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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-05
THE BUSINESS QUIZ.

Question No. What is the object
of Inventory, and how often should il
take place in a well ordered business :
Answer No. 1.-The true object OF
inventory is to balance the books and
clear the business deck for action al
the end of the fiscal year. January
and July is considered the best time
of the year to inventory.
Question No. pillow should profits
be figured. On cost or selling price.
and why?
Answer No. always figure profit
on selling price, for from the selling
price of your goods you pay bills and
conduct business. Over 900 of fail
ures are caused by figuring profits on
a cost basis.
Question No. ST an article cost 81
and you sell for $1.50, what percentage
of profit do you make minus over
head?
Answer No. 3-On goods costing 81
and selling for $3.50 you make exactly
'33Ha and not SOC as some merchants
suppose because 50 cents, your gross
profit is one-third of the selling price.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-05

Question No. 4-If overhead expense
is 200, what will an article that cost
81 and you sell for $3.50, figure as
profit?
Answer No. As illustrated above,
20% the cost of doing business should
be computed on $3.50 making the ar
ticle cost $3.50 not $1.20 as the case
when figured on the basic cost.
Question No. 5-If a bill is discount
ed "2E 10 days. what is the cash
value of said discount per annum?
Answer No SIT has been figured
the cash value of discounting a bill
''2% 10 days is at the rate OF 500
per annum
Question No. eff goods in transit
are destroyed by fire, who suffers the
loss, the shipper or the purchaser?
Answer No. eff goods in transit
are destroyed by fire, the seller must
fight the claim with Insurance Com
pary or Railroad for so 0 as goods
are delivered to the carrier, title pass
es from the seller to the buyer.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-05

Many Unclaimed Accounts in Banks.
New York.-There are 25,000 un-
claimed accounts in savings banks,
trust companies and private banks in
New York state, accounts which have
lain dormant for from five to thirty
years. They range from 50 to tens
Of thousands of dollars.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-05
Opinions.

"What is your opinion of the
tariff"
Its a great question:" replied Sen
ator Sorghum, ION which l do not per-
init myself personal views. My pub
lie opinions are regulated largely by
the lines of business in which my most
influential constituents happen TO be
engaged"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-05
SECOND HAND

GSVOU have the general appearance
L of a man who Is hunting for
trouble" volunteered the low-browed
man.
II am greatly annoyed" replied the
professor. 81 bought a secondhand
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-05

typewriter, think
ing I was getting
q bargain, and 1t
is a constant ag-
%gravation."
"a man always
thinks he's get
ting a bargain
when he blows
himself for Sec
ond-hand goods.
Old Doolittle
thought he was
getting rich quick
when he bought
a surrey for SIT.
The m q n w h @
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-05

A city gan get along without some
men but it can't get ahead without
them.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-05
Slow.

"He seems a little SLOW"
"Who?'
"The fellow who will be claiming
to have gone to school with Harding.
So far he hasn't announced himself"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19

CAM, land that's been long time,
Tor I'm now In my sixty-eighth year. :.
IL remember when / was a child I
was kept on q strict diet Of lima
water and milk for weeks and I have
been in constant distress all these
years. Isufrered terribly from bloat-
Ing and had to be very careful Of what
3 ate. I became SO weak and nervous
! could hardly go about my homework
and was in a miserable condition.
about two years ago my husband
got such splendid results from Tanlac
he insisted on my taking It and the
medicine wasn't but a little while In
Kidding me Of my troubles. It gave
me splendid appetite, and could
enjoy good hearty meal, even things
= hadn't dare touch before, without
any fear Of 1t troubling me.
Then had the influenza and be-
came dreadfully sick and weak, but
my stomach, kept in good order and It
only took four bottles Of Tanlac to
build me up again to where I'm now
feeling better than at any time can
remember. I have gained eleven
pounds In weight, too, and words can't
express the gratitude feel toward
Tanlac. I keep Tanlac in the house
all the time now. for know, It 10 :.
medicine that can be depended upon.
. Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everyWhere,-Ady. S. y q
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
POST WINS ON GOLDEN CALF
Headed Anima, Aid. in RAISING
Organizations Funds From
500 to $500.

The Golden Calf of the Twentieth
century has been discovered BY the
American Legion post at Fredericks-
burg, Va. which owes an increase in
its working capital from 500 to $500
to two-headed juvenile COW. in full
title to which the post invested its
scant 500 last fall.
Having induced a Westmoreland
county farmer to part with the freak
animal for this sum, a special levy Of
various small amounts was made
upon the treasury to buy nourishment
for the calf. Then came the Virginia
state fair in Richmond and the calf
was In full bloom, eating both his
heads of and waxing fat withal.
The Fredericksburg post put him
on. exhibit, charging a suitable fee.
When the fair was over and the dust
had settled, the post treasury con-
tanned $500 the accrued earnings Of
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
POOR LEAD 70, OBTAIN SPLIT
Attempt 70 Arouse indignation Over
& "Horror on the Rhine" Proves
Dismal Failure.

THE Germanophile attempt to
arouse American Indignation over the
horror on the Rhine and thereby to
lead to a split, spiritual rather than
diplomatic, between America. and her
recent allies has failed Of its purpose
in precisely the same way that Ger
man propaganda in THE country failed
in every one of the years between
1914 and 1913" says an editorial: In
the American Legion Weekly.
1.-THE truth Is merely that the, Ger
mans do not know how to go about
1t. 'Kultur' obviously does not include
any knowledge of the fine art of get
ting something over, a fact amply at
tested by the reflex action which has
accompanied the present attempt. The
Won Mach style Of responsiveness. is
no more subtle than the efforts Of a
st. Bernard puppy to stand up on a
hardwood floor. It is flattering the
Won Mach type Of boring from within
to call its insfdious. Insidious It "a,
however, in its intent II not in its ap-
plication.
"Dr. Won Mach has proved himself
q poor servant Of his country, wheth--'
er he regards his. country as America
or Germany. He is poor American
for having tried to win America over
to the point of view Of the unrepen-
tant nation to defeat whose govern
ment 100000 Americans gave their
lives, for attempting to resurrect a
hyphen that was theoretically buried
just three years ago. He is poor
German because his clumsiness has
served only to arouse America to the
fact that she is still at war with Ger
many" e &
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
WORKING ON DRY LAWS
House Starts Task Of Tightening
Prohibition Enforcement.
voIstead Offers Supplement Designed
to Administer Knockout to
Palmer Ruling. 4:

Observation-Disclosures started the
work Of plugging up the leaks in the
enforcement of national prohibition.
The "plugs" are found in supplement
to the volstead law, proposed by Rep.
resentative A. ]. Volstead of Mime.
sofa, which has the united support of
the Anti-saloon league and most of
the drys in congress. Hearings on the
supplement were. commended be.
fore the house judiciary committee Of
which Volstead is chairman.
The primary object Of the drys in
demanding legislation in addition to
the Volstead law Is to administer a
knockout blow to the ruling of former
Attorney General A. M. Palmer that
beer is medicine and may be pre-.
scribed in unlimited quantities.
The main provisions Of the Vol.
stead supplement are:
Absolute prohibition against the pre-.
scribfng Of beer as medicine.
An embargo on the manufacture and
importations Of liquors until the
amount Of such liquor now in distil-
leries or other bonded warehouses
shall have been reduced to quantity
that, in the opinion of the prohibition
commissioner, will with liquor that
may thereafter be manufactured, be
sufficient to supply the current need
thereafter for all non.beverage pur.
poses."
Greater restrictions on the use Of
alcohol in the making of patent medi;
cines.
Extension Of the law to the Nirgin
Islands and Hawaii.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
FARMERS FAVOR GRAIN POOL
New Grain Growers Incorporation Get.
Nationwide Support.

Nationwide Support.
i Chfcago.-The general Offices of the
American Farm Bureau federation.
under whose leadership the national
cooperative grain marketing plan in.
corpOrated as the United States Grain
Growers was inaugurated, announces
that reports from all parts of the
country show that organized agricul-
ture Is practically unit in favor of
the plan.
I Reports of favorable action on the
plan, 1t is announced, have been re.
ceived from farmers organizations in
Kansas, Iowa. Nebraska, Washington.
and Idaho. The Wheat Growers asso.
citation of Washington and Idaho, ii
was said, has voted to join the United
States Grain Growers, Inc, en- masse
on the basis Of pooling 100 per cent of
crop.
The American Farm Bureau fedora
ton has announced the biggest single
sale since the inception of the wool
pool marketing department of the
bureau. This was the sale of 100000
pounds to an eastern mill ut an aver
age price of from 20 to % cents.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
LEeIoNIR oLlERs UNDER THEM
ex.esrvies Men Promptly lsalt *
pioitations Of Pre- German 4
7roubismakero.

In response to the warning issued
by their national commander, r. w.
/ albraith, Jr, American Legion mem
,bers in many parts sof the country
have been active In lighting against
efforts Of prot Germans and other
hyphenated persons to drive q wedge
between America and her allies in the
World war. III sii.
twenty-five thousand patriotic citi-
zens Of New York attended the "All
American Meeting for God and Coun-
try" which was held in Madison
Square Garden under the auspices Of
the Legion. as protest against pre-
vious pro- German meeting, said to be
for the purpose Of creating sentiment
against the alleged Horrors on the
Rhine" s "a 2 ;t..
When word was received in Phila.
delphia that DR.. Edmund Won Mach,
notorious German propaganda, was
planning to hold meeting In that
city, Legion members and other pa
triotic citizens opposed the PROPOSE
ton and succeeded in blocking the
scheme.
Similar action was taken by the
Legion and various societies in Indian.
apolis. Among the organizations CO.
operating with the Legion was the ma
tional executive committee Of the
American Gymnastic union, composed
of large membership Of citizens Of
German extraction, which insisted
upon unhyphenated citizenship and
scored Won Mach and George Sylves-
ter viereck. On the same day the In
dianapolis board Of public works an
nounced 1t would not permit the use
of its large convention hall for the
proposed Won Mach meeting.
Learning that Louisville was on, the
proposed itinerary Of Doctor Won
Mach, the Kentucky department Of
the Legion instructed posts to use
"every lawful means practicable to
stop the threatened invasion Of Boche
propagandists." The Kentucky Legion's
bulletin also warned against the &C
tivities Of Viereck.
Legion posts have also opposed the
hyphenates in Chicago, Cleveland.
Omaha, Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
MINERS WAR STILL RACES
Mountaineers Refuse Truce and West
Z. Virginia Killing Continues.

Mountalneers Refuse Truce and West
Virginia Killing Continues.
Williamson, w. Va.-An emissary
of the state forces taking part in the
battle which ragged for two days in the
Mingo mountains along the Tug river.
approached the stronghold of a leader
Of the mountaineers under flag of
truce, and asked that the mountain
: men cease firing into villages in this
region.
The emissary, carrying piece of
white muslin on a stick, reached the
party Of men who were raining bullets
into a nearby town. The mountaineers
respected the white flag but a leader
OF the forces opposed to the state
officers replied that the hill men would
accept a truce only when the firing
from the Kentucky side Of the river
had ceased.
Three men are reported by state
troopers to have been killed in firing
ut McCarr. \
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
NO COLD BURIED
IN MOUNTAINS
Money Thought Hidden in Mary.
land Really Near Phlladel-
phia, Says Mrs. Bergdoll.
GROVER COMING HOME.
Mother Of Notorious Stacker Testis7es
That Fleeing Son 10 Expensive
. Expects Him Back After
Peace Is Signed.

Washington.--NOt one dollar of the
S1O5OOO in gold obtained from the
TREASURY was put in u pot for burial in
the mountains, Mrs. Emma C. Berg
doll of Philadelphia testified before a
house committee investigating the
escape of Grover Cleveland BergdOll,
her Stacker son.
Again picking up the trail of the
treasure, the committee found and
then lost it, for Mrs. Bergdoll frankly
declared that she had buried it some
where around Philadelphia, that no.
body else knew the spot, and that it
was Just where she placed it nearly
two years ago. The draft dodgers
mother was positive in the statement
that she never took it to Hagerstown,
Md, where it was supposed to be.
Defense Costs $4,000.
In trying to clear up some of the
kinks in the testimony, the fnvestiga-
tors got into others, one of which con-
cerned the woman's declaration that
Lieutenant Bruce Campbell, who had
taken part by direction of the mill.
tary authorities in the court martial
of Bergdoll, had suggested that former
Judge John w. Wescott of New.Jersey
he kept in the background as one Of
the defense lawyers. At the time she
testified that she did not regard the
judge us one of Growers counsel, who,
with doctors and others, had cost her
upwards of $4,000 since his escape.
Sends $4,000 to Germany.
Mrs. Bergdoll declared that less than
a week ago, answering an appeal for
help, she had sent Grover, who is in
Germany, $4,000.
what is Growers intention about
staying in Germany?' John Fl. Sher-
burne, counsel for the committee,
asked. and Mrs. Bergdoll's eyes
sparkled. NJ y"
LAS soon as the armistice is signed,
he is coming home," and the laughter
Infatuated her.
well, there are thousands of other
slackers and they never mention any,.
body's boy but mine," she cried.
',There ore plenty Of them in Philadel-
phia-nearer home than Germany
Asked how much Grover was worth,
Mrs. Bergdoll made quick mental
calculation, and answered: "Half
million" she said. F.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
Roads File for Hioher Rate..

Bismarck, N. D.-The Great Mouth.
ern and Northern Pacific railroads
have filed tariffs with the state rail-
road commission for new intrastate
passenger rate of SO cents per mile,
effective May IS, as granted by the
interstate commerce commission. The
Pullman surcharge is.Ialso effective on
TINT date.
Some Of the freight tariffs have
been filed, effective June 10, date on
or before which railroads were author.
lied to increase rates. Other tariffs
are expected 70 be filed Immediately.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
PRIEST ADMITS his GUILT
Sold Stolen Bonds to Aid Starving
Practitioners. He Confe..es

Sold Stolen Bonds to Aid Starving
Practitioners, He confesses.
Chicago-Desire to aid his starving
parishioners caused him to attempt to
gain money from bonds valued at $685.
600, which had been stolen in Toledo
mail robbery and later entrusted to his
care, according to confession by Rev.
Father Anthony Gorek of New Chi
cago. Ind. He was held in $4,000
bonds on charges of conspiracy and
possessing stolen bonds.
Il thought Of my starving parish
toner's" he said. according to a secret
service agent. "Only seven men in
my whole parish had work. l thought
of helping them and Of lifting the debt
from the parish. Temptation over
came me-" h
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
THREE VOICES At ONE TIME
Minneapolis Legion Man Can Sing
Tenor, Bass and Baritone Parts
simultaneously.
Wonder voices have been heralded
the world over, at least since the In

cepd0n OF the
press agent. But
1t was left for Joe
Kaufman, a for
mer army ser
6 cant and an
American Legion
member in Min.
neapolis. Mimi, to
sing the first male
trio simultaneous.
~, carrying the
parts alone with
the sam 9 b a r
mony and control
-
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
ASP l !. !;
Name !. Bay On Genuine

Bewarel Unless you zee the name
~Bayer on package OF on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin pre-
}scribed BY physicians for twenty-one1
years and proved safe by millions.
Take sAspirin only ~ toldsin the Bayer
package for Colds. Headache, Neural-
81, Rheumati sm. Earache, Toothache,i
Lumbago. and for Pain: Handy tin
boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets 81 -
.pifin cost few cents. Drusyfstsa aIso
seli larger packages. Aspirin II Tho
trade mark Of Bayer Manufacture of
/ 4 Mono cstsca cidallater y 4 sale lieacid.
81 " III < s.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
Legion Men Among ths MInsrs.

Z l.IS \
The activity Of the American Legion
10 the mining districts .of southeast
Kansas 81 another pertinent proof
that the Misunderstanding between
labor bodies and the ex-seryice mems
organization has been dissipated. At
scammon. KAN, the climax Of the
eight-hour day celebration Of tile
miners 40 District II, was reached in
a bah at the Legion hall. under the
auspicies Of Francis Ellison Post.
Another instance Is the almost nnpre.
5csdented growth OF b Clarence Smith
Post No. 272 at Weir. From q member.
ship o. = ex-service men In; 1920. &
totalsof III - been enroll u ins 1oel
! illus far. IS II
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
Ia TOILETTE RAPs HARDING

Files Resolution condemlnna Action
In Joining Peace Councils.
Washington-Aa resolution condemn.
ing President Harding's action in the
appointment of American representa-.
tives to the Allied councils in Europe
was introduced In the Senate by Sen.
ator La Toilette, Republican Of wis.
consin.
Senator La Follette's resolution, the
first open outbreak Of Republican dis
satisfaction with the administration
policy. proposed declaration by the
Senate that it is contrary to Amer
lean ideals and traditions for the gov
eminent Of the United States to par.
ticipate in any manner" in the Allied
councils.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19

Dynamite Caps Explode; Kills BOY,
Portsmouth, Ohio-When Carl New.
man attempted to toss q lighted cigaret,y
away 1t lodged IN lis pocket with some
dynamite caps. exploding them. The
boy was blown to pieces and six COM
panions were injured. one Of them los
ing 9 leg. IS ~ II 4s Il. .is. s4.54
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
Ignorance !. Bliss.

Whoever told you you could play
golf3" sneereds the expert. s
y 'sWho1 Mef" asked the novice. I'm
playing Just az well as any Of thu
Others. aren't 7'''ss II
IA '''.Why, man alive, you took lffteen1
strokes to make the first. hole IL that
what yon cali good playing7"
'Wel, I hit the ball every time.
didn't t3e 81 #
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
Two-Headed Gait That Put vIroIni.
Post on Road to Wealth.

the calf-and all this for doing moth
ing but standing still and being in
spected. 4
It was recently that the representa-
tive Of large circus made his offer
Of $50 for the animal and It was ac-
copied. There Is rumor that the
excitement Of travel and late, hours
have affected the Calls health and
that he is q poor insurance risk.
However. 10 the old Romans had it,
caveat empt0r. Z
The post plans to reinvest the 81, 800
% soon as some other such good Sc
curfty as the calf 10 found.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
Old Cripple Robbed. slain.

Chicago Frank w. Connolly. ~.
year-old cripple. was shot and killed
by two hold-up men who escaped with
5000 he had collected from the safe 81
lice 70 pedd!ers. M siS3
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
ALABAMA

lEnf \11E 1910. The English
also laid claim to
M&ES41N,W this territory and
N&SS-@SW included 1t. In the
~ grant to North Car
olina. But it was the French who first
settled here erecting in 1902 Fort st.
Louis on Mobile Bay and founding, the
town of Mobile nine years later. Mo-
bile was for many years the capital
Of Louisiana. France in 1868 ceded' the
territory east of the mississippi to
England and the northern part of the
present State Of Alabama was Joined
to the Illinois territory: The southern
portion was known as West Florida.
Serious conflict with the Indians was
kept up for many years. In fact, even
as late as 1872. there was an uprising
OF the Creeks which resulted ii ter
rible atrocities and massacres. This
was only put down by General Jackson
after severe fighting. From that time
the Indians were gradually dispos-
sessed and by 1885 the remaining
tribes were removed west Of the. Mis-
slssippi.
During the Revolution West Florida
remained loyal to England, but was
seized by Spain only to be turned over
to the United. States In 1913. This Mo-
bile section was then added to tho
northern district and the State Of Ais
bama was formed and became the
twenty state the ONION a s g
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-19
Due Tor Il NON. \

correspondent writes to morn.
ing paper to say that he has never
experienced an earthquake shock. Ar
income tax collector has noted hiaii
name and address. Punch London. q,