Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1919 — 8,800 PENNIES ON BACK. [ARTICLE]

8,800 PENNIES ON BACK.

Seymour, Ind., Feb. 13.—A man carrying a half-filled feed sack ever his back stepped into a local bank and took hns place in the waiting line before the receiving teller’s window. Others who were waiting twitted him about having so much money that he had to carry it in a feed bag. He answered with a smile. When he moved up before the window he laid the end of the sack on the counter and started to empty it. He had 8,800 pennies. He operates a ebaan of weighing machines and had just made a collecting trip.