Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1910 — Ezra Fix In Bad Fix Until Restored to His Sixty-Six. [ARTICLE]

Ezra Fix In Bad Fix Until Restored to His Sixty-Six.

A lost pocketbook, a disturbed owner, ah honest man and the Republican bureau of information combined to make a very interesting little occurrence Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Ezra Fix and J. O. Kelley, of Boswell, came to Rensselaer Tuesday to visit the former’s farm near McCoysburg, occupied by Elmer Hammerbecker. After the business at the farm had been transacted and Mr. Fix had paid his tenant $5 to bind a bargain for the purchase of some stock,’ the gentlemen started back to Rensselaer. Mr. Fix did not have occasion to use his pocketbook until after his return and was surprised to discover its absence from his pocket, where he remembered having placed it.

He spent a sleepless night and early in the morning rented another livery rig and went over the same trip he had made Tuesday when the pocketbook was lost. But he found no trace of the missing purse and after his return he called to advertise for it in the Republican. In the meantime B. J. Moore had called at the Republican and Btated that be had found a purse and it proved to be the one Mr. Fix had lost. It contained three S2O bills, one $5 bill and one $1 bill, making $66 in all. Mr. Fix was so pleased to get trace of his purse that he hunted Mr. Moore up at once and his pocketbook was restored to him intact. He presented Mr. Moore with a fiver and subscribed for the Republican and returned to Benton county with a pretty good opinion of Rensselaer and Jasper county.