The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-05-30
No. 40.
The Teuton's View.


and dose Liberty Bonds. want TO
hear any way" grunted Ben Ochs. the
butcher. 1T is foolishness. For why
should / give more money so Yankee
soldiers can be kept over In Cher
many1 What business We got nit
dose soldiers over derei say let
'em come homei"
-Und.- he went on warming 10 his
subject, 81 say let dem big vellers.
dem RockefeneEs and dem Morgans
and dem oder big guys dake dis loan
Let desc bankers dot run around after
as last fan and make US sign oop.
bet dem dake the loan. Bah, War
Is Offer, what We care We don't have
20 buy no more. We do as We dam
please. now ! guess. got about
enough Of dis tam Yankee fool"
Maybe If Sim Whites bull dog
hadn't taken this exact instant TO hop
ell spraddled out on Jerry Keegan's
mastir. Ochs would have gone on and
said what was in the Teuton heart OF
him and Jacksonville would have
promptly resented II and in the act
Of setting Ben Ochs right would prob
ably have set itself right But the
dog fight drew 'em all into the half
lighted street and by the. time the
two pups had been hammered apart
the gang that poured out OF Jackson's
harness shop had tust about forgotten,
any and everything that had been
said.
II was a mild winter and the felix's
OF Jeffersonville were abroad a gDodi
deal The farmers from the surround
ing country were in town regufr1y an
winter rz9. But In all the rfttha
groups thst formed on street corners
In the Post Office. in the stores and
at the railway station little was said
about the coming Liberty Loan. y
Patriotism Asleep.
Cant see the reason for n" said
Sid Price" and got better places 10
put my money than in any long-tern.
: less than six per cent Government
loan. All right for widders and such
to buy EN-. but want my money TO
earn me somethin-
And II was. He must have been the
man of whom II was first said that
he would skin a flea for its hide and
tallow and he was currently reported
10 have an armful q 7 per cent farm
mortgages locked up in vault In
the first four loans the Liberty Loan
Committees had all but used forceps
and a braEding ipon TO get any kmd
of a subscription out OF him
And old Sid climbed into his buck
board buggy and struck out through
the mud OF late winter in search of
another victim.
So Jenersonvills veat along that
way. The spring winds came and the
mud dried up and the young shoots
made a bronze mist Of baby foliage
In the tops of the maple trees. There
we're dandeiions on the lawns and
along che board walks but Jefferson
villes attitude did not soften with
the advancing year. Jerersonvilbe
had Just about made up IFS mind. The
war wa over anyway. the boys were
coming back. things were going 10 be
all right and JeGersonville was going
90 hold on to IL. money. Hadn't II
done all right on everything else and
who could expect a neighborhood 10
go right along forever. buying and Civ
ing and giving? The townsfolk were
careful TO lay lot Of emphasis On
the giving
In the meanwhile the $50 per y ,
hogs and the s22e a bushel vhea, VS.
moving 70 market right along with
The high priced beeves and the aggs
de luxe and all the other high-priced
foodstufs that we're coming from the
country In which most Of Jefferson
vile was vitality interested. uere was
more money being spent than ever
before IN the history OF the town
Nearly everybody had ear ordered
and the income tax paid with some
weeping and waiting and snashins 81
teeth and much inward bleeding
was being forgotten. TIE dealers we're
busy selling nev pumps. nev pievs,
a Tractor now - thes and many.
many motor care. The piano and or
gan man. who also sold talking ma
ah,nac NO., concvatula DIR himself on