Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1918 — When He Quit [ARTICLE]

When He Quit

A woman having occasion to go to a small cleaning and dyeing establishment, where she’ had not been for some months, was surprised to find the store occupied by an entirely different line of business. Going inside, she asked the new shopkeeper why Schmidt had moved away andflwhere he could be found. “Schmidt?” <Je replied. “Oh, he died and wentftrat of business two months ago.”