"SAYS HE IS NOT DEAD"
 
                                     A Well Known Citizen Calls to Say
                                          That He is Still One of the
                                                     Old Settlers.

   Mr. Andrew Gehrig called at this office Friday to make the statement that he is not dead.  At the Early Settlers picnic Thursday the orator of the day, who had been furnished with a list of the deceased members of the association, read the names to the assembled multitude, and among them was that of Mr. Gehrig, who is one of Dubuque's highly respected citizens.  He said that he was under the impression that he was still alive, or, if he were dead, he felt very much as he used to feel when alive.  He would run the risk that he was alive, and, therefore, desired to have a change made in the name.  He said that he was under a doctor's care and could not say how long he would live, but he was quite certain that he was yet in the land of the living.  Mr. Gehrig had the satisfaction of reading what the orator said in eulogizing the hardy pioneers who came here when Dubuque was a struggling hamlet.  He says that it is a "good one" on the man who furnished the death roll to the orator, and believes that he ought to set up the "high ones" when they meet.