Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — CREEK RESTAURANT CLOSED [ARTICLE]

CREEK RESTAURANT CLOSED

Proprietor and Wife Leave Town and Sheriff Takes Possession. The Charles Bibos restaurant was closed Wednesday morning and Sheriff Woodworth now carries the key. This action was taken after Bibos’s having left a week or 10 days ago and his wife leaving on one of the night trains Tuesday night. While it had been susplcloned for some time that Bibos’s business was all "shot to pieces,’’ and that as a result he was playing a losing game, nothing of a public nature had developed i>ntil this week. For some reason his place had not taken well here and the patronage kept falling off right along. The result was not, therefore, unexpected. The fixtures had been purchased of Bender Bros, of Chicago by the former iproprietors, on payments, and when they sold out to Bibos the latter assumed these notes. There remained unpaid $523 on one set of notes and $250 on another. Suit has been filed in court here on these mortgage notes against Bibos, the former proprietors, who gave the notes, having been relieved by the mortgagees who accepted Bibos in the assignment. Bibos was also behind one month in his rent to Mrs. Haus, and owed a small meat bill, a grocery bill, a couple of weeks wages to his two waitresses and a few other local bills. He is also said to have been indebted to some extent to wholesale houses.