Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

WM), Nil. 9... —AT—' - " ELLIS OPERA HOUSE, LEZ RICARDO AND HIS 1 ..BIG SHOW The Minstrel, ’ , The Speetaenlar, The Burlesque, The Vaudeville, The Operetta, All Represented. 12 First-Class Specialty isls. CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE. See Letepha, See Cleo Bartholda, See Emery & Nelson, See Martyn & Davenport. TRULY A SHOW. Doors Open at ...7 p.m. Begins at 8 p. m, Prices 16c, 25c, md 35c, —, —, —ti Party ties are resting very loosely on a large number of American voters of all parties and all classes. Nobody now believes that the country will go straight to the demnition bow-wows if the other fellows carry the election this fall. Probably there was not a time since 1852 when there was less political rancor in the country than there is at this time and this feeling seems likely to last for several years. The mass of people seem inclined to pay more attention to business and less to politics, and probably this is a good thing for all concerned.—Laporte Argus. “HONEST ABE.” Republican Nov.3:—Whatever enemies Abe Halleck has made, be has made through his zeal and firmness for the public good. He wanted the back taxes collected; and he insisted on the improvements around the public square being in conformity with the spirit of the contract. He also decided in favor of thela w in the Iroquois and Wakarusa ditch fee cases. All these have made him a few enemies, but at the same time they have made him hosts of friends. THE FACTS. Tax Suits: — In September and November 1897, the experts were promised one-lialf to discover and the other half to make a record, all to be paid out of the county revenue. A case of 16 to 1, that issl6 out to $1 in. Three suite were changed to Benton county and three were continued in order to make the complaint good. Ditch Suits: —Tne county paid, to it’s ditch officers SB,OOO. Halleck on Nov. 16, 1897, ordered suits against the petitioners promising the lawyers S7OO. On Sept. 25,1897, the experts were promised 50 per cent. One case was sent to Cass county on Halleck’s motion. The other was continued for a better complaint. These matters may make friends for those who feast on promises without performance, and who prefer waste to economy. In due time these matters will stand out as monuments of zeal and firmness for the public bad. An instance of stnpid stubbornness persisted in for temporary popularity. X GRATIFIED CURIOSITY. Charles Spriggs, the echoed' house janitor, met with a little accident Wednesday morning which it will probably be as well for you to say nothing to him about. It seems that the day before one of the primary boys went into McFarland’s grocery on an errand and seeing a contrivance on the counter for clipping off the ends of cigars, his curiosity was aroused and he put his finger in the machine to see how it worked. The tip of his finger was clipped off in an instant. His curiosity gratified he meandered on to school, and, the finger bleeding quite badly, Mr. Spriggs tied up the wounded member and induced the young hopeful to tell him how he happened to get it cut. The next morning the janitor came up town and thought he would drop ip at “Mac’s” and see just how the accident to the boy occurred. He eyed the innocent looking contrivance from all side®, then put his finger down in the holes, when and the tip of the janitors finger was clipped off as neatly ear though, done with a razor. Hereword for all accidents of this kind*.