Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1920 — ARMY SCENE OF FOUL PLAY. [ARTICLE]

ARMY SCENE OF FOUL PLAY.

Max Kepner “picked up” for putting hands on wrong chicken. Am up here .to see just what “Clarky” did see. Got in free, which puts this stuff on a par with “Cigarettes.” > I This chicken show business looks like graft work—farmers bring in ’Samples of fine corn, feeds corn to chickens,/gather eggs and spend money, lots of silver cups, divide cups 'mongst “big fellows” and there y’are—whole week’s training lost basket ball team. । Take Carpentier NOTHER WK to knock out these benches. i Just, heard Pete Porter say way tell age of chicken is with teeth. , I’ll figure that out at home. Thought ■hen's teeth was scarce. . . I Can see likenes of chickens to humans; roosters do lots of braggin’; hens (do all the work. T i Simon T. Showin’ folks around these egg-mills like they was a lot of difference in the color of a hen. Inotice eggs is all the same Hugh.If these rich farmers would quit GIVIN’ WAY their corn knd loanin’ out their chickens and spend their moneyfor Franklin cars we would be more likely to hold to our jobs—eh, Simon? There’s nothin’ can be done for a friend full of alcohol but boil him out, , v ‘ HIGH KICK. /