Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1908 — RETURNING PROSPERITY. [ARTICLE]

RETURNING PROSPERITY.

[Chicago Record-Herald.] Allen’s Corner, Ind. Nov. 9.—Ebenezer Mopps u of this place, yesterday found a 15 bill which he lost at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. It was in a pair of trousers which his wife had stored in the attic. Mr. Mopps is sure that he would never have recovered the money if Bryan had been elected. Kittanning, Penn., Nov. 9.—Henry Hoffmeister, Kittanning’s leading tinsmith, yesterday hired Johnny Burchard, agreeing to pay him sll a month while he is learning to be a tinner. Mr. Hoffmeister, in an Interview last night, declared that he would not have possessed enough confidence to hire the boy if Bryan had pulled through. Napoleon, Ohio, Nov. 9.—Al Semple, who travels for a Cleveland hardware firm, arrived here on the day preceding the election day with only 16 in his pocket. After the ballots had been cast a poker game was arranged, Semple and three Napoleon men being the participants. Al left town this morning with a comfortable roll amounting to about |II9. He attributes his prosperity to the landslide which engulfed the Democratic party. Gladstone, Mich., Nov. 9.—Owing to the election of William Howard Taft every hen on Mrs. Sophie Bigelow’s chicken ranch has begun to lay an egg a day. During the period of uncertainty preceding the Republican landslide. Mrs. Bigelow's hens were very uncertain, only about one out of a dozen being disinclined to limit her output to one of two eggs a week..