Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1901 — Our Man About Town. [ARTICLE]

Our Man About Town.

» Discusses 1 Sundry i and j Other ■ Matters.

As an example of a loose method of street building we would refer tfie public to the block on Van Rensselaer street recently improved at considerable expense. The gutters were constructed higher at the mouth than at some of the points along the street, And the water not being able to run up hill, stands in places almost shoe top deep after a heavy rain. The water finally seeps away through the ground, leaving the filth in the gutter instead of carrying it to the sewer. There is no excuse for accepting such work from a contractor, and the street committee should see that the work is done according to specifications before accepting it. * 1*

A girl in this town who thought it was high time that she begin to look out for herself concluded she would begin by taking care of her own clothes. She decided to begin by pressing her dress skirt. When the irons had been properly heated, she applied them to the proper spots and got on beautifully till she was coming down the home stretch, about the middle breadth, when by some wicked chance she held the iron too long on one spot and burned out a piece the size of a five dollar bill. There was no way to save it but for her mother to * cut out and fit in a patch so exquisitely that it could not be detected. She did so, but says it took more work than it-would to press half a dozen skirts.

One of our citizens the other night got’ some medicine for his own use and set it on the side board. His wife unwittingly set a bottle of benzine alongside of it. When he went to take his medicine, he observed that it was horrible truck, but he took’ er down, remarking as it went, that it was the best medicine he ever tasted. Presently his wife noticed that he smelled not unlike a Standard oil supply wagon and an investigation disclosed the fact that he had found the wrong bottle. Fearing serious results, she telephoned the doctor, but he told her to rest easy and keep him from the fire and he would pull through without injury. * *

Over in Pulaski county Jonny Gosh and Jennie Dern were married a few days ago. One of the local papers could not resist the temptation to head it “Gosh-Dern,” but the editor has been hiding in the swamps and scrapping with skeeters, bull frogs and snakes ever sinoe in, preference to facing the blushing bride aud her irate man *.*

One of the doctors had a call from a young man the other evening, who said that his stomach was in a bad shapeand wanted the doctor to prescribe for him. The doctor wanted to know what he had ate, but the young man persisted that he had ate nothing out of the ordinary.' By close questioning on the part of the physician, the sufferer finally admitted that he had drank two crocks of milk and ate three musk melons, and still the young man could not understand why he was in such a fix. * The other day four boys hid four bottles of beer in an alley. They were observed, although not aware of it. When they disappeared, the one who saw the bottles took one and drank it. Presently, they returned. Finding a bottle gon4, each accused the other of having sneaked out a bottle and they came near having a fight about it. The only criticism that was made of the man who took the bottle was that he did not take the whole works.