The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-03-31
Workers $500 Bill, Saved
for Years, Proves to be
an Advertisement.
BANKS REFUSE CHANGE
Pathetic Rainy Day" Story
Told to Police by Xavier
Dobiezcicz.

This is the story the pathetic
story = of the good ship Hope" which
failed to come in. 1t concerns the
Savings" of Xavier Dubezecicz a
worker who resides at 308 Garden
street and who was appealing to the
officials of the city this morning to
aid him in getting FIVE hundred dol
lar bill converted into tens and fves
and quarters and half dollars that the
money might be used to tide Dobiezec-
icz over the expected "rainy day.
which has come with all it's force to
the home on Garden street.
Dobiezecicz is a thrifty fellow and
eight years ago when he found a five
hundred dollar bill on the streets of
Chicago he put it away to provide for
just such a time as has come after
he has been out of work for more than
three months. He had hidden it away
in the bottom of his trunk and every
once in while he had gone and looked
at it with love similar to that of
a collector of rare tapestry. He had
fondled it lovingly for years and to
such an extent that it had been torn
through the middle but he had care
fully mended the break in it.
Ship Due on Friday Afternoon.
The man reached the decision that
the time had been reached when he
must draw out his hidden treasure
and Friday afternoon he took the five
hundred dollar bill out of the trunk.
This morning he went out to get it
changed. He walked into the bank
and laid the crumpled bill down on
the counter and asked for change.
The man at the window looked at him
and questioned, Where did you get
it" was his his first question and
then Dobiezcicz told about finding it
on the streets Of Chicago way back
in 1918. The clerk smiled as he hand
ed it back to him. We can't change
that bill. The man went to another
bank and still another but all he got
was smiles from the clerks. Tears
stood in his eyes as hestold his story
up at the police office and at the May
or's Office. sit must be all right" he
told the Chief of Police and he brought
SAiO w y WIN GACcoul Oub VI q AlGGlG
case in which he had been carrying it.
Just Memory of Lost Cause.
The Chief of Police and the other
officials looked at it. On the face of
it At appeared to be perfectly good
five hundred dollar bill = Of the Con-
federate States of America. 1t bore
the signature of Jeff Davis the leader
If the Confederacy and wtA gned and
countersigned by lot OF Il tr people
who had been leaders of the 'lost
cause" The careful mending of the
bill has resulted in a part of the pic
ture Of jeff Davis being obscured
Then the police turned it over On
the back of the reproduction of the
old Confederate bill was an advertise
ment for county fair to be held down
in some Illinois county way back in
the pre-war days.
The man refused to believe that his
dream of years his savings for a
rainy day was worthless. He seemed
to be in a daze as he folded the old
bill up carefully and started for home
The man spoke fairly good English
but he could not read it and when the
officials tried to tell him that he had
just picked up hand bill on the street
he refused to believe it.