Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-08
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Dougherty, Oct. E-The writer put In
q day in two burned out" towns one
day last week, this town and Dumont.
In the latter place. at present. two
story brick store buildings are now in
process OF erection, and the whole
block when finished will present an ap-
pearance that much larger towns would
be proud Of Something out Of the or
binary as a result of the fire. was the
erection OF. a brick building for the stor-
age Of lumber by Mr.. George 8. Brown.
This fronts on the street with a fine
office room, and to q stranger might
easily be taken for an opera house. At
Dougherty. altho the fire occurred say
q month ago. Mr.. Moran has com
menced the building of a two story brick
building, and the looker-on is told that
all of the turned out business men Will
rebuild excepting one Why shouldn't
they? Dougherty is one of the best
markets in Iowa for grain and stock,
and the elevators and lumber yards
were not injured, and surrounded as 1t
lis by q rich class of farmers, it Will
take more than one fire to wipe out
the town.
The tax ferret business In Iowa is
doing more to equalize taxes than any
board Of county or town officials ever
accomplished. AS result In our county
the tax levy will be much less in 1901
than ever before. Furthermore, the
newly discovered taxable property, will
be remembered by each succeeding as
SCISSOR and levied upon. Again the
moral effect is tremendous. Tax dodg-
ers realize there is nothing to prevent
county from contracting with COM
pany Of ferrets every few years or
every year for that matter.
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Down east in Connecticut there is al
SO spasm of collecting more taxes. 1t
lis notorious thing here in Iowa that
many men boast they have not paid
poll or road tax for so many years
The authorities of some of our towns
every little while wake up and get after
these non paying citizens. but 1t soon
becomes an old story and thus thous-
ands of dollars are not collected, and
of course those who do pay make up
the necessary amount, for one thing is
sure, a certain sum of tax money must
be raised. The Hartford Courant in q
Hate issue mentions how a new law
works in Connecticut 1t says In a
letter from Ausonia 1.-THE first prosecu-
tlon for the non-payment of poll and
military taxes under the new law,
passed at the last session of the gem
eral assembly, was brought, this morn
ing, when five delinquents were hailed
into the city court Seven cases We're
10 have heen brought but to of the
delinquents summoned had settled
their cases out of court. All had a
hard-luck story to tell Philip Hine
owed military tax of 81, list of 1901,
and other back taxes, and judgment
was rendered by Judge Bryant for the
amount claimed, With costs of $10.05
added Hine was given until October
70 to pay. Dennis Ryan. same amount,
Jared the same Patrick Gleason owed
81 poll tax, 1901. also other taxes back
eleven years. Judgment for $11.05, with
time to September 28. Morris Harring-
ton. So military tax, 1901, Judgment
si2.05, time October 12. James Woods
had not paid any taxes for eleven years
and as he would make no promise to
settle his case he was committed to
hail to work out the amount of his bill,
as provided by law. AS soon as court
was over and the disposition OF the
cases became known, there was a great
rush of other delinquents to the tax
collectors Office to pay up. The en-
forcement of such a law in Iowa would
be an unmlxed blessing.
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