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Show The Old Lady Lost Her "Funeral Fund" Money and .Eyesight Aro Gone as the E8ult of Schettler Bank Failure. After working for years to savo sufficient suffi-cient monoy with which to pay her own funeral expenses, Mrs. Susan Forest of SC South Sixth East, now finds herself penniless at tho ago ot 74. It Is a sad story, perhaps tho saddest of any yet told In connection with tho closing of B. IL Schottlcr's bank. Here arc tho details, de-tails, and It might bo added that they am authentic nnd tho plcturo lu not In tno least overdrawn. ... A long tlmo ago, after the death ot her husband and other near relatives, Mrs. Forest found herself almost penniless and all alone In tho world. Being a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin, a family, fam-ily, by the way. that was always respected re-spected and whos members woro above being objects ot charity, Mro. Forest refused re-fused to accept assistance from anyono unless she could ropay them In labor. At various times tho neighbors gave her odd Jobs to do. and penny by penny a "funeral fund ' as oho wan pleased to call it, was started. Ao tho dimes and nickels grew Into dollars, Mrs. Format took thorn to tho Schettler bank for safekeeping. safe-keeping. "I can get along some way," she often romarked, "whllo alive, but after I am dead I want to bo decently burled and this money I am saving will pay for a coffin and an undertaker." For several ycara sho had had $100 in tho bank, drawing 5 per cent Interest, and each winter when this small amount waa paid sho would Invest It In coal, flvo dollars' worth being sufficient to warm the homo of two small roomn. "When tho morcury began to movo toward tho bottom bot-tom of the thermometer lost fall, however, how-ever, thcro was no Interest money, or principal cither, for the bank had closed Its doors. Nothing daunted, Mra. Forest started to chop a large tree, which a neighbor had given hor, Into fuel, and within a faw weeks it was all reduced to suitable lengths. Whllo finishing her labors, tho work being all but completed, a twig or small Bpllnter flow up and pcnolrated one of her eyes. Arrangements were mado by friends to have hor taken to St. Mark's hospital about five wcokn ago, where an operation was performed with tho hopo or saving tho sight, but it was not successful. Tho oxpenso of having hor cared for was borno by wealthy Salt Lake peoplo who heard of tho sod accident, nnd later found how sho had como to lone her money. "It does seem ns If something should nnd could bo done for this poor old lady," said a friend of Mrs. Forest's last ovcnlng. ovcn-lng. "It will bo but a few days now until sho will bo nblo to leavo tho hospital, hos-pital, and Bho should not bo compelled to work for another 'funeral fund' at her age." |