Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1883 — The Hoard of Equalization. [ARTICLE]

The Hoard of Equalization.

Under the new law the County Board of Equalization consists of the County Commissioners, as ex-officio members, and four freeholders appointed by the judge of. Circuit Court. In addition to the ex-officio members Judge Ward completed the board by the following appointments: Henry Marsh, of Carponter; Thomas H. Robinson, of Gillam; James Yeoman, of Newton; Lewis Rich of Wheatfield. The board "held a session Monday afternoon, and cbmpletcd their work Tuesday morning. . The work of the assessors in the different townships was left unchanged, in every particular. A White county gold mine. —Mr. L. S; Mitchell, principal of the Monon schools, who visited his brother here this week, reports that gold has been discovered in the sand pumped from a well at the residence of Hugh Lowe, some two or three miles east of Monon. The gold was tested at Monticello, Mom&jjr, and there is no question but that it jft the genuine article. Whether it exisfs in paying quantities, is an altogether different matter.