People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — One Penny Annually. [ARTICLE]

One Penny Annually.

Benjamin C. Jones, living near the Whitley county (Ind.) line, has secured several thousand signers to his petition for assistance. Jones is a veteran of the late war and poor. He believes that the citizens of the republic owe him « debt for services rendered his country, and for a month Jones has been circulating a petition, the signers of which pledge themselves to pay the sum of 1 cent annually for his support, his estate to be divided at death among his heirs. Jones is tramping from place to plaoe obtaining signers and is meeting with success. The money i 9 to be mailed to Jones during the month of December in eaoh year, when, if his subscribers are prompt, the mails will be flooded with penny contributions for the veteran’s support.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.