110 Iowa 628 | Iowa | 1900
I. Section 441 of the Code, as applied' to Blackhawk county, it having a population of over seventeen thousand, required the board of supervisor to select “three papers, not more than two of which shall be published in the same town.” Said section, after providing how, in case of contest, the applicants shall prove the number of their bona fide yearly subscribers living within the county, provides as follows: “And the 2 [in this case 3] applicants thus showing the greatest number of bona, fide yearly subscribers living within the county shall be the county official papers.”- The firm of Packard & Mills were publishers of the Globe in Cedar Ealls, a newspaper having a bona fide yearly subscription of 956. The firm of Snyder & Hurd were publishers at Cedar-Falls of the Cedar Falls Gazette, having a bona fide yearly subscription of 1,036. Jacob G. Schmidt was a publisher at Waterloo of Derr Deuisch-Amerilcaner, published in the German language, and having a circulation of five hundred. E. Duke Naven was the publisher at Laporte City of the Laporte Progress-Bevieiv, having a circulation of five hundred and forty-four. Mr. . Schmidt and Mt. Naven