Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1918 — One Extreme To Follow The Other [ARTICLE]

One Extreme To Follow The Other

Hoopeston, Hl./ is about to lose one of its chief claims to fame. The city couitcl, at its last meeting, tdok up the matter of raising the salaries of the mayor and members of the council from 50 cents a year for the mayor and 25 cents a year for the councilmen, td $5 a meeting for the mayor and $3 for the councilmen. For thirty or forty years Hoopeston had had the distinction of paying her city'council the smallest salary of, any city in the country. It has been her chief claim to fame, aside from the fact that the largest canning factories in the country are there. The high cost of living has finally caused the members of. the council to denmand a salary siich as those in neighboring cities receive. The council meets only once a month, but the members say it is unfair for them to spend an entire evening each month at the meeting and get only 25 cents a year for it. The people themselves believe they should have more, but there is some objection to the amount asked. ;