Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-11-23
When Audubon Her New Well She Will be Shape For Sewerage

OF course, if your mind and body are II
an undeveloped state, you have reason
to complain, but, whenever you reach
the higher altitude of Fairness anC
Honesty you will find that there will bt
no controversy between The Advocate
and The Republican.
just where Bro Hoogenakker got his infor
nation as to The Advocates intentions of put
ting on contest. Was it not an imaginary
enemy that you feared TO such an extent thai
you began 10 believe that it really existed be
fore your eyesf Our wind is still good. How
is yoursy
The information we received was
] from Mr. Spencer of The Advocate. II
was he who told us that he was
figuring on putting on contest of some
kind. but that he had not fully decided
what it would be- We imagined moth.
! ing. Mr.. Spencer says his wind is still
good and this fact no one questions He
has been feeding his readers on wind
for long time and now that he has
received puncture he is making big
fuss about it. He may choose to con
tinue TO furnish wind but we prefer TO
furnish facts, and news whileit is fresh.
Just who Bro. HoogenaIxker refers to as hav.
ing had ii rubbed in and Just how he is going
TO stop itS
| Mr.. Spencer has tried to rub it in on
all former editors of The Republican
ever since his (Mr. Spencer 81 advent in
the newspaper field in Audubon, but he
has been scored and squelched to a
nicely on several occasions during the
the past six years. We have nothing
to stop. At least up to this stage of the
game Mr.. Spencer has produced nothing
that would require any energy or exer-
ton TO stop.
Whether the admiration of one for another
spunk is worthy OF much pride when the one
who admires the others business
spunk recently spent an hour in The Advocate
once with alligator tears in his eyes trying to
get The Advocate TO promise to be quiet while
he pulled on his little stunt. BE man. Bro
Show yourself to be game. II you have your
head in a moose don't come around and ask US
to help you to take it out. when you got il
in there in an attempt to show us how things
are done in running newspaper.
| We admit that we spent an hour at
The Advocate Office talking over the
contest situation. We told Mr.. Spencer
that it would not be paying PROPOSE.
ton for either one of us, If two contests
in the same town were conducted at the
same time. We both agreed on this
point. We did not try to get the AID.
vocate to make us any promise. We
did not want any promise. We were
looking for information and Mr. Spencer
gave us the information we wanted.
| Up to this time we had offered as pre-
miums in our contest, two pianos
Later we substituted ) Passenger
Ford Automobile for one of the pianos
and by so doing we claim that we were
showing ourselves to be game. Perhaps
Mr.. Spencer does not know what il
means to be game.
We are perfectly satisfied with the
moose into which we have placed oul
head 1T we mistake not, we are show
ing Mr.. Spencer a few tricks about
running newspaper and he will b.
shown still more as time goes on. Il
takes more than a lot of bullheadednes'
and awkwardness TO conduct news
paper, all of which will come to the at
tention of The Advocate sooner or later
Whether Bro Hoogsnakker thinks that live
moving. active bodies are as easily handled a
dead onesS
They certainly are dead easy to handl
if Mr.. Spencer refers to himself in tn
above paragraph.
just why Bro. HoogenalIker does not smile
You are not at funeral as yet and you will no
offend anyone by so doingl
Can't you understand anything, MI
! Spencer? Why we have been SO bus,
, adding new subscribers to our list sine
the contest began that we haven't ha'
I time to smile. Don't worry about tn
/ smile, it will come in due time and
may be at the funeral of some news
paper along about the fore part of mex
January.