Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1920 — PROMINENT PEOPLE MAY BE CALLED UPON TO EXPLAIN [ARTICLE]

PROMINENT PEOPLE MAY BE CALLED UPON TO EXPLAIN

We are informed thru reliable sources that certain prominent local citizens, and others, may be called । upon, to explain before Judge Banley their persistent ravings concerning one of our leading stores having been profiteering, the owner arrested, fined, etc., etc., etc. - - /• This store, for several weeks, has tolerated this malignant and malicious gossip but there is a limit to ' all reasonable things and a time when patience ceases to be a virtue and we are informed that arrests 'are about to be made. Wonder what these people will say to the Court? It may be embarassing both mentally and financially to have to publicly ackowledge an imagination consistent with that of a child of six. It is indeed regrettable that mature men, seemingly possessing normal intelligence, indulge in idle gossip of this nature and if some of our prominent citizens are yanked into Court to explain how they happen to all these things—it certainly will be that which they deserve. What do you consider the type of person who is willing to destroy a reputation of honest and clean dealing by repeating a Will-’o-the- । wisp rumor? Reputations are buOd- ; cd by the years, and who is willing to destroy this work without unquestioned and absolute facta to support their statements?—Contributed.