Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — By Hen! Here’s That Rube Dance Again! [ARTICLE]

By Hen! Here’s That Rube Dance Again!

Several of our citizens have been receiving big manila envelopes lately with the above line printed on their fronts, in big type. Inside the envelopes, printed on coarse yellow paper, and headed "Attenshun Yaps” was an invitation to a "Rube Dance" at Blue Island, 111, on Friday night April Ist. The invitation reads as f jllowe: We reckon thet es anything per y swell is agoin’ to be giv in Blew Hand, yu want tn no it, dont yu? Wei, on Fryday nite, April Ist, 1904, ther is agoin’ tu bee a tiube danse up tew Singer Hawi thet wil make all prevus yap affares luk lia. a bunch of frost-bit squash vines Jack Eddy and his pesky bunch of fiddlers wil watt out from taoun j ; st to hoop her up The feller that’s got eight bits can sashay rile in with his bloomin’ peach, but the feller that ain’t ia “up aaiu the reel thing" as them city folks say. Just kum rit | ahed and es yu don’t get your money’s wuth, yu luse. THE CUMITEE. Bert Rhoades, formerly of our town, now holding a good position at Blue Island, is one of the “Cumitee” and Lawson Meyer, also of the same place, will be one of the liveliest Rubes. The participants are requested to appear in Hayseed costumes, if possible.