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Show BOX ELDER NEW Devoted to no Party 6r Faction But Just to All. BRIGHAM CITY. BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1918. CITYS FINANCES NUMBER. 66. FLU SITUATION DISCUSSED Reasons for Increasing the Tax Levy Unless the health situation clears morning, Mr. and Mrs. this city were ad- - up so that a mass primafy can be held L telegram from Washington, on Monday or Tuesday, there will be .lusj. Frederick Per- no candidates placed in nomination, their son, Private from by the electorate to be voted upon next son. had died in France of Wednesday at the school election, at 27th on the chial pneumonia which time a member of the Board of Educction is to be elected from PreUte Holton was born in this city cincts No 1, 3 and 5. HJ5.94 went ta Camp He 10th, 1895. In Precincts No 1 and 3, President 123.! Jon May 27th of the present year M. Hansen and Member A. M. Peter trans-was arrival his shortly after will doubtless be candidates to m company with a number of Seely In Precinct No succeed themselves. soldier boys, to Camp Kearney, which is Member F. 5, Brigham City, until his training re he continued W. Fishburn is a candidate to succeed was ordered 145th Field Artillery m:y tjnce when he went over seas. He himself and at the solicitation of a Mr. and Mrs. F. number of his friends, Mr. Jesse W. roo.oo the eldest son of decided to become a canand a young man whom to Hdopes has Wednesday Iaxh , Holton of A For the Present Year Clearly Set Forth By Mayor Peters Because ot may inquires as to why City was increased this year. Mayor John W. Peters has prepared an article in which the entire transaction is discussed from bginnlng to end. the tax levy for Brigham have and is not chargeable to the present administration. oaekcliaseaRRgape.dt.. mm mh t t tli Another slight increase in the taxes that is in no. way connected with the kind of government is the library tax, For two years the library operated at a financial loss. Tbe city has had to make appropr&tions to ven keep the doors of this worthy institution open and so this year at the request of the library board the tax for library purpose was increased 3 mills. Totaling these levies which amount to 11.1 mills, It sill be seen that they were all imperative, regardless of the kind or type of government. Morever the present administration is in no way responsible for them. There was absolutely no option in the premises. The necessity of these revenues was not in the leact of our making. This leaves the balance of this years levy 7.6 mills for which the present administration assumes all respon-siblitOf this amount 1.2 mills was levied as a sinking fund to redeem the thirty thousand dollars electric light Box Elder county hhs only about 3 weeks In which ta redeem her war savings pledges and put the uounty in the honor column of having done that which was required by the government. When the pledges were made last June and the final report showed that this county had met Its quoto, the County Central Committee, os well as the State Committee, felt that the pled-g- e were just as good as if the purchases had been made for it was assumed that no citizen pledged himself to do something that he did not fully Health Inspector John H. Burt this morning, that the flu situation in Brigham City is getting better every day. He states that not over 50 cases exist in the entire city and only one case, that of Miss McCarty, is in any way serious. Only two new- cases were reported for yesterday and the four policemen appointed on Saturday last, are making the rounds of the four wards every homes where the disday visiting ease already exists to check up on conditions, as well as to inquire about any new outbreaks. While the health board is not making any promises nor does it desire to appear In the light of being too optimistic, the feeling of the members generally is that Brigham City will soon be rid of the malady entirely and the strict observance of the recent drastic regulations Is going to aid very mater-allin hastening that time. Just when the baa will lifted is not known as yet but the officers feel that It will be a wise thing to give good measure before throwing things open again, le-por- ts - In his argument, the mayor sets forth k number of things that are of vital interest to the people of Brigham City, as in fact the entire article intend to redeem. is, and after reading it through, one The fact that the war has apparentwill have a better understanding of ended has no bearing whatever on 154,6, lolton ly the condition of Brigham City. Throhave confl-c- e didate. and admire to was status of the War Savings cam the 03.91 At all the polling places, printed bal- ugh the courtesy of Mayor Peters, in. The sad intelligence of his for the money that the governpalgn heartfelt lots of the various candidates will be the News is permitted to publish the th from disease calls out ment proposed to raise through that provided for the convenience of the article in full, herewith: means has already been spent or com generous sympathy to the family voters but should a voter desire to com-sitin this friends their many tracted for and the people are being I am ask frequestly what the estimate cast his ballot for a candidate who depended upon to make good now. It of the present administration is with is not represented by ny printed Is also needless to state once more, to of reference the type managerial ballots, a proceedure which would be that this big government loan is not a SlKE closes garland exwhether it is more regular, then the voter should government: gift. Good interest is paid for the pse SUGAR FACTORY. entirelyout more is is efficient a ballot after the following pensive; whether write of the money and the investor simply and meets of the whether it the needs '81,1 manner: John Doe, for member of the adds the amount of his War Savings noon on Wednesday of this week, Board of Elucation, from Representat people better than our former system purchases to his savings account. did. I am ot able at this time to give employees of the Garland Sugar no;, tory walked out on a strike. This ivd Precinct (giving the number eith a definite answer, to these questions. In order that the work might be er 1, 3 or 5), for a term of four years.' ion is the according That is the form used in all the school This has been an unusual year. Also culmination, completed in record time and Box Ei on Tomorrow morning, two silent pollce-ed- , report, of negotiations which have 1592.21 der countys obligation fully discharg-election and any tax payer can become the condition that confronted us, the men of wlll be stationed on Main and control the n going on between some of municipal assuming the in Central Committee, County a candidate whether nominated at a bonds, due in 1922; .4 mills was levseem affairs unusual. Forest the Utah-Idah- o for street respectively, for the pur- irers and Sugar If, instance, B. with Chairman LeRoy conjuncture as ied a sinking fund to redeem tbe primary or not and is not required to we the whith eax 1917 some with in of of the for compare pany time, levy seeing to It that the new traf-- j file a notice to that effect. eight thousand dollars general bonds Young of Box Elder Stake division, pose flic regulations are faithfully observed. 1918, the conclusion seems inevitable due in men, boilermen and a few others a held meeting Wednesday morning 1923; 1.5 mills was levied as a 'the The regulations In question pertain that a managerial system for cities is regular employees, asked for an fund to redeem the thirty thou- and outlined a plan of campaign for a sinking This con- sand dollar water works bonds due in big Redemption Drive which will be to the traffic at the intersection of actually very expensive. alunj ;ht hour day working schedule with BOOTLEG CARGO IS tame pay that they are given for STEERED TO JAIL, clusion, however, is wholly unwarran- 1932. The basis on which these am- made on the first three days of the Main and Forest streets and they pres- -' ted. Whatever the frame work of ounts were regular twelve hour shit and reached are as follows: week, beginning December 16th, at cribo that all traffic coming from the ich demand the company refused to government might have been during The bonds are all for twenty years; which time every family In all the dis- south along Main street and intending Through the system maintained by the last year it is oubtfui if any conftnt. to turn west on Forest street must ) therefore, of the am- tricts In the county will be visited by for trapping siderable difference could have been he plant was shut down, a big sup-- 1 Sheriff John S. Corless the local campaign committee to se- go around to the east and north of the ifihierl of made in the total tax levy for 1918. ounts should be set aside each year. load automobile an off bootleggers, of syrup was cool to permitted This practice is followed by all the cure redemption of all pledges that biK Hght Ple standing in the center lav the sugar company will lose heav-- 1 liquid cheer which was scheduled to During the summer of 1917 Brigham newer municipalities and should have have not been met by that time. Ev- of the Intersection. A silent policebecause of the interruption of the arrive in Oneida county, Idaho, iron) City voted bonds in the sum of eighty been followed, In my judgment, In ery family that haB redeemed Its pled- man will be standing in the center of Lfacture of sugat. At this writing Nevada before Thanksgiving was d thousand dollars- - tor- water works ex- Brigham. In this connection the laws ge to the full amount of the quoto, will the street where the traffic is accustcounty jail tensions and improvements. to These of Utah omed fre has been no adjustment made of lected to the Salt Lake all now, passing calling upon The city receive a redemption card bearing this provide as follows: is the The driver of the car was booked at bonds were sold through the Palpier council difficulty and the walk-ou- t announcement, "OUR W. S. S. PLED- drivers to go slow and turn around tho a sufficient sjiall, levy annually, It big serious labor trouble that the county jail as Jack' Turner . of Bond and Mortgage Co., and as a part tax to pay the interest on all indebted- GES REDEEMED, which will be past- pole. All traffic cmlng east on ForIs ever occurred in Box Elder county. Blackfoot, Idaho. est street Vith intention of going north of the contract for their disposition, ness as it falls due, and also to con- ed in the window so that the solicitors The load of liquor was intercepted the city agreed to set aside, during see a at glance who have and who will be required to drive around to the a fund for the payment may between Lucin and Snowville, J. T. 1918, sixteen thousand eight hundred stitute sinking FIRE DESTROYS HOME. not redeemed their pledges. south and east of the big pole and have of the principal thereof within twenty Elder county by Deputy Sheriqs J. T. dollars, as an initial amount on a sinkThose who have not redeemed their the silent policeman will be standing years from the time of contracting the Raleigh and Riley M. Beckstead, ac- ing fund to eventually redeem the same. when the committee calls up in the center of Forest street to adParly Wednesday morning, the home pledges laws of Utah. 1907, Compiled by Charles Holstrom, a bonds. To raise this sum the city counvise the traveling public of the regobRasmus Sorensen who resides on companied Chapter 24, Sec. 310.) If this law had on them, will be asked to meet the state officer, by Whose authority the cil, during ulation. Anyone who knocks down the last lath First East administration, and was when at that the time complete-street, been observed in times past we would ligation driver was arrested and the liquor passed an ordinance which is in full of these "policemen either will be has been done be wlll furnished destroyed by fire. Mr. Sorensen is have had at time of maturity an amtor confiscated. liable to a fine for breaking the trafand effect binding the city ,to ount sufficient to redeem force the in fulfillment the their was card of and alone showing asleep the bonds, parried The officers were met with a protest levy a tax, during the current year, fic regulations and damages to city Jose, being wakened by the tire which whereas, now, we have in the sinking pledge. was into taken the being liquor m close enough to him to singe his that large enough to raise this amount. fund, seventeen thousand and four During the summer, a number of property. Oneida county purely for medicinal The present City Council felt duty ir before be was aware of the blaze. A number of serious accidents have hundred dollars and seventeen cents, people have removed from the state purposes, that it was vitally necessary bound to adhere faithfully to this ordhad no time to rescue anything, been averted only by a hairs breadth at to had who War care of pledged purchase seventy three thousand to combat the influenza epidemic in inance. At once, therefore, to main- tp take of these streets just the intersection ftctically, and the home and conten-- I t thirty-eighof latter bonded the dollars certificates Savings during indebtedness, the community. - They were showen a tain the financial credit of the city were entirely destroyed. The because the driving public has Insistof Also of a the number of which thousand dollars is due year. part to be a pass for and keep the covenants of the former a small frame 'no f ml earri-- f document purporting a little more than three years. boys who are now in the army, pledg- ed on taking a short cut in making of Oneida administration, we found that a levy of in an official from the liquor ao Insurance. this government the turn going west and north. By I am fully cognizant of the fact that ed to purchase of county. .1 mills was necessary. The amount v two conditions observing the new regulation there of loan. Because these The deputies say, however, that they on this item alone is more than the many of our citizens advocate some find that never needs to be any trouble the of hange in may precincts bonds. the If this policy is the one slii'l telephone have evidence of a continual traffic entire levy of 1917. It was not an act favored and can be done successfully, they have not reached their quoto and MANAGEMENT. over the route in the past. The long of the present administration nor due to then the 3.1 mills levied this year for so a recanvass will have to be made to to Is haul is In Nevada. It necessary the kind or type of government, in During the week, a change has been fund purposes might have interview those individuals who are in NOTICc TO CHURCH MEMBERS. traverse only a short distance in Utah that occasioned this levy. sinking Ne in the management of the local before the contraband is across the any sense, been avoided. But such a course ab- a position to invest a little more and Because of tiie fact that the health tn Then we early discovered that dur- solutely violates the law. It is no se- thus make up the deficit. pphone exchange. Mr. Poff, former Idaho line just north of Snowville Into is such that the people are situation the administration last the v. ill last city ing cret The holds who three drive Salt bonds has the these and what been into called big of the just pager, Oneida county. Some residents for fire kke office for a truck contract into entered the designs of the holders are. I, for days, including Monday, Tuesday and prevented from congregating together, special assignment and locality who had come to regard the thous- one, am an ardent advocate o i we feel to recommend to the saints of of an nine H. E. mana-entailing expenditure keeping Wednesday and all precincts must traffic as a matter of course, were p of Brewington, formerly the Bingham Canyon exchange, much astonished at the appearance up- and eight hundred dollars. The con- our public utilities and making ade- have their reports In to the county the Box Elder Stake, that they hold been placed in chairman before the end of the week family Fast Day services next Sunday charge of the Brig-lau- ) on the scene of officers acting under tract provided that by this January quate preparations to pay for them. thousand four office. payments aggregating This leaves 4.5 mills that we have in order that the county report might in order that the faith and determinastate authority, it is understood. no was must There made.. be dollars estimated will finance the city during be filled with the state chairman at tion to do better of each member of The load of the car was found to be amwhich of out this fund SURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION. possible the ensuing year. Comparing it with Salt Lake City before the end of the the family may be increased. about forty gallons of whisky, in cases ount could be altthe and taken We have no set program in mind to only the levy of last year, 5.7 mills of which month. which there and bottles, In addition to ernative was to get the money through amount 1 mill was for sinking fund The United but fee! that the exercises suggest, States Civil Service were some bottles of beer and wine. The redemption card will convey its omission has anounced an examinaTribune. taxation. This entailed again a levy purposes, and .7 mills for library pur- own message. The homes which do should include a prayer service In of 1.7 mills. tion for the County poses, it makes the estimates of the not show a card in the window, if the which the Lord Is importuned in huElder, Ut. be held at council of last year for general civic 1918 mility, to heal the Bick and banish on 11, Jan. Brigham Again we discovered that during the family residing within is financially Mr. fill the or son from our midst the dread disease and of Mr. the at estimate the purposes, carrier of Crompton, rural of last months administthe 'Eugene position closing able to Invest in war savings stamps which has robbed so many homes of feoonton and vacancies that'- - may ind Mrs. T. H. Crompton of this city, ration there was taken from the eighty council for this year, practically the and certificates, will not be contented loved ones. We feel that the people pter occur on rural routes from other is occupying a cot In the hospital at thousand dollars secured from the sale same. homes for they will display a slacker st offices in wen afford to follow the precedent his to can from d thousinjuries the of bonds for water works, t'n It Is therefore, as stated at the be- spirit and the committee does not want Logan recovering he and dollars to take upof the aunty, The examination will be open back, one leg and an arm, which great men of the earth, and to difficult a outstanding ginning, say whether to see a single home of that character baly to male The warrants and clean up miscellaneous which Is part of our religious belief, citizens who are actually received in a railroad accident. form of is government managerial In the whole of Box Elder county. The domiciled in the territory of postoffi-- f young mans condition Is not serious, indebtedness. This Indebtedness had more or less expensive. The install- farmers will all have received their that of engaging in humble and earnest n the been incurred unquestionably because ation of the new water system has nat- second beet check before this ' big prayer in times of stress. The expercounty and who meet the but very painful. pther requirements set forth In Form the expenses of the city bad exceeded urally involved that drive has been made and so the comm- iences we have been passing through V 1917. This form and application Attorney and Mrs. Nels Jcnspn are the revenues during past years, owing would not occure inexpenditures years. two months certainly ordinary ittee feels that it is justified in antic- during the past most recent members of the the ; among us and bring home to s humiliate ofti-may be obtained from the to inadequate , tax levies. The price of material and labor are ipating a complete redemption of all ought to be afflicted with influenonr a realization ntter dependence s community of mentioned above or from the To replace this ten thousand dollars factors to be reckoned with In a sol- remaining unfulfilled pledges so that are reported to be doing ) Lord. the upon Civil Service Commission at za. They of this problen but when all at the close of the week ending on two methods seemed possible. Either ution We also that the are seems these account pashington, D. C. Applications should nicely. people will taken into it hope to issue again interest bearing warSaturday, December iist, j... Elder US1 forwarded to the Commission at not of the their Fast Sheriff-elec- t Job Welling was down that of the either payment neglect expense system County can report having purchased rants, if that were possible, or to raise Washington at the earliest can done either in be which on Wednesdav. taking a it would be Is same. even about the Offerings, It practicable from Certi of War Fielding her full Savings juoto by taxation. The law, however, date. getand us negJail mail. let or Dont more person by casual look at the County perplexing to say whether the fleates. seems not to permit the levying of a he information are than lect who less fortunate hand those is more efficient first what tax to pay off indebtedness incurred present system Bishop r. c. Johnson of Bear River ting we. relative to the new job for ordinary running expenses. It responsive than the former one. The obtain could TUNNEL CHANGES HANDS. was a business visitor to Brig-a- a Our faith and prayer is that Our which he will assume on January 2nd. has, however, provided that 2 mills retlcally It is. The City Manager, on City Wednesday. is who an much has of done In Heaven will bless the people Father engineer, for be assessed can sold his interests Mr. Bert Olsen has general purposes Mr, Clifford Mrs. Rosa Stokes aocompanied by Jensen of the Naval the field work on the in The Tunnel to Mr. and and us all to live worthy of His surveying used to can help is be it will and clear, this, Joseph Fuller, Miss Mable Robinson foe, was home during the week her slpter Nov. 28th for Camp Kear- pay off Indebtedness. This year, new water system. Much cf his time who will continue to operate a cigar mercies and so conduct ourselves that 1 brief furlough prior to his going leave Ogden the proceeds from this tax has therefore been spent as an engin- stand in connection with his auto liv- we can have power with the Lorl In ard ship for a cruise. Mr. Jensen ny, where Mrs. Stokes will meet therefore, eer. Most of the plans and specificat-iem- s will towards W, go 113 liquidating this obligCharles ery. Mr. Olsen will devote his entire times of trouble. been attached to the recruiting her husband Corporal been' prepared by him. a attention to the circulation of the Salt have 2 electmill a S. NORMAN LEF, to It and released replace ation, erv'ce at Los who expects to be work that ould have entailed large Lake Angeles but a short Stokes made. The E. MADSEN. VICTOR been has ric Is which he for levy light 1st. agent tuna the They Tribune, go was transferred to Mare Isla- - from the service about course is not due expenditures If outside help had been In this city, and has secured office JOSEPH N. STOHI. this for interof necessity the all places 'here he is now stationed getting expect tp visit Stake Presidency, to the kind of government we rooms In the Liberty theatre. (Continued on Page 4) to sail the seas. est in California before returning. ii i, - i 1 buil-jagw- p of-Bo- above-mentione- - , Unit-State- II y 1 |