Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1913 — Classified Ad Restored $51.00 to Al Fletcher. [ARTICLE]

Classified Ad Restored $51.00 to Al Fletcher.

It was indeed “Happy” Al Fletcher Wednesday afternoon when he learned that a classified advertisement in The Republican had found his pocketbook containing ss|. He lost no time in hunting up the finder and proving his property. /Al was down town April Ist and did some shopping and when he reached for his purse a little later it was gone. He recalled the amount of money and the denominations and placed an advertisement in The Republican. The same afternoon Mrs. Elmer Wilcox found the purse. She was walking along Washington street and stepped on it. As it was the Ist day of April Mrs. <Wilcox thought it might be an April fool joke and she expected some one to laugh at her when she picked it up, But no one laughed. Without looking inaide the purse she placed it in a handbag and Waited to investigate until she got around the corner. Greatly to her surprise she found that it contwo S2O bills, one $lO bill, a silver dollar, several pennies and a house key. Then she found the advertisement in The Republican and Al was notified and his every day smile broadened into a big grin when he realized that he was to recover the money. Mr. Fletcher re? ccntly lost one of his horses by death and he expected to use the money toward the purchase of another one.