Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — NEW AUTO LICENSES ARE OLIVE GREEN AND BUFF. [ARTICLE]

NEW AUTO LICENSES ARE OLIVE GREEN AND BUFF.

The 1920 automobile license plates show olive green numbers on a buff background. They are made of heavier steel than thel9l9 plates which were generally complained of as being too light and inclined to warp. The plates are made at the state prison. As usual they will not be mailed until after Christmas because of the heavy pre-Christmas mails. The state department expects that more than 15,000 applications will be on hand by that time. Truck plates will bear the word “truck” stamped perpendicularly on the left end. The department had collected more than $1,558,000 in license fees this year. i _7 Next year Jasper county, under the new taxing law, and all Other counties of the state, will receive less refunds than usual inasmuch as all receipts from auto licenses go to the state highway commission. In past years each county received a part of the auto license fund for .use in maintaining highways m each county.