Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1920 — PROVES BEAT LACKS ‘COPPER’ [ARTICLE]

PROVES BEAT LACKS ‘COPPER’

Citizen Hangs Dollar Bill on Broken Street Light and Waits In Vain. s Chester, Pa. —When an electric light in Prospect park fliqkered out some three months ago J. B. Geary, whose home is close by, says he waited patiently night after night for the policeman on the beat to report the matter and have a good bulb hung there. Geary took a new crisp $1 bill and tacked the bank note on the light pole. Then he watched for the coming of the policeman. “Had the policeman been on the job he would have been rewarded with the 81 bill,” said Geary, “but he has not put In an appearance and the money is still waiting for him to claim it.” Other people have come that way and several dozen passers-by have attempted to pull down the money before his very eyes, Geary says, but he has given them to understand that the dollar belongs to the policeman that gets around there and has the light fixed.