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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
Conferees Come to Agreement
After Wrangling for Three
Weeks.
READY FOR FINAL VOTE
Bill as Agreed on Raises Senate Esti.
mate $aoo,ooo,ooo and That Of
House ssoo,ooo,ooo-Liquor
Tax Raised.

Washington, Oct. 2.-The c~onferees
on the war revenue bill has reached
an agreement after three weeks
wrangling. The bill raising $2,716,-
100000 in val taxes, will be taken I'D
by the house at once for final consid-
Grafton.
AS reported, the bill is an increase
of 100000, 900 over the senate's meas
ure and 5000, OOO, 900 over the house
bill.
These increases were obtained
through restoration of the Scent letter
postage provisions, increase in second
class postage rates, higher rates on
tobacco and restoration of taxes on
jewelry and inheritances.
The bill as finally agreed on fixed
the graduate scale of exemptions for
war profits as follows: 20 per cent of
profits which do not exceed Is per
cent of the capital; rs per cent on
profits over Is and under 20 pen cent;
35 per cent on profits over 20 and un-
der rs per cent; As per cent on prof
its over 25 and under SO per cent; 60
per cent on profits over SO per cent.
Wine Tax Doubled.
The whisky tax is s1.1O a gallon.
The present tax was doubled on still
wines, champagne and sparkling
vines. On grape brandy or wine spir-
its withdrawn from a bonded ware.
house, the present tax is doubled. On
sweet wines 10 cents a gallon is add
ed to present taxes. On grape brandy
Or wine spirits used in fertilization of
sweet wines, 20 cents q gallon is added.
On soft drinks, rates were compro
missed between the high house and
senate minimum.
Cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco
we're increased.
The automobile tax was increased
from 1 per cent in the senate bill to 8
per cent. The house percentage on
the selling price Of piano players, etc.,
is levied. A like rate was placed on
sporting goods, such as tennis a c
quets and golfballs.
Postal Rates Increased.
On postal rates, in addition to pro-
viding that within 80 days after pas
sage of the act, letter postage shall
be 3 cents instead of 2 cents as at
present, the report adopts a zone sys-
tenn on newspapers and magazines.
1t provides a schedule of rates based
on advertising and reading matter, ef-
fective July 1, 1918.
The income tax section remains vir.
tually as passed by the senate.
Admission and dues will raise about
S23, 100000. Amusement parks and
concessions charging 10 cents or more
for admission are taxed.
Movie films are taxed a of a cent a
foot.
Jewelry is taxed 8 per cent of the
selling price.
Special munitions tax Of 10 per cent
is levied.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
That Amount of Second Libert,
Loan Apoortioned to "..Ith-
western States.
SALE or BONDS BEGINS
Amounts Assigned to Each Distric,
Are Computed on Percentage
Basis, Considering Terri
torJ's Resources.

Washington, Oct. by the an,
nouncement of treasury department of.
ficials opportioning the Forthcoming
bond issue by districts, the Ninth fed.
eral reserve district, whose financial
center is Minneapolis, is expected to
subscribe S125,OOO, 900 to the second
Liberty loan.
The campaign to float the gigantic
loan of $4,000 900, 600 is in full
sway. Virtually two-thirds of the loan
is expected to be raised in the New
York, Boston, Cleveland and Chicago
districts, with only half apportioned
to the first three-named districts.
Appointments indicate only what
each district is expected to do and may
be entirely upset, as in the case of the
first Liberty loan, by the actual sub
scriptions. In making the %apportion-
ments, officials used two bases of sub.
scriptions, the minimum of $4,000, 000,-
900, and an expected amount of
5 5000, O00, 900.
Apporticament by Districts.
Here is the apportionment by fed
eral reserve districts, as announced
by the Treasury department.:
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
Woman Attacks Judge Lindsay.

Denver, Colo, Oct. 2.-Following al
attempted attack made OF him in Den.
yer juvenile court Judge Ben B. Lind.
say announced he would file lunacy
charges against Mrs. Mary Sanner Of
Denver. The woman demanded that
Judge Lindsay bring her divorced hus.
band here from Illinois to answer
charges OF non-support, She picked
up q large glass tumbler, ne said, and
was about to throw II at him when
one OF the court attaches entered and
seized her. preventing her action.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
U. S. COAST GUARD SHIP SUNK
Rammed by Vessel Whose Identity
Is Not Announced,

Washington, Oct. "A coast guard
vessel on patrol duty off an Atlantic
port vas rammed and sunk, the navy
department is advised. The name Of
the vessel ramming the patrol boat
has not been announced.
Every effort is being made to as
certain the identity Of the ship which
crashed into the patrol boat.
The incident was officially an.
nounced as follows:
"a coast guard vessel on patrol
duty off an Atlantic port was rammed
and sunk by ar unknown ship early
today. The work Of raising the sunken
vessel will be begun at once"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
FOUR /. w. w. LEADERS TAKEN
Iron Range Agitators Arrested in New
York.

New York. Oct. 2.-Four leaders of
the Industrial Workers of the World
who have been active in the east were
arrested on warrants issued In Chi.
cago under the blanket indictment
found against 1876 members OF the or.
%ganization. Those taken into custody
were Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Carlo
Tresca, Arturo GioyannittI and John
lUaldaZza,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
Duluth May Have Food Controller.

Duluth, Mimi, Oct. 2.-As a result
Of Mayor Magney's investigation into
alleged wholesale destruction of food
at the city i%ncinerator, the appoint
ment Of a food administrator Is a prob
ability. Mayor Magney returned from
Columbus, O., yesterday. He said that
he will tackle the problem immediate.
ly and complete his Investigation"
When he first took up the investiga.
ton, he consulted with the Minnesota
Public Safety commission. Commits.
si0ner March suggested o food admin
tstrator be appointed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
City Coal Yard Not Legal.

Crookston, Mimi, Oct. 2.-The char
ter commission has turned down the
amendment to the city charter for a
municipal coal yard as unconstitutional.
The state constitution provides that
the city shall not make interior i'm
provements and also that taxation
shall be for public purposes only, while
the coal and wood yard would be a
private enterprise.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
@ -Ls...1eN $4,000. oOe.ooo $4,000 0o, geo

~ - = =. W. O,SVp,'uF.''V 9O,Dt', VUU,pUU
Ia each case the announcement
reads, the amount has been comput-
ed on the percentage basis, and while
the b9nking resources Of each district
that is, the total resources Of the
national banks, state banks and trust
companies-have been given large
consideration, other factors have been
taken into account, such as the in
come tax collected from each district,
the assessed value of property therein,
the subscriptions received from each
district to the first Liberty loan, and
the amount Of bonds allotted on such
subscriptions, the capital available
for bond investment in each district
and it's population"
Governors of the federal reserve
banks have been notified by Secretary
McAdoo of the appointments. The
sums stated in the expected amount"
column are designated as "the amount
which each district should subscribe
in order to ecure the result impera-
lively demanded for the defense and
security Of xthe nation"
McAdoo Opens Campaign.
Secretary McAdoo will open the
campaign informally with a speech in
Cleveland, Ohio, the first of many he
viii! deliver in a trans-continental tour.
More than $4,000 banks will co-ope-
rate in floating the huge issue. The
entire press of the country which con-
tributed sc largely to the success Of
the first issue, will work for the sue
cess of the second.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04

Representative G. B. Miller of Min.
nesota, a member of the house foreign
affairs committee, is on his. way to
France on a secret mission for the
war department and the Red Cross.
With him on the trip is Henry Frank
lin Bouillon, who has been in this
country for the past few weeks, and
who is a member OF the new French
cabinet.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-04-03
GLASS Of SALTS If
YOUR KIDNEYS HURT
Eat less meat if you feel Backschy or
have Bladder trouble-Selts
fine for Kidneys

Meat forms uric acid which excites
and overworks the kidneys in their efforts
to filter it from the system. Regular eat
ers of meat must flush the kidneys occa-
sionallye You must relieve them like Won
relieve your bowels; removing all the
acids, waste and poison, else you feel a
dull misery in the kidney region, sharp
pains in the back or sick headache, diz-
ziness, your stomach sours, tongue is
coated and when the weather is bad YOU
have rheumatic twinges. The urine is
cloudy, full of sediment; the channels
often get irritated, obliging you to get
up two Or three times during the night.
10 neutralize these irritating acids
and fash off the body's urinous waste
get about four ounces of Jad Salts
from any pharmacy; take a.. table
spoonful in a glass of water before break
fast for few days and your kidneys will
then act fine and bladder disorders dis.
appear. This famous salts is made from,
he acid Of grapes and lemon Juice com
oined with lithia, and has been used for
generations to clean and stimulate slug
ylsh kidneys and stop bladder Irritation.
lad Salts is inexpensive; harmless and
makes delightful effervescent lithia-
water drink which millions Of men and
vomen take now and then, thus ayoidin,
erious kidney and bladder diseases,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-04-03

rels, splintered stocks, cartridge clips
full of cartridges in uncountable num-
Der, unexploded shells OF all cahbres,
hand grenades Of every size and shape,
trench and mortar bombs, aerial tor
pedoes, brass shell cases, abandoned
stores of live shells, knapsacks, cart
ridge belts articles Of clothing, steel
helmets, fatigue caps and what not,
litter the surface of the new Satafa
and one can only imagine the amazing
quantity Of stuff which must lie be-
meath it.
You might think the view from here
depressing, and it is, for it was While
fighting along here that the Germans
gave the name Of i" the graveyard.
But the field Of a thousand shudders
lies further on. Up towards the
bloody butt Of Warlencourt, Ligny-
Thilley and therea bouts, one reaches
hell's own acres. The water covering
the slime in the crater beds has become
gruesomely red, exactly like blood, fol-
some UncaEny.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-04-03
catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICAT1ONs, as they
cannot reach the seat Of the disease.
Catarrf is a local disease, greatly in
fiaenced by Constitutional conditions, and
in order to cure i you must take H9a an
internal remedy. Halls Ca5arrh M .i,-
lie blood On the mucous surfaces of the
system. Halls -Catacrh Medicine was
prescribed By ems CT TIE best Hhys1cians
nosed Of sons Of the 'Ees. TONES known,
Combined with some Of the best blood
purifiers. The perfect conh:nation or
the INGREDIENTS il Halls Catarril E.eGi :
che IS what produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions. SEND for
=. !. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, Q.
HANS Family Pills fer constipation.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-04-03
(SSE{iE
222zEzZS Z!lGZZSz
CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION
TO All To Whom These Presents May

Come Greeting:
WHEREAS, It appears to my salts
faction, by duly authenticated record
Of the proceedings for the voluntary
dissolution thereof by the unauni
nous consent of all the stockhol-
ders, deposited in my Office, that the W.
T. Hancock Company, corporation Of
this State, whose principal Office is sit
uated on Main Steet, in the town Ct
Scotland Neck, County Of Halifax.
State Of North Carolina CIV. T. Han
cock being the agent therein and in
charge thereof, upon whom process may
be served), has complied with the re-
quirements of Chapter FL, Revisal Of
1905, entitled Corporations, prelim-
mary to the issuing Of this Certificate
Of Dissolution:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. Bryan
Grimes, Secretary of the State of North
Carolina, do hereby certify that the
said corporation did, on the 5 day Of
March 1917 file in my Office a duly exc
cuted and attested consent in writing
to the dissolution Of said corporation,
executed by all the stockholders there
Of, which said consent and the record
Of the proceedings aforesaid are now
on file in my said Office as provided by
lazy.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have
hereto set my hand and affixed my Of
fetal seal at Raleigh, this day of
March, A. D. 1917.
J BRYAN GRIMES.
Secretary Of State
RECORDED IN:
Record Of Incorpora tions, Volume 1,
Page 316., March 7, 1917.
S. M. GARY,
Clerk Of Superior Court.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-04-03
Have a Bottle Handy

Cloan's Liniment is assigned its
~ place among the trusted family
~ remedies in thousands of medi-
cine closets. Confidence in it is
based on the uniform effectiveness
with which it banishes the pains OF
matism, neuralgia, govt, lumbago.
sore stiff muscles, bruises, sprains and
strains. Cleaner and easier to use than
mussy plasters or ointments. 1t penefrates
and relieves quickly e2,Hhout rubbing.
At all druggists, Csc. Soc. and $1.OO.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-04-03

FOR ALE.-GALLOWAY MANURE
SPREADER MOUNTED. CHEAP
APPLY TO N. z. WINSLOW. ct
Arizona republican., 1917-10-25
Make Liberty Loan Worth While

Three billion dollars would not buy Dushe Of wheat in a country in which there not bushel of wheat to buy. Without food money not talk. It can even stand up and walk.
 Herbert Hoover has said, and rightly said: Food will win this war" Food is the fundamental problem.
 Our allies dependent upon the United States for their food reserves If we fail them they lost If fail them when their vital need is for food no contribution funds gathering together of wealth will sustain them.
 There is in progress in this country great experiment in applied democracy. An endeavOr is being made ascertain whether not it is possible to unite the people IS an organized back of food control program and unite them as a result of a popular appeal.
 At the present time food administration in this country in the hands Of the people. The Food Pledge Household Enrolment Campaign, October 2S November represents endeavor to ''lins about popular voluntary regarding the steps the people a whole should take in maintaining tfe fool reserves the vital necessity for the of the allied cause in the world
 The endeavor of the United States in connection with the war must be well rounded and ba!anoed if they are to be effective Without funds Govern ment can perform the task at hand; without food our allies can be sustained in their endeaVors An appeal 10 the American public has besh made in behalf of the Second Liberty Loan Of l9l1 me loan will be oversubscribed. It becomes the duty of onr people however it that the funds contributed by patriotic citizens do go begging in the market for food stuffs that do not exist,
 The Food Pledge Week Campaign and the Daign being made on behalf of the liberty Loan are not rival endeavors they are part a program, every feature of which vital this time. If VI conserve our food supplies then all tie other needs of our allies can be If fail to conserve our food supplies then all financial endeavors in be- half of our allies may prove in vain.
Arizona republican., 1917-10-25
Crop Reports From Germany

Hope of starving Germany out the coming winter seems poorly placed for there is a general admission that the potato crop. while not as large as that of 1sl5 is very much larger than last year. which Was regarded somewhat of a failure. Conservative estimate places the German of potatoes for this year at round 4O,O0O,OOO as against only 24- OeO0OO tons for the previous twelve months.
 In other crops Germany has not been so fortunate, pefAaps not so fortunate as she year Oats and barley have fallen far behind hopes and the fruit crop Is short one. Just what Germany hope from Russian land conquests remains be shown / but it seems to be fact that the country will no worse time this winter than last though that was undoubtedly bad enough, not bad enough how ever to end pause the war.
 In crude oil ands it's derivitves Germany is un- doubtedy suffering a terrible shortage Even with the Rumanan oil fields of which Germany made so much when they were taken, the allowance per family is said to be less than pint fortnight mighty little 10 light with when there is other substitute but more than that open indication that petroleum necessary to make successful is very short" with the army.
 Hemned in by an iron ring without the Central Powers fighting so that they may make the best terms of peace possible With the advent of the United States into the war, Germany's last hope of ultimate victory was killed She might have pre- vented the allies from scoring. through her ruthless submarine warfare but with the United States throw lns he weight her overwhelming resources in the ireaeh Germany if she has the intelligence credited her must know that her days are numbered as mi- ny nation
 Nc nation has been able to fight enemies without and starvation within. Germany cannot dd it nor can England and France. Hence must see
Arizona republican., 1917-10-25
Farmer Fined CO0D

In he London Times of October 8, the latest to ;rrive here is item about Lincolnshire farmer Icing aaed 200 pounds, sterling. for exacting more tie price set by the government for potatoes both seed and of the ordinary kind This man charged 14 ] nds, sterling ton for lot and 15 pounds ster- :. large not exceeding 1S pounds sterling per ton
 Tliz item shows things, that the price per pound fixed in England is very moderate less that four cents the pound and that the food control in that country is strict of America scarcely grasp requirements. Think of it. fine of S1 900 for selling potatoes price above mark set by the gos ernment.
 We should not like this in America but it may come 1t will if heed is paid the voluntary lan under which food control is being handled in Tho rited States The best way to keep from the necessity of imposing a upon our peo- pie Is for people read and suggestions nlade.
 Herbert Hoover. food administrator, says that and allies shall get along very nicely the Amer jean peorle will go without one day each week without wheat one meal each day, substitute vege- table oils for and butter and less sugar This is not program which should cause much ap- Irehension in this land of comparative plenty. It foo0s and mighty good foods, available which we readily substitutes for the foods which are scarce
Arizona republican., 1917-10-25
Pennies and Nickels

Out in the Washington district the kiddies have bought $50 Liberty bond with their pennies and nickels. For shame the man who could spare his hundreds or thousands of dollars for this prime in- vestment and who does not do so when the tots are setting such example.
 The grown-up child is the happy man or woman for much of childhood with It's code of honor as We depart from that much further are we away from complete sefrespect Disloytty is not found in the heart of ldddies and if the grown-ups of this land were as loyal to the flag the folks there would be no use for German spies in America
 All over the land the work of the Boy Scouts in collecting subscriptions the Liberty bonds is won derful In the Salt River Valley there is no exception to the general rule. In day band of the Boy Scouts has raised $3,OO0. They are giving the answer the question, where will the rising gene rations stand after the war;"
 No one can be bond stacker when the lads of the land are setting such example to their elders If you have not bought Liberty bond and could pos sIhly do so, do not go home tonight end look your trusting kiddie i'll the face withut having made a srtee ipton and just large one as you can stand
Arizona republican., 1917-10-25
IS DEMOCRACY WORTH WHILE?

The half million volunteer members of the Food Pledge Enrolment organization who will during the week of October 2S to November visit every house. hold in America and endeavor to have every family or the nation register for food conservation are as ruy a supply division that half million which Will stahu back of the American army in Europe and see that the soldiers rations reach them on the line ana III the trenches America must send to Europe the food which allies subsist while they light With us the war for democracy, the will be lost We have plenty they hover on the brink of starvation Food will win the war the lack of 1t will lose the
 We have plenty if we Choose to send it. But cannot send it unless we take concerted action to gather it and make it available. And we can send only certain kinds of food-those that concentrate the nutritive value into the least shipping space Wheat beef, pork dairy products, sugar; these we MUST send Seventy per cent of our people, Her bert Hoover says live so economical a margin that it impossible for them to any food in the ordinary acceptance of the term. The other thirty per of food wasters to greater or less degree and they must eliminate that waste or be responsible increasing the difficulty of the fight for freedom in the world. But all of can help to the store of food that must be sent to our allies if their armies and ours to win. We can do this by eating less of the foods that must send to Europe and more of those that We have ill abundance. We substitute other cereals for wheat poultry and fish for meat vegetable oils so far possible for butter and lard; syrups for sugar. and freely potatoes fruits and fresh vegetables
 That is the gospel which the food administration is preaching democratic nation. It is endeavor ing to persuade Americans to do by democratic meth ods what before in history has been done except by autocratic methods Food control by ukase by command from above, is comparatively simple Ipat ter. Food control from below by the voluntary de- csion of the individuals of the nation, a difficult accomplishment. When the United States succeeds in doing this, shall proved that the ideal on which government is based is sound If should fail would prove that for such a crisis the world faces only the methods autocracy effective Democracy would be exposed failure in the supreme test Can we prove that de- mocracy is safe the world?
 The half million Food Pledge Campaigners who have volunteered gain the allelance of the twenty million families of the to this standard of American ideals workers for a world cause and every American and who perceives what lies behind the simple pledge "carry out drec- tions and advice of the Food Administration in my home insofar my circumstances permit will be ready and eager to sign when the Food Pledge solicitor offers the pledge card
Arizona republican., 1917-10-25

daily announcement which showed the total for the district to be S231, ,S75. 900. brought the minimum figure of S300.- coo, 900 almost within s:ght and made the committee more hopeful of reach ing the half billion mt-X:mum before tne close of the campaign.
 Owing to heavy rain the Liberty ivan rally which was to have been held on the common was transferred to Ire mont Temple. The speakers included United States Senator Weeks, Cover nor Mccall and Brigadier General Johnston of the northeastern depart ment Brigadier General Johnston drew contrast between this country and the European countries during tine last three years, urging that the people on this side who have been laughing along take a sober view of the situa- tion.
 There is not only q possibility but a probability" he added, that We may have to end the war on this side, Bear