The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-04-25
WAEATLAND HAS CLEAN BILL
ALI Other Towns and Every Ward of
City Represented in the Million in
Property to BE Offered for Sale at
Annual Sale Set for June 18th.

A million dollars worth Of Kenosha
county lands is going to be offered for
sale at public auction this year. Not
ali of them but little pinches off the
northeast or the southwest corner of
the old home farm or the north two
feet of the south twenty feet Of the
home lot in the city or village.
This big sale is to take place up at
the court house on June the 18th with
County Treasurer, James w. Balir as
the auctioneer and it il expected that
there will be record breaking crowd
about to purchase the property.
1t will be the annual sales of tax
titles in Kenosha county and this year
the treasurer will have more than FIVE
hundred pieces Of property to offer for
sale and he expects to turn over to
the treasurers of the city and the var
ious towns total Of more than twelve
thousand dollars.
The list of delinquent real estate
taxes this year is long one. 1t is not
a great deal longer than in former
years but increased valuations and in
creased tax levies has made the
amounts to be collected by the treas
urer larger than ever before.
OF course the people who bid in
the property to be sold for taxes will
have to wait for the titles to mature.
Some Of them will have to buy the
land for two or even three years before
they can get title but the old timers
who have been dealing in tax titles
know that it is profitable to attend the
Kenosha county sales and buy titles.
The town of Wheatland continues to
maintain it's place on the roll Of honor
as being a town where people pay their
taxes and pay all Of their taxes and
the list of titles to be sold on June
18th does not carry q single piece of
property from the town Of Wheatland
All of the other towns in the county
are represented on the long list of
descriptions of real estate. The town
OF Brighton only had two delinquents
this year. Paris had but three. Bris.
tol had ten pieces of property for sale
but they were owned by three men,
Salem had six and the other towns had
considerable number Most of the
property returned for sale by the
towns of Pleasant Prairie and Somers
Is made up to town lots close to the
limits of Kenosha
Every ward in the city is generously
represented on the list of unpaid taxes
and the amount of the delinquency runs
from few cents up to $3.50.
There is the usual number of cases
where property has been returned for
sale on account of a refusal to pay
charges made for special assessments
The people have not yet come to know
that when the city levies special as
sessments they must be paid. Some
people have allowed their property to
20 to the tax sale rather than pay a
ifty cents assessment levied for shovel
ing snow from walk or for cutting
aoxious weeds along the street line
Some people who refused to pay for a
sewer because they did not petition for
t are going to be forced to pay fifteen
percent more Of course these people
nave declared that they will go to court
and force the city to withdraw their
assessment but they have not seen their
attorneys as yet and when they get
he advice of the attorneys they will
undoubtedly slip over to the County
Treasurer and pay the assessment with
he penalty which has already been
ldded to it.
Property owners whose lands have
oeen listed for sale viii have lots of
shances to get their names off the list
# dis-honor before the sale actually
iakes place, The first publication Of
he list OF delinquents is due for Thurs.
lay and even after the publication the
property can be taken from the list by
he payment of the small penalty. At
Ter the property is sold to the tax title
yrabbers the property owners must pay
he fifteen percent penalty to re.
.eem it.
II is expected that at least half OF
he property now on the delinquent
list will be redeemed by the payment
# the taxes before the sale actually
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