Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1918 — ONLY A DOG. [ARTICLE]

ONLY A DOG.

J. P. Simons, of the Monticello Democrat, is mad, and justifiably so. He owns a fine dog that was as smart as any human being, knew every person in town and was loved by everyone—except an unknown cur—who poisoned the dog. Editor Simons this week has the following notice offering a reward for the -guilty person: “Mike is dead. Mike was only a dog, but in many ways seemingly possessed almost human intelligence, and always displayed more than human appreciation of kindness. “He was only a dog, but he was a thoroughbred, quick to resent an insult or to respond to an overture, and with all of a thoroughbred’s aversion to cats and snakes. “He was only a dog, and in the estimation of those who fix worth by market quotations he was not worth a sou; but I will give ten dollars for information leading to the identification of the cowardly, yellowstreaked cur who caused his untimely death.”