Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1913 — JACOB SMITH IS IN A TIGHT PLACE [ARTICLE]

JACOB SMITH IS IN A TIGHT PLACE

Parr Man Charged With Giving Checks When He Had No Money in Bank. Jacob Smith, 36 years of age and unmarried, is in jail He is charged by W. L. Wood, the Parr merchant with having procured money under false pretenses. Smith rung a lumber camp on the Joe Kusta farm, near Parr. Some time ago he wrote checks on a Rensselaer bank for more money than he had in the bank and evident is at hand to show that he knew he did not have the money on deposit. He offered to make good by giving orders on men who had had somber sawed, but it was found mat these had previously accepted orders given to others. Sheriff Hoover and Mr. Wood arrested him today and brought him to Rensselaer and he was given a preliminary hearing, and bail placed at S3OO, which he has so far been unable to give. Smith formerly had a lumber camp near Wheatfldd and is said to have had similar trouble there. He was in jail here about a year ago on an Intoxication charge.

Opposition to penny postage is being urged by the National Federation of Post Office Clerks. It Is based on the ground that penny postage will create a big deficit, estimated at $70,000,000, in first-class mall matter, which now returns about that amount of profit to the government, and that the deficit will materially handicap the development of the parcel post and the postal savings banks.