Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1925 — Page 13

THIDAY, NOV. 27, 1925

APPLE TREES, WHAT ARE THEY, QUESTION State Tax Board Puzzled Over Recent Amendment A Made to Goodrich Tax Law.

What is an apple tree? “Now don’t be silly,” the average man will reply. “Any one can tell you it’s a tree on which apples grow. Hence the name apple tree.” The average man, however, Is not afflicted with officially solving the problem. Just at present the combined wisdom of the State tax board, the State attomev general’s office and about every one else in the Statehouse -is being called on to decide whether an apple tree, also peach and other fruit trees, are real estate or personal property. Some millions of dollars of taxable property are involved. Last winter when the Legislature

And Now In Twenty-One Cities Richman Stores Sell f From Our Factory Direct to Yon 1 [witKjufitTWOPROFITS-Youral [and Ours ~No Middleman's^ RICH MAN’S Wool CE ®S? EB $2*32

At TOLEDO, Ohio, the 21st Richman Clothes store will open its doors on Saturday, November 28th. For years the men 'and young men of Toledo and vicinity have been buying, wearing and finding complete satisfaction in Richman’s Clothes. The business of the Richman mail order department and of Richman Agents in Toledo has grown so tremendously that a Richman store in Toledo has long been justified. Saturday it will become a FACT. The demands which cause the opening of this 21st store mean GROWTH. We believe such growth is PROOF that the clothes we make in our own immense factory at 1600 East 55th St., Cleveland, and sell direct to you, represent a VALUE which is responsible for this demand—a value which grows in interest for all men as this demand increases.

■ We are proud of our factory, proud of the good clothes we make, proud of the excellent the 1400 men and women workers, many of whom own stock in the Company and share in the profits they help to make—proud of the demands of satisfied customers which have made 21 Richman Stores, more than 200 Richman Agents and a great Richman mail order department NECESSARY. v - v ' Just One Richman Store in Indianapolis RICHMAN BROS. CO. 36 East Washington Street V M ' 1 0 ■2* > >. a First Door East of Washington,* HdUdL-r-Store Open Saturday tfntitSfP. M.

met the apple growers got busy and amended the Goodrich tax law to exempt ‘growing crops, vegetables or fruit trees which may be found growing thereon (real estate) at the time of such assessment.” Formerly trees were counted as part of the realty. Then township assessors went to work and assessed the apple trees as personal property, disregarding plaints of the apple growers. The State attorney general, who was appealed to, dug out a copy of the more or less obsolete State constitution, aVid verified the assessors’ contentions that everything not real estate is personal property,

s i. : vs ■ }; exempting only for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes.” Now the State tax commissioners are scratching their heads over the row, and have decided to call a meeting in which all hands can argue all they please. Growing wheat and forest trees 'will be two additional topics of discussion at the meeting. Like fruit trees <they l ave heretofore been taxed as part of the real estate. Frank Wallace, State entobologist, who takes keen interest in all affairs of State, has suggested to his harassed official brethren they solve the difficulty by classing fruit trees as literary or religious’ works. “With all the Biblical terms I hear being spilled over this matter I think there is some element of exemption there under the constitutional clause,” he said. HARD TIMES, FEW FAGS TOKIO. —Hard times have reduced cigaret smoking to a large extent in Japan. The consumption of one popular brand has dropped from 1,100,000,000 a year to 100,000,000.

Now 21 Richman Stores Indianapolis, Indiana Cleveland, O. Zanesville, O. Youngstown, 0. Toledo, 0. Canton, O. Mt. Vernon, O. Cincinnati, 0/ Buffalo, N. Y. Marlon, O. Jamestown, N. Y. Lima, O. Pittsburgh, Pa. Hamilton, O. Erie, Pa. Lorain, O. St. Paul, Minn. Akron, O. Minneapolis, Minn. Mansfield, O. Lansing, Mich. Agents Everywhere The 20th Richman store, necessitated by demands for customers in the Mahoning Valley, opened Nov. 21st at Youngstown, O. ■ •am ■ Richman’s Clothes are all one price—$22.50 for the UNRESTRICTED CHOICE of any Richman suit, topcoat or overcoat. EXTRA TROUSERS Serviceable Materials i $3 —$4 —s5 —$6 “Oxford Bags,” $6 * , “The Richman selling plan cuts out the middleman.”

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MONUMENT TO TREE Marker Made of Marble Stands on Canadian Tree. Bil NEJL Service TORONTO, Nov. 27.—A manu. ment in honor of an apple tree stands in Dundas County, Canada. The monument Is made of marble and stands on or near the spot where the original Mclntosh apple tree grew.

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