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NOVEMBER 29, 1917 PAGE 2 CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL ' i t .. .anaunliiin annul lime ngunun " n home people in their home town. BY tiCV LAWttAKTTE K-ntcrort at the nostoffica at Prinevllla. Oregon, as ocond-laf , rh,"u' matter. IH HUSHED EVKRY TlltRSlAY Price $1.60 per year, payable strictly In advance. In rase of change of address please notify us at once, giving both old and new addreaa. fitlS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREI6I ADVERTISING BY THE "rPlJ JflWa J aBBBBBlaaBBBBBsaBaBBBBsaBat GENERAL Or PICES) NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BLANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES It had paid butehers, grocers, dry goodB merchants, hardware mer- the landlord, the lea man, the laundry man, the milk man, the waahwon.au, and had served doiens of other useful purposes. One resident reported that the bill had passed through his hands ihnw different times during the week. Each time it completed Us part in iiiinKuc-tiiin. it nassed on to the next. This demonstration showed in conclusive manner what a single dollar can do when kept at nome. It proves beyond the question of a doubt, the utter folly of taking or sending money out of town to be spent. THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving in this year 1917 resembles the days in which the custom originated more in many ways than ever before. Today we have the spectacle of the United States, which has become in many respects the most powerful nation in the world, joined with her old enemies in fighting for the prin ciples on which this nation was founded, and for which but so few people stood in the old days when our forefathers gave thanks that they had lived another year, and had sufficient potatoes, pumpkins and other crops to put them through the trials of another winter. The I'nited States as a nation should be thankful that she has reached the point where millions of her best men are ready to take up arms and enter the most deadly war that was ever fought, for the prin ciple of right, and in support of the weak, with a view that all men should be permitted to enjoy the freedom they desire, regardless of the strength or weakness of their nation, just so long as their freedom does not conflict with the freedom of others, which we have demon strated is the real fundamental principle of government. She should be thankful that so many of the nations of the world have not only seen the justice of our position and taken the stand with us in these matters, but they too realize the power that is trying to dominate the freedom of men, and have united in arms against this power. She should be thankful that her leader and his helpers are men who realize and recognize that there is a God, and Insist that the principles of this nation be supported by the teachings of the original and great est of laws, those to be found in the Holy Bible. She should be thankful that this war has come as it has, with the yes of the people open and seeing that the principles are right, and that their duties lie in Btanding as one individual, behind every move that our government makes, for in ninety-nine per cent of the decisions and announcements the government makes it is right, and in the one per cent its incorrect decisions must not be admitted, for they are all made in (he best of faith, and with but the one end in view, that of better ing all humanity, and fighting the battles of civilization and Christian ity against anarchy, disorganization .and the forces of the devil himself, in all his power. Central Oregon and Prineville should be thankful that they have reached the dawn of a new era, and -every individual should be alert to do not only his own work, but at least the work of one other, that the progress of this great commun ity be not checked because of the war. Let every man bear his burden. WAR STAMP ACT IS ' MI DECEMBER. (Continued from Page 1) packages on which the postage amounts to 25 cent or mom, boar- lug a 1 per cent tax for every 15 cents postage or fraction thereof. No package may be transported un til the tax Is alllxed. THE COIBSE OF A DOLLAR BILL It's an old saying, but still, very true, "If you keep your dollars at home, you'll have more dollars to keep." In a central western town of 20, 000 population a short time ago, the soundness of the idea was dem onstrated to the town folks. A banker marked a single dollar bill. Then Instructions were issued that the bill should be kept in town, that each transaction in which the bill figured was to be reported and that at the end of the week, the bill wm to be returned to the bank. The dollar bill was passed out to a customer Monday morning, and by the end of the week, it had been beard from exactly 12 8 times, each imposed by this subdivision. Capital Stock Taxed The tax on each original issue of capital stock, whether on organiza tion or reorganization, on each $100 of face value or fraction thereof shall be 5 cents a share. If the ac tual value is In excess of $100 a share, the tax shall be & cents on each 1100 of actual value or frac tion thereof. Capital stock, sales or transfers. on each $100 of face value or frac tion thereof, shall pay 2 cents, and where such shares are without par value the tax shall be 2 cents on the transfer or sale or agreement to sell on each share. If in excess of $100 a share, the tax shall be based on each $100 of actual value or fraction thereof. Sales of produce on exchange are taxed as follows: Upon each sale, agreement of sale, or agreement to sell, including so-called transferred or scratch sales, and products or merchandise at any exchange, or board of trade, or other similar place, for future delivery, for each $100 in value of the merchandise covered by such sale or agreement, 2 cents, and for each additional $100 or fractional part thereof in excess of $100, 2 cents. Drafts and checks payable other wise than by sight or on demand, promissory notes, except bank notes issued for circulation, and for each renewal of the same, for a sum not exceeding $100, 2 cents; for each additional $100 or fractional part. 2 cents. Conveyances, deeds, instruments. or writings whereby any realty shall be conveyed or assigned, when the consideration or value of any lien or encumbrance remaining thereon at the time of sale, exceeds $100 and does not exceed; $500, tax of 50 cents, and for each additional $500 or fraction thereof, 50 cents. Ticket Tax Listed Entry of any goods or merchan dise at any custom-house, either for consumption or warehousing, not exceeding $100 in value, a tax of 25 cents; exceeding $100 and not ex ceeding $500 in value, 50 cents; exceeding $500 in value, $1. Entry for the withdrawal of any goods or merchandise from customs bonded warehouse, 50 cents. Passage tickets, one way or round trip, for each passenger, sold or issued in the United States for pas sage by any vessel to a port or place not in the United States, Canada or Mexico, if costing not exceeding $30 a $1 tax; more than $30 and not exceeding $60, tax of $3; costing more than $60, tax of $5. Passage tickets of $10 or less shall be ex empt from taxation. Proxies for voting at any election for officers, or meeting for the tran saction of business, of any incor porated company or association, other than religious, charitable, fra ternal, or literary societies or public cemeteries, a tax of 10 cents. Power of attorney is taxed at 25 cents; providing that no stamps shall be required upon any papers necessary to be used for the collec tion of claims from the United States or any state for pensions, back pay, bountv. or for property lost in the military or naval service, or upon nowers of attorneys required in bankruptcy cases. The act provides for the sales of tax stamps at postoffices. They may also be obtained, in Portland, at the office of Milton A. Miller, Collector of Internal Revenue. The penalty for failing to affix the proper amount of stamps to designated legal documents or pa pers is fixed at not more than $100 for each offense, while the penalty for fraudulent use or alteration is fixed at not more than $100, or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, in the discretion of the court. Included in the revenue measure and subject to stamp tax are playing cards, which must pay a tax of 5 cents a package; and parcel post The awrag salary being paid mn teachers throughout the slate for 1917 Is $98.63 and for women It .Is $65.75, according to figures contained In th official directory of school teachers, being issued by J. A. Churchill, super intendent of public instruction. The values of railroad securities art falling with such rapidity as to a source of great alarm to bankers lit the east. Is the statement of Frank J. Miller, chairman of the public service commission, who has Just returned from several weeks' trip la the eastern stales. Mount Angel was the host to hun dreds of visitors who swarmed from Salem, Sllverton, Sublimity. Wood burn, Oregon City and other Marlon and Clackamas county points to join In celebrating the completion of a tvt mile stretch of concrete highway from Silverton te St. llenedlct abbey. The military department at the Ore gon Agricultural College at Corvallts has received an order from the war department at Washington to the ef fect that all men entering land grant colleges, except those enrolled In law, medicine, pharmacy and dentistry, are required to enroll In the reserve offi cers' training corps. At a meeting of the Oregon emer gency board $5000 was appropriated for the maintenance of the grain In spection department of the public serv ice commission up to the end of 1918 and $2500 was appropriated for the special agent fund of the governor's office to be applied to the suppression of bootleggers and activity of the I. W. W. and kindred organltatlons. A reduction of 20 cents a barrel In patent flour prices was announced at the close of a meeting of northwestern millers, held in the office of T.' B. Wilcox, chairman of the Pacific coast district. United States food adminis tration, milling division The new wholesale price of $10 a barrel for the best family patents Is now effective In all north Pacific coast markets. After requesting the North Bend city council to forego all taxes on Improve ments for fiveyears, L. J. Simpson announced that he had Induced a big corporation to Install a new plant at North Bend. The plant will be the largest on Coos bay and will, It Is stated, undertake the manufacture of boxcars, finished aeroplane stock and other materials to fill government con tracts. Five of the 664 accidents reported to the state Industrial accident com mission during the week ending No vember 15 were fatal. The fatal cases were as follows: Frank Hanes, Kerry; Mike Azne, Mobler. and Olell Hnlver- sen. Springfield, all killed in saw mill operations; and Louis Sqtiler, Salem, and Ed. Billings, Springfield, both killed while traveling on railroad property. Under the plan adopted by the war department for designating organiza tions of troops In the military service, the 3d Oregon, supplemented by a j part of the 3d District of Columbia i Infantry, Is now the 162d Infantry. The Oregon field artillery batteries A and B are now part of the 147th field artillery, and the three separate squadrons of Oregon cavalry are part of the 148th field artillery. Bonds given by officials of a state, township, county or village for the faithful performance of their duties, and any bonds given to the same po litical divisions covering contracts for governmental purposes or for the pro tection of the state, township, county or municipality are not subject to federal taxation under the war tax act, according to Information received by Secretary of State Olcott. The number of men working on state highways Is now reduced to a minimum and will be kept at that point throughout the winter, according to a statement by State Highway En gineer Nunn when asked as to what action will be taken toward recent protests of lumbermen and the state taxpayers' league against using men on state work who might be used In government service elsewhere. The Hult Lumber company, with mills at Mullno, Liberal and Carlton, has just completed negotiations with the United States government by which it is to furnish the latter with a certain kind of fir lumber turned out by the Carlton mill, which Is to be shipped direct to Chicago. This mountain timber, commonly known under the name of "bull fir," Is tough and outweighs oak two to one. Bean growers In the upper Coqullle valley, who had out extra acreage this season and garnered heavy crops, do not find a ready market for their product, since the buyers who In other years absorbed the offerings In that vicinity are not purchasing freely. The slowness of the market Is attributed to the uncertainty of the food control propaganda and buyers are expecting a price-setting to be announced, 0 LI J th Si i 10. km m m 'ZCT2 innninaffiiw Headquarters for Mince Meat Supplies Our Prices Sweet Cider, per gallon .' 50c Preferred Stock Seeded Raisins, pkg. 15c Citron Peel, per lb 30c Orange Peel, per lb 30c Lemon Peel, per lb 30c Bulk Seedless Raisins, per lb 15c Cove Orchard Apples, per box $1.65 At present no Currants are on the market We will have a full supply of fresh vegetables for the Thanksgiving table on display. MICHEL GROCERY CO. H i I n H Christmas Presents Have you begun to get them ready? For photo Shop Early! and don't forget our other lines. They make fine presents. November 1st we began a dally film service! films ( are now de veloped and printed dally. Why send fhem away to be finished? Who 1 your candidate? And don't forget to vole. The Art Shop We Prospector's Notice can handle commercially workable dcpoaita ol: Chromite Manganese Strontia Magnetite Silica Salts Alkali We will make free teat. Send tamplea and full dncripboo of depots. Chas. A. Newhall Co., Inc., Jnduitrial Chemlslt 1 8 1 0 We. tlak. Av. , Seattle, Waah. THE ELITE MILLINERY . I you have not'yet called upon us, please do so. Old friends are renewing their former patronage. New friends are made daily. Come and welcome; a cordial reception awaits your call. Everybody pleased because they receive Fair Treatment and a Squire Deal. We have a distinctive line of large and small partem hats of dependable styles, showing the art of clever workman ship. We confine ourselves to Exclusive Millinery. OLLIA M. LEWIS "Kllp-On" Veil, no pins or fastenings. Meatless Meals! In prder to assist the government in its plan to con serve beef, mutton and pork supplies, we have ar ranged for a shipment of fish each Tuesday and Thursday PRINEVILLE MEAT MARKET The Journal has the largest sworn circulation of any paper in Central Oregon. P- ' fV MAZOLA is the perfect oil for deep frying, sauteing, shortening, salad dressings and the economical one. PRESSED from the heart of golden American Corn, Mazola supplies the need for a vegetable oil which is pure and wholesome. Fry any food in Mazola and you will find it retains more of the natural flavor. Use Mazola over and over again it does not transmit taste or odor from one food to another the great factor in economy. Mazola quickly crisps the surface and thus makes fried foods more digestible free from greasiness or sogginess. And since Mazola is a vegetable oil it is an important factor in Mr. Hoover's campaign to save butter, lard and suet. Imported oils are so scarce and hich Driced now-a-rtavs that you will do well to use Mazola when you want a really delicious salad dressing. You can get Mazola from vour erocer in ninf. nnart. half-gallon, and gallon tins. The large sizes are most economical. Also ask your grocer for the free Mazola Book of Recipes, or write us direct. Your money refund- vu i insula uoes nor. give entire satisfaction. CORN PRODUCTS REFINING COMPANY 17 Battery Place, New York Saltai RttrauaLtiTM Johnson, Lieber Company Parllaod, OrtfM