Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1918 — EDITOR LIVING UP TO EARLY REPUTATION [ARTICLE]

EDITOR LIVING UP TO EARLY REPUTATION

McLeod, Miss. Feb. 3, 1918. Ye Editor Hamilton: I hand you a check to induce you to keep the news coming down this way every little while for another year. I commenced reading The Republican back in the days of Horace James and I don’t want to quit now just because you happen to be the editor, I never suspected such a thing would happen when I commenced to read the paper. The first time I ever saw you was one evening out at the old fair grounds race track, where we were a part of a bunch of bare,footed bullies, who were trying to decide the all important question as to which one in the noisy croiyd could cover the space of 100 yards in the least possible time. I noticed that your face was a new one to me, and, upon inquiry was told that your , name was Hamilton and that some ( one said that the janitor said- you were the meanest kid in the school. ' At that time I was entirely ignorant ( of the fact that mean kids make, good editors?As to your work as an editor, 1 1 will not attempt to hand you either a lemon or a bouquet, I think your. Tyeather entirely too cold for either. I wanted to tell you about our part of the south before I returned, as you requested, but my time was taken up with other matters and I did not get the opportunity. We have had much mud of late and the roads are muddy. The temperature is a little below freezing point every night. • Respectfully yours, M. R. HALSTEAD.