Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — The County Commissioners. [ARTICLE]

The County Commissioners.

The county commissioners were in regular monthly session this week. Monday saloon licenses were granted to Daniel T. O’Connor and John M. Johnson, of Remington. The report of the poor farm superintendent for the quarter was received and approved. The inventory shows the value of the personal property on the farm to be $2,989.50. The expenses for the quarter were S4OO, and the proceeds $601.78. The number of inmates on the farm is 10. The contract for five iron bridges were let as follows: 160 foot bridge in Marion township across Carpenter’s Creek to the American Bridge Company at $1,081; one bridge in Gillam township to the Canton Bridge Company at $869; one bridge across Curtis Creek for SBB9, and two in Union township for $425 each to the Attica Bridge Co, Stephen T. Comer, James McClanahan and Sylvester Gray were ap pointed viewers on a highway petitioned for by John Kimble. In the matter of the Gifford railway appropriation, a record of the election was spread on the docket, with the understanding that the tax is to be placed on the duplicate when he begins the construction of the same. The petition for a railroad election in Marion township to vote a one per cent tax in aid of the Toledo and Chicago Transfer Railroad was granted and an election ordered to be held on Monday, July Bth.