Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1908 — Praise in Verse for Sheriff. [ARTICLE]

Praise in Verse for Sheriff.

While the people of Rensse’aer and Jasper county are praising Sheriff O’Connor as an able and just official, and regretting that his term of office is about to close, we axe net the only people that are proud of ouxr sheriff. Delphi is claiming great praise for the sheriff of Carroll county,, who serves chicken every Sunday to’ the prisoners, not having missed a Sunday in the past year. An overjoyed jailbird has broken forth lu the following verse in praise of the sheriff: “I’ve traveled o'er the wild and wooly west, From Texas to Montana, But the finest sheriff I ever met was Mr. Pullen, Of Delphi, Indiana” The prisoner boasts a personal investigation of all the sheriffs of the west and pronounces the Delphi officer the peer of them all. Possibly there is some method in his rhymatle exertions and may be he would thusflatter the sheriff into leaving tl)p jail door unlocked some night. The designing tourist now confined behind the bars «.f the Carroll county jail does not close his eplstler of praise with the poetry, but speaking for all the prisoners says that with one voice they wish the sheriff a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Again there may be some design in the archly worded 1 tnguago of the culprit and the she. iff may find that he has been raj :led into too great confidence in the prisoner and that some morning he will not answer roll call and will fail to takehis place in the lock step column) that leads to the pancake table. Or, perhaps, the coy rascal would merely pursuade by his compliments the preparation of a more elaborate spread on Christmas da>', where turkey and cranberry trimmings took the place" of chicken. „ Possibly the sheriff will find himself betrayed by a kiss. He should sleep with one eye open.