Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — SWINDLER'S PARADISE. [ARTICLE]

SWINDLER'S PARADISE.

Madison county will soon achieve the reputation over the State of beings the ‘swindler’s paradise.” Only two weeks ago Amos Garretson was swindled out of $450 by a piano “smooth man.” week before last Frankton citizens paid 50 cents for water vaccinations, and now a set of men canvassing near Elwood are offering to sell dry goods, such as calicos, muslins and other cotton and wool en goods at fabulously low prices. They will show a pile of goods and offer fifteen, twenty er twenty-irve dollars’ worth for the extraordinary low price of $6, $7 or $8 They do not want the cash nor will they sell for money. They want a note payable In •ixty or ninety days. Several farmers who have bit have received notices from banks stating that they have their notes for *6O, S7O and stO.