Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — State Tax Board Listen To Hard Luck Stories. [ARTICLE]

State Tax Board Listen To Hard Luck Stories.

Some of the land in Floyd County is so poor that wild geese get lost in the valleys and starve to death, so Julian T. Miller, county assessor, gravely told the state board of tax commissioners Thursday in defending a decrease in the real estate assessment of his county. Floyd and Switzerland counties are the only ones which have reported lower assessments than last year. In justification of the reduction their representatives pleaded that the land is decreasing in value. Much of it can be purchased for 11 an acre, they said. The tax board listened to many hard luck stories from southern Indiana, although most of the counties reported increases ranging from 8 to 10 per cent in their assessments. 11 ■■■,." A... Li. Old Soldier Tortured. “For years I suffered unspeakable torture from indigestion, constipation and liver trouble,” wrote A. K. Smith, a war veteran at Erie, Pa., “but Dr. King’s new Life Pills fixed me all right They’re simply great” Try them for any stomach, liver or kidney trouble. Only 25c at A. F. Long’s.