Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1910 — Pull the Blinds; the Peeper May be Watching. [ARTICLE]

Pull the Blinds; the Peeper May be Watching.

The Republican does not want to appear as an alarmist, but several reported occurrences of the past week have caused us to believe that there is occasion at this time to exercise a little precaution for fear of petty thieving, etc. In one section of the city, a man has been seen two evenings lingering in the shadow of .trees and watching adjacent houses. What his purposes was can not be surmised, but once he quietly walked away when a man and his wife walked toward him and another time when two men walked close to him he Jumped across the walk and ran like a deer into the back yard aRd evidently from the noise he made, he stumbled through some cans in the alley, as he was intent on gettpig away. Occasionally some degenerate lingers about trying to peer through unblinded windows and this* may have been one of those animals. It is a safe thing to lower the blinds until the lights are turned out. Any skunk of this kind who is captured should be handled roughly. A traveling man who was here this morning stated that there were a large number of people at Warsaw had their pockets picked last Saturday when the show visited that town. One man lost SIOO. Every person in Rensselaer and vicinity should guard against this. Don’t take any more money with you than you may need and avoid taking up with fresh strangers. Lock the windows and doors. Don’t feed tramps that day, send them to the city marshal. Don’t miss the show, simply deposit your surplus money in the bank and lock the house. Have the right change when you buy tickets and keep the blinds pulled down.