Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1903 — NOTICE TO LIBRARY STOCKHOLDERS AND INHABITANTS. [ARTICLE]

NOTICE TO LIBRARY STOCKHOLDERS AND INHABITANTS.

A floating paragraph says: “The lion is worth to the animal dealer $1,500; the lioness, $500; the leopard, $300; the panther, $250; bears, SSO to $500; an elk, $200; the camel, $300; and the elephant, $500.” The value of the tiger is not stated. Probably it depends on the variety, and if the variety is the “jungle” tiger its value depends on what it can earn. Wallace's “tiger” of that breed didn’t earn a dollar here and its owners are supposed to have gone away dead sore at Rensselaer in oonsequenoe.

Exchanges from different paits of the oountry are warning their readers against another gang of doth peddlers that are going through the.oopntry offering packages ot cloth to those who will buy at prioes ranging all the way from $l5O down to S6O. Looal merchants anywhere are said to be able to duplicate the package for $35, and yet it is said that the peddlers have been able to get rid of a great deal of their stuff over the oountry. The scheme has deen worked in this vicinity, time and again, but it never fails to find a fresh orop of victims.

An exchange telle the story of a farmer who had deoided to sell >»-his property and listed it with e description of the plaoe. When the agent read it over to the farmer for his approval, the old man said, ''Read that again.” After the eecond reading the farmer eat for several minutes in a tboWbtful mood, and finally said, "1 don’t believe I want to sell. I’ve been looking for that kind of a place all toy life, and it never occurred tj> me that I had it antii you described it to me. No, I don’t want to sell out.” The The same is true of your home town and county. Many people do n< t appreciate their surroundings until they get away or hear and e others appreciating their ttdv>- iHtp-s and then they realize that «v ire very well situated.

And owners ot existing public libraries in the City of Rensselaer, The offer of Mr. Carnegie to erect a new building was followed by a new law, seeming tp authorize managing boards to transfer the books of said libraries. The officers of the Sv-110 >i and Jasper Public libraries have. proceeded under said law "to offer and transfer to the Public Library Board the books and r least? the taxes now levied when the new library has been built and equipped on Lots Eleven and Twelve in Block Seven (7.) Tbenew board is buj ing Said site by Subscription and wants to know all needful taxation. Wherefore, on Saturday, August 8, 1903, at 3 p. m., in east court room, stock may be voted by proxy or roll call. P- •' Ist. To approve or not the donation of three hundred dollars on April 13, 1903. 2nd. "To approve or not the transfer of the Library when the Carnegie building is erected: The inhabitants present may vote on any or all of these questions. Ist. Whether the school trustees should transfer the school library as resolved by them on June 22,1903. 2nd. To approve or not of the council’s resolution to pay for a site. 3rd. The Board’s selection of a suitable site. 4th. The Board’s direction to pay for the site by subscription. sth. To indicate to the Board the rate of tax levy for 1903. 6th. To aid in the subscription for site and books. 7th. To express an opinion as to the wisdom of receiving Carnegie’s gift on the conditions named therein. Library Board,