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Show Local Home Is Looted Thief, Relieved To Be Trump, Last Saturday Robbed ReV. Smith Home. A thief last Saturday afternoon entered the home of Rev. and Mrs. N R Smith of the local First Pres-bvterian Pres-bvterian Church during their absence, ab-sence, and got away with a purse belonging to Mrs. Smith whicn contained a small amount of cash and a key to the font door Mi's. Smith was visiting at the Beaumann place next door when the robbery occurred, and upon seeing a young transient leave the premises immediately invest gated and got in touch with Marshal J. Bruce Seely, but the intruder was not apprehended, having had too much of a start. . Rather persistent rumors, incidentally, inci-dentally, have been heard to .he efiVct tW Mount Pela'jant has become a "hebo mecca" of late because be-cause the "knights of the road have spread the word that it is an "easv town to work;." Today perhaps for the first time in the town's history, residents generally are becoming alive to the advisabilitv of locking then- doors when thev leave the premises. |
