Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-26
WHAT They ARE DOING
Affairs of Iowa People Taking Place In Iowa
Towns.

AZ Hoe
pay theirs, among them A. Meyer pay
ling $50 and Henry Proctor s76.S0 on their
stocks alone.
c. It. Mccoy ran a dray line in 1899.
! He sold out leaving 1854 unpaid taxes.
IJohn Atkinson was also u drayman then
las now. but had to put up on his dray-
ling outfit 1915 taxes. A firm known as
Sandegaard & Fransen were in the liv
cry business. They sold ont and got
away leaving $3.50 assessed against
their stock Tom Phelps. one of their
competitors, had to pay S2o.6s taxes the
same year on his stock. BY the way.
4 Sandegaard & Frarsen We're here in o.
also, and their taxes for that year, still
UNPAID, were S16.l4. making s36.s2 that
4 they have never paid, but the taxpayers
slhaye been compelled to make up the de-
| ficiency.
Billiard tables have been genera,iy
Il assessed and frequently changed hands,
but seldom paid taxes. In 1893. Picker
ling & Stayner had SIG 2e taxed tn thetn
on tables and in "a, SELL. Cook Bros,
the latter year. s43.5O; s100.97 on bill
4 lard tables. and all unpaid
4 In 1894 there We're three stocks of
groceries assessed in town that paid no
\ taxes; Roger Bros. s2s o. y. Roger,
4 S4545. and NIulkins Bros, $3.50, $3.50
! in all.
4 j. NJ. Horn was in the grocery trade
i here in 1895, and $500 taxes stand
!, against his stock for that year. His
! taxes on his stock up TO the time he sold
| 90 -
,, u. q. Snyder fiourishel as a dry goods
merchant here in 1856. He was sup
posedsto be doing a big business but the
J, taxes of $4,000 for 1895. and $40 for
90, are unpaid sts5.35 in all. His COM
petitors paid theirs, and whether Mr.
Snyder was enabled to sell goods cheap
pay we can not say
! In 1897, among the personal taxes TN
J paid are these of the Hampton Produce
/ Company s21.51; II. f. Pratt & Son,
} s16.25; IIuerman Bros, s26 Eugene
White. $3.50. and Reinbe & Montgom-
cry, sl5.6o. All have sold out and gone.
In 1883. Anderson Bros. who for a
short time ran the furniture store now
!, owned By Mr.. Little. had taxes assessed
$ lasainst their sock to the amount of
: Stool, which they Gid not pay. but their
3 Icompettor, Henry Gray paid $5i.S9 on
!, his stock. O. Is. Bates. Who had the
istore where Mr.. Poole is, has sI0.99 un-
: paid taxes against the stock that he
{ traded off, while the firm of Fults Bros.
9 have sl6.06 unpaid, Fults &; Myers,
= S11..0 and Palmer e Seney. sl1l0.
And there are other individuals and
{. linstitutions, many of them among those
7 who have been drawing pubic funds out
ltlof the county for years and leaving their
e personal taxes to help make up a
deficiency in the revenue that the actual
g taxpayers have had to stand. II the
5 board of supervisors Mould authorize Il
4 publication of this list for the past eight
n or ten years it would make some of our
S lpeople open their eyes and by the way,
u many of these ZANE delinquent taxes
E have by some means unknown to US,
never been advertised as the law pro-
vides that they shall be
We give these specimen items from
t the pages of our tax records, not / find
t fault with or critlcise those who did not
d fpay their taxes or 10 hold them up ia
c rdicue or even criticism, but To call
d Aattention to the fact that there Is a
s necessity for reform on the part Of our
7 county officials who have been dereict
y In their plain duty. In almost every one
i of the above instances the personal
I property upon which the taNes were
g assessed changed hands after the tax
$ became delinquent. AT that time al
d officer should have stepped in and en-
g forced the lien against the property and
t. tit could have been collected Instead
II the goods We're in some instances re-
e lmoved 70 other localities: the purchase
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