Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1918 — ANOTHER “PHENOM” OF WAR [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER “PHENOM” OF WAR

Well Known Rensselaer Citizen Going Back to the Farm. This war is certainly producing some phenomenal things. For instance, Warren Robinson has bought a Ford automobile and unblushingly announces that he is going to farm this year; that he is going to drive out to his farm in Gillam township when the larks’ awake each morning and return as the shadows of evening fall. He boldly asserts that he is not going to be merely a kidglove agriculturalist, but Intends to get right between the plow handles and perform actual labor. Warren has all the oral enthusiasm of a new convert, and we hope that this enthusiasm will not wane as the mercury begins trying -tc break through the top of the tube later in the season. We say we hope so, but we have known Warren for the past twenty years, when he was much younger than he is now, and if he ever wor—well, pshaw, what’s the use. Under the circumstances can one scarcely be blamed for having some doubts over the outcome of Warren’s good intentions.