Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1902 — Wants Truant Officer Abolished. [ARTICLE]

Wants Truant Officer Abolished.

One of Representative John N. Bookman’s tasks this .winter, says the Hammond News, will be to get the office of truant offioer abolished, whioh he believes is an unnecessary expense, and that the little work allotted to them can be well done by the different township trustees in each county, whioh will be a saving of many thousand dollars to the state.