Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1906 — Tough Tines for The Immortal One. [ARTICLE]

Tough Tines for The Immortal One.

Poor old J./N. Free, more fatnil iary known the'country over as “Tue Immortal J. N..” and who used to make Reuse* la'-rj Fa rare visit in the coarse of his constant travels, is having a mighty hard tow to hoe the e -days, He is 82 years of age and the people who in former days were willing to see that he got along are becoming tind of his presence. lie has been “up and dowu” the road in all parte of central Ohio, the past few months, but ttie best is a piece of cold shoulder. On Saturday the Richland infirmary directors “ticketed” him to Bucyrns He had spent the previous night in the Mansfield city prision on the charge of loitering. For some days and nights he had been hanging abrnt the depots in that city, not only bothering the efficiifls with his rambling speeches, but by getting onto the tracks and causing'trouble in that way. He belongs in Craw, ford county and it is quite likely that he will spend bis declining years in the infirmary there says the Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Republican News.