Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1917 — The Able Editor. [ARTICLE]

The Able Editor.

“The editor of the Weekly Palladium you remember him; roundshouldered gent who ’peared to be always on the dead run, even when he was sitting down —is pretty sick,” stated the landlord of the Petunia taverp. “He has been kept tollable busy of late, editing his paper, leading the band, auctioneering occasionally, pulling teeth for his suffering subscribers, while the dentist was off on a drunk, and practicing osteopathy more or less —he took a course in that by mail übout a year ago. Of course he is a candidate for the post‘office, and has taken part in the few joint debates recently, and acted as judge of a baby show last week, and has been going to the depot ’most every time a train went through and taking up a straw vote of the passengers, and so on. The doctor don’t seem to know what is the matter with him, but I reckon he Just natcherly spread himself out so thin that he snapped in two some’rs.”— Kansas City Star.