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Eighty of the 130 U. S. Episcopal bishops convened last week in Davenport, Iowa for a meeting of the House of Bishops. Large on their docket lay the matter of appointing a new assessor (assistant) to the Presiding Bishop of the church, to succeed Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota who died last August. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had chosen his man and the House of Bishops approved: Bishop Philip ("Phil") Cook of Delaware. A tall, grey-haired, hearty, eloquent churchman, Bishop Cook has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a breezy...
...scene, Ashgrove employes saw the dogs burrowing under the field's six-foot wire fence, descending on the helpless turkeys, tossing them through windows in frenzied bloodlust. New York law requires each county to indemnify owners of livestock killed by raiding dogs. Day after the slaughter an assessor was at Ashgrove appraising the damage. One day last week Saratoga County heard how much the turkeys had cost it-$459, at three dollars a head. Next night, despite Ashgrove's armed watchman, the dogs got in again, killed five more turkeys. No three-dollar birds were these. Part...
...expenses and public enterprises must be paid for by some one. It is generally recognized that all routine and special public undertakings are intended to be of benefit to some part of the public; therefore each member of the public should contribute, on some basis, toward payment. But the assessor, under the law, asks, not--"How much have you benefited?", but "How much can you afford to pay?" This is a policy which we would not tolerate in our private affairs: and it is not strange that the application of that policy to us in our tax-paying relation arouses...
...Assessor William P. Richards of the District of Columbia announced that the White House and its grounds are now worth some 22 millions. No other Washington residence rates so high. The tax on it would be $374,000 per annum-if the U. S. had to pay property taxes to the District of Columbia. A controversy has been bubbling on this question of tax-exempt U. S. properties. Tax Assessor Richards' figures showed that if all taxable U. S. property in the District paid the present rate of $1.70 per $100, the total would...
Columbus Junction, a metropolis of 400 souls in Luisa County, Iowa, laid claim to distinction. It elected town officers: Mayor: Eva Bretz ; Treasurer : Mary Moore; Assessor: Nellie Moore ; Councilmen: Mrs. Allen; Mrs. Jamison; Mrs. Sholck; Mrs. Robertson; Mrs. Richie...