Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — Real Optimist [ARTICLE]

Real Optimist

Mark Tapley may have been some pumpkins as an optimist, but.he had nothing on a tall Kentuckian, who worked for Tom Dodge in a Kentucky 01l dlstrfct. The men slept In a bunkhouse that was built of green oak and the boards had shrank and left spaces between them that you could see _through.- - ..>< i, a— Z It was terribly cold one night and the covers were thin and some of the men were complhining about the open spaces in the walls. “Oh, well.” said the big Kentucky as he rolled over and zprepared to pound his ear, “they’s one good thing about sleepin’ In here. Yon don’t hev to git out of bed to throw the cat out. —Cincinnati Enquirer.