Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1920 — THE SAME CONGENIAL WILL. [ARTICLE]

THE SAME CONGENIAL WILL.

. We had a delightful visit with our old comrade. Will H. Pfrimmer Sunday forenoon. He and his good wife were the guests of Mrs. Pfrimmer’s brother, A. J. Keeney, and family, who live upon their beautiful little farm on the banks of the Iroquois Just below this city. We had a* delightful visit for he : s the same genial companion he was away back in 1897 when he was re-elected superintendent of the Newton county schools and the writer was elected to the same position in the Jasper county schools. We both had a tough race. He was elected on the 275th and we nosed out a bunch of mighty fine fellows on the ninety second ballot. You are always happy when you are with Will. He has a way about him that makes you forget everything else and just enjoy his pleasing conversation. He was a good superintendent of schools, a royal companion and one of the best fellows in the world. He has written some splendid poetry and while in the school work and later gave readings from his own selections that were most enjoyable. For the past ten years he has lived near Prescott, Ark., where he owns a good eighty acre • which has been a paying investment." His principal crop was cantaloupe. He is just now moving from this farm to another near Popular Bluff, Mo. He will be associated there with one of his sons. His youngest son was in the Rainbow Division and saw the full time service with that great organization of the American army in France. He came out without a scratch or a minute’s sickness. ...... While Arkansas is a backward state, Mr. Pfrimmer was located in a ~community that was much above the average and he was delighted with his neighbors. While a county near him had, during the past ten years, many murders and other acts of lawlessness, the community in which he resided had but one citizen arrested for a misdemeanor during his ten years of residence there. :>• . Mr. and Mrs. Pfrimmer returned to Kentland Sunday evening where they will visit with friends and relatives before returning south. Both he and his good wife have withstood the ravages of time most remarkably uind look but little older than when they left Indiana ten years ago. < Here’s hoping that they continue to be ‘so happy and successful in many more years of joy and contentment. ■ /