Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — Commissioners and Equalizers [ARTICLE]

Commissioners an d Equalizers

The County hoard of Equalization j met, Monday, June 2nd, as required j by law. No change in any assessments were made except in the case 3 of certain Hereford Bulls, the property of Messrs, ; A. McCoy & Son, David Nowels, and Mr. Pruett. The bulls had all been bought at a nominal price of'*’s4oo each, and were assessed at that sum, but as they were to be paid for in calves j at SSO each, their owner's thought it hard to be assessed at the above mentioned figures, which they considered much above the cash market value of the animals. The Com- 1 missioners thought that it was, in some : sense, a rep elition of the case of the j man who sold a dog for SSOO, and got his pay in two pups at $250 eac.h, and they accordingly assessed the Herefords at $l5O each. Tub Cojmissioxzas.—The C?ommiseioners began Work Tuesday after* noon. They settled with thp Township uraefehore, and fcea-d tbo appbeat'Qn of Mack Caldwell for a license to I keep a saloon in the KovreJs btd dihf in KctjMolaeT. There being no ev^

deuce adduced to show why he should not have the license, it was granted Wednesday morning. Jn regard to the matter of building the approaches to the new bridge in Rensselaer, a petition, numerously signed, waa presented to -tho Board, asking them to construcftbem at once, but the Board decided that to the town,of Rensselaer properly belonged the duty of making the approaches, and the petition was accordingly denied.

There were to be only thirty days in June this year, to start with, and several of those have already been shuffled off into the limbo of the irrecoverable past. But June is the boss month, and may be, oncp in a while, a month which is a day or two longer than this, but the June days are longer at both ends, and wider in the middle than those of aDy other month, no matter where you go to find it.