Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1910 — ASSESSMENT FIGURES FUR 1910 [ARTICLE]

ASSESSMENT FIGURES FUR 1910

Were 6,996 Horses, 12,309 Cattle and 3,451 Sheep IN JASPER COUNTY.MARCH 1 Carpenter Leads on Number of Horses and Sheep and Barkley on Cattle—B2 Automobiles the Assessment Books for 1910 Show, Which Is Exactly Twice as Many as Last • Year. I he County Board of Reveiew will close its session to-day, haying sat the twenty days required by law. Not many complaints have been made on the assessments returned by the township assessors. A few changes and additions of omitted property have been made, Hit the labors of the.board have not been very strenuous and none of the members have lost flesh from overwork. While the complete recc'd of the session has not as yet been made up,- we have been able, through the courtesy of the board, to gather a few figures from the board’s notes that will be of ’ntcrest to our readers In the matter of live stock assessments, we find that Carpenter leads all the other townships of the county in the number of horses and sheep owned in her borders, while Barkley leads on the number of cattle. ' The number owned in each township together with the average value follows:

Horses Cattle No. Vai. No. Vai. Walker tp. . 352 SSB 1129 sl6 Remington . 153- 51 62 24 Milroy .... 185 55 465 19 Rensselaer . 250 63 140 25 Jordan .... 667 62 1200 19 Kankakee . 228 64 555 18 Barkley ... 911 69 2336 21 Wheatfield . 282 "90 489 16 Newton ... 652 71 1320 22 Union 786 60 1485 20 Carpenter .. 1172 65 1488 21 Keener .... 382 52 964 19 Wheatfi’d tn 66 55 41 23 Gillam .... 524 63 1161 18 H. Grove ... 386 70 882 19 Sheep No. Vai. Milroy 7. • ••• • • 98 $4 Jordan 214 5 Kankakee .......128 4 Wheatfield 101 2 Newton 461 4 Keener . . .122 5 Union 433 4 Carpenter ..622 4 Barkley B .518 5 Gillam ....323 5 Walker . ............ . 11l 3 Hanging Grove .... .. . .270 5

There are just twice as many automobiles ' listed for taxation this year as there were last year, or 41 in 1909, to 82 in 1910, and from present indications next year the number will be about doubled again. Of thjs number 31 were owned in Rensselaer. All but but 2 of the 13 .townships is represented in the auto list, Milroy and Kankakee. Following are the names of the auto owners and their places of residence, also the assessments placed on each machine by the board, most of which is a reduction of from 10 to 20 per cfcnt from the valuation given by the township assessors: A R Kresler, Rensselaer. .... .$350 Michael Koboski, same.-...... 200 Elizur Sage, Newton tp 1000 Matt Worden, Rensselaer 300 Bruee White, same 175 I M Washburn, same. ....... 600 Fred Phillips, 5ame.......... 675 E J Duvall & Co, 5ame...... 350 Geo H McClain, saine. . . . 400 N Littlefield, 5ame.......... 175 Ernest Lamson, 5ame........ 400 Fairy E Leek, same. 350 E Besser, Remington 300 Andrew Ropp, Barkley. ..... 350 Harvey Davisson, Uni0n...... 75 Geo Terwilliger, Marion 350 W E Price, Union. ......... 450 D W Waymire, Keener...... 350 R B Harris, Rensselaer 450 E C English, same 350 J W Marlatt, same. 575 Same, Barkley 350 C H Porter, Rensselaer 350 John Shroer. 8ark1ey......./ 350 Geo Davisson, same. .. ....... 450 Grant Davisson, Mme........ 450 John Jordan. Remington...... 450

Ed Sutherland, 5ame........ 350 LB Elmore, 5ame...*...... 200 John Schultz. Union. ....... 200 John Andrus. Marion. .. : . .... 450 J W Wells, Demotte. ........ 50 Wm Washburn, Rensselaer. «, . 750 R A Parkison 5ame,......'.. 600 Jasper Co Tel’Co. 5ame...... 75 Fred Waymire; Barkley. . ... 960 S G Hand. Remington........ 275 J M Ott, Remington. .., ..... 500 Lyman Raymond; Jordan 650 W A Witham. Union. . . ... . . 250 W E Johnson, Remington.... 350 Geo Ketchum. Rensselaer.... 550 Babcock & Hopkins, same.... 625 W D Bringle. J0rdan........ 670 Wesley Hinkle, Union 675 T H Robinson, Gillam . ... .. . 750 Delos Thompson, Rensselaer. M 200 J L Brady, same. . , . . ..... . 575 F M Parker, 5ame......... . 1500 W H Mackey, same; ... . ... . 200 James Clark, same 150 I! W Marble. Wheatfield 500 F A Turfler. Rensselaer. .. . . . 300 C H Tyron, Remington...... 600 W H Snedeker, 8ark1ey...... 300 J L Bartoo. Remington...... 250 A H Hopkins. Refisselaer. . ... . 300 J H HanssjOn, same. ......... 900 A P Ranier, Remington..... E L Hollingsworth, Rensselaer 750 Internat’nal Harvester Co, same 75 M D Gwin, same. .......... 50 A Halleck, 5ame............ 50 Harry Parker, • same. ... .. f. . 30 H J Kannal same. . . ....... 50 H Marble. Wheatfield..... ... 750 W B same. ......... 300 Charles Meyers, same. .;..... 450 Ed Randle, 8ark1ey......... Granville Moody, same 1100 Chas Moody, same ...1050 S H Hopkins, same. ........ . 675 Charles Odem, Gi11am........ 600 J A Washburn, Remington... 675 C T Denham, 5ame...... 425 W T Elmore, 5ame.......... 50 J C Lewis, same. 50 iMatiida Schrader, Walker.... 75 John Herr; Hanging Grove.... 75 Richard Foulks, same 15 R Johns same. .... ... .: 50 John Lane, Newt0n.......... 50