The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-08-14
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IMPROVEMENT.
SOME LUCKY FARMERS.
Money and other Vuiunhics That
Went As;ray Recovered by IIi-
nOis Tillers of the Soil.

Illinois farmers and country people
have the most wonderful luck in re-
covering lost money, valuable papers
and other articles. Names and places
are given in instances of recent date
when large amounts of money have
been recovered.
a few weeks ago c. o. Johnson,
who lives on a farn near Sycamore,
discovered that he had lost $40 in
money and some insurance papers.
He had kept the money in box in
an upper room, and having occasion
to go to the box he found it missing.
He made up his mind that it had been
stolen. but part of the contents of
the box was found in one of the out
houses a few days later. A portion
of the money was recovered.
Within the last ten days Mrs. Mary
Crowell, of Oregon, ILL.,, lost 500
bill. She advertised in the Ogle Coun-
ty Republican for it and finally got
it back by an extraordinary run of
good luck. John Reed, the janitor
of the Presbyterian church, gathered
up lot of stuff and threw it in the
furnace, in which there was fire.
Reed thought he saw something that
looked like n crisp note and jerked
it out of the furnace before it was
ablaze. In the dim light he took it to
be dollar bill, but when he got near
a lamp he found it worth 100 times
that much. He took it over to Mrs.
Crowell, who promptly gave him a
tenth of it.
Theodore Rossow. n German farm
er living near Bloomington, went into
town one afternoon recently, and it
was on Friday, too. Rossow drew
$500 from the bank. 1t was in crisp
bills and he slipped the whole of it
in a large envelope. Then he went
to the hitching post where he had
left his horse and buggy. and did an
mheard of thing. He took the en-.
velope out of his pocket and showed
it, money and all, under the seat
cushion. He had some more errands
to do, and when he got back to the
hitching post the animal, buggy.
money and all was gone. After look
ing all over town for his rig, he APP
piled to the police, who joined in the
search. In an hour or two n stray
horse and buggy were reported in u
remote section of the town, and Ros-
sow's turnout was there discovered.
A search under the seat cushion dis
closed the envelope with its valuable
contents.
Within the last month farmer liv-
ing near Sterling sold some farm
products for which he was paid sum
of money considerably over $1,000 in
cash. 1t was late in the evening, the
banks were closed, and the man was
afraid to keep the money in his
house. During the afternoon he had
killed n calf, which he intended to
ship to South Water street in the
morning. The carcass was hanging
in the shed, and wrapping the money
in an old newspaper he secreted it
inside the carcass and went to bed.
The next morning the old man over
slept himself. and by the time he was
well awake he found that his hired
man had shipped the calf to Chicago
and the money went along. The
farmer got aboard of the first train
and landed in South Water street on
the same day, soon finding the COM
mission man to whom it had been
shipped. He found the carcass and
inside was the package of bills.-Chi-
cago Tribune.