Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1904 — Where Job Has Been Patient. [ARTICLE]

Where Job Has Been Patient.

We have just received another letter from Job V. Harris n, written from bis “Red, White and Blue” homestead, as he calls his home in way up in Towner county, North Dakota, and only about 10 miles south from the jumping-off place into Canada Job, with a patience worthy of the patriarch whose namesake he is, has served the necessary five years, and now his title clear to the 160 acres of government land he took, up that long ago He is wintering on the homestead, and in a house built into side of a hill, and has one eptrance at the side and another at the top, snd in winter both are blocked with enow, and Job has to crawl out on all fours, if he gets out at all, and to keep his 1 ghts burning all day They have some blizzards there, and Job recalls one regular stemwinder which ran three days before it run down, and he bad to burn his bedstead and cup board for fuel.

Life is not all dreary there by any means, however, and Job sa s the neighbors had all night dances at his place on Christmas and New Years, and one night afterwards, and were billed for still another on Washington’s birthday

During Lent yon will find at John Eger’s all kiuds of fresh fish smeked Halibut, smoked salmon, smoked herring, bloaters, spiced herring, boneless codfish, Russian sardines, and all kinds of oanned fish, . At ye laete sesshnn of Ye Deestreect Skewl ye skolars showed a marked improvement. By ye nse of ye rod, Miss Pendergrass has reduced ve number of flying paper wads. Sim Dimpsey, ye bad boy, tod Id improving in Conduct, jn spite of ye last man teeoher’s prediction that “Sim whb on the direct road to ye penitentary ”

“The Missouri Girl” is a convulsive carnival of uproarious surprises. You never know what to expect. It is laugh, laugh, laugh There are no shows just like it.; There i» nothing *‘so good” for those who desire a hearty laugh. It will be seen at opera house Tuesday night. During Lent John Eger will handle all kinds of winter caught fresh fish, smoked halibut, smoked salmon, smoked herring, spiced herring bloater-, boneless codfish, Russian sardines, salt white fish, bay fish;-mackerel, and all kinds of canned fish.

The Missouri Girl, whio'< cornea to the Opera House Dext Monday night. Feb. 28. is a play of the “O d Homestead” order, and one of the first of that hind to be vr>ir ten. That ‘‘imitation is the sii oerest flattery” i* 01-arly pro/en by the 'hoi that in nearly ev**ry<*. « of the later domestic oomerbethare oan be seen traoes of ‘The Missouri Girl.” This is the eighth season of this now fnmops eon edv and it sttraota a large sudien'’** each succeeding appearance in dvbvy oity that it viaiti-