Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1874 — Be Sure to Get Your Money. [ARTICLE]

Be Sure to Get Your Money.

People who ;iie or have been interested in financial institutions of any kind are urged to watch for old dividends. Some days ago a man called upon John G. Lightbody, the printing-ink manufacturer, and informed him that he would put him in possession of facts which would lead to the recovery of a certain sum. The informant was to have half the amount recovered. After satisfying himself that the man was not deceiving him in any way, Mr. Lightbody consented, and was informed that there were awaiting his demand in the financial department of a large company, of national reputation and business, four dividends for the years 1567, 18(58? 1889, and another year. These dividends were worth $l2O each, or S4BO in all. After receiving the money, Mr. Lightbody paid the $240, but asked why it was that he had not received word tromthe company, and in this way avoided the payment of onehalf to a person who must have been in collusion with sxime one in the office. No satisfactory reply was received, however, but from the well-known reputation of the principal otficers of the company the matter will probably be promptly investigated, as they will not tolerate anything savoring of such practices by any one in the employment of the company. At the time of the collection of the dividends, however, the clerk held several large packages of checks, evidently unclaimed; It is suggested that unclaimed bank accounts, dividends, deposits of any kind, shall be advertised at periodical intervals, so that those who are entitled to ! them may get them.—A'. Y. Tribune. A ■ little ““blind boy at Indianapolis possesses a wonderful memory, and is a perfect walking register of the doings of the Fire Department of that city for"several years past. He can give' the date and place of each fire, what engines turnrd out, the number of the alarm box, whether a fire or a false alarm, the engine that got Che first water on, etc. The firemen say he is better informed of the aflairs of the 'department than the Chief Engineer himself. A sinißT time ago the daughter of a German grocer in Rochester N. Y., was married. Her father, with pride and a spice of humor, placed a placard in the ! window, bearfng this device: " This store [ is closed on account of some fun in the , family.”