Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1909 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

If man can sleep twenty years he .can sleep three hundred, so perhaps some Rip Van Winkle truant from Hendrik Hudson’s Half Moon will wake up in nick o’ time to see the old ship go sailing by, piloted by airships and convoyed by all sorts of twentieth century marine monsters.

Hurry calls for harvest hands by the thousands fail to thin the ranks of husky “out of works” in town who hold up well to do pedestrians for a nickel to take them to a job across the ferry. Having mustered a long line of distinguished ancestry, the corporation tax must eventually have standing in .the community. Somebody is working right now on prize exhibits for the corn show, the talry show and many a sideshow of tlhe county fair. Wrong time of year to try to spring a revival of the old song. “There’ll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight.” Woman suffragists propose to make it. hotter and still hotter for man until he capitulates. Indianapolis Feels Storm. . -Indianapolis, July 13.—Great damage to growing crops and property was done by a severe rain and electrical storm which was felt here. In Indianapolis the wind arose to a velocity of thirty-two miles an hour and In three hours 1.51 inches of water fell. Stubborn. A little girl was heard talking to her rabbit. “Five times five,” she said, “six times six, seven times seven.” Between times she shook the rabbit violently. “Dorothy.” said her mother, “what are you doing to your rabbit?” “Well, papa says,” replied the child, “that rabbits multiply rapidly, and Bunny won’t do it”

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