Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — The Town Board. [ARTICLE]

The Town Board.

The most important action of the Town Board, Monday evening was ordering that hereafter the corporation poll-tax for road purposes, should be paid in cash, instead of work. The tax is $1.50 per poll. Ellis Walton’s bill for hack springs, broken in driving over bad crossings, on the way to the depot, was referred to the street committee. A’Leopold’s petition for the opening of the south end of Scott street was referred to Thos. Thompson, J. T. Randle and W. R. Nowels. The M.' E. and Baptist churches were exempted from their sewer assessments. -- — , T. H. Geer was given back SSO of his saloon license money. He paid a year’s license and ran only a few months when he was burned out.