Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-06-09
ALL MUST CONTRIBUTE
DALLAS COUNCIL PASSES oCCU-
PATTON TAX ORDINANCE
Tax Ranges From SO to $3.50 a Quar-
ter and Is Payable
June rs.


The new occupation tax ordinance
was passed by the Dallas city council
at an adjourned meeting held on
Tuesday evening. The object Of the
ordinance is to raise revenue to pay
police officers, the measure reciting
that sthe present revenues of the city
are insufficient for the employment
of police officers and night watchmen
and the payment Of their salaries, in
addition to the payment Of other nec-
essary municipal expenses, and
greater income is required by said
city for the proper discharge OF It's
municipal functions"
Heretofore the salary of the night
watchman has been paid by private
subscriptions from the business firms,
the city having refused to share the
expense. The new ordinance does not
specify whether portion of the Occur
patton tax is to be paid to the day ofii-
Ger, neither does it recite whether
portion of this tax is to be used in
sprinkling the streets in the dry
months, although it has been gener-
ally understood among the merchants
that street sprinkling was to be paid
from this tax.
Tax for the first quarter of the
present year will be due and payable
June is. The money is to be collected
by the Auditor, and by him turned
into the General Fund of the city 1t
is estimated that the tax will yield
revenue of about $500 year.
1t cannot be charged against the
councilmen that in framing this or
dinance they were guided by the prin-
ciple "alI the traffic will bear" for a
perusal Of the following schedule OF
rates will disclose the fact that many
small concerns, doing a business of
only a few hundred dollars month,
are taxed as heavily as some OF the
larger institutions doing as many
thousands. The tax to be paid by the
various classes of business houses is
as follows:
$3.50 Quarter.
Department Stores.
SIS Quarter.
Grocery Stores.
Drygoods Stores.
Hardware Stores.
Furniture Stores.
Variety and Notion Stores.
Harness Stores.
Confectionery Stores.
Creameries.
Jewelry Stores.
Meat Markets.
Hotels.
Livery Stables.
Feed Stores.
Restaurants.
Drug Stores
Second hand Stores.
Bakeries.
Boot and Shoe Stores.
Any Store Carrying Merchandise.
Banks or Banking institutions.
Undertakers.
Sawmlls.
Truck and Transfer Companies
Telephone Companies
Express Companies or Agents.
Electric Light Companies.
Electric Fixture Stores.
Lessees or Operators of Waterworks.
Newspapers or Printing Offices
Diaries.
Wood or Coal Business.
So a Quarter.
Music Stores.
Feed Barns.
Millinery Stores.
Blacksmith Shops.
Gun Shops,
Bicycle Shops.
Plumbing Shops.
Paint and Paper stores.
Timers Shops.
Shoe Shops
Cigar Factories.
Barber Shops.
Tailor Shops.
Candy Kitchens.
Peanut or Popcorn Vendors.
Automobile Garages.
Oculists.
Physicians and Surgeons (each per-
SOM
Veterinary Surgeons (each person.)
Attorneys at Law (each person.)
Abstractors of Title (each person)
Dentists (each person.)
Photographers (each person.)
Real Estate Agents or Brokers.
Insurance Agents.
Collectors
Teams for Hire (not livery teams)
Delivery Wagons.
Sash and Door Factories.
FIGURING Mills
Tanneries.
Foundries and Machine shops.
Ice Plants.
Soda and Bottling Works.
Telegraph Companies.
Wood Saws.
Florists.
Wagon Repair Shops.
Implement Houses.
Laundries.
General Warehouse Business.
Harness Repair Shops.
Marble Works.
Architects.
Satisfaction of Mortgage.
The Observer has added Satisfaction
OF Mortgage to its stock OF legal
blanks. Notarles and attorneys may
now secure them in any quantity de-
sired. Phone orders for legal blanks
given prompt attention.
Things Essential In the Dairy.
There are three things that are abso-
lutely essential TO success 10 dairying-
a milk scale. Babcock tester and a
centrifugal separator. Where dairying
Is made a business these things are
very generally used, but In the small
dairy Of Eve or SIX cows kept as an ad-
funof In snfwaa forunfnC fhaV are fo0