Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1906 — THE ROCK ROAD MATTER. [ARTICLE]

THE ROCK ROAD MATTER.

Mr. Voter: Your ballot Saturday will propel or retard our wish for paved streets and roads. Please read what the Ditch Engineer says: “Acting for the Iroquois ditch I can sell the rock obtained from the ditch channel on the lands of the Jasper County Draining Association to the contractor for the stone road system, if voted, at three cents per cubic yard I cannot sell to others until after the election, and if the system is voted, not until after the letting. The price to all buyers will be three cents per yard, and purchasers will be required to remove said rock from the old river bed and its banks. All the money received will go to the credit of the ditch. The Board’s order to me states: ‘The viewers are authorized to reduce their estimate for stone, relying on this supply.’ Mvrt B. Price, “Engineer Iroquois Ditch. April 24, 1906.’’ The records show its truth. You may have a delusion to not receive the truth. Paul found som such (2 These. 2 chap, verse 10.) The following are facts that stand true and proven: Truth I. Each voter hath an equal duty to cast his ballot, and it is his duty to vote and not ebirk. Truth 11. Your ticket describes our own home streets and roads. It would bo a sad result to build the Jordan road and neglect our owu. Truth 111. The roads built in this system will be accepted and maintained by the county >• nth IV. The stone road tax, lik <n\ ordinary road tax, is not a lem on lands save after March 1 of each year, aud only for the share necessary to pay the interest at 4J per eeut. and the apportioned share of the bonds. Lots and lands fronting on these streets and roads pay no more nor less than other property. Truth V. The Jasper County Draining Association took up a subscription and paid $3,000 for the mill-dam in 1883 and retained title to the old channel for the use of any projeot that would deepen said channel and remove the rock beyond the old channel. Truth VI. The Iroquois ditch raised money by a benefit assessment adjudged fair and just by tbe county board to out a sewer and drainage chanuel in said river bed at a cost of 80 oents per cubic yard. Said ditch nor the Drainage Association has any money to pay for removing the loo~e rook beyond the old channel. The ditoh offers said rock at three cents per oubio yard to anyone desiring to use it outside of the old channel. Troth VII. The stone road system to be Greeted by your vote

will f?et its money by a tax at the same rate on all property, and needs the material. The viewers reduced the estimate for Me Adam 60 cents per onbic yard by reason of said offer by the said ditch. The quarried stone are worth more than three cents per cubic yard to store or transport. The petitioners for the stone road system ask you and your friends as men of good judgment to. vote “Yes.” PETITIONER. DEAD-BEAT ADVERTISERS. It is strange how many news* papers there are that will acoept any sort of a foreign advertising proposition without investigating the ability of the parties to pay for the advertising ordered. One of the latest of these which we notice many of our exchanges are carrying is that of the Wheeling Roofing and Cornice Co., of Wheeling, W. Va. The order for this local adv, was evidently sent to all the papers in this section of the state, perhaps to those of a dozen states, with instructions to run for so many issues and “send bill.” Nothing about rates was asked for and the publisher who runs the adv. no doubt expects to get five cents per line for each issue. This company may be all right, but their method of sending out orders for advertising is suspicious. It is not business, and The Democrat fired their order in the waste basket without even taking the trouble to write them to send cash in advance, a method we have followed for several years with advertisers of whose responsibility we were not advised. By following that plan this paper has lost but ii on foreign advertisers during the past five years—that of the Lafayette Gravel and Cement Co., of Lafayette, Ind., whose ad. we carried without investigating or demanding cash in advance. Because it was so near home, we thought them all right. Publishers lose thousands of dollars every year through deadbeat advertisers, and we are sorry to see ads. carried in the columns of our exchanges that we feel confident the publishers will never receive a penny of pay for A safe proposition is to demand cash in advance from all unknown foreigu advertisers, and some of the unknown advertising agents II they are reliable and honest they will uot object to this in the least You know, brother publisher, that not a printing supply house or paper house in the Country will ship yoii a dollar’s worth of goods unless your ability to pay or reputation for prompt payment of bills is known to them. This is simply business, and you should exercise the same precautions in celling your space. You will find that it will savo you considerable cash each year, in the way of postage, in mailing duns to worthless debtors.