Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — A Pertinent Answer. [ARTICLE]

A Pertinent Answer.

An amusing: correspondence recently took place between a Wisconsin farmer and a local boiler firm. The farmer ■wrote as follows: “DereTSires I have a 1,000 akers of trees that I Want cut. Im pore but Im willing to pay too hundred dolers fer an engin that will do my work,” and he went on to explain just what sort of an engine he wanted. The boiler firm saw that the engine necessary to accomplish the devastation of his virginal forest would cost $3,000, 4Jid they informed him to this effect. A week passed and then the following pithy epistle came from the Wisconsin woods:, “Dere Sires what :‘n all git out wud 1 want of an engin or boiler if J M $3,000?” . Tbe best q( material, the pa°st careful workmanship, and priees the lowest, at the Peoples Picture Gallery. Fine frames only a dollar and a half apiece, at the Pavilion photograph gallery. Clothing at Cost at The Model. Postively going to Qnit inside of 60 more days.