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HAD MONEY IN TIN BOXES AND UPON HIS PERSON Aged Adams County Man Had No Faith in Banks - Was Worth Large Sum. The Manchester Signal says: Behind the inventory filed at West Union by George E. Schultz, administrator of his uncle, George P. Anderson's estate, there is quite an interesting story that does not appear on the papers. The inventory shows over two thousand dollars in money and a thousand dollars in war savings stamps. Fourteen hundred dollars of this money was taken from the pockets of the deceased by the appraisers of his estate and more than six hundred of it was discovered about his residence where it had been secreted by him in baking powder cans, tobacco boxes and other odd places about the house in which he lived alone. Some fifteen hundred dollars of the money was in green backs that are practically out of circulation now. Many of the National Bank notes of the more than five hundred dollars in that kind of money were on banks that have been out of business nearly fifty years. Notably among these being issues by the Manchester National Bank, which suspended business more than thirty years ago. This money was signed by W. A. Blair, as president, who has been dead a number of years and by the venerable R. H. Ellison. cashier. Some of the bills were retained by some of the local attaches of the First National Bank of this place, where It was desposited by the administrator, as souvenirs. Mr. Anderson was nearly eighty years old and had been divorced from his wife and lived alone for many years, and he was eccentric in that he did not patronize any bank, but trusted to the security of his person and hiding his money about his premises. Mr. Anderson's home was on Moore's Run in Monroc township.