Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — EXCHANGE EXCHOES. [ARTICLE]

EXCHANGE EXCHOES.

Sol Conn, through the agency of McKinney & Burton, sold his Cranberry Marsh farm consisting of 360 acres in Franklin township to George Hosmer of Rensselaer, one day last week.—Winamac Republican.

There is much ado about county and township reform. We do not need so much county and township reform as we do a strict observance of the laws already on the statute books. Men chosen for their fitness and capability instead of ward-heeling and dirty work and reform is well begun. Reform should begin at the primary.—Oxford Tribune. John Veatch was in Fowler Wednesday. He landed in Morocco in 1861. He came from the heavens we think. That there were bills issued bearing the title of Great American Bank of Morocco, he said was true, but that there ever existed a bank there was untrue. Some men came over from Rensselaer in 1857 and gave Uncle Johnny Murphy SIOO in gold and instructed him that if any bills were ever presented for redemption to pay them with it, but no bills were ever presented. We have printed some mighty good stories about that bank and was getting ready to print some more.—Fowler Leader.

Joe Stndebaker, the Flora school teacher, has adopted a system that may be brought into general use in the schools throughout the state. He thinks the chief duty of schools is to teach good citizenship. He says most schools are tyrannies while the purpose is to teach democracy. He is trying to do away with tyrannv and bring about miniature self-government. He says of his methods: “The schoolboy is the miniature citizen. He learns to do by doing. Then why not have him hold office and in school life as he will when he grows up? This is the purpose in self-government in schools; to train the child for usefulness in after life. We hold an election every month and pupils vote by ballot for their tribune, whose duty it is to look after and hear the petty annoyances of those under him. Thus I have only to seek information from the tribune, and then the cases are taken up and disposed of as in any court”'—Delphi Times.