Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1911 — ’Tis Discouraging. [ARTICLE]

’Tis Discouraging.

Eugene Purtelle, the alleged traction promotor, says he can use 500 laborers on the Kankakee marsh if he can get them. Well, Mr. Purtelle can undoubtedly get them if he will pay their wages, but it knocks the heart out of a man to work for a piece of paper, which he is informed upon taking to a bank, is worthless. —Hammond Times.