Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1917 — CUT TAX LEVY FIVE CENTS [ARTICLE]

CUT TAX LEVY FIVE CENTS

COUNTY COUNCIL MAKES 1918 APPROPRIATIONS AND LEVY. The members of the Jasper county council in the regular annual session here Tuesday and Wednesday made their appropriations for the county expense for the year 1918. The tax levy for county expenditures was placed at .449, or 5 cents lower than the 1917 levy. The levy for county house bonds and for repair of county roads was made the same as last. Ten cents for the former and fifteen cents for the latter. The expenditures as asked for by the several county officers were made except in the case of the allowance asked by the county school superintendent. His allowance for office help was placed at $150.00, the same as had been allowed the former county superintendent. It was found necessary to make a few additional appropriations for the balance of the year. The smoke stack at the county heating plant will have to be rebuilt and an appropriation of $250 was made for this purpose. The county has laid in a large supply of "coal and it was necessary to make an additional appropriation of SI,OOO to pay for it. The county council of defense was allowed an appropriation of S7OO, which is available only until the first of the year. AU the members of the council were present except Frank Hart, of DeMotte. The members present were S. T. Comer, chairman, of Union township; George May and Frank Bowdy, of Carpenter township; H. W. Jackson, of Marion township; Elmer Pullins, of Gillam township, and Washington Cook, of Hanging Grove x township.