Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1918 — TAKES JOKE SERIOUSLY. [ARTICLE]

TAKES JOKE SERIOUSLY.

The premature belling which was attempted in Barkley township seems to have resulted in a misundertanding and like many jokes has gone wrong and the parties to the joke have be- . come estranged. The ‘Republican has a communication from that community in which the writer takes offense at being called a night raider. We cannot publish the article because the writer’s name was not signed to it The one who informed us of the premature belling simply told it to us as a joke and we are sure that he did not know at the time that anyone had taken offense in his attempt to hold the first line trenchat his home and protect his boy from what 'he thought was a raid by friends. The writer is sure that so splendid a neighborhood as Moody will not change from the happiest community in the county to a locality in which there is not the most cordial feeling between neighbors. If the Republican by failing to know a joke, when presented, has stirred the trouble waters, may we not now be privileged to pour upon what seems to us but imaginary breakers the oil of love and forgiveness.

Mr. and Mrs. Perry Becker, of Kankakee, 111., are the guests of James Cameran at the Makeever House. Mr. Becker is the assistant general agent of the Kankakee*division of the International Harvester (Co.