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Show A Mile of Pennies. (From the Kansas City Journal ) Pennies will go Into hiding in Lakln since members of the Ladles' Aid society so-ciety of the Methodist church have adopted a penny-collecting plan to raise money for the erection of a new church at that place The idea is an exemplification of the old adage: "Take care of the pennies and the dollars wiil take cars of themselves." them-selves." The object is to gather a mile of pennies, and to do this each member has been provided with a narrow strip of paper a foot in length. Each foot will hold just sixteen pennies. It ja calculated that when the mile of pennies pen-nies Is received the sum of $844.48 will be added to the building fund. Pennies Pen-nies are likely to become a scarce article ar-ticle in Lakin. as it takes just 84,448 pennies to make a mile. |