Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1899 — A Man of Many Vocations. [ARTICLE]

A Man of Many Vocations.

H. V. Weaver who was examined about three weeks ago in Indianapolis as a professional embalmer, has received notice that he passed all right. A late law requires that a professional embalmer be employed to care for the bodies of those who die with contagious disease. —Lowell Tribune. Which adds one more to the many trades, vocations and occupations of our versatile extownsman. He is a barber and an upholsterer, a carpenter and a Cabinet maker, a painter and a paper hanger, an undertaken and an editor, a preacher and an embalmer (a saver of souls and a preserver of bodies) and lastly he is a player of 17 diffeient kinds of musical instruments, any three of them at once and a band leader “to beat the band.” We may have forgotten a few of his occupations, for which we trust he will excuse us. Very likely he . could not name them all himself, off-hand.