Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1889 — Dog Day Receipts. [ARTICLE]

Dog Day Receipts.

Monday was “dog day” with the Township Trustees, or the day when the law requires that they should come in and pay over to the County Treasurer all money in their hands, in excess of SSO, derived from tlie tax on dogs in their respective townships. The following named trustees came in and paid over the various amounts specified: \ J. C. Gwin, Hanging Grove, $ 37.39 J. R. Guild, Gillam, 51.62 Fred Meiser, Walker, 64.33 J. F. Iliff, Barkley, 79.49 I. Wm. Greenfield, 135.21 A. J. McFarland, Jordan, 45.36 Jackson Freeland, Newton, 54.76 J. F. Bruner, Keener, 37.63 L. P. Shirer, Wheatfield, 27.13 > W. O. Roadifer, Carpenter, 112.43 11. Kesler, Milroy, 22.59 Wm. Cooper, Union, 49.06 The trustee of Kankakee tp., has not yet reported. This money from the dog tax will go into the general tuition fund of the county and be apportioned in June. The number of sheep* reported killed by dogs and paid for out of the dog tax, was very small.