Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1901 — Bake Ovens Are Bad Banks. [ARTICLE]

Bake Ovens Are Bad Banks.

The Wabash woman who several weeks ago placed $350 in a baking powder can and put it in the oven for safe keeping, where it was burned to a crisp while the hired girl was baking a cake, has been fortunate enough to obtain a return of S3OO from the government. Several of the bills were so badly charred that their denomination could not be determined end these she Joses out right. The treasury department charged a fee of S2O for examining the money and with the S3O of unidentified bills she is out SSO. She will [bit her money in the bank next time.

Marriage License. v 91 J J°hn Rippe, Aug. 21 j Katifi lUfl Canada Wheat Seed. Canada seed wheat for sale, at my place 4 miles west of Rensselaer. Warranted to stand up in any soil, and if heaved out by frost ’will replace the seed, free. Yield this year'3o bu to acre, and fine white wheat. Price $2 per bushel. James Yeoman. I have a few pure Duroc Jersey pigs (both sex) for sale. w2tp. Geo. O. Pumphrey.