Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1919 — Wears Straw Hat 27 Years. [ARTICLE]

Wears Straw Hat 27 Years.

We travel daily townward with' a pride IS d twelve-year-old morning coat and etceteras, and whlch he hopes to “keep going” for many years more. Another acquaintance majtes much of a pair of boots which have trodden underfoot the storm and stress of sixteen years. But from a Manor Park reader comes the /clou” of antiquity. “I have,” he confesses, “a straw hat twenty-seven years old, and still In good condition except the color. Weather permitting, I shall wear it again next month and during the summer. My colleagues at business chaff ■tne each year I put it on, but that doesn’t matter.” —London Chronicleu —