Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — IS TWELVE YEARS OLD. [ARTICLE]

IS TWELVE YEARS OLD.

With This Issue The Democrat Starts On Its Thirteenth Year. With this issue'The Democrat begins its thirteenth year all but three months of which time it has been under its present management. Starting with a few fonts of . job type and a Washington hand press, today the office is one of the best equipped newspaper and job offices in Indiana with a late model linotype, power presses and all the necessary equipment to turn out work quickly anti economically, all of which has been added unpresent manager ent. When we took charge of the office the paper had a circulation of about 200; todaj r it has about ten times that number of regular paid subscribers and is enjoying a steady growth right along. Then, all the help it employed was one girl; today it gives employment to four men (besides its editor) two of whom with ourself have families and spend their money among the tradesmen of Rensselaer. It is an established business institution that directly and indirectly brings considerable money to Rensselaer, pays taxes (this year over SSO) patys into the city over $75 per year for lights and water, is a heavy patron of the postoffice, etc.,etc. The success of the business has been in the fact The Democrat has always steadfastly stood for the people as a whole, and by its faithfulness in looking after their interests in the conduct Of public affairs is saving the taxpyers •of Jasper county a great many thousands of dollars every year. It has weathered the stornis of the grafters and would-be grafters that have left no stone unturned to “down” it, that there might be no opposition to their raids on the taxpayers, and through all the vicissitudes of the past twelve years it has pever repudiated an honest debt or allowed its credit to become impaired in any way, and has never missed an issue. . ‘‘Always on the right side” of every question that has come up locally it will continue to fight the battles of the taxpayers in the future as it has in the past, and hopes by its actions to merit their continued support, both as a friend in time of need and as a business institution that is doing what it can to build up Rensselaer and Jasper county.