Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — A Peculiar Ambition. [ARTICLE]

A Peculiar Ambition.

Monongalia County, Went Virginia, has a citizen named Ilaymoiul Grlpp with an ambition so peculiar and unusual that some people think him crazy. For many y<*nrs he hua made it a point to lie the first citizen in the county to pay ills taxes. About three yer%rs ago, and for the first time in ids life, be was tieaten by a swifter taxpayer, aud It almost broke ills hiwrt.