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Show WARNER, Editor EZRA WARNER, Manager IuliIUtied Every Thuraday Price, 91.80 per year gubcrlptl ELISHA ADVERTISING RATES Nebo School District Board Indorses Mines Amendment per lnch(pcr week. 10e per line Aral To the Patron p'jplay Reader ot the Nebo School District, My dear Fellow Citizen:. nitartlon. If there ia anything locally that Entered February 11, 1902, ae sec Iostofflce at the at natter, da abould be of vital Intercut to ua. It gpj ipinlab Fork, Utah should bo the securing of greater revjurch 2, 1897. enue from the bigger corporations of our state hlch have not been paying their just proportion of the 5c per line each subsequent H. E. Wright Dr. About ton year ago the real estate men of our atate began to compluin coneerulng the high rate of taxation. AT THE ARNOLD HOTEL They contended that this rate was EVERY TUESDAY driving Investment out of the atate and that It would appear far better should the rate be reduced and the valuutlon of property Increased. So Dr. persistent were these men In their In 1915 the State Legargument Corner ol islature that Oft at Residence reduced the rate of Taxation Kouth and 1st West to approximately one-thir- d of what uAce Hours. 10 to 12 a.tn. and 2 to It was In 1914. This action on the I p m. 8unday by Appointment. part of the Legislature forced an Increase of approximately three time ' Spanish Fork Itome 03 In the assessed valuation of all real eye ttm i.i lint Joseph Hughes .... ..!t and personal property that the revenues of the state might be maintainR. M. ed. To Illustrate: In 1914 the school FLORIST board could levy fifteen mills and the County Commissioners four mills for fresh Flowers Suppueu for all Funeral Dcalgna Kept on aebool purposes. After the passage of All Kind the new law In 1915, the school board Hand end Filled to Order. could levy but five and s at Furniture Repaired. Residence 2 Blocks N. of Foundry mills and tho four mills county SPANISH FORK UTAH school tax was abolished. Property JEX seven-tenth- at approximatIts cash value. The reduction in the rate of levy Increased the assessed valuation of all property save mines, approximately three A Constitutional limitation times. would not permit the Increase In the valuation of mines, as the Constitution specifically states that they shall be assessed on their net proceeds. When the rate of taxation bfore 1915 was approximate three times greater than It Is today, mines were then taxed on their net proceeds. Since 1915, when the rate was reduced, mines have been paying but one-thir- d the taxes thy did In 1914. The rate of taxation has been reduced but the assessed valuation of mines has remained constant. Is this true of your farm or your home? No. The valuation of farms and of homes and of all property save mines, has been Increased approximately three times. Statistics show that the mines of the state since 1915 have saved In taxes l,S57,9Cu which other property has been forced to pay In order to maintain the revenues of the state. This equals more than ten per cent of In 1914 was assessed ely J.W. Hagan, M. D. OfTIce Office Creer Building Phone 3" Hours 2 to 4 p.rr. at. W.T.Brockbank D.D.S. DLNTIST O Jice Farmers Cw,. Phone 111. Building 144 BROWN Livery and Feed Stables Hack Meets all Trains Spanish Fork Phone 12 r JOHN F. HARRIS Undertaker one-thi- rd each taxpayers tax. Is it not evident that when the rate and EMBALMER d of taxation was reduced to LORENZO .THOMAS BLDG. and the assessed valuation of real and Day or Night Phone 116 personal property was Increased approximately three times, that mining property should also have been inR. H. Andrus L. creased three times? The Legislature was anlous that this thing be done but the constitution would not permit therefore, they proposed an amendWork and Abstract ment to the constitution whereby Notary Commercial Club Rooms mines should be assessed at their full phone 62-valuation, the same as fayns and homes aud cattle and all other taxable property. . . G. Stoddard M. D. The people.not being familiar with the purpose of this amendment and CITY and QUARANTINE PHYSICAN the mining Interests being vigilant In OfEc Over PoStofHce and at Residence their campaign, the amendment was lost and the Injustice continued. Phone 45 HOURS 2 to 4 P. M. In 1917 the Legislature passed the Occupational Tax In order to make the mines pay their just and equitable portion of the expenses of the state and regain a pprtion of the $1,857,966 saved by the mines since and 1915. If the wners of the mines of cleaning, pressing state were honest In their opposithe REPAIRING to amending the constitution, tion Utah. Spanish Fork, why do they not pay this tax without stint or protest? The fact of the matter is they are not worrying about the constitute being a sacred docuDr. C. D. ment nearly so much as they are about paying taxes on full valuation DENTIST of property as do the farmers and freer Building home builders. Utah Spanish Fork, The Occupational Tax was to be Phone 125-but a temporary measure, as the Legislature In 1917 proposed the same amendment as wfts offered by the Republican Legislature in 1915. Mining insterests will argue that It is unwise1 and unsafe to amend our constitution and that It Is hazardous to permit the State Board of Equalto assess mines at their full 1 have now commenced to j?et ization valuation. How foolish such argunow pieces of Jewelry for ments. We have amended the Coall and nstitution of ourstate seyeral times Holiday trade. and In fact, the framers of the constiWatches, Service Pins, tution Intended that it should be Military Hat Pins, Beautiful amended whenever conditions deService Fobs for gents. manded. There is nothing dangerous In amending a constitution when the four varieties of the best amendment Is for the equalization of aarm clocks. the financial burdens of the state. As the constitution now rends, the are especially favorpd. They mines Strangs are assessed at their net proceeds, one-thir- LrB. Law Office w J. R. Thomas Tailor Livingston 1 J. Whs, jem, Jewelry Store hlch Is but one-thlror less than of their ru! valuatloa.Wby not permit the Hoard of Equalization one-thlr- I 1 4 Spanish Fork f Co-o- p d, d under the dire tin of the State e to assess mines at some multiple or of their net proceeds so long as the constitution provides that they cannot bo assessed at more than their actual cash value? Attorney General Shield! tell us very pointedly that should the amendment pass, the Hoard of Equalization would have no more power than H has today. U has the power to assess our lands, our homes, our cattle and all other property at Ita full valuta. It Is the final board to pass on the'val-uatlo- n of all property In the atate. If this power Is given It to assess our real estate and personal property, our railroad, our telegraph and telephone lines, our largest industries, why not give It to it to assess mines? Will It not be just aa honest In the assessment of mines aa It la In the assessment of our property? It la ridiculous to suppose otherwise. The mlnea are endeavoring to escape their just and equitable portion of the financial burdens of the state. We as taxpayers and citizens of the atate cannot afford to alt Idly by and let this pernicious Inequality go on longer. Now Is our only chance to remedy the evil. Three time has the Legislature brought this matter to our attention. Is It not argument enough to know that two Republican Legislatures and one Democratic Legislature have asked us to vote on this amendment? There must he virtue In it or these representatives of the people would not have persistently risked the people to adopt this amendment. Have we no confidence (n our Legislatures and our honorable Governors, William Spry and Simon Bamberger? These are the men after careful and thoughtful consideration and attention who have plead with us to vote for this amendment. Let us warn you ere we close, that should this amendment fall this, the third time, no Legislature will soon bring it to our attention again and thus the mines will continue to feed fat ' on the farms aa they have so gloriously done in the .past. Let us get out of the trenches and go over the top and carry this amendment beyond the lines of our mining men who are fighting so persistently for such an unjust cause. Respectfully submitted. Legls-latur- BOARD OF EDUCATION. Nebo School District. Can supply you now with PIG FEED. Now is the time to fatten your hogs. f, I a $3.50 per cwt. Chopped Corn, Chopped Barley, $3.00 per cwt. We will chop your own barley and corn while you wait at 15c per hundred. WE WANT 0 Tons of Oats Give us a chance and none will give you more than we will in CASH. I Banish Fork FOR HOME LETTERS ! FRED HOCKETT WRITES OF THE LIFE ABOARD A Between the seven welfare agen- clcs doing work for the aoldless at U. S. DESTROYER AT SEA home and oversea more than sheets of stationery are supplied every month for the men to write letters home. This means that half a million dollars is kept tied up jn postage stamps to meet the calls ' 0f the soldiers, 125,-000,0- 00 Margaret Ann Edwards, daughter of Mrs. Gwen Edwards, died, this afternoon of pneumonia following Spanish Influenza after a weeks illness. She Is the mother of Wm. Dr. A. G. Stoodard was called to Edwards prominent In high school Provo Tuesday to meet with the athletics. county board of examiners. Funeral arrangements have not as A Beautiful Woman been made. yet Earl Roberts and his chum motorDo you know that a beauitful ed down from Salt Lake Sunday and woman always has a good digestion called on friends here. If your digestion Is faulty, eat lightly of meats, and take an occasional The young soldier Is survived by November is the big money month dose of Chamberllana Tablets to his parents Mr. and Mrs. George A. In the State of Utah. Many thousands strengthen your digestion. Price 25c, Stewart, and the following brothers of dollars are paid to the farmers nnd staters Glen II., Reva, Lester, and laborers as An orphan calf. Under Found proceeds of the Bugar Mark, Bessie, Grace, Roy and Freda. harvest, work In sugar factories and half crop In lefb ear. Owner may have all kinds of farm produce. There can Bnme by paying 40c for this adv. and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Steward who bo no excuse for anyone, not keeping the cost of feeding. have spent the past summer atMy-to- n his pledge for War Savings Stamps. where Mr. Stewart Is running an Money Is' more plentiful now than at Spencer Hayes, formerly of this apiary, have come to Spanish Fork any other time ot the year. Utah is city, is now in the service of Uncle to spend a few months and are at behind in its payments of its W.S.S. Sam, and is stationed at Fort Monroe the home .of Mr. and Mrs. Url pledges, and this should be given the Virginia. first attention, and the first payment of any money that may come in. Mrs. P. F. Clifford and little dauCome across and pay up. Do not hold ghter, Ella of Thistle spent Friday out on the boys "over there" after and Saturday here visiting with Mr. having given your pledge. How are and Mrs. M. M. Thomas. you going to face them when they BOYS "OVER THERE. come back, If you fall down oa your Every American who economizes in pledge? consumption of material, who increases production, who saves and A rubber boot on Palmyra londs his Lest savings to the Government, Just what will be done about return to Jack Evans. does something to help win the war. Finder road. Christmas packages for the A. E. F.? Reward. (adv) . Thats the big question the chief Angel Caras and Joseph Nelson, Is Tours trying postmaster down 'at A community kitchen has been es- who left Spanish Fork on Septemto thresh out. The chief likes Christtablished at the High School by the ber 6th for Comp Kearney, returned mas packages Just as well as anybody Officials and the Red Cross. Hot, home Monday morning for a fifteen City 'does, and he has used up many sheets soups will be furnished days' furlough. They report everyof good bond paper trying to figure nourishing to the homes where they have the thing at the camp In fine shape. it out. influenza. Phone orders to the high If every man in the A. E. F. is school and young ladies with autos Morgan C. Thomas took a trip this allowed a package ,for will deliver the soup. . week to Camp Kearney to visit with rewould Christmas from home, it his John C. Thomas, who is brother, to ten a for cars 700 days day quire an attack of pneu-- j from suffering transport the gifts from the base He monla. a message home yes- sent In ports to the ultlmiate consumers Is up for the his brother that terday A. of the S. O. S. and the Z. Is feeling much imfirst and time are of France doing The railroads proved. their level best these days to supply and feed the Allied Armies, and a. The following articles 'were conspare car fs almost a thing of the tributed and purchased by the Red When you need anypast. But if there is any way of deCross funds appropriated for that livering Christmas packages to the in the line of thing purpose for the linen shower last A. E. F., the chief postmaster says 140 pillow cases, 01 sheets, week: and neat attractive , he is go.tng to find It. 143 towels,' 110 napkins, 240 kerPointing Under the present conditions, how10 wijsh cloths. These were chiefs, ever, such propects look dark. boxed and shipped to Denver. The Stars and Stripes. Spanish Fork, Utah, October 23, 1918. Fred G. Hockctt, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hockctt, formerly of this cfy, but now liivng in Salt Lake City, writes borne the following let- ter: Somewhere at Sea, Sept. 27th, '18. Dear Folks: It has been some time since I have had a chance to write to you and as we are homeward bound I will try and write you a few lines. I am In the best of health and like the life fine. I suppose you wonder what we do. Well, nothing very much only look out for Bills submarines and see that they do not get too friendly with the transports that carry the boys over. The Huntington, on which I belong is a first class cruiser, carries a crew of 1200 and does convoy duty from j j u . five-pou- . the United States to somewhere over, there. We have made six trips across since I Joined the crew, and have landed ajl 9f the hoys without any trouble, and as for the number, I am not allowed to say, but when Bill sees them he will be surprised as he has not been able or keen enough to stop us yet and he will have to act quick It he does. Have I seen any subs? I should say I have and we have put several down on the bottom, but you never know when one is going to pop up, and when he does he must act quick If he wants to live as the boy are always on the Job and will make It warm for him, as the boys are doing over there. .The condltions'on ship are good. Plenty of food, good quarters, but the hardest thing of all is to get along on one bucket of water a day, as you have to shave, bath and scrub clothes. It seems funny when there Is water all around you and not a drop to use, but We get along good, as we try to save coal as "we know the people are putting up with lots of things on the outside, so we are trying to do our share in here. .It is time to play a concert for the boys to keep up good spirits, so I will close, with love to you all. Your son and brother, FRED A. HOCKETT. Musician, on U. S. S. Huntington. I t |