Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1919 — NEAREST. [ARTICLE]

NEAREST.

A Southerner in one of the cantonments below tpe Mason and Dixon line, when called up for examination, wax asked:, - “What is your nearest living relative?” “What you mean, ’relative,’ mister?” returned the recruit “Oh, I mean your nearest living kinsfolk.’’ "Wai, that’s my aunt you're talking •bout” Several other questions were answered satisfactorily, when there came: “In case of death or accident, who shall be notified?” "My mother,” immediately came from the selectman. “But you told me just a few minutes ago that your aunt was the nearest living relative that you have,” objected the officer. "You asked me who my nearest living kin was, didn’t you? Wai, that’s Aunt Liz—she lives jest two miles from where I been livin'; mother lives five.”