People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Tried to Be Funny. [ARTICLE]

Tried to Be Funny.

Last week’s Pilot contained a couple of items referring to brother McEwen of the Sentinel, that were clandestinely placed in the paper without the knowledge of the editor and which is sincerely regretted. The items were neither decorous nor witty, and the perpetrators, H. J. Bartoo and Bernie Maloy, alleged printers of the Republican office, exhibited a degree of impudence and low jesting only equalled by their lack of decency and good sense. The “trick” was one that not only reflected on the good taste of the editor of the Pilot, but placed their employer in an embarrassing position, though he was in no way responsible or had knowledge of the “joke.”