Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1913 — UNION TOWNSHIP MAY BE DIVIDED [ARTICLE]

UNION TOWNSHIP MAY BE DIVIDED

Numerously Signed Petition to Be Presented to the Commissioners Asking Division. W. R. Wood and other citizens of Union township will present a petition to the commissioners M on day asking that Union township be cut in two east and west in the center, each township to contain 28 sections, and that two townships be made out of one. Por years North and South Union have not bee nable ito agree on many matters,«their interests not being mutual. The new law providing for a high school in townships having certain qualifications, and the agitation in North Union for such a school, is responsible for the steps that have been taken for the division of the township. North Union wants a high school. South Union prefers to patronize the Rensselaer high school. Such a division of the township has been talked of in the past, but no action other than talk has heretofore resulted. Up to date the petition has been signed by 171 of the largest taxpayers out of a total voting population of 280. ■ Whether North Union wH? oppose such a division remains to be seen. Inasmuch as the new township will have to stand, any increased expense that might result from making two townships out of one, if a majority of the citizens of the township are in favor of the division, there will probably be no serious objection from the rest of the county, if the commissioners grant the prayer of the petition.