Show COSTLY PRESENT TO TOWN J Donor Has Profited li to the thic Extent of or Soo Athol Mass June 9 ThIs I This town has just awakened to the thc fact tact that through accepting a gift thirty years ears ago RIO It is much out of oC pocket and that It is JIt likely ely to pay payout out a still larger larser amount of oC mone money If lr Lyman Jennings continues hale and heart hearty Thirty years cals ago ngo when Mr h Jennings Jennings Jen Jen- lungs was 58 68 8 he hc had accumulated In cash About that time hard hardtimes hardtimes hardtimes times In business camo came and work was vas to obtain t so o he ho thought how he could Invest est hl his hili money so as ai to lu tomake tomake make sure that he hc ane and his wife would be comfortable the rest of oC their days das The Thc town of or Athol was then In debt and he hc offered lo to give tho the sum of oC to the town on condition that it should pay him an annuity of ur luring hit his life liCe and If IC his wife should survive him that it pay her an annuity annuity an an- nult of ISO after his decease during dUI dur ing lag her life and that it should pa pay to each of oC his three children who thu should survive him an annuity of or 1 O after aCter his decease during their thell lives JI The Thc town ea eagerly orly accepted the tho gift and arid in 1876 the was turned over vel to It A few friends chided Mr J Jennings for Cor what they termed his foolishness ane and others told him him he had lad let his heart run away with his head and needed a 11 guardian The Thc tOwn Own meeting passed a resolution sot set ting ing forth that Mr Jennings will Ill be beheld beheld held In Athol's J lasting remembrance Mr lr Jennings smiled and said ho he wasn't born bOIn u il Yankee for rot nothing E CJ Every year for fOI thirty years eutH Mr Jennings has quietly stepped up r received ed and at the nex next pay- pay meat the town to of oC Athol will vII have paid him ilm or 7 OO more than he gave the town lown It has hils been unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary sary for him to work worle during all these years rears for ho he ha has had a t comfortable a lo Income secured to him for ro life an and neither has he ho been obliged to worry worn over O tho the welfare of oC his hla wife and famIly family fam fam- am- am ily fly knowing tha that the town Is bound hound to give them a certain amount for tor forsu su support p po it Con Consequently ho he Is a very healthy happy old man and antI Is looking forward forward for tor- ward to living to the age ae of or Ithe If It he hc reaches this ripe old ago aso the tho town of or Athol will h have havu vu paid him Mi- Mi lr Jennings considers his Investment investment invest Invest- ment macat away beyond gilt hilt edge bonds 01 or railroad stock The town would like lo to get gel ou out of Its Us bargain but there I Is no way out of or lL It |