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■ INTENDENT WANTEDMr. Sanford Lindsay of Chicago, Who Left Presumably for St. Paul, Minn., Is Wanted.Mr. Sanford W. Lindsay, Superintendent of the Western Avenue Methodist Episcopal Sunday School, left his residence, 34 South Irving avenue, a few days ago and is said to be in St. Paul, Minnesota. Quite a number of his pupils are desirous of knowing his true address for they seem to be on the verge of losing several thousands of dollars through investments in a com-V j pany of which the Sunday School officer was president Lindsay’s friends were induced by him to buy stock in a South Coast Company, a firm dealing in Texas orange land, in which he had the, controlling interest.It is said that Lindsay resigned y his office as president of the cornel pany when the stand of the com- j r pany was questioned a few days i ago and departed, a Lindsay was popular with his e Sunday School associates and s j thus induced them to make in-, - | vestments of all their savings in n ; many cases. This seems a case r of trust in which so many who e confided in their leader voted d their shares over to him so that .of the 1000 shares issued Mr.1 Lindsay controlled (500. There seems to be a shortage of §10001 or §5000. It is the old story of misrepresenting the financial I condition of the company. “Wei all trusted him (Lindsay) im-:s plicitly, so he had little difficulty I in disposing of the stock. As I soon as the real facts became known Lindsay left the city, o The land consists of a tract -i- about one-sixth the size of this )f city or Zion’s estate 1038 acres •. of fruit and farm land in Camer-n|on county, Texas. No. receiver ^ has been called for yet;. Charles I y O. Brown has been made presi-•sjdqnt, who is doing all in his p power to save the company so it 1- will come out all right.;s j / -v crAvrvr.ri? vnrirn
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Zion Independant
Zion, Illinois, US
Fri, Jul 28, 1911
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