Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1907 — Can't be Layed on to Ben Butler. [ARTICLE]

Can't be Layed on to Ben Butler.

Some-one who attended the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Laßue Friday stole a half-dozen silver tea-spoons from a set of one dozen, which had been presented to the host and hostess by several of their friends. The spoons were taken during the aiternoon and there seems to be no clqe at all as to who the gnilty party was. If the incident had occurred forty years ago, Ben Butler wonld have been charged with the doing of it if he had teen within a hundred miles of the plaoe, but Ben went long ago to the place where silver spoons are not supposed to figure very extensively.