Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1920 — MAYOR FLEECES VIENNA [ARTICLE]

MAYOR FLEECES VIENNA

War Grafter. Gets Away With O Huge Sum of Money. : f ' ■ Funds Collected to Aid soldiers use? by Settlor With om. bi.r. Aid. ■ '* (W 's rs r."< vt ifa.6t Hmtmenn has Just Vienna.— Mayor ” 1 disclosed -to toe Vlennacqy tonncu a loss to the Citjf of 13.000,060 crowns through a business «**“" «“***“ by* a former council h by Weissklrchner. Ou beginning of the war, Mayor _ . aj o <rvw* ffirf to collect hncre amounts from tuis XuUG W " 111- * - ; t.- -. . y - ■•- _ among _ '

operation of a large plant tor the production of artificial milk and a factory ed artificial leather. A building was erected for the milk process scheme, but it was never put in operation while the shoe factory proved a dead loss. 4' \ To cover its losses, it is charged. Mayor Weissklrchner drew upon funds raised by needlework guilds and upon

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