Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — STRANGE CHECKS. [ARTICLE]

STRANGE CHECKS.

The Odd Assortment Collected bp One Hank Clerk. A torn lineu collar, a piece of lath, a cuff and a half dozen other odd objects hung above the bank clerk’s desk. “My collection of queer checks,” the young man said. “Each of those things is a check. Each was duly honored. Each has a story. “I have been collecting queer checks for three years. That piece of lath started!, me. A western bank honored the lath for $250. It was made out a check by the owner of a sawmill, who was out at the plant with his son, thirty miles from any bouse, and totally without paper, let alone a check book. The money was needed to pay off the hands. The sawmiller wrote on the lath just what a check correctly drawn has on It, and he sent his son In to the bank to get the money and to explain. The lath check was honored after some discussion among the bank’s officers. “The cuff check was drawn by an actor who had become slightly intoxicated, got into a fight and been arrested. He was treated cavalierly In his cell. They wouldn’t give him any pa]>er, and be bribed a boy to take the check to a bank. The boy got the money, and with It the actor paid his fine. Otherwise he’d have been jailed for ten days. Thus the cuff cheek may be said to have saved a man from prison. “The cheek written on that linen collar won a bet of $5. A man bet a wo|nnn that a check made on a collar would be cashed, and of course he won bls bet “Your bank, If you carry a good account, will honor the most freaky checks you can draw up. In such monkey business, though, it won’t encourage you.”—Chicago Chronicle. Even if you do a good thing well, you will bear more complaints than compliments. Does a goody-good man like to see another man In trouble, or la be rrleved?