Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1909 — KEG PASTOR’S TABLE [ARTICLE]

KEG PASTOR’S TABLE

Beer Container Was Left on Doorstep as a Joke.

Connersville, Ind., March s.—The Rev. J. C. Burkhardt, pastor of the Central Christian church of this city, heartily indorses “he laughs best who laughs last,” for he is smiling over the gift of a beer keg. Long before, the local option fight was begun in the county he was a prominent worker in the temperance cause. Possibly in recognition of his well-known sentiments, a beer keg was left on the parsonage doorstep. After waiting a sufficient length of time for the owner to claim his property, the preacher had the keg taken to pieces and, finding that it was made of clear quartered oak, he had the staves and heads sawed, dressed and made into a handsome table.