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Show -- 3 THE i VOLUME XXXIII NUMBER 12 PAYSON, UTAH, JANUARY 7 1921. PRICE, FIVE CENTS Income Tax Reports Must Young Man Believed to Have -Be Made by March 15 Committed Suicide, Greets Payson and Brings to Light Sheriff Raids Blind Pig In I 17 I r ! j Good Supply of Moon Shine 'S Residence of Mrs. Joseph Crook, Long Under. - picion Sus- ofw Local Officers Is Investigated. Mrs. Crook Is Arrested and Heavily Fined Work has begun on the collection of the income tax for the year 1920. Uncle Sam, through the bureau of internal revenue, is addressing to every person in the United States the question, What wag your net income for 1920t The answer permits of no guesswork. person single luvery whose net income for 1920 was $1,000 Or more end every married person whoso net income was $2,000 or more is required to file a return under oath with the collector of internal revenue for the district in which ho lives ou or before March 15, 1921. The penalty for failure is a fine of not more than $1,000 and an ad. ditional assessment of 25 per cent of the amount of tax due. For willful refusal to make a return the penalty is a fine of not more than $10,000 or not xeeeding one years imprisonment, or both together with A similar the costs of prosecution. penalty is provided for making a false ot fraudulent return, together with an additional assessment of 50 per cent of the amount of tax evad- Armi'd with a search warrant, olUccis of the sheriff's officers paid a last visit of respect to Payson CHARTER IS RECEIVED last week, and tailing the residence PAYSON BUILDING ot Alls. Joseph Crook on Thud South to several pints stieei, brought light AND LOAN SOCIETY and a jug of moonshine whiskey which it is alleged was kept in the louse lor tho purpose of accommodated. re- .New Association to Stimulate Home ing any who might call for and who would carry Women Must Pay Tax, freshments, Building Starts Career on High away the booze under pledge of seThe income tax applies to women Plane of Activity. crecy as to the place whole it was as well as men. Husband and wife sec uiod. must' consider the income of both plus that of minor dependent children, Alls. Crook was placed under ar. nnd if the total equals or exceeds Tlifc Payson Building & l.oan sonsi and ou pleading guilty in the A has received its charter from $2,000 a return mist be filed. county coun at 1 roo a few days ciety minor who has a net income in his is now later she was lined in thesuin ol the secretary of state and own right of $1,000 or more must To bo allow- which was para. ready to begin business along the flic a separate return. , the ed a married $2,000 is exemption lines. It capital-nost approved i oi many weeks and months the person mufct be living with husband resale .ire oi mis. brook has bceu ized for $100,000, divided into 1,000 shares of a par value of $100 each. bund pig, uuUei suspicion as a but the local olliceis were unable to The stock is now more than half . i iii' eviucueo ou which pros- subscribed for and at the rate at The which applications for stock are now be couid ecution biought. was it is dispeus being received it will be but a uuuuiatood, Injuoi, .BY t'j -- -i. to a known lew, and the hitter generally drove up in automobiles, made their wants kuown at too Hunt of the house, aud a few minutes later diove around to the leai and found the package' in a ed only short time before all of the stock subwill be held by interested scribers The stock is payable at the rate of 50 cents per share per month, thus making it a possibility for everyone to take an interest in the organization, whetuer with the intencunvciucut place. tion of bulling or as an investCver since .Payson went dry, it ment. It will be tho policy of is said, tho Crook residence has been the society to loan money for home aa oasis lor the thnsty, but the building purposes, and for this purpose, aa well as for investment purguuits were handled so carefully and poses the stock carries a guarantee s wan sui h discictiou that no of eight per cent per annum. weie leit and there was at no The plan of operation is thoroughly None of tne officers tine any outward evidence that any Those who are under salary and thoro are no name in liquor existed. Money high expenses to be paid. disclose pmeliuscd it hesitated to will be loaned to home builders and because the fuel, not omy they may be repaid to the society in In this way tho themselves, monthly payments. would thus incriminate the out occiiUso ui tne fact that dis. borrowers, who have invested in homes, will pay on the money Of souree tne would i lu..iue destroy costs of their homes instead of conThe loans supply tinuously paying rent. moral office is, therefore, although are secured by urst mortgage on the f ' 5onUue, according to their state property of the borrower. From the interest which alreudy the ments, iliac ail trails led to been taken in the Payson Build, hag bums lisidenee ou the Uni, were ing & Loan society its success is assured aad it promises to become tumble to secure any positive eviTraps one of the solid institutions of Utah Uei.ce ot illicit. wquor traffic. Its management is in the but when -- a county. weie mid, at Limes, hands of some of the most responthe sible citizens of was made to locate attempt Payson. boute all evidence had disappeared. Mr. and Mrs. Marian Black enterresiUn the day that the' Crook tained at dinner Sunday. Covers were intentwas the dence was raided it for fourteen guests. placed ion ot the officers also to lay the law ou other violatMrs. Mary Gardner is visiting Jteavy hand of the this with relatives in Salt Lake ors ot ihe prouibitiuu law, but when week. nothwas there it came to raiding, The word had passed M. J. Mortensen was a Salt Lake ing to laid. soon as me Crook residence visitor last week. as just had come under the ban, aud all , and Itav Mrs. Warren Depew utiicr places where Julia iiajrleycorn of Powell, both former resident welaud the door at umt Msilois arrived last Thursday from Payson, cuiud thorn, were as buuday schools Raymond, Canada, and will spend a fortnight with their mother, Mrs. oud not a drop of liquor was to be William PowelL They were called juund. by the death of their sister, Mrs. D. P. McDowelL IhviHOLLMENT INCREAS- EOF UTAH -- NIVERSITY folks A jolly crowd of young at the home of Miss Delene gathered state the of condition bound The Sargent to watch the outgoing of A dainty luncheon i tali may w ell bo measured by the old year. ot The instituUous of oclock. served the twelve at was conditiou the its boundaries be. young hostess was assisted in servlcai mag wituiu ing by Miss Mamie Tervort. cause tho educational system is part thoughts, works, uUd pai cel of tho air. and Mrs. Darrell Brown enof the people tertained at a watch party on New and aspuutious hopes this statement was Years eve, the guests including Mr. the btatc, Mr. and A. Widtsoe, presi-o- l and Mts. George Barnett, John made by Or. Mrs. John Daniels and Mr. and Mrs. tho Cmversity of Ltah at P. O. Loveless. V, ,ecc'it meeting of the Kiwanis Mr. and Mrs. Gus Steiner enterclub fa butt Lake. tained at dinner Tuesday evening. Dr. were given by The following Covers were placed for Mr. nnd Mrs. Widtsoe as reasons for tho increased Lou PfiefTer, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. attendMrs.Vernard Douglass, Mr. and wst of education; mcioased and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Andprson for demands more specialized ance, Barnett. technical truinug, increased cost of doplies aid equipment, greater Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Sorensen took ff . j por extension wont aud added Christmas dinner at the New house de-Hotel with a party of friends, and liability of tho schools in Chu Chin Chow saw afterward of the state. resources the rcluping the Salt Lake theatre. at Aftey tho of various types few CtJ&kfter u resume Mrs. Salt at Lake, days spent offered at tho state instnu. Air. Sorensen Sorenson acotnpanied mentioue-the high to Park tion Dr. Widtsoe City, where she remained stiiiidmg the local school has among over New Years. the of country. other institutions Statistics quoted show that there has Miss Wilde Dixon returned home been a 70 per cent increase in col m after a weeks visit Tuesday, do- Salt Lake. Jogiato attendance in the lust loop-huic- , : t:. at . - wife on the last day of the taxable year, December 31, iu20. Divorcees, persons separated by mutual agreement, widows and widow-era- , unless they are the solo support of others living in the same house, hold, in which case they are allowed the $2,000 exemption granted the head of a family, bto entitled only t0 $1,000 exemption. Tax rates for 1920. Or The normal tax rate for 1920 is the same as for 19194 per cent on the first $4,000 of net income above tho exemption and 8 per cent on the remaining net income. This applies to every citizen and resident In addition of the United States. to the normal tax a surtax is imposed upon net income in excess of $5,000, His Father Over Telephone Body of Man, Suspended from Sapling on Tanner Field Proves Not to be that of Son of Colorado Farmer. Mystery Still Surrounds j the Incident COMMERCIAL CLUB TO HOLD ITS ANNUAL Instructions on Form. MEETING j ' i ! . WEDNESDAY Full instructions for making out on returns are contained the forms, copies of which may be obtained from collectors of internal revenue. General Invitation 1b Extended to Persons whoso net incomo for 1920 was $5,00 or less should use Form Citizens to Identify Themselves 1040A. Those with incomes in exWith New Organisation. cess of $3,000 should use Form 1040. Revalue "officers will visit every county in tho United States to assist taxpayers in making out their reThe- regular annual mooting of The date of their arrival turns. tho club Commercial will bo laysoii an. the location of their offices will be announced by tho press or may held in the offices of tho Straw. be ascertained upon inquiry at the Blurry High Lino Canal compuny, ou This advisory offices of collectors. Wodnmiy evening of next week, at service is without cost to taxpayers. F:3 0 oclock. An invitatiou has been extended to 'ovory business and professional man, farmer and atoek-greue- r in Payson to associate himself with the organization by becoming a member. It is desired to mako tho Payson Commercial club ono of the most important factors in tho progress and development of Payson and the country surrounding nd to take a live interest in every matter that irtffitt "have 'll Hearing ' on industrial nnd agricultural advancement. The club has a number of important matters under consideration and in the working out of theso matters it do. reproduction of it and their editorial sires tho support and weight of a This ean only strong organization. comment set the ball be accomplished by united effort New Boston and Chicago, York, and tho latter will result in Payson other American cities took it up. Commercial club becoming one of It quickly crossed into Canada and tho leading organizations of its id nd in the state. was cabled to Europe. It has been translated into baif Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Bills, Jr., and a dozen different languugos, and ser- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith motored mons have been preached on it. It to Salt Lake Friday, returning on has been used as a text for soasons Sunday. contented g retting cards and its Mr. and Mrs. Dave Shuler enterspirit has been used as a foil to radical literature. tained at supper after the. sugar Naturally, Mr. Meyers is tho re- factory dance last week. Tho guests cipient of innumerable letters, and numbered Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Willetters, too, from tho prominent per- son, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Mitchell, sons as well as from the humble. Mr. and Mrs. xlort Taylor, Dr. and of Mrs. J. IT. Ellsworth and Mr and Commenting on his avalanche Yilson. mail, Mr. Meyers says it is mighty Mrs. Stanley interesting to get an insight into the heart of the busy city man, tne Miss Leona McClellan entertained olylusopher who has passed tho al- at dinner Sunday in honor of Miss lotted three score and leu. 1 would Mnblo Rust, and Miss Stanfield who Now over .lot take any amount of money for were her the cheer and companionship Others present were Albert aud Years. these letters have McClellnn, Wnyno Loveless and Mol. folksy feeling 1 ought mo. via Cook. The letters are conclusive evidence A number of young people enjoyed that Mr. Meyers creed has found a ready responso in tho hearts of a delightful soeial on New Years eve men and women. ns the guests of Max Wilde. They Around and near us arc so many first attended the picture show, after wrote C. whieh, supper was served bv Mrs. joys we often overlook, W. Fairchild, New York architect. Wilde, mother of the voting host at As a rule we busy New Yorkers his home. Tho New Year xvns welare So engrossed in tho daily busi- comed with much fun nnd merriment. ness of earning our living that we Those participating were Max Wilde, dont have time to think of tho Loon Taylor, Ralph MoBoth, J. D. simple things of lifo and do not Done, Ralph Kitchen, Keith Vance, consider ouiselves rich unless we Afton Nebeker, Myrth Dixon, Anna . have a million dollars or so at our Drake, Madge Reeoo and Fav lour letter has afforded ilicponai. me ninny tnoughtful moments and e Mrs. Rex Dainels, littlo daughter great Ufc! of comfort. A letter from Vcrno C. Divine, June, nnd niece, Poggv Evans, camev from Elsinore Inst Friday for a visit president of the Standard AdvertisIf nt Ihe James A. Daniels home. ing company, Chicago, says: more people would constantly call folks attention to the real essentials shop. How much is tho railroad as contrasting with the seeming faro t0 Fierce! ones, it would be a better world, 1 Dement, Seventy years old, D. 1 started out am sure. Attica, Kan., wrote: Theresa E. Morrison, a Vermonter in lifo an orphan with a bundle of I listened rags. of East Bvgate, wrote: I married an orphan girl. We All are marwith delight to your outbursts ot hme four children. joy over your riches andTejoice with ried, have families and are in good Tho circumstances. poorest you. in The rieliest has a cow and On the walls of an oflice Tho richest wo Estherville, la., Meyers Hymn of two children. is tacked. I so Thanksfulaess most are warm friends wo have Richest- - Mon in the held throughout our lives. enjoyed your World that I tacked it up in my Meyer's letter is recognized, by docoffice and it would do your heart smne, us an antidote for red Too bud some of these good to see how many have stopped trines. to read it., with a smile of genuine agitators and Malcontents who would appreciation lighitng up their faces have tho world servod to them every as they read, wrote L. K. Bing- morning without their working for ham. it cannot see, or be taught, your Emerson was your type of a wholesomo philosophy, wrote Miles writes W. B. Iatillo, Chicago. K. Walton, Huron, B. D. man, I got so much pleasure from his Never was such a message more Writings that 1 feel I know him just needed, your letter will contribute as I feel that I know you from powerfully to bring about a sober tho manager of second rending your letter. thought, The letter caused C. M. Pierson, the Bkinner A Kennedy company, Maple Groxe, Tii ., to decide that he, St. Louis, wrote. 1 too was rich. didnt know how Surely, I were well for all of us T rich. didnt know how rich to tho letter of this Nebraska he wrote. blacksmith, I was until you fold me. and ask ourselves if N. we, too, nro not numbered among tho William Orange, I would gladly of richest men and w onion tho J., wrote Meiers: spend tho rest of my days in your world! Richest Man in the World Is Not Rockefeller, but Blacksmith of Nebraska Tho richest man in the world is not John D. Rockefeller or tho Baron Rothschild or any of that set, bat a plain citizen of Pierce, in the sovereign state of Nebraska, Edward J. Meyers by name. Tho wealth of Edward J. Meyers In every has amazed the world. country where the tale of his fabulous fortunes have penetrated, there are long articles in the newspapers tolling of the new- human phenomenon tho richest man in the world. Edward J. Meyers not long ago wrote a letter to- a small Nebraska new spaper, in which he told of ' his The letter follows: wealth. I wonder if you know- - that one of the richest men in the world was fourteen miles north of Norfolk, That man is right here in Pierce I tho writer. I am just a common plug blacksmith, but, oh, how du - rich. I to my labors each morning, work until noon, go to dinner, return at 1 p. in., and worn until 6 oclock. I enjoy the greatest Rockof all blessings, good health. efeller would give all he possesses in money and holdings for my stomach, but he cant have it. Each day sees something accomplished and every job of work I turn out A feel I have done my customer a service worthy of my hire. I have a wonderful littlo wife. She has stuck to me twenty-twyears, so I know she must be a dandy to accomplisn that. I have a littlo home, a beautiful little daughter, a son grown to maturity and now in lifes game or himself. Rieht Why, man alive, who can possible be richer! Then, to add to all the above riches, I take down my old shotgun in season and ramble through fields, woods and tangle in search of the elusive cottontail, teal and mallard with my faithful old pointer at heel (now past 11 years old), and he is happy as I when on the hunt. Then, when I get back, oh! how good everything does taste. Then, when night has spread its mantle over this good old universe, I settle down in a good old easy chair, enjoy a smoke, and then roll into bed to be embraced by Morpht -- i and never hear a sound until the beautiful break of another day. Rich, did you say! Well, I guess. You inIKillars! No; not many. quired about riches, not material wealth. Tho height of my ambition is so to live that I may have no regrets time for having lived, when the comes for, me to shuffle off this mortal coil, and I hope by toat time to have accumulated just enough doliirs that myself and mine may not' Iip objects of charity. This, then, is my ideal of a rieh man. If any one enjoys life more thnn T ,o, lie is to be envied for his rielies. With kindest regards, EDWARD J. MEYERS. The letter attracted the attention of the Omaha newspapers, aud their house-guest- go s 1 o Bad-ham- . -- cn-jo- v d I To be surprised and for the moment shocked by receiving over the telophone a holiday greeting from a son whoso body he believed he believed be had buried a day or two, previously, waa the experience of C. E. Johnson at Maazanola, Colo. last week, according to advices received in Payson last. Saturday. The body , buried by Mr. Johnson was that which had been identified an that of a suicide,' the body of whom had boon found suspended from a sapling in tho Tanner field, northwest of layaoa about two weeks The body was removed to ago. 1rovo, where it remained unidontifi. ed for mere than a week, uutil finally souieoue declared that it was tho body 'of Billy Johnson, son of tho Colorado fanner. The body wan promptly shipped to Maazanola and buired by Mr. Johnson with all tho attendant sorrow and solemnity. Tho burial took place on the day prior to Now Years day, and on New Years day the rightful aon called up his father from Denver and extended greetings. The story is detailed iu the ' Associated Press dispatches as follows: Denver, Colo., Jaa 8. New . Year. . These wwitfs epefran over the telephone by W. M. Johnson to his father, O. E. Johnson, a farmer living at unusual joy Colo., . brought to ono home, for on the day pre. vious Johnson had buried in the Manzanola cemetery the body of a man he thought to be his son. The two were nnited in Denver :last night, the father having hastened here on the first train to make sure his son really was aUvcu Investigation by poUee has disclosed that the man who was boiled Friday was another G. E. Johnson, a railroad engineer, who lived nt Provo, Utah, where the eon formerly was employed. The dead maa waa 'mind hanging from n tree near The son, Payson on December 27. who was thought to be dead, has not boon at home or in communication with his parents since 1917. The , body . of tho suicide rests in a docent grave, duo to too positive an identification, and the true identity of the misguided life remains a mystery, probably never to be solved. - long-distan- Mau-zanol- a, , Mrs. Herman Tagge, Jr., of Balt Lako entertained at a lnneheon last Thursday afternoon at the home of her mother, Mrs. Frank Smith, were Mrs. Dave Bhuler, Mrs. Ed Patten, Mrs. Rooney Wilson,' Mrs. Stanley Wilson, Mrs. Dave Mitchell, Mabte Mrs. Leo Morgan, Mrs. naynes, Miss Alta Mareil, Miss Bessie' Smith and Mrs J. H. Ellsworth! Mrs. W. H. Reece was hostess to a charmingly arranged Christmas She party last Thursday afternoon. was assisted in the general entertaining and serving by her danght. era, Mrs. II. I. Smith of Balt Lake and Mrs, D. L. Mitchell. Tho guesls included tho inombers of the llnppy Hour club and tho following, Mrs. Fred Lewis of MeCammon, Idaho, Mrs. T. F. Tolhurst, Mrs. Joseph Reece and Mrs. Harvey Amos. j In celebrating tho birth of the Year, a party of tho younger married set enjoyed a delightful rocinl nt the homo of Dr. and Mis. .T. 11. Tho earlier hours Ellsworth. of tho evening were spent at the Pro. leap year ball in the pavilion. grossive five hundred followed by supper was the entertainment at. the F.ilswortn home on First South. Mrs. Stanley Wilson received the prize for In tho party wore high score. Mr. and Mrs, J. H. Ellsworth, Mr. nnd Mrs. Ed Patten, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Shuler, Mr. and - Mrs. Ford , Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. ElRoy Barnett, Mr. nnd Mrs. Walter Strong. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Merrill, Mr. ' and Mrs. R:i v Monsen, Mr. and Mts. Dave L. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Tyl,r' Air. and Mrs. Donald Barney, Mr. and Mrs. Huftnan Tagge, Miss Iona Cravens and Edwin Blackhnrst of A Balt Lako. New Mil-son- On Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs, Rny Monsen, Mr. and Mrs. Glau' Cowan and Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Ellsworth were the guests of Mr. and st a social even, Mrs. Darrell Brow ing with cards as the diversion. were Mr, nnd Mrs. John Daniels on New home Brown the at guests Yenrs day. |