People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — Found A Lost Scoop. [ARTICLE]

Found A Lost Scoop.

Picked up on the highway, where it may have been thrown by a highwayman, burglar or ordinary sneak thief, or lost by a somnambulant owner while contemplating the effects of the single gold standard on his lusty farm mortgage, a tolerably well preserved grain scoop, capacity about one peck, “A. Graves Cast Steel.” a little green paint on lower side of handle which is bent in the ordinary way at the shank and has the usual grip and hole at the end. This shovel was found, or alleged to have been found by a man, who probably shoveled his wheat when it was 30c a bushel, and possibly the finding of the scoop reminded him of the present price of that commodity of which he has not any to sell, and so exasperated this alleged finder, .that he determined to return it to the owner. Therefore he straightway delivered the said scoop to the editor of the People’s Pilot. the subscription price of which is $1.00 per year, and which is payable in gold coin of the Rothchild’s standard of fineness, and instructed said editor to advertise said shovel and collect from the proven owner pay for said advertising. The owner will please call with witnesses, give satisfactory reason for losing this scoop and for owning the same, and after paying for this notice subscribe to this paper. if he is not already a subscriber. in which case he is requested to subscribe for the neighbor who borrows his paper. The above consise advertisement will not be inserted again without further notice.