Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1910 — Page 2

I Be Sure and Come to the Tailor Made Suit Opening on I I Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, I I ——■ —> March 3d, 4th and Sth I ■ 1 '!7i , "'-X'" , s '" •' 1 ~~2_-' '''- L ■ ■■■■...■-■.. - „,,, . ■ SgrTTT^u^ l^" I—fl 1 —fl fa£i c. Earl Duvall [WH I I Furnisher J or^ y EjcclusrVe Furnisher J I Clothier, rurntshter, Hatter. I On Thursday, Friday and Saturday I I us this week, March 3d, 4th and sth I I r I will hold my Tailor-made t fl I dBwSnSIW Suit Opening, and will have •>vl f jSgsL fl I the finest and largest line of 11-4 I I il'w® W ' suit fr° m that was ever shown in I nWiw this city. tWEO I I Fig EASTER |l||f I I WvM W *U Soon ' I I I fflt wl be-here so be sure and come in J ■ |..J.'.'£» i .^' < ... ! wl. and have your measure taken and _w--r~ stvle"^^i 1 If * ;I|/ W • r ' | WA MTOMeA>UKLOHLV | St... iffl have your suit delivered a few I ■ & days before Easter. ■ I | A per feet fit guaranteed or no sale. I I I Tailor-made Suits I I | from sls to SSO. I I 11 Also while you are looking we will show you I I 11 the best and nobbiest line of ready-made suits, I I top coats and cravenettes in the county. So be I B II sure and attend this opening, as the styles and I I ■ fl colorings are beautiful. fl ■ . ~ . ~ "■■ 1 -T—■ I | THE QUALITY STORE C. Earl Duvall I THE QUALITY STORE~| I I RENSSELAER, - INDANA ~ - fl a ® fli hi hi ,ih IS HI ,HI HHHMHHMHmmmmmmmmhmmnhh

THE JISPEfi COUNTY DEMOCRJT. M BIBCOCK. EDITORMDPUBLUHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post Office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Adverstlslng rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1010.

WALKER TRUSTEE SHORT $781.89

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of Walker Township, Jasper County, a shortage of $781.89 ws discovered, according to the examiners’ rej>ort. The report declares, also that Karch on June 22, 1909, negotiated a loan of S7OO from the Bank of Wheatfield and issued a township warrant therefor. The examiners found no record that the loan was authorized by the Advisory Board. It also la declared the sum of $546.71 was expended in 1909 for bridge lumber and of tide amount the num of $293 was paid to H. J. Hinrtch, now a member of the Advisory Board, and whom, the examiners were advised, is related to Karch. “One of the vouchers from this relative,” says the examiners’ re-

]>ort, “for which the trustee took credit, was in. the sum of $l5O, while the warrant issued was tor the sum of $50.” “We note,” continued the report, “that the trustee paid the members of his Advisory Board $lO each for salary for the year 1909; that he paid himself S2O for superintending a county bridge under a verbal contract with the county commissioners, as he alleges;, that he took credit for duplicate road receipts in the sum of $24.30, for which he had credit in the previous year’s report; that he took I credit for voucher No. 65 in the I sum of $19.50, which should have been entered $18.50. “We therefore find, and it is our judgment, on account of the above and foregoing enumerated items, that Fred Karch, trustee of I Walker Township, Jasper County, Indiana, is indebted to the said Walker Township in sums as follows: On account of loan from Wheatfield Bank $700; on account overpaid advisory board, sls; on account of difference between voucher No. 113 from J. H. Hinrich and warrant issued in payment thereof, $100; on account of amount paid himself, superintending bridge, S2O; on account of credit taken for duplicate road receipts, $24.30; on account of error in listing voucher No. 65, $1; on account of difference shown In report and balance in bank Dec. 31, 1909, $21.59; total amount short, $881.69. „ - “From the above amount we find that Mr. Karch Is entitled to a cerdit on account of error in footing expenditures from the special school fund tn the year 1907, as per report on file In the auditors office of Jasper County, Indiana, in the sum of $100.” This correction brings the shortage charged to Karch down to $781.59. The cxaminerw report) that they found no apparent mis-

appropriation of funds. “From a careful examination of records and reports,” says the report of the examiners, “we do not discover anything that would indicate an extravagant expenditure of the township funds, but his manner of handling the funds as between himself and the bank has been very peculiar, to say the least. To illustrate: On the first day of January, 1908, when his report on file in the auditor’s office shows him to have a balance on hand of $3,181.99, the Bank of Wheatfield, which was the only bank with which he was doing business at that time, shows his account $149.55 overdrawn. Then, during the month of January, 1908, he made deposits aggregating $3,225.” The reports from the examiners show that in many instances trustees have not followed the law in the purchase of supplies; that they have expended money in redeeming road-tax receipts; that in some instances! “warrant bond funds” have been created out of which to make up shortages in other funds, especially in the road fund, which, technically, is illegal; that they have overpaid road supervisors; overpaid school teachers; that they have failed in many instances to keep invoices of purchaser; that they have failed to record sums paid to school corporations for school transfers; that they have overdrawn road funds and special school funds and overpaid themselves; that they have felled to furnteh Itemized statements of their own services; that they have little clerical knowledge; that they have paid 1908 claims out of 1909 funds instead of borrowing money and arranging for a special levy to repay the loan; that advisory boards have neglected their duties; that in some instances the membership of the advisory board has been incomplete and Illegal; that expendl-

turee; have been made with no record showing that they were authorized by the advisory board; that there has been failure to keep records of appropriations made by advisory boards, and that accounts of former trustees were overdrawn and incoming trustees could not obtain, in some instances, proper settlement. On the wihole, however. the reports received so far show that expenditures have been within reason and the trustees are willing to do everything within their knowledge to comply with the law.

THE KETMAN DITCH.

Present Status of Drainage Scheme Which Affects Some People in Jasper. Pulaski County Democrat: The Monon ditch matter is up in the air again. Special Judge Foster having declined to serve further in the matter. Judge Foster was here -from Knox Monday. It will be remembered that both petitioners and remonstrators objected to the finding of facts and conclusions of law filed by him recently. Monday, on consent of the parties, he withdrew his findings in order to amend them. After making a few changes he again filed them, inserting some missing land descriptions and raising his assessment on the Charles Clark land from $1 to $2 per acre. The viewers assessed it at about $2.25; Judge Foster first ruled that it should be sl, but has now changed it to $2. This change appears to have been satisfactory to the petitioners, but the remonstrators at once filed er motion for a new trial. So that is the way it stands at present —a motion for a new

trial pending, no judge to hear it and no judge in sight.

GANOERBOHE’S EOTECAST.

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ound and dam the coming garden truck. On the 4th Mr. Taft will celebrate his first anniversary in the • White House with a masquerade. There has never been a masquerade there, but Mr. Taft is very anxious to have everybody come, and in view of the -unsettled political > conditions, the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy and some other things, he feels that as long as nobody can determine positively who else is present, there will be no occasion for anyone staying way. Pink tea will be served, and there will be a picture of Mr. Roosevelt under the coal pile in the basement. Take-offs on the consumer, allusions to June 15, costume caricatures of Speaker Cannon and other cussedness that- democrats, insurgents or Pinchot men may be up to, will be censored at the door.

And then the ides will come around In sorrowful progression, And all the peanut carts will form In annual procession. They’ll whistle up and down the street Their shrilly admonition, And bid us think upon the price Of temporal ambition. It is terrible the way we are disheartened by example. It matters not which way we turn, we always see a sample of someone like us who aspired at unaccustomed angles, and always got it in the end where Cora wore the bangle*. You know the Romans understood our motes and limitaitons, and what fools are we that aspire above our lowly stations. They used to have a man to meet the victor home from battle and mount behind his chariot, amid the din and ra'ttle, and while his vanity was roused with great acclaim to chortle anti keep repeating in his ear, “Remember, you aie mortal.”

They kept a lot of Romans straight That otherwise had strayed; But, anyway, the seventeenth The Irish will parade In memory of him who did For Irish snakes the same As Roosevelt is doing now To Ruwenzori game. Mr. Morgan will continue his flight from Halley’s Comet, passing through Paris about the sth. Mr. Rockefeller, emboldened by his escape from Judge Landis, will not run. It is likely, however, that his benefactions will discreetly increase as the comet continues to approach. Mr. Carnegie will also give away money on a larger scale now. The moon will be on the celesitial equator on the 12th. This will be a fortunate combination for Pinchot, and he may be able to make a point that some of the rest of us can see. The Spring Equinox will come on the 21st. The storm will be central around Ballinger’s job, and will continue until the 25th, when the moon will be full. If the sky is clear we will be able to see if he is still on the job, and, if so, what is probably holding him up. And then the April wind will blow From Araby afar, And on the Ist wo gihall recall What fools we mortals are.

FARMERS.

For the benefit of those interested there will be a public meeting March 2, right after the horse sale in the afternoon at the Gleaner Hall in Rensselaer, just above the central telephone station. Farmers and their wives are all invited.

The care of your eyes is a very important matter. Glasses are a positive eye help if right, but they are dangerous if wrong. Dr. Remmek has practiced in Rensselaer seven years. Office in Harris Block, Phone 403.

Dr, Rose M. Remmek,

For Sale—23 bushels of good clover seed and 100 bushels of best early variety seed corn.*Joseph Kosta, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-l, Phone 8-K, Mt. Ayr exchange. The Democrat and Indianapolis News, each a full, year..... .$3.75.

Mitl tt taint. hecd win b« pnbllsnsfl far l-cent-a-vcrd for the first ,^" cent Per word for additional Insertion. To save book-kMn-ing Cash should be sent with notice. Ns notice acoepted for less than K cetrta but short notices coming within she SIL W - U1 two™ more times, as the case may be for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Fann Ixmns—Money to loan oi property in auy sums up to IWOO. E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at & per cent Interest with no commission but office charges. Write Mm. tf’ Wanted — Family washings.— Mrs. Belle Marlin, In west part of town. For Sale— soo bushels potatoes. CHARLES LAKIN, Perr, Ind., R-l Phone, 5 07-J. For Sale— An elegant B-flat, Beau Ideal Trombone, used only a short time and as good as new. Inquire at The Democrat office. For Sale—Nice clean Clover seed. Enquire of Rensselaer Lumber Co. For Sale—3,ooo nice Hedge Posts A. M. YEOMAN, Rensseflaer, Ind. R ' 3 - Apr. 1. For Sale— Clover seed, the email red kind, $lO per bushel—CHAS. V. MAY, Remington, Ind., R-4. Tor Rent— Good • 8-room house, 4 blocks from court house, on North Van Rensselaer street—Miss Nancy Rees, at Wm. P. Baker’s. For Sale— l Yearling Hereford Bull, a good one for service this summer.— Joseph Adams, 3 miles south and 1 mile east of Rensselaer, Ind., R-4, Phone 529-C. Fanns For Rent, also 160 acres good pasture with windmill and tank, well fenced—JOHN O’CONNOR, Kniman, Ind. (m 23 Motorcycle For Sale— lndian, first class running order. Will se« cheap for cash or trade for good driving horse. Write CHAS. MEISER, Leiter’s Ford, Ind., R-l. Mehl For Sale or Trade— B-horse Case engine, cane mill, wood saw, corn and rye grinder, belttag, complete, ready for work.—WM. P. MICHAEL, Rensselaer, Ind., Phone 527-G. For Sale— loo acres, black rich soil, 8 % north of Rensselaer, good fences, new buildings, well tiled, SSD to SIOO down, 5 to 10 years time on balance. Address F. J. BOOLE, Swanington, Ind. For Sale— At the Rosebud Farm, home-grown clover seed. All clover seed sown on this farm for the past 14 years was produced by this farm. All farmers intending to sow clover seed should read U. S. Farmers’ Bulletin No. 382, Page 7. AMOS H. ALTER & BON, Parr, Ind., Phone 507-B. For Sale— —l2o acres, good improvements, can give possession, easy terms, will take trade 80 acres, good improvements, Barkley tp., easy terms, will take trade. 160 acres, fine black land, will trade. 320 acres, North Dakota. Will trade. 5 acres, on stone road, near corporation. 21 acres, all nice level land, inside the corporation, on cement walk, will divide. Small well Improved farm in west Jordan tp., at a bargain. 8 room 'bouse, well located, for $1,700. 6 room house, improved street, S7OO. 6 room house, Improved street close in, has bath, $1,650. G. F. MEYERS. Eggs for setting from S. C. Buff Opringtons, the largest clean legged chicken in existence and recognized as the heaviest winter layers. Eggs from prize winners at $3 per 15. Utility stock, $1.50 per 15. G. B. PORTER, Rensselaer, Ind. Come to The Democrat office for fine Job printing.

K You To Give 7 -f The River Queen Mills a thorough investigation. You will then quickly see why we are favored with the milling of the majority of people of this city. Modern facilities and competent help have nude this mill the popular mill of the dty. - • River Queen Mills Phone ML

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