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New Britain herald., 1917-01-12

kind that everybody appreciates, and the show is clean and fast through out. The "rube' part assumed by Mr. Nelson is not overdone as is some times the case. and Miss Hayes offers ~some of the seasons latest songs in her repertoire this week.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-12

OOWn COIlUlClOIl, uoO
 pains in my left side,
 SO I would faint of-
 ten. My doctor ad-
 vised me to try
 Lydia E. Pinkham's 8 V eg table Com pound. l did so, a nd gain ed in strength so l can now do all my own lhouse work and ]
 hope you may pub JllSh my GyUerlGCc
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-01

ings which will ensue must be
borne by the county, and this in
cludes witness fees, court costs,
etc., extra pay of the Sheriff and
County Clerk must be paid by the
county, and the County Board of
Supervisors must be likewise
paid by the county. In addition
to this additional cost the tax
payer will have to employ at
torneys and go to other heavy
expense in trying out complaints
of generalization. All this addi-
tional expense has to be paid,
and as the State totally deprives
the counties of one great source
Of revenue, and as the value of
property will be sent up by leaps
and bounds by the State Commiss-
ion in order to meet the States
demands, it can have but one
effect on the taxpayer and that
is a decided increase in his taxes.
The expense of county govern
ment must be paid, and if a great
part of our county revenue is
taken from us, and great addi-
tional cost heaped on us we will
of necessity have to increase our
taxes TO meet the demand of
local government. There is no
other way out of it.
The proposed commission is en-
powered to place whatever value
they deem fit on the property in
the respective counties and the
taxpayers must meet the taxa
tion. They will take our state
Indebtedness as a working basis
and by computing the total wealth
of the State at the proposed tax
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-01

are now trying to blanket this
dastardly bill through our legisla-
ture and nail the unwilling tax
payer to the cross of their in
fanny. In other words, they have
taxed you to death and run the
State heavily in debt besides, and
in order to wipe from their cloak
the dark stains of their civic
unrighteousness and redeem their
power and prestige with the
people they have wronged, they
perpetrate this damnable law on
you and attempt to blind you as
to its real import and purpose.
lemplore you to rise upenmasse
against this outrage and not
allow yourselves to be led as
sheep to the slaughter for the
comfort, pleasure and edifcation
of the unscrupulous politicians of
our State.
G. C. TAULBEE.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-01

missions and boards that we have
been swampedin the maelstrom
OF debt and civic despair. The
erection Of thisr sdditionaI com
mission is a further effort on the
part OF our administration to
take care of the increase in our
political family of pensioners who
must have draw at the financial
teat OF our government. Oh
TAXPAYER! How long will you
continue to pay tribute from the
fruits of your toll, enterprise and
frugallty to the God of political
patronage and graft? How long
Will you continue to swallow with
out protest the bitter pill of
taxation foisted upon you by
scheming politicians ana hellish
grafters and say 1T is good?'
How long are you willing to sub
Ject yourselves to this damnable
yoke of serfdom and bow the
knee to this political octopus
whose tentacles are even now
sucking the very last vestige Of
hope from your hearts and cover
ing with deadening slime the
ambitions of your children? How
long are you going to continue to
nave your purses drained to the
dregs-yourself and your families
denied the very comforts of life.
and your own hopes blighted and
ruined in order to keep up the
Romp and splendor>of social life
IN our capitol? 1t is time to
awake and take the reins in youi.
own hands, for unless you do it
we shall soon be beyond hope.
In the hope of bringing you to a
sane realization of what con-
fronts you under the proposed
tax law, | unhesitatingly con-
denim it as a whole and question
the seriousness and truthful con-
vlction OF its authors.
Before taking up the discus
sion of the bilPs many faults 1
wish to heartily endorse the
stand taken against it by our
home paper, the Licking Valley
Courier, " and commend its able
editor, Captain Cottle, and his
assistant, Mr.. Hovermale, for
the intelligent, manly way in
which they have expressed their
sentiments against the measure.
1t proves that the Courier and
its staff are true friends to the
people, ever ready to champion
your cause when your rights are
assailed,
The proposed law undertakes
to completely revise our present
system of taxation, and, as may
be readily CLEANED from the
! commissions report and the law
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-01

rate of 40 cents they can arrive
at the number of years it will re-
quire to liquidate the State debt.
If the time is too long to suit the
political purposes of the admins
tration, they can easily shorten
it by increasing the valuation of
your property. You have no
voice in the matter at all. In.
other words, they can place the
total valuation of property in
Morgan county at $40, 900, 600. 90,
and no matter if we have but
So, 600, 10000 worth, we will have
to pay tax on their valuation.
And friends, remember that the
greater the valuation of your
property for the purpose of taxa
ton, the sooner the State debt
will be paid off and the longed
for surplus obtained. Do you
catch the point and see the danger
which confronts you if this bill
becomes a law?
Down in Frankfort during the
past few years we have maintain
ed an host of political pensioners
who have been fed by the honest
hand of toll. Through their
wastefulness, their graft and
absolute uselessness we have
drifted deeper and deeper into
the cesspool of ignoble debt until
we are now unable to see any
hope of immediate relief. This
condition of affairs reflects
seriously on our administrations,
past and present, and especially
onJthe present one. They know
their sins will find them out if
something is not done, so they
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-01
Taulbee Scores Proposed Law
A Comprehensive Indictment of the
y Corporations Pet Scheme

Captain H. G. Cottle,
~ Editor Licking Valley Courier.
! West Liberty.
my Dear Captain; II Z :, a,
Having made a study of the
proposed Revenue and Taxation
Law nnow before our General
Assembly in special session, and
concluding from my study of the
subject that the proposd law is a
menace to the people generally
and especially to the people of the
mountain counties, | beg you to
insert in the next issue of your
paper the following warning
which | address to the taxpayers:
The Kentucky Tax Commission
appointed by Governor Stanley
to investigate, revise and report
on our present system of taxation,
and to draft a bill for new laws
embodying their recommended
tons for improvements in our
present system, rendered their
report some time ago and our
present Senate and Legislature
now have theirreport before them
in special session at Frankfort,
for the purpose of considering
the passage of the bill as an
emergency enactment" the
emergency clause being based on
the statement of the admins
tration that -'our present State
revenue is inadequate to defray
the NECESSARY expense of
government" In the outset |
wish to commend the Kentucky
Tax Commission for their valu-
able discovery that our present
State revenue is inadequate to
meet our expenses. In view of
the fact that Kentucky is more
than four million dollars in debt
today, | feel sure that every
sensible man in the State will
agree with the learned COZ :
mission that our revenue is in.
sufficient to meet our expenses.
This is an evident fact. / note
however that the commission re.
fers to NECEssARY-expense, maxi
ing the unqualified assertion that
our taxes are not sufficient to
meet ii. | question that state.
ment, for insist that if the cost
of our government was reduced
to NECESSARY expense we could
soon pay off our indebtedness and
keep a large surplus in our
treasury. The Kentucky Tax
Commission is a living example
, of, or reason for, our inability
to pay the cost of our govern.
ment, for it is through the
organization and maintenance
of such superAuous, inactive, ex.
pensiye and unnecessary com.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-01
No Smallpox.

We are authorized by DR.. B.
F. Carter, Chairman of the local
board of health, to say that
there are no cases of smallpox
in West Liberty, the quarantine
havin grecently been raised
from the homes of Mrs. Martha
Womack and l., A. Lykins.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-01
FOREST.

Allison Deboard has moved in
to the property on Jones Creek
recently vacated by l.. A. Music.
Henry Easterling has moved
from Jones Creek to Andrew
Wells property near Wells
station.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-01
ARMED NEUTRALITY
WILSON AX$FOR.
President Asks Congress for
Power to Protect American Commerce

portion his property holds to the
total valuation of property in the
county as fixed by the State Tax
Commission. One may see at a
glance that there will be thous-
ands of complaints filed, and as
each complaint will lead to an
expensive investigation or liti-
cation in Circuit Court, 1 feel
safe in saying that the cost of
these investigations and trials by
our Tax Commission and courts
will cost the TAXPAYERS of Ken
lucky at least three hundred
thousand dollars a year for many
years to come. There is no
limit TO the scope of these in
vestigations and tax courts, and
they may be held here at West
Liberty, at Frankfort or at any
other point in the State where
the commission sees fit. to hold
them An hundred witnesses
may be summoned to Frankfort
in order to determine whether
John Doe" should pay tax ON
$5OO.OO worth of property or on
$4,000 worth, and you my fellow
taxpayers, will have to foot the
bill. ! presume that would be
one of the items of NECESSARY
cost of our State government.
Our county Sheriffs and County
Clerks have many exhaustive
and varied duties to perform
under the new law, so many in
fact that it will take at least one
fourth of their time to perform
them. The proposed law pro-
vides that they shall each receive
So. 90 per day EXTRA PAY for such
time they devote to the new tax
system. Mr.. Taxpayer, you pay
that too. There is no doubt in
my mind whatever but what the
new system, if adopted, will cost
the taxpayers at least half a
dollars yearly, and yet
the commission proposes to re-
duce your tax rate to 40 cents,
pay off our $4,000, 10000 indebt-
edness and have plenty of money
left in our treasury. Don't
swallow it, my friends-don't
swallow it. There is a ''nigger"
in the wood-pile somewhere.
Here is how they propose to
accomplish the impossible. and
they can too, if you will stand
for it. In the proposed law they
deny the counties the right to
tax farm implements and machin-
cry and products in course of
manufacture, and raw material
on hand for purpose of manu-.
facture, money in hand or in
banks, notes, bonds, accounts,
mortgages, and other credits of
every description. The tax on
this property is to go solely to-
the State, and the counties are
thus deprived of one of their
greatest sources of revenue, while
the State gains what the counties
lose. But does this relieve the
taxpayer or in any way reduce
his taxes? We shall see.
We find the bills provides that
the elaborate forms and books
necessary for carrying out the
provisions of the proposed law
must be paid for by the county
to which they are sent; the ex-
pense of the County Assessor on
his yearly jaunt to Frankfort
must be borne by the county;
the costs of the long and tedious
Investigations and court proceed.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-01

AAAASA AaCOlud OuIlh Will Americans ABOARD
Torpedoed at Night Without Warning
Germany Seems Determined on War with United States
German submarines sunk the British liner Laconia Mon
day without warning. The ship had Americans aboard and
tuesday President Wilson appeared before Congress and ask
ed to be full power the army and navy to protect
American lives and He asked to put the United
States on footing Of armed neutrality or prepared to de-
tend American rights by force without declaring war;
The almost universal opinion of high officials at Washing
ton that there hope Of averng with Germany 1t
may be weeks in eliminating and may come in moment
but that Germany will drive the United States into the war by
her ruthless submarine warfare no one doubts.
Since February German submarines have sunk Amer
lcan ~ other neutral 06 British and II other beigerentves
ses with considerable loss of Efe American commerce en-
dangeed and conditions becoming ntolerable 1t seems
that the time has when America must act or be ononn
iously driven from the high SEAS
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31
Petition for Road

A petition was circulated in
town last week and generally
signed asking that the road to
the new bridge across Red River
west,of town be made subject of
some necessary labor and ex-
pense to make it a fit road for
teams and autos that the bridge
may not be merely an expensive
joke. There are several hundred
feet of cliff and precipice be-
tween the top of the mesa and
the bridge. Crossing the river
is a mere circumstance to getting
to it from either side and the
cost of making the bridge useful
by building a road to it will be
about equal to the cost of the
bridge.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31
State Land Sale

Seven public auctions of New
Mexico state land, six of which
are of considerable Importance
from the standpoint of immedi-
ate and future developement, will
take place during the coming
month of April, the seven auc-
tions including 1852 sales of seper
ate tracts which range in area
from 40 to S8,O acres, and in
minimum value at which the land
can be sold from So. to $25 per
acre.
The State Land department
has felt justified in giving wide
publicity to the sales in Union
and Quay counties and part Of
the Curry county lands, because
these lands will stand develope-
ment on the agricultural basis.
The places and dates of the
several auctions, all of which
have been advertised with COM
plete descriptions of the various
tracts as the law requires, are as
follows;
At Santa Rosa, April 8. ten
sales,
At Tucumcari, April 4, eigh-
teen sales.
At Socorro, April IA, / sale of
of 40S5 acres of the So. minimum
value.
AT Clovis, April II, seven sales
AtRoswell, April 10 twenty
four sales,
At Carlsbad, April p, twelve
sales.
At Clayton, April 25 will occur
the most important of all these
auctions. A total of 80 seperate
tracts will be sold: six of which
are Of the minimum $40 value,
the remaining 81 being the $5.
minimum. The tracts range
from 40 to $1,000 acres and in
clude 2 of ILL., acres.
Any additional information de-
sired as to any of these sales
will be furnished promptly by
the state land Office.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31
In Society

One of these lapses of memory
which are common to people who
are fr,wing old, caused US to for
get the birthday party given in
honor of Miss Etna Floersheim' S
18th birthday st Patrick's Night
Sixteen girls and boys accom-
panied her in the celebration,
Mrs. All S. Hanson and Mrs. Mel
vile Floersheim. elder sisters of
the hostess, planned the party
and served dainty refreshments
and showed the children a fine
time assisted by Mrs. Wilcox
who planned games for them.
A surprise party on the coca
sion of Miss Opal Scott's 18th
birthday took a crowd of young
people of the Roy Schools and
Victor Class of the Roy Sunday
School out to the T. O. Scott
home Saturday evening.
About 40 guests participated in
the surprise and the games and
feasting which followed it
and impressed the charming
young hostess with the import
ance of being Sweet Sixteen"
Miss Scott is Secretary Of the
Roy S. S.. a graduate Of the Roy
Public Schools and a leader a.
mong the younger set in this
community.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31
A Joker

1t now appears that the GAO
acre Homestead law is not going
to be of any real benefit to the
farmers of this mesa whose land
is already proved up or who can
prove up within six months.
The joker is that ig you have
land that you can prove up under
the 320 acre law then you cannot
represent it as fit only for graz
ing. If you have proved up you
have no chance at all to get more
land so it is left that the fellow
who has never been here has all
the opportunity for GAO acre lands
while homesteaders who made
the country habitable are barred
from getting theirs unless they
had claims which were. so worth
less that they could only Craze
them.
1t looks like someone had spik-
ed this measure when it passed
congress and it should be erased
from the list Of good laws passed
by the administration.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31
Bawled Out

There It a lot of protest being
voiced of late against the man
ner of driving automobiles by
parties who let the lure of the
steering wheel blind them to the
rights of other people who walk
or drive horses. We are urged
to assure these thoughtless or
careless ones that other people
are human beings just the same
as those who drive cars and have
rights which must be respected.
There is seldom a day that cars
are otseem on our streets driven
at speeds ranging upward 20
miles an hour and on country
roads the limit Of speed of the
car is the only limit recognized by
many drivers,
An instance occurred last week
when a speeding car with the
muffler open and siren shrieking
frightened a horse driven by
ladies'. The horse reared and
broke a staff The drivers of the
car stopped in a hundred yards
or more and backed up to berate
the women for driving with weak
shafts. They admitted they
couldn't stop quicker because
their breaks wouldn't hold.
Which was transgressor?
Another man declares that his
little girls are Jeopardized on
their way to school with the SAT-
est horse that can be secured by
car drivers who screech their
horns and make the most noise
possible to frighten a horse and
then for spitefulness when they
will not drive out of the road
they cut in under the horses nose
in passing in a plain attempt to
frighten or injure the animal.
This man has declared himself
aggrieved to the point where it
as necarry for him to either
invoke for his children the pro-
lection of the law or else accom-
pany them with gun.
There is no reason in this con-
dition. 1t ought to be stopped
before it results in tragedy.
Some otherwise sensible people
seem to lose all their sense when
they get into a car and unless
they get to be decent in their
treatment of others on the roads
it is going to force their victims
to retaliate and there will be lit
tie sympathy shown those suffer
ing the consequences of reckless
driving.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31
S. S. Convention

The Sunday School Rally in
Roy Tuesday attracted a large
crowd to the afternoon and even
ing lectures, The Basket dinner
was not so we'll attended nor the
morning lecture
Rev. Raley is so we'll known
here that you all know he talked
to the point. He clearly defined
the difference between teachers
and pedagogs, in all classes Of
teaching and especially in' the
Sunday School. His teaching is
the kind needed and it is to be
hoped the officers and teachers
benefited by it. Their discourse
was for teachers rather than
children but the Basket Ball
games we're interesting to both
old and young. The public
Schools were dismissed for the
day that teachers and pupils
might attend the rally. A special
feature Of the evening was a Ten
or Solo by Mr.. Almeron Newman
the Photographer, who is a vocal
list Of unusual ability. A gener-
GUS contribution was taken up to
meet the expenses of the occasion
and the guests said many kind
and complimentary things of our
town, mesa and people.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31
Arbor Day

Custom and laws have for a
number of years established the
observance of an Arbor and Bird
Day. Each year the Importance
of this subject is becoming more
apparent to every thinking man
and woman, because with the in
ereasing population and material
progress in the Uuited States the
tree life, as we'll as wild bird and
animal life, has suffered waste
and depletion.
New Mexico, only a generation
ago was regarded elsewhere in
the union as a desert country.
Through forest conservation and
successful agriculture we are fast
emerging from that stigma
though we are still in the infancy
of the enterprise.
The conservation of the forests
wild bird and animal life is the
duty of every citizen, and when
we uselessly dissipate and des-
troy this great national resourse
we loot a God-given heritage of
future generations.
In order to promote the interest
of tree culture and the preserva-
ton of bird life in this state, /,
w. E. Lindsey, Governor of the
State of New Mexico, do hereby
designate and proclaim.
Friday. April 6, 1917, as Arbor
and Bird Day.
| recommend that the citizens
|, of New Mexico cooperate with
the Forestry Department and the
Game Department in their con-
servation work; that the day be
observed by the planting of trees
shrubs, vines and flowers.
Done at the Executive Office
this the 18th day of March, A. D.
1917. Witness my hand and the
great seal of the State of New
Mexico.
Attested: ANTONIO LUCERO,
Secretary of State.
W. E. LINDSEY,
Governor.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31

Mrs. Rev. O. W. Hearn has
been quite sick this week. The
children had just recovered from
illness when she became ill and
the Rev. assures us that he is
only waiting for her recovery be
fore claiming his turn at being
sick,
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31

1t is scarsely necessary to write
story to go with the above
handsome face. Everybody
knows it at sight as belonging to
Roy's popular, versatile, and ac-
complished Postmaster, Elk -Prin-
cipal of the Schools, Auctioneer,
Secretary of the District Fair,
l. 0. 0. F. Lodge Secretary and
the man who gets out ahead and
pulls for every public enterprise
in the town while the rest of us
only get behind and push.
Mr.. Johnson came here nine
years ago and did the Home
steading stunt, meeting with his
share of hardships. He has a
fine farm now to show for his
trouble and has a fine home in
Roy and some income property
on the side as well.
If you want to know the live
ones in Roy, put Bill" johnson
on your list permanently.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31

The story of the lands on this
Mesa as told in the Great Divide
last week is especially attractive
to people here who know it is
true, If it attracts as favorable
comment among prospective land
seekers it will take a train ia
stead of a Pullman to bring in
the buyers,
They will be at Mills April Sth
with the excursion and will drive
out from there with autos to look
at the state lands that are to be
sold at Clayton April 25th.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31

E. F, Henry, of Ration, is the
artist who put the "Spatter''
finish on the concrete front of
the Floersheim building last week
and it has secured him the con-
tract Of putting the same kind Of
finish on DR.. Plumlee's Hospital,
Prof. Russell's residence and
several other buildings in town.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-31

J. Floersheim and wife return
ed from Hot Springs, Saturday.
Both are improved in health and
Jake insists that the baths have
taken away all his bad habits as
well as his rheumatism. We be-
lieve him unquestioningly.