Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — IROQUOIS DITCH MEETING [ARTICLE]

IROQUOIS DITCH MEETING

The Iroquois ditch meeting at the court house last Saturday appointed (). C. Halstead, Henry Arnsler, >l. K. Alter, X. Hopkins, D. H. Yeoman, (irativille Moody and S P. Thompson as soliciting committee to secure subscriptions to the bond to guarantee the expense of making the preliminary survey, which is limited to $1,050. It is proposed to deepen the main channel in the Iroquois, commencing at a culvert on the 9outh side of 10-20-7, in Newton tp., and ending at the foot of the rapids west of Rensselaer, which would require a cutting out of a rock channel through Rensselaer. At this writing 5b per cent of the guarantee bond has been signed. If 50 petitioners are secured and 100 per qent. be signed, the application will be filed at the next meeting of the commissioners, we understand. A meeting is to be held Aug. 3d to decide on this.