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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-04-29
A New Departure in Personal
Property Assessment
Blanks to be Forwarded to all Persons
Having Personal
Property.

If you are the oN ler of any
personal property you will re-
|ceive from the Office of the
assessor of incomes a blank for
making return, showing the diff
ferent items and values of such
property. owned or held by you.
This blotter is to be filled in.
signed and returned on May 1st.
Assessors in the different dis
tricts have been instructed to
make their own assessments
where this blank is not properly
made out or returned.
Assessor OF incomes Tomkins
advises that this system is in
use in the city of Milwaukee and
has been instrumental in secur-
ing more uniformity in assess
ment. Any tax payer who shall
Intentionally make a false state
ment for the purpose Of avoid
ing the payment Of his just and
proportionate share Of taxes,
shall forfeit the sum of ten
dollars for every hundred dollars
so withheld. This applies to the
assessment of personal property.
With the ever increasing tax
burden. the responsibility Of the
assessor, is becoming the great
er. 1t is OF the utmost i'm
portance that there be more
equality in assessments.
The city of Eau Claire re-
ceived a great deal of free adver-
tising last fall because it had a
tax rate of .041 per cent, the
highest of any city in Wisconsin.
Had this city had a true and
equal assessment, the rate would
have been .032 per cent. The
City of Ashland had a tax rate
for 1919 of .035 per cent with a
proper assessment, the same
amount of taxes could have been
| raised with a rate Of .024 per
lcent.
A prompt return of your state
ment is requested. 1t will aid
| in securing uniformity and give
your assessor more time to de.
vote to other duties. The prin-
cipal object in view, in its use,
lis the protection of those, who in
the past, have been assessed al
or near true value, by bringing
property under-valued up to the
standard required by law. Care.
fully check each item, placing
thereafter its fair cash value.
1 While there are many bother.
some and burdensome features
Imposed in complying with the
different demands for informa
tion. both as to income and gen
eral property taxation. they are
all made for the purpose of pro
tecting the taxpayer. not t.
4 worry him.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-04-29
Business Houses Agree to Disagree
on Some Points
Dynamite Plant Now Working on Day
light Plan and Will Continue.
Schools Start but Change.

The daylight saving plan
which was to have gone into
effect in the city beginning last
Monday morning is having diff
Guilty thru the fact that a num-
Der of places and institutions
failed to adopt the plan.
The dynamite plant announced
a week ago that it would adopt
the daylight saving plan. a ma
jority of the workmen fayoring
the idea, and as soon as this was
learned a list was circulated
among the business houses OF
the city to have them adopt the
same hours and this list was
signed by all but three or four
business houses. But on Satur-
day a vote was taken at the Ken
field-Lamoreaux plant, and while
it carried by a majority of two,
yet the management did not feel
that the vote was decisive
enough and for this reason the
old time was continued, notices
having been posted in the factory
and mill stating if the men
could get together and decide by
q large enough majority of what
they wanted in the matter the
company would be willing to
carry out their ideas.
The failure of the XII people
to come under the new plan
caused dissention among the
ranks of the business men and
some wanted to close according
to the new time while others
did not.
The city schools. feeling that
if the town went on the daylight
saving plan it would be folly for
them to continue otherwise, also
adopted the plan for the schools.
but with part of the city en-
deavoring to carry out daylight
saving and the rest going accord
ing to standard time things be-
came muddled up.
A we'll attended meeting of
the business men was held at
the Commercial Club rooms on
Monday evening to discuss mat
tiers and after considerable de.
bate for and against the propo.
sition it was finally agreed te
close all places Of business al
six o'clock every evening in the
year except Saturdays and pay
days and this carried almost
unanimously. Those present al
the meeting stated that they
would carry out this plan re
gardless of others and this seems
to be the solution so far as thu
business houses are concerned
The schools have also gon,
back to normal time again bu
the Dupont plant expect to carr,
out the daylight saving plal
until the men decide otherwise.
Those favoring the dayligh
saving plan felt that it was
fine thing, especially in this par
of the country where we do no
have any more fine sunme
weather than it needed, bat witt
railroad time standard, it wa
a hard matter to get all peopl
to see things in the same ligh
and to get all to agree to tn
plan. Had The entire city adopt
ed the daylight schedule thing
would have worked admirably
but with a difference of opiniol
things do not work out well.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-04-29

Lost-A new Goodyear tire and
rim for Chevrolet car. between
Washburn and Nash Wednesday
night. Finder report at this Office
for reward.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-04-29
Nor. Luth. Church

Services Sunday morning at
1890. Sunday school at noon.
English services ia the evening
at 7:So. Services at Engoe .,
2:30. Vikings meet at the
church next Wednesday, even
ing.
Chr. Christensen, Pastor
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-04-29

Money to loan on City Property
and farm lands. Call or write, Geo.
G. Macdonald. Bristol Block. Ash
land, Wis. tt.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-04-29

Wanted-Lady Cook at Pasl's
at once.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
Government Not A Christmas Tree

If we want to make the Government
a kind ~pickpocket, the way to do it is
just to confiscate the great properties
of the public service corporations thru
the country, declared ex-Mayor Ole
Hanson, of Seattle, at the recent meet
ing in Boston of the New England As
ISOLATION of Gas Engineers. If the
time comes, he added, when a utility
enterprise that has honestly expended
the public's money in creating or de-
veloping gas, electric or street car
plant cannot operate, we must raise
the rate so they can get by, or we
must refund to them the money they
put into he enterprise.
| cannot believe that the public util-
ity that employs a large number of
men and requires a large amount of
capital will function as efficiently
when publicly operated as it will when
privately operated, with an individual
reward for the corporation at the end
of the day.
The time has come to tell the truth
to the people-that the United States
Government is not a self-perpetuating
Christmas tree for anyone'S benefit.
NON IIdI lIC Wal 10 ONCI anu IllC CIiilC
has come to see that the investors get
a run for their money-to protect the
great body of men and women who
saved and put their money into public
utilities and who had their entire cap
ital cut in two during the a The
corporations in the final analysis are
owned by the rank and file of the peo-
pie who have been thrifty enough to
lay something aside for a rainy day.
Our work is to see that they get JUS
tice and that the public get adequate
service for a fair and compensatory
remuneration.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
A Retter Scholarship

A "Better Scholarship" campaign is
being conducted this month in the
Millville high school, and a number OF
inspirational letters have been receiv-
ed from men of national note. Among
these letters is one from Secretary OF
War Newton D. Baker, who writes:
Better scholarship means more learn
ing and more training, but its highest
Importance lies in its moral value; 1t
is always demoralizing to do less than
ones best, and if the students in any
school drag along day after day salts
fed with performances less than their
best, they make it very difficult for
themselves when they come into the
competitions of active life to set a
higher standard. 1t will be founud by
them, however, that out in the world
the prizes for happiness and success
90 to those who do their best"
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
Indians Got" 37S Huns

The Germans took every precaution
to be prepared to get all the informa-
ton from the enemy. They tapped
telephone wires in France and had
men who understood all languages of
the Allies. But the Americans, the
original Americans got their goat.
Choctaws were put on each end of the
phones. The Germans could not find
a person who could understand that.
Not only were Indians from the
United States taken over to
fight the Huns, but Canada sent 1000
volunteers who were sharp shooters
with scalping knives. Corporal Fran
els Pegahmagbow is credited with the
''scalps" of 378 Germans in a report
submitted to the House of Commons
by Arthur Meighen, minister of the In
terror.
Corporal Pegahmagbow, who halls
from Parry Sound, a n of a large
number of Indian crack shots who
were detailed as snipers. He received
the military medal with two bars for
his exploits.
Mr.. Meighen's report cites numer-
GUS instances of gallantry on the part
of the Indian contingent, which num-
bered more than 35 per cent. of the
total male Indian population of mill
tary age.
One Indian, John Campbell, travel
led 5000 miles by canoe, train and
steamer to reach Vancouver SO that he
could enlist.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
Republican Split Feared in New
York State

Trouble for the Republican Party is
said to be brewing in New York State.
In fact some observers contend that a
split may come comparable to the one
caused by Colonel Roosevelt in 1912.
This is based on the fact that Senator
Hiram Johnson and his campaign man
ayers are bitterly complaining of the
methods of the Old Guard Republican
leaders in New York State in selecting
delegates to the convention.
The Johnson managers declare that
the Republican organization is as hope
lessly under the dominion Of the old
stand-pat reactionary bosses as it was
eight years ago, and that this organi-
cation is seeking to lead the rank and
file of the party into blindly working
its will. The same methods, the John
o supporters say, are being employ
ed in other states and they claim that
the party bosses hope to have such
complete control of the Chicago Con-
vention as to prevent any expression
of popular sentiment and bring about
the nomination of a nan of their own
selection.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
Treaty Again Rejected

Every true citizen of the United
States was interested in the World
War and nearly all entered into 1T,
means and soul, to beat Germany and
have a lasting peace. The second re-
lection of the Peace Treaty by the U.
S. Senate last Friday by a vote of 40
to So Ia two-thirds vote is necessary
makes another black mark in the his
tory OF the nation. Never was there
such a muddled mess of voting. Most
ii those VINO voted for it did so be-
cause they had previously added to 1T
multiplying reservations and wished to
insult other nations and embarrass the
administration OF President Wilson in
dealing with other nations with whom
he had helped make the Treaty with
the League of Nations added to pre-
vent future wars.
Most of those who voted against the
Treaty did so because it was not the
Treaty that had been made at YER
sailles, but one made anew by those
who wanted to nullify it and discredit
President Wilson who was foremost in
making it.
Never in the history of the United
OldlcS Ids llICIC bOCIl lAiN1S IA ;
vicious and bitter ~partisanship shown,
backed by insidious foreign influences
to defeat the treaty, and discredit the
administration.
Thirty-four nations have ratified the
Peace Treaty as written without any
reservations. The only big nations are
the United States and China. 1t is
now in force between these nations
and the central powers of Germany
and Austria. The League Of Nations
is functioning without the United
States in spite of the U. S. Senate
who object to it because of blind par
tisanship.
The Peace Treaty is not dead, but
rests in the Presidents hands. 1t is
up to the people to elect United States
Senators who will ratify it. 1t may
take a dozen years to eXterminate the
nullifiers in the U. S. Senate, but it is
the peoples duty to do SO to recover
from the moral %depravity it has sunk
to under the leadership of Senators
Lodge, Borah and Johnson.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
One More State Needed

The legislature of the State of
Washington on the Pacific coast rati-
fled the proposed suffrage amendment
to the U. S. Constitution last Monday.
1t was passed unanimously by the Sen
ate and Assembly. Washington is the
35th State to ratify. One more is
needed.
Governor John G.. Townsend called
the Delaware legislature last Monday
for the purpose of having it ratify the
amendment. With the approval of the
Delaware legislature the amendment
will become a part of the Constitution
and will allow all the women to vote
for the Presidential candidates next
November. -
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

President Wilson made a world
wide sensation when he asked for the
resignation of Robert Lansing as Sec
rotary of State. During the Presl-
dents illness MI. Lansing, who IS
versed in old time diplomacy, let the
European diplomats run away with the
new progressive principles which he
had promulgated in Europe. In other
words Lansing was not keeping up
with Wilson as millions of others are
not doing, and was letting the old
world recede from the advancements
of American democracy. The noml-
nation of cambridge Colby, a live wire
Progressive Republican to be Secre-
tary of State was another mental jar
to the moss back Senators. After an
investigation Mr.. Colby was confirmed
on last Monday without opposition;
Soon the Yankee school master Will
have a new lesson to present thru Mr..
Colby to the world teaching some new
principles for the next generation to
climb up to-. The present politicians
seem unable to keep up with Wilson
because they were never taught TO
read. study and think when in college.
They are governed too much by their
ancestors ike the Chinese.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

The New Jersey Supreme Court has
handed down a decision that nothing
on the statutes creating the Board of
P. U. Commissioners prevents a troll
ley company from increasing its fares
at any time it chooses, without an or
der from the Board. According to the
decision. the statute provides that the
Commission has the right to interfere
when rates are excessive. The decision
was the result of suit brought by
Mayor Glen of Newark, who refused
to pay a 7-cent fare because the com
pany had not received and order from
the P. U. Commission and did not give
2 days' notice of the increase.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

The U. S. Supreme Court in Wash.
ington, D. c., will hear next Monday
the arguments presented by New Jer-
sey and Wisconsin attacking the va
lidity of the prohibition laws. The
Court will then take a recess until
April 18th to dream over the matter
which is one of the weightest and
fartherest reaching subjects eve pre-
sented for their consideration. If they
do not decide for the dry side it will
be a reversal of previous decisions
given a generation ago.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
The death of William ]. Brownin,

The death of William j. Browning,
in a BARRIERS chair in the Capitol IN
Washington came as a shock to this
region because he was the Congress
man from this, the First District in
New Jersey. He vas Congressman
since the death of Henry C. Louden-
slayer, August 18th, 1911. He was a
man of modest demeanor and quiet
disposition, well versed in the ways of
law making and political doings in
Washington. He was a safe Republl-
can and stood hitched where party
management placed him.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

Andrew Jackson told John C. Cal
houn, who would nullify the Union and
Constitution: "The Federal Union
Must be Preserved" Woodrow Will
son tells the nullifiers of the Peace
Treaty with Germany, the greatest
document ever written since the Amer
lean Constitution: "The League of
Nations Must be Preserved" The
nullifiers of the Peace Treaty will go
down in history with the same oppro-
blum as the nullifers of the Constitu-
ton.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

What's the odds if prices are high
so you have the money to buy with.
The dollar crop is the greatest I'M the
history of the world, and never was
cheaper. Has anyone got too many
5O-cent dollars SO many were afraid
of in 1896.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

DeVilera, the would be president of
a traitorous Irish republic who is play
ing the devil in American politics sent
word to have TeDeum sung over the
U. S. Senate adopting a resolution for
Irish freedom. Then there should be
a high requiem mass sung over the
death of American Freedom, when our
Senators become puppets of DeVilera
and not followers of Woodrow Wilson.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

There are strenuous cries to reduce
the prices on the necessities. Nine
tenths of the high prices goes to labor
for wages, either in production, trans
p~ortation or distribution. Wages were
the first to go up in the production of
wasted wal munitions. Is there any
cry for the high prices of labor to
come down first ?
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

James A. Nutley, of Nutley, Hudson
County, has been appointed Federal
Prohibition Director for New Jersey.
He will have a hard nut to crack IN
his own county.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

One year. $3.50 in advance; 6 months,
75 cents; 8 months 40 cents; single
copy. t cents.
Entered in Penns Grove Post Office
as Second Glass Matter.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

Wilmington people have little to
complain of since the nation went dry.
They have the Brandywine to drink
from and are doing fine. .
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

Tip-top-the polite mans hat.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

We are always at your service
with the best for your money
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-02-06

Curly took off his dusty gray hat.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-02-06
CHAPTER ~.
A Bear Trap.

The winding trail led up to the
scrub pines and from there north into
'he nils. Curly had not travelled far
when he heard the sound of n gpn
nred three times In quick succession
ne stopped to listen. Presently there
came faint call for help.
Curly eantered around the shouldar
OF the hill and saw a man somat,,na
on the ground. He was stopped FORE
ward IN an awkward fashion win his
back TO FlandIau. ~" "'S
What's up?'
AT the question the man looked over
h n,s shoulder Pain and helpless race
burned in the deepset black V eres ''se
Nothing at all. Don't Won san ~.
JUST taking napYp he an cSy =,
quietly ~ answered
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-02-06
"Buenos tardes, senorita! I'll bet I'm
too late to draw any dinner"

huehos tardes, senorital I'll bet Tn
TOO late to draw any dinner"
"Buenos, senor" she answered
promptly "I1l bet you'd lose vour
money. You can wash over there Inv
the pump There's towel on the
fence" W
She disappeared into the house and
curly took care of his horse. washed
ana sauntered back to the porch. He
could smell potatoes frying and couId
near the sizzling of ham and eggs.
Nhiie he ate, the girl fitted in and
out, Soft-tooted and graceful. replep.
ishing his plate from time TO time
Presently he discovered that her I'm.
Their was away hunting strays ON
Sunk creek, that the nearest neighbor
was seven miles distant and that
Stones ranch was ten miles farther
up Dead Cow.
Ever meet lad called Sam Gull
lisonE' the guest asked carelesslv.
Curly was hardly prepared TO see
the color whip into her cheeks or 70
meet the quick stabbing look she fast
eheu on MN.
You're looking for him. are you?"
she said. DO you know him?"
lie shook his head. She looked at
him very steadily before she spoke
again.
You haven't met him yet but Won
want to. Is that III"
THAT'S it,"
win you have another egg?"
: Flandrau laughed. mo. thanks.
up at Stones, is he?p
How should l know who's STAYING
II StonesY 0 say 'ns
~ was quite plain she did not in
eau 10 tel anything that would hurt
oeng Cullison.
Are you expecting to stop in the
', ~. io,lg-or Just visitlng?"
es' Curly answered, with his
loSt innocent blank look.
Yes whichr'
Why whichever you like. Miss
'ondon' WHAT'S worrying your If
ou Il ask me plain out iii know how
answer YOU"
so you know my nnmeYe
Anything strange about thatg The :
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-02-06
SYNOPSIS.


CHAPTER T--Advensufous and reck.
less. rather than criminal. and excited by
liquor Curly flandrau and his chum.
Mac both practically mere boys become
involved IN a demonstrating adventure
Disrosing Of the stolen stock IN the town
Of Saguache, Ariz.. the band separates
curly and his partner staying In town.
Ahey are awakened and told a posse Is
" town in pursuit ~ them They eiude
Their rufsuors Oyertakcn next day. Mac
- Killed By The posse and curly made
captive. after he has shot one and HIM
seit been wounded The man shot is
Luck CuliiaOn.
CHAPTER li.-Culiison's friends an
eattiemen, determine 10 lynch curly as
an example tu cattle thieves With the
rope around bis neck he rs saved by the
Intervention Of Kate Cuiiison. Luck's /
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-02-06

"Sam Is all right, but he has got Of
wrong foot first. He and the old maj
got TO kind Of dlsagreeing, for the XII,
D from the old man, too. Well, they hat
a row one time when Sam got Into
trouble. Luck told him he never want.
J ed TO see him again. Sam lii out aud
next folks knew he was trailing with
Soapy's gang"
Looks like some one ought to be
able to pry him loose from that bunch"
Curly mused aloud
Maloney grinned across at him.
you try IT, son. You've always led a
good pious life. He sure would listen
TO you"
He had said II as JEST but Curly
| did not laugh. Why not? Why
shouldn't he hunt up Sam and let him
know how his folks were worrying
about him? He was footloose till Sep
tember and out Of a job. For he could
not go back 10 the Map of Texas with
his hat In his hand and a repentant
whine on his lips. Why not hike into !
the hills and round up the boy?
Damn If | don't take a crack at it,"
The man on the other side of the
table stared at him.
Meaning that, are your
"Yep."
"Might be some lively if Soapy gets
wise to your Intentions" he said in a
casual sort Of way
Il don't aim to declare them out
loud"
That was all they said about it at
that time. The rest of the evening
was devoted to pleasure.
Since their way was one for several
niles Maloney and Curly took the road
ogelher next morning at daybreak.
Their ponies ambled' along side by
iide at the easy gait characteristic of
he Southwest.
Your plainsman is a taciturn indi-
idual. These two rode for an hour G
'ithout exchanging a syllable. }
AT Willow Wash their ways di-
erged. They parted with the casual i
So-long; see you later" Curly was d
riking for the headwaters of Dead u
ow creek, where Soapy Stone had a p
)rse ranch. @
About two O'Clock he reached a lit IL
park in the hills, in the middle of u
hich, by dry creek, lay ranch. II
The young man at first thought the y
ace was deserted for the day, but l.
len he called a girl appeared at the III
or. She was young person of soft Gil
rves and engaging dimpes. Be
ath the brown cheeks of Arizona or
S pink that came and went very ne
".
'ury took off his dusty gray hat
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