Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1909 — To Try County Election. [ARTICLE]

To Try County Election.

At a meeting of the anti-saloon advocates of Jefferson township held at the court house last Friday evening it was decided, after a discussion of the proposition from all points of view, to circulate petitions tending to the call of an election under the new county option law, to be held in Newton county on some date before the expiration of the remonstrance now in effect in this township—which would be before the first of March. Twenty petitions have been prepared since and are being circulated in all parts of the county. -It will require the signatures of twenty per cent of the legal voters of the county, based on the vote of the last general election to render the petition sufficinet, and as there were 2,780 votes cast for the office of Secretary of State in the last November election, that would mean that 556 s:g natures will have to be secured. If the petition is “made good” in time it will be filed for action by the County Commissioners at tbeir February meeting in order that the election may be set for some day during the last of that month. —Kentland Democrat.