The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 June 1929 — Page 4
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WINONA LAKE, 1ml., June 7.] The ol.ler brother is William Wil(I’P) Musicians and instructors’ ofiliams, 70, Manilla, F. 1. The younper
international fame, will appear at the annual music and festival here Aup. 12 tn 25, it recently was announced. The activities will open with a children's operetta the first day, a hand contest second day and a concert by Mis- May Peterson, of the Metropolitan Opera Company concluding the
sessions.
George L. Tmney, director of music of the Cengregational Church, of Chicago, will lead the ehuich choir directors department with instructions in dramatizations of church music and Hildical stories. Frederick V. Evans, I.os Angeles, California, and George Ke-ter, Dayton, O., will have charge of a choir work conference. Thi facult. also will include Katherin Carmachel, St. Louis; Edna Howie , DeFauvv University, (Jreencastle; and Hadley Outand, voice instructor of Chicago.
DK. OXNAM SPEAKER MUNCIE, Ind., June 6. (U.P) Coimnencement exercises for the 1929 c I a of Central high school will be held Friday. The speaker will he Dr. <i. Bromley Oxnam, president of De-
Pauw University.
IIROTHERS UNITED
FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, 1ml., June G. (U.P.)—Two brothers, both ov er 65 years of age, have been reunited here after 38 years of estrangement. They are both former lightweight champion pugilists of Aust-
is Tommy Williams, for more than 30 years physical culturist at French Lick Springs, and the trainer during those years of thousands of men prominent in American business so-
ciety.
William learned the whereabouts of his brother through a news item about the aged physical instructor published in a Manilla newspaper ami came to French Lick Springs to find him. William, after winning the lightweight championship of Australia, later prepared his brother to win the same title from George Dawson, so long boxing instructor at the Chicago Athletic Club, at Melbourne, Victoria in 1890. In 1892 Tommy beat Hilly Hatcher in London for the championship of England.
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TAX BOOKLET INDIANAPOLIS, June 7. — Indiana’s tax history for the last five years is presented in an instructive booklet just issued by the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, of which Harry Miesse of this city is secretary. The booklet contains an exhaustive analysis of a comparative table showing budgets and levies by counties for the five-year period. Thi- is the fiist time that such a thorough comparison has been attempted in many years, and the association’s officials believe it is valuable as a long-term demonstration of how taxes grow insidiously and imperceptibly unless taxpayers use the control power conferred on them by the Indiana tax law. “The wide range of rate increases for this five-year teim shows that in those counties where taxpayers have exercised the supervision to which they are entitled under the state law, the tax situation has been kept withiu bounds,” the association declares. “The counties with a favorable tax condition offer a lesson to other counties on the value of intelligent and continuous co-operation among taxpayers to prevent improvident public expenditures and keep tales within
reason.”
■The state-wide composite rate has jumped from $2.43 in 1923 to $2.81 in 1928, the latter rate applying on taxes collectible this year. The 38cent increase in the composite statewide rate is not completely indicative, however, of the actual increase in the local units of Indiana, because the state-purpose rate has decline from 30 cents on each $100 in 1923 to 23 cents in 1928. Excluding the state rate, which applies uniformly in every local taxing unit in Indiana, the composite local late for the state at large has jumped from $2.13 in 1923 to $2.58 in 1928. Further evidence of the fact that
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lem, and must
taxpayers in their own communities, is found in the wide spread of valuations, budgets and levies in various
parts of the state.
Two reasons for this local increase are disclosed by the state association’s analysis. In many local units the sum of all budget, i materially more than five years ago, and at the same time the valuation on which taxes are col-
lectible has declined.
Only six counties out of ninety-two in Indiana h.iv. a lower composite rate than five years ago. These counties, and the amount of their reduction on each $190, follow: Lawrence county, 42 c< nt ; Monroe, 30 cents; Dearborn, 12 cents; St. Joseph, 11 cents; Futnam, 7 cents, and Floyd, 2
cents.
Thirty-three counties show a lower budget for all local purposes, including cities, towns, townships and the county itself, than in 1923, while fif-ty-nine counties how higher budgets. In nineteen of the latter the annual advance in the five-year term was less than 1 per cent. The counties dis-clv-sing relatively small increases are: Blackford, Clay, Delaware, Dubois, Gibson, Hamilton, Huntington, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Montgomery, I’o--ey, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Union, Vigo, Wabash, Washington and Whitley. One of the mo: t significant aspects of the present tax problem in Indiana, according to officials of the state association, is the operation of the laws of 1925 and 1927 authorizing a reduction in the appraisement of real i tale. Only thirteen counties out of the ninety-two show a higher total
taxes are almost a local prob-1 wide composite rate for all local units
be controlled by the would he $1,635 instead of $...58.
The state association makes it clear that the state-purpose rate does not provide all the revenue expended by the state government. More money is derived from gasoline and automobile taxes and other fees and special taxes than from the general property
tax, it i pointed out.
“In most counties and local units where taxpayers have availed theniselve- of the state law, and assisted local officials in preparing budgets, or appealed to the state tax commissioners when unnecessary expenditures were proposed, the rates have been kept under control,” the booklet continues. The counties and local units where least vigilance was exercised are the ones showing the largest in-
creases.
“Two vital factors enter into taxation. One is valuation or appraisement. The other is the proposed ex-
penditure.
“If the budget remains stationary
and the valuation increases, the rate goes down. If the valuation is reduced and the budget goes down proportionately, there will be little if any change in the rate, and the average
property owner will pay less tax. “But if, as has occurred in numer-
ous instances, the valuation is reduced and the budget is increased, the rate rises rapidly. It happens not infrequently that in their desire to get reduced valuations, taxpayers have paid no attention to budgets, and they have been surprised to see higher tax
bills undpr a lower valuation. “It follows that every taxpayer in-
terested in keeping taxe- as low ns possible should exert every effort to
the Granada theatre starting tonight and continuing through Saturday, in his newest picture, "The Pride 0 f Pawnee.” Laid against a background of the coloiCul gold rush days of California, the film offers plenty in the way of romance and picturesquene.'s. Fast action also races through the story, with Tyler providing all the thrills that mark his productions.
valuation than in 192.3, and these aie cur ^ expenditures and have local tax-
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NOTICE 04 SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Putnam Circuit Coutt of Indiana in a cause wherein the Prudential Insurance Company of America is Plaintiff, and Alva J. Cox, Viola E. Cox, Lola E. Cox, Grace M. Cox, John W. Boyle, Carrie A. Boyle, William H. Sheldon, Sarah E. Sheldon, and Otho See and Lula See, are Defendants, requiring me to make the sum of Fifty-one Hundred Forty-four and Ninety-four hundredths ($5,144.94) Hollas, with interest on said decree and cost- accrued and to accrue, I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder on Saturday, the 29th day of June, A. 1). 1929, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. M. of said day at the south door of the Court House in Putnam County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, the following real estate in Putnam County, State of Indiana, towit: — The southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 20, town-hip 13 north, range 3 west of the second principal meridian, containing 40 acres, more or less; Also, a passageway Ml rods long and 1 rod wide along the whole south side of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 20, township and range aforesaid, containing % acres, more less; Also, a part of the southwest quarter of said section 20, township and range aforesaid, described as follows: beginning at a stake 12 chains and 50 links west of the southea t corner of said quarter section; running thence north 40 chains to the north line of said quarter section; thence west along said north line 16 chains and 25 links; thence south 40 chains to the south line of said quarter section; thence ea-t 16 chains and 25 links to the place of beginning, containing 65 acres, more or less; Containing in all, lOS'/j acres, more or less, in Jefferson Township, Putnam County, Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place expose at public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to pay and discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement
laws.
Edward Eitaljorge, Sheriff Potnam County. Corwin & Gillen, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 7-8t.
for the most part the more densely populated areas with large industrial centers. The increased valuation in these thirteen counties was $319,929,051, while in the five-year period there was a state-wide net shrinkage in valuation of $164,037,963, so that the actual scaling down of valuation in the five years amounted to $483,-
967,014.
“Most of these counties show a percentage of increase in rate exceeding the percentage of cut in valuation,” the association declares, “and on the face of these figures the conclusion is warranted that in most instances taxpayers did not profit by the cut hut are paying more tax on the reduced valuation than they paid five years ago on n higher appraisement level, the local units having found it impossible to depress expendituies by the same margin as they depressed the valuation.” While -tati-purpose taxes have been going down, local taxes have been going up. If the state rate had increased in the same proportion as the local rates, the state government would be collecting taxes on a 36-cent levy this year, while if local taxes had declined by the same ratio as the state-purpose rate, the local units in the aggregate would be collecting $2.8,973,000 less than their current year’s total, and the state-
ing officials reduce them wherever this can be done without crippling any necessary function of government.”
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AT THE VONC’ASTLE Considered by critics the equal of any underworld picture turned out by Universal in recent years, “The Price of Fear,” co-starring William Cody and Duane Thompson, a picture replete with thrills and tense situations will be the Saturday attraction. “The Price of Fear” moves with lightninglike rapidity, literally bringing the audience out of their chairs at times with its breath-taking sequences. The story, an original by William Lester, widely known screen writer, deals with the adventures of an amateur detective who is attempting to cause the arrest of a hand of crooks. Narrow escapes from death, thrilling fights and hair-raising chases all contribute to make "The Price of Fear” a picture to satisfy even the most discriminating theatre-goer.
AT THE LYRIC THEATER The Lyric Theater in Indianapolis, now under new management and offering a new and greater policy of entertainment solicits the patronage of theater-go.-rs of this community during their visits to the capitol city. The new management which also operates the Apollo in that city has completely renovated, redecorated and refurnished the Lyric and it now ranks with the finest and most beautiful of the state. A huge new electric sign greets one for miles down Illinois street and tire thousands of brilliant lights illuminate the entire block between Market and Ohio streets. Out of town patron- will, when emerging from the traction terminal, find a pleasant surprise awaiting them, when the view the newly transformed lobby and entrance to the Lyric. Once inside the cleanliness and beauty of the decorations and furnishings will captivate the most critical eye. The mezzanine floor is especially luxurious and restful. Rich draperies and rugs; large comfy chair and divans; varied colored lamps and costly art objects will be found on this lounge. A free check room service is another feature of the new
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