Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1906 — FAMILY FINANCIERING [ARTICLE]

FAMILY FINANCIERING

Question of the Domestic Cash Comes Up in the Purdue School. • MAH WHO BOTTB IH IB WOBBTBD Editor Indicted m an Indicent In an Anti-Saloon War Booster State News Notes. Lafayette. Ind., .lan. 11.—The schedule in the home-makers’ section, which Is composed of the wives and daughters of farmers here attending the corn school, called for n lecture by Mather, of Bloomlugtun, lli., on the subject of “The Rights of Children.” Just as Miss Slather arose to speak a woman in one corner of the hali interrupted her with: “Miss Mather, you are not a married woman, of course, but how do you feel alnuit tb< wife keeping account of every cei>- she spends?” Not Much in the Idea. “I do not believe there is much in it,” answered Miss Mather. “A woman starts out all right in account keejdng the first of the year, but she seldom keeps it up until the eud. There is only one way that a woman can keep books. That is like a bride I once heard of. Her husband was a systematic business man. He wished her to be a business womau. and bought her a little account book, which she thought would be great fun. He ga\e her $lO. A couple of days later he asked her how she was getting along with her account book. Just lovely, she answered. On one page was written: 'Had $10’; on theopposite side the book read: ’Spent it’ ” plan Who Butted In. Miss Mather’s story of the accountkeeping system started a discussion that looked good for a stormy hnish. A man in the room remarked that he thought the sentiment of the meetiug was that every wife should account to her husband for every dollar, yes every dime she spends. Bat He Wasn’t in It. Then began a hot discussion of the rights of the wife in the partnership of home-making. The women gave it as their opinion that every husband should let his wife know the status of his business and the size of his bank account. Then they could spend accordingly. The man was worsted.

INDICTMENT FOR AN EDITOR Intimation Is That the Charge Is an Outgrowth of an Anti-Saloon Fight He lahl. Decatur, Ind.. Jan. 11. —Fred Rohrer. editor of a newspaper at Rerue, ten miles south of here, has been arrested on a grand jury indictment charging hint with printing imitation election ballots for use in the last city election. Editor Uolirer is a leader of the anti-saloon forces of the township. It is charged that he printed a num her of tickets similar to the regular ballot excepting that in one corner appeared the words “sample ballot,” so arranged that by cutting off these words the ballot corresponded to the regular ballot There have been several attempts to take his life, and about two years ago ids home was destroyed with dynamite, lie was re leased on a SSOO bond. Fence Kail 10.1 Years Old. Greencastle, Ind., Jan. 11.—An offer of S2OO has l>een refused by Arthur T. Ransom for a walnut fem e rail which he dug up on ids farm ill tlip eastern part of this comity. Ransom found the piece of timber while resetting an old line fence, and liis evidence of the rail's age is a date, Jan. S, 1801, which is carved on the rail near one end, and still plainly discernible. Clairvoyant Predicted Truly. Terre Haute. Ind.. Jan. 11.--Mary, the daughter of E. E. South, general agent for the Rig Four railway, was told by a clairvoyant that ner father would meet with an accident. I.ater South fell downstairs and leceived iu juries from which he is dead. Owing to what the clairvoyant said he took out an accident policy Just before t'’e accident. Decision of Wide Interest. Fort Wayne, iDd., Jan. 11. Judge Heaton, of the superior court, handed down a decision of Interest over the state In the mntter of the right of a township trustee to make purchases without sanction of the township council. The Judge ruled in brief that the advisory council must govern all purchases. Walsh Bank Reorganised. Bedford, Ind., Jan. 11. —The Bedford National bank has been reorganized, the stock formerly owned by John R. Walsh, who was president of the instltutlbn. being purchased by local parties. Thomus J. Brooks was elected president. George W. Hay vice president and W. A. Brown cashier. From Lawyer to Restaurant Waiter. Danville, Ind., Jan. 11. John W. McCormick, a well-known lawyer and ex-prosecutlng attorney, who disappeared two years ago, Is now said to he a waiter In a Chicago case. After his flight he was found to he a defaulter. Whose Pigeon Is This ? Dunkirk, Ind., Jan. 11.—Dr. G.- W. Ferticb, of this city, has a metal hand, taken from the leg of a pigeon, bearing tha mark, "g. A.. 141«7.”