Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1903 — A Worthy Deed. [ARTICLE]

A Worthy Deed.

A day or two ago, a woman was put off here by the conductor of the 2 o’clock train south, having no ticket and no money to pay her fare any further. She sat in the depot a short time crying, and then went outside and sat in the rain. Several kindly persons about the depot went to her and questioned her about the plight she was in. She was neat, intelligent and seemingly honest and truthful. She gave her name as Lizzie Mitchell and that she was trying to get to Indianapolis, near which place her grandmother lived, on a farm, and said that money was all gone. She was given a dinner at Thornton’s resturant and a comfortable seat by the fire, and then Christie Vick and Burge Dillion started out around town and very soon had collected enough from our kind hearted citzens to pay her way to Indianapolis and a dollar or two in her pocket to buy food and carry her the rest of the way after she reached there, and when the next train for Indianapolis came along she went on her way rejoicing.