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WILMBT.TE ··LIFE ' Aprjl 12, 1929 Gardea Planting Tables to .Be Subject of Monday Talk Mrs·. John Lind of Kenilworth is continuing her informal course of practical garden study at the Uotel Sherman throughout the current month. The classes meet at 11 o'clock in a room WBMAD·· Auto110hile Loans Refmuce Auto·biles Auto·bile Paper BO~ [ .. D INV, ESTMENT CO. I f~USTOI MORTGA~ At the annual New Trier Town meeting held iri the offices of Mrs. Gertrude M. Thurston, supervisor, at the Winnetka Village hall Tuesday of last week. F. L. Streed, Village manager of Kenilworth, and chairman of a committee appointed a year ago to investigate and buy make suggestions relative to tax valuations, read the report of his committee. The report was accepted and placed immediate E I on file. c B SERVICE No action was taken regarding the Mr. and Mrs. William E. Dorman 0 8 of Salisbury, Md: are visiting their son suggestions made by the tax valuation confidential N and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. committee hecause the board of T D George H. Dorman, of 510 Fifth street. auditors of the town·3hip, including the five justices of the peace and the township clerk and supervisor, had no legal Vote The Peoples Party Ticket authoritv to take such action . The powers ·of this board are defined hy law and are very limited. 4753 BROADWAY Eatahliahed liD Follmving is the complete report subCHICAGO TUESDAY, APRIL 16 618 Grove St. · Greealeaf 5600 mitted by Mr. Streed on behalf of th~ PHONE LONG BEACH 6317 A Cross in the Circle Will Do It tax valuation committee. At the Annual Town meeting of the Townsh;p of New Trier held on April 3, 1928, a committee composed of the Village Managers of Glencoe, Winnetka, Kenilworth, and Wilmette wa·.s appointed to investigate the question of inequitable tax valuations in New Trier township, with instructions to report at the Jlext annual town meeting in April 1929 with a definite recommendation on ways and means of obtaining and main ~ taining equitable tax valuations. Pursuant to these instructions, your committee hereby respectfully '.mbmits this report. Praise for Assessor We feet that under the present antiquated laws relating to the assessment of property for general taxes, and the practical difficulties encountered by the Town'3hip Assessor in attempting to follow the law and still arrive at equitable valuations which will produce a iair tax, the people of New Trier Township should congratulate themselves for having had the services of such a conscientious ~sses'sor as the present incumbent. With the limited funds available for the purpose, he has done all that could be hoped for towards determining reasonably equitable valuations. It has been impossible for him to personally inspect every building in the township at the time of each quadrennial re-valuation, so in most cases he has been obliged to use the same building valuation as was used during the previous quadrennium with the result that many of the older building3 are on the book<; on a pre-war basis of values while the newer buildings are on the a ~ecluded community, books on a present-day basis of values. five minutes ride to The assessor · ha·s, however, made it a stations a n d acboola, practice of obtaining lists of permits by p t i v a t e motor issued for new buildings each year and coaches. then personally viewing and determining valuations for such buildings. After the Town·ship Assessor has $1 completed his valuations, tb.e books are kept in the office of. the County Board of Assessors where any clerical errors or omissions made by the township assessor may be corrected. Although the individual valuations set by the SEE YOUR REAL TOR local assessor are not supposed to be changed in the office of the County or Board of Assessors, investigations have shown that a large number of cuts have been made in the past while the books were. in this office, without authority or lnditm HiU Euat,. Ollicn: Loop 0/icn: Del Ltlgo Ollie,.: heanng as to the merits in the indiLocust Road at Ashland 2 o 8 S. La Salle Struc g6o Spanish Coon vidual cases. In fact era'sures and subState 0266 · Wilmette 2692-2792 Wilmette 37<40 stitution of lower figures, without any Grttnleaf 3 1 <4 <4 notation to indicate who made the change, became a common practice. After the Township Assessor has com_pleted his valuations and any clertcal errors or omissions have been adjoining the College inn, and after the lecture have lun.c heon and a question box. Her subject for her class Monday, April 15, will be "Planting Tables; Color Schemes ; Design in the Garden ; Garden Do's and Garden Don'ts." By request, Mrs. Lind is commencing an advance study course on Friday mornings, the first to be held this week. Course tickets, which m~y be procured at the door, . may be used for either course. Mike Hanley to Coach Qaddield at ·eolumbia M. V. "Mike" Hanley of the North Shore hotel, brother of Dick anti Pat Hanley, Northwestern univ:ersity football coaches, has just been appointed head' backfield coach at Columbia university under C. F . Crowley. Hanley played football a:t the University of Washington for three years, where he was running mate of George Wilson. He was all-coast selection Mr. and Mrs. Frank \Vidger of 128 and was regarded as one of the best Fifth street left Wednesday for a te!l kickers of the west. Later he assisted days' stay at Hot Springs, Ark. Coach Charles Bachman at Kano;;as Agricultural college for two yean. He has just returned from spring practice p $ at Columbia. TOWN BOARD RECEIVES TAX VALUATION REPORT Special Committee .Recommends General Level of Valuation Be Kept to Minimum MORTGAGES Construction Loans BROAD'\'/AY "'Je. STRAIGHT DISTINCTAs the Separate Notes of a SongAre the Homes in I .... Indian Hill Estates And like the cadence of music, the Estates homes harmonize· with delightful order and dignity in the English Quadra_ ngle plan- . Chateau, Tower, Brittany, Gothic, Tudor, are the names of some of the notes of the ever increasing scores of distinctive homes. Only three houses of thirteen · built by Bills Bros., Inc., remain unsold. Indian Hill Estates Yet you can build iri Indian Hill Estates at less cost than you can buy in the older sections of the North Shore where land values have advanced to as much as oo per front foot more than in Estates. BILLS REALTY, INC.