Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-10
OF EIGHTEEN BOARDS
OF TRUSTEES COMPLY WITH
NEW LAW.
ELEVEN OF THIRTEEN
LEVY A 1-MlLL TAX
Money From This Tax Will Be Paid
Next Year and Will 30 Available
For Work in 1e12-As a Rule Those
That Have Best Roads Levy tho Tax
st. Anthony Draes Roads.

That r very large majority of the
the county responded with promptness
10 the Ia passed last spring that re-
CURED special tax levy to be made
fer the purpose Of paying for a sys-
tematic dragging Of the roads, is
shown by the completed tax levy re-
turns furnished County Auditor A. II,
" elker by the township trustees. Thir-
teen of the eighteen townships OF the
county. in addition TO making tax
levy Tor ordinary road purposes, made
:. special levy Tor road dragging.
The township that did not make this
levy were " ashington. Logan. Lis
comb. Iowa. and Eden. The townships
that did make the levy were Green
castle, jefferson. LeGrand, Linn. Lib
crty. Marietta. Minerva. Marion. State
Center. Timber Creek, Vienna, TAYLOR.
and Bangor
Levy Half will and Mill.
OF the thirteen townships that have
levied a special tax for road dragging
the levy in each township is either u
or mill Eleven Of the thirteen levied
mill. and and two levied !, mill. The
latter townships were Taylor and Ban
gor.
1t is interesting to note that many
Of the townships tina, levied Il mill for
read dragging are those that have good
or fairly good roads already. The
townships that levied i mill are Green
castle. Jefferson. LeGrand, Linn. Liber-
", Marietta Minerva, Marion. State
Center Timber Creek and Vienna. AS
:. whole the roads Of Vienna, LeGrand,
Timber Creek, and Marietta are good,
Levies for Road Work.
Tie levy for read work in Green
castle townships Shows the interest
manifested there in improving the
hicnways. Before tire road dragging
law i.ecarrlt operative II had already
levied mills tor roads on top of III $
j, levied mil. for dragging. making
its levy the his nest OF any township Of
the county.
jefferson, Linn. Liberty, Marietta.
Minerva. and Timber Greek townships
mad alrcady levied mills Tor roaG
work. When the law went into effect
the trustees added a special levy of
mill for dragging.
Those townships that did not make
The special levy for dragging have the
lCl.Oh TX ley les 4bI Wv Ac-'N
work: Washington and Logan. 3 mills.
Eden, Iowa and Lisconh. mills.
Township Levies.
The levies for road work, including
the one-half and nil! special levies for
dragging in the various townships that
have made them are as follows;
TWO mi!ls-State Center.
Three :nills-Washingto Logan.
Three and one-half nills-Bangor,
TAYLOR.
Four miils-Eden. Iowa, LeGrand,
Liscoub. Marion. Vienna.
Five nills-J jefferson, Linn, Liberty.
Marietta. Minerva. Timber Creek.
Six mi!ls--Cirecncastle
To the town Of st. Anthony belongs
the credit OF being the only Incorporate
ed town Of the county, outside Of this
c!ty that has made q special levy Of
mill for dragging the roads inside the
corporate limits.
This city has 4-mill levy on second
class property. which is ali land Of
more han ten acres in extent used for
agricultural purposes, which will bring
into the city next year $3.50 This
amount VIII be available for dragging
the unpavei streets in 1912
All Of the ievies made for road drag
eing mentioned above are payable in
taxes rext year. aIc the total sum will
run far into the thousands.