Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1912 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

40 feet long and 16 foot roadway. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law and to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any all bids. i .By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County.

NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING No. 1926. Notice is hereby given that on Monday. April 1, 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive scaled proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Kankakee Township, over the R. E. Davis ditch, in Section 29, Township 32 North, Range 5 West. Said bridge to be built according to the plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office, same to be about 4b feet long and 16 foot roadway. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law and to be on tile by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any all bids. I By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING No. 1927. Notice is hereby , given that on Monday. April 1, 1912, the Board of Com- i missioners of Jasper County, Indiana, 1 will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Kankakee Township, over'the R. E. Davis ditch, in Section 20, Township 32 North, 1 Range 5 West. Said bridge to be built according to the—plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office, same to be about 40 feet lohg and 16 foot roadway. Ail bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law and to be) on file by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any all bids. By order of the -Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING No. 1929. Notice is hereby given that on Monday. April 1, 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the ’ construction of a steel bridge in Walk- I Ci Township, over the 'Heilscher ditch, I in Section 4, Township 31 North, Range I 6 West, Said bridge to be built according to I the plans and specifications on file in! the Auditor’s office, same to be about I 25 feet long and 16 foot roadway. All I bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law and to be on tile by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County.

NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING No. 1930. Notice is hereby given that on Monday. April 1, 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will , receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Walker Township, over the Jungles-Davis ditch, in Section 4, Township 31 North, Range 6 West. Said bridge to be built according to the plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office, same to be about 30 feet long and 16 foot roadway. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law and to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County.

WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY ABOUT TH!S?

To the People of Jasper County: “THIS TELEPOST MUST BE CRUSHED OUT, REGARDLESS OF THE COST.” In these words a prominent Wall Street financier announced that the "Interests” had declared war on us and on you. Why he wished to crush it, —the many attempts to ruin it,—why they failed,—the great benefits of the felepost to you and to the entire country,—and how, with your co-operation, it can never be crushed, — prompt me to address you. It concerns you. It is your fight as well as ours. The Telepost is an independent telegraph company owning a system of automatic machine telegraphy recognised as the highest development to date in its field. It is in active commercial operation between Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and other cities of the Middle West, with the lowest rates and best service ever given in the United States. Its purpose is to extend these advantages to all parts of the country. It gives a flat rate, r .gardless of distance, of one-quar-ter cent to one cent a word, according to service furnished. It sends 1,0 .□ words a minute on one wire and allows telephone conversation over it at the same time. By all other methods it requires from seventeen to sixty wires to do what the Teiepust does on one. ' For over thirty-five years there has been no teal competition in telegraphy. The Interests behind this utility control it mon completely than the Steel, Beef, Tobacco and Oil Trusts control their respective lines and products. By i leans of “Gentlemen’s Agreements,” admitted under bath to the New York Legislature, they have stifled, competition, extorting, according to former Postmaster-General John Wanamaker $100,000,000 from the 4. eople in exorbitant charges for an indifferent service. The purpose of these “Agreements” js to maintain present high charges, and to block the introduction of any better system by others The methods employed to destroy the Telepost have been notoriously unfair, and un-American:—Spies dogging the footsteps of visitors to our offices; men of prominence, associated with us, threatened; employees bnb ? d _ to b e tr ay us; timid shareholders stampeded into sacrificing their shares; oiir wires mysteriously cut, and our customers urged to leave us. Periodicals, ’ and other pubheations, in alliance with the money powers behind the telegraph interests, have maliciously attacked us in order to discourage popular support for our enterprise, in much the same manner as they did Alexander Graham Bell when he introduced the telephone. ’ • With the low rates of the Telepost, the wires will be used almost as freely as the mails. We plan to build a line from our terminal in Chicago to New York having secured entrances into both cities and practically all of the right-of-way. This line will pass near your town, with which we shall ultimately connect it. The New York-Chicago line wiil put the Telepost on such a solid and big dividend-paying basis that extensions to all parts of the country will rapidly follow The opposition has declared that it will make it impossible for us to build this extension by PREVENTING OUR GETTING THE MONEY NEEDED. In thk they do not reckon on your having anything to say, and seemingly forget that the original telegraph lines 'were built,—not by Wall Street,—but, with profit to them'dves, by the merchants, farmers and small investors of the country who were independent of capitalistic