Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1919 — Friendly and Alert. [ARTICLE]

Friendly and Alert.

Small boy with two large bundles, each about three feet long, one under each arm, cAssing Broadway In a gale of wind. Midway his hat blows off and goes rolling away with the boy la swift pursuit; handicapped, however, by those two bundles, for with his arms and hands thus handicapped you wondered how he could pick the hat up when he came to it. But he didn’t even have to try for it. As it struck the curb a friendly and alctt passerby on the sidewalk stopped the bat, picked it up, and as the boy came up jammed 4t securely on his head, all without the boy’s touching it at aIL