Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — Reviews Life of Bennet Lyons, Brook’s Foremost Citizen. [ARTICLE]

Reviews Life of Bennet Lyons, Brook’s Foremost Citizen.

Fowler Tribune. Every person in this part of the country has (heard of Bennet Lyons. He Was born in Newton county, has always lived on the same section, except—he wears a bronze button on his coat. When he started his bank, it is said that he did not bother talcing notes If the customer was good he jwrote (his Check . and the money was charged, as the grocer would Charge a sack of flour. (He had a good bookkeeper. On the up a benevolent looking man saijd that he and another had been in -.bpsiness in Brook and tailed. He gave up all of the partnership money, all of this individual money and still owed the (bank, $l5O and said that he would have to give his note for that sum or go out and •.borrow. Mr. Lyons intimated that tthere,/was ,n,o use in wearing bis shoes out doing a thing like that and wrote out the note. After the bookkeeper had made the proper entries, the note was returned to him marked paid. “You have preached tor us for forty years, made merry when our were married and gave words of hope at the mouth of the grave. I reckon the bank Is behind some in its quarterage.” Mt. Lyons has lived in Newton county for seventy years and he looks the part; he wears boots, chews tobacco on the port side and looks you in the eye. When he dies, we will attend his funeral and print in the paper what a great man lhe was, but it would not (be according to the code to do so now.