Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Notice of Change of Firm. I have purchased all the business, books, papers and correspondence of the firm of Ferguson & Ferguson. Parties having business with this firm can conclude the same with me. I have also placed in my office an abstract and farm loan department and am prepared to make abstracts of title and farm loans on short notice. GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, Attorney. His Mother-In-Law. * ,'f An Irishman walked into a drygoods store and asked the clerk about the style of mourning. "Well/’ said the clerk, “for a near relation you wear black clothes and a black band around your hat; for a distant relative you wear a wide black band around your arm and for a more distant one you wear a narrow band around your left arm.” "Aw," said Pat, "gimme a shoe stfipg! It’s me woife’s mither.”