Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-09
BY BONDS AND BY DRiBLEIS.

While two counties out OF ninety
nine in Iowa are all that have deter
! mined to issue bonds for tn. permanent
! improvement Of their highways this
! method of financing a long lived public
work is going on all over the land. Last
year II per cent OF all the counties IN
| the United States had issued bonds FOR
| roads. During the one week ending Jan.
% bond news was announced as fol-
lows:
| Clayton, Moan election will be
held Feb. Is on the question OF issuing
! s3,o00000 bonds FOR the construction Of
| roads and bridges in st. Louis county.
| Marion, O.-An election will be held
| shortly on the question of issuing $500
| pU road Improvement bonds. For fur
| Their information address the county
| auditor OF Marion county.
| ArdMore. Okla.-An election will he
| held shortly on the question of issuing
! $4,000 bonds for the construction OF
macadam roads to the oil fields. For
further information address 5. W. Tyer.
county clerk of Garter county
burlington, ky.-An election will be
held May on the question of issuing
s22O.000 bonds for the construction OF
roads In Boone county. For further
information address the county clerk.
Hophinsville Ky.-An election will be
Aeid March is on the question Of is
suing 100000 road bonds. For further
! information address the county clerk of
Christian county.
Centerville. Tenn-An election will
be held March l, on the question Of is
suing 500. 600 road bonds. For further
information address the county clerk
of Hickman county
| Madisonville Tenn.-An election will
be held March / on the question of is
| suing s325,eo0 road bonds For further
! information address the county clerk
! OF Monroe County.
| Columbus, Textile commissioners
court Of Colorado county contenpIates
! issuing warrants amounting 10 5000 O0G
for the construction Of gravel roads
! and concrete bridges.
! Buckhannon, W. Va-An election
viii be held Jan. % on the question Of
| issuing $4,000 bonds for the i'm
provement Of roads in Cpshur county
Terra Alta, w. Va-An election will
| be held Jan. % on the question Of is
! suing $164,000 bonds for the improve.
| ment Of roads in the kingswood dis
trict
De Pere. Wis.-The county board OF
| Brown county Will hold a special meet
ing at an early date oni the question OF
issuing $3.50, 900 bonds for the constrlIc.
ton OF ninety miles of concrete nigh.
ways turnout the county. For furthe,
Information address the county clerk
| Green Bay
Clay and Hardin counties have oh.
served that section 403 of the 1917
supplement gives a board Of super.
visors ample authority to issue bond.
for permanent road work and the
boards in those counties have decided
to go ahead with the permanent i'm
provement Of their entire county roat
systems as soon as contracts can b.
let for the work OF grading and gravel
ing.
Section 403 reads:
Whenever the outstanding tndebt
edness of any county on the first day
Of January, April, June or September
in any year exceeds the sum Of fv,
thousand dollars, the board OF super
visors by a two thirds vote of all il
members, may fund or refund tn
same, and issue the bonds Of tn
county therefor in sums not less thai
one hundred nor more than one thou
sand dollars each, payable at a tim
stated. not more than twenty year
from date.
This is in harmony with the genera
spirit of the Iowa law which in effec
provides that a board Of supervisor
can do anything. In nearly all oshe
states road bonds must be authorize
by vote OF the people the same as cour
house and school house bonds are no.
authorized In Iowa but until a iegis
lature changes the law in this stat
boards Of supervisors must take upo,
themselves the responsibility of bond
ing for permanent bridges and roads
In Hardin and Clay counties the super
lvisors have displayed the requisit