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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1913)
LOCAL BREVITIES Happy New Year. Our merchants complain of doing a fair business. Intermouutain Tribune $1.25 per year. The old year went out with a bone in its teeth. Our public schools have been in session, this week, nevertheless the holidays. L. N. Tittle started Tuesday for a two-months visit to his old home in Kansas. Merchant W. J. Lawrence of Foster, was looking after business in Sweet Home Tuesday. S. K. Lewis, of Cottage Grove, spent the holiday season with Sweet Home friends and relatives. Frank Brady, We are told, is a candidate for city marshal a matter to be fixed by the new council. Keep your feet dry by buying and wearing a pair of those Ball Band rubbers for sale at Scholl’s. Doc. Wilson has treated himself with a new buggy. He can drive faster with the new vehicle than he could with the old one. Our new High school building will not be ready for occupancy for some weeks, owing to the fact that the heating plant is yet to be in stalled. Supervisor Mack Moss of Holley, was greeting his friends in town Tuesday. He is now busily planning road work for his district for the coming year. All of the 12-4 homesteaders are still in Portland or elsewhere, visit ing with on exception. They are combining pleasure with business, evidently. No use to grieve over past mis takes. Set your face to the future with a resolution to avoid the mis takes, indiscretions, etc., for which you now grieve. Square up the books of the past year’s business Mr. Merchant and start in the new year with a clean score. But don’t forget to make provision for advertising. It- pays. Drs. Lowe & Turner, the well known eye specialists of Portland, will be in Lebanon again on Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 12 and 13, at Hotel Lebanon. Dr. Wilson reported1 two births, last week as follows: To Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Wiley, on December 21, a 10-pound girl and to Mr. and Mrs. J., H. Steingrandt, on Christmas day, an 8-pound girl. There is some sense, Joe, in this kind of a Christmas gift. Telegraphic Notes Bud Anderson, the Vancouver, Wash., pugulist and Leach Cross, the man who knocked Bud out some months ago at Vernon, Cal., are having another try at the boxing game today. When Bud was de feated by Cross, he was suffering from appendicitis and was operated upon two or three days thereafter. He is said to be in fine condition for the fight today. Governor West has sent his pri vate secretary, Miss Fern Hobbs, to Copperfield to take charge of the local option trouble in that mining town. The governor seems to have full confidence that Miss Hobbs will be master of the situation. President Wilson has recalled. Special Envoy Lind to Mexico, to confer with him at the “winter capitol” at Pass Christian, Miss. A Walla Walla man has advertis ed for a “second-hand” wife. has surprised his goats CONTINUED RAIN SEEN! With A. a Horner new wire fence. We make a Specialty of Friendship, All kinds of watch and jewelry Engagement and Wedding Rings. F. repairing correctly done at Stacy’s, Lebanon. The Cowitz brothers have been M. French & Son, Albany. making improvements by pulling Let Stacy fix vour wàtch. Work Fresh and. pure drugs constantly San Francisco, Dec. 30.—Father stumps and young trees. guaranteed. In Courtney building, on hand at the City Drug Store, Dr. Richard’s long-range weather fore Lebanon. N. R. Luther, prop. cast for January predicts continued Onlv the best mainsprings used wet weather for the entire Pacific for watches. Stacy, Lebanon. coast and storm periods occurring as follows: January 2 to 6, 9 to 12, 15 to 19, 22 to 28; February 1,-4 to 7. Intermediate dates for new storms Ladies Wating Room January 4, 10, 17, 24, 30. WE WANT YOUR TRADE AND “By no manner of means expect WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT. rain from any and every storm,” writes Father Richard, “and never think the territory we cover is a Phone Main 101- LEBANON, ORE. strip of land 200 miles wide from San Francisco across the Santa Clara Valley. Our territory is the whole Pacific coast. “A comparison of thè forecast for Undertaking, Embalming and Funeral December and the records of the Weather Bureay shows,” continues - ------ —-------Director--------------------- the report, “that they coincide Bl exactly with the single exception of CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED the storm predicted for December DAY OR NIGHT 10, which Arrived December 11. “The Weather Bureau is our best associate. If it did not exist we H. R. SLAVENS would ask the people of the United States to create it at once and re Phone 3x6 SWEET HOME, ORE. munerate it more generously. Such ■i a body of splendid and conscious observers are laying deep down the "Il i foundation on which a true science of meteorology can be raised and from which, as a point of departure, long-range forecasting can soar into the dim regions of futurity.” When in Lebanon stop at the DegoHjver^Bam B. O. BELIEU, Prop. RK! New Income Tax Ruling Washington, Dec, 30.—Further regulations for payment of the’In come tax issued today, provide that j husband and wife living together! shall be entitled to an exemption of $4000 from the aggregate net income of both, but when separated and living apart permanently, each shall be entitled to a $3000 exemp- ton. Where husband and wife living I together have Separate estates, their income may be made on one return i but the amount of the income of I each with the full names and ad-j dresses must be shown. , The husband, the regulation says,' should make the return as the head and legal representative of the household. Where a wife has an j estate managed by herself, from which she receives an income of more than $3000, she may make her own return, and if the husband; in such cases, has an income which brings the total above $4000, the wife’s return should be attached to that of her husband or vice versa. Where either husband or wife has an income of $3000 or more a re turn is required under the law, no matter whether the combined in come of both be less than $4000. When the joint income exceeds $4000, husband and wife are jointly and separately liable for making the proper returns and for the payment of the tax. The single or married status of persons claiming the ex emptions provided shall be deter mined at the time made, if it is made within the year of the return otherwise the states shall be in the treasury department at the close of the yeai;. Pleasannt Valley Items Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Horner were guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. Horner Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Miller lost one of his work horses last week. Quite a number of young folks from Pleasant Valley attended the Christmas tree exercises at Sweet Home. The Pleasant Valley school will reopen the first Monday in January with L. E. Simons of Sodaville, as teacher. STOP GUESSING In buying things to wear, don’t take chances. Know before you buy that you are getting goods that are right and that will stay right. PLc CLTC- Specialists *n Clothing and Furnishing goods busi- " ness, carrying complete lines of Mens and Boys Suits, Overcoats, Shoes, Hats» Shirts, Underwear, etc. of all kinds. We have the newest and modi complete stock in Lebanon and our prices are thé lowest, Qpality considered. You Are Incited to visit our store when in town and look over our merchandise whether you buy or not. WE HAVE WHAT YOU WANT AT THE PRICE YOU WANT TO PAY LEBANON CLOTHING CO. HOTEL BUILDING R. WAYNE GREEN, Mgr.