Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1908 — Swearing the Witnesses. [ARTICLE]

Swearing the Witnesses.

Town Cynic—“l don’t like th’ way they’re doin’ business over in our court house.” Friend-—“ Why?” Town Cynic—" Tom Simmonds, the court crier, tells me that some oue stole the court Bible more’n a month ago, an’ since then he’s been swearin’ the witnesses on the town directory.’’—The Bohemian.