The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-11-29
Assessment Committee of the
County Board Raises the Ap.
portionment of Kenosha
BOOST TO BE HALF A MILLION
Every Town in the County is Reduced
as Result of the Large In
crease Made in the Apportion-
ment of the City

The city will get its usual dose from
the County Board this year, for the
Assessment Committee sent its report
to the Board Thursday morning, and as
has been the custom for a number of
years, the apportionment to the city
was greatly increased. The report of
the Board this year is something of
novelty, as every town In the county
is reduced. The reductions are all
the way from 500, 900 to 5000, and
OF course the increase for the city
must be IN proportion, and it is in the
neig hborhood/of half million dol
lars. The blow was not an unex-
pected one, for it was the one good bet
that the city would beraised when the
committee of two county and one city
members was named. The committee
was composed of Henry F. Jordan,
d. j. Vincent and John T. Tigh.
The work of the committee is largely
justified by the fact that the figures
arranged and furnished by the Super
visor of Assessments were used in
making up the report, and if there is
any kick it must necessarily fall on
the supervisor. The committee took
this report and decided to make the
apportionment just so per cent of the
amount named by Harrison. The re-
suits were nnarvelously satisfactory to
the country mem bers of the Board.
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pretty good defender in the person of
John /. Tigh, of course got its share
of the reduction to the amount of
S122, 600. George Kreuscher, who at
tends to the town of Paris, was also
there with the goods, and the reduc-
ton for Paris was nearly $4,000.
Salem has kick coming, for notwith-
standing the fact that it had mem
Der on the Assessment committee, the
reduction for this town was only
$4,000, mere bagatelle in compari-
son with the boost of half a million
given the city. Bristol trailed along
with decrease of little over $40, 900,
while Somers, who has new man on
the Board in the person of John Her
zog, was slated for a reduction of
$74, 900. All old scores in Randall
were wiped out this year, when the
equalization brought a change Of
$3.50 for the town, and it was in the
right direction. Of course Randall
was entitled to some consideration,
for it has been pretty we'll up in the
past few years. Pleasant Prairie was
reduced in round figures S148, 900.
Wheatland is, of course, the smallest
town, and it was let down with a re-
duction of little over $50, 900.
When the report was brought in
Supervisor Dewey moved to accept it,
but some of the Kenosha members be-
lieved that there must be something
wrong and wanted to look into the
figures. It was found that q clerical
error had been made in the figures in
computing the assessment for Keno
sha, by which the city had beer
soaked $4,000 too much on the re-
turns. The city members attempted
to show the error, but the county
members of the committee we're slow
to grant even this decrease and the
report was not adopted at the morn
ing session. 1t will be taken up
again at the session this afternoon.
Of course the pportionment is not |
of great interest as only a small |
amount Of taxes, considerably less
than $50, 900 will be levied on the APP
portionment, but the report certainly |
shows that the county members Of the |
Board are perfectly willing that the |
city should pay her full share of the
taxes.
The only other business of import
ance transacted by the Board was the
making of the Telegraph Courier the
official paper of the county.