Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1917 — The Lowest Office. [ARTICLE]

The Lowest Office.

Grant Whistlar brings this one to town: -—— er day, “I gotta git off tomorroh.” “Get off tomorrow'?” “Yessah.” “But I can’t spare you very well. “I gotta go. It’s lodge businesk." “That new lodge you joined?” “Yessah.” “Why are you so badly needed at “Ah am de sublime king." “Sublime king?” “Yessah.” “You have been a member of that lodge only two weeks and you tell me you are sublime king already?” “Yessah.” “How does that come?” “You see, sah, in ouah lodge de sublime king am de lowes’ office what dey is.” —Youngstown Telegram.