The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, February 1, 1906 A good citizen of Russell, who is a regular attendant at church, became a missionary, a Sunday or two since, in a way which caused a smile to pervade the faces of those to whom he silently preached. He had his best go-to-meeting clothes on that day and the occasion was one at which the church was unusually crowded and he was compelled to desert his regular pew and take a circumscribed seat over next to the blackboard, on which the Sunday School lesson was illustrated in several colors of chalk. In fact the small space assigned to him caused him to lean hard against the blackboard and it is natural that when a person comes in close contact with a good thing, it never fails to leave its imprint. It was so in this case. And as the brother walked forth toward his own vine and fig tree after the services, the criminal statutes received a new impetus in this legend on the back of his coat, painted in all the colors of the rainbow: "Thou shalt not steal." This walking edition ! of the ten commandments came too late to spare the Lucas County Court considerable inquiry as to the methods of a citizen or two but no doubt it will be rewarded with beneficial results in the future. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert September 25, 2004 [email protected] *Would have liked to know this fellow's name -- humorously written...