Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1888 — Not Much of a Reception. [ARTICLE]

Not Much of a Reception.

Texas Silting*. An Austin merchant sent his clerk for the twentieth time to the residence of a prominent citizen to collect a bill. _ “Did y-bu get anything?” asked the THgrptnmtwtiip return of the cterk.—— “Nothing at all. They told me to come into the reception room as usual, but I did not receive any thing.”