The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-15
PARIS HAS BEST REPORT NOW
Hundreds of Pieces of Property in the
City Are Returned For Sale For Tax
es and Few Claims Are Made For
Non-payment of Paving Tax.

For the first time in a decade there
is not town in Kenosha county that
has not returned unpaid real estate
taxes and when the tax sale is held
next month the county treasurer will
offer. for sale tax titles from every
town and every ward. Even the town
of Wheatland, which for years had
prided itself in the fact that its prop
erty owners always paid their taxes,
this year returns six pieces Of proper
ty to be sold for taexs. Wheatland
gives up its place of honor to Paris
where but one piece of property is re-
turned for the annual tax SALE In
Brighton there are eight pieces re-
turned. Bristol has four, Pleasant
Prairie has an even ninety, but Pleas
ant Prairie has an alibi as most of the
piece Of property returned for taxa
tion should be part of the city
of Kenosha.@ Scores of people owning
lots in the new subdivisions recently
brought into the city did not pay the
tax assessed by the town Of Pleasant
Prairie and many of these people have
declared that they will not pay the tax
until they get city improvements. Of
course this will not worry the town
of Pleasant Prairie any as this last
assessment made against this property
will be collected by tax sale method.
Randall comes along with twenty
pieces Of property on which the taxes
have not been paid and Somers has
forty-one delinquents. In Somers fully
one-half of the delinquents owned
property in the Kenosha Industrial AS
ISOLATION subdivision. This tax will
probably be paid before the sale is
held by some Of the men interested in
the subdivision. AS yet no tax titles
have been issued against this property.
The city of Kenosha has fourteen
pages of type written matter to con-
tain the descriptions Of property on
which the taxes has not been paid In
the first ward there are six delinouents
but the amount charged against the
ward is a considerable one. The sec
ond ward has nine pieces Of property
for sale at the tax sale, the third ward
twenty seven, the fourth fourteen, the
fifth twenty seven, the sixth eleven, the
seventh three, the eighth twenty six
and the ninth sixty-one.
There is the usual number Of prom
inent people in the list of delinquents
and several Of the men who hold high
official positions in the city have not
paid the annual taxes to the city As
in other years many people have refus-
ed to pay taxes assessed as pavement
and sewer assessments, but there has
been no indication that any of these
people will contest the payments of
these taxes in the courts and the only
reason that they were not paid was the
fact that the men and women owning
the property could not raise the money
during the tax paying time. 1t is ex-
pected that the taxes will be paid on
scores Of pieces of city property before
the sale is held. There is an unusually
large number of lots and other parcels
of property belonging to the various
railway companies returned for taxa
ton. One piece Of church property is
returned for sale, but it is pretty GER
tain that this delinquency will be wip-
ed off the city and county books as
under the law the property Of churches
is not subject to taxation and the re-
turn of this property was probably an
error on the part Of the assessors.