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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-23
DOG IS ORDERED TIED
Animal Bites Man-Police Watch
for Rabies

Police are watching a dog owned
by Mrs. Anna Number. SIS n. Ala
bama St, ordered tied up for an ap-
pearance of rabies. Merrill Grubbs
81 E ST Clair St. told officers he
returned a ball glove TO the Number
home and was bitten by the dog.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-23
Was Only Beating Her

Police received a report a man
was cutting his wife at 531 n East
St, but when they arrived they
found Harry and Goldie Overton
were having a husband-and-wife
fight. Mrs. Overton denied her hus-
band did anything but beat her.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11

and economical administration of the
law, and to the cooperation of the
wholesalers of gasoline who have adj
vanced the tax direct to the state and
thereby made unnecessary the diff
cult and comparatively expensive
process of collecting the tax from the
retailer.
Snow that the facts are known it
is evident that the tourist paid a
much larger percentage of the ,lgaso-
line tax than was 4 estimated from
this source. This fully substantiates
one argument used in advocating the
tax, namely, that it provides way
to tax the tourist for the use of the
roads of the state.
when the law was only proposed
legislation, and great controversy
waged about its merits, it's opponents
insisted the collection cost would
amount to from 10 to SO percent of
the revenue produced. It is instruc-
tive to note that the collection cost
for the first year was only OH per
cent of the revenue produced; only
about one-eighth of 1 per cent.
Zone additional fact is worth re-
cording here. 1t will be remembered
that this tax is not a commodity tax,
not tax on gasoline, but merely a
tax on the use Of the highways as
measured by the consumption of gas
oline. For this reason all uses of
gasoline other than for the propulsion
of motor vehicles over the highways
are exempted from payment of the
tax by the law. Many thought that
refunds so secured would cut heav-
lily into the tax. During the first
year the law was in operation the
refunds made amounted to only
S73,927.61 or 1.6 per cent of total
revenue collected"
cts the same story everywhere,
commented the gas tax man.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
Proposed Gasoline Tax Is
Winning Favor Everywhere
Minnesota Farm Bureau Indorse-
ment Given Proposed Amend
ment-Plan is Popular

Approval of directors of the Min
nesota Farm Bureau federation for
Gas Tax Amendment No. 1, to be
voted on in November, and a favor
able report on first year operation
of the gas tax in Indiana were chalk
ed up this week by Nickles N. Dimes,
the gas tax man.
County directors having Endorsed
the proposed amendment to put on
the roads the receipts from any gas
tax that may be levied, the. members
undoubtedly will vote that way" said
Nickles N. Dimes. at will be remem-
bered that Wisconsin farm bureau
members supported their directors by
vote of more than 5 to l., in spite
of the fact they are already paying
much higher automobile taxes than
are being collected in Minnesota.
The gas tax man quoted parts from
a review in Indiana Highways and
Motors of first year experience with
the gas tax in that state. The re-
port showed that Indiana Motor We
hicle owners paid an average of prob
ably less than 81 under the 2-cent
gas tax. Tourist revenue was much
larger than expected and brought
the total collections to $4,554, 644.18.
The collection cost was only $6,460,-
SO, that sum including besides sal
aries, printing and regular expenses
some office furniture and extra items.
Refunds to users of gasoline for pur
poses other than automobile fuel
were less than $4,000 during the
year. ~
"The Indiana gasoline fee law,
commonly called the gas tax has
now been in successful operation for
well over a year and it is both inter
esting and instructive to note, in
some detail, how the law is. working
out" said Indiana Highways and
Motors. "At the outset it may be
stated that the law is considered a
great success, not only as a revenue
producer, but also as partial solu-
ton of the difficult problem of mo-
tor vehicle taxation. 1t is considered
just and equitable. Its success. is due
to public approval, to the competent
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
CITY PERSONAL ITEMS

Miss Alta Cass expects to leave
Friday for Hattiesburg, Mass, to
resume here teaching labors in that
city after enjoying the summer vaca-
ton at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs O. S. Cass.
Mr.. and Mrs, Miles Stevens of
Topeka, Kans., arrived Friday of last
week for a two weeks visit at the
home of Mrs. Stevens mother, Mrs.
Sarah, j. Huey.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
Sank Centre M. E. Church
S. S. .Wyand, Pastor.

l
Sunday morning Sept. 18th al
1890 the pastors subject will be
"Riches Through Poverty !" This will
Ebeaa stimulating message for all be-
levers. It will do you good to hear
it, In, the evening at 1880 the sub
ject will be: Strange Dreams. y
There have always been great dream
ers-we have them today. Day
dreams are of much more value than
ngiht-dreams. This message will
gladden. the hearts of all who hear it.
There are only three more Sundays
left in this conference year. The
pastor is exceedingly anxious to have
all the members and friends cooper
ate to make these three Sunday great
days for all. Come and bring your
friends. We welcome any who wish
to fellowship with us.
On Wednesday afternoon Sept.
18th at 800 o'clock Mrs. Wyand as
sisted by the ladies of district No.
will entertain the ladies of the
church and all others which wish to
come at the parsonage on Wednesday
afternoon Sept. II, A coffee. Come.
f.
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Rev. Anthony ART, Pastor
Sunday-Low Mass at 500 a. M
HIGH Mass at 1000 a. M, Vespers at
7S0p. m. =, 4 4sts
Our Lady of the Angels Church
Rev. John A. Fearon, Pastor
Sunday-Early Mass at 500 a. m.
High Mass, sermon and Benediction
at 1000 a. m.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
THE CHURCHES
Congregational Church
Cecil s. Sparkes, Minister

Congregational Church
Cecil s. Sparkes, Minister
Services Sunday Sept. 7.
Sunday School at $50.
Morning service at 10:45.
Evening service at 1880.
At the morning service the pastor
will have sermonette for the chill
dren and at the evening service he
will preach on the subject: "Nine
Six Nine"
Visitors always welcome.
D. ,'-
Zion Luth. Church
Jul. A. Stein. pastor
There will be no services Sunday
Sept. IA as the pastor is conducting
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11

Sept. 10th.
n
NAOMI CHAPTER, ORDER OF
the Eastern Star, will hold its first
regular meeting for some time at the
Masonic Temple Tuesday evening,
Sept. 16. There is much important
business and all members are urged
to attend.
z, MISS ISOBEL ,CONKEY ENTER
tanned at a 6 100 o'clock dinner We'd
nesday evening, the following guests
being present: The Misses Lucy
Hunt, Fay Parker, Rose Costello, and
Mrs. Jack Jepperson 49,
MR.. AND MRS. JOS. N. JACK
son were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Mickey Monday evening.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
Mission services at Mahnomen, Mimi
Sunday School as usual at II 80.
Episcopal Church

R. A. Crickmer, Rector ,.-S'}
Sunday morning at 1920 A.. M.
Church School at II ASA. M.
Evening service second Sunday of
each month 500 P. M.
Holy Communion first Sunday of
the month 10 BOA, M.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11

terrain the w. N. A. at the VIM. M.
Parker home Tuesday afternoon,
Sept. 18th. /
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20

knew her business-just as well
as any flapper of this day and
time. If she hadn't known it,
that LAGRANGE gentleman might
not be here at all.
Bobbed-hair is here. and here
to stay. Just as long, insight
ly, unsanitary skirts have van
ished, just so is long hair disap-
pearing.
Great masses of hair. piled
about the head day like the
past three or four, is enough to
drive its owner into compton
hts-whatever that is.
Our advice to the male pop
ulation opposed to bobbing is
NOT to discuss the question UNI
til Jack Frost again is in the air.
It's too hot to take any unnec-
essary risks with that species
that Kipling claims is more
dangerous than the male"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
QUERIES.

Congress voted a bonus, of a
sort, to the ex-soldiers.
There was an immediate rush
of prospective jobholders to
Washington. The best estimates
were that the red tape in connec-
ton with the bonus would mean
the hiring and paying of salaries
to between 1000 and 5000 addi-
tional bureaucratic. Congressman
We're delighted. 1t meant a good
many jobs for each Congress-
mans chief pleasures.
Unfortunately for such Con
gressional hopes, the deficiency
appropriation bill which
would have prvided approx
i'm a t ~ $5,O00,O00 to D a v
these new jobholders got lost in
the shuttle. There was terrible
howl. Then the War Department
came to the rescue. 1t would man
age to worry along, for the pres
ent, and get the bonus started. It
was announced, with it's present.
need of jobholders.
Two queries arise:
/. What were the jobholders
who will work on the bonus do
ing before that bill was passed?
z. VIII Congress insist upon
adding the 1900 or 5000 job
holders when the next session
rolls around.-Baltimore Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
DISSENTING MINORITY
SETS UP NEW CHURCH

BOSTON, June 20.-Formed by
dissenting minority, the Christian
Science parent church of the new
generation held its first service here
Today. The church, organized I'M
der the leadership of Mrs. Annie c..
Hill, is composed of members who
have resigned from the mother
church as a result of recent litiga-
ton.
John V. Dittemore, who was elect
ed a director of the mother church
on the recommendation of the
founder, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy
two years before her death, and
who resigned from the church on
his removal from the board in $50,
has been active in organizing the
new church. Mr.. Dittemore still is
one of the trustees of Mrs. Eddy's
estate, amounting to more than 49,
100000 which controls the publ
cation of all her books.
Regarding the new society. Mr..
Dittemore said: "For a number of
years, Mrs. Annie C. Bill, supported
by group of devoted followers in
England, has developed and MAIN
tained a miniature church organiza-
ton on the lines of the system of
government established and direct
ed by Mrs. Eddy during her life
sine"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
WHERE LIES LA FOLLETTF,S
POWER.

Why La Toilette has it in his
power without party -organiza.
ton and with his own record as
platform, to carry with him any
considerable number of Western
votes is not explained by calling
INN q wastrel, a sorehead and a
mal-content, as the Evening Post
does until it stops for breath.
There are a good many thousand
Americans for whom this knotly
little senator in dapper clothes
Is a Galahad in shiing armor He
IS straight; no charge of personal
dishonesty has been leveled at
him in the thick of battle. He is
on guard for the public interest;
1t was LaFollette who first attack
ed the lease of Elk Hills and Tea
pot Dome, and more than two
years ago brought against those
leases every charge that is
brought against them now. He
is fighter, and a fighter who
gives expression to all the cor
vietions and the prejudices of
the men and women wha acclaim
him as a leader. Those men and
women don't like Big Business;
he attacks it. They don't like
Wall Street; he has been charg-
ing down on "the interests" for
half a century and more.-New
York Evening Post.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
Ei'5&ia7a1s
~ bsIbert Apnle

Here's something that looks like
a sure sign that the slowing down Of
business is only going to be tempo
rary.
Now the iron and steel industry
has been hit harder tnan any other
basic line of work. Mills and fur
naces have been operating, in face,
on half-time.
On the other hand, shipments of
iron ore down the Great Lakes,
bound for the steel mills eventually
continued on a big scale during
May. The total for the month was
nearly 100000 tons. And that
was almost as much as in May of
last year.
From the opening of Great Lakes
navigation this spring, upto the first
of June, iron ore shipments were
over half a million tons ahead of
he corresponding period of 1923.
All this plainly means that the
iron and steel leaders expect the
slaekening of business to last for
only a short time. Ore is not min
ed and shipped on hige scale un.
less buyers are reasonably sure of
orders that win enable them To Get
their money out Of the ore they have
bought without waiting any length
of time.
Producers don't buy raw ma
terials in large lots if they think Il
long stretch of dull business is
ahead.
Steel leaders with few excep
Sions say they see no reason for
current duh times, and they ex-
.peet early recovery.
Another rainbow in The iron and
steel industry is this; Mill and fur
mace production dropped from ea-
pacity or fuIl-time operations to half
time in so days. By all past expe-
.rience, such a swift drop means that
the reaction will be an equally fast
recovery to full-time work. The
time to worry is when business grad
ually slumps for month after month
slowly going to pieces. Such a con
dition is apt to last long time.
It's good deal like the weather.
A cyclone comes quickly but is over
and gone soon. The storm that
trews for a long time is the storm
Shat fingers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20

day for Boston. In the hub city
they will be joined by Miss Lila
johnson, who has been attending
the New England Conservatory of
Music, and after taking in the sights
at Boston and New York for week
5he young trio will reach home early
next month.
A writer from Athens to the At
lanta Journal pays this just and
merited tribute to a lovely Ameri-
Gus girl that will be corroborated by
her host of friends. Miss Fish, of
Americas, is stopping with her faith
er Hon. w. H. Fish at the CONNER
cial hotel. She is a recent graduate
of Wesleyan College and is exceed
ingly beautiful and attractive.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Reeorder. June
20, 1904.)

20, 1904.)
If Americas does not receive one
or more bales new cotton in la5e
July there is nothing in the. present
excellent prospect as viewed out
upon the suburban farm of Farmer
Elmore Poole likewise wholesale and
retail grocer and member Of the
Americas city council. These lat
ter lines are really side issues as
compared with Farmer Poole's sue
cessful management of several
very good farms out rear Ameri-
Gus,
L. G. Council, of Americas pres
ident of the Georgia State Bankers
association, has written a letter to
the individual mambers of that large
and representative body of finan-
ciers in which he emphasizes the
Importance of an address deliver
ed at the recent meeting of the as
ISOLATION in Atlanta, by Mr.. Melvin
A. Taylor. a prominent Chicago
banker.
From Americas there will be
shipped next Monday a solid train
load of fine timber grow in Muck
alec swamp near the city and which
is destined for distant points in
Tennessee and other manufacturing
districts, there to be converted into
furniture and other articles.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Crockett, and
young son, with Mr.. and Mrs. H. B.
Mashburn will go by automobile to
Vienna today upon a visit of
few days.
Misses Nell and Kathleen Hamil-
ton have gone to Montezuma 20
spend the week with relatives.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
Why?

The khan had its way with the
G. O. P. platform committee at
Cleveland because it could
work behind CLOSED DOORS.
1t failed in securing its man for
vice-president because it came
out IN THE OPEN.
The Baltimore Sun asks why
politicians will use the khan and
refuse to recognize it in the fol-
lowing:
The report that the Grand I'M
perial Waco of the X. X. X.
had pledged the support of his
organization to the Hon. Jim
Watson, of Indiana, for the vice.
presidency was like the eplosion
of a poison-gas bomb among the
faithful at Cleveland, according
to news dispatches. There was
a panic in which the Hon. Jim
himself was not the least of the
panic-strieken.
But why all of the excitement?
The Khan has Numerous voters,
so many as to constitute a bloc.
1t might bee expected that the
politicians would welcome the
support of so large a number of
100 per centers" and boast of
it. They are desperately wooing
the farm bloc, and the labor vote
and the woman vote and the va
rious racial votes, and they ex-
ult over the open support of any
of these blocs.
Why should the offer of sup
port by the kluxers, which
brought the Hon. Jim to his
knees in Indiana and is said to
control Iowa too, not to mention
Georgia and Texas, be such
bagaboo to the politicians? More
than one candidate is reported
to be flirting with the kluxers
under cover. Why should they
be shocked at their openly ex-
pressed preference
The questions asked by the
Sun should be put to himself by
every klansman. Why is it that
INSCRIPTIONS politicians will use
you and yet decline to recog-
nize the khan in the open? Is it
because he is ashamed to let
others know Of his affiliations
with youq
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
Champions of the
Modern Girl

The Modern Girl has two
able champions in the persons
of Jim" Nevin. beloved and
respected Georgia writer, and
Miss Reba Crawford (Mrs.
Somers) the Salvation Army
lass.
In his daily comments.
Caught in the Current, MIR.
Nevin says:
Miss Crawford is an ardent
champion of ''the modern girl"
as a very worthwhile thing"
Miss Crawford thinks bobbed
hair is fine; and she also thinks
and doesn't hesitate to say so
that girl has the same
right to smoke as a man."
Unquestionably she is right
The modern girl is no better
at heart--no worse-than the
girls of 25 or so years ago. She
has unlearned lot of things,
however. that were very well
worth unlearning. The modern
girl has clearer, straighter,
healthier and less hampered out
look upon life than the girls of
few decades ago, this writer
feels sure.
As to smoking; we'll, that is
a matter of taste. Certainly it
isn't immoral to smoke a cigar
cite. So long as cigarette smok-
ing isn't harming her physically
there are a limited number of
people upon whom even a sn all
amount of nicotine has a bad
effect, of course-she is well
within her right in smoking.
1T would be foolish to say that
"a girl is a better girl for smok-
ing; perhaps it may be said
grudgingly that "she is a good
girl, even though she does
smoke" But, as Miss Crawford
remarks, smoking per Sc has
really nothing to do with it.
81 Sometimes the eyes of youth
see far more clearly than the
eyes of age, although it is diff
fieult to make age believe it.
Anyway, Miss Crawford's views
upon life are healthy, sane and
this writer thinks-eminently
safe. Let's have some more of
them.
Bodied hair and bird nest
hats have come to stay. That
is, they viii stay as long as auto
joy riding is popular. Just inn
agine an old maid of the long
ago, bloomer sleeves, flower box
hat, long strings of hair, speed
ing along the highway at 40
miles per. A slow pokew says a
writer in the Lagrange Graphic.
Well. the Lagrange gentle
man needn't worry about grand
ma ana the mysterious way in
which she moved her wonders to
perform.
Grandma IN her youthful days
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
Brighter Outlook for
+ armerS

Farmers in 1923 got for their
crops and meats about fourth
more than in 1914. But prices
and costs had about doubled.
So, figured in terms of pre-war
buying power, the farmer in
1928 was only three-fifths as
prosperous as before the war.
This affects all of us, for
prosperity cannot be on a sound
and steady basis unless there is
a just balance between city and
farm buying power, since each
is the customer of the other. An
impoverished customer can't
buy.
American farmers this year
are going to spend bit more
than in 1923. This is indicated
by sales of the leading mail or
der houses, which so far this
year have totaled about a sew
enth more than in the CORE
spending months of 1923.
Still, a gain of seventh in
buying power is mighty big to
a farmer who has been operat-
ing at loss. or bare profit.
Economists consider mail or
der sales barometer of farm
ers' buying power.
Farmers spending this year
is, of course, regulated a lot by
their profits or losses in 1928.
Last years crops, for the
whole country, according to De-
partment of Agriculture, were
valued at 1858 million dollars,
which was about 100 millions
more than the year before.
Says the department;
''The distress of wheat grow
ers is strikingly shown by the
estimate of the value of the 1928
wheat crop which is 726 million
dollars, compared with 874 mil
mons IN 1922 and 2080 millions
in 1919"
That was equivalent to a city
man having his wages reduced
nearly two-thirds in two wears
The foreign markets outlook
for the American farmer might
be brighter international In
stittute of Agriculture in Rome
estimates that on July 81 there
will be us million bushels of
old wheat on hand in exporting
countries, compared with IFS
million bushels July 81, 1923.
The surplus powerfully af-
fects prices. 1t might possibly
be counteracted by a lower
world wheat yield in 1924. A
lot depends on the weather.
In the nine months ended
April |, American wheat ex-
ports were almost "a million
bushels less than in the CORE
spending period year ago, and
corn exports decreased over IS
million bushels. Meat exports
made big gain.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
(From The Times-Recorder. June
20. 1S94.O

THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. June
20, 1894.)
The Americas police are excellent
hunters and when they saw on
Sunday a strange animal resembling
a ''blind tiger" they lost no time in
following the animal to its lair. It
was small tiger" but left undis-
turbed might have grown very
dangerous. The supposed owrers
of the animal were summoned be-
fore Mayor Cults yesterday, and
fine of $50 imposed.
If Dame Rumor is to be cred
tied, wedding bells will ring out
merrily in this city next Thursday
and two popular young people will
thereafter tread the pathway of life
together.
Two little cholera bombs about
the size of cocoanuts and bearing
the name of watermelons, were
brought in from the country yes
terday. Each contained enough chills
to shake the faith of an administra-
ton democrat.
This is what is in store for Frank
Harold and his little pretty and at
tractive II year old sister, Miss
Lizzie Boone Harold The congen-
ial pair left yesterday for an ex-
tended Eastern trip. They take the
steamer Tallahassee at 7 a. m. TO-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20
THE LARGEST CORPORATION

Ever since its organization il
1901, the United States Steel
Corporation has ranked as tho
largest corporation in the world.
With common and preferred stock
totaling $868,583,600. Of recent
years, however, the rapid growth
in the capitalization of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
vany has been creeping up, while
Steeps capital stock has remained
unchanged. Now, by issuing
$150,0O0,000 of additional com
mon stock, A. 7. and rs capitali-
cation has finally passed Steers
previous record and amounts to
1898, 398,000. This makes the
telephone company the worlds
largest corporation in point Of
stock capitalization From "Time."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-20

ing the public something good
through advertising. And no com
munity was ever completely dead
till all the banks therein were pro
nounced dead. One progressive
bank in any community can work
wonders in keeping up the COM
munity will to do and to hope
for results.-Exchange.