Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Senator Kyle of South Dakota, is dead It is too bad that the prosperity managers should have let Perry Heath’s bank go busted. A recent issue of the Chicago Record-Herald says: Promotons of the Toledo and Chicago Railroad Company, who propose to build a line from Streator to Toledo, a distance of 350 miles, held a meeting yesterday, when it was announced that all the right of way had been acquired. Engineer R. A. Hamilton stated that the line would touch Rensselaer, Rochester, Warsaw, Wawasee and Ligioner and would thence parallel the Lake Shore into Toledo. Towns along the line have voted subsidies varying from $20,000 to SOO,OOOO, and building will begin within sixtv days. There has been some confusion among township trustees regarding the publication of annual reports under amended sections 6 and 8 of the township reform law. I ncler the law as it now stands the annual settlement with the township advisory board is made on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, instead of 'September, as formerly. The law requires that the “trustee shall cause to be published, by one insertion in two leading newspapers rof his county, each representing one of the two political parties casting the highest number of votes at the last proceeding general election, an abstract of his said report, which abstract shall contain the total of receipts and expenditures and balances or deficits jin each fund, also the rate of tax levy made for each of said funds -for the ensuing year.” In reply to inquiry regarding • this matter Attorney-General Taylor says the change in ;tiement was made “so that the respects will correspond with the estimate year, the appropriation year and the expenditure year. Heretofore the reports have been made at odd times in September, and many trustees refused to publish any part of the report and some published all the report in detail. In order that there might be uniformity and at the same time a publication, this law was passed.”

Injpublishing the list of persons whom the tax ferrets have found had omitted to list all of their property for taxation, The Democrat does not wish it understood that the publication is made for the purpose of holding up such persons to scorn or ridicule, or to further humiliate them. Many, and perhaps all of these may have omitted to list this property through over-sight or unintentional neglect. Many of the cases are guardian and administrator causes, a Iministercd by parties who hail hail little experience in transacting business, and are. therefore, in a great measure excusable. No professional taxdodger (if there are such) has yet been caught for anything so far ns the record shows, but The Democrat is a newspaper, and whenever in this investigation—which should be a public matter - any man’s name is placed on record as' having been found delinquent, his name end the amount of the delinquency will be published in this paper, no matter if his name happens to bo Mark Hanna «or Bill Smith. This is a matter