Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1912 — CIGARBOX FOR BANK; $2,000 DESTROYED [ARTICLE]

CIGARBOX FOR BANK; $2,000 DESTROYED

William C. Fay lor, of Union Township, Lost Residence and $2,000 in Friday S'oon Fire. William C. Faylor, of Union township, lost $2,000 in currency and his farm residence Friday noon, fire being the agency of destruction. Mr. Faylor states that he had the money Jn a cigarbox in an upstairs room and was saving with the intention of building himself a new home next year. Mrs. Faylor had driven to Fair Oaks, and had not been gone very long when he discovered the roof of the house on fire. Apparently it had caught from a defective chimney. He .rushed to the house and started up stairs to the room where the money was, but he was stopped by the flames. He employed the telephone which was in the lower part of the £ouse to call neighbors to aid him in saving as much of the household goods as possible and most of the things on the first floor were dragged out. The house, which was a fairly good one, was totally destroyed. It was insured for S6OO. With several good banks in the city and county and with postal savings banks almost-every place, there is no excuse for a man having that amount of currency in his home and while Mr. Faylor’s loss will be a severe one for him, he will find little sympathy, we imagine, because he not employ the means so readily at hand to have guarded against the loss.