Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1898 — The “Fair Collector” Hits Back. [ARTICLE]

The “Fair Collector” Hits Back.

Rensselaer perhaps contains the most successful collector of any town in this part of the state. She paid a quarter Monday to collect a fifteen cent, account, but she got the money.. The collector for the street sprinkler was on her customary rounds Monday collecting for last week’s work, when she noticed a business man who owed a fifteen cent sprinkling bill, just boarding a hack to go to the depot, from which point he expected to take the train for Chicago to spend the day. The fair collector evidently realized that he was apt to be short of cash when he returned, so she boarded the hack and collected the amount while on the way to the depot, amid the laughter of the other passengers. Arriving there Jerry cahed for his fare and she cheerfully shelled out a quartei for the ride, as she had collected the bill. A few more collecting trips of this kind aud the rates for sprinkling will surely rise.—Rensselaer Journal. As “The Journal Man” began the story we will finish it. The 15c man happened to be himself. Our busmen consider it worth something to have the streets over which they drive sprinkled, and so do not take' toll from “The Fair Collector” and are always ready to aid her to catch fifteen cent printers on their way to take a little outing at Uhioago. We know people are not liable to have even so much as fifteen cents when they get back froi# Chicago. So you see Mr. Journal Man we were not out twenty five cents but fifteen cents ahead. “The Fair Collector.”