Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1909 — Benton County Also Had Experience With Atlas Publishers. [ARTICLE]

Benton County Also Had Experience With Atlas Publishers.

A special dispatch to the Indianapolis News says that atlases of Benton county are lying in the front yards of Wadena residences. They are new atlases, too. The man who delivered them tried to collect sls from the person whose name appeared at the bottom of the contract. But he didn’t get the money and he threw the atlases in the front yards. Another man appeared and said he would bring suit. Several citizens have agreed to fight the suit if one is brought. A Chicago man last fall worked Benton county in the interest of a county atlas which he proposed getting out. All who could be persuaded to do so signed contracts to take an atlas. Those who refused t j sign contracts were asked to put their names on a list as evidence that they believed a new atlas of the county would be a good thing—their names were desired because of the influence they would have as leading men of the county. The canvasser had to have the names of at least three--1 fourths of the men of the county before he could get out a new atlas. No more was heard from the atlas till last week, when another man came around delivering, or trying to deliver, the new books. The names of all those who had placed their names on the list appeared at the end of contracts to take an atlas. How they got there is a mystery.