Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — No Use for Small Change. [ARTICLE]

No Use for Small Change.

“The United States government could almost do away with coins smaller than a dime so far as the towns of the Northwest are concerned,” remarked Col. George W. Drewry of Kentucky at the Raleigh, according to the Wastftngton Post. Colonel Drewry spent several months in Montana and Idaho and has just come. East. ‘The price is ‘two bits’ for most anything a man wants,’ continued Colonel Drewry. “It you want a shave it’s two bits,' or if you want a refreshing drink of some kind it’s the same. The bootblacks will consent to shine your shoes a little cheaper, but they want 15 cents for polishing your ’kicks, and they appear to think that is too cheap.**