Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1917 — Ths Knocker's Prayer. [ARTICLE]

Ths Knocker's Prayer.

In the case of Bloodworth vs Times Publishing Company, 193 Southwestern Reporter, 527, Justice Wood of the Arkansas supreme court said. In substance, that where defendants in one part of Its paper referred to plaintiff as a “knocker,” and It was alleged that he was the person specifically meant. It furnished the necessary colloquium to show that the following prayer published In the same paper applied to the plaintiff: •The Knocker’s Prayer: Lord,please don’t let this town grow. I’ve been here for many years, and during that time I have fought every public Improvement. I’ve knocked on everything and everybody. No firm or individual has established a business here without my doing all I could to put them out of business. I’ve lied about them, and would have stolen from them. If I had the courage. I am against building a new church, even though I gave nothing. lam against the electric light franchise being granted to George Booser, George Washington, or Jim Tom. It pains me, oh Lord, to see that in spite of my knocking the town Is growing. Then, too, more people might come here, which would cause me to lose some of my pull. I ask, therefore, to keep this town at a standstill, that I may be one of the chiefs. Amen !” The Docket.