Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — Child Finds a S1,000 Draft. [ARTICLE]

Child Finds a S1,000 Draft.

At Steven’s Point, Wts., Little Mabel Ennor, while cleaning her doll’s house a day or twe ago, found in an old mathematical treatise a SI,OOO draft on the Adams Express Compunj . The draft was obtained by her grandfather, Thomas Woodward, in 1801, in Ban Francisco, and Is payable at sight in Chicago through the private banking firm of G. H. Smith & Co. Mr. Woodward was aa eccentric Englishman, at one time a member of the British House of Commons. He made a fortune in California during the gold craze in '4!), bat had a profound distrust of bank#, and several times lost large sums of money by secreting them in odd places. The draft is still good, despite its age and the stains of time. It will be taken to Chicago next wvek and presented to the officers of the Adams Express Company for payment by Judge Cate, attorney for Mrs. Woodward.