Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1909 — Gov. Marshall Buys Neckties Without Asking the Price. [ARTICLE]

Gov. Marshall Buys Neckties Without Asking the Price.

Not long ago Gov. Marshall and Col. Thistlethwaite were walking down street when Jthe governor happened to remember that he needed a new necktie. They stopped in a furnishing goods store and the governor selected two ties. “Pick one out for yourself,” he said to Col. Thistlethwaite, and the colonel picked out one. The three were charged to the governor. The first of the month a statement came from the store to the governor, and it read: “To three neckties, $7.50.” Gov. Marshall gasped w’hen he saw the bill. Then he called up the store and asked about it. Some mistake, surely, he said. “No,” said the man in the store. “Those ties were $2.50 each.” Ever since that Gov. Marshall has been inquiring the price of things before he buys them.