100 years ago

december 1, 1910

Taxes

As taxes are due for this year, a statement showing where the money goes is of interest at this time. The following figures are the amounts to be paid on every thousand dollars of assessment: State levy, $1.05; County, $1.10; C.K.&N. Bonds, .25; and K.&N. Bonds, .60.

The above are paid by all citizens of the county. Then there are the township, city, and school distract taxes which make up the largest part of the total tax and which vary greatly throughout the county. The state tax will be 20 cents less on the thousand dollars this year than it was last and the county tax will be fifteen cents less. The total tax in Marion will be 50 cents more on the thousand than it was last year.

Everett Wheeler says that some fiend milked his cow the other morning before he got up and he asks that it be here stated that the next time the aforesaid fiend or anyone like him attempts that sort of a trick, he will get a load of salt into his system from the old blunderbuss which he keeps for that sort of business. In the interest of peace and order and for the purpose of helping conserve the salt supply, this statement is here gladly made.

In spite of the fact that the frontier days are long since passed, there was a Marion Indian that got off the reservation the other day. It was the wooden one in front of Magathan’s. It was jerked off by a horse which some paleface had tied to it.

Let Kansas turn its face aside to hide the tears. The steer raised at Manhattan which has been taking all the first prizes has just had its honor basely snatched away at the big Chicago exhibition by some old buttinsky steer from Canada.

D. Lewis has returned from Topeka and is now working on the new Wheeler building just west of the old Y.M.C.A. building.

W.H. Carpenter sold his Studebaker car some time ago and has now purchased a big Buick touring car of Assman & Meehan.