Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1919 — SMALL SKIFT OF SNOW. [ARTICLE]

SMALL SKIFT OF SNOW.

The ground is almost white with snow, but the temperature is not low. We have had. thus far, but little real winter. Don’t say, “We’ll get it later,” but let us be thankful that a mild winter has made it possible to replenish the shortage of coal and has been a great blessing to the poor people of the land. It is always best to took on the bright side, and there is always a bright ■stde.-7'~"-“- ~ The pessimist and the grouch hates everything and everybody and despises himself. If -they could be colonized what a happy world this would be. Well, some of us are going to be happy anyway. We will not despise the grouch and the pessimist. We will feel just a little sorry for them. We will try. to reduce the space they occupy in dur sphere to the minimum.