Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1918 — “NO GOOD TO ME; TAKE HIM,” SAYS WIFE [ARTICLE]

“NO GOOD TO ME; TAKE HIM,” SAYS WIFE

Butte, Mont., Feb. 21.—1 t sometimes happens that a man over-esti-mates his own importance which was evidently the case of a Bozeman man of draft age, who presented the following letter to the Gallatin County exemption board: “Dear United States Army: My husband ast me to write a reckommend that he support his family. He cannot read, so don’t tell him. Just take him. He aint no good to me. He ain’t done nothin but drink lemmen essence and play a fiddle since I married him eight years ago, and I gotta feed him and feed seven kids of hisn. Maybe you can get gim to carry a gun. He’s good on squirrels and eatin. Take him and need the grub and his bed for the kids. Don’t tell him this, but take him.”