Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1920 — CIGARETTES DID THIS. [ARTICLE]

CIGARETTES DID THIS.

(By the Keeper of Nut Hallow) was coming from church Sunday morning and came down to where I work when suddenly a man wearing a number six hat on a. number seven head darkened the door and said hello cigarettes and I said hello this is sunday and what did he want and he said don’t you know me and I said no and I dont know you- and he said well you ought to hemember my face and I said yes I ought if I had ever seen it for, I didn’t know how I could ever forget it and he said why I am Clarence Fate of Grown Point and I came here with the rest of the big guns today to lay out the route of the new state highway and I said oh yes I remember you now youre the president of the c of c in your home town ana he said aha i my fame is leaking' out and I said j what is that you have got with you And he said of that that is Rep Fifield and I want you to meet! him and I said well I suppose I: cant evade it gracefully and he said he feels the same way about, it and I said its a funny looking | thing isn’t it and he said yes hut its ( harmless and awfully nice and. youll like it and I Said it surely iimt a real Reverend for if it was ’ it wouldnt he going around with him would it and he said, aw ell it aint no reverend at all its a representative and I said oh there is a lot of difference between a reverend and a preacher and I said where did ( you getr it and he said oh it came from my home town and I asked him what was its first name was and he said Otto and I laughed and he said what was the matter and I said Otto and Clarence arent those two awful afflictions and he said yet I have to laugh at Otto because his is worse than mine and I felt to sorry for them and asked them were they going to stay tong and they said not anyienger than they could help and then Clarence said yon know Otto is going to be the next speaker of the house of representatives and .1 said well he ought to be a good mouth organ with the tutoring he was getting and I haid Otto I called him Otto because Bad known him so long I ?™d Otto do you like our little town and he said yes because its so quiet with a faraway took m his eye .that was to sad that the tears trickled down as I thought of the ~awfal . burden he Wl| dTtaggmy ttioiiild ; With him and so to cheer Mm asked was he going to the BoM meeting and he said yes resignedly he might4b well mwddS of the gnef possible into twenty-four hours while he was at it and 4 asked him was he going with Obrenee and

with him and he said no and I said gee you must be awful smart belonging to the legislature and he said he was glad someone thought so and I asked him did he_ help pass the tax bill and he said its awfully nice out today and I asked him did he help pass the tax bill and, he said eome on Clarence let us go down the street and they passed out of my life as suddenly as they had come.