Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1919 — COUNTY ASSESSORS ATTENDED MEETING AT HAMMOND [ARTICLE]

COUNTY ASSESSORS ATTENDED MEETING AT HAMMOND

The following assessors and County Assessor G. L. Thornton went to Hammond Thursday tended a meeting of the assessors from ovey the state and 1 istened to an address by Fred Sims, state tax commissioner, on the state tax laws: T. P. Shirer, O. G. Baker, J. W. Humes, C. C. Parks and Deputies Gratner and Donnelly. There have been some changes made, the most important being the raising of the mortgage exemption to SI,OOO and the extension to the last tax paying day to file the same, and the dog law from one and three dollars to three and five dollars The law gives the state board full power over the tax law. There cannot be more money raised this year than •last and if property is assessed at true cash value it will not be any hardship on the taxpayer. The rate will have to be lowered, an Mdr. Sims stated that the order of the state board is to assess at true cash value. The law gives the state board power to order a re-asessment of any unit or to dismiss any assessor that does not do his full duty, so it is up to the assessors-elect to do their full duty or be dismissed from the board. When it comes to turning a century in record time Arthur Duffy, Jo Loomis and Jim Thorpe have nothing on W. I. Hoover, local speedster. Mr. Wood was waiting for a Chicago train at the Monon station Wednesday morning, and just as he started to get on it met an old aequaintance whom he stopped to chat with. Mr. Hoover became so interested in his conversation that be failed to notice that the train had started to leave and when he became fully aware of the fact, the train had gained considerable speed. Undaunted; Mr. Hoover set out to catch the government plaything showed the natives gathered about the P la [" form what a pair of shapely heels he possesses, ending his sensational sprinting., performance with a daring leap onto the platform of the rear car pf tbe ~