NO, AWFUL, GOT NO BRIDE.
Building Barns, Not a Fine Home,
Declares Alderman on Return.
"Nothing to it. Wouldn't it have been awful if such a thing had been published?" gasped Alderman James Pendergast last night upon his return from a business trip to Chicago.
While he was away some wag said that the alderman would return with a bride.
"They say you have all the marrying symptoms; that you are building a fine home in the south part of town and buying automobiles," it was suggested.
"If they would say that I am building barns on my farms and buying harvesting machines they would be nearer the facts," replied the alderman, adding, "there isn't very much connubial sentiment about that, is there?"
