Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1901 — TOOK OFFENSE. [ARTICLE]

TOOK OFFENSE.

It seems strange how easily some people are offended. Now in our remarks concerning the incorporation of the Halleck Telephone Co., we said nothing detrimental to John F. Bruner, one of the incorporators, and yet John is alleged to have been deeply offended and made a great many slurring, foolish and criminal remarks against The Democrat scribe because we published that little article regarding the incorporation of the aforesaid company. True, we might of added, and still been within the bounds of truth, that the financial rating of the incorporators was not likely to create any great furor in the telephone world, that the chief mogul of the company although president of the board of commissioners of the great republican county of Jasper had from twenty to thirty unsatisfied judgements amounting to thousands of dollars standing on the judgement docket of the Jasper circuit court against him, some of them running back to the reign of Grover, and thence along down to the closing days of the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and one; that the offended gentleman himself had recently went through the bankruptcy court and was therefore cleared of previous obligations; also many other matters and things, but we didn’t want to be personal at all and so did not mention these facts concerning them.