Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — Look out for Swindlers. [ARTICLE]

Look out for Swindlers.

The time of the year is fast approaching when a horde of conscienceless dead-beats will «warm out of their wjnter retreats and resume their regular vocation of swindling the uncautious farmers. One of their oldest but still often practiced dodges is to induce men to sign contracts of a f emingly safe and harmless kind; but which, by cutting off one end of a paper, is left as a .simple note of hand for a large siipi. The “Bohemian Oats” game is just now a popular kind of fraud and wo notice from our exchanges that it is already being extensively worked in this state, and it is altogether probable that some of its manipulatox-s will strike Jasper county before seeding time. In this connection cannot do better than to copy the following paragraph from the .lasi number of the grand old American Agriculturist: '