Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1918 — HAS SITUATION ALL SIZED UP [ARTICLE]

HAS SITUATION ALL SIZED UP

Writer on Metropolitan Daily Arrogantly Imagines He Knows All About the Country Press. We are prone to hypercritlcally sniff at the country correspondence in the old home paper, and tire of its weekly monotony of trivialities. Out in the Good Intent neighborhood it seems as if some member of the Pumpelly tribe is everlastingly cursed with a rising in his head, or the Pumpelly girls are always Sunday afternooning at somebody else’s home, or a certain feller is Wednesday eveninging at the Pumpelly residence, or Grandma Feebles is no better in spite of the fact that she is kin to the Pumpellys, or Zeke Fagg is ’tending ’Squire Pumpelly’s north forty this year, or Uncle Tuck Pumpelly can’t remember as" wet or dry a season as this is, or young Angus Pumpelly has bought a new henryford and all the girls had better watch out, and a good deal more of equally unimportant information. If we know nothing of the conditions in that region we decide that there are few persons of any consequence there except Pumpellys. If we are sophisticated we say, “Uh-huh! The correspondent is a Pumpelly!” The truth of the matter is that the items are written by a young feller named Smith, who is stuck on one of the Pumpelly girls. By-and-by he will marry her and presently thereaf-: ter cease writing about the Pumpellys. And then there will be another correspondent at Good Intent, and the Hefflefingers or the Daubenspecks will have their innings.—Kansas City Star.