Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1919 — THIRTY YEARS AGO SUNDAY [ARTICLE]

THIRTY YEARS AGO SUNDAY

“General” Benjamin D. MeColly called the Republican (please note* he called’’'the Republican) - Saturday to inform us that thirty years ago Sunday, which being Sunday, of course, could not be “Good Friday,” there occurred a very important event, not in the Japan sea nor near Hampton Roads, not in a great naval conflict, where great floating cities are sent down beneath waves, nor upon the field of battle, where lives are sacrificed by the thousands in the conflict of blood and gore, but in Union township, Jasper county. And what was this important event, we inquired of the “General” at the other end of the line of communication. The “General” replied that thirty years ago Sunday he was married to the finest girl in the world. “No one, but I, knows what a wonderful woman she is and how much 'happiness she has filled into the thirty years,” the “General” further said, -being a Methodist in religion, a Republican in politics and blessed with domestic bliss, these have been thirty years in which even the mistakes and miseries of the Democratic misrule have been unable to interrupt 'the current of happiness which he | hopes will flow on and oh until that .perfect day all have been gathered together in the great Republican wigwam of eternity. ._ That the “General” and ex-sheriff may be granted this wish is the sincere desire of The Republican and-a great host of admiring friends.