Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1918 — Matchless. [ARTICLE]

Matchless.

The treasurer of a certain Indianapolis concern desired to smoke while at the office Monday morning. Feeling in his pocket he discovered he had no matches. He went to some of the other employees of the office, who also were without the much-wanted match. He sent the office boy to the drug store for a box. He returned in a few minutes with word that drug stores could sell only drugs on Monday. Suddenly remembering that he could surely get one in the cafeteria downstairs, he was told by one of the maids that the matches were in a locked closet and one of the cooks who had just left had the keys. One of the maids suggested that he light his cigar on one of the gas burners that had not been turned off. Seizing the opportunity as his last chance he returned to his office, where he spent so much time talking about it that the cigar went out. —Indianapolis News.