Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — EXPENSIVE DUCK. [ARTICLE]

EXPENSIVE DUCK.

Chicago Hunter Violates One of the New Laws and is Prosecuted. The president of the Chicago club was arrested at English Lake Friday for having in his possession a larger number of ducks than the law allows. He had bagged thirty-five ducks, when the law prohibits the taking of more than twenty-four. The fines and costs amounted to about $42.50 in addition for each duck in excess of the twenty-four. There have been a number of deputy game wardens along the lakes and in the marshes of the north part of the state during the last few days. They have been sent there for the purpose of prosecuting offenders of the new law passed by the recent legislature, and to collect the license required now of non-residents who come into the state to hunt. The new law will doubtless have a good effect in preserving the game and protecting the Hoosier sportsmen. Thousands of ducks and geese killed in the northern part of Indiana in re cent years were shipped out of the state. The seems to be another side to Alf Donnelly’s onion bonanza. While he is getting nearly two dollars per bushel for what onions he has to sell now, he will make no money on last year’s crop. The onions failed to keep for some reason, this year and the greater part of his crop rotted in his onion house. But for the high price he would have been a big loser. As it is he will get about enough out of last year’s crop to pay the expense of raising it. The Central Sugar Company, Shelby, Indiana, wants 6,000 acres of beets to supply its factory. A farmer can make from sugar beets at the prices offered by the company, five times as much as from the average farm crop. If you don’t know about this coming industry and its benefits to the community or if the company’s agent has not seen you, write them for literature and information regarding the subject. Address Central Sugar Company, 100 Washington St., Chicago, 111.

The new law that relieves all road supervisors, now in effect, and giving the gravel roads over to the county commissioners who will henceforth look after them, will let out a large number of supervisors in this county. The supervisors were allowed a salary of $1.50 a day for each day’s work. The commissioners will take charge of the same districts they had under the old law, so that the change will cause no confusion. The new law also raises the pay of laborers upon gravel roads from $1.25 to $1.50 per day. The next library entertainment that has been advertized as a “Coon Song Jubilee” has been postponed and the programme will be in charge of Miss Anna Ethelynd Reed, of Chicago. There will be no question as to its merits. The first half of the program will be musical and the latter half “six cups of chocolate,” a gossip in one act by six popular young ladies. Remember the date, Friday evening, April 5, and watch for the program later. Every body should be sufficently interested in the new library of our city to patronize these entertainments. A prominent man who has been south says that during the next month 20,000 negroes will leave the south and come north. He says: “These people do not know the condition prevailing up here. They have been misled by glittering advertisements promising big salaries. I must state that I am not oppossed to the southern negro coming north. On the contrary, I believe it would be a good thing for him, that is, if he has money to care for himself here. The negtQ without a fair amount of capital has no business as far away from his real home as the north is, unless he is capable of mainaining himself independently.” There is nothing that we fight more earnestly than taxation and yet, after all, we get value received and compound interest. What we get for our taxes is figured out thus: A man with SI,OOO worth of property is likely to pay from $lO to sl2 year taxes. For this, if he lives intown, he gets the services of the police for securing quiet and observance of the law; he gets protection from fires; he gets education for his children; officials to look after the sidewalks and streets; the benefit of a court at a nominal figure for the litigant. If he lives in the -country, he gels bridges, roads and many of the above mentioned advantages, also. Sometimes the taxpayer finds it hard co spare the taxes but he would find it a good deal harder to get along without what Lis money pays for.