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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-06

To receive attention IN this COLI
umn letters must give name and
address OF writer Onlv initials
viii be published when requested
Mr.. Fixit: Would you please
tell me when and where a per-
son may take the driving test?
II. A.
You may take the test at any
time In the office OF the State
Highway Patrol, So. sth and A
SITS, in Tacoma.
Mr.. FIxit: VIII You please tell
me the frequency in kilocycles Of
all stations In the following cit
les: San Francisco. Portland.
Salt Lake City and Vancouver.
b. c.? H.F.
That is TO large an order for
this column. You can buy a radio
log book on any news stand that
will give you all the frequencies.
The free road maps OF western
states which you can get In the
service stations usually have
lists OF radio stations, too.
Mr.. Fixit: VIII you please tell
me where 10 20 In Tacoma 10 get
Income tax blanks and informa-
ton concerning fhems
JACK ALLEN.
The place is room 207 Federal
building, and you'd better get
there promptly, II you are liable
to file a return. They must be
filed by March Is.
Mr.. Fxit: Would appreciate
our informing me ~ to how
may obtain private list Of per-
sons here In Tacoma owning
their own alrplanes. 1 request
this because II Is important l
find the whereabouts Of n cer-
tain one. Y. T.
You could get partial list
from the Tacoma Flying Service,
at Mueller-Harkins air field,
south of the city. and a complete
list from the Civil Aeronautics
Authority, Boeing Field. Seattle.
The latter has listed all planes
registered to Tacoma people,
whether kept here or at fields
In other cities.
Mr.. Fixit: To settle n small
difference, will you please let me
know what the three largest
banking institutions In the Unit
ed States are? And also the
three most prominent bankers
NJ. w.
Three largest institutions are
the Chase National bank, Ma
tional City bank and Guarantee
Trust Co., all of New York city.
You will have to pick out the
most prominent bankers accord
ing to your own definition Of
prominence.
Mr.. Fixlt; Is there a free pros
pectors' and miners school in
Tacoma A navigation school:
What Is the Y.M.C.A. gym fee:
q. r.
There Ii a prospecting class
each Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. at
the Carlton hotel. There was one
at CPS. during the fall and
early winter. but II is finished.
We know OF no navigation school
here.
Gym privileges at the Y are
priced according to your age
classification. II you phone
Main 1896 and tell a little about
yourself. you will be given all
the information you need.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-06
RELIEF AND HUNGER

Editor The Times: Recently
here in America a twelve year
old boy hung himself because
he was tired of eating nothing
but mush. His widowed mother
and her six children were re-
fused relief because one of them
earns four dollars week. The
boy had complained many times
about this diet of mush, and
on the eve of his departure he
scrubbed a note that read-I'm
tired OF eating mush. Thus he
was found in his room by his
school mate who was to have
studied arithmetic with him that
evening. Time and again We
have heard that the ill-housed,
ill-clad and the ill-fed shall be
given assistance. Can it be that
relief agencies have orders to
refuse aid because their super
iors feel that an income of four
dollars a week is sufficient to
sustain a family of six? No
mention of this boy appeared in
the press. II seems that such
news is considered by the press
of less Importance for its head
lines than the marriage of a
movie star or one headed for
Reno. or the removal of an eye
from a dog. Millions of dol
lars will soon be loaned TO Fin
land and other European coun-
tries for the sake of democracy,
and that word falls far short
as TO what it should mean to
millions here in America includ-
ing the mother who must house.
clothe and feed her family on a
diet OF mush on top OF her
sorrow.
s. HERNES
1928 So. C 81.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-06
Al TER MANY YEARS
By {. T. SHORT

materialized.
One of the promulgators Of
the calamitous theory was Jean
Charles Leonard Simonde, a
Swiss, who saw an economic
blight settling permanently on
the world in 1919. He wrote a
book on a new theory of eco
Monies in which he proved that
the system then being followed
had come TO the end Of its
rope. There was a reason for
Simonde's pessimism. He and
members of lis family before
him had been prosecuted and
their property confiscated. After
that came one Of the worlds
major depressions, and of course
everything looked tough.
But what Simonde did not see
was the great change that was
TO take place with the advent
of the steamship and railroad
boom that developed a few years
later. That COON knocked his
theories end over end. The
country entered the greatest
period of prosperity in its his
tory up to that time.
In the eighties there were
dolefm predictions that Grover
Cleveland was driving the coun-
try toward the end of the eco.
nomic rope. II is true that
the rope had heen a bit frszzled
for quite a while but we spliced
1t and the country pulled through
some lean years. Then came the
automobile industry and the
country tool, hitch In its eco
nomic galluses and we soon
set a new record for economic
progress.
This brings US up TO the latest
occasion for pessimistic fore
casting. 1t is true that we
have taken an awful wallop in
the last ten years but there are
indications that we are getting
back toward solid ground. We
have learned some lessons and
discarded some practices and
policies that didn't fit. and adj
opted others that will require
some working over before we
are funotioning a hundred per
cent But We are on the way.
One thing the depression has
done is to put great many IN
dlvidusls to working out their
own salvation. A Los Angeles
automobile mechanic who found
the picking pretty lean. created
a business by helping buyers of
used cars guard against being
gypped. He knew all the tricks,
and for a fee Of five or ten
dollars saved many a used car
buyer several times that sum.
The idea is paying him big
dividends.
Another case was that Of two
University Of Washington grad
yates wro found that degrees
don't mean much in times OF
economic stress. They used their
heads In figuring out the reason
they couldn't find Jobs. Now
they are employed by several
business associations as ion
analysis HpecizIizt4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-06

Of the kidneys, lungs. heart or
blood ought TO get into contact
with benzene. Il is apparent
that every person ought 10 be
examined before being allowed
10 work In close contact with
benzene. and there should be
further investigation every 80
to 90 days 20 detect symptoms
OF henzens poisoning.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-06
An Inside Picture of Finan-
cial and Political America
LIG HI

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Britains most striking and
successful attempt to deprive Germany of vital foodsuffs
and materials has been described recent memo to
department from London 1t indicates that John
Bull winning his campaign nearby nations from
Hler-and suggests why American farmers suffering
instead of profiting from the war.
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SOLDIER BY PROXY
Abraham Lincoln was repre-
scented in the Civil War by J.
Summerfield Staples, son Of an
army chaplain, who volunteered
when he heard that the presi-
dent thought he should be fight
ing but could not because of his
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-06

duties in Washington. After the
war, Symmetrical and his father
returned to Stroudsburg, Pa, for
the remainder of their lives.
DOUBLE TIME
Marshall o. Cameron last year
drew a two-year sentence in
North Carolina, after escaping
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M R. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

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those who are governed least ara governed best"
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
HOLMES COUNTY MISSISSIPPI

the same members and officers pre-
sent as on yesterday.
Whereas the United States Govern
ment appears to be the record owner
of certain property situated in Holmes
County, Mississippi, and the Court of
the Board of Supervisors being vel
and sufficiently advised as to mat.
tiers of all law and fact arising here.
in finds that the lands recorded and
assessed are owned by the United
States Government, as as such, are
exempt from assessments for taxes
an the payment of taxes, subject
however to all rights and privileges
of Holmes County, Mississippi, and
provisions of Chapter 293 of the Laws
of Mississippi of 1910 and subject
to Section 2, Public Law 845 Con-
gress, approved June 20, 1886, Par
agraph 432, Little 40, U.S.C.A. 1t is
therefore, ordered, adjudged and de-
creed that the said lands be stricken
from the assessment and tax rolls
Of Holmes County, Mississippi.
1t appearing that w. A. Ramsey
tax collector, hal filed with this
Board a list of State lands not SUBJ
ject to redemption and asks credit
on same and the Board having
carefully checked said list, it is or
dered that w. A. Ramsey be credited
with state lands not subject to re-
demption. And it also appearing that
w. A. Ramsey tax collector, has filed
with this Board of Supervisors a list
of State lands subject to redemption
for the ear 1889 and has asked
! credit for same, and the Board hav'
ing carefully examined and consider
ed sal list; it is hereby ordered that
| w. A. Ramsey, tax collector, be ere
dited with State land subject to re-
demption.
1t also appearing that the Tas
| Collector has filed a list of reduced
homestead assessments and has asked
credit for the same for the year
1889; it is ordered that w. A. Ram
sey, tax collector, be credited WITT
the reduced homestead assessments
for the year 1889:
In Re; Tax Levies for Fiscal Year
l940-1941.
There came on for hearing anc
consideration by the Board OF Sup
ervisors of Holmes County on Thu:
the 9Th day of October, 1910, the
matter of levying ad valorem taxes
for the fiscal year 1940-1941 on as
sessment of a January l, 1910, fol
the county, for the road districts, fol
| the school districts and for any othe1
taxing districts, and fixing the ia,
rate, or levy for the county and dis
tricts as stated, in accordance witt
! the provisions of Section 1927, Mis-
sissippi Code of 1880, as amended by
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17

from the Richland-C Central road to
the Yves Meek place.
Inspected, reorted and ordered
this October IL, 1910.
County Fund
1t is hereby ordered that the fol
lowing accounts be allowed payable
out of County Fund.
Earl H. Fowler, M.B.S. No. 1, 6
days attendance in Sept. and Ia days
examining roads and brides $4,000
M. S. Rogers, M.B.S. No. 2, same
$4,000; X. P. Thomas, M.B.S. No. 8
same $4,000; M. L. Smith, M.B.S.
No. a same $4,000; v. Reinhard,
Pres. M.B.S., No. 8, same 10000;
Parham H. Williams, Clerk 3 days
attendance in Oct. $500; w. A,
Ramsey, Sheriff, same $500.
1t is hereby ordered that the Board
do now adjourn until it's next regu'
lar November meeting, AID, 1910.
v. Reinhard, President.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Continued from page four)

ing of this Board and that it is nee
essary that same be paid when due;
it is ordered that the Clerk of this
Board issue warrants payable out of
the proped funds when said bonds
and coupons are presented for pay
ment.
1t appearing that certain Home
Exemption applications have been
disallowed by the State Tax Com
mission; and that said Commission
has notified this Board of Supervis-
ors of the d%isapproval and has dir
ected that this board under the re-
quirements of Section Is (c) of the
Home Exemption laws of 1910 to
give proper notice of the said dis
approval; it is therefore, ordered that
the following Home Exemption APP
p~lication be, and they are hereby,
tentatively disallowed; it is further
ordered that the Clerk of this Board
notify by registered mail the fol-
lowing applicants to appear before
this Board at its regular November,
1910, meeting to show cause, if any
they can, why their Home Exemption
applications should not be disallowed
for the year 1910 for the reasons
hereinafter set out, to-wit: Mrs. E. B.
Chun, Louise McCarroll, M. A. Nc
Lean, Chalmers Archer, Lincoln Polk,
Victor Tate, Cleveland Washington,
Nick Archer, Wilburn Baker, M. w.
Written and ELAN Ambose and Willie
NARROW.
AS per agreement and understand
ing between this Board and the
Durant Library entered into at the
September, 1910, meeting of this
Board, the sum of $4,000 per month
is hereby donated each month, be-
ginning with the October, 1910, meet
ing of this Board.
Dorothy McBee, Supt. of Educa-
ton has this day filed her report.
1t is hereby ordered that the Board
of Supervisors do now adjourn until
tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock am.
1910.
v. Reinhard, President
Pursuant to adjournment the Board
of Supervisors of Holmes County,
Mississippi met in the Court House
in the City Of Lexington, on this the
9Th day of October, AID. 1910, and
being the second day of the term with
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Lowrey Portrait Will
Be Unveiled 10th

Blue Mountain, Miss, October II.
A portrait of General NJ. p. Low
reg, father of Mother Berry, will be
presented to Blue Mountain College
at the Homecoming November 10th
when Mother Berry's Goth birthday
will be celebrated. The portrait will
be provided by alumnae and friends
1t will hang in the college auditor
ium, which is itself a memorial to
Mother Berry, along with portraits of
her two brothers, former presidents
of the college, and her own portrait
presented to the college several
years ago by the alumnae.
General M. P. Lowrey, warrior for
his God and for his Southland, served
as a private in the End Mississippi
! Regiment in the War with Mexico,
| After his return from the Mexican
| War, he was ordained to the Baptist
ministry at the age of "a and pas
tored churches in Mississippi and Ten
nessee. Then came the War between
the States, in which the preacher
warrior rose to the rank of General,
and was know along battle fronts as
"The Fighting Parson of the Army
of the Tennessee"
After the war General Lowrey
continued his preaching and for sew.
eral years served as Mississippi editor
of The Tennessee Baptist, a demon
national paper published in Memphis.
He was president of the Mississippi
Baptist Convention from 1868 to
1877, the longest tenure of anyone
holding the office. In 1873 he found
ed Blue Mountain College and be-
|came its first president. His grand
son, DR.. Lawrence T. Lowrey, is now
president of the college.
I Mother Berry is receiving letters
from Alumnae from all sections OF
the country telling of their intention.
to attend the Homecoming, some O.
them from as far away as Iowa.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17

Chapter 2S, Laws of Mississippi, Ex-
traordinary Session of 1888, and by
Chapter 251, Laws of 1910, and 9TH
er laws relative to said matter; and
the Board having fully and carefully
considered the matter and the needs
and requirements of the various funds
of the county, and of the said dis
tricts and the rate or levy, necessary
to meet the budget as fixed and APP
proved by this Board; and it having
been a~scertained that the mainten-
ance levies for the various school
districts, and countrywide school
maintenance levy, are supported by
proper and necessary petitions as re-
quired by law, and it appearing that
the tax rates, or ~levies, for the coun-
ty, road districts, school districts and
any other taxing districts, are nee
essary in order to raise the funds re-
quired to meet the expenses of the
county, and of the said taxing dis
tricts for said fiscal year. 1t is
therefore ordered and adjudged that
the ad valorem tax levies be set for
1940-41. Table of levies and order
carried in adjoining columns.)
AS per agreement entered into be-
tween V. Reinhard and the Board OF
Supervisors of Holmes County at the
January, 1910, meeting of said Board
relative to gravel to be used in Beat
5 for 1910; it is hereby restated and
reaffirmed that all gravel taken from
the place owned by V. Reinhard near
Funnegusha Creek by Beat 5 and us
ed on the roads of said Beat during
the year 1910 that no charge for
said gravel will be made by the said
Reinhard either against the said Beat
5 or against Holmes County, but that
all gravel so taken and SO used will
be donated by the said v. Reinhard.
1t is hereby ordered that the Board
do now adjourn until Friday, October
IL, 1910, at 9 o'clock am.
v. Reinhard, President.
Pursuant to adjournment the
Board of Supervisors of Holmes
County, Mississippi, met in the Court
House in the City of Lexington, on
this the 18th day of October, A. D.,
1910, and being the third day of the
tern with the same members and
officers presen as on Tuesday, October
9th, 1910.
When the following proceedings
were then and there held and had:-
1t is hereby ordered that the sum
of $4,000 be, and the same is hereby,
donated to the Red Cross for the
Month of October, 1910, under au
thority of Paragraph IL" Section
29O of the Code of 1910; and the
Clerk of this Board is directed to
issue a warrant payable to the Red
Cross for $4,000 and payable out
of the general county fund.
The Board of Supervisors as q
body having inspected the request OF
Dave McClusky relative to building a
road on his place near Central; it is
hereby agreed by the Board that they
will repair and maintain the road
upon the bank now being used by
the said McClusky and extending
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar Hays and
Caroline spent Sunday in Philadel-
phia visiting relatives.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17

1t is further ordered by this Board OF Supervisors at a az Vao,en
taxes hereby levied and imposed are fixed within the limits as stated IN
Cbanter 14. Laws of Mississippi, 1882; the general county taxes being
governed by Section 2 of said Act, road taxes by Section 3 of said Act,
levy shall exceed the limit fixed by said Chapter 1O4, Laws II 1882, the
Countrywide levy shall have precedence ove any levy for thu district,
other lev;es shall have precedence in the order as stated in Sections 3
A of Chapter 104, Laws of 1882.
It is ordered further that the above ad valorem rates., n eve IN
mills or a decimalf fraction thereof, shall be collected upon each dolar Oh
valuation as is shown upon the 1910 assessment rolls of Holmes County,
Mississippi, and in the respective districts upon which said rates, Or ievies
IN whole or in part, from certain tax rates, or levies; it being ne mtentfoa
and purpose of the Board of Supervisors of Holmes County, MISSISSIPPI
TO fulv and in detail comply with all the requirements of la relating
thereto. and especially Section 1927 of the Mississippi Code OF 9oo, as
smended by CHAPTER %, Laws of Mississippi, Extraordinary Session OF
1888 and by Chapter 251, Laws of 1910.
II is further ordered that the Clerk of this Board be and ne is neIeDy
especially directed Ito comply with all the requirements of law prescrp
~ Section 1928 of the Mississippi Code of 1880 with reference 70
ratification and publication of the ad valorem rates o lewes here'
and fixed.
Ordered this October 9Th, 1910.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
High
School

Miss Bone, this Is what I learned
DR.. Gates, a noted psychologist
stopped and visited a few minutes
with Miss Bone, some time last
| week.
Miss Bone has become supervisor
of the ply. ed. classes towels, and
1t is now her duty to see that the
classes have clean towels for every
class.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS
The industrial arts department
has constructed score and time
keepers table for the new gym
It Is made Of highly polished map
le. The metal working class is re.
pairing vaultIng box for the ply
ed. department. The ninth grade
have finished their exercise block
designed for experience in most
hand tools. They also took their
first test, and will soon begin work
on individual projects in wood.
working.
The eighth graders are working
on cake boards, while the seventh
graders have completed their Sec
ond project, a memorandum pad
The motors for the saw and the
lathe have arrived and are being
installed.
HOME ECONOMICS
The tenth graders are studying
soups, creamed soups to start with
That tantalizing aroma in the hall
was tomato soup, which was their
first soup. The girls in the ninth
grade are busy learning all about
eggs and their different uses. They
have already made omelets and
eggs "ala lgoldenrod." Here's q
class I'd like to be in at least right
now. It's the eighth grade whose
members are making cakes. Last
week they made white cakes with
carmel frosting (yum YUM. The
seventh grade Is still making head.
bands. Well, they only have two
days out of this week to sew, sc
no wonder they don't get through
quicker.
The Home Economies depart
ment has posted on the bulletin
board samples of a new kind OF
cloth called "Luana" which is WOW.
en- of spun rayon, and is an idea
material for slacks. The samples
were sent out by Dayton's in Min.
neapolis Tin case someone is in.
terested it can be purchased at one
dollar yard.)
CLUBS
BOY SCOUTS-On Wednesday
evening, February IA, the Boy
Scouts held their Mothers and
Sons Banquet. One hundred moth.
ers and sons were present. Rev
Harris first gave a brief talk or
"The Value of Scouting to the Com.
munity," then everyone participat
ed in group singing. The boys then
redicated themselves to the Scout
oath and law. Mr.. Clough ther
gave a talk on "The Mothers Re
lationships to Their Sons"
Mrs. Schmidt then made a mo
ton that a Mothers and Sons
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
PAGE THREE
Order for Probate Of VIII, Limiting
Time to File Claims, and for Hear
Ing Thereon.

Order for Probate Of VIII, Limiting
Time to File Claims, and for Hear
ing Thereon.
STATE OF MINNESOTA.
County Of Stearns. ss.
IN PROBATE COURT
File No. 11.817
In Re Estate Of Frances Ebben.
Adam J. orth having filed a petit
tion for the probate OF the will OF
ment of Adam j. Orth as executor.
which will is on file in this Court
and open to Inspections:
1T is ORDERED, That the hear
ing thereof be had on Friday, the
1st day of March, 1910, at 8 o'clock
A. NJ. before this Court in the pro-
bate court room in the court house
in the City of st. Cloud. Minnesota,
and that objections to the allowance
Of said will, IL any, be filed before
said time of hearing; that the time
within which creditors Of said dece-
dent may file their claims be limited
to four months from the date hereof,
and that the claims so filed be
heard on Friday, the 7th day Of
June. 1910, at 9 o'clock A. M. be-
room in the court house in the City
Of st. Cloud. Minnesota, and that
notice hereof be given by publica-
tion of this order in the Sank Gen.
ire Herald. legal newspaper. and
by mailed notice as provided by law.
,cOafeT Dafed Febrpary snapey eth' , lS4o. .,,os
Probate Judge.
A. II. Hendrickson, Esq.
Attorney for Petitioner,
Long Prairie, Minnesota.
Publish Feb. 8-15-22, 1910
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22

conflicts and jealousies, their loves
and sorrows, the story develops as
its theme the dissolution Of family
discipline and the conflict Of the
individual and the family.
The author makes no plea for
the old ways or for the new. Tell
ing Of Chinese people as he has
known them, he presents modern
China in flesh and blood, carrying
a step further the Interpretation
given in sly and wry comments in
his previous books. This is above
all tale of people.
As the author himself says in his
preface, 1T is a story Of how men
and women in the face Of the con-
temporary era grow up and learn
to live with one another, how they
love and hate and quarrel and for
give and suffer and enjoy, how GER
tain habits Of living and ways of
thinking are formed, and how
above all, they adjust themselves
to the circumstances in this earth
ly life where men strive out the
gods rule.