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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-13
NoTICE.
Taxes on Grand List of 1920

Notice is hereby given to the tax payers of the City of Bridgeport that the second half of the taxes on the Grand List of 1920 arc due and pay able at the Tax Collectors office, Rooms and 5, City tta11, Thursday, Sept 1, 1921.
 The undersigned will be at the col lector's office as above on Sept, 1, 1921, and daily thereafter. Sundays excepted from 9 O. m. to p. m. and Saturdays from a. m. to 12 noon for the purpose of collecting said taxes. After Oct. 1, 1921. as required by law, interest at the rate of three quarters of one-per cent. will be added to the scond half of all unpaid taxes and the same on the first of each succeeding menth.
 HOWARD F. SMITH,
 Tax Collector.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-13
Wanted To Buy

AT"TENTION = L. rodeman.- 14ls kI.is Et., pays highest prices for secon& hand furniture. Phone Bar iesa
 BEST PRICES PAID for all birds of second hand furniture. George CukaA
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-13

STATE OF CONNECTICUT. District
 August 1. 1921.
 Estate of Bridget Healy, late of the Town or Bridgeport, fa said District, deceased. -.-
 Q. The Court of Probate for the District of Bridgeport hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for Settle-n ent- Those who neglect to present their accounts properly at tested, within said time will be debarred recovery All persons indeht ed to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 THOMAS NJ. CULNAN, LISP Executor.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21

increases in fisheries taxation and the House passed the measure in that condition
 The Empire absolutely agrees with MT. Heckman that the taxes on the fisheries are too high. They should not have been increased If any change were made it should have been q downward change If Mir Heckman had started a campaign when he first arrived in Juneau to have the Legislature cut out s1O00 900 or $20o 900 of the proposed appropriation and to cut the the fisheries it is not un- likely that there would have been increase at all in the taxes the fisheries.
 No taxes should have been increased at the last session of the Legislature. If any taxation changes were to be made they should have been reductions These are not times increase the burdens in dustry It may be admitted that reductions should the fisheries ahead of the mines But after MT Heckman consented a raise in the taxes on the fisheries that why more money should have been taxed out of the mines. If MT. Heckman had shown the Senators that the Territory needed more income from taxation it might have been a reason for he pursued. But he did not make any such showing to the Senator's He simply tried to get them to raise the taxes the taxes the fisheries
 When it came from the House of Representatives the revenue bill contained provisions for raising enough money to meet tLe appropriations. The fish cries taxes had been agreed to by MT Hickman rep resenting the fisheries interests There was no need for increasing the mines The Senate did the obvious thing do It passed the bill as had been approved by the House without increasing the mines tax The Senators used their best judgment and their of right
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
THE KETCHIKAN CHRONICLE. MIR. HICKMAN AND THE MINES TAX.

The ketchikan Chronicle charges that the pro- posal to increase the tax on mine incomes 50 pc? cent was Killed in the Senate the result of the entertainment of members of the Senate by lobby 1st In the course of which six bottles of whiskev were consumed. The Chronicle no doubt belieye, that it's criticism based facts and that it wa Justified in making it's accusations but no matter now sincerely 1t might have thought it's charge to b, Justihable it was outrageousy untrue The Chronicle has been imposed upon
 In the first place the charge that any or the eight Senators in the session of the egisa lure could be influenced what they thought to be wrong, to betray their oaths and their con stituents in any such sordid way is unthinkable me taxes were not increased the mining interest Tor the reason that the Legislators thought the emer- gency did not justify it
 Foilowing this charge the Ketchikan paper basns JUS attack doubtless, upon statement of former senator Heckman which appeared in the same paper similar to one previously given The Empire goes aiter certain mining interests of the Territory be- cause II contends, the taxes sufficiently hg mines
 The proposal of Mir Heckman that the tax OF hiihihg profits be increased 50 per cent was nor presented until after the measure had passed the House of Representatives He did not nresenf the proposition in order to have the taxes on tie isheries reduced because he had already consent eG .o the raise Tn the taxes that industry He con sehted to that raise and then after the measure had asa;l on mine profits because fisheries taxes had haa, increased He did not even attempt to show that the extra money the mines would produce would he neea 'o meet the appropriations of the Legislature He simply tried to show that the fisheries had been taxes 100 heavily and therefore the mines should he taxed
 
 MT Heckman knows that the increase in the taxa on nsh traps was the result of a campaign that wa being made against them. It was urged as a reg, ia'iFe measure rather than as a revenue producine measure. Lobbyists wanted higher taxes on the fish traps Tor the purpose of reducing their number Sop ol them wanted the number reduced so as to make more business for the seiners and some for tbe nnr pose Of reducing the salmon catch and thus to nro feet the supply. Some of the members of inc Honso or Representatives wholly in sympathy with this propaganda. Some of the lobbyists favored n fish trap tax of $1.00O-for the purpose mt n, , creasing the revenue but for the purpose of the number of traps. The revenue bill as i, was i, troduced carried tax of $500 on fish traps and stood at that figure when Mir Heckman arrived on he scene. This was the situation when Mr Ueek nan consented to an increase in tax on fish trans rem 3l00 to $2o0 He also consented to the otbar
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
AN INTERESTING CHARACTER Is GONE

George A. Bracket who died the other day at Minneapolis typical of the virile and daring char acters who developed the West Of hardy New Eng land stock he West, locating Minneapolis. where he immediately became prominent in the busi- ness and political life of the city. In early life he railroad contractor and construction engineer and such of those who helped to build the Northern Pacific Railroad across the continent He had settled down into practical retirement after an unusually active career, when notwithstanding his advanced the great Klondike stampede called him to the North The hustle and hustle of pioneer con ditions at Skagway and the congestion the White Pass trail which thousands were struggling hope lessy in an effort to reach what appeared to be a world Mecca at Dawson appealed to his passion o big things. He conceived the idea of building q wagon road to the summit of White Pass and began the work at the beginning of long Alaska winter Before the middle of the following summer four and six horse teams hauling freight to the foot of the summit of White Pass, extending the southern terminus of the pack horse trail fifteen miles from the coast. The venture was a failure not through lack of energy or lack of judgment on his part bu because other men With like indomnabe energy and will to do built railroad paralleng his wagon road Then followed few years of active minino In the Atlin district and second retirement
 Il s~unfortunate for Alaska that this sterling character was not few decades younger when he came to the North. He just such man as this country needed translate undeveoped re- sources into great Industries He died full of years and interesting experiences, leaving friends and ad mirers throughout the West
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21

Bride and three Bridesmaids We suppose the Groom was represented by the small speck in the corner of the Group Picture.
 Why is it that the frost that kills things like peaches and pears merely cause things like the cranberry to flourish?
 It has just about gotten so in this country that man has to have money to burn in order to keep the pot boiling.
 Only men who have been married less than a year ever feel sorry for bachelors
 Anyway, the man who never tips the waiter will never die of indiges- tion. He'll eat slowly and sparingly all right.
 Any smart husband can fix things so his wife don't insist on his going shopping with her. All he need do is let her catch him flirting with the salesgirls.
 After they have been married long enough a wife gets to believe that her husband is about as truthful as the oldest inhabitant of a small town.
 Another trouble with this country IS that too many people devote all of their religion to going to church.
 And this would be nicer world if men would go as far to do some thing for friend as they will to do something to an enemy.
 Talk about women being fckie, A man is either trying to get a woman or trying to get away from her.
 It is hard to make a girl believe that the harder she chases man the harder she has to.
 Don't get swell-headed The cheers that you are getting today may be Jeers tomorrow.
 The trouble with having your sal ary raised is that your wife wants more of it than it amounts to
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
Support of Home Press.
Dawson News. ]

Since the beginning of the great war notable changes have developed in respect the daily press One is the recognition by the leaders all govern ments of the fact the press is an indispensable ad- junct to local and national governments: indispen- sable as factor in the maintenance of the morale or the people and the creation of sentiment to carry out the great projects of war and to spread the n- lormatlon necessary to maintain safe and con dtion of the public mind and make effective the new processes of government essential meeting un- precedented economic problems in this period of ul- rest, reconstruction and changed conditions
 Another new recognition by the daily press IS that it has proved the only medium for getting immediate and voluminous returns in floating govern ment loans and in disposing of surplus government supplies. Embarrassment would follow without the assistance of the press in these large projects The press was needed for this service the past and will be need for it in the future
 A third recognition accorded the press is that it needs more support than before order that it be enabled to struggle against an increased cost or productlon due to the high price paper which IS one Of the commodities not declining in price with the general reduction in almost all other lines
 These and other circumstances surrounding the newspaper industry have won for it more spon- aneous support and united effort in all ceners than hitherto has been possible to evoke. The press is recognized as indispensable long as modern nsti- tutions of government and business made to func- ton with full effectiveness
 Yukon has occasion to remember that ad- vertlsng and keeping of the printing at home is athe only way to retain daily paper in the Yukon metrop- oils Yukon cannot afford to be without the service ol the daily if it expects remain on the man ana get its share of recognition from Dominion ana the world at large. medium distribute the information and fight the battles of the people and Obtain the right kind of laws for Yukon is indispen- sable Without this medium Yukon's cause with the Dominion government and the world at large will dwlndle to nothing and be lost.
 By having the printing done at home and giving generous patronage to the press the business man ana the government will find that they are taking munity
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
GREAT BRITAIN MAKES GREAT
 FINANCIAL RECORD.

Great Britain's budget last year produced $ 200 900 900 than the estimates while her penditures exceed the estimates by about $50000- 900. The surplus used to reduce the national debt$375 900 900 of it going toward paying off the debt to America. The surplus mostly came from the fact that more beer and liquor was manufactured and consumed than had been estimated. Great Britain has paid off practically all of her foreign aside from the $5,S0O,000, 900 she owes the United States and Canada except about s4000 900 to Sweden whicl. it is proposed to pay off immediately
 The British Exchequer says the last years record or that department has been the remarkable in the history of England It is contended that the record such that it will possible for the country to refund all the bonds that will become due before and including 1925, except such as provision may be madeto pay, at an interest rate of 3 F per cent
 Great Britain is fast getting in shape to be i'm mensely prosperous the minute the business of the world becomes active again
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21

Josephus Daniels says MT. Wilson consulted with nm during the World War.-t Birmingham Age Herald)
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
Betchai ]

You'll find this true in every land.
 Said Mr. Batter; "The whole world loves a lover, and It hates hater."
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21

The immigrant isn't fully Americanized until he 'earns to cuss the umpire.-t Baltimore Sum-
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
Arithmetic.
(New York World ]

incidental to the work of Senate Committee on payment to foreign nations, it is stated that the puphc and private debt of other nations to the United States is now $1S000 O00, 900, and increas- ing rapidly
 on debts to this Government interest is low It IS nigh on the rest France and Belgium pay per cent on loans here. If the average is only per cent 1t means, when normalcy is reached an annual interest bill balance of $1,0S0, 100 OD0
 TO balance accounts the United States must re- SeNe that vast sum as excess of imports ex- ports; or 1t must forgive part of the debt. Yn- ierest will be paid in goods be unpaid This l3 heresy to arif-makers. But it is arithemtic
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21

Last year was the time of easy money: this year the period of uneasy money.-( Columbia Record. }
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
Woman.

A woman will spend eight hours cleaning the house when she expects company and then spend the next eight hours apologizing because the house is so untidy. Luke McLuke.
 And get up a swell feed consisting of things that dad and the kids never get, except when company is present and apologize for having their every day fare.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
Stranoe
Mean Brute!

"Tll give you to understand that my brother is model man." said Mrs. Gabb. "He has never smoked drunk, gambled or used profanity"
 "Oh, well, 1 wouldn't worry over it, replied Mir. Gabb. He may out. grow it and become a regular hu- man being before he dies.'
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
BITS OF BY.pLAY By Luke McLuke Copyright by Cincinnati
 Enquirer

Whadda Va Mean. Bar? Have you ever seen the prisoner at the bar?" asked the Prosecuting Attorney
 Yes" replied the Witness. "He used to be in the Dutchmans saloon every night before prohibition hi us
 Why Columnists Commit Mayhem. "l thought of a good one for your column the other day, old man, but i forgot it."
 Paw Knows Everything. Willie-Paw, what is an ideal hus. band?
 Paw-One who won't talk back, my son.
 Maw-Willie, I'll break your neck # you open your mouth again! Learn One New Thing Each Day! "Aballiboozabanganorribo,' was Southey's favorite cuss word
 Strange! A boy will pull flowers all day long, The work he never heeds; It's funny that he never thinks To go and pull some weeds
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
Our Joe Miller Contest.

 Officer Flannigan had arrested q man in the mans room. and was walking him to the police station About two squares from the mans dwelling place the man stopped and said:
 "Officer, left my money under my pillow in my room Let me go back and get it. I'll need it. Let you go back an get it?" said Officer Flannigan. "Shure and I'll do nawthin' of the kind. If I let you go back, you'll never come back. You sthand right here and I'll go back an get it."
 Our Daily Special. Any Man Will Bite if You Use the Right Bait.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21

Learn One New Thing Each Day!
 "Aballiboozabanganoribo,' was Southey's favorite cuss word.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
Luke McL-uke Says

Every now and then it amazes a man to see how agreeable his wife can be-to strangers.
 The other day we saw Group Picture of the principals at fash able wedding It consisted of the
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21

President Harding didn't realize how large his popular support till every original Harding man ,ame to Washington for job Louisville Courier Iournal)
Evening star., 1921-11-06
That Game of Foot Ball
By Ring w. Lardner.

mindness unlest it's the boys that
wrote the official communicates
dureing the war.
Dureing my turn Of service as a
foot ball expert they was numerous
occasions when different head coaches
spent the sabbath writeing a letter
to my sporting editor asking him to
give me the air as a special favor to
them. And they was also occa-
sions when coaches wrote to him and
said that my write up of their game
the day before was the best foot ball
report they had ever read and lest
my readers should think l am brag-
ging I will hasten to exclaim that
in each of these 2 cases the teams
close game and my articles was moth.
ing but hymns of praise for how well
the teams was coached.
x X X X
0NE Of a foot ball reporters little
chores is generally to look ul
both coaches after the game and see
what they have got to say for them.
self. The coach of the winning team
pretty near kisses you but you DOM
no sooner than lay eyes on the Other
guy when you realize for the frs
time that the result Of the game wa.
your fault I won't repeat none o,
the alibis that these birds have
thought up as you would think I was
copying out Of Joe Millers joke book
but instead Of that will tell you
about the time.I got the surprise OF
my young life and that was up tc
Ann Arbor, Mich. Cornell and Michi-
gan had just had a alleged contest
and the score was something like
35 to 10 in favor Of Cornell. So after
wards I went in the Michigan dress
ing r1n. to see Mr.. Yost and there he
Evening star., 1921-11-06

was smileing from ear to ear and I
well what about it,"
WELL" he says, Il guess we was
lucky to score"
The Trainer worked on me for q hr.
/ don't know how they are running
1t out west now days but here in the
east the coaches has meeting In the
on season and picks out the officials
for their next seasons games and
here is another place where fair play
ana sport for sports sake comes leap
ing to the surface like a ton Of lead.
l don't need to go into no details but
it would be kind Of fun to see the
same system tried out in big league
base ball, namely let the managers
pick out their own umpires. As soon
as ball club lost a game why the
manager would say. He can't never
umpire no more games for me" and
when games was lost the manager
would be out of umpires and con-
gress would half to pass conscrip-
ton.
And it would also be fun IL the foot
ball coaches was allowed to tell the
newspapers who they could send to
report their games. A lot Of the
boys that 10 now writeing up the
games would have their Saturdays
RING W. LARDNER.
Great Neck, Nov. 5.
Evening star., 1921-11-06
TO the editor: Well friends here
it is the middle Of the football
eeaSon and mayha Your faYorite


eeason anu maybe your favorite
team looks like 1t will win the
championship. and I don't want to be
no kill joy but I can't resist from
telling you what a treat you missed
this fall namely was going to write
up some of the big games down east
but at the last minute the boss said
no. He didn't state no reasons but
wouldn't be surprised II knew
what they was and guess he is right
for once. don't know nothing about
the game but that don't seem to stop
a few Of the other boys that is
writeing it up and doubt if my mgr.
took that part Of it into considera-
tions but guess he felt like my write
ups would be kind of silly anu !
might get smart and introduce a
spirit of levity into my write ups
which would be out of keeping with
game which is almost sacred you
aluminium Of all the different col
leges would be off of me for life.
Then in the I'd. place maybe he
asked the different newspapers il they
wanted the stuff and they all said
no. If that is the case 1t may OF had
something to DO with his decision
as he il funny that way.
Well anyway I amt going to write
up no football games but vile we are
few wds- in regards to this great
autumn complaint and firstly I beg to
assure my readers that when in
formed that my services as football
Evening star., 1921-11-06

think I've been betrayed by friend"
That's what they all say" chirped
Brian brightly. Now, Mrs. Bride and
I'll escort you past the bogies to your
i.otel."
The young man gave a number to
the chauffeur.
= ~
uNIow, look you. son. Brian. went
on, for he must have his lee.
ture. He put his hand patronizingly
Now ON the hicks knee. Il Just got
to hand it out. Take 1t or leave It.
When in Rome you gotta do as the
Romeos do. Don't talk to large men
with fancy vests. Maybe you'll thank
me for this when you get back to the
homo town."
TITS not my fault. It's the way
the old man raised me-" the caliow
one moaned. Never letting me go
into business like other fellows"
Say" Brian had an inspiration: II
you ever want a wise guy to take
you around N York. ring me up. I'm
and I'll show you all the new stun
Thanks. awfully." said the hick.
The taxi stopped before a brick
house with a white door.
you've pulled me out of an aw-
full hole. old man." he continued. as
he stepped out. I'D like to see more
of you. Here's my card"
The hicks face stared into the
taxi door. pale and anxious. Brian,
as he accepted the card, felt thrill
of remorse. Perhaps, he had been
q bit rough in his language to this
outsider, who. after all. would learn
his New York in time. Under the
hickering corner light Brian held the
card, spelling each letter carefully.
| Then he put 1t in his pocket. AL
ready the hick was disappearing up
the front steps.
"Say!" said Brian, calling after him.
and again looking at the name on the
card, I got letter OF introduction
to you"
Little Booster brought forth OMal-
ley's envelope addressed to Mr..
Dyckman Wynkoop. 1ah washington
Il thought might as we'll hand
it to you now. seein' I'm around your
Copyright 1921