Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — A Unique Holiday Window. [ARTICLE]

A Unique Holiday Window.

In the way of Holiday windows displays, the one at Rhoades & Overton’s hardware store deserves special mention. It is designed to represent the door yard of an early settler’s bouse, in winter. One end of bis log cabin isshbwn, with snow on the roof, and iceicles hanging from the eaves. Plenty of snow is also lodged in the “chinks” between the logs. It must be early in the winter, as ouly one coon skin is nailed against the end ''f the honse. That one co in is the real old ringtail variety all the old timers used to hunt in their boyhood days, especially when the neighbors’ watermelons were ripe. The settler’s wood-pile is shown, and is true to life in that the setthr has got a stick half sawed intwo, and then gone more coons and left the old woman to saw the wood or go without. When the old man gets back he will find that the old woman can both saw and jaw too.