Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1902 — Bound to Get Ahead. [ARTICLE]

Bound to Get Ahead.

South Bend Times: —A certain South Bender who had left his wife, heard through a friend that the once loved better half had declared that he looked ‘’tacky.” He did’t do a thing, but buy a new suit o clothes, a boiled shirt, patent leather shoes and a new hat and buttonhole boquet, and then in an open topped hack, on last Thanksgiving day, which was not particularly pleasant, have himself driven back and forth in front of the house where his wife lived with relatives. It then came to his ears that his wife said that he would fill a pauper’s grave in the potters’ field. He went and bought himself a choice burial lot, purchased a tombstone and is now waiting for things to turn up to prove that the woman is mistaken.