Morris tribune., 1916-03-03
FIVE DOLLAR BILL
PAYS MANY DEBTS
Money Spent by Alberta Farmer
Has Unique Career in Morris
on Pay-Up Week

Newspaper men, real estate men,
bankers, doctors, farmers, clothing
merchants, grocers, news dealers,
lumbermen, jewellers, shoe dealers,
millers, BARRIERS, pool hall proprietors
and druggists all paid various debts
in Morris with the same five dollar
bill last week. Some of them used
the bill three times while the others
did so twice or once and then passed
it on to the others. Several persons
known to have had the bill failed to
enter records of the transactions and
the amount of Indebtedness the bill
cleared up will never be known. At
any rate enough is known to warrant
the statement that it was several hun
dred dollars. The bill was started
from the Tribune office Monday after
noon and wound up it's weeks travels
at the Morris National Bank where
it shook hands with Assistant Cashier
McConville and remained over Sunday.
1t was started as a pay-up week
novelty.
Pay-Up Week in Morris was not
the success expected although the
business men feel satisfied with the
showing. AS a handicap the week had
one legal holiday, two days were ex-
ceedingly stormy and one of the days
the weather was anything but pleasant.
Bad roads contributed in keeping the
farmers away and many who had
planned to pay up are doing so this
week instead. Extra bargains were
offered at all the stores and business
houses during the week and those who
failed to make purchases missed a
money saving chance. At the S. j.
Stebbins store where prizes were off
cred those paying the largest accounts
H. D. Borrill carried off the first
prize, John Lime was second, and the
third went to Mark Coleman. Mr..
Stebbins was the eleventh man who
handled the Tribune's fve-spot in a
pay-up transaction.
A long and interesting story could
be told by this Five Dollar Bill.
Boiled down to headline facts only
one woman handled the money. Nels
Olsvn at the Wells Brothers, Hanson
store refused to a take it on the
grounds that he owed nobody. Her
bert Probst thought the bill was
counterfeit and hunted up his best
friend, S. j. Stebbins, and urged him
to take it on the assumption that if
the bill was really bogus Stebbins de-
seved it because he started the pay-up
campaign. C. B. Sylvander met the
bill three times in it's travels. Fin
ally he gave it to DR.. johnson who is
a suffragette. He turned it over to
Mrs. H. B. Lund who brought it to
Peter Weum's "ladies store" Frank
Mullen received the bill early in the
week and did a most commendable
thing. He remembered the printer
man and accordingly applied it on a
years subscription to the Tribune.
Bill Brandt shaved the city editor,
i. e. washed his face, and was tend
cred the bill in payment. Bill was
surprised to see a newspaper man have
so much money at one time and there
upon decided the country was prosper
Gus so he spent the rest of the after
noon at the bowling alleys where the
whole bill was "blowed in Chas.
Bruer, a we'll known Alberta farmer
was the first to produce the money
He paid it on subscription and after
that the following persons handled it
The Morris Tribune, A. J. Norm, w
A. Brandt, J. H. Boyd, W. E
Brown, John Lentz, D. H. Fahren'
holz, C. B. Sylvander, Herbert
Probst, S. J. Stebbins, Vinje Clio
Co., l. C. Danielson, George Daniel
son, E. J. Jones, G. B. Sylvander
F. A. Mullen. Morris Tribune, Nor
ris City Mills, J. H. Devenney, F
R. Putnam, C. B. Sylvander, DR.
o. T. Johnson, Mrs. H. B. Lund,
M. T. Weum. Morris National Banl
and Clarence McConville.