Show man waits 49 years for first pay earned WINFIELD KANS nearly halt half a century late ed brant finally has received the first nickel he ever earned back in september 1898 brant then a pupil at the ak ron kans school was paid a nickel by the teacher for sweeping out the room in his excitement over receiving his first pay brant dropped the coin and it rolled through a crack in the floor there it remained for nearly 50 years when the old school was torn down recently the tar rushed coin was recovered from the debris financially brant figures he Is the loser explaining that the corn coin will not buy more than a fifth of what it would have back in 1898 |