Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — TRUSTEES ARE NOT COMPELLED TO BUY [ARTICLE]

TRUSTEES ARE NOT COMPELLED TO BUY

Accounts Board Decides That Law of 1913 Does Not Impose Purchase of Charts.

The acts of 1913 made it a requirement that instruction by means of. illustration be given in the district' schools off the danger off infections from flies, rodents, etc., and some of the school publishing houses, which are always looking for some opportunity at graft, at once put out some expensive charts which showed how diseases were carried by flies, rats, etc. Then the publishing houses began to circularize the trustees and to point out to them that the law, compelled them to buy the charts. They even threatened to bring suit against the trustees who did not buy and used all the tactics of blackmailers. ' i T® (Xfany trustees took the bait and made purchases, while others decided to await a demand from higher authority.. The state board of accounts was appealed to for an opinion and one has just been rendered to the effect that trustees are not required to purchase the charts. The teachers must follow the method of instruction set down by the law, but the illustration may be by drawings on the blackboard or by observation. The blackmailing publishers doubtless had the law passed with a view to 1 compelling the purchase a thing which seems to be quite common practice, but the ruling will make the purchases at the high prices charged unnecessary. Ruby, 3-month-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Hilton, died a little after midnight Thursday night. Pneumonia, complicated with whopping cought, was the cause off death. This is the baby born to Maggie Curtis and for which a ffather was not found until a few days ago, when Hilton was taken before Squire Bussell on a paternity charge and induced to marry the girl. » , Mrs. Martha Washburn is here from Chicago jfisiting her son, Dr. I. M. Washburn, and her daughter, Mrs. Erret Graham, who is visiting here from Paw Paw, W. Va. Mr. and Mrs. Graham will go to Goodland this evening to visit Warren Washburn and family. Mr. Graham will go from there to his home, but sbe will probably return here for a-longer visit. This was the first visit Mr. Graham had made to Rensselaer since his marriage and he observed many changes and improvements in our city. Recorder Scott and his deputy. Miss Agnes Platt, are just completing a big task in recording two mortgages on the property of the Monon and Chicago & Waibash Valley railroads. The Bankers’ Trust Co., of New York, is furnishing the money for the improvements to be made on the Gifford branch and the mortgage provides for bond sales in the sum of $2,00(T,000 with the Gifford road as security and for an additional $4,000,000 with the entire Monon road as security. The mortgages were in the form of closely printed books, one of 81 pages and the other of 70. These had to be rewritten in she records of the office. The fee for recording the mortgages was $52.80 and the; cost is the same Ip every county through which the -Monon passes in Indiana.