Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — For A Township Library Tax. [ARTICLE]

For A Township Library Tax.

The voters of Marion township, including Rensselaer, will vote at this election on the question of levying a small permanent tax for the public library. A petition for an election was circulated this morning, by Judge Thompson and 75 leading citizens signed it in 30 minutes. There is no politics in it, and Democrats signed as freely as Republicans. The tax, if voted, will be at the rate of one fifth of a mile on each SIOO taxable property. » It will only be a mere trifle for each tax-payer, for if a person was assessed for $5,000 his library tax would only be one dollar a year. .The rate, small as it is, however, will raise $350 a year for the library. The library ticket will be printed in the same ballot as the township ticket.