Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-14
TOOF, THE TAX FERRET
And The Audubon County Board Of
Supervisors.

And The Audubon County Board Of
Supervisors.
The past few days have been very
busy ones for the Board of Supervi-
sore. They have been bombarded
by committees, by lawyers and by
individuals. They have been with
out a moment's rest and it was with
difficulty that they succeeded in
adjourning to get rest from their
troubles Wednesday, and was the
shortest regular eession held for
sometime. They evidently cut it
ehort to get away. Tuesday, Graham
and Ross, attorneys: appeared with
the following clients: Jens P.
schouboe, asking the Board to re-
fund $l35.s3 taxes collected by Tax
Ferret on land contract; Robert
Hoffman, son-in-law of j. Y. Bon
well, asking for a refund of, $l47.OO
taxes collected by Ferret on land
contract; Ben Jensen, asking for a
refund of $29S. tax collected by Fer
ret, supposed by Mr.Jensen to be 'O9
tax but later discovered that it wac
back taxes claimed by Toof that he
owed and Mr.. Jensen had paid all
his former taxes; Elmer johnson,
email amount of tax collected by
Ferret, Ferret refused to give him
legal offsets and compelled him to
pay tax when he claims to have not
owed any. These gentlemen ap-
peared with their attorneys in the
morning, Tuesday and the board
fixed 180 that afternoon for hear
ing but the Ferret appeared and de-
livered very eloquent address,
clainaing that the Board had no
right to hear the complaints and
the Board then refused to hear
them and they will take their com
plants to the Court.
A committee from Extra appear.
ed in behalf of Extra township and
demanded tSat the south townships
receive their just proportion OF the
one mill road tax. They showed to
the board where they had only
spent $2S in the south district of the
.one mill road tax in the last year.
Theboard agreed to turn $500 of the
one mill tax left over from last4year
to the south district this year III III ad.
dition 10 the amount due them this
year. The town council Of Extra
with. their attorney, T. NJ lRasmus-
sen appeared Wednesday and de-
manded the one mill road tax for
the town of Extra. They claim to
have never received one cent of this
in the 10 ~n and that they are EMIT
led to about $40O per year. During
the past five years this would
amount to about $4,000 and the town
has never received any portion of it.
The matter was settled in some
way by the board agreeing to be
good in the future. It seems that
the towns and townships have be
come aware of the fact that they
must demand their rights to get
them. Mr.. Toot and his wife left
town Wednesday, aud we did not
see anyone shedding tears. Whe-
ther he has gone to stay, we do not
know. At the rate that the taxpay-
ers have commenced to demand
their refunds on tax uniustly COL
lected by Mr.. Toof we presume that
the County will be in the hole by
the time the matter is all settled up,
80 far as collections made by Toof.
He has received the greater portion
of his commission, besides losing
this, the county will have consider
able costs. We believe that every
man should day-his juet tax bat we
do not believe that they should be
lambasted and harassed aud init
Undated into paying tax which they
do not owe.-Audubon Advocate.
Editor Journal-It should be re-
membered that the new member of
the Board, Mr.. Som McGaffin of the
south .,art of the County, was in no
manner Responsible for THE unpop-
ular menace-the tax ferret-being
brought into the County. Mr.. Nc
Gaf6n's term of Office commenced
after Mr.. Toof was hired by the old
board. The collections made by
Mr.. Toof we're little less than
$4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Hopley spent
Sunday at the Frank Williams home
near Extra.
James Bradley left last week for
Dexter Iowa where he is employed
in barber chop. i5
The Misses Mary and Erma Bash
I'm spent their spring vacation at
the home of their uncle, Ellis Can
non and family near Brayton.