Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — Plenty of Ice. [ARTICLE]

Plenty of Ice.

It was the general supposition a few weeks ago that Rensselaer would suffer ice famine next summer owing to the unusually warm weather which prevailed. The cold snap of the last two weeks however have changed things. All of the ice men have succeeded in filling their ice houses and will be well supplied. The ice is nice and clear and ranges from eight to eleven inches in thickness.

There is a firm in this town so op posed to the use of tobacco that they will not sell any kind of tobacco nor cigars. A laboring man went in to get a plug of chewing tobacco and when they told him their reasons for not handling the weed, he said: “Well, Great Scott, gentlemen, you are too good to do business on earth! Your place is in heaven running a lemonade joint.”—Ex.

There is a better prospect for legis lation for cheaper railroad fares. The Neal bill, which requires railroad companies to sell 500 mile mileage books at the rate of 2 cents a mile is well on the road to passage. The house railroad committee tried to smother it, but the house by an overwhelming majority, turned down the report of the committee.

Of course, it was a Missouri democrat, one of the “you’ve-got-to-show-me” stripe, who remarked to a companion, as they examined with awestruck interest a picture in which there were seen the faces of all the presidents of the United States: “Say, Bill, how in thunder did the photograph man ever get them all together at once?” —Kansas City Journal.