Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1905 — BENTON COUNTY BOY’S SUCCESS. [ARTICLE]

BENTON COUNTY BOY’S SUCCESS.

Thomas E. Mitten, who formerly resided on a farm in Benton county, a few miles south of Goodland, is now superintendent of the Chicago street railway at a salary of $50,000 per year. He began as agent for the C. & E. I. Ry., at one of its small stations on the Brazil division, at S4O per month. His rise to his present position is seldom equaled in this great country of oars. Mitten is still s young man. *