Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1908 — BOARD OF REVIEW [ARTICLE]

BOARD OF REVIEW

Has About Concluded Its Labors. TWENTY DAYS ENDS ON MONDAY. Many Slight Changes In Assess* ments Made But General Result Will Not Be Much Different. The County Board of Equalization will adjourn Monday after a' session of twenty days, the time fixed by statute for them to “sit.” Thursday evening County Assessor Lewis and Frank Welsh went out with S. T. Comer to his residence in Union tp., and staid all night, and yesterday the three went up in Keener tp., to look at some cattle owned by the Northern Indiana Land Co., which it is claimed by some parties were undervalued. They will look at the cattle personally and decide upon their value. Following is a record of most of the work done thus far: Farm Implements.

Kankakee, raised 30 per cent. Marion and Barkley, raised 20 per cent. Milroy and Union raised 10 per cent. Hanging Grove and Kankakee reduced 20 per cent. Newton, reduced 10 per cent . No changes in the other townships. Household Furniture. Marion and Kafikakee were raised 50 per cent. Keener, raised 25 per cent. Milroy, raised 20 per cent. Barkley, raised 10 per cent. Jordan and Newton, reduced 20 per cent. No changes in other townships. Horses and Cattle. Carpenter, Barkley and Keener horses raised 10 per cent. Newton, horses and cattle, raised 5 per cent. Marion cattle reduced 10 per cent. Hanging Grove cattle reduced 10 per cent. Walker cattle raised 10 per cent. Kankakee, cattle raised 15 per cent. Union, cattle reduced 5 per cent. There were 7,861 horses in the county on March 1 and 16,761 head of cattle. The average value placed on horses, as fixed by the board, is |53.20; cattle $18.40; farm tools, $28.15, and household goods $18.45.