Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1883 — Another Invention. [ARTICLE]

Another Invention.

Two ingenious citizens* of Bens-' selaer. Dr. I. C. Kelley and A). P. Green, have lately perfected, and made application for patents upon, an invention which promises to be a source of large profit to them and a great convenience to railroad companies and honest mm ductors. The invention is a ••Rail-ror.d conductor’s, check and receipt book.’’ The object of which is to provide--imple and sufficient means, whereby, when a fare is paid to a, conductor, he will be enabled to give the passenger a :'e.-.'ipL r fGr the same, and which .•ha:! answer as a pass cheek, enabling t: e conductor r.ny agent of tT:e COinpanvl to set at a glance whether the :>:;ssciigor ixc-rried beyond or further than the distance for .which, he had >aid, a’.s ? to enforce ch the conductor, t witlioht writing or noting down) the for all fares co’lect•>d. in so positive manner a s io preclude the possibility ot peculation. : The engineers surveying the Fort iVa) no, Peoria & Galesburg raiboad passed through Wayne and Liberty -t-rwnships-lkis-Ws'ek,goingcast,.,.Eul-ton, Gjl<>ad and North Manchester expect to be make pmints on tho line.— Rochester Sentinel.