding country to watch Coningham. Sandusky, O.—Fred A. Martin is due to walk down the main street in a bathing suit because Hughes lost Carl Wilks, former councilman, is the winner in the bet. Cold weather is predicted. New York.—Broadway crowds will watch a man walking down the Great White Way with an elephant’s tail attached behind him. He voted for Hughes. New York.—A local business man is booked to enter the office of another, take off his shirt and go the rest of the day without one. The Hughes man is the goat. Groveport, Ill.—Otto Flowers owes Harry Obetz, liveryman, a ride of 13 miles in a wheelbarrow from this city to Columbus, because he bet on Hughes.