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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
The Farmers Income Tax.

The farmer will have to report to
| the internal revenue collector at Du.
| buque upon his net income if it ex-
| ceeded $4,000 last year. for the farm
er is to be taxed just like everybody
else and he is liabe to possible fine
of 81 1000 if he fails to report by
March LIST.
A farmers net income is what he
receives from all sources including
the sale of live stock and grain from
the farm less what he paid for the
live stock, if he bought to feed, and
less his hired mans salary, his inter
est on his mortgage and less a rea-
sonable wear and tear on his machin-
cry which latter does not mean that
he can deduct from one years income
all that new machine cost him, for
that is more Of an investment than
an expense He can, of course, de-
duct all of his taxes for that year
and this year most farmers could de-
duct their losses from hog cholera
before computing net incomes.
They can not, however, deduct liv-
ing expenses or grain fed upon the
farm if it was raised upon the farm.
Neither do they need to compute the
increased value OF their land nor the
growth of their live stock. Insurance
upon the houses in which they live,
and repairs upon the house can not
be deducted because the general ex-
emption from taxation up to $4,000
per annum for married man will
cover all living expenses.
Barns and fences are a part of the
business and deductions can be made
of ordinary repairs before net in
come is computed. Replacing an old
barn with a new one or rebuilding a
fence with woven wire in place of
barbed wire are investments rather
than repairs and can not be deduct
ed.
All rents received from other land
and interest upon money loaned out
is income and must be included.
Rents paid are expenses of the bust
ness to be deducted before net in
come is ascertained.
Inasmuch as the income tax is to
be paid now for the last ten months
of the calendar year 1913 all farm
er needs to know is as to whether his
net income after deducting actual ex-
penses of farming but not living ex-
penses, is $500 for ten months. If
it is, he must report and then he can
set out an exemption from taxation
of s3,33333 for ten months living
expenses if he is married man or
$4,000 for ten months living ex-
penses if he is a single person and
his income tax will be collected on
what is left.
However, the farmer like every
body else, must report if his net in
come for the last ten months of 1913
was $4,000 and failure to receive a
blank from the collector will not re-
lieve him from his obligation to re-
port. If his net income does not
exceed $4,000 after deducting farm
ing or business expenses all he need
do is to envy his neighbor who has
to pay an income tax.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
Road Money from Uncle Sam.

A vote of 282 to AZ in the house al
Washington for bill appropriating
$25,000,000 annually for good roads
promises that some kind of bill
carrying federal aid for good roads
will become a law at this session. 1t
is estimated that in this bill approx
mately 100000 will be apportioned
to Iowa but will Iowa be able to
meet the conditions?
The state is the smallest unit the
federal government is willing to deal
with in spending road money and
two alternatives are offered to the
states in this bill either of which the
governor may elect to accept BY
the first plan all post roads are divid-
ed into three classes according to the
character of their construction and
the federal aid will be paid to the
state in bonuses ranging from SIS
pay an equal sum. This method
would mel ely fritter the money away
without results and would simply
bury little more coin in Iowa mud.
The other plan provides that the
governor. and secretary of agricul-
ture jointly may designate certain
post roads upon which the federal
money is to be spent when an equal
amount of state money is also in
vested.
Here is the nucleus for tremen-
dOus impetus to be given to perma
nent hard surfaced construction in
Iowa but the state itself must needs
have a state aid fund equal in amount
to it's quota of the national fund.
And it SO happens in this state that
the auto license money now about
equals 100000 and will soon go
way beyond million per annum.
Minnesota is at work constructing
paved and graveled roads with a
state aid fund of the same size from
which the state pays half, the county
one-fOurth and nearby dand owners
One-fourth The county issuing
bonds to anticipate state, county and
special property levies for ten years.
Wisconsin is enjoying marvellous
activity in building gravel, macadam
and paved roads from state aid offer
ed to it's counties in proportion of
one of state money to two of county
money. The first year Wisconsin APP
propriated $350,OOO and the counties
asked for s45O.O00 Then the legis-
.lature appropriated $37S,000, and
for this year the legislature has pro-
vided 81 100000 state aid.
Illinois is at work voting township
road bonds and use state aid from
legislative appropriation of $4,000
600 per annum.
Z Let Iowa now elect to accept the
federal aid of 100000 and place an
equal amount of auto license money
beside it. Local taxes would not be
Increased one cent thereby. Let the
governor upon the advice of the state
highway commission offer to the
counties to pay one-third of the
cost of permanent hard surfaced con-
struction. Then let the legislature
of Iowa permit the counties to issue
long time bonds for long time roads
and bridges and to assess special
bneefit Of one-third the cost Of near
by property within zone of a mile
and a half from main Travelled
road.
Under such a plan Iowa could go
to paving and graveling her main
travelled county roads without rails
ing any more road and bridge taxes
than she now levies; in fact the en-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26

State Of Ohio, city of Toledo, L..
Lucas County,
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner Of the firm of +. J. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City of To-
ledo. County and State aforesaid. and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev-
cry case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use Of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my pre- ce. this 9Th day of December.
A. D. 1856.
(SeaD A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrii Cure Is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu.
cous surfaces Of the system. Send for
testimonials. free.
+. J. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo O.
Bold by all Drugg1sts, &c.
IAho Hallb 1oaily Pills Ter eon GllDa1to0.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26

tire county road systems of the state
could be paved and graveled and
paid for by the present generation of
business men without increasing tax
alton.
Do we want Uncle Sans 100000
or do we not?-Marshalltown Times
Republican.
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19
CREATING CONTINUOUS FARMLAND
OUT OF THE RUBBISH HEAPS OF
THE BRONX AND WESTCHESTER
Wonderful Strides Made by the City Constructing New Bronx Parkway
Which Is to Form Part of a Beautiful Motor Road
From Manhattan o White Plains

the Scarsdale Estates and individuals
and some by gift. The parkway reser-
walton includes public streets. parts OF
the Kenisco reservation and portions of
the Bronx River. in all 1850 acres.
The parkway will furnish direct auto
mobile road from the heart of Manhat-
tan far into Westminster county.
Had the land needed for the preserva-
ton Of the Bronx. River not been ac-
CURED when 1t was purchased it might
have been impossible ever to make the
Improvement. The increase in value of
land, owing to the RAPID popping OF
WestcheSter county, very speedily
might have rendered the parkway prof.
ect financially impracticable and the
river itself. If unprotected, might have
become an intolerable nuisance which
would have to be obliterated at an enor-
nous expense.
Owing to the sagacity Of the original
promoters and the Industry of the COM
mission the parkway project is nv
longer a dream. The Bronx Parkway
throws open to the inhabitants OF the
city of New York some 5000 acres.
making easy of access parks and lakes
which heretofore have been almost en-
tirely unknown to the general public.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19
LARGEST IRRIGATION SYSTEM I'm
THE. WESTERN HEMISPHERE WILL
RECLAIM 100000 ACRES OF LAND
Costing and Completed Will Make Fertile
the Lower Part of the Province of Alberta, CanadaBug
of Huge Dam Bassano Interesting Engineering Feat


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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

"It's funny how careless fish hawks
are in building their nests. And 1t is
remarkable how few people there are
who know how fish hawks build their
nests. and where. Even the books don't
seem To be sure about it. You know
that, of course?
81 was quite startled at this sudden
and unexpected deliverance on the part
Of the lone fisherman but | recovered
at his query, and confessed that / did
not know II. He was silent so long, his
eyes fixed on the bright blue float that
hadn't signalled him a bite yet. that !
feared / wasn't to hear the rest about
the fish hawks nest, but he began
again. 10y and by, as suddenly as he had
at first.
"I am always glad that I remember
just how 1t is done, and that | made
the discovery myself. | should have put
ii ON record before. ! suppose. but you
know how things slip your mind. There
amt much to put on record. though,
after all. but the question Is often
asked. and folks ought 10 know, of
course. how to answer it.
"'All there was about my discovering
that fish hawks are Of most careless
habit in building their nests. and that
the manner Of their building is odd,
was that one day | was out with my
gun to XIII a pestlfenous little red
squirrel.
"I noticed, before | shot, that a
few old sticks We're kind q punched
together on that limb, haphazard-like,
just as if they had fallen there, or
been tossed there by the wind. When
I fired. though, and | didn't fire in that
direction, either. | saw "A sudden COM
motion in that jumbled bunch of sticks,
and down toward the ground they be-
gan to rattle, and with them plunked
down at my feet a couple of the odd
est looking ncstlings | ever saw. They
We're as big as pigeons.
by their hooked beaks / would
| have known they We're young hawks.
out | wouldn't have known they were
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

Bow River makes a long bend in the
shape of a horseshoe. The banks on
the outer side are high and massive
but inside the land, before the construc-
ton of the dam, sloped gradually down
until the banks on the inner side Of the
then existing channel were scarcely
higher than the level of the stream
Merely to have damned the river would
not have been sufficient and would have
resulted only in its diversion into a new
channel across the low lying tongue Of
land comprised within the horseshoe
The whole Of this tongue had to be
submerged and a huge pool formed.
The dam, therefore, Is n composite
structure. There is "A reinforced con-
crete spillway in the original river
channel that continues in "A long, high
earthen embankment across the foot
of the horseshoe shaped tongue. The
spillway is erected on a heavy floor
built upon the bed of the stream with
suitable cutoff walls at its upstream
and downstream edges; and upon this
floor are erected parallel buttresses of
substantially triangular outline. with a
slope to the upstream edge of about
40 degrees.
Upon brackets projecting from the
faces of the buttresscs are cast concrete
slabs to form a deck, terminating at
the top of the butiresses in curved
crest and passing down over the down
stream side in the form of an apron
curved to correspond as nearly as pos
sble to the path of the overall flood
waters. The structure is 720 feet in
length between abutmen,s. with a max
mum height of forty feet to the over
flow crest, above which eleven feet of
water will be retained by twenty-four
sluice gates, operated by electricity.
Rising from each alternate buttress
and separating the gates are piers
carrying a road bridge.
The earthen embankment is some
1000 feet in length, and extends from
the south end Of the spltway until
it meets and merges with the sloping
ground running down to the river. At
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

WIZ III syst iiiShNipu SSSAtii AT
the western hemisphere has just
= been completed. Not only Is It
the most extensive enterprise OF
its kind in North or South America. but,
with the exception Of the famous AS
suan irrigation system of Egypt, 1t is
the largest in the world.
1t is known as the Bassanio irrigation
system and Is intended to transform
the extensive lower part of the prov
ince of Alberta, Canada. into a fertile
region. The system extends from CAL
gary to Medicine Hat and 5000 900 acres
Of splendid farm land have been made
available for settlers by The water it is
designed to supply.
The project was begun some years
ago by the Government of Canada. but
abandoned for lack Of funds. About
three years ago the Canadian Pacific
took up the work where the Govern
ment left off and has completed it.
The project required an expenditure of
sl7OOO0Oo.
10 "a matter "a AitAs Allt ~ 40
divided into three sectiuns-western,
central and eastern-each containing
approximately 100000 acres. In order
to obtain water for the irrigation of the
eastern section an exceedingly interest
ing engineering feat was necessitated,
namely, the construction of a huge dam
across the Bow River at Bassanio,
elghty-three miles east of Calgary. The
functions Of this dam We're conceived
as being twofold; first. To raise the
level of the water at the intake, thereby
enabling the system To command a
much larger area than it otherwise
could do, and second, to reduce the
quantity of material that would have
to he removed from the main canal from
the dam.
Just above the site of the dam the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

A STORY Is told Of an eNper.'n'" me
~ late King Edward VII. had 20 me
Savage club in London, NJ winch
he was a member.
one evening the then Primo" os
Wales took the Grand Duke A.>.s
the club, after the theatre, Shorty
before this there had been some
trouble between the Savage '.Ih ANA
the licensing authorities. T. -.r'n,
that "A representative of the latter ''"'u
at the Savage club one eVenlus IuL ]"
the rush OF business, VAS served N.H
drink after hours, although h. vas a''
member.
4 summons was issued, and there "P..
pears to have been good d.' A"
trouble in the matter, and the "t -
We're warned to be very carr.. rs. -
they served.
The Prince of Wales and thr ar ana
Duke Alexis went into th' -h .'.'"
room, which was empty, and .'" '..''
after consultation with the Grand '''N'
ordered two whiskoNS and sod &.
II have to ask your name. ST. ''"
the waiter in attendance. y 40 HOS
think / have seen you b"fur"
My name is Albert Edward stu
the Prince.
The waiter Immediately r'i'.'.i '
| the list of members.
81 see an Edwards here. '"
but his name is George ana h'.
bert. | do not see your nam
sir"
| So the Prince was refused Nh" ''." N'
and went thirSty--unt.l l"l'N =. IL
| Der entered AMI al va SCOT lt'..
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

fish hawks IL the skeleton of what must
have been "A tremendous big fish hadn't
come tumbling to the ground with 'em.
The fall, of course, killed the birds
so that was n fish hawks nest.
was it?' said I. We'll. I'm delighted to
make the discovery, because now I
can settle the question as to how and
where fish hawks build their nests:
but / am sorry to know that so noble
a bird as the fish hawk Is so lament
ably careless in its building. A house
that the simple report of a gun can
shatter and turn inside out isn't just
the one to rear a family in. said I.
Now, that's all there Is to put on
record about that discovery. but 1t IL
something that folks ought to know.
There was an Incident connected with
it. though. that struck me as being
little odd. I remember, at the time.
Hanging by blue ribbon about
the neck OF one of the unfortunate
hawklets was a gold locket, about as
big as quarter. with the word "Flos-
sic" engraved on It, I took It home.
and somehow that trivial incident got
into the papers.
"'In the course Of couple Of weeks
~ 81 SUI a itlltT ClNlItn vi
Newburgh asking me II | would please
return the ribbon and the locket to him
as 1t was the property Of his wife. They
were originally worn by a pet Maltese
kitten of hers he said.
1.-The citizen and his wife were row.
ing on the river at Newburgh one day
The kitten was with them. 1t had, in
playful mood. jumped from the lap
Of the citizens wife into the river. sunk
and never appeared again.
1.-THE citizen said a big fish had swal-
lowed the kitten. and the simple detail
Of my having found the ribbon and the
locket in the nest of a fish hawk was
explained by the citizen as having re-
suited from the fish hawk having
swOoped down and caught the fish,
lugged 1t home. and fed 1t to it's young
one of which had in some way got the
ribbon over its head as | had found
it.
"I don't know how the man knew
all this, but he asked me to please send
the ribbon and the locket to him, and
| did. Now you know how the fish
hawk builds its nest, and how careless
it is in building so If anybody asks
you about II you can tell 'em on the
word. / am glad to know l made the
discovery. Real glad
II was so impressed with the mans
revelation that | was afraid ITO ask him,
as l had intended TO, what was the big
gest fish he ever caught, and he had
pulled up his line and the inactive float
and had gone before it occurred tn me
10 ask him if he got the red squirrel"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19
The Fish Hawks Locket
WAS so impressed with the m

i
revelation, said John Gilbert,
the travelling grlccryman, that
was afraid to put my intended query
as To what was the biggest FISH he ever
caught, and forgot entirely to ask him
If he got the red squirrel.
He was fishing from the river bank
with a long cane fishpole. and the blue
float on his line had never so much as
shown a nbble during the hour / had
sat patiently by. waiting to see him
catch a fish. That he hadn't had a
bite yet didn't seem to disturb him in
the least, and he hadn't said "A word to
me. was on the point of relieving the
monotony of the situation by asking
him what was the biggest fish he ever
caught, when he looked up and said:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

. HE largest irrigation system In
the western hemisphere has just
L been completed. Not only Is It
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19
BY wINNIrRED HARPER COOLEY

~ lG PENS. Fairgrounds and rub
* bsh heaps changed To exquisite
II parks is something of a trans
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19
No Drinks for Princes

A STORY Is told Of an eNper.'n'" the
~ late King Edward VII. had 20 me
Savage club in London, Ut Wnth