Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1918 — Too Familiar. [ARTICLE]

Too Familiar.

A country hotel, a good deal frequented by motorists, took In a showman and his performing bear, and one morning the bear escaped from the stable. Everybody fled before the animal. The hotel man, however, pursued it courageously. It entered the hotel, mounted the stairway, pushed open a bedroom door and vanished. The hotel man, close behind, heard from the bedroom an angry exclamation in a feminine voice and the words: “George, dear, how often have I forbidden you to come into my room without knocking—and in your automobile coat, tool”