Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1920 — TAX LEVY FIXED AT 32 CENTS [ARTICLE]

TAX LEVY FIXED AT 32 CENTS

Which Is 5 Cents Higher Than Last Year, on a Higher Valuation. F - The Jasper county council fixed the tax levy for 1920 at Its meeting this 'week at 32 cents on each SIOO valuation. The county levy proper is 18c; court house bonds 3c; gravel road repair 11c; making the total 32 cents. This is 5 cents higher than last year’s levy and on a much higher valuation. The raise of 5 cents is in the gravel road repair levy. The council also made an appropriation of $1,500 for putting tn a heating system In the nurse’s residence just south of the county hospital and also made some other additional appropriations for 1920. In Newton county th®, tax levy for county purposes proper was fixed at 12.3 cents on each SIOO valuation; 8c bond levy, and 15c for gravel road repair,