The Green Forest tribune., 1910-07-01
Assessing at 50 Per Gent Valuation.

Assessor Tom Walden has been busy listing personal property in Green Forest since Wednesday morning. He tells us that he is assessing on a 50 per cent basis this year. If you swear your horse is worth $100, he puts him down at $50, and so on.
 MT. Walden has determined upon this course believing that he is meeting the spirit of the law in fixing values upon which taxes are to be levied He says it is the intention of the State Tax commission to fix all taxable values at 50 per cent. Next year some means will be employed to assess all real pro- perty the same way, and that the shortage that will come on account of the low assessment this year will be i largely made up.
 MT. Walden says that there will be a falling off at least one-third the usual assessed values this year, which will be partly due to the scarcity of stock in the country.
 The summer attendance at the Spring field Business College is larger than ever. The faculty and new equipment place this business college ahead of all competition. Hundreds of young per sons borrow money from the school for tuition, and pay after getting good job.
 Henry Cox, out near Parker, showed us the as fine SOW and pigs the other | day as need to be found on any man. farm. A full-blood Ducoc-J ersey gilt has nine deep red squeakers and | they are about twice as fat as the | average butter ball. It would take a 75-dollar bill to buy the layout. To the fellow who has been driven to an exclusive vegetable diet these pros pective porkers look cheap, but what can he do when he hasn't the price?
 Len Nunnally Jr. was called up from Marshall Friday on account of his son Willie having been bitten by dog that was very slight and the dog showed no the tot is all right, much to the pleasure of the father and others. The same dog also gnashed his teeth into the limb of Miss Fannie Nunnally, iniicting a wound that for time caused much worry. She, however, suffered no in convenience from the hurt.
 G. J. Patterson was home from Shaver Monday, where he has been for the past three or four months building home for his father J. J. Patterson, the Shaver merchant. The building constructed comes little short being of palace, being a ten-room stucture, containing more than eighty foot of porch. The building is in strictly modern design, and the work is well executed for G. J. is an architect who knows the how. The Patterson home is the finest country residence in | Boone county.
 The home of Dr. S. F. Baker, who lives four miles north of Rogers and | just northwest of the Pleasant Hill church and school, was totally destroy ed by fire Sunday morning during the church hour. Dr. Baker and family had gone to church, leaving their pros pective dinner cooking on the stove. It is supposed the roof caught from a , defective flue, and when the fire was discovered it was too late to save any 1 thing. We understand that Dr. Baker had a small amount of insurance on his books and medical instruments, but that the loss on the home and house. hold goods was total The loss is
 estimated at about $1, 800. Dr. Baker and family came here a year or so ago from Wilmot, Ark, and Dr. Baker has made his office in the home on the farm. It is decided loss to him and he has the sympathy of the entire
 community. Rogers Democrat.