Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1915 — GENERAL ANU STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL ANU STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL f Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. CARRY RESTAURANT AWAY. New Managers of Penny Lunchroom for Unemployed Leave Only Spots on Wall. Chicago, March 3.—Four “htffioes” employed to manage a restaurant established by charitable women at 1437 West Twelfth street, where the “unemployed” could buy meals for 1 cent each, have moved away. Simultaneously plates, pots, kettles, pans, knives and forks, and even the stove, have vanished. All that is left are the spots on the walls, the lease and the restaurant sign over the doorway.

Mrs. Rebecca Lipshultz of 920 South Ashland boulevard, Interested several women in the venture last November. The restaurant was well supported—financially by the women, and in custom by the “jobless.” The promoters were so pleased With the scheme they thought up jobs for their customers, such as beating rugs and breaking ground for gardens. Their offers of work were received coldly, and they decided to withdraw their support. Mrs. Lipshultz planned to give a benefit concert to carry on the work, clinging to the idea the men were needy and deserving. She went to the restaurant yesterday to talk over the matter with the managers. After taking one look at the place she hurried to the police station. Detectives found a Stove borrowed from a tenant in the building had been carted away. Restaurants in the neighborhood were found to have been furnished with the loot, including tablps, benches and the kitchen sink.