Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1920 — STONE CARAVAN LEFT TODAY [ARTICLE]

STONE CARAVAN LEFT TODAY

ALL THE BIG AND LITTLE STONES, FROM EZRA TO ULYSSES, WERE THERE “I want fifteen tickets,” drawled a big raw-boned Kentuckian, as he rammed his head beneath the ticket window at the Monowi station this Tuesday morning and glared at Agent Beam who was resting peacefully in his large wicker chair. “This ain’t no circus tent,” replied the Monon keeper of records and seals, “this is a railroad station and we don’t turn out tickets in batches of fifteen.” “Well, who said anything about a circus or a circus tent,” shouted the long, drawn out individual with such fierceness that the station seats bounced up and down on the tile floor.

“It only takes one ticket to ride on a Monon train,” volunteered the thoroughly frightened station agent “I reckon it takes more than one ticket when you’ve got a wife and a passel of youngsters, don’t it?” was the challenge. “Yes, it does, but you haven’t got ’em, have you?” g “We sure have,” was the answer of the sub-head of the household. “Trot ’em in and let’s look ’em over,” requested the station agent. And here is the procession that caused the station agent to sink limply in his chair.: 1. Smith Stone, age 12 years. 2. John Stone, age 11 years. 8. Leonard Stone, age 11 years. 4. Lynn Stone, age 10 years. 5. Euclid Stone, age 9 yean. 6. Ezra Stone, age 8 years. 7. Saul Stone, age 7 years. 8. Albert Stone, age 6 years. 9. Ulysses Stone, age 4 yean. 10. Esau Stone, age 4 yean. 11. Amelia Stone, age 3 years. 12. Babe Stone, age 2 years. 13. Sis Stone, age 3 months. Mr. and Mrs. Hearth Stone made up the remainder of the Stone party. The Stone’s had been summering m the onion fields of Newland and were on their way to their winter home in Ashland, Kentucky, from whence they came last spring. By a strange coincidence the train which carried them away to the sunshine of Kentucky was pulled by two engines. Whether the train crew had been advised that they would receive a load of Stone at Rensselaer is not known, but the passengers took it for granted that they had, and as the little caravan moved slowly aboard, the firemen threw in a few extra shovelsful of coal, and a few moments later the limping engine chugged out of the city amid the shouts of the thirteen little Stones and the laughter of the passengers.

The Woman’* Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church will meet with Mrs. L. E. Barber Wednesday, November 10th, at 2:80 o’clock. M. E. LEAMING, Secretary.