Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1898 — One Man Appreciated Fence Advertising. [ARTICLE]

One Man Appreciated Fence Advertising.

A Nebraska editor says; “The other day when we were driving down behind our family rhinoceros w’e came upon an aged man tearing a bridge to pieces and placing it upon a wagon. As the bridge was one that we needed in our business we asked the aged mormon what he was doing with it, and in which case, why so, or words to that effect. He replied: “My eyesight is poor and I have no spectacles with me. I understand that many advertisements are painted on this bridge and am taking it home in order that I may read them and find out where to get bargains. The long winter evenings are coming and I want to lay in a supply of bridges and board fences and barn doors that I may sit by my fireside and read what the merchants have to say.”