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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1922
Page
3
Official county board proceedings recap listing claims allowed petitions presented and a general resume of county business from the recent session including routine actions and approvals. The record notes standard administrative matters and governance steps with no controversial outcomes documented.
The Marion County Board of Supervisors orders fixed mileage and taxable value for Chicago Burlington Quincy and Burlington and Western Division railroads across towns townships and school districts for 1922. Taxable totals by district include Liberty Clay Tracy Des Moines Valley Harvey Eureka Iola Pleasant Grove Swan and Knoxville areas with per mile rates and district miles summing to about 39 348 dollars in the Burlington line and 39 348 dollars in the other divisions.
Taxing district figures list Summit township totaling 743 dollars 3 733 for Fair Oaks school district 320 dollars 1 608 in municipal levies. Readable fragments show district sums and allocations without full context or dates.
The readable figures show Polk township .6 296 and Amsterdam school district 362 582 2 1862 296 with a total of 31,681 and a larger 23 020 6,843 in the dataset, indicating financial or enrollment figures across years and categories.
Perry township presents budget figures showing 23 districts with 33 274 in allocations to township schools. The report also notes Chiefs Rock Island and PA Railroad Company operating in the Keokuk and Des Moines Division.
The item notes a transportation alignment involving Rock Island and Pacific Railroad with St Paul and Kansas City Short Line. The quoted figure is 7044.25 dollars per mile.
In Pleasant Grove township figures show a consolidation involving Pleasant Grove consolidated school district outside of city limits. The record notes figures like 6.216 and 5.686 with references to Pleasantwilie corporation and a 370-series code, indicating property or district valuation details in a regional consolidation context.
Railroad and telegraph rate notes list Burlington and Western Division at 65 dollars per mile for Clay township 808, Tracy consolidated school district 0.5 miles at 803 52, and Western Union Telegraph C R I and P Oskaloosa Division at 125 dollars per mile with locality references to district lines.
Fragmentary listing shows Brush Creek school district 1.039 with $243, White Walnut district 2.295, Red Rock district 619, Oak Ridge 2.373 297, Red Rock township 7126 891, Perry township 6.623 with $827, and Perry two road 16.623 827. The text appears to be a county tax or property assessment table with multiple districts and townships and dollar figures.
Readable fragments list taxing districts and telephone line rates across townships and districts including Washington Indiana Pleasant Ridge Cedar Creek Liberty and Clark areas with per mile charges from multiple telephone companies. Totals appear for several districts such as Attica Union Dallas and Colubia mutual lines with figures like 28.75 per mile 12.00 per mile and 10.50 per mile.
The County Auditor is ordered to spread on the 1922 tax books the fixed lengths of the mileage of the telephone companies in Marion county and the taxable value thereon within the towns, townships and school districts per the schedule.
A chaotic OCR list details various Attica telephone line projects with per mile rates from $7.00 to $18.00 and multiple townships including Indiana, Clay, Liberty, and Cedar Valley. Entries note Attica school district charges and other district allocations, with several lines to Bunker Hill, Carlisle, Prairie College, and Wolf Run.
A Pleasant Grove consolidated school entry notes funds totaling 21,978 dollars with a reference to Pleasant Grove two and related lot or account numbers 312 and 512 appearing in the record.
Taxing districts list miles totals and assessed values for Gray, Des Moines, Harvey, Eureka, Portersville, Rock Island township and others. Figures show district distances, valuations, and sums for multiple townships within the region.
Taxing district mileage figures for Knoxville Township show B70 and totals around 96,4191 with line items including goat, road and multiple numeric entries 44 308 16 343 3 522 and 7 889 in a fragmented OCR. The text references township roads and district accounting.
Fragmented OCR item lists places and districts including Lake Prairie township Rock Island and Eureka Iola school districts and Harvey corporation. Mentions taxing district road and district numbers with sparse context and no clear action or date.
Fragmentary OCR lists Flagler school district Elm Ridge school district Knoxville school district outside city and Knoxville city corporation along with Knoxville township road references. No narrative context or dates.
The text references the C R J P R R Keokuk and Des Moines Division.
The note lists multiple school districts and districts identifiers including Silver Grove Otley Summit Cincinnati Liberty and Summit two road figures, showing distribution values such as 7.600 1.200 1.300 1.920 1.780 1.400 for each district or location. It reads like a fragmented reference table of district identifiers and numeric codes.
The Board of Supervisors of Marion County Iowa resolves the telegraph companies in the county and their taxable values across the towns and townships for the year 1922 as recorded on the tax books.
Wabash Rock Island and Des Moines St Louis division line at $126 per mile rate appears in telegraph or railway notices. This item notes an adjusted mileage charge likely affecting transit or freight pricing, with connections to Des Moines and St Louis routes. Railroad officials or offices may release details in forthcoming notices.
Readable fragments show multiple rural school districts and road references. Mentions Liberty township Hamilton Bussey Eureka Des Moines Valley Harvey Tracy and Amsterdam entries with numbers and district identifiers, but details are incomplete and scattered across lines.
Taxing district totals include Liberty township with 6.415 miles and Bussey corporation in Hamilton area. It lists outside district borders, with a 0.79352 mile entry for Bussey corporation and road mileage 267 within Hamilton corporation and Liberty township.
A fragmented notice references ay township and a consolidated school district seeking funding details including an amount around 9078 and 599 dollars with 4.896 and 318 quoted, indicating a financial request or budget line item amid local governance.
Readable fragments show Polk Township and Amsterdam School District funds totaling 787 dollars. Whitebreast school district is mentioned with numbers 56.296 and 673 in unclear context.
A fragmented list records various telephone districts and charges across townships and towns including Dallas township Chicago school district Franklin township Fairview district Center district Hazel Ridge Swan township and others. It notes per mile rates and totals for districts such as Dallas Mutual, Eureka Farmers, Farmers Rural, Grand View, Shilo, and Island Telephone Companies with totals and scattered figures.
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