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Show ADVICE AGAINST FORGED CHECKS Police Department Warns Public of Attempts to Pass Them. Look out for forged oftecks, to the advice ad-vice of the local police. No less than seven or eight- forged checks have been passed in this , city within the last week. In a majority of the cases the name of the Held Art company com-pany has been forged. Seven have, already al-ready been presented to the bank for payment, each one of which had been cashed in some saloon.'. All of them are for small amounts ranging from $5 to $20 each. As soon as Mr. Held heard about the first one he notified the bank to stop payment on all checks unless they were sure that they were genuine. ' Another case of forgery came to the notice of the officers last night. During the afternoon a man entered the Booth-Packing Booth-Packing company's store on -West First South and made a small purchase, offering of-fering In payment a check for $11. The check was cashed and later proved to be a forgery. . |