Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — Feeding and Boarding Horses. [ARTICLE]

Feeding and Boarding Horses.

I wish to inform the public that I have disposed of my livery stock and am making feeding and boarding horses a specialty. Please give

me a call.

ROBERT RANDLE.

A newspaper is always printed in a rush, says an exohange. There is alwayi something in it that should be left oat; something left ont that shoulff have been put in. It is sometimes too quick to act, but with all its shortcomings and faults there is more education in a bright newspaper than in a novel. You will find that the brightest boy on all practicable, senssible, everyday questions, is the boy who reads the newspapers. The gravel roads question is again fairly before the people of Rensselaer and Marion township. The report of the viewers, with notice of election, ‘ appears in this issue of this paper ~ The election is set for Friday, March , 2nd. The roads proposed are identical with those voted upon last September, and defeated then by such narrow majorities. The report and recommendations of the viewers is the same as before, with the exception of a few unimportant verbal changes, and the important change of recommending that the bottom of the gravel or stone pike be placed six inches below the top of the adjoining dirt track. This is, in our judgement a most excellent suggestion. The plan of having a grade wide enough for a dirt pike alongside of the gravel is still adhered to, and is a most commends* le feature. The estimated cost of the roads is exactly the same as in the previous report, The Republican having been erronionsly informed, in stating two weeks ago, that the estimates had been increased.

The Supreme Court has decided the fee and salary bill constitutional and valid, in spite of its numerous glaring imperfections. The decision applied directly to the law only as regarding sheriffs, but practically the decision covers the law in its entirety. Of present office holders in f this county, the law affects only the sheriff, the recorder and the treasurer. It will not hurt the sheriff, for the receipts of the office in this county are not as large as the salary the law allows him, namely $1,250 It will hurt the treasurer some, but it hits the recorder the hardest. In this county the recorder is allowed ODly $950 salary, while the work he has to do, earns at the fees fixed by law about $2,000. The surplut over he $950 has to be turned over to the county. The recorder is not allowed anything for deputy hire, so that when work comes in so fast that he can not do it all himself, by working 17 hours a day, he has to hire help out of his own pocket After the expiration of the present terms, the auditor and clerk will also come under the law. The salary of the clerk will be $1350. Of ihe auditor SISOO. No allowance is made for deputy hire, and in the auditor’s case, at least, this will take hall his salary.