Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1904 — New County Clerk. [ARTICLE]

New County Clerk.

Charles 0. Warner filed his bond and took the nath’of office as clerk of the Jasper Court last Saturday evening, April 30tb, and is now in full charge of the office. He starts in under easy circumstances, for he has bad plenty of previous experience with the work of the office, and becrme thoroughly familiar with it; and all he needs uow is to rub off a little rust that has accumulating on bis knowledge, during the past eight years, aud he will be right at homo with the whole business.

He will make en ideally capable careful and obliging clerk, and in those respects, be a fu 1 l and worthy successor to tie r tiring clerk, John F. Maj sr, who Las bjen a most excellent official, in every respect.

Mr. Warner start d a new innovation here in the matter of his official bond, by giving a surety company bond instead of a resident properly holders' bond. ,He had a perfectly secure bond, ready prepared and signed by about ten financially solid citizens, who were all willing to have it filed, but in view cf the large nnmberof bondsmen who are likely to lose on account of the bank failure. Mr. Warner decided he would rather go to theexpense of procuring a surety bondthan to ask his friends to act as his bandsmen. In many counties in this state most of the officials now give surety company bonds; and the practice is also extending to township trustees. Mr. Warner’s bond is for <10,000,. and it costs $35 per year. •