Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — SUBSIDY ELECTIONS APRIL 7 [ARTICLE]

SUBSIDY ELECTIONS APRIL 7

in Carpenter and Jordan Townships, inAidofl.N. W.T.Co. WAS RECENTLY VOTED DOWN But a Change of Heart Is Said to Have Taken Place With Some, and Promotors Hope to Carry Elections This Time. The county commissioners at their session Tuesday set the date for holding special election in Jordan and Carpenter townships for Tuesday, April 7, and in Carpenter appointed Ad Hensler and John J. Porter as inspectors for the east and west precincts, trustee Charles V. May, of course, acting as inspector in the south precinct. Elections were held on Feb. 10 and 17 in both of these townships, respectively, on the same proposition and the tax was voted down by a majority of 100 in Carpenter and 28 in Jordan.

Other proceedings of the cotfnty commissioners at their March session follows:

Contracts for poor farm supplies awarded as follows: Groceries, John Eger, $137.45; dry goods, G. E. Murray Co., $04.65; meats, Roth Bros., 200 lbs,' roast beef, $3 2, Bonds of gravel roads superintendents, \V. S. Parks. Jacob A. May, E. D. Britton and Joseph Ilotler approved. Harvey J. Dexter ditch; audtior presents assessment sheet showing unpaid assessments of $5,904.95. Bonds ordered, ten annual payments, 5 per cent interest. Thomas Davis ditch; W. F. Osborn resigns as superintendent of construction and County Surveyor DeVere Yeoman is appointed in his stead.

C. J. Hobbs ditch; set for hearing second day April term. George H. Hart ditch: assessment sheet showing assessments affecting Jasper county lands presented, and commissioners fix June 10 as limit for paying assessments before bond issue. , A'/':

John Eck et al, stone road in Carpenter tp.: John Bill and Frank Fenwick appointed viewers, with county Surveyor Yeoman as engineer, to meet at office of Jasper Guy in Remington on March 10, and qualify and proceed to view said proposed improvement. Interest on county funds for the month of February reported as follows: First National bank, Rensselaer,, $70.52: Trust & Savings bank, Rensselaer, $34.25; State bank, Rensselaer, $42.58: State bank, Remington, $30.60; Bank of Wheat field, $7.40.