Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Repins From Many I Pitts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL JF- • \ ■ i t ■** Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities* BEGIN FIGHT ON ASSESSMENTS Marion County Taxpayers Said to Be Planning to File Suits. Indianapolis, Nov. 10.—Injunction suits will be filed In the circuit court next week by farmers or other taxpayers In at least five townships of Marlon county, asking that the state board of tax commissioners be restrained from certifying to the auditor property valuations for taxation as assessed by the state board, it was announced following a mass meeting in the high school building at Broad Ripple Thursday night. Bmsley W. Johnson, a member of the committee In charge of the meeting, said Washington, Pike, Wayne, Perry and Decatur townships were represented at the meeting and that each of these townships will be represented In the Injunction suits to be filed. He said it Is expected the other townships of the county also will have plaintiffs named in the suits.