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1929–2026 · ONE TESTED NEGATIVE
A North Liberty driver's first license was issued where a counter existed — the county seat, later Walkerton — never in town,G-W4B-7). The one beat that could have put the state physically in town was tested expressly: the travelling examiner — a State Police or Bureau exam post sitting periodically at North Liberty, at the town hall, a school, or the Legion — was not found in any record searched: no exam-day notice, no post listing, no press item. The negative stands at search strength (TN-W4-2 in the working register), its settler the town paper's file, and modern practice explains its plausibility: in the present system, testing lives inside the branches — Walkerton's own service list, at pointer strength, includes the written and road tests — so the examiner's chair, such as it is, sits at the same counters as everything else in this section. The beats close where the verdict opened: licensing touched this town at its edges, through its mail, its notaries, and its drives to other towns' desks.
Principal sources: the search sets named in the note (negative); the Walkerton package's service record (pointer).