Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1909 — COUNTY OPTION ELECTION TO BE HELD MAY 1ST. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY OPTION ELECTION TO BE HELD MAY 1ST.

Council Appropriates S7OO to Defray Expenses and Election Is to Be On Saturday. The election to determine whether Jasper county shall continue to be dry will be held on Saturday, May Ist, that date having been selected by the county commissioners this Tuesday afternoon. ‘ ■ J —The members of the county council, viz. Frank Babcock, W. V. Porter, Robert Drake, John Martindale, M. J. Delehanty, John Biggs and R. A. Parkinson were all on hand to appropriate the money, but the meeting of the council was held in the forenoon and Messrs. Porter and Drake thought it was to be held after dinner, so they were absent when action was taken but they later approved the action. The only other action of the council was to appropriate $2,000 to be used by the contractors on several ditches now under course of construction. The commissioners harkened to the wishes of the temperance people and set the election on Saturday, the belief being that that date would best suit the convenience of farmers.