Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — The New Registration Law Will Be an Expensive Luxury. [ARTICLE]

The New Registration Law Will Be an Expensive Luxury.

Among the items of expense for next year now confronting county commissioners and councils as the time approaches for making estimates is the increased election expense imposed by the new registration law. The Lafayette Courier mentions the fact that the commissioners of Tippecanoe county have the subject under consideration and says: “The eommis-' sioners recognize that they will have to ask for an appropriation and that the amount will have to be rather large. They expect to do some close figuring between now and the time to ask for appropriations, as they want to hold the registration expense down to the least possible amount. Many taxpayers are investigating the probable cost of registration and are wondering whether some plan cannot be devised whereby holding a registration in every one of the precincts of the county san be avoided. They think there ought to be some way of doubling up the precincts for registration purposes, reducing the number of boards to half the whole number and the total expense 50 per cent. The suggestion that the installation of voting machines would make it possible to reduce the number of precincts to about twenty and the number of registration boards in like measure, has not been investigated by the commissioners. It is argued in some quarters that the installation of voting machines and the resultant reduction in precincts really would not materially lessen the expense of registration. The registration board, upon petition from a stated number of voters, can continue its sessions from day to day until the registration is complete. The larger a precinct, the longer it will take to register its vote. If the work can not be done in one day, a way is provided by which the board can hold over two or three days. It is sail that it would take three days to register the vote in each precinct in the county, should the number of precincts be reduced to twenty or twen-ty-five. That would mean that each board would be in session three days, three times a year. This, it is contended, would not be cheaper than to have fifty boards in session one day three times a year.” Just a little better than others. — Home Grocery. Mrs. C. A. Morganegg and daughter Anna returned home Sunday after a three weeks* visit with her son and daughter in Illinois.

Abe Martin says: Next t’ a blue tub full o’ pink flowers ther hain’t nothin’ that spoils a landscape like father settin’ on th’ verandy in his bare feet If ther’s anybuddy I can’t stand fer, it’s the clerk that shows, you th’ kind he wears. • A About thirty friends gathered at the home of Miss Ada Huff, last Saturday evening, July 15th, to remind her that it was her fifteenth birthday. Games were played and refreshments served, and all enjoyed a good time. The guests departed, wishing Miss Ada many more equally happy birthdays. Mrs. S. R. Nichols received a telegram from her son, Earle Reynolds, today, stating that he and Mrs. Reynolds would arrive home tomorrow. They will remain here the balance of the week. Next week they will open the American season at the Majestic theatre in Chicago in a week’s stand. Asserting that he can not earn enough to support her, James Hatton, of Kokomo, asks a divorce from Leona Hatton.