Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1919 — COUNTY COUNCIL TO RECONVENE SEPT. 15. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY COUNCIL TO RECONVENE SEPT. 15.

The Jasper county council met in regular annual session in this city last Monday with the following members present: ~ H. W. Jackson, chairman; T. J. Prouty, F. M. Hart, Elmer Pullin, Wash Cook and George May. Wester Browdy, of Carpenter township, i was not present. . ’ , I The appropriations as published »in The Republican were gone over ’And other matters were considered. 1 Owing to the fact that the valuation •as lately revised by- the state tax [ commission had not been computed ;by the county auditor, the board adijoprned to reconvene on* Monday, i September 15. j There was some considerable dis!cussiom in reference to the appropriation for a county agricultural •agent. A number of the members of the board seem to be opposed ito making an appropriation for this (work. * * j C. Arthur Tuteur was before the ; board with a - proposition to furnish six hundred rings to the county to be given to the Jasper county soldiers of the great war. The board (indicated its willingness to make an appropriation of $1,200 for the same. 9 The matter of improving roads under the county unit law did not come before the board, but it is understood that it will be presented at its adjourned meeting. The county commissioners will meet on Saturday- September 13, and prepare the, road petitions for the action of the , council. At its meeting on the fifteenth the board will make the levy for 1920.