Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1914 — INTERESTING ITEMS FROMTHE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITEMS FROMTHE CITIES

Trading Stamp Will Gets on a Judge’s Nerves Man wants but little here below, But trading stamps are all the go. DETROIT, MICH. —Probate Judge Hanley absently scribbled the above sentiment on his blotter pad as he listened to the contest of the will of Hattie C. Koszesha. Hattie, by her last testament, left her entire earthly treasures,'

consisting of about $1,300 in trading stamps, to be divided equally between her husband. Julius, and her mother, Mrs. Matilda Brock. By dint of questioning, Judge Hanley learned *' that the trading stamps were worth a parlor rocker, a soup tureen and a shaving mug, or, by different combin- . tag, would get for the lucky holder a penwiper, a set of false teeth and a shoehorn. “Your honor,” said Julius, “my mother-in-law must have used undue

Influence on my wife to get her to bequeath half of these trading stamps to anybody but me. I want the will declared void on that ground.” Judge Hanley scribbled another couplet as he listened to the oration of Julius. It read: , . ’ It’s fun to spite a mother-in-law, ; ■ Especially when it’s by the law. x “My wife spent the best years of her life collecting those trading stamps,** continued Julius. “Many is the happy evening she and I spent counting them over.” Bucolic pleasures clashed with art, But never loosened Cupid’s dart That was what Judge Hanley scribbled at this juncture. But the mother-in-law now had her inning. She said they were soap trading stamps and that she had helped her daughter to get them. The soap was soon used up in lather, That’s what got the stamps, I gather. So the judge scribbled, but the testimony was by that time an In and he renderedjudgment.—; ..—■ ' . ■■ .- ' — < - v —_ “This is the cheapest will contest that has ever been brought in Wayne county,” he said. “I admit the will to probate, and, further* if the will be knocked out, the husband and mother of the woman would divide the trading stamps under the statute.”