Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — O. B. M'KAY IS STILL ABSENT [ARTICLE]

O. B. M'KAY IS STILL ABSENT

Ftaancial Difficult!** Believed to Be Cause of Disappearance. O. H. McKay, whose disappearance was mentioned briefly in Wed- ' neaday’s Democrat, had not returned up to yesterday, and financial matters are reported to be at the bottom of bls disappearance. He is said to have been owing several hundred dollars for gasoline, oils and auto supplies, and not being able to meet these obligations, he is supposed to have left town. He is said to have left last Friday, saying that he was going to Ham-'■->nd, and nothing has been heard from 'him since that time. Mrs. McKay is carrying on the laundry and auto service business, and states that the obligations only amount to a few hundred dollars, not enough "to have caused any alarm, but Mr. McKay was unnecessarily worried over them. Mr. McKay has always been a very hard working man and very honorable in his business dealings. He has been located in business here for some 15 years and should have acquired a competency during time time if hard work counted sos anything. Perhaps bad judgment at times is the cause of his present predicament, and may have unbalanced his mind to same extent. Friends think that he has secured a position some place and will return shortly and apply the proceeds of his labor on his indebtedness.