Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1898 — Township Libraries. [ARTICLE]

Township Libraries.

In speakiug of the needs of good libraries for country schools, S-ate Librarian Henry says a bill will oe ruLiouaueu in the legislature iotAiug toward.'levying a tax 01 20 cents on the SI,OOO assessment for the building and maintaining u i a iiuiaj.y in e*cu township of the state. If the bill should become a law, the taxes collected Dy these means, approximating $200,000 a year, would be distributed on a basis of school population and not according to the wealth of a township. Thus the strong townships who would help the weaker oues.