Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — PLAYED A JOKE ON SID. [ARTICLE]

PLAYED A JOKE ON SID.

farmers over about Morocco spliced a couple of corn stalks together, glued five huge ears of corn to the stalk and then took it to town and made Bro. Shanlaub of the Courier believe that it grew out in the marsh north of Morocco, The latter has had the “freak” embalmed and at the next meeting of the legislature, when the old Newton county seat question comes up, Sid, at the head of the regular Morocco delegation, will go down to the capitol city and triumphantly introduce this stalk of corn to the law-makers as a silent witness against Pat Keefe’s base calumny that the country north of Morocco is a “d— d barren wasthe.”