Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1906 — A Russian Gets Naturalized. [ARTICLE]

A Russian Gets Naturalized.

It is only on rare occasions that a genuine Russian drifts into our clerk’s office to become natural’zed. Such a case occured here Wednesday however, and the applicant was Isaac Warhaftig, now of the vicinity of Wheatfield. He left his native Russia 15 years ago, but has been in this country only since last September. The intervening 15 years he spent in Palestine, but what he went there for or what he did while there was not learned during his stay here. No doubt if he could speaksky the English languagiwisky he could tell quite a story of his experience. But whether he talksky the language or not, he will be voting the ticketsky at the next election. In being naturalized, he did not, after the manner of early converts to Christianity, “forswear the devil and all his woras,” But he did what amounted to about the same thing, namely, forswore the Nicholas andall his cussedness. Well, here’s to y6u Isaacovitch. When you come to volesky if you will just remember to always stamp the eaglesky you wont make any very great mistakovy.