Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — Before and After. [ARTICLE]

Before and After.

Before Mrs. T. Bone Bayer became Mrs. Bayer she took extreme care about what became of T.’s letters. If she didn’t destroy them entirely, she hid them away In some unassailable nook, and so far as Is known no outsider ever got a glimpse of her sweetheart correspondence. This has wrought a change, however. On his return from his last trip Mr. Bayer found one of his letters on the front porch, bearing the toothmarks of the puppy owned by the little girl who lives next door. On entering the house he found another letter from him, the envelope to which was missing. But on the back of it was a lot of figures in a strange feminine hand, indicating that “we” had won handsomely at bridge that afternoon and “you" had been set back in the amount of $1.17. Kansas City Star.