Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1917 — ROAD CONTRACTOR IS MISSING [ARTICLE]

ROAD CONTRACTOR IS MISSING

Oris Salrin of Walker Township Has Apparently Left County. Oris Salrin of Walker township, who has had several stone road contracts in this county in the past couple of years and recently secured the sub-tontract for the Yeoman road in Marion township from Walter V. Porter, has left the county and his whereabouts are at present unknown to his folks. Some two weeks ago young Salrin, who is unmarried, accompanied by another young man, ■went to Detroit, Michigan, with the avowed intention of trying to secure employment in the Ford automobile factory, it is said. They did not secure employment there and returned to Hammond, since which time no trace of young Salrin has been learned. The Democrat is informed. His father, Joseph Salrin, trustee of Walker township, who was on his bond in his road contracts and also on his note for 11*000 at a Medaryville bank, was in Rensselaer Monday

and took care of a protested check or two here, which had been given on the Medaryville bank before the young man left. One' of these checks was for some SSO and was given to Jasper county for the use of the county roller on one of liis road contracts. It is understood that S2OO which had been sent to Medaryville before these checks were drawn had been credited on the note by the bank instead of being placed to young Salrin’s credit as intended, and that this, accounts for the check having been, protested. * ' ; I The young man has three uncompleted road contracts in this county. There is very little work yet -to-do on the Lam son road in Jordan township and on which there is S7OO yet due contractor; the Henry M. Rayburn road of three miles in Gillam township, on which only the grading has been done and on which but S4OO has been drawn; the D. H. Yeoman road in northwest Marion in which Walter Porter was awarded the contract and sub-let same to young Salrin. Some money is owed to stone companies and others, it is understood, but the young man’s father intends to square up everything, it is reported, and go ahead and complete the contracts. Just how the latter will come out in the end is of course yet unknown, but rumor has it that he stands to lose a few thousand dollars. Young Salrin, while naturally honest and well meaning, has been a little wild and sort of a highflyer, it is said, and perhaps his leaving, as he apparently has, was on account of some little “call down” administered by his father.