Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1920 — “GRIN, AND THE WORLD GRINS WITH YOU.” [ARTICLE]

“GRIN, AND THE WORLD GRINS WITH YOU.”

Ray Thompson informed the writer Monday evening that he had made up his mind to grin all this year, and so far he had kept to it. He had hardly got done telling us about It, however, until a gust of wind came along and blew the hat off his bead, and something might have happened right there, had not the offender contented itself with simply dropping Ray’s headgear in a clean spot on the pavement Iriffead of compelling him to chase It for a block or two and stopping It in some dirty puddle of water. Ray’s reso - lution Is a laudlble one, though, and we hope that fate doesn’t tempt him too far until he gets sort of broken In, at least