Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — Fine Put Keister Down and Out. [ARTICLE]

Fine Put Keister Down and Out.

Geo. M. Keister, the short order restaurant man, who was recently fined and costed $35.10 on the charge of selling beer in his place of business, left Monday morning ostensibly for Chicago, with the intension of returning Wednesday,|but later developments show a carefully planned permanent departure. His restaurant is now in charge of his brother, James A. Keister, who holds a S3OO mortgage on the stock and fixtures, which it is thought will not bring a great deal more than that at sheiiffs safe. Other creditors to the amount of about S2OO are said to be clamor ing lor settlement. It is now claimed that the selling of booze constituted such a profitable side line with Keister that himself and patrons had begun to look upon it as the real short order feature of the business. When he was yanked up before the court, however, his former patrons feariug to be dragged in as witnessess in other threatened suits withdrew their trade, and the once busy short order house became as quite as a graveyard. Creditors about town began asking for settlement, the mortgage was due, legimate business was frightened away, and fearing a court order to square up in quick order the boss ot the short order departed in abrupt order leaving business in disorder and creditors in a fair chance of entering their charges on the “profit aud loss” page of the ledger.