Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1920 — QUALIFIED AS CITY’S LUCKIEST MAN [ARTICLE]

QUALIFIED AS CITY’S LUCKIEST MAN

Attorney Charles M. Sands has qualified as Rensselaer’s most fortunate citizen. On Wednesday Mr. Sands started the Spring clean-up of his basement, and thereby hangs a tale. As the winter’s accumulation of rubbish was being removed, there suddenly came to Mr. Sands’ view a sight which caused his heart to beat faster. Then he grew weak in the knaes, but managed somehow to call his little family to his side. There reposing modestly in one cornet of the basement was a heaping barrel, of nice, large, juicy potatoes—potatoes which Mr. Sands had purchased early last fall and which he had forgotten about.