Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1908 — Marshal Sports New Star. [ARTICLE]

Marshal Sports New Star.

Some people are known for their i deeds, some for the clothes they wear, some for the money they possess and some for the debts they owe, and almost every man has some particular trait by which he is best understood. But it takes some ‘ special badge to designate a policeman from the common herd. And -the real fly cop should have a real nice shiny star. When Dr. Frank Hemphill, of Seeleyville, was here for the home coming he saw that the badge of office that Marshal Parks had was not the latest cut, and being the high mogul of the town of Seeleyville, he did not like to think that his old home town was running behind the times any in the matter of badges for its chief of police, so he made a note of the dilapidated condition of the marshal’s star in his pill book, and when he got home he vnt tn an order for a 1908 model star with the words: “Rensselaer, Ind., Marshal” across the front The star has arrived, is a beauty and shines so brightly that a hobo can see it as he rounds the north curve into Rensselaer on his annual southern emigration trip. Billy is the proudest marshal in Indiana and it is certainly a nice thing to be remembered by former residents in so pleasant a manner.