Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — JASPER’S EARLY FINANCIERS. [ARTICLE]

JASPER’S EARLY FINANCIERS.

Fowler Lender: A great many fine stories have been told about the North American wild cat bank at Morocco. William Yeatch says that there never was a bank at that place during those times of state banks. George Spitler and others, of Rensselaer, issued some money and had the place of doing business printed Morocco, but they never had a room at that place and never did any business there. John Murphy, a farmer, on whose land the town of Morocco was built, was given a hundred dollars in gold to redeem any notes of the bank that might be presented, but none were ever presented. One time there came in a hack to Rensselaer two strangers. The town was small at that i time and everybody knew the other fellow’s business. Mr. Spitler surmised that the strangers had notes of the Bank of North Amrriea for redemption. He gathered a number of his cronies about him and the strangers were entertained with stories how the woods and swamps about Morocco were infested with bold robbers and none could scarcely escape with their lives. The strangers, whatever might be their business, did not go to Morocco, but turned around and returned to the east. Number one good Jersey cow for sale, 6 years old, will be fresh

soon.

L. S. RENICKER.