Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1889 — What Mine Host Says. [ARTICLE]

What Mine Host Says.

It is a mistake to suppose that our register books are open to the public as a right. It is simply as a matter of courtesy that we permit any one to look at them, as w r e are not obliged to show them. If a person calls •at the house in order to see a friend or find out if he is stopping there, it is his place to inquire at the office; that is the only proper way. Our books are always destroyed now as soon as they are full. Hotel-keepers have been subjected to much annoyance by being frequently ordered to produce them in court as evidence in complicated lawsuits. In order to avoid so doing we always destroy our books, and can say to the eourt that we have no record of any such parties as the ones in question having been at our house at any time.