Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — She Was Here, Too. [ARTICLE]

She Was Here, Too.

Brook Reporter. On Wednesday morning while we were ‘planting’ type, the door opened and an old, dirty, greasy, lousy looking, snag toothed speciman of the “shemale geuius hobo” walked in and reached out a paw that had been foreign to soap and water for six months, requested us to read the paper it contained. The first was & typewritten article specifying that she—Mrs. Moore—was destitute and badly in need of money to take her to ner relatives, and the appended annex was in the well known hand writing of our popular town clerk, George Washington Augustas Knapp, which conferred upon her the freedom of the town, and stated in big, round, bold letters that “this person being worthy has the privilege of soliciting alms in Brook.” What graft she worked on our town clerk to make him think she had a lien on the “privileges” of Brook we do not know, but be that as it may she worked a lot our people on the strength of that paper. A runner in town that day dec’ared that she made begging a business and owned a fine farm near Danville.