Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — ELECTION CALLED TO VOTE SUBSIDY [ARTICLE]

ELECTION CALLED TO VOTE SUBSIDY

And County Attorney Ordered to Get Busy COLLECTING FEES NOW DUE By the Commissioners 'at Their Wednesday Session—Daniel Waymire Resigns as Drainage Ordered to Clean Out 700 Feet of Iroquois Ditch Before Its Acceptance. j The county commissioners at their Wednesday session transacted considerable business of general importance to the taxpayers. An election was ordered held in Marion tp., on Tuesday Dec. 20 to'vote a subsidy of IJ4 per cent for Purtelle’s proposed electric railroad; 'The county attorney was instructed to begin action in the circuit court within ten days to recover the fees alleged to be due the county as reported by W. E. Heal and J. B. Workman a year or more ago, amounting to some $1,700. John O’Connor, ex-sheriff, however, had paid all or most all of the amount found against him before the report was filed, a decision in a similar case in White county being against his claim to these fees; Dan Waymre, brother of County Commissioner Fred Waymire, who has held that fat office of drainage commissioner for the past six or eight years, tendered his resignation and same was accepted, but no one was appointed in his place; The report of C. J. Hobbs, special engineer appointed to go over the Irequois ditch, showed a fill of 700 feet of sand in main ditch, washed in from the Gifford lateral, and same will be taken out by Mr. Sternberg before he draws the balance of his pay. Other lesser important transactions of the session appear in another column.