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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26
STAMP TAXES effective
DEcEM BE3 1ST

The provisions of the Emergency
Revenue act passed by Congress
October %, 1914, levying stamp
tav on various documents, legal
and commercial papers, etc., be-
comes effective December 1st. The
provision levying a tax upon all
cosmetics, perfumes and toilet ar
ticles of all kinds and chewing gum
also goes into effect at the same
time.
| The documentary t 4 m p x
makes levy on most of the classes
of papers which were called upon
to contribute to Uncle Sam s.coffers
d ring the panish-American war.
Information as 10 the amount of the
tax and the papers tequired to be
stamped can be secured at any
bank. All papers to which stamp
tax is levied that are executed on
and after December LIST without
having the proper stamp attached
are null and void, and in addition
thereto the party executing such
paper without the payment of the
tax becomes liable to a severe fine.
The tax on cosmetics, perfumes,
toilet articles, etc, is at the rate of
IS cent for each 5-cent=packaged, a
cent for retail value Of over to
10 cents, IS cent to Is cents, IS cent
to Is cents, and IS cent additional
for each Is cents of additional val
ne or fractional part thereof. All
goods in stack of retail deolerS on
D. cember 1st, to which the tax ap-
plies, will have to be stamped be-
fore being sold, and all goods placed
upon the market by the mannfac-
turer on and after that date will
have to be stamped by him. Chew
ing gum is taxed at the rate of 4
cents for each package or carton of
the retail value of 81 90, and all
gum in the hands of dealers on De-
cember 1st will be required to be
stamped before being sold.
Stamps for both documentary and
proprietory use can be secured at
the office of the Collector of Inter
nal Revenue, Madison. or of Theo
Ritter, Deputy Stamp Collector.
La Crosse, or Jerry Palmer, Stamp
Deputy, Chippewa Falls Many
banks are also handling the stamps
as matter of accommodation to their
customers.
In addition to the above a stamp
tax was levied by the same law up
on all "still" wines, champ agnes,
sparkling and artifcially carbonat
ed wines, liqueurs, cordials or
other similar compounds. which
went into effect October 23rd. Every
dealer selling any SD ch articles to
consumers is required to attach the
proper wine stamp before sale. The
tax is at the rate of 2 cents a quart
on still" wines, 20 cents a quart
on champagnes, etc., and cents a
quart on "liquers. cordials, etc.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26
HOME CULTURE CLUB
December 2, 1914.

Talk on Palestine. Miss Moshel
Travels in England: Lake District
English Switzerland; Topography
Windmere, Grasmere, Derwent
water, Coniston, Crumwockwater
Ullswater, Skiddan.
Readings from lake poets, mostly
Wordsworth.
Leader, Mrs. Mabel Flower.
Hostess, Mrs. Ada Bliss.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26
LET Us HELP THE
WAR SUFFERERS

A mass meeting will be held in
the Normal school auditorium at
1880 p. m. Sunday in the interest of
the war sufferers. A program is
being arranged. All citizens are
invited to be present at this meet
ing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26

\
1f NhSZ% bond statesmen
cATst2es 4 seaSSfs9Nl of Milwaukee,
e=z==S--- including rep
resentatives of all its banks, its
bonding corporations, life insur-
ance companies, and other financial
corporations, will this year carry
on the most unique selling cam
paign that Wisconsin has eve r
known. They are inaugurating a
plan which will probably be copied
by other cities in this and other
states and which promises to be
one of the most effective means of
financing the fight against disease,
which is being carried on by the
Wisconsin Anti Tuberculosis Asso-
citation and kindred organizations.
The sale will be entirely, separate
from the usual sale carried on by
t he association managers, e
schools and other agencies.
Following the statement of Sam
uel Hopkins Adams, the eastern
magazine writer who has been in
Wisconsin gathering material for an
article on the public health work of
the Wisconsin Tuberculosis
Association, to the effect that the
Wisconsin association is the most
expert and most economically ad-
ministered of the state associations
for fighting disease, it occurred to
several Milwaukee men that such
work should not be forced to rely
for financial support solely on the
pennies brought in by the annual
sale of Christmas seals. These
pennies emount to less than $780,
600 year, part of which goes to
local health organizations, making
the balance devoted to the state
work, which n every instance IS
the foundation of the local work.
The Milwaukee men decided that
the work OF the Wisconsin Anti
tuberculosis association deserved
recognition from the state and from
it's large financial interests as a
business proposition rather than as
philanthropy. They felt that if
the facts were brought home to
moneyed men and large employers
of labor, they would see the eco
nomic value of movement to pre-
vent the spread of disease an thus
increase human efficiency. They
decided to do their share in bring
ing about a new condition of aft airs
and they believe that as a result of
this years work in Milwaukee, 9th.
er cities will be stimulated to fol-
low the example set by this unique
campaign.
On the thirtieth day of November,
a selling force of from thirty FIVE to
fifty of the best known bond and
security statesmen in the city OF Mil
waukee, organized into four teams
captained by representative bond
men, will start out on a systematic
campaign to sell Christmas seals
by the hundreds of dollars worth.
They will call only on business
men, leaving the general field to the
school children and other agencies
in the regular sale, and will work
one week, each man having volun-
teered to devote at least from one
to two hours to this special cam
paign.
Walter Hasten, vice president OF
the Wisconsin National Bank, is
the campaign treasurer, and r. w.
Schoyer, well known bondman, is
campaign manager. The general
advisory committee is composed al.
most entirely of bank vice presi
dents and cashiers and some of the
best known men of the state are
sponsors for the movement which
it is believed, will have state wide
interest.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26

Substitutes - Kuenning, O'Con.
nell and English for River Falls.
Referee, Huegel of Mar
quette; Umpire, Pettijohn of Mime
sofa; Head Linesman, Schueller of
Madison.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

Council Chamber, City OF River Falls,
Nov. 10, 1914.
Regular meeting of the Common Council
Council convened at eight O'Clock p. m
Mayor Stiles in the chair Aldermen present,
Carlsch, Ostness and Elertson. Absent, Brow
ell
Finance committee reported the following
claims approved
E. Buck Salary Electrician ..........S so 90
A.. Renter 4" ........ % 80
James Sweet . 20 IS
M. Briggs +" .......... q so
w. Campbell Labor wiring .............. 81 so
w Patterson " electrical work 80 90
Crane Company Supplies w. w. dept. 81 or
Standard Oil Co OIL for fuel ......... II IS
Tubbs Medicine Co. 1 bale excelsior. 90
Pierce Co Tel Co Messages 3 90
ST. Paul Ell Co. Electric supplies .. 26 As
N w. Ell Equipment Co ....... 125 II
General Eel. Co. Motors and supplies. 246 81
E. d. Lord Map of city ............ a 90
Crane Co. Supplies for W. w dept. 90
G. q. Knowles Inspector OF electric and
making returns ............... ..... 90
c. f. Eelson Printing bonds, material. 6 90
r. N Jensen & Sons Pauper aid ........ 747
Albert Ramberg Salary Chief Of Police 80 90
Alice L. Hardy s. bookkeeper.... 1871
F. v. Williams Street commissioners. 6 rs
John Sherburne Labor on streets, etc. q 90
Lutte Mckee 10 So
John Mapes % 80
VIM McIlroy 40 is
E. E. Nash 1884
Knute Wigen $50
VIM. McCoemick IL
Reggie Roehl q 25
John Kelley 225
IL rIo,za usrafob+ a,,d zro,vooa 90
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26
ESTRAY NOTICE

Two calves, red and white spot.
ted, are at my place in Big River.
Owner may have same by paying
charges Phone 1872 u BEN HEINZ
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26
BORN

FIX 1NS-In the town of Rive
Falls, Sunday, Novemt er %, 1914,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Al. Filkins, a son.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26

eyed men and
large financial
interests as an
investment o t
security, t b G
bond statesmen
of Milwaukee,
including rep
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26
BOARD OF AUDIT

The Board of Audit of the Town
of River Falls will meet at the
Clerks Office on Tuesday, Decem-
Der l. L. ]. KINNEY. Clerk.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26
AuTI-TUgERCULOSIS
ASSOCIATION WORK

BY making business of selling
Red Cross Christmas seals to mon
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26

The Art Circle will meet Tuesday
Dec. l, with Mrs. Henry Elliott.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26

ALLEN P. WELD, City Clerk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28

Batavia, n. Y, fam; kellogg Toasted
Corn Flake Company. Philadelphia,
Pa; Kingan Provision Company; Leg
gift and Company, Francis H., New
York city, canned goods; Myers +. E.
and Brothers, Ashland, Ohio, pumps,
hay tools, etc.: National Biscuit Com
pany; New Idea Spreader Company,
manure spreader machinery: New
York Moline Company, Poughkeepsie,
n, Y. harvesting machinery; Ohio Ohio
Rake Company, Dayton, Ohio, fiam;
Oliver Chilled Plow Works, South
Bend, Ind.
One Minute Washer Company, San
dusky, Ohio, washing machines; Pills
burg FIGURING Mills Company, Phila-
delphia, Pa; Postum Cereal Company.
Battle Creek, Mich; Rumley Products
Company, agricultural machinery;
Schwarzchild and Sulzberger Com
pany; Sears, Roebuck and Company,
Chicago, ILL.,; Swift and Company,
Chicago, ILL.,; Talcott, James, New
York city, underwear; Union Carbide
Sales Company, Niagara Falls, n. y,
union car: Wood, Walter A. Moving
and Reaping Machine Company, Hoo
sic Falls, n. Y; Union Match Com
pany, Pittsburgh, Pa; Edgar, W. III.
G. Som, Detroit, Mich; Howell, B. H.
& Son Co., New York city; Frick Com
pany, Waynesboro, Pa.
O. NJ. Thrumm Tangle Foot Com
pany, New York, fly paper; Diamond
Match Company, New York, matches;
Thomas Manufacturing Company,
Springfield, Ohio, fam; E. F. Kurtz,
Philadelphia, Pa. refrigerators; Por-
ter Screen Company, Burlington, VT.
screens; Philadelphia Screen Com
pany, Philadelphia, Pa, screens; Lig-
onier Carriage Company, Ligonier,
Ind, vehicles; Phoenix Packing Com
pany, San Francisco, dried fruit; Cas-
tie Bros, San Francisco, dried fruit;
Rosenberg Bros. Company, San Fran
cisco, dried fruit; H. E. Loosee, San
Jose, Cal. dried fruit; National Starch
Company, New York, starch; Quaker
Oats Company, Akron, Ohio, cereals;
Snider Preserving Company, Cincin-
natl, Ohio, preserves; H. j. Heinz
Company, Pittsburgh, Pa, f1fty-seven
varieties; Lutz & Schramm Co., Pitts
burgh, Pa, fifty-seven varieties.
Among the firms using Harrisburg
as a distributing center thirty-four dis
tribute in Eastern and Central Penn
sylvania; twenty-five distribute in this
and one other State; nineteen, in this
and three other States: seventeen in
this and four other States; twelve, In
this and five other States; eleven, in
this and six other States; seven, in
this and seven other States; six, i this
and eight other States; five, in this
and nine other States; three, in this
and eleven other States two, in this
and twelve other States; one, in this
and fourteen other States.
These do not include firms having
representatives here but distributing
from the home plant or any of the
local jobbers or wholesalers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28

. traffic centering here, 1t was found
necessary to construct the great yards
at Enola, where SS,000,000 was spent
in ripping away hills. filling up great
ravines and building the town that
is now the thriving little railroad COM
munity of Enola-one of Harrisburg's s
most prosperous and thriving suburbs.
The Enola yards have been suppli-
mented by the Marysville yards, a few
miles north. and Harrisburg has been
relieved of handling high class freight
In order that room may be made for
the immense amount of reShipping
that is now necessary at this point.
The Enola yards are the largest of
their kind in the world.
To take care of the vast reshipping
business. buildings and sheds over
three-quarters of a mile in extent have
been built between Maclay and Divi-
sion streets and hundreds of men are
employed there daily. Many of these
were brought here from West Phila-
delphia. where a reshipping station
was abandoned because Harrisburg
was regarded as a better distributing
town.
In short time contract will be let
for the erection of big freight ware
houses and new freight yards in South
Harrisburg, to take the place of the
old over-crowded warehouses there.
Whole blocks of houses and city
streets will be blotted out to make
room for the these improvements 1t
is believed that these additional faci-
lities for the rapid handling of freight
will do much to transform the lower
end of the city into great whole
sale and jobbing district.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad is
adding its share to the general i'm
provementS by preparing to rebuild
and doubletrack the Cumberland VAL
ley bridge. This will give it easy ac-
cess to its large and rapid growing
freigh yards at Lemoyne and to its
recently enlarged freight transfer
sheds at White Hill, just across the
Susquehanna.
The firms that now use Harrisburg
as a distributing point are:
American Carbolite Company, cal.
carbide; American Harrow Company,
Detroit Mich, manure spreaders, disc
harrows; American Seeding Company,
Springfield, Ohio, cultivators grain
drills. ornplanters; Bauer Bros. Co.,
Springfield, Ohio, feed mills; Bowser,
IS. F. Company, Fort Wayne, Pa. ;
Brooks Drug Company, Battle Creek.
Mich, Burdock blood tonic; Bucher
and Gibbs Plow Company, Canton,
Ohio, hand rollers, harrow plows;
Case, j. l. Manufacturing Company,
road machines; Carbondale Calcium
Company, Carbondale, Pa, cal. chlor-
ide; Conkey, the G. E. and Company,
Cleveland, Ohio, poultry remedies;
Continental Sugar Company, Cleve-
land, Ohio: De. Laval Separator Com
pany. Poughkeepsie, n. Y; Emerson
Brantingham Implement Company;
Fels and Company, Philadelphia, Pa,
soap.
Ferry, D. NJ. Company, Detroit
Mich; Ford, j. B. Company, Wyan-
dotte, Mich, washing soda; Gale
Manufacturing Company, Albion,
Mich, fiam; Great Western Sugar
Company, Denver, Col; Huber Manu-
featuring Company, road machines:
international Harvester Company,
fam; Johnston Harvester Company,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28

trees that bore the myriad of wires
have been removed.
But beauty Is not the only advan-
tage from the change. The companies
will find their expenses for upkeep
greatly reduced by the change and the
danger from falling wires, crossed cir
cults in case of fires and dangers to
firemen have been eliminated
The work done has been valuable,
but it is merely the start. 1t is pre-
dicted that the time will come. and
that at no distant date, when not a
single pole will mar the beauty of
Harrisburg's thoroughfares.
Even the trolley poles will go and
cars will be operated from storage bat
teries within. In some few instances
elsewhere this is already being accom-
plished.
The arc light pole is also giving way
all over the city to the ornamental
lighting standard. The merger agree
ment made it compulsory on the part
of the company to replace the old
arcs in the heart of the city with these
cluster lights.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28
HARRISBURG GROWS
AS TRADING CENTER
From Time of Harris 1t Has Been Impor-
tant Distributing Place

From the day that shrewd old John
Harris, the trader, fixed upon the site
of what is now Harrisburg as the
center of his business operations, this
city has been distributing point for
the country roundabouts, its sphere of
influence widening with the develop
ment of transportation facilities. The
year 1914 will witness a remarkable
growth in this particular phase of
Harrisburgs varied industries. We
have gone far along this line, yet, If
indications are realized, we have but
begun. The years to come are de-
stined to see Harrisburg as one of the
most important freight distributing
centers in the United States. 1t is
rapidly moving in that direction now.
The year 1914 finds firms of national
and International reputation-someo of
them the largest of their kind in the
world-with branches in Harrisburg
for the reshipment of their goods to
points reached by local railroad con-
nections. The number is growing
every year until, 1t is predicted by
mercantile experts, the day will come
when Harrisburg's jobbing and dis
tributing warehouses Will form big
ger asset to the city than its manu-
jfacturies.
Harrisburg is the center of rail-
roads radiating to the four points of
the compass, not to mention a few
side lines. The railroad map makes
Harrisburg look like the hub of q
great wheel.
There are, running into or through
Harrisburg, the following railroads.:
The Pennsylvania-East to Phila-
delphia and New York and west to
Pittsburgh, Chicago and st. Louis.
The Northern Central-South to
pa
points.
The Philadelphia and Erie-North
to Erie and other points.
The Cumberland Valley-South to
Hagerstown.
The Susquehanna and Schuylkill-
North to Auburn.
The Philadelphia, Harrisburg and
Pittsburgh and the Gettysburg and
Harrisburg - South to Gettysburg.
branches of the Reading operating
under the Harrisburg division.
The Reading from Harrisburg to
Philadelphia and New York.
Then. too, there is the manufacture
ers' railroad, local line built to ac-
commodate certain large shippers and
manufacturers in East Harrisburg.
These roads all form functions here
and the result has been that this city's
prominence as a reshipping point is
steadily increasing. Warehouses have
gone up by the dozen and the rail-
roads have greatly extended their
yardage here. When the Harrisburg
yards of the Reading became over
crowded the large classification yards
at Rutherford were built. with accom-
modations for handling something like
$1,000 cars a day, although that maxi
mum has not yet been reached. How
- -%,..,.1 .,.,-
days business there. The Reading
has, in addition, greatly extended its
local yardage and has large, modern
warehouses in Market street.
When the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company found its Harrisburg classi-
fication yards unequal to the task of
handling the vast volume of freight
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28
1914 WILL SEE
NEW STEEL MILLS
Harrisburgs Future in This Line of
Manufacture Is Assured

bank gave hint as to the place. The
man in charge answered: "By it's miles
of smoke The smoke of industry
extends over four miles, from the
northern gate of Harrisburg, where
they make tin, to the lower end of
Steelton, where they make coke. In
between there are tin mills, great rail-
road shops, pipe mills, water wheel
factories, machinery and engine works,
nail factories, plate mills, blast fur
naces, open hearth furnaces, bessemer
steel mills, rail, bloom, slab, billet and
numerous other mills eliminating in
bridge shop a quarter of mile long
with miles of railroad line and siding
and hundreds of locomotives.
The mere enumeration of the iron
and steel industries of this community
is sufficient to attest to it's great inn
portance in the States industrial fab
ric and so vital are it's products to
business that no matter how great has
been the depression in fifty years the
smoke of Harrisburg has risen by day
to tell of it's activities while the fires
have flashed by night their message of
live community.
Orders Just placed by the big con-
Germs of the city for raw material in
dicate that there will be a contin-
uation of work this year, while a
healthy tone of business is reported
by the smaller plants. Gigantic in
vestments are being made in Steelton
by the Pennsylvania Steel Company,
which is about to remove dwellings to
make room for mills, and the ex
cellence of the products of other
plants insures not their permanence
alone but their growth.
Harrisburg lies in district which
furnishes the essentials of iron max
ing. In years gone by 1t secured from
radius of less than thirty miles the
three materials required, and although
remarkable transportation facilities
have enabled it to obtain them cheaper
elsewhere, the supply close at hand is
practically unlimited, and science will
doubtless enable the industries of the
city to once more draw upon it's home
supplies as is being done by other
Industrial communities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28
THIS is THE YEAR
POLES COME DOWN

The year 1914 will go down in the
history of Harrisburg as ''the year
the poles came down."
AS the result of an agreement en-
tered into by the city and the two old
electric light companies, whereby
these corporations were permitted to
merge and operate as one. all wires in
the business district of the city are to
be put under ground.
The work of removing the poles be-
gan early in the year along Market
street and has moved so rapidly that
there are at this time only COM
paratively few poles and lines left in
the heart of the city. All of the wires
have been put into underground con-
duits laid for the purpose.
The city officials will keep on the
trail of those companies that have not
carried out the new order to the full
limit and before the close of 1914
every pole that mars the beauty of
the downtown streets will have been
removed. Market street is a much
more presentable thoroughfare since
the great, saunt trunks of the dead
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28

When Pittsburgh was just COM
mencing to attract the attention of the
republics early capitalists because of
its singularly fortunate location at the
confluence of great rivers and before
Cleveland and Chicago were much
more than trading posts Harrisburg
was the great forwarding point for the
iron of eastern Pennsylvania. Iron
was brought here from the furnaces
whose fires lighted the skies of the
Cumberland, Lebanon and lower Sus-
quehanna valleys and was packed from
warehouses in Market Square to the
towns in western Pennsylvania which
have given the Keystone State its pre-
eminence in iron and steel. The ad
vantages of transportation routes,
steady labor and proximity of raw ma
terial have never been lost by Harris
burg and its ironmaking and fabri-
eating industries and those of its busy
daughter Steelton, have become noted
the world over.
The furnaces and mills of the Har-
risburg district have felt depressions
along with other communities which
depend largely upon the basic industry
of commerce. but the fact that they
have expanded is proof positive of
good location. Harrisburg and it's en-
virons have a singular diversity of
iron and steel products and the fact
that the community is one of the great
points of origin of freight for railroads
shows their value. Steelton turns ore,
coke and limestone into rails and
bridges, makes steel for needles and
pins and rolls up payroll that carries
not far from 10000 names. The great
plant, which was among the pioneers
in bessemer steel, still makes steel by
that picturesque process, although
giant open hearth furnaces are being
erected and space is about to be
cleared for additional departments
which will add to the variety of prod
ucts and help maintain families of
additional workmen.
One day after some aeronauts had
sailed over the city they were asked
on their return how they identified
Harrisburg, whether the Capitol build
ing or the structures along the river