Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1915 — PROGRESSIVE FARMERS WANT COUNTY AGENT [ARTICLE]

PROGRESSIVE FARMERS WANT COUNTY AGENT

Pass Resolutions For Re-Employ-ment of Man to Help Agricultural Development. The farmers who attended the institute held here Friday and Who are the most progressive farmers in the county from the standpoint of higher development of our agricultural pursuits, passed the following resolutions: Whereas, the Legislature of the State of Indiana lias enacted a law requiring the several counties of said state to employ a county agricultural agent for the beheflt of the farming community, and, Whereas, the Supreme Court of said state has construed said law ts mean that the duty of the county council to appropriate sufficient money to pay the necessary expenses of said office, is mandatory rather than discretionary, and, Whereas, the farmers of this county are greatly in need of such an agent and are willing to pay the price thereof, and, Whereas, the board °of county Commissioners of this county have arbitrarily and without any warrant of law appealed to the supreme court from a judgment of the Jasper circuit eourt mandating the county council to make the necessary appropriation: Now, therefore, be it resolved the Jasper County Fanners Institute that it be the sense of said in-’ stdtution and of the members thereof that the board of commissioners instruct the couny attorney to dismiss said appeal in order that a Co unity Agen t may be employed to give assistance to the farmers of this county as is being done in all the other eountias of this State with the exception of three. Be it further resolved that copies of these resolutions be published in each of the newspapers, printed and published in Rensselaer and thalt a copy be filed before the Board of Commissioners of said county. Jasper County Farmers Institute, By William S. Day, President. Attest: Ohauncey Wood, Secretary.