Morris tribune., 1886-01-06

Under present ordinances OF the
village a license is charged for all
theater and similars entertainments
given. AS all theaterand other travel
ing companies now pay the rent for
halls used by them, by giving - per-
centage of receipts, aud compel hall
owners to pay all local EXPENSES, In
GLIDING license, out of this percen-
tage, the license Is in reality n tax
upon hall owners rather than the
persons giving the entertainment.
In this village licenses collected for
entertainments of this class, lie tax
upon j. d, Good, as he owns the hall
that is used in nearly all cases. And
as Mr.. Good maintains this hall at
loss to himself, for the benefit of the
village, We believe the license shonid
not be charged or collected. A hall
in Morris, although necessity, Is al
Improbable piece OF property aud II
seems hardly right for the village to
make one still more Improbable Tor
person who Is enterprising anu
public spirited enough to maintain
one. Mr.. Good has given the use OF
the hall for all caucuses ana many
church and other local organizations
free of charge and in many ways has
accommodated the people of the VII
lsge and his books show that for two
wears he has maintained his hall at o
loss. A majority of the village eoun-
Gil, realizing the injustice OF the tax
upon Mr.. Good, under these circum-
stances, have voted to refund licenses
recently paid by him and we believe
they should now repeal the ordinance
requiring such licenses TO be collected.
This year promises to be al active
one in real estate, as well AS In
other branches of business. Real es-
tate is slow to be affected by change
in values; is the last to go down In
times of depression and the last TO
come up again when times are better.
The country has recently assed
through time of general and pro-
longed depression, the bottom being
reached about one year ago. Since
then values have appreciated greatly.
Stocks have increased in value ut
least 20 per cent, money is more plen-
tiful, capitalists are less conservative
and more anxious for investments
and we seem to have entered upon a
period of general business activity.
Real estate, although tardy, Is at last,
in sympathy with other things, show
ing signs of Improvement. There Is
an increased demand for it and the I!
price is already visibly affected.
People seem to be pushing out from
the over-crowded cities and villages,
to secure homes upon the lands that |
have been unoccupied for so long and
are becoming farmers. Prominent
real estate men in the cities are re-
porting more sales of farming lands
now than for any other time during
the last three years. Local dealers
state that there is growing demand
for land here and that letters of in-
quiry are becoming more and more
numerous. There are those in the
village, also, who are endeavoring 10
make an advantageous exchange of
their village property for farm poperty
For the last few years the demand for
land In this, as we'll as other counties,
has been somewhat limited, but we
firmly believe, a change is now taking
place. We expect to see q strong de-
mand for Stevens county land from
this time Oh. Indications are that
there will be a sharp advance In prices
of farm lands and large number of
new settlers for this county before
the close of the present year,