Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Amende Honorable. [ARTICLE]

Amende Honorable.

"We feel that an apology Is due,” explains the editor of the Spiketown Bllsxard, “to the estimable young lady who teachea at the schoolhouse in District No. 5. Through the wretched blunder of a worthless tramp printer whom we trusted with the setting up of an item just as we were closing the forms for our last week’s edition, we were made to say that ‘Miss Ruby McConnell, the handsome and popular teacher in the Riffs* neighborhood, is the proud possessor of an elegant new black beard.' We wrote It 'blackboard.' Chicago Tribune.