Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1917 — White County Citizens Want a County Agent [ARTICLE]

White County Citizens Want a County Agent

Monticello Journal. The State of Indiana on the relation of Guy McMullen, Milton K. Reiff, John G. Brown, Guy A. Williams and Joseph Moore for themselves and more than twenty other residents of White county, have filed suit in the circuit court through their attorney against the White county council, James C. Lods, James E. Carson, Robert Chamberlain, John C; Lowe, Robert A. Jewett, Frank Goonrod and Charles A. Halladay, members of the White county council, for a petition for writ of mandamus. On the 4th day of September, 1917, -it is alleged, the plaintiffs filed their petition with the county board of education for a county agent, and deposited the sum of SSOO to be used in defraying the expenses of an agent. The board then filed the petition with the council and within thirty days after its receipt, and asked them to appropriate annually the sum of $1,500 to be used in paying the salary and other expenses of a county agent. The council having failed to do this, the signers ask for a writ of mandamus to be directed against the council, commanding them to make an appropriation of $1,500 annually, -or to show cause why the appropriation should not be made.