Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1901 — A Late Fraud. [ARTICLE]

A Late Fraud.

A couple of young men representing themselves as representatives of the Teachers’ Library Association of Chicago succeeded in buncoing a number of teachers of Indiana towns. At the end of one year the fifty books in the circulating library they were to furnish were to be exchanged for fifty others. No money was asked down, but each subscriber had to give a note for $8.50 and pay a small yearly fee. The young men said their work had the sanction of State Superintendent Jones and of the county supintendent of the county in which they worked. The notes are now turning up in banks for collection, and inquiry develops the whole scheme a fraud.