Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — KENTLAND GETTING A TASTE [ARTICLE]

KENTLAND GETTING A TASTE

Of New Tax Law—Petition to Issue School Bonds Denied. Petitions of the tdwn of Kentland and of Jefferson township in Newton county for authority to issue $175,000 in bonds, jointly, for the erection of a joint high school at' Kentland, were denied by the state board of tax commissioners Wednesday. The town of Kentland proposed to issue $35,000 of the amount. An election was recently held in Kehtland and Jefferson township on the proposition of consolidating and the vote was largely in the affirmative, but now the state tax board sitting at Indianapolis\and knowing absolutely nothing of the local conditions, say No, with a big N. Local self-government is absolutely denied the people under the present tax law, and our opinion is that the voters will set down good and hard on the party responsible .for this law at the election next fall.

“The man who whispers down a well About the goods he has to sell, Won’C reap the golden, gleaming dollars Like one who climbs a tree and hollers,? Well, I am hollerin’. I have a carload of Buggies to sell. —C. A. ROBERTS,