South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-03
VALUED At
OVER TEN MILLIONS
List of TaxabIeS in Concord
Township Given Out
Plan Aviation Meet.

ELKHART, Ind, June 3.-The tax
able valuation OF realty and personal
I property In Concord township is $1O,-
| 3SS,65O, according 10 the footings
/ given out 10y Township Assessor Char
: ley Thornton.
According TO figures for 1914 given
/ out W edneSday by County Auditor
Brown, the above total is a decrease
OF SZ5S,S45 from the total last year,
when j. b. Davidson was the assessor.
Mr.. Thornton was elected on the DEM
ocratic ticket last fall. Auditor Brown
salo the total in the city Gin Concord
township was SS.536,000, and in the
country, $2.121.495; total. $1O,657, 495.
The number OF schedules in the city
Is 5,526: in the rural districts of the
, township, 744; total. 500. The num-
. Der of polls in the city is 3.39S, and in
the country. 436; total, 1884.
Personal property in the city aggre-
gates S1.970, $40; country 1915, 500;
total. $2,2S6,S40
Land in the city. $2,s57,75O; coun-
try, SS16.750; total S3,S34,500.
improvements in the city, S3,939,-
$50; country, $337,650; total, $4,277,-
so.
The total number of dogs listed was
772, and the total amount Of dog tax
is 1915. The amount already collected
is $785. Forty eight receipts repre-
Senting $50 remain untaken. and these
can be paid at the office of the town
ship trustee. rs w. Franklin St, on
or before July 1. next.
Official statements Of the valuation
fixed ON realty Will be sent out on
Thursday to property owners by As
SCISSOR Thornton. Persons dissatisfied
with the assessment of their realty
Will be heard 10y the county board of
review which Will convene on June
T. at Goshen. for a forty-day session.
An aviation meet Will be held at the
Elkhart Driving clubs park under the
mana cement of the club. a week form
next Sunday. Two aviators have been
secured one is said to be a German
who will demonstrate the manner of
operating air craft in war times. The
other is a fancy flyer who will loop
the loop and do other stunts. There
will be no ball game at the park that
day.
Capt. r. S. Chamberlain Of River
side. who has been an active citizen
of Elkhart for twenty-seven years, has
received a well-merited appointment
from the United States war depart
ment-that of superintendent of the
national cemetery a few miles from
New Albany. Ind. The appointment
came from the quartermaster general.
Capt. Chamberlain is now awaiting
orders but does not know just when
he will proceed TO his new field of
activities. He will not give up his
residence here for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Bliss, 500 w
jefferson St, received word Tuesday
of the death Of Mrs. Fred A. Stuck at
Orland. Ind Mr.. and Mrs. Stuck
were residents Of Elkhart about 10
years ago, at which time Mr.. Stuck
was employed at the Conn factory.
The husband and two children, Adds,
Q. and Agnes. ,. survive. Mr.. and
Mrs Bliss will attend the funeral on
Thursday.
c. A. Ross. 67. for a number of
years night tower man for the New
York Central railroad at the Main
street crossing. and who roomed alone
at go - S. Main St, died at the
General hospital at 10 o'clock Tuesday
night.
Gus Kinney, whose home was one
mile north of the Zion church, I'm
Washington township, died at o'clock
Wednesday morning. after an illness
of four years due TO tuberculosis. Mr..
Kinney, who was born June 10, 1882,
is survived by his wife, Jessie; a son.
LYLE. aged four years; his father, +.
G. Kinney; two brothers. Albert +.
Kinney Of Elkhart and W. A. Kinney
of Portland. ore. and sister, Mrs.
G. +. Satterlee of Los Angeles. The
mother died June 6, 1901. Mr. Kin
neys funeral will be held Friday, with
services at the home at . p. m, con-
Quoted by Rev r. a. Dressed of Grace
Lutheran church