Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1912 — Gillamites Looking After Ryan Ditch Assessments. [ARTICLE]

Gillamites Looking After Ryan Ditch Assessments.

The clerk’s office was besieged this Tuesday morning by a crowd of Gillamites, who came here to look over the John P. Ryan ditch report and* ascertain the amount of their assessments for making, the improvement. They had mostly been Informed that the assessments-were very high and inequitable and some of the land owners came down with blood in their eyes, prepared to remonstrate. After their arrival here, however. Home are said t have changed their minds and to have said that the assessments were not far from what they had anticipated. Charles Odom was one of the chief objectors. He said he did not care if the Pinkamink was damned up until the water raised 15 feet, It couldn’t hurt any of his land except one forty. Among others who were here during the morning were Schuyler Robinson, Larkin, George and Tom Logan, Earner Pullins, J. W. Stevens Cebu Paris, Bart Reed, Frank Tillett and P. T. Robinson. Whatever remonstrances against assessnients are made must be filed by Thursday, May 16tb,.and it looks as though there would not be a great many filed by that timd.