Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1910 — City Council Makes New Proposal to Monon Railroad. [ARTICLE]

City Council Makes New Proposal to Monon Railroad.

For several years the Monon railroad has had a contract with the city of Rensselaer for the water with which its engines are supplied. The contract was for 6380 per year, which for a long time has been regarded as far too little. This sum not only paid for the water, but also for the eight Ughts at the depot. The contract has now expired and the council at a special meeting Friday night offered to supply the water hereafter for 6600 a year, but not to contract for a longer period than a year. The matter was taken under advisement by the road. It was made a part of the city's proposition that when the water in the city is placed on a meter basis, the railroad change to that basis.

The Jasper County Democrat comes out this week as an anti-labor sheet, attacking the action of the local barbers In increasing the price of shaves to 15 cents, and the city council in providing a room at the city light plant where the workman can wash themselves, alleging in the latter case that it is too much luxury for “hired men.” The democratic party has been making goo goo eyes at labor for a number of years, but the degree of its sincerity can be seen when its organ i& this county makes a bitter attack on a movement directly in the interest of improved conditions. A gentleman met the reporter for the Republican In the street last evening and remarked that he used to go to barbershops fifty years ago and he paid 10 cents for a shave. At that time he worked In a harvest field for 75 cents a day and paid his own board. Now young men are getting 62 per day and their board thrown in and he believes they can afford to pay the barber 15 cents for a shave. Rents are higher, living is higher, salaries are higher, laundry costs more, labor costs more and there seems to be no good reason why the price of shaves should not increase correspondingly. We are wondering if the price of printing at the Democrat office is not regulated by the cost of paper and production and If it has not fluctuated from 26 to 50 per cent during the past ten or a dozen years. Speaking from experience, we do not know what back alleys our brother has been getting shaved in when he visits Lafayette, Frankfort and Indianapolis, but we have always kept to the front streets where you get a clean shave and a clean towel with every customer and have never found fault with a 16 cent charge. The 6 cent shaving and the 16 cent hair cut joints are usually conducted hy the lowest class of foreigners and no self-respect-ing person would patronize them. Here’s success to the movement. Let us be fair with the barbers and give them what by right of general advance along all lines, they should have. Harry Long, "26, was fatally shot by Lee Stallyards at Mt. Vernon. Wednesday evening while seated with hlB wife in a swing in his frpnt yard, the deed being the culmination of intense passion which Stallyards hnrf held against Long for years, since as a rival in love. Long was able to win the hand of Mias Nina Stevens, of Henderson county, Kentucky.