Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — Trustees "Want the Earth." [ARTICLE]

Trustees "Want the Earth."

The State Association of Township Trustee has prepared a bill which will be introduced early this week. It provides the following compensation for township trustees: two dollars a day for every day employed; $3 a year for every square mile of territory in the township; $5 a year for every school teacher employed in the township; $5 a year for every drain in the township; $5 a year for every road supervisor in the township; .5 cents a year for every inhabitant in the township according to the last census. Members of the legislature that are acquainted with the bill say the trustees want “the earth, with a fenc% around it.” On this basis of compensation the salary of trustees would be doubled in many townships.,