Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — Page 7

RATE OF TAXATION FOR THE YEAR 1916 STATE COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP TAXES FOR JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA . ’ • • ' . " . i xnTirF is RFREBY GIVEN thdt the following is the Tax Rate for the year 1916, and I will be ready to receive at the County Treasurer’s Office in Rensselaer, Indiana, the tales charged thereon after January 1, 1917. The following table shows the RATES OF TAXATION on each SIOO TAXABLE PROPERTY, and on each TAXABLE POLL: -J ' '■■■ LEVIED , LEVIED BY 'STATE BY » LEVIED BY ADVISORY LEVIED BY CITY OR TpWN- TOTAL RATE POLL TAX ' ON SIOO * §1 BOARD ON SIOO SHIP TRUSTEES ON SIOO ON SIOO ; x, COUNCIL *j ' '." : _ : j -1 " T = I' Tai 1 ' i " " r- 8 • NAME OF TOWN. - „ ' gg A ± , 5 5 ST S 3? g. . SHIP, TOWN, OB ? £ = fl H 5*3 j g 1, el -' 1 S ' _ H H S T-S s 5 I S a •s f a 5 * S - "<» g s * le g•£lif I« se ft!? t H w 2 = 1 " £ g hSglfl sg , h ° 3' i “■ ,5 53'fl ' l|3 g “ : 'llll j h tiJir ja °3l.*Ulta-iiliil.F.S.■»!*_j.felt®..Li— ° £ Barkley 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 71! 49.90 10.00 15.00 10 120 4.0 j2OIO 5 1 “° - 9u 2.20 Carpenter . 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 63 7 7 5 1,05 .92 1.97 Gillam 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 48 15 20 30 10 10 1 - 34 1 - 14 2,48 Hanging Grove 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 60 15 20 25 20 10 3 • , 149 IJ9 2.68Jordan 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 64 20 25 35 10 10 5 152 1 - 32 2 - 84 Kankakee 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 44 30 40 40 15 10 _ r 1,72 1,47 3-19 Keener 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 56 25 50 40 .20 10 3 25 1.87 1.57 3.44 . . Marion . 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.0“0 29 8 15 35 10 35 5 J- 19 1 - 06 2 - 25 Milroy. 50 50 ,1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 35 40 40 30 10 2 1 i r,c IX 7 2.78 Newton . Remington, Town of 50 50 1.00 25 25 2.50 7 1.50 1-3.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 63 53515 15 30 40 50 50 10 2.14 2.14 4.28 Rensselaer, Qty of 50 50 1.00 2.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 24 8 a 51064 40 130 50 50 30 7310 10 5 2.31 2.31 4.62 Union 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 30 37 40 25 10 5 l- r >6 1.21 2.77 Walker ....50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 65 35 50 30 20 10 , 1.77 1.48 3.25 Wlieatfield . 50 50 1.00 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 52 20 25 30 30 10 3 20 1.72 2.33 3 - 05 Wheatfield, Town of 50 ,50 .25 501 50 2.2511 7 1.50 13.60 10 7 1 49.90 10.00 15.00 52 F2O 3 301 30 50 50 50 2.00 2.00 4.00 I I II - ti II S I , lIJ. .. L- I—J ALL the Road and Bridge Tax and ONE-HALF of all other taxes make the FIRST INSTALLMENT and must be paid on or before .FIRST MONDAY ™ MAY 1017, of all Road and Bridges, constitute the SECOND INSTALLMENT, and must be paid on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, 101 o Failure to pay lirst Installment when di delinquent and attaches a penalty of 10 per cent to the full amount. « THE TREASURER CAN NOT MAKEAND HOLD RECEIPTS FOR ANYONE. PLEASE DO NOT ASK IT. PROVISIONS OF LAW RELATING TO TAXATION. “The owner of property on the first day oLMarch of any year shall be liable for the taxes of that year. T, J® ? n t ? l e ? FBt Tm,* nS,der ® d owner on thftt <lay ' Purchasers of PERSONAL PROPERTY as Well as Real Estate should remember that “TAXES FOLLOW I ROPERTI when the taxes thereon remain uni>aid. “COUNTY ORDERS in favor of persons owing delinquent taxes cannot be paid without settlement of taxes.” nr town it was assessed ” THE TREASURER WILL NOT “It is the duty of the TAX PAYER to state definitely on what property he desires to pay taxes, in whose name assessed, and in what township or town it was assessed. inr BE RESPONSIBLE for the penalties and charges resulting from taxpayer’s omission to so state. n B hnwin<r of nronertv and in whose name asThe Tax Duplicate for any year is made with reference to property on the first day of''March of that year and remains unchanged for the / ng I » sessed and taxed. Transfers after the first day of March of any year will never appear upon the Duplicate of that year s taxes. i, IH » ,i«v« aa it reoufres time to make Those who pay taxes of property in trust, and whose taxes are complicated, such as undivided estates, etc., should pay early enough to avoid the rush of the last days, as it requires time divisions and separate receipts. \ ' THE ANNUAL SALE OF DELINQUENT LANDS AND LOTS WILL TAKE PLACR ON THE SECOND MONDAY IN FEBRUARY, 1917. ... CHARLES V. MAY. Treasurer off Jasper County.

TRUSTEE’S REPORT.

MILROY TOWNSHIP. Statement and expenditures and by report of George W. Foulks, trustee, for 1916: —■ Geo W Foulks, dog tax c 01.... $ 8.00 J P Hammond, co warrant ... 344.50 Same, same .... 3.25 Same, same 576.71 Same, same 216.50 Same, same ....... . . ....... 229.57 Same, same Same, same 30.10 Banks, interest /. 6.65 J P Hammond, co warrant ... 561.81 Same, same 63.79 Same, same ... 15.85 Same, same 322.85 Chas Wood, dog tax 41.00 July and August interest .. 8.63 First Nat Bank, int 7.25 Harvey Wood, transfers..... 68.39 June interest ........ >...... 3.12 J P Hammond, co warrant ~. 477.09 Same, same .;.. ............ 16.34 Same, same ................ 5.76 Same, same 447.65 Same, same 449.05 First Nat Bank, int ........ 2.90 J P Hammond, Co warrant .... 44.86 Same? same 14.88 Expenditures. Chas Marchand, oil floors .... 8.00 Wm Chapman, clean sch,yd .. 2.00 Martha Clark, teaching ...... 30.00 Cecilia Crain, same ........ 25.00 Frieda Wineland, same 35.00 Hott Porter, same 25.00 Frieda ■'Wineland, same ..... 10.00 Ludd Clark, wood 12.00 ~ Henry Deßoy, labor 2.00 E D Rhoades & Son, sup .... 2.95 J M Caldwell, gravel ... 2.25 ,G W Foulks, trustee serv .., 5.00 Thos McAleer, pump 2.00 Sears Roebuck Co, sup 15.94 Cecelia Crain, teaching ..... 40.00 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv.. 45.00 ,W S McDonald, sup 8.55 Cecelia Crain, teaching 20.00 Frieda Wineland, same ..... 25.00 •_J F Grouns, super Martha Clark, teaching ...... 15.00 Chas V May, surp dog tax.. 38.00 First Nat Bank, Feb int ... 3.78 First Nat Bank, tax rec "2.76 Ludd Clark, super * 15.00 Creighton Clark, labor •...... 5.00 Cecelia Crain, teaching 20.00 Frieda Wineland, same •.. \. 20.00 Dott Porter, same .\ . 35.00 Geo W Foulks, trustee,serv . . 35.00 Martha Clark, teaching .... .\ 30.00 Jas Boone, repair 10.00 Creighton Clark, repair .. ... 37.00 Mart Sommers, same ....... 6.50 Wolcott Tile Co, dynamite ... ' 3.73 Geo W Foulks, expenses .. . ? 15.00 Dott Porter, teaching ...... 20.00 Martha Clark, same, 60.00 Cecelia Crain, same ........ 6.70 Same, same : 91-10 ; Same, inst and jan ......... 31.80 Frieda Wineland, same 31.80

Same, teaching 112.80 Dott Porter, same 125.00 Chas V May, exam records.. 16.00 Martha Clark, teaching 142.50 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv ... 5.00 Geo Besse, lumber 28.00 Peter Shide, turkey killed .. 2.50 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv .. 10.00 Maggie Foulks, take enum .. 10.00 Clyde Fisher, wood ........ 8.00 ! Same, sajne 5.00 Harvey Wood, clean Merry d 8.65 True Culp, clean ceme ..... 7.50 S D Griffith, sheep killed.... 10.00 |J P Hammond, school rec.... 30.10 Healey & Clark, pub rep, etc 14.35 GW Babcock, same ........ 14.35 G W Foulks, trustee serv ... 50.00 Walter V Porter, sewer pipe .. 111.20 Grant-Warnfer Lbr Co, sewer 24.45 Same, lumber 19.30 Chas Beaver, labor ......... 8.50 Will B Fisher, repairing .... 5.00 Claude Blankenship, wood ... 28.50 True Culp, wood 39.00 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv .. 15.00 Dott Porter, inst and jan ... 31.80 Rens S Bd, transfer........ 58.16 Ed Lane, difference on grader 25.00 C W Eger, stove pipe, etc ... 3.30 Ludd Clark, super .......... 20.00 W C Gilmore, labor 8.40 Transfers ..... 120,45 H C Thompson,- trans ...... 25.27 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv .. 20.00 Martha Clark, inst and jan .. 37.05 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv .. 25.00 Chas V May, cons ditch .. . 168.00 Kiger & Co, sup ............. 7.48 Chas Beaver, super ......... 25.00 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv .. 20.00 Monon Lbr Co, sup 2.75 C A Thacker, well, etc 121.25 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv .. 20.00 Geo Beaver, work 10.25 Lon Wood, hauling 4.00 Orval Blankenship, labor .... 3.00 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv .. 25.00 True Culp, clean ceme 7.50 Fred Marchand, labor ...... 10.10 Fred Marchand, survey ditch 1.50 Mrs E C Marchand, sup and la 13.25 Creighton Clark, labor ....... 80.00 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv *. 20.00 Culp and Beaver, labor ..... 7.00 James E Parks, labor ...... 6.00 Earl Foulks, teaching ...... 20.00 Lily Mitchell, labor ......... 35.00 Gertrude Faylor,. teaching ... 25.00 Juanita Fisher, teaching .... 25.Q0 Martha Clark, same 20.00 Harold Garvin, labor ....... . 2.50 Earl Foulks, teaching ....... 10.00 Fred McCurdy, labor 35.00 Kiger & Co, sup 31.40 Geo Bess-, lumber ........ 12.00 Monon Lbr Co, sup ....... 38.84 Geo W Foulks, office rent .... 15.00 Gertrude Faylor, teaching ... 10.00 Willard Johnson, labor ..... 7.00 Gertrude Faylor, teaching ... 20.00 Juanita Fisher, same ....... 30.00 Earl Foulks, same 40.00 Martha Clnr_ same ........ 45.00 Elmer Clark, labor .... ; • 5.00 Chas Woods, tax etc 6.26 Mort Sommers, labor 6.75 Geo Wood, labor ............ 4.00 ... 1 - < o

Geo Beaver, labor 12.75 Martha Clark, teaching 25.00 Gertrude Faylor, same 20.00 Juanita Fisher, teaching ..... 15.00 Earl Foulks, same 15.00 W P Gaffield, trial court ..... 3.95 Wiley Latta, labor ......... 3.00 Rens Lbr Co, sup 11.05 J N Caldwell, gravel ........ 2.10 Harvey Wood, transfer 68.39 Martha Clerk, teaching 35.00 Wilford M Garvin, labor ... 5.00 Geo W Foulks,' trustee serv .. 20.00 Earl Foulks, teaching ...... 40.00* Chas Lytle, -abor .......... 2.50 Kiger & Co, super books ... 2.50 W J Wright, pauper burial .. 35.00 Juanita Fisher, teaching .... 75.00 Geo W Foulks, trustee serv .. 15.00 Ernest Clark, dabor 9.50 Hamilton & Kellner, rep .... 1.50 Larsh & Hopkins, sup ...... 1.65 E D Rhoades & Son, hardware 5.94 Earl Foulks, teaching ...... 20.00 Martha Clark, teaching ..... 25.00 Gertrude Faylor, same ..... 35.00 Same, same 30.00 Am Book Co, dictionaries ... 9.23 D H Goble Co, sup ......... 4.67 Clyde Fisher, lumber ...... 6.85 Ludd Clark, super ... 65.00 W P Gaffield, repair ....... 1.00 Chas Beaver, super ........ 67.00 Geo W Beaver, haul gravel .. 10.50 Leslie Clark, estimates, .books 10.39 Gertrude Faylor, teaching .... 15.00 Earl Foulks, same 15.00 Colbom & Dye Co, sup 30.13 Summary. Bal and Rec. Dis Bal Tp fd $1,198.08 $ 845.05 $ 353.03 Road ' 754.33 454.54 299.79 Spec scl 1,208.24 684.72 523.52 Tuition 2,767.47 1,676.69 1,090.78 Poor 180.11 35.00 145.11 Dog 179.00 ’ 50.50 128.50 Library 42.67 9.23 33.44 Tax Levies For 1916. •Township fund, 35 cents on the hundred dollars. Road fund, 30 cents on the hundred dollars. Additional road fund, 10 cents on the hundred dollars. Special school fund, 40 cents on the hundred dollars and 50 cents on each poll. i Tuition fund, 40 cents on the hundred dollars and 50c on each poll. Poor fund, 2 cents on the hundred dollars. ' \' Library fund, 1 cent on the hundred dollars. ’ ■ „ ' ’ GEORGE W. FOULKS, . Trustee. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS State of Indiana,) County of Jasper) SS. In the Jasper circuit court to the February term, 1917. 3. Christian Mosimans, plaintiff, vs. John Ricketts; —— Ricketts, wife of John Ricketts, whose Christian name is unknown; —? — Ricketts, widow of sJohn Ricketts, whose

Christian name is unknown; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, executors, administrators, receivers, lessees, representatives, successors and assigns of John Ricketts and —■ . - Ricketts, his widow, whose Christian name is unknown, and all persons who claim, by, through or under them or either of them. Clemuel G. Ricketts; Mary Ricketts, widow of Clemuel G. Ricketts, deceased; ■ Pamalia McGuffey; John McGuffey: Jesse Courtright; Eliza A. Needles; George W. Needles; Sarah J. Thompson; Miles Thompson; Clarissa A. Courtright; Elijah C. Ricketts: Ruth Huber; Nancy Bull; Pleasant Sims; Thomas Sims; Edward Courtright; Hiram Courtright; John C. Courtright; Minerva P. Bell; William Ricketts; Israel Ricketts; Mary Ricketts; Minerva Elbright; Aaron Elbright; Rufus Ricketts; Ezra Ricketts; Moses C. Courtright; Sarah Courtright; William Courtright; Abner L. Courtright; Phoeha Weis; William Weis; Theodore A. Gray; Elizabeth Gray; Mary E. Gray; Ann Gray; Daniel D. Gray; Richard C. Sweat; Nancy P. Sweat; Margaret Sweat; Mathilda Sweat; Isiana Sweat; Sarah Goodwin; Catherin Cowan; William Cowan; Milley Green; Thomas Green; Jackrson Mclntosh; William Williams; Elizabeth Williams; Philo Williams; the unknown surviving husbands and wives of the above named persons, and the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees, executors, administrators, receivers, lessees, representatives, successors and assigns of the above named persons, and all persons who claim by, through or under them or either of them. Walter Mann; the unknown persons comprising the firm and partnership doing business in the firm name and style of Walter Marin & Company; the surviving partner or partners of the dissolved partnership of Walter Mann & Company; whose names are unknown; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of the partnership and the individual members qf the partnership of Walter Mann & Company, and all persons who claim by, through or under them or either of them. Walter Mann & Company, a corporation, whose principal place of business, the sovereignity or state 'which created it, the names of any of its officers or representatives upon whom process may be served are all unknown; the unknown receiver?, successors and assigns of Mann & Company; a corporation/ and all persops who claim by, through or under them or either of them, defendants. The plaintiff in the above entitled cause, having filed his complaint therein, together with an affidavit that the defendants are each and all of them nor-restdents of

the state of Indiana, and that the place of residence of said defendants is unknown; and that the purpose of the action is to quiet title to the following described lands as against all demands, claims and claimants whatsoever, to-wlt: The southwest quarter (S. W. 14) of section seventeen (17), in township twenty-seven (27) north, of Range sevenr (7 ) west, containing 160 acres more or less, except seven-eights (7-8) of an acre in the southwest corner of the southwest quarter, In Jasper county, Indiana. Now, therefore, the said defendants are hereby notified that unless they be and appear on the Btji day of the next term of the Jasper circuit court, to be holden on the second Monday of February, 1917, at the court house In Rensselaer,' in said county and state, and answer or demur to said coriiplainjt, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. Tn witness whereof, I hereunto (Seal) set my hand and affix the seal of said court this 23d day of December, 1916. JESSE NICHOLS, Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court. A. D. Babcock & Co., Attys, for Plaintiff. d27-j3-10

DITCH NOTICE State of Indiana,) County of Jasper)SS: In the Jasper Circuit Court to February term, 191'7. In the matter of the petition of Barkley Township Et Al for a Drain. Cause No. —— To William Guthrie, Robert W. Burris, Let ha Burris, James M. , Spriggs, Mina Goepp, Mary M. Potts, John A. Handle. You and each of you are hereby notified that the petitioners® in the above entitled cause have filed their petition in the Jasper circuit court, praying for the location and construction of a tile drain upon and along 1 the following described route, to-wit; ' 44 > Commencing at a point about 60,0 feet east of the center of the northedst quarter of the northwest quarter of section 32, township 30 north, range 5 west; thence south about 40 rods; thence Southeasterly about 80 rods to the center of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of said section 32; thence southeasterlj*--and south to the old Noland ditch near the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southeast, quarter of said section 32; thence easterly and southeasterly along the line of said Noland ditch to a point about 73,0 feet north and 100 feet east of the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of , the southwest' quarter

of section 33, township 30 north, range 5 west, where it will have a good and sufficient outlet ip. the Iliff slough dredge ditch. Also a lateral to the main ditch as fob lows: ' ' . Commencing on the west side of the public highway running north and south through the center of section 32, township 30 north, range 5 west, and near the northwest corner of the southwest quarter ofc-the southeast quarter of said section and running thence easterly about 85 rods to the main ditch. You are further notified that you are named in said petition as being the owner of lands likely to be affected by the location and construction- of the proposed drain, and that your lands are descrbed therein. You are also notified that the petitioners have fixed by endorsement on said petition upon Monday, rthe 12th day of February, 1917, as the day set for the hearing and docketing of said petition, at the circuit court room in the court house at Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana. BARKLEY CIVIL TOWNSHIP, By Grant Davisson, Trustee, et al., Petitioners; A. Halleck, Atty. Attest: JESSE NICHOLS, (Seal) Clerk Jasper Circuit Court. , 13-10

Col. W. A. McCurtain’s Sale Dates Phone Rensselaer, 926-R. Terms—•!. per cent. January 25, George Ketchmark, near Lacross. Genera! sale, 40 head cattle. 4 February 7, Levi Miller. General sale. February 14, John R. Lewis. Hampshire hog sale. February 16, date taken. February 19, John Stockwell. General sale. \ , • February 20, Lee Mauck. General - sale. r -- \ . February 21, Mr. Grriber. February 28, Johri Phares. General sale. ' » ,

■Ol-H«. We will call at your 'premises If within twdnty miles of Rensselaer and remove all dead or undesirable, animals. We disinfect the barns or pens in which animal has been kept, leaving the farm in sanitary condition. And this is all done without expense to yon. B. & L. MFG. CO. Telephone 17 Rensselaer, Ind. Have toll calls charged to u&