Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1916 — TAX COLLECTORS IN NEWTON [ARTICLE]

TAX COLLECTORS IN NEWTON

Making a Specialty of Gathering in Delinquent Personal Taxes. Newton county is at present beseiged by six stalwart strangers who are upsetting all precedents in collecting delinquent personal faxes. It is said that the county treasurer’s books show something like $17,000 coming to the county in personal taxes, some of which have been standing for years, and the ambitious collectors are going after thq delinquent ones without fear or favor. It was reported yesterday that something near SIO,OOO had already been collected. This is something quite unusual, hut the six gentlemen cite an ancient, law that authorizes the collection of delinquent personal taxes. While no charges of graft or crookedness have been made, some express the opinion that such could easily be the case.