Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — Township Advisory Boards. [ARTICLE]

Township Advisory Boards.

Tuesday was the day on which the new law requires the various township advisory boards.’ to meet with the township trustee? to make the tax levy for ensuing tax year The members of the advisory board in this Marion township, are Geo. W. Burk, James W. Cowden and A. K. Yeoman. Mr. Cowden is in Ohio visiting relatives and both Mr. Yeoqian and Mr. Bark appear to have forgotten about their advisory board duties, and it required considerable hustling on Trustee J. D. Babcock’s part to get them together. He drove out to Mr. Burk’s place, and reaohed Mr. Yeoman by telephone. The tax levies were made in ail respects as recomended by the trustee in his published estimates except that the specicd school tax was made ten cents higher than he had recommended the purpose of this inorease being to provide a fund for building a township high school nextyesr.