No. 1 gives women the right to
hold office, but provides that the
payment of public road poll tax,
school poll tax or service on juries
shall1 not berrade a prerequisite of
th,e right of a female to vote or hold
pffice,
No-2 prohibits aliens ineligible to
citizenship from acquiring title to
real estate.
No. 3 proposed to remove the re
strictions which prohibits the state
superintendent of public instruction
from holding more than two consecu
tive terms.
No. 4 gives soldiers an exemption
. of $2,000.
No. 5 proposed to give the corpor
ation commission power to fix rates
and enforce decisions.
No. 6 proposed to change the date
of taking office of the governor and
the meeting of the legislature.
No. 7 proposed to create a bi-partisan
land commission.
No. 8 proposed to reduce the limit
of school levies from eighteen mills
to ten mills.
No. 9 proposed a chang in the
manner ,of incurring indebtedness by
municipality and related ' to the
payment of such indebtedness.
No. 10 proposed to remove the re
striction which prohibits the country
school superintendent from holding
mofe tlian two consecutive terms,.
Ng. 11 permits the issue of gtaje
highway bonds and debentures to the
amount of two million dollars.
OPENING OF RURAL SCHOOLS
The' rural schools opened Monday,
September 26th, with a fairly good
enrollment.
We regret very much that our
school term is only eight months, al
though there has been very little
complaint, because so many farmers
needed the children to help harvest
the large crops. The teachers will
make a vigorous effort to complete
the nine months work in eight, but
this can not be done if the children
not enrolled at once. We are
AN IMPORTANT MATTER
September 21, 1921.
