Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1907 — COMMUNICATED. [ARTICLE]

COMMUNICATED.

Some reasons why we should favo.r the electric .railroad subsidy, to be voted for on Tuesday, the tenth day of September, 1907: Ist The law requires that no moneysof saidsubsidy shall be paid to said railroad company until a .train of cars be run over the line, or until we are assured of a railroad. 2nd. It furnishes a permanent revenae to the township whioh it rune through in the shape of taxes, «nd the money in time returns to the donors, and thereby benefits every tax-payer, and these taxes will never cease so long as the road exists. 3rd. The opportunity to get a railroad comes so rarely, that I believe we will> make a fatal error if we lose the present one, 4th. The practical consumation of the purchase of the Gifford road by the Vanderbilts means the extension of that line from McGoysburg south to Lafayette and north to Chicago, whioh in my humble opinion means a greater calamity to Rensselaer than the McCoy bank ‘failure, unless we are succesfful in getting the present electric line. The tax amounts to fifteen dol- , lars on every thousand dollars of assessed valuation of real and personal property, to be collected, as I understand the law requires, one-half in one year and the other half the following year, without interest, and cannot be collected or turned over to suoh railroad company until the road is assured. / Respectfully, Warren Robinson

Lost: —At Fountain Park or between Rensselaer and Fountain Park “Bryan Day,” a D. At R. pin No. 15314, with inscription on back of “Mrs. E. P. Honan, Rensse- ’ laer, Ind.” A suitable reward will be paid for its return to the above address.