Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1919 — LIBERTY BOND SALESMEN TURN BARBERS [ARTICLE]

LIBERTY BOND SALESMEN TURN BARBERS

A number of bond salesmen went to the home of Elder John Leedy, near Flora, Friday evening, and after trying to sell him some Liberty Bonds and because, it is said, of him urging others not to purchase them, they gave him a partial hair cut, trimming his long beard on one side of his chin only and then cut his lair like a mowing cycle had clawed it off. Who the parties were is unknown. Leedy, it is said, has been a worker against the raising of the funds and opposed to raising an army on account of his religious views. Camden citizens waited on him once before,- at which time his house was decorated. Elder Leedy is a member of the “warless” dunkards and though he purchased gravel road bonds refuses to purchase government bonds and is very much opposed to the members of his church doing the same. —Delphi Journal.