Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1920 — YOUNGSTER MADE WORD GOOD [ARTICLE]

YOUNGSTER MADE WORD GOOD

Though, as It Turned Out It Was at the Coat of Bome Personal Discomfort Marshall, who iq five, lives in 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 oat of the zone mapped for him. He was one of the 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 wei*e 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 quee* tioned by the same neighbor about hie shopping expedition he said: “Yea, and mother spanked me, too.”