Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1920 — WAS JOHN B. A METHODIST? THEY TOLLED BELL FOR HIM [ARTICLE]

WAS JOHN B. A METHODIST? THEY TOLLED BELL FOR HIM

During the tolling of the Methodist church bell Friday, in celebration of the inauguration of constitutional prohibition, a man stopped and asked the reason. “That’s thefuneral dirge for John Barleycorn,” he was informed. “Darned if I knew he was a Methodist before,” the man mumbled and went on his way.