Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — Jim Hemphill Cuts Another Notch. [ARTICLE]

Jim Hemphill Cuts Another Notch.

Two Harbors Iron Blews: > When Engineer Hemphill’s bouse'hold possessions arrived the other day, he feund conspicuously exhibited among tinware and parlor fixings a> handsome perforated bottomed arm chair. It was too large for a watch charm or brica-brac; and too small for any practical uee yet brought home to him. Concluding some other immigrant’s effects had become mixed with his, he spent two dayslooking for the owner; saying that he “ couldn’t sec-the use of so small a chair with so much of the bottom* goae, but it n»ght be vrized by theowner as an heirloom or something.”' At last a friend who had brought up a family enlightened bias wherein the furniture was a necessity, and Jim cut another notch in Ihfe stick on which he is keeping.the score of the Rensselaer fiends.