Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1907 — Notes from Indianapolis News. [ARTICLE]

Notes from Indianapolis News.

Twenty years ago this session at 2o’clock in the afternoon Emmet F. Branch became a page in the Indiana legislature. He was in the house and ran down the aisle of the democratic side where Charley Jewett held forth. Warren G. Sayer of Wabash was the speaker, and Albert J. Beveridge was the reading clerk. The first pay day young Branch took a big red pocket-book down tothe treasurer’s office to carry home his salary. He got it home all right and gave it to his father, and that night a burglar stole it. Fow he is speaker of the house and he isn’t a bit happier.