Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1920 — AUTUMN. [ARTICLE]

AUTUMN.

Now the days are growing shorter And the trees are sear and brown, And the children from school loiter to watch the leaves' come tumbling I down. For, one by one, they’re slowly falling ’Til all are nestled on the ground. When the apples all are gathered And carefully placed away For the children who are waiting l For that .-cold and wintry day, When the earth with snow is covered And the birds have gone away, i Then it is this Autumn passes From our realm for’er away. —Everett Greenlee. * J - - A Sad Funeral Procession was | witnessed in Rensselaer the Saturday evening following election by one of the largest crowds that has ever been in Rensselaer. The procession wended slowly through several of the main streets, to a vaj cant lot near the Washington street | bridge. An enormous pile was then ! lighted and while the local band played compositions suitable for the occasion, the grief stricken pallbearers moved slowly around the fire, and then —gracefully tossed therein the effigy of James M. Cox.