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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1919)
The Tax O b s e rv e r. W o rk on the collection of the estimated $6.000.000,000 of new income tax revenue has been be gun by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The provisions of the F R ID A Y .......... February 28, 1919 act reach the pocket-book of every single person in the United States Entered m »ecood claaa matter at the whose net income for 1918 was poet oftcc at M oro. Ore<oo, July 25, 1891. $1000, or more, and of every mar ried person whose net income was C. L . I r e l a n d .............. Manager. $2000 or more. Persons whose net income equaled or exceeded these amounts, according to their marital status, must file a return of income with the collector of in ternal revenue for the district in which they live on or before - M y C o u n tr y T i e of Thee, Swoot March 15. Here is what will hap of L iberty." \ pen to them if they don’t. . MORO. OREGON. Qfiùl hp fir t a to y . For failure to file a return on time, a fine of not more than The following data compiled by $1000 and an additional assessment County School Superintendent >f 25 per cent of the amount of Curfman will be of interest to the tax due. For “ willfully refusing” to make readers of the Observer: There are 54 teachers employed a return on time, a fine not ex in Sherman county, divided equal ceeding $10,000, or not exceeding ly between town and rural schools. one years imprisonment, or both. Wasco employs 10. M oro 9 ,Grass For making a false or fraudu Valley 8, Kent 4. There a re '3 0 lent return, a fine of not more school districts in the county; 28 than $10,000, or imprisonment of rural and 4 high Schools. not more than one year, or both, The average salary paid town together with ap. additional as grade teachers is $93.75. The low sessment of 50 per cent of the est wage paid a high school teach amount of tax evaded. er is $100. Seven town teachers For failure to pay the tax on receive $100. Average salary paid time, a fine of not more than rural teachers is $81.66. highest sal $1000 and an additional assessment of 5 per cent of the amount of ary paid is $90 and lowest $65. There are 1118 boys and girls in tax unpaid, plus 1 per cent inter the county between the ages of est for each full month during and 20. The total county enroll which it remains unpaid. ment for the current term is 919, In addition to the personal ex 535 in town and 384 in rural emptions, taxpayers are allowed schools. Wasco has an enroll an exemption of $200 for each ment of 192, M oro 139, Grass person dependent upon them for Valley 114, Kent 90. Wasco high chief support if such person is un school has 54. M oro 49, Grass der 18 years of age and incapable VaHey 23, Kent 13; total 140. In of self-support. Under the 1917 the 8th grade— rural schools. 33; in town, 60; total 8th grade en act this exemption was allowed only for each dependent “ child.” ment, 93. Cotraty School Statistics or DM (OOM 1 have given a lot of attention to the latest styles for M en’s Spring and Summer Suits, and feel sure that these Suitings cannot be approached for qual ity of fabric and style in tailoring. U. B IM ESTER , Merchant Tailor M O RO , P r e s s in o an d O REG O N D y e in g - OWN A HOME The normal rate of tax under the new act is 6 per cent of the first $4000 of net income above the exemptions, and 12’fcercentof the net income in excess of $4000. Incomes in excess of $5000 are subject also to a surtax ranging 1 per cent of the amount of the net income between $5000 And $6000 to 65 per cent of the nCt in come above $1,000,000. Revenue officers will visit every county in the United States to aid taxpayers in making oat their re turns. Failure to see these offi cers, however, does not relieve the taxpayer of his obligation to file his return and pay his tax with in the time specified -by law. In this case taxpayers must seek the Government,not the Government the taxpayer. Wkeat Price Guarantee* The administration billion dol ar wheat guarantee bill was passed by the house February 22 by a vote of 277 to 15. The bill as re ported out by the agricultural committee was amended only in two important particulars. One Representative Moore of Penn sylvania limits the life of the act to June 1, 1920, instead of Octo ber 15. 1920; the other by repre sentative McLaughlin of Michigan jroadens the power of the presi dent to restrict the importation of wheat if such action is found nec essary to protect the United States government against undue loss in making good the guarantee Un der this legislation, the wheatgrow ers will be paid $2.26 a bushel for their 1918 and 1919 crops. yy For ' Your Children’s Sake BUILD N O W City Hall Court House School House Memorial Factory Church of the Country BUILD N O W ! BUILD N O W U . S. Dept. of Labor W . B. Wilson, Sec, W . B. Wilson, Sec. IM P O R T A N T N O T IC E This page of ads are copies of a number o f various colored posters that were sent out to the build ing industry from the office of the U . S. Department of Labor, W . B. Wilson,«Secretary, for free distribution to encourage immediate building. ‘ ‘ May We Submit Free Plans and Make Estimates? T u m -A -L u m LU MBER COMPANY H. U. MARTIN, Manager, Moro, Ore. Let THIS BUILDING he built KEEP T IM E S GOOD find Own His Own Home BUILDING. NO W that the owner wil Ibe encouraged to W Ijibor B Witoon Sec MILD UOIKR U . S. Dept. ot Lebor * EVERY So Well So Quickly U . B. Dept. o< / Want to see W AGE-EARNER by W . B W ilaon. Sec. Fred Haynes made a trip to Portland Monday. John Odell was a business visi tor from Grass Valley Tuesday? J. K- Lby and C. O . Giidea went to M oro on business Thurs day. W . B. W th o n . Sec. of Labor During the War it was Patriotic Not to Build NOW we can best show our Patriotism by BUILDING • r \ U . 8. Dept. of Labor W . B. W llaoa.Bec. O . S. Dept. of Labor W . B. W iU oo. Sec. Henry Schadewitz went to Was co Monday, returning with a new Ford. that BMldcs h e i j lathering Ua naoa. the P taanna n a U a t doctrine J«a* Monroe alwayi preached conaervatloo by baaklag. We kiean ew made the LoaWaaa purchase possible. Every great bum « 7 * booking to The pupils of the 7th and 8th grades gave a surprise party for Cleo Bayless Monday evening. Arthur Justeson left Wednes day for Camp Lewie, where he expects to meet his brother Theo dore who has been in the service in France. The play given Saturday even ing by the lodge, called “ The Family Affair,” was very good. The performance lasted about an hour and a half, after which the Rebecca’s served a lunch in the basement. It is reported that the net proceeds were $123.90. The Christian Endeavor will hold a social next Saturday even ing in the assembly room of the school house. All members are especially invited. If you come bring 10 or 15 cents in pennies. They are going to try a unique A dead grand fir tree, four feet idea of raising money. You will in diameter, was ignited June 27, learn particulars when you come. 1918, during a forest fire, and Obituary burned continuously until Novem ber 8 although heavy rains visited Hattie Larison was born in Lane the region in September and Oc county, Oregon, on September tober. The tree stood near the 29, 1873, coming to Eastern O re north fork Cispus river, on the gon with her parents when a small Rainier National Forest. When child. She was married to Philip last seen the tree was still burning Zobel at Springfield, O re., Sept and had been reduced to a stub 40 10, 1892. Coming to this county feet high. Fires of this sort per in 1901 she had resided continual sist on account of the clinkers ly here since. The home was which form and lie in the center blessed with seven children, of or lowest part of the burning sur whom four daughters and op^son face. The clinkers resemble those survive their mother. A ll four in the bottom of a blacksmith’s daughters live in this county, the forge and are like red-hot bricks. son is with the army in France. A tremendous amount of rainfall After a weeks* illness Mrs. Z o is necessary to cool them off. bel breathed her last Monday, The daylight saving law will most likely be repealed by con gress through an amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill now pending in congress. Sena tor Calder, the author of the idea, says the law is in “ grave danger because of opposition from “ mis guided farmers who suppose fhat they must go to work by the clock and rest by the sun.” Friends of the measure claim food produc tion has been stimulated, health improved and electric light bills reduced more than one-tenth dur ing the summer under this law. Nothing is said about the upset to operation of business in the farming communities. George Washington’s birthday witnessed a record-breaking scien tific feat when Secretary of the Navy Daniels, sitting in his office, talked to President Wilson on board the U . S. S. George Wash ington, 600 miles at sea. The total distance traversed by Secretary Daniels* voice was 1700 miles. The conversation was carried on over the wireless telephone which the navy department has now de veloped to a high degree of effi ciency, so much so that transmis sion of the human voice across the ocean will be common at no distant date, it is thought. M . B. Parouoagian, an Armen ian who came to this country just before the war began and who has many near relatives in that strick en country.will talk to the people of Sherman county on “ Armenia, her people and conditions there at Wasco on March 3d, at Grass Valley March 4th. M oro, school auditorium^March 5th, and Kent on March 6th. Subacriptions will not be asked at any of these meet ings. M r. Parounagin comes un der the auspices of the local A r menian Relief committee. Communication between an air plane in the air and a regular tele phone on the Washington city line was recently established at the office of Maj.-Gen. W illiam L. Kenly, director of military aero nautics. Although regular radio- telephonic conversation frequent ly has been held with planes in the air at flying fields, this is the first demonstration of the combin ation of the radiophone and regu4 lar land telephone. 3 » Subscribe lor the Observer. Monroe, Banker A n d Diplomat Guy C. Haynes went to Port land Sunday to remain'for a few days. that U . S. Dept. of Labor U . S. Dept. of Labor W . B. Wilson. Sec. Some idea of what has been done, in furnishing horses and mules for overseas service may be gained fixftn a report just made by the statistical section of the re mount division of the U . 8 W a r Department. This shows that up to January) 11th there had been shipped overseas from this coun try a total of 67,948 animala,which included 5.489 cavalry horses, 33,- 396‘draft horses, 28,088 draft mules and 975 pack mules. The total number of animals lost en route overseas is 600 horses and mules, or less than 1 per cept of the total number of animals shipped. These figures do not include sales made during the war to foreign govern ments. Plans are now being outlined by the remount division for the en couragement of horse breeding in this country with a view to supply ing suitable cavalry and artillery horses in the future. Reports from the bureau of animal industry show that there were 2.9 per cent tnore horses and 8.4 per cent more mules on the farms in the United States on January 1, 1918, than there were on January 1, 1914. According to reports there is no appreciable decrease in the num ber of animals in the rural dis tricts of England, while there is about a 20 per cent prewar de crease in France. Fully one-half the total value of all farm crops in 1918 at the farm, according to the bureau of crop estimates of the United States de partment of Agriculture, is found in the cereals, the crop total be ing $14.222,000.000 and the cereal total $7.079,000,000. The group next below in value is that of the fiber crops, cotton and hemp, but the latter is insignificant. Includ ing cotton seed, these two crops have a value of SI,946,000,000, Qf 14 per cent of the aggregate of all crops. Construction Adds to the Wealth Ksat It Horses aU Matos h r tku Anay The measure is now before thg senate for final action and must be passed by that body before March 4th or fail entirely, as congress ad journs by limitation on that date. . LOOK! SUITS 10 ■ The head of a family.—one who supports one or more . persqps closely connected with him by blood relationship, relationship by marriage <>i by adoption— is en titled-to all exemptions allowed a married person. Feb. 24. at the family home south west of Grass Valley, aged 45 years, 4 months and 25 days. The funeral service was held in the M oro Presbyterian church, Rev. B. Trueblood Smith officiat ing. and interment was in Rose cemetery, where the remains now repose by the side of her two children who preceded her to the eternal shores. the bulwark of tfito country- Every business men, every sms , every women, should have a hank sccouat Have you one? If you haven’t, start with us today. BANK OF MORO its your own money you're spending, says Barney McGt ••G o ahead and good tobacco taste chew your sweet, stays with it.” taste, »«nailer ehaw, sticky plug, if you Good longer life is what makaa G en like it. But there uine Gravely cost less to ohaw pl»<- isn ’t an ordinary thaa ordinary ITri« <•;— tobacco that’s one, G b n u i n b G r a v e l y danvillb . v a . two, three with Real / . r fcetfrJ — ■ Gravely. The real Peyton Brand REAL CHEWING PLUG / Plug packed in pouch. F O S S ¿6 O O - in c JM O R O , O R E. * / GARAGE Blacksmith and Machine Shop Firestone TIR ES • h tliy e ar. Card of Tbanks W e wish to most sincerely thank our many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and at the time of the death of our beloved wife and mother. P. H . Zobel and family. Gas, Oils, Grease and Accessories Auto R epairing and Storage Ir o n , S te e l and C o a l, H a r d w o o d C a r r ia e a n d W a on M a t e r ia l. DELCOLIGHT c h e C o m /)/o tc e /c c tr /c //$ h t a n d p o w e r p /a n t ,%/>< .> < - / //£ ’ </•.'//> d t / s c d b y fh c A rm y a n d A u yy i tic 1 w s > d u d the Y./1.C.A. More than four thousand Delco-Light plants were de livered for war work. They were used to supply elec tric ligh t in camps, storehouses, hospitals, Y. li. C. A. huts, airplane hangars, sub-chasers and other branches of the service. Jn R e d C r o s s h o sp ita ls a t the front, Delco- L igh t operated life-saving X -ray apparatus. D elco-Light was specified by the Government because it is dependable, efficient, simple to operate,—requires little attention, and because it is AIR-COOLED. The result of Government testa and the satisfactory Use of Delco-Light on over 60,000 farms are your as surance that Delco-Light w ill give you the same de pendable service. I t betters living conditions^—increases farm efficiency, and soon />oyx fa r itself in tune and labor saved. HULERY BROS. MORO OREGON ENCINCEaiNG CO, D«rta«. OUa «f DXLCO4JGHT P U m M IL J I? J- • « M V OP />/ 7. CO L /G f/P is mi r\ ■ /. » ///»,’ ‘ more ¿ > 3 « S U itKlF ¿ ------- -
