Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-08-28

have Just as many standards OF valua,
tion for property as there are asses
sors. The reports Of all these people
are turned in to the county officials
and from them a complied return is
made to the state board Of eq %alization.
They do not have the assessors nor the
facts in the case before them and, SO
their work is largely one OF gness.
The values are compared with those
in other counties, and a kind of bal
ance is struck. Here is n in
stance" continued e ,"where the
working of our present system is at
fault. A man in II Of the town
ships huilt a new house, the best one
in the entire township. 1t was assess
ed, at $3.50. Other houses had been
assessed at 5000 and $500 When the
matter was under consideration by the
county officials, they inquired who had
the best house, and the one assessed at
$3.50 was named. Then the others
were cut to an assessment on this
basis. Now these others were asses
sed about correct, as they had been
for years, but the one was assessed
several hundred dollars too low This
conglomeration of matter is turned in
to the state board and out Of it, they
are expected to construct III equalized
assessment for the whole state The
system is impractical and bungle,
some" Continuing he said: "The
only fair way would be to have one
assessor for an entire county, but this
is impractical at this time in the short
time allowed for the work.
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II have enjoyed your work very
much,' said one of the most accom-
plished ladies Of the city the other
evening. Now we are not a particle
egotistical about our work, but when
we are able to pass muster before SO
! able a critic, we feel that we is
not altogether a failure, the opinion
Of one dyspeptical intellectual acrobat
to the contrary Notwithstanding. 1t
is lust the same as the merchant feels
when a customer tells him he is pleas
ed with the goods he has purchased.
One opinion from a person as fully
competent to judge as the lady we
mention will offset the criticism of
half a score Of critics who never read
a paper, and whose brains would rat
, tie on the inside Of the hull Of a mus
tard seed.
There is one man in this city who
has been changed from a skeptic to
believer in advertising by a practical
demonstration of its worth. HI
wanted a h~ousekeeper and manage,
for his farm, and so doubtful was HI
of the results of advertising that h.
agreed to pay much more than regu
lar rates if the notice got results, an
nothing if it did not. Knowing tn
value of advertising, we gladly &C
copied the proposition, and with
three days he had half a dozen appli
cations, there being three in u offc
one evening to see him. He ha
3 closed the contract for a mar an
wife, and recently dropped into tn
$ office to have his ad removed, as /
e could not afford the time to
l troubled by applicants anymore
d Better not advertise if you do 1T
e want to be bothered.
| expect to have my bills
9 fare scattered from the Atlantic
;, the Pacific said d hotel man tt
other day as we stopped to look
. him placing bills Of fare that hi
been used at the hotel, in differel
:, places about the depot. Continuin!
he said: 1.-The country is full
harvest hands and every one Of the
bills of fare will be picked up !
-. them and carried for months.
\ When one of those men returns
meets a mar who is coming to this CT
70 the bill of fare is brought into I
!. QUESTION. I have seen them tv
10 years old, ands SO worn that tn
"a looked like rags, but they were t
genuine thing. lust the same