NO, AWFUL, GOT NO BRIDE. ~ Building Barns, Not a Fine Home, Declares Alderman on Return.

November 1, 1909
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?"