Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1910 — ODD METHOD OF BOOKKEEPING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ODD METHOD OF BOOKKEEPING.

A method of bookkeeping as novel and Ingenious as it is pathetic was discovered a short time ago by a Ntiw Orleans business man who had bedn obliged to spend a few days m an out-of-the-way coftntry place. The hotel was postoffice, country store, jail and all else of a business nature the place possessed, but the prbprletor and hotel manager could not write. On leaving the place he was presented with the bill shown In the drawing. The figure in the bed means just what It implies, and the four ones with the line drawn through the two ones following, means that the bed was occupied seven times. The dollar sign and three ones designate that the fee for tty is privilege was $3.00. The figure drawn as seated it a table and the marks following show that twenty-four meals were eaten at a consideration pf ssjoo.— Popular Mechanics.