The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12
NOTICE OF ELECTION.


To the qualified electors of Pleasant
Grove Township, including the incor-
porated town of Barnes City Mahaska
County, State of Iowa, and all persons
concerned.
Notice is hereby given that on the
sixteenth day of September, A. d. 1907,
there will be submitted to the qualified
voters of said Pleasant Grove Town
ship, Mahaska County, Iowa. including
the incorporated town of Barnes City,
Iowa, at n special election to be held
at the city building In the Incorporated
town of Barnes City, in said Pleasant
Grove township, County of Mahaska,
State of Iowa, the following question,
and proposition, or public measure to
be voted upon, to-wit:
Shall tax of FIVE percentum of the
assessed valuation of the taxable prop
Mahaska County Iowa, including the
incorporated town of Barnes City, be
levied upon the taxable property there
in, on the assessed valuation of the
year 1907, to aid the Marengo and Mid
land Railway Company, corporation
organized under the laws of the State
Of Iowa, its successors and assigns, in
the construction of an interurban, or
electric railway from Cedar Rapids, or
from junction with the Iowa City
and Electric Railway Company south
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Oskaloosa,
Iowa, by way of Marengo and Monte
yuma and Broadway street in Barnes
City and Sections 10, Is and % in
Pleasant Grove Township, Mahaska
County, Iowa; said tax, If voted, to be
levied In the year 1907 on the assessed
value of the taxable property of the
said Pleasant Grove Township, Mahas-
ka County, Iowa. including the incor-
porated town of Barnes City, at the
time of levying the ordinary taxes of
1907. Said tax to be due and payable
in two separate years; that is, one
half In the year 1909 and the other
half in the year 1910, the same to be
due, payable and collectible at the
same time, and in the same manner,
as the other and ordinary taxes for
said years of 1909 and 1910, but no
part of said tax shall become due, pay
able and collectible to the said Ma.
rengo and Midland Railway Company,
its successors and assigns, until said
railway is constructed and fully COM
pleted and in operation from Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, or from a junction with
the Iowa City and Electric Railway
south of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by way
Of Marengo, Montezuma, Barnes City,
and Sections 10, Is and % in Pleasant
Grove Township, Mahaska County,
Iowa; which said railway when COM
pleted shall be full, regular, standard
gauge road; the track to be graded,
ties and rails laid with rails equal
to seventy-pound rails and sufficient to
carry freight as well as passengers,
together with the necessary electric
wires and apparatus in place for oper.
ating the same and necessary electric
power procured for operating the
same.
And said railway shall be construct
ed and fully completed and in oper-
alton with new and modern cars from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, or from juno
tion with the Iowa City and Electric
Railway south of Cedar Rapids, to Os-
kaloosa, Iowa, by way of Marengo,
Montezuma, Broadway Street in Barnes
City, and Sections 10, Is and % in
Pleasant Grove Township, Mahaska
County, Iowa, by the first day of July,
A, d. 1910; and in case, however, said
railway is not constructed and fully
completed and in operation in the
manner and at the time aforesaid, the
whole of said tax levy shall be abso-
lutely null and void and shall not be
collectible in whole or in part. The
polls for said election to be open at
8 O'Clock a. m. and close at p. m.
Dated this September second, A, d.
1907.
w. A. Larkin,
A. l.. Hatcher,
w A Jjkans