Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1918 — ORDINANCE TO BE ENFORCED CUT-OUT MUST BE KEPT CLOSED OR THE COP WILL GET YOU. [ARTICLE]

ORDINANCE TO BE ENFORCED

CUT-OUT MUST BE KEPT CLOSED OR THE COP WILL GET YOU.

Alt the meeting of the Rensselaer city council Monday night the mayor was empowered to appoint special police to enforce the city ordinance in reference to automobiles and to punish those who keep their cut-outs open. These policemen are to receive five dollars for each and every conviction. A large number of claims were allowed, and the couifcil voted to pay the expense of the supper for the Jackies’ Band, which is to be here Wednesday evening, October 2. The tax levy for the year is fixed at $1.07, which is a reduction of four cents over this year’s levy: Road fund $ -25 Corporation fund .....# 70 Library fund 10 Borntrager ditch ♦. 02 A resolution against public improvements during the war was adopted and none are to be m&de in this city unless absolutely necessary. An ordinance regarding venerial diseases, recommended by the state board, was passed by the council.