Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1893 — Sad Havoc. [ARTICLE]

Sad Havoc.

New York Weekly. Western Man —We had a terrible conflagration in Dugout City last week. Only seventeen houses left standing. Eastern Man—My goodness! How many wpre there before the fire? Western Man —Nineteen. Emma—What’s that noise? It sounds as though they were pounding beefsteak. Jane—You guessed right; but we always speak of the performance bore as “tendering a banquet."