Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1917 — WOES OF THE CENSUS TAKER [ARTICLE]

WOES OF THE CENSUS TAKER

Has a Hard Day WrestlFng With Iva Rench, Will Knott, Hardin Roads and Gentle Spring. A solicitor for Muncie’s new city directory called at a home in the suburb, Westdale, and asked of a woman who answered his knock at the door, “Will you please tell me who lives here?” “I will not,” the solicitor understood her to say. “But, madame,” he explained, “I assure you I desire the name only for a city directory and if you do not give It, I shall have to find it out in some other say.” “I said, Will Knott,” she declared, “and I don’t know how to make it any plainer to you.” At the next door he was told that the head of the house in question was Will Knott, principal of a suburban school. He stopped at another home to repair his bicycle. After tinkering with it for a while, as a woman in the doorway looked on Interestedly, he gave up the Job and continued his canvas on foot, asking first of the woman who had noticed his accident, “And who lives here, please?” “I’ve a wrench,” he heard her say distinctly. “I thank you, but I hardly think a wrench would do any good," he said. “I’ll have to send the machine to the repair shop, I guess.” Then it was that the woman explained in detail to him that Miss Iva Rench, who is a teacher in the Andersonville school, made her home there. “I had already listed Hardin Roads, president of the Merchants’ bank; Dunn, the tailor, and Miss Gentle Spring, so I thought I’d call it a day’s work and quit right there,” the solicitor remarked. —Indianapolis News.