Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1917 — AFTER KAISER AND SATAN, TOO [ARTICLE]

AFTER KAISER AND SATAN, TOO

FIFTY METHODIST MEN MAKE SECOND FUEL DRIVETRENCHES FILLED One of Germany’s allies, “Fuel Shortage” was completely routed by stalwart followers of John Wesley this sector, today when fifty of them at the break of day went forward with axes and saws and charged upon the empty fuel bins of the First Methodist church of this city. The large supply of wood on hands was increased by many farmer brethren with wagon load after wagon load. Judson Hunt clothed in his Sweet Orr uniform was the general and his commands were obeyed as faithfully by heavyweight Sylvester Gray as bamtam Charles Battleday. Wave after wave went forth. Fifty men with' shoulde.-s together fought side by side and early in the afternoon thirty cords of wood had been placed in the cellar of this live institution ready to be put in the furnace by Comrade Henry Wood, while the ever loyal Rev. Strecker would continue tc denounce the Kaiser and Satan, too, and not at all particular as to which he gave the heavier bombardment.

At one time during the day the assault on the enemj was suspended and Colmd Hunt marched iiixC warriors into ths dining room of ‘he church and here everyman seer icd the peer of every other. The good ladies who had prepared a most excellent dinner saw their supply of food melt away as if by magic. A careful grading of each man present at this exercise was marked 100 per cent, by the clerk of the brigade, the Rev. Strecker. There was not a slacker present. If the real facts were known to John Eger the food administrator he would have B. F. Fendig, the fuel administrator arrested for allowing such a deep inroad to be made into the available food supply of the community. This move, while not as strategic as that made by General Byng, was however, an excellent one and will accomplish some very desirable results, among which are the supplying of needed fuel from a source that does not in any way lessen the regular market stock, a clear example of the fact that real religion and pure patriotism are one and the same thing, and the splendid fellowship of such an occasion is worth a thousand lectures or sermons on the subject of brotherhood. Rev. Strecker is to be congratulated upon suggesting and his men upon the DOING of so worthy a task.