Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1906 — A Good Send-Off For Ben. [ARTICLE]

A Good Send-Off For Ben.

Brook Peporter—ln behalf of the candidate for coroner from Iroquois township we wish to say a a few words. There is no better qualified man anywhere than Mr. Leopold, both by inheritance and attainments. Born-thirty-two years ago, of excellent parents and an unbroken ancestry dating back 4678 B. C. At eight days of age he was baptized into the church according to the rights of the Hebrew faith. Since then he has lengthened and broadened and developed along the line necessary to make an efficient coroner. First educated as a Levite, and as age and experience lengthened his intelligence donned the robes of Rabbi, and at present he is conducting the biggest dry goods and shoe store in Newton county with a trade that exceeds fifty thousand dollars a year. He is as competent to go out and pick np the remains of the man that ‘didn’t know the gun was loaded’ <■ s he is to sell two cents worth of shoe strings. The convention is to be congr atnlated upon the choice o one man that is eminently qualified to fill the office to which he was nominated.