Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — Don’t Admire The Tooter’s Talents. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Admire The Tooter’s Talents.

Rensselaer has a hollow-headed, horn-faced thick-lipped individual, who finds great pleasure in making nil the trains, and at intervals before the arrival of trains, he begins a tooting in imitation of a coming train. Persons who are not well acquainted with his toot, leave their seats in the deptyt, grab their bundles and hasten outside, only to see the fool imitator laughing in his sleeves. The fellow is so fond of bis joke that he is at the depot to meet all trains and bis head is employed at tooting, when he ought to be earning a dollar a day to defray the expense of his appetite. —Brookston Reporter.