Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1917 — White County Wood Oust County Road Superintendent. [ARTICLE]

White County Wood Oust County Road Superintendent.

Monticello Democrat. The trial of Joseph V. Younger, who has sprved as county road supeif intendent since 1913, for alleged incompetency, set for trial Friday before the board- of county commissioners was postponed until today. The changes on which Mr. Younger is being tried, were preferred in 4 petition signed by Homer Dresbach and others, which stated that Mr. Yauniger was guilty of incompetency, malfeasance and neglect of duties, and asked that he be removed and his successor appointed. The specific example cited in the petition is the fact that in 1915 he recommended certain sums of money to be paid out of the free county road fund to C. W. Kent, assistant road superintendent, for work done, on the Charles E. Gay road. At the time the money was paid, it is claimed, the Gay road was not a free gravel or macadam road and had no right in the funds for that purpose. The Gay road was never fully established as a free county road, owing to legal contrdversy which took it through the courts. An additionia] complaint has been filed by others, which alleges that Y oungcr at one time recommended money to be paid out of the county fund for a street improvement in the town of Monon, which was not legally entitled to county funds and that in purchasing (gravel for road improvements he paid 75 cents a cubic yard when it could have been obtained for 50 or 60 cents. An answer to the accusation in the Gay road matter was filed. Mr. Younger denied the charges preferred by the petitioners. He stated that the Gay road from 0 to 80 had been accepted by the county commissioners ■as completed in December,. 1914, and that he had been directed to keep it repaird as such.