Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1891 — FOR KENT. [ARTICLE]

FOR KENT.

▲ good house and barn cheap Enquire of J. W. Paxton, at Robson A Ryan’s Grocery.

The erstwhile wealthy and haughty dwellers on the aristocrat ic West side can no longer elevate their elegant grecian nasal organs when they meet Joe Sharp carrying home his proverbial soup-bone and piece of liver; for, behold! they have themselves fallen into the ways of adversity and would fain fill .themselves with the same economical nutriments. The cause and the whereof of this unwonted state of affairs is to be found in the gastronomic depredations, on January 1, of the eleven elegant but exceedingly eupeptic youngmen, who, in the innocent guise of New Year’s callers, found ready access to the homes and larders of those peaceful and unsuspecting people, and departed not thence so long as one single portion of edible substance remained within the range of vision. It seems like a labor of supererogation to publish the names of the members of the party, for, even yet, they are easily recognizable by their unwonted inability to draw,the buttons of their juxtaposition, but they are here appended: B. F. Fendig, F. M. Hanley, A. H. Hopkins, B. K. Zimmerman, 11. J. Rossbacher, F. L. Chileote, C. V. Willey, L.; F. Hopkins, Y. E. Loughridge, Fred Phillips, A. R. Hopkins.