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SEEKING 01 HER FIELDS TO CONQUER,Horn* Thieves are All lllnffed Out ho the Hws Thtrf Society In (loin*; After Clikkwt ThlctCN Now,The Oodfrey, or properly the Bethany Morse Thief Detective -society, has the hors- thieves bluffed to a stand still. Vainly the 7t members or the society have’conjured up plans for .spending: some of rtbolr treasury balance, in a regular way. Not a thief will come ahmg and give the farmer detectives anything to do. There Is no way of spending any money and Insteal of reducing the Surplus the jjdle of money in the bank keeps growing. This ia be cause no hqrs-e thief steals a horse and gets caught, to r.mse the aoelnty to spend anything, So the society mom hers are gol*g to give further theft insurance. .They will give a reward of $r0 in Me* future not only for horse thieves, but also for any person stealing anything of any kind from any person belbnfeing to the society, Thickens, even will be Included in the list of protected articles thatwill be subject to Reward if stolen. So any person desiring to become a burglar, or a chicle n thief, or any other kind of a t|*»ef, would do well to beware. The Dgthanv society has terrified horse thieves and now It is only natural to feuppoBe that they will do likewise to all other thieves, The Bethany soctefy has tried to get rid of some of its treasury -balance by giving parties, but every party makes more money than the one before tt, and soon the Bethan society will be 1n the bloated bondholder class, unless It can devise some scheme for felling rid of it* money, without giving it away like Carnegie.
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Thu, Dec 02, 1909
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