The Meanest Town in America.

Evening Star, Issue 7628, 2 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Meanest Town in America.

«■ A Wisconsin girl, a Miss Curtis, of Rosendale, near Ripon, was one of the school teachers who was frozen to death in Dakota. Her brother brought her remains home, and the ' ljrandon Times' has the following bit of history ;—" When Mr Curtis, of Rosendale, went to Dakota after the remains of his sister, who perished in the recent blizzard, he settled up with the school district for which she had been teaching, and they made him discount the amount due her 12 per cent, before thoy would pay it, claiming that it was damage to the district that she did not complete the term. That beats the record of meanness." That certainly does beat the record for meanness, and it is due the people of the world that they know the name of the Dakota town in which she was teaching, and tho names of the school district officials who deducted the J2 per cent., that the town may be handed Hfiwn as the meanest on earth, and shunned, and thfi officials be pointed out as examples of grasping jpcanness that hasno parallel. The lady lost her hie while doing her duty, and over hor frozen corpse tfie aw who hired her haggled about paying what w«ta due for her services. y-iirirj! -