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Show i Good Coat of Paint Keeps All Buildings Like New There should be 12 pages in the householder's almanac one for each month devoted to keeping up with little lit-tle things. Perhaps the idea would be less prosaic if it were called "Next Saturday Afternoon" or "Monthly Money-Saving Jobs." If one or two little things in the home were attended to each week small weaknesses would not become big repair jobs. There will be more appreciation and less depreciation. Money will be available for that built-in built-in bathtub, the sleeping porch or a better heating plant. Additions are J much .more . interesting than replace- 1921 (after the adoption of the amendment), 10.5 mills; for 1922, 10.2 mills; for 1923, 11.0 mills; proposed pro-posed levy for 1924, 12 mills. The promised reduction is hardly discernible. discern-ible. ' The levy for library was 1 mill in 1922, but it was cut to 0.6 mill in 1923. However, it was found insufficient insuf-ficient to allow the purchase of any new books, and it appears a small increase in-crease will be necessary for 1924. The tax for indigents and dependent depend-ent mothers has been 0.5 mill; but the fund is heavily overdrawn, and it looks as though an increase there will be needed. The state road tax is up to the limit. 3 mills; but the county road tax was 2.5 mills for 1923; the limit is 3 mills, and there is talk of raising it to the limt for 1924. How, then, can we avoid an increase for 1924 ? If the city levies 19 mills; the school j 12 mills, the state 7.4 mills, and the county increases its levy over last year by 0.5 milsl for county road, 0.2 mill for library, and 0.2 mill for indigent, indi-gent, there will be a net ncrease of 0.9 mill, making the total levy 50 mills in St. George City. The Citv Council, the County School Board, and the County Commissioners Com-missioners will decide this for us. |