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Show WHY SOME FOLKS LOSE BAVlKaS CERTIFICATES Humor and tragedy are revealed In statements made to the Post Office Department by depositors to secure duplicated postal savings certificates cer-tificates for ones lost "Lost, not known as wife Is deceased de-ceased and cannot bo found," runs one answer. Othor answers from persons all over tho country, read as follows: "Stole from my coat pocket in church." " Mutilated, mistaken by mombors of my family as stage money," "Stole out of a bag, my own bag, by whom I can't say. I suspected my wife, but shd says she has not got them, I can't do no more" "Tho certificates went down with tho rest of my bolonglngs on torpedoed torpedo-ed transport, S. S. Tuscanla." "Blew out of my hand in the middle mid-dle of tho Pacific ocean." "I had them burled In the ground, but not deep enough and when tho woods wore burned; they wero burned burn-ed also." , "A child has taken tho book from the dresser and put It in tho garbage pail and was taken away by tho garbage gar-bage man." n "Kept In stove tor Safety sake, Fire was mado In stove, forgetlng a-bout a-bout certificates." "Owner lost certificates on tho battle bat-tle field of Chateau Tblery wounded wound-ed in engagement." . "I was knocked down and robbed while paying for a circus ticket." "Bound for Franco when steamer was torpedoed and sunk. I lost all my bolonglngs. Stoamer Spitfire," "Became Intoxicated and awoke on a doorstop without tho certlf-catcs." certlf-catcs." "Improperly withheld by bi othor who refuses to tol'm? them to le-peri le-peri tor and wo rn; dqnoMloc a beUlng when she vr5.G for thorn" "Lost whll 'olfcbiatlng Memorial day overzcalously. |
