Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — John Powell As A Poet. [ARTICLE]

John Powell As A Poet.

John W. Powell, once sheriff of this county and for many years past an employe of the government in Washlngon, hast Bent a valentine to Joe Hardman, a former piscatorial companion, in the shape of a Kodak photo of himself standing on the hanks of Rock Creek, in the act of taking a drink from a half pint bottle. On the reverse side of the photo, which is unmounted, is the following verse, which John has composed in the Riley style: I am longin’ for the paasin’ Of the winter and the snow, I am longin’, yes, I’m longin’, I am longin’ don’t you know, For the leafin’ of the woodlands And the lowin’ of the kin©— I am longin’ for the water And the Jerkin’ of the line: I am longin’ for the croakin' Of the bull frog to his mate, I am longin’ for the flshln' And the “drlnkln’ of the bait”