Show IOWA DEBTS Wipes Vi pes The Slate Clean And Tells Customers To Keep Their Money Money Mon on e ey Bills Ranges From a Few Cents to As High as ao 1000 James Hennum and his wife who have prospered for years in inthe inthe inthe the operation of a general store at Sloan 20 miles south of Sioux City Iowa revealed last week that they have canceled all of the 75 75 debts owed them by custom custom- ers The individual bills run from a afew a afew few cents to as high as 1000 They are owed by people in all walks of life some by customers who made purchases only a month ago Since the year old Hennum sent letters to all his debtors telling telling telling tell tell- ing them that their bills had been torn up a number offered to pay Many insisted Hen Hennum um replied in each case We meant just what we said is canceled We have plenty to keep us If you want to give your money give it to the the church or to the needy The who have been Inthe in inthe inthe the mercantile busness in Iowa al almost almost almost al- al most since their marriage in 1893 have been unusually successful in all their investments Neighbors call them wealthy Hennum and his wife both insisted however that they were doing nothing more than their duty to their friends during the depression and urged upon newspapers telling about moratorium that they not be praised |