Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1910 — Visits Rensselaer for First Time Since He Was a Boy. [ARTICLE]

Visits Rensselaer for First Time Since He Was a Boy.

Hiram A. Thompson, of Tulsa, Okla., was a Rensselaer visitor Sunday and Monday, being the guest of his sister, Mrs. C. W. Duvall and family and of his cousin, Mrs. E. P. Honan. Mr. Thompson was born in Rensselaer 44 years ago and when 5 years of age went west with his parents. He had had not seen his sister, Mrs. Duvall, since they visited the family in the west in 1879. Mr. Thompson was until recently never been here since that time and the chief of police of Tulsa, Okla., and is now engaged in private detective work and his trip to Chicago was on business which he expected to require his presence in Chicago all this week and possibly take him on to Washington, D. C. He is a fine looking, pleasant and Interesting gentleman. The National Mercantile Association, of which Harry Collins is the manager, made two collections recently that surprised the manager. Among accounts received were two from a neighboring town and the owner of them said he was so anxious to make the collections and at the same time so certain that they could not be collected that he would willingly pay 75 per cent to get them settled and off the books. Harry thought the per cent worth a trial and he wrote a letter to each of the debtors in his most persuasive tone. Two days later when he opened the morning mail he found answers from each and much to his surprise each letter contained settlement in full of the claims. As the company usually charges only 20 per cent it was a nice pick up. Accidents will happen, but the bestregulated families keep Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil for such emergencies. It subdues the pain and heals the hurts.