Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1892 — The Dinner Bell Didn’t Ring;. [ARTICLE]

The Dinner Bell Didn’t Ring;.

John D. Wilson, who lives ou; on the pike, is a great practical joker. J pearly all the farmers in the county are opposed to having people hunt on their farms, but it appears that Mr. Wilson does no; care, who shoots quails aud rabbits oh his broad acres. Last fall Mr. Wilson nailed up the following sign along the gravel road, on the edge of his farm: : Hunt and shoot all you please, and when: :you hear the hell ring come in to dinner.: • ■ „ D ‘; * It was not very long before the boys in Delphi heal'd of the sign and they decided to take Mr. Wilson at his word. So Nat Mohr, John Burr, Vint Martin, Will Donlin, George Gresham, Robert Pollard, Mike Ryan, A. B. Crampton, Nels VanGundy, Ed. Rinehart,'arid some more sports, in all between fifteen or twenty, got their guns and amnnitiop and •started east with the intention of hunting on the Wilson farm, and swboping down on the house when be dinner bell pealed forth. They innted and hunted and got hungry, rind then got up on the fence and waited for the dinner bell to ringr But it did not ring. y . It itas almost two o’clock when be hungry hunters got to Delphi, and tl r ey rapidly cleaned out all be restaurants and lunch-counters in town.

The joke on the boys can be fnly appreciated when it is stated that when Mr. Wilson put up the sign he took down his dinner bell, and no man who ever hunted on Ids farm has heard it ring.—Delphi Journal.