Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1920 — YOUNGSTER MADE WORD GOOD [ARTICLE]

YOUNGSTER MADE WORD GOOD

Though, as It Turned Out It Was at the Cost of Some Personal Discomfort

Marshall, who is five, lives tn a. flat building. He Is a real boy and although he has a rear yard and a sand pile in which to play, his mother has more or less trouble keeping him off the streets. A neighbor saw him. across the street one morning and the next day called his attention to the fact that he was out of the zone mapped for him. He was one of {he busy ones about a vegetable wagon. “Yes,” he said, “I had to get some sings.” The next morning he asked his mother for the market basket He Immediately disappeared and soon returned, accompanied by the vegetable man. In the basket were three pounds of potatoes, a box of berries and two cantaloupes. Mother had to settle whether she needed the goods or not At any rate, Marshall made, his word good with the neighbor that he had to get “some sings." When questioned by the same neighbor about his shopping expedition he said: “Yes, and mother spanked me. too.”