Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1911 — Willing to Tell It. [ARTICLE]

Willing to Tell It.

The check which the comely young German woman handed In at the window of a Walnut street savings fund bank the other day was made payable to Gretchen H. Schmidt, and she had indorsed it simply Gretchen Schmidt. The man at the receiving teller’s window called her back just as she was turning away to rectify the mistake. “You don’t deposit this quite this way,” he explained. “See, you have forgotten the H." The young woman looked at her check and blushed a rosy red. “Ach, so I has,” she murmured, and wrote hurriedly: “Age 23.”