Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — He Was On His Way. [ARTICLE]

He Was On His Way.

McCrea worked in a powder factory, and usually went hotae to meals with his chum, O’Reilly. The latter was going alone to dinner the other day, when McCrea’s wife,. meeting him, asked: _ i “Where’s himself -that he’s not wid you today. Mr. O’Reilly?” “Shura an’ didn’t he lave the factory in a great hurry an hour ago, ma’am,” answered O’Reilly. “An’ did he say where he was goin’T” she Inquired. ' “Not a word did he say,” answered O’Reilly; “nor I don’t think he knew himself—till he struck the match. Then he went off wid the roof an’ half of the factory.” □Xs? Ji, “