Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1910 — Mother of Mrs. John O’Connor Died at Kniman Tuesday Morning. [ARTICLE]

Mother of Mrs. John O’Connor Died at Kniman Tuesday Morning.

Mrs. Phoebe Andrus, widow of Joshua Andrus and mother of Mrs. John O’Connor, died Tuesday morning of this week at her home in Knimhn. Her husband died about two years ago. She was about 70 years of age. The funeral was Thursday and burial was made in the Lake Village, Newton county, cemetery. Monthly church socials have been a custom with three of the churches for a long time and they “have added much to the sociability of the church members and the intermingling of the denominations. The socials have been taking place in the afternoons and consequently have been almost exclusively feminine, although an effort has been made to get the men out. The Presbyterian ladies decided on an innovation this time and held the aoz cial- in the evening. It took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long Thursday night and resulted in attracting'a large and inter-denomina-tional crowd with a good sprinkling of men. Some very novel means of entertainment were introduced, a musical program executed and a very enjoyable time had. Refreshments were served as per custom at- 10 cents each. It is not improbable that the evening socials will eventually take the place of the afternoon affairs.

The Republican believes that a uniform accounting law is right and proper and that some system of examining of books should be instituted, but it also believes that the law passed by the last legislature is needlessly expensive and burdensome, that an unnecessarily large number of accountants have been employed and that they are receiving too much money for their work. We believe that it would be found that a great many of those who have been employed at $lO per day and traveling expenses were working for $3.00 to $6.00 per day and that $6.00 per day would have been very attractive pay for the best of them. We believe also that the work with a smaller for ce coul d have been supervised from the offices of the secretary and treasurer of state and the expensive headquarters maintained In Indianapolis done away with. We also believe that either the county auditor or the county school superintendents could have conducted the schools of instruction necessary to instruct township trustees in the work of bookkeeping without any extra expense and without sending the high salaried accountants here to do the work. The result may be sufficient to prove the need of the system but nothing can have been cut from 60 to 95 per cent had the bill as amended by Senator Mattingly and supported by Senator Halleck and voted for by every republican member of the senate beqome a law.