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Show Paye Bill Overdue Forty Years. Job M. Smith, a local undertaker, had the surprise of his life this week, when William Penn of Waretown came to his office, told him he wanted to settle his bill for undertaking services and passed over a roll of $52 In bank notes. Smith said he had no account agalnBt Penn, and then the latter explained ex-plained that the bill had been contracted contract-ed with the undertaker's father, the late Joseph I. Smith, in 1876. Smith consulted the eld books and found the charge of burying Mrs. Penn forty years ago. Penn said he hail been living In another part of the country for many years, and recently discovered the old unpaid bill. Tuck-erton Tuck-erton (N: J.) Dispatch Phila. Record. |