Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-07
FOUND HIS MONEY.

MT. j. II. NeClOI, VI tNo' ASi '"'~'
has recovered that $1,S60 which he
lost the first Monday in December, and
for which he, his friends. and large
part Of the public have been on
more or less sharp lookout ever since.
The money turned up last Sunday,
and Mr.. Rector came yesterday morn
ing to give us the facts, in the first
place because he considered that the
public was entitled to be informed,
and in the second place because he
was feeling more pleased over the
general outlook of things than for
some thirty days past.
Yesterday was a pretty cold day to
most people; but in the estimation OF
Mr.. Rector the weather was fine. He
is looking for fine day tomorrow,
and even If it should rain and sleet
and snow on Thursday the gloom will
not be anything like as noticeable as
that which has been prevailing for the
past thirty days.
The story of that money Is interest
ing. Mr.. Rector had converted some
personal property into cash, quite q
good deal Of it as things go in this sec
ton, and altogether had $1,S60. 1t was
too much money to have around the
house, so he thought to bring 1t to
Yorkville and deposit 1t in the bank.
Before leaving home, he carefully ar
ranged the money in a fiat bill book,
which he put into an inside breast
pocket and pinned to his coat 30 it
could not possibly get away. That
bill book had been in that breast pock-
ct many times before; but 1t had
never before contained $1,S60 in bills
and there had never before been any
reason why it should be pinned in
place.
Well, with the money secure in his
pocket. Mr.. Rector came to town.
drove into James Bros.'s stable lot, and
spent some little time about the James
Bros.'s mule pens. Farmers who have
tried it say there is mighty comfort
able and satisfied kind Of feeling
coupled with the experience Of looking
over big punches of fine mules under
conditions where you know you can
buy and pay for whatever seems to
strike your fancy. In this way Mr..
Rector enjoyed himself for a half
hour or more.
But just as 1880 in cash in hand is
good for a choice mule right now. it
is also as good later on, as long as you
have it, and as most mule dealers
would just as lief have check as the
cash Mr.. Rector decided that maybe
it would be just as well to wait a
while, and when he had definitely de-
cided on what he wanted to pay for it
by check, he went around to the
First National bank to make depos-
1t.
1t was at the bank that he received
the first shock. Placing his hand
against that breast pocket, he was
surprised. to find nothing there. Sure
ly he was mistaken, and though en-
tirely unnecessarily he put his hand
into the pocket. Nothing doing. Then
his mind began to work like cyclone
placing 1t in the bill book and pinning
it in his inside coat pocket, along the
road, at the mule pens, and every one
Of the places to which he had been.
He has not exactly said SO; but the
probability is that he felt for that big
bill book in his pocket, in his outside
and inside vest pockets and every
where; but nothing doing.
Then as the next. step he came to
The Enquirer office and inserted an
advertisement which put everybody
on the lookout. Except for lot of
talk there was no result, and later
he tried it again. Still nothing doing,
and although he continued to watch
and think and hunt, hope began to
fade until at last he gave it up as
bad job and began the more earnestly
to look forward to the accunluidt!on
of another 81, $50 in the same manner
he had accumulated the $1,Sc0 that
had been lost-by working hard for 1t.
ION Sunday" said Mr.. Rector, my
little boy moved loose plank from
the front step and happening to look
down underneath saw something
there that did not seem to belong there
and pulling that something out, he
found that it was my bill book. OF
course he brought 1t to me at once,
and upon examination l found every
cent of the money, just as had ar
ranged 1t in the book-$1, $50, mostly
in new bills.
Just why I did not think Of it be-
fore" said Mr.. Rector, Il do not
know; but remembered that before
leaving home that Monday morning
l turned back to the step, put my
foot on 1t and stopped down to tie my
shoe. 1t was then that the fasten-
ing pin must have come loose and al
lowed the book to slip down under my
coat through the crack left by the
loose plank"
At the present writing that $1,S6O
is in the bank, and whoever gets any
Of it will get 1t by means Of check
signed with the name Of ]. r. Rector. |
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