Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1919 — Loves His Melon. [ARTICLE]

Loves His Melon.

Watermelons’ have been high in price tins season, but “Uncle Joe’ Cannon has gone right ahead eating them. It is a habit acquired by him when lie v\as a small boy in North Carolina. . Consequently the eighty-tliree-year old statesman waits each year for the arrival -of the watermelon season, and ■ hi<T as soon as the ripe ones begin to arrive Uncle Joe .may be seen sticking a big-ehwnk of something red into his mouth. Sometimes he goes at it “coon fashion” and plays a solo with his lips on a long, red slice, throwing away such implements ms knivesyttntl forks Uncle Joe can tell when a- water melon thumps right and knows by The color and general appearance whether the melon is sweet and juicy or was pulled too green.