Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — SUBSIDY ELECTION IN WHITE [ARTICLE]

SUBSIDY ELECTION IN WHITE

Loses Out in West Point But Carried in Princeton and Round Grove. " Subsidy elections for O. L. Brown’s proposed Lafayette and Northwestern railroad were held in three townships in White county Tuesday, carrying in Princeton (Wolcott) and Round Grove townships by 71 and 24, respectively, and losing by 4 in West Point, says the Monticello Herald. Only about 1 to 1 % per cent was asked in these townships—slß,ooo in Princeton and the town of Wolcott; $15,000 in Round Grove, and $25,000 in West Point. A large majority of the heavier taxpayers in Princeton are said to have been against the proposition, but the small taxpayers and those who paid almost no taxes at all in Wolcott carried the scheme through, it is reported.