Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — DON’T ENCOURAGE MENDICANTS [ARTICLE]

DON’T ENCOURAGE MENDICANTS

Who Travel About From Town to Town Seeking Alnis. There is - an. ordinance in Rensselaer against professional beggars, and our people should bear this in mind and not give alms to these traveling mendicants, for they are in ninety-nine cases out of 100 rank frauds and unworthy of charity. One of these tourist mendicants, who had all the ear-marks es a professional, made the rounds of the court house, the business houses and a part of the residence district yesterday, when Marshal Vern Robinson got onto him and he promised to leave town on the first train if permitted 'to go. He said he was from Lake county and was going to Monticello. All of which might have been true, but from Monticello he will probably work Delphi and towns on south. He probably picked up several dollars here before he was stopped in his systematic canvass of the city.