Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1920 — THE HIGH COST OF LEAVING. [ARTICLE]

THE HIGH COST OF LEAVING.

We’ve been so far behind wo couldn't take time to thank you all for that $<8.50.00. We are very much obliged. Sorry we only brought you third plate. Glad we won $250.00 and all the extras they hung up. But it cost us more than that to go east. We wasn’t over Coen’s hill till Jack Montgomery robbed our Mannon ' of its siren horn to make a fire alarm. -Firman Thompson and Lav Ross scattered our Cadillac between here and Cedar Lake and we’d like to get our lily white hands on the rough neck that left our cellar lights en. , It’s a long way to Rensselaer. N. Y., so we started on the Pullman. Lots of people get killed on Pullmans but the death rate is not near as high as the berth-rate. We sailed from Albany the 29th. We went down-to-see on the Washington Irving’with the band playing jazz music. And some of the bathing suits we saw at Coney were certainly see-worthy. We visited the steeple-chase where you take a bum seat in a grand stand and watch the women enter. Gosh, boy, the unmentionables. Couldn’t tell you in print. Have to say it with flowers. We decided to stick with the old job of selling cars. To sell 200 and then run off from the grief would be profiteering. Or else grand larceny. . Oughta seen our picture m the paper. Henery Fory never kicked up more dust than we did (according to the paper). It takes a lot of jack to buy a gill but whats a few thousand dollars these days. A Franklin is the only thing worth the money. You pay as you enter and save as you go. THOMPSON & KIRK.