Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1908 — Beware of the Madame. [ARTICLE]

Beware of the Madame.

Look out for this one. She Introduces herself by saying that she is Mrs. McNam, and that she has arranged to present some church with fifty hymnals, and was selling advertising space on the fly leaves of the books to pay the cost so they could be furnished to the church free of expense. She exhibited a sample book and explained that the spaces sold at one dollar each. She collected the money in advance and departed.

B. J. Gifford, promoter and builder of the “one-man-railroad” was recently here and seemed optomlstlc with his railroad building. He has lately bought another 80-acre farm In order to get the right-of-way through, and has also moved his line to run a half mile further west, which is now laid out to go on the line between the Mason and Hack farms, a mile east of this place. It is also on the dividing line between the Newton and Wheeler farms. He anticipates building to the Panhandle railroad before the work stops this time, and will then let It rest for a time after getting the outlet, but will eventually go to Gary.—Crown Point Star