Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — Field for Reform. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Field for Reform.

The (Indianapolis Journal calls attention to the fact that county government furnishes a considera* ble item in the total expense of the government. During the year 1888 the salaries of county officers in this State, other than county superintendents, aggregateds74B,B64; the cost ot grand and petit jurors aud bailiffs was $335,949; cost of coroners’ inquests, $21,895; cost of enumerating, assessing and appraising, $191,143; cost of roadviewing and surveying, $15,103; cost of county superintendents, $107,229; cost of county criminals and prisoners, $141,506; cost of county poor, $771,446; books and stationery, $144,886, and so on. The grand total of county expenditures in the State was $7,093,645.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, die gave them Castoria. Step in and see Rossbaeher’s figure music, for the guitar, at Kannal’s. Why pay regular prices for cheap ajiction stuff, when you can get good goods for the same prices of the Economy Store Co. ■ “■ The only place in the county to get strictly pure roasted coffee is at C. C. Starr’s. No extra charge for grinding. -«►• WMVs- ♦ There is nothing better than the best, and you never fail of finding the very best groceries, and at the bottom prices, at C. C. Starr’s store.

As usual, A. Leopold’s stock of Fine Clothing is now complete and anyone who will take pains to examine the goods, will at once see that he had an eye to business in the selection of this mammoth stock of clothing, which was bought in the Eastern markets, and at prices that will not fail to secure their sale. This clothing is all warranted to be as represented. Call soqu-andsHfrcta real fine suit of clothing, in any style, at prices that cannot fail to please you. A. Leopold, The Fashionable Clothier.

Drs. S. A. McMellon, specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, treats all diseases of the eye with medicine and has been successful where many eminent oculists have failed, and m no case has ever injured an eye. Will remain in Rensselaer until November 5. Office with Mrs. Mary E, Hopkins, on Front street. ts.