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Incomes, on property, on transac
tions, on service, on anything, in ;OFOFOFC*OFOFOFObOF0FOFOFO#OFOFCMC*OFOFO#OFOFOFOFOFOF*v«v>«v«O«O«w«i>*iaFQFOF0FO#Oi
variably meets with instant opposi
ever known.
B. N . W O O D W A R D
* j The
commissioners of
Pacific tion.
Probably no tax law ever
M l tor and Publuher
county, in proposing to reserve the passed by Congress met the approval
right to dictate the places where in every detail o f any member
»mb
who
P b W U i ( 4 . i n r i T b u n d ü r n o m in i
I
the trees shall be planted and the j voted to
pass It. Those V
Vho
sup-
O I m : Qimphic Building. No. WO Pint Mmtl
kind which shall be selected,
are ported it agreed to it as a whole be
W àeeee: O B o*. WfcltoM: Kesldenc*. Blut <r
en ly preserving the harmony of the cause it was the beat they could get;
general plan. Wide latitude should they had objections to thia or. th a t,
I at tSe pot ln etc« ut N iw b org, Oregon,
be allowed, but it is. of course, de-i provision, which was carried in
I B atter.
sirable that the arrangement shall spite of them. The bill now pend-
betpleasing to the eye and that frees lng. with its multitude of princlplea-
$2.00 Per Year in Advance shall be chosen which can be re as- rates |nd provisos, is both violently
onably expected to thrive in a par- opposed and earnestly supported.
B
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ticular locality,
All the reasons
OCTOBER 17. 1918,
does not prove that It
which impel us to observe an Arbor
criticism that It Is
day
are
combined
with
the
or
wrong, when It is
Prune men are buying something
our
Memorial
day
in
the
we
shall
have
to obey It.
ore classy than Fords this season.
tion.
,
He that planteth a tree is the
The fine rain that fell Tuesday
vant of God.
R IV E E FRONT
aright and Wednesday brought the
« '
He provideth a kindness to many
■■Bile to farmers who can now plow
generations.
George Skeels is in Salem with a
and sew fall grain. ■
And faces that he hath not
men rebuilding the log dump
shall bless him.
and trestle for the C. K. Spaulding
That
Mississippi
soldier
who
So wrote Henry Van Dyke, ’ whose Company. The trestle is to be 800
wears a site No. 17 shoe six inches
emphasis upon the central idea of feet long and the work will require
w ide should be- sent across at once
service to future generations is pe the driving, of 300 piles.
James
to help kick the kaiser out of
and
John
Cation,
culiarly In keeping with the central Wintermute
France.
idea which dominates our men now George’s right and left bowers, are
In the military service of the Na helping him on the job. About 30
The high cost of living must have
days I,will be required to complete
tion.
■truck the staid old Youth's Com
the work.
panion since the current number has
The steamer. "Seon,” took as 75,-
THE COMING HEW T A iE S
an advertisement that «occupies the
000 foot boom of logs from Barcroft
fa ll front page, except space for the
Island to the Doernbechpr mill at
name o f the publication.
We must wait patitently. not only
Ndw Era last week, taking twenty-
until the war-revenue bill 'has been
four hours to the Job. The raft be
boys are Inclined to pattern passed hut also until tta extremely
longed to John Neal and was com
grown-up men it may not be complicated provisions have been I
posed of .hard wood and red fir.
to remind them that we have studied and mastered, before any
Thé steamer. “ Ella.” of Portland,
three presidents in succes- one of us can know exactly how it
made a trial trip from Portland to
Rooeevelt. Taft and Wilson; affects him, says the Youth's Com
Dayton, getting an estimate as to
smoked.
panion. A simple arithmetical calcu
the time required and fuel consumed
lation shows that eight billion dol
on {he trip. She passed up Satur
Those who* are expecting to «end lars In annual taxes means an aver
day afternoon and down Sunday
Christmas packages to soldiers in age assessment of about eighty dol
morning.
Experienced river men
France must remember that they lars for every man. woman and child
say .It Is doubtful if it will be a pay
■ s it be mailed before November 18. In the United States. Sincem large
ing proposition.
F a ll particulars regarding mailing part o f that enormous sum to to be
The steamer. “ Seon,’’ is to be gen
w ill be found elsewhere in this Issue derived from Income taxes, and
erally overhauled before winter seta
o f the Graphic.
since all incomes of lese than one j
in. The boys are now repairing and
thousand dollars are exempt, a vast
painting the upper works and Inter
Consumers bare little doubt but majority o f individuals and families
on will recaulk and gepaint her hoH.
that the new ruling to the effect will pay little or nothing to the
Her engines will also undergo
that dealers in dairy products -must Treasury unless they buy expensive
overhauling and be put In first class
not sell cream that contains
clothing or taxable beverages, or
shape, %nd the Installation of ball
than SO per cent butter fat, owing visit theatres and shows, or volun
bearing thrusts will give her great
to a shortage o f hotter, will be tarily do other things hat are to be
ly Increased power.
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faithfully complied with.
taxed. The burden w ill Call on the
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.
Jim Wintermute says Georg*
well-to-do and the rich, and «P o n ’ skM|8 ,g the champlon war. ^ rd. Q
The time was when a cord o f corporations. The richer the person
grower ,n thl8
He
■mod sold in Newberg wodld not or the corporation the greater will c,gim8 George
grew eight potatoes
b rin g enough to pay for a year's be the portion o f his or Its Income . that weIghed 23*
poUnd8. * Jlm
subscription for the Graphic at - a t will be taken In taxea.
. | w
that he raised 23 that weighed
| 1 .M a year, jrhlle now. wood sold
In general the principle of n g pounds,
at -the price some are selling for will
graduated tax. falling moat lightly j
The new high line at the mill to
pay for three years’ subscription at
on thoae in moderate circumstances now |B successful operation, several
«DtOMWQWON
82.BO a year.
and more and more heavily on . train loads of logs having been un-
wealth, to aniversally accepted
ioaded and stored.
D s n a t n y aghast at reply from
und. But it can be easily seen
Judging from the number of shots
Am erica” — this to the headline an- that the principle can be carried too
heard and the bags shown, hunters
aoandn g German press comment re far in either direction.
The poor are firing about three shots for
garding Wilson’s answer to Mas.
should undoubtedly not be exempt every bird bagged.
W ell, the whole civilized world has altogether.
In these times very
The kid swimmers and the elderly
been aghast these four years and high wages are paid for labor, ^n
fishermen are now but memories.
more at the barbarian methods pur-
spite o f the increased cost of living
Sam Linton. of the Chase A Un-
awed by the Germans in their war of
almost all artisans and even i^ y la ton Co., was in town one dty last
conquest.
borers can live better on their earn- week on business. He had just re-
lugs and save more than they could j turned from a hunting trip to South
-A former Newberg resident who
at any time in the past. This to ern Oregon, but had very little. If
was on the ragged edge while here,
their war ae’well as that of the mil- i anything, to say about game. Prob-
«w in g to his too Intimate acquaint
llonaire, and it is only Just that I ably had the car switched in at Ore-
ance with the "flow in g bowl,” to
they should contribute something to | Kon city.
■ow an employee at one of the Co
the eaurt. Hundreds of thousands ; The gravel company are shipping
lumbia R|ver shipyards and recent
of them would patriotically protest j «b ou t two car loads of concrete and
ly brought his family to Newberg
against being excluded from all par- road gravel per day, going to Mc
tor a Sunday visit in a fine new
ltd petion in the war expenses.
Minnville and Cornelius.
automobile.
No "rainy day” in
The -Spaulding Co. had another
At the othef end o f the scale are
sight for him, of course.
the very rich and the very success accident on ^their switch Tuesday
ful. There are loans to l*e raised as morning, a car leaving the track and
It Is said that the Corona Type
well as revenue.
In fact, much tearing up the ties for a distance of
W rite r Co. haa never been able to
more Is to be drawn into the Treas 200 fe e t The track was out of co« i-
’ catch up with the orders since the
A. P. D.
ury by borrowing than by taxing. [ mission for 24 hours
manufacture of the machines was
If the rates, levied upon great for
begun; that they are now more than
Char the new lamp wick in a
*-15,000 behind with orders, and that tunes are made too h e a v y , they w ill
impair
or
destroy
the
power
to
lake
!
name
for an eighth of an Inch. It
they could sell ten times as many
W e have received a good big shipment o f Hew F all Goats fa r Ladies
the
loans.
It
may
be
wise
to
de-
wm
then
run easily, with no loose
machines as they are able to manu
and
Misses. These Coats were bought early and a t a much lese price
facture.
And yet the company I b mand three-fourths of an Income of ; threads to catch in cogs,
five million dollars.
The million- j
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than they would oost were we to g% on the market to buy them aow. We
Faying 45,000 an issue for adver
aire can stand It; be Is not to be
El astic w ill remain good much
have marked them on the basis of what they oost os, so you see you oan
tising In the Saturday Evening
pitied; he has not protested. Never longer if kept dry- Sew a hook on
Post besides doing a lot of advertis
save money i f you oome early and get your pick. You w ill find them
theless, there is a limit beyond one end and an eye on the otlfer, of
in g in various other newspapers
splendid
values fo r the money. Come and look them over.
which it would not be wise to go.
lengths to be used for rompers,
«
t
and magazines.
Evidently the Co-
bloomers,
etc.,
and
remove
before
The
fact
is
that
every
scheme
pro-
W
e
have
a
big
line
of
Hew
Ginghams,
Outings,
Pennies,
Cretonne.
t iron a people have more faith in the
Yu tore than does Mr. Business Msn posed for levying taxes, whether on t the garment to washed.
Cotton Ohallies and W hite Gssds bought and marked to sell at reasonable
who does not need to advertise as
prices.
he has all the business he can take
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care of.
by the man who made end of
Newberg Graphie1 made
the greatest destroyer the world has
REMODELING
STORE
For the last three weeks we have been at work
making a complete change in the interior of our
store. We are now beginning to get our stock in
shape, and when we have the arrangements all com*
pleted we will have a strictly up-to-date store. We
will be able to have our stock in better shape and
able to wait on the trade with more speed.
Our Ladies Ready-to-Wear Department will be
under our balcony, and we will endeavor iq the fu
ture to give this department our special attention«
We are showing an unusually large line of Ladies
and Misses coats at prices for the styles and«quality
much less than Portland prices.
"Those who hav’nt been* trading here/hould get
in the habit of trading with us. We are trying to
give our trade the best service possible. Come and
get acquainted with J. C. Peterson, our new gro
cery clerk, you will like him. He is poiite, accom
modating and neat.
CASH PAID FOR EGGS
Miller Mercantile Co.
Liberty Bonds
New Fall Coats
at Baird’s
M EM O RIAL TREES FOR SOLDIERS
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It is a worthy suggest Ion made
by the South Bend. Washington,
Journal that communities plant me
morial trees as monuments to the
men of the respective localities who
have died in the service of their
country.
Tuesday's Oregonian in comment
in g on the suggestion said;
It will strike a responsive chord
to the bosom of everyone who loves
■bat which typifies human service
f t «toes not preclude other memo
■tola
Marble shafts and bronae
tablets may still have their places
appropriate to the memorial adheme
The purest human pleasures, said
■aeon, to the planting of n garden,
mad the tree to the moet stately cre*
ta re in the garden. No garden, la
Meed, in the broadest sense, would
I s complete without It. Provision
ought to he made for the matnte-
uance o f our war groves in perpetu
tty. T h e ir grateful shade will al
War s f T a reminder of the sacrifices
USED CARS
Blankets
W e have the largest lias o f Cotton Blankets ig town.
just wkat you want here.
F O ft S A L E O R T R A D E
Overland 6.1917 Mod«!
Four Ford*
HupmobtU
1 Overland 90
Buck 6, 1917 Model
Studeknker
Roo
2 Model 59 Overland*
Shoes
How is the tim e to buy thoee goad heavy Shoes fo r W inter.
always get the kind that give satisfaction and wear best at Baird's.
You
Groceries
These cArs ru ga in price from $175.00 to $1100.00
Your Liberty Bonds or W ar Savings Stamps
are as good as cash
You oan find
Yoa eaa always find a good, bless, fresh stock o f Grooeries ahd Veg
etables at Baird’s. W hy not get the habit o f buying yettr Groceries at
Baird’s? We w ill do our best to please you.
TURNER & CHRISTENSEN
Agents for
OVERLAND AND BUICK CARS
REPUBLIC TRUCKS
Phone Red 4421
McMINNVILLE, ORE
Red 37
. BAIRD