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Show THE SUN, PRICE. UTAH PAGE TEN ex a a . k R. $ JUST DOATED I WOOD Hi EVERY FRIDAY By MARTHA WILLIAMS 8: adopt mine and stay here this winter through. rreiichln' tike yours la hud mirk fur a real mim." turned eeverul colon, sighed, tiled to stuiiniii'r excuses, refusals hut In the end Jeenis had his way. So Urupe-vln- e settled to a joyous season, fuller of sparkle and Interest than It had ever known. Maria also stayed the I'luters wouldn't let her naiue going home to her crabbed uncle. She was the light of the household. Oiling It with laughter and happy singing, and K each day seetn a promise of making KM Instead af railing a mass meeting and denouncing the situation, weotthefacts and nid something shout it. P IN Thurston County, In By H. northwestern Nebraska, INCREASE IN MOTOR VEHICLES LAST YEAR (Prepared b) the I'nltei! State Deportment of Agriculture.) Joys. foscant oflhatehra<a Jlalc Farm 8ureau fa deration in an inierri? where I live, we have Rut when the new year was well On December 31, 1923, there were ft tviiJt TV? Crawford in farm fireside tt (0, lilt, McCliu Kawapajiar Syndic!.) fouud a way to cut our 13,992,177 motor vehicles In use In tlie established Sally Ann grew miserable. Say, Jeema! Sally Ann burnt out, She locul taxon. It Is a very United Stutes, according to statistics showed It almost oddly by dally "Dues schoolin' learn desperately, simple plan, and one that collected by tlie bureau of public ruuds entreating Marla, "Dont leave us yet folks how to muke talk?" War bulletins from the mude. you cun easily apply United Stutes 1 lepurlinent of our own corn they antllln" JeemB M mas-oWorld war never proved half us ln- of the "Maybe sn--lf happens they need It oun your community. In mat I During the past year llm Agriculture. inuiiltlcK, of 'em don't though," from eruy "Tou don't stir a step, missy," cresting. When the depression of number Thereat which Brother over tors Itenkard by 2,853,-80- 2 smiled but registered Look at old Sister Jeems; stolidly. Whnt ilo you suppose Impiiened i 1920-2hit ua we were In a later thun incrcuse vehicles, tins was had lie himself greater sighed. fully she people talks all the time so fast Jlmpsy In Just about the aume tux situation aa year or so later? in uny preceding year. quite another erenture from the shadthe most iutluuire you can't get In a word edgewise In The actual return of prujicrty In the Middle West any other Tills increase, which Is 187, (XXI regcontrol then: creased In the vurlttus and never in the world says anything. ow of rannhood that had come in lute We were county worae off liecuuae precincts from istrations greater than the In really nntunm. Not less devout, nor wives. gain in uny "That's an I from Sally Ann, deeply 12 to 20 per cent, not withstanding that 1920 our county suffered n cloudburst tlmt other the ineuns We In but year, human, his found public dethat rejoicing puzzled. "Pity them talky folks cun t It was between years when everything new strength and glad always to use and scores of brl:ea were destroyed fur mand road wide were be mixed with us tongue-tiethere improvement, already ones was supiKised to be going down. This and hud to he rebuilt und paid for. will be strengthened, and u In diflike you mix two batches of dough. It, Jeems had much ado to hold him variations strong, t had honest man tbut the I begin to tell ubout the remedy simply more general use of tlie road, particferent parts of censed to he Slit Jimpsey's got words eniough ter hack from the very hardest things for the "tax disease" let me show penull.ed for being honest in Ice, at the own county lu oar ularly in a business und commercial . In preachers yet me I why pitching his prois-rtyturning right here at the start what the remedy s in taxes and that when any of the buys come I actually tossing up logs on tlie There's one more chupter to onr wHy, will result. As indicative of the tailed : commercial trend motor truck registraIndividual school have to keep throwing chips on the hauling from the new ground. Hurd I" accoinpl story. It saved the county around ftfO.fitX) tions now total over one und varied districts fire jest to keep them mukln' Jukes he protested. "Why I This Is play I mentioned to you that we were unon the one Item of bridges alone. murk tlie million, the from fortunate all about trjln my fortune thlnkln' of beside footbull and wrestling! What way enough to huve suffered a It secured cuts of from 8 to 20 per $10.50 to $30.20 Revere cloudburst In 1920 which had huvlng been passed in New York, Ohio my sweetheart to find out If lie loves a shame. Brer Jeems, you missed col- cent In the local taxes In Individual For the college I mean If and Illinois, and tlie on $1,000 valuame hard enough to muke the chipu lege. wiped out several score bridges In our mark In to mine, you'd have topped precincts. gone tion. youd burn." Indiana, Massachusetts, Miche Incounty-wida county. Following It IncreaHMl the amount of property New When igan, Jeems grinned Joyously, saying: anybody there." Jersey und Icnnsylvanla. people sistence on replacement the commisWhenever he aald, affectionately. returned from 12 to 20 per cent In Total registrations now exceed one find sioners decliirc.1 nn to "Now I know why youre so set on begun for emergency years when the valuations were genmillion In California, New York, Ohio these tilings out new bridges. Here Is where welevy having alwaya the clean dry poplar Brer .Teems, Rally Ann winced. She saved tuxes fulling, erally thereby had reducing her lost heart to recall meet around $30,000 and since have caused and lennsylrania. the ones theyll burn almost for the uttenduuce the annual beyond at this finer outlander and she was sure for the mail who had always been lugs of the school districts increased While the owners of motor vehicles cratch of a matdi " other counties to scrutinize mutters of honest In muklng Ids return. are Insistent In their demand for mure from four to five (tersons to forty or this sort inure "But I play fair take the run of lie thought of her as just a country Best of all, the net result was a feel enrefully. und better muds, tlie statistics show the wood pile," Sally Ann Interrupted spinster, useful ns foil and chaperon fifty. In some districts it was fount! After the bridge contract had been of confidence mid lug sutlsfac general to beautiful Maria Maria. was i tiint tilings had not been managed let anil the bridges were going In, there that they are bearing a very consider"Sometimes wlsht I hadn't Last Suntlon, Instead of mistrust, unrest und able share of the cost of the mads, In some cases It wua was n efficiently. day night I crammed three-fred ouk puzzle only Sally Ann could not tin suspicion. frequent allowing of county to Indifferent agine girl any udvlsnble on one to cut found down Billy chips right under the on tlie contracts, In excess of especially of tlie cost of maintenance you Here Is liow It was done: teacher where she wua teuching only funds on lmml, and these warrants of the state highways. Gross receipts know one by Itself won't never burn Benknrd, so handsome, so gentle, so from registration foes, together with During the year or so that the do u wry few pupils und Increase the were und tills bunch wouldn't burn good. Kspcdully If he taught her cent naturally registered at 7 neither and Jack Jones set there things, like chess, and French, and prossion lasted hi earnest, iienplc tend size of classes fur other teachers ul interest. Finally these amounts grew tlie licenses of drivers, chauffeurs, etc., amounted to $188,900, (XX), or 23 times playing the guitar. Dully, Sully Ann ed to become rudlcul. But being radi- though lu some cawa the salaries of to nn excess of $100,000 and ': gogglin at me, and smirkin' and people be- tlie amount derived from tills source 'Jest you think o me hard enough, wondered what Jeenis thought of the cal Is more or less u stute of mind, these other teachers had to he raised. gan to get a little alarmed. in 1913. During the same ivrioil moBally I bet they'll blaze high enough situation. Also If lie were not a hit In When we begun to get radical about In most cuses there was also a disno defwere It that there love with that witch, Maria? But she our taxes, It simply meant that we position to economize on other muttor vehicle registrations have increased to set the chlinldy afire." inite records available which showed could not ask him always they had didn't know where our money was go- ters, such as the purchase of coal at 12 times. "Weill Did they?" said Jccrns. how tilings stood. Some of the been tongue-tieover the deep things ing, and consequently didn't know how tlie time of year when it was cheapest, Just In 35 states a gasoline tax, ranging Sally Ann hung her head. "Naw! county officials and taxpayers hegan to from one to four cents per gallon, Is etc. she said. "Jest smoked and smoldered of life. The nearest she came to con- to stop the money from going. ask bow an accounting might he seA farmer would see the school mauin Imposed. Revenue from this source, and wasted ter embers, never inukln' fidence was asking, as they watched In this way cuts varying from 8 to cured. no heut at all. I felt like cryln'. Jack the other two racing home through a spinning along In her Jitney. Well, 20 per cent were effected in the taxes amounting to $362390,000, is spent very When the farm bureau took hold of "Dont he we reckon would you looky there," Ids thats excluim, I to largely for highway purposes. Thi till had up kept aggravations of Individual districts. the matter there had been a rather revenue will be Another draw rider and crack black walnuts seem to them doated wood? Dead?" where all our taxca go!" materially Increased Tlie next big tiling was to discover tentative settlement on Jeems nodded. farmer a few miles further on would hidden sixty completed in 1024, since In many states such to stop him." which was escaping property on which the total cost Before he could speak, Benknrd see the road graders st work. "Hump !" "Doated wood them chips," Jeems taxation throughout the county. Our bridges at $131,898.77. A reduction ap-of taxes have been in effect only a few In a yard ahead, crying In triburst he would peared "I'll bet months. exclaim, taksaid reflectively. that's men are like "Logs tax system has always been so constinot much good after they're rotten umph: "Been gambling, Brer Jeems Bust experience seems to 'Indicate ing all our taxes I It all depended on tuted that the man who Is honest about $8,226.92 had been made from this amount and warrants to the amount of that nt the heart Nut time pick keerful but I'll never do It again. Daren't which way a fellow looked as to what turning in his property at its registrations will continue to inrightful $101,000 Issued, leaving a balance of crease look for sound clean green timber, crowd my lurk. Maria bet me some- he Mamed his taxes on. materially during the present value tax of the $22,671.83 Indirectly paya the The fact was that most people didnt man who unpaid on these particular year. There Is no doubt that road whether Its chips or a husband you thing on our race you see I won fairla he Just that forgets quite bridges. know. Ignorance of where our money so well off when ly now you must give me my prize." want." construction will continue at the tax assessor Tlie farm bureau appointed a com- same rate which has been about the la It?" "What went asked Jeems bred and dully. bred suspicion Now youre hlttlyx at Denny Corsuspicion maintained cornea around. You know an assessor mittee of sixteen taxpayers to Investi- for the bin I" Sally Ann cried "Wbat makes Benknrd caught Sally Ann close, and radicalism. A few people were already hates to raise a rumpus with hla next two years. Much of this past An engineer from construction will be on making themselves heard, when It was door neighbor and too often a whole gate the matter. roads never you hold such a spite at him, Jeems? kissed her before them all. And shamethe State department was secured. before less Maria piped np: "I knew you suggested that the farm bureau might He never done you any harm." improved. do on lot of not all at things appear , you any I've take a look Into the matter. William During five days more than eighty Motor Vehicle Nor any good not to me nor no- wouldn't mind, Jeems-ythe tax books. Registrations and Revewere visited. Bolts, washers, to here bridges of but there's got stay of the plenty farm Wlngett, president nue for tho Year 1923. county So the tax committee decided to give and It body but hla own slug of a aclf,1 room might even be said spikes and for ua all." bureau, and a little group on the tax the community another shock, and Total Jeems flung back. Receipt a From And Jack Jones were counted. Then the charges Raclatratlon "A God's plenty," said Jeems with committee were handed the nails, Restoration Some Is the same sort Any girl that takes job. to talk Cara about for and Fora. months Ueanaoa something made by the bridge company were true reverence In his voice. Btatea Motor Truck Fertnlta people were for calling a county-wid- e and up with either of em will sholy drive We a hired afterward. of men carefully checked. couple Alabama 124.642 I 1.541.017.5S In some cases meeting to protest vigorously and nois- to go down to the county offices and her ducka to a bad market Youre Arizona . 49.175 281,670.7V where the bridge company appeared Arkanaaa all manner ily taxes. of against .... 112.100 1.425.090.00 free, white and twenty-on- e In off of but books the the amount of copy Hot Practical to have Japan charged too little, something California .... 1,100,243 But before we had a public meeting 10.606,544.00 your place Id not waste any more which each man In the coun- was 1R8.9S6 added, but In most cases deduce Colorado It was considered proper for someone property 1.120,218.5V cider and company-fir- e on douted had turned In. We had blanks tlons were mude. Here Connecticut .. ty 141.741 4,321.432.1V to the find deductions out where our did go. money wood." Delaware .... where each man's name could exceeded what was added 516.209.00 29,977 So we went over to the county offices printed by $7,665.-30- . District of Colie listed with the value of his cattle, "Doated" la, understand, the South Bear In mind that we were not lumbia 74.111 357.918.00 and went throngh the books and deterin fact finding countrys colloquialism fur the forest 151,990 . 1,963.065.90 any fault with the bridges but Florida mined just what our money was being horses, automobiles, Jewelry, 173.889 Georgia everything that he owned, according only with the cost. The adjective "dotard," applied to trees be3.156,406.0V bridge com- Idaho spent for. And a little Iuter we did to the figures he had 02.379 914.014.5 assesthe ginning to die at the top. Decay runs given to this reduction. pany agreed Illinois this for every school district In the sor. 969.331 0.653,796.04 thence down the heart to the roots, These blanks were compiled A little Iuter we discovered state- Indiana 583.342 3.693.715.00 county. On this page Is reproduced Ith the names In alphabetical order. ments for Iowa making the wood sour, crumbly, nearly 571,051 5.827.062.90 we got out showing what Then we the twenty incomplete poster bridges. Kansas 375.594 to paste these We went 3.435.606.00 proceeded worthless, even for fuel here is no In these man through the same Kentucky .... 198.377 every paid on $1,000 actual valua- blanks up In the postoffice, banks, 2.078.733.80 strength even In its ashes. Jeems and way and here we made a net reduc- Louisiana .... 136.623 tion In. School District No. 13. 2.191.240.81 farm-breand other Ann stores, Sally and Plater, 10S.609 tion of $6,125.47. 1.660.268.17 Tlie bridge com- Maine There was not any hedging or guess- In the man's ownpublic places, right .... 169.251 You were Joint owners of three 1.526.955.20 community. pany again promptly agreed to having Maryland wan everything In black and cun here ing, Massachusetts. 6.989.633.2V 481,150 hundred rich acres end the best of Imagine what Interesting reading this reduction allowed. white: $330 for state 710.658 Michigan 10,500,786.0V friends, despite the tie of blood. Both And then we were Minnesota .... 448.187 7,316.772.03 taxes, $4.90 for county were scent on but very, I II ; Mississippi ... 104.286 111 II 1.077,616.2? able to anMl secure It $15210 taxes, for school Missouri 476.693 4.016.183.60 very wise In unwrit laws of growth other reduction of No. district 13. and $0.50 Montana 73.828 720.621.60 HOW YbUR TAXES ARE SPENT and wind and weather. Needless to because we were Nebraska .... 216.053 for the village of Walthlll. 3.353,175.33 add, they were prosperous, "warm" In 15.699 Thurston County, Nebraska able to show that the cost Nevada 153.981.10 And each of these was the speech of their neighborhood. Hampof material had come New Taxes Paid on $1,000.00 Actual Valuation, In off subdivided to show shire 59,604 1.671,835.9 Nsturnlly they were objects of InterSchool District No. IS ; down since the first of New Jersey ... 430.951 $30.20 7.651.790.17 est alike to speculative bachelors, wld-percentage of oil and menthol even somewhat minor exNew Mexico .. the bridges was built. 32,033 295.000.00 TAXES. 3.30 which resemble camphor. The penditures. owers moderately youthful end alight- New Tork .... 1,204.213 19.302.441.53 This made a total of State far JO In At are meetthe first Capital and North teamed Carolina 346.111 public 3.731.044. 7X pressed ly Incumbered, enterprising sprightly far State Cetera meat .44 North Dakota. 109,266 710,833.45 widows, and spinsters who would barrels by the planters, who then ship ing there were around 150 far State Iaatltatloae AS Ohio Since our bridge experi1,069,100 .662.370.20 have to look backward hard to nee them to the menthol factories, of farmers and a few busifar State Reada, etc. Jtn Oklahoma .... 307,000 ence other counties In 8,217,770.84 tor Edaeatlea 1.10 We twenty-tw- o Since hospitality which there are 24 in various parts ness men present Oregon 105,901 again. 4.061.609.40 Nebraska have been doing to oil hold Is There of the extracted began Pennsylvania.. 1,043.770 was a sort of religion at Grapevine, 15.144.803.10 meetings all Japan. 9eaeeaea Tvtll oooeooiooat some Rhode Island.. 76,313 checking up and wi over the county, and at : : COUNTY 1,380.059.47 the rioter place, the attacking forces from the leaves by a process of pressTAXES 137.467 have been building some South Carolina 902.608.10 had wide opportunity and Improved ing and freezing. every meeting we passed South Dakota. 121.700 UWOt-lfar Carat? Geaeral Fait 1.130,959.37 of our own bridges. l.IS At various times efforts have been around circulars Tennessee .... that It valiantly. So far the Haters had 173,305 17.MT.sa far Ceaafy Bridge Famd 1.049.653.17 Jd Our experience shows, 1 Texas 085.133 6.441.608.60 far CaanCr Raad Dlafrtet..,, AO found safety In numbers. Indeed It made to Introduce the living plants showed where the money Ltah 59,585 think, that people In thi 430.164.73 far Iral Raad IMatrlet AO was clear case of one nail driving from Japan Into the United States, went In that school disVermont 51,771 36.660.80 lor Batista Kaad AB should take some county trict We had wall charts out another before the penetrant bad but so far the plan has been unsuc111.195 Virginia 3.200.111.6 tor Hothava' Praalaa AH more than a as thing cannot sea . stand . the and cessful, merely 251.264 they Washington time to stick fast. maps. 8.808.697.77 far Ca. Aprtcalfaral Society . . AS Measures are now being perfunctory Interest In West Virginia. 167.924 for Old ladrbtrdarea L60I.60I.S7 l.O Widow Caines might have taken voyage. The upshot of all this Wisconsin .... 467.271 for RaMivrary Bridae their tax affairs. You de 6,959.933.6V jo Jeems by storm when a broken ankle taken to obtain the seed, but the plant was that for the first time .... Wyoming 414.091.30for Coaaty Baad Kaad 39,131 JO termlne your own taxes does not ripen readily, as It Is generIt suddenly dawned on gave him leirare to ponder her wonIf check Total see to you root from ?110A31At . up ..... Total 15.091,177 1111,170,191.84 cuttings. .8 4A0 derful cookery, If Sally had not warily ally propagated people that moat of the what you are spending NS of the aatoaat of tax levied. naked young Maria tex expenditures were for ease, a distant which la tho baa la used by law far your money for, either cousin, and saucy beauty, to stay and laaala warrants. Helping the Curie Along things directly under their you are going to admii Good Road Notes The ancestor of the present Lord control. Iolltldans had help her with things company and SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 13....; 15.50 that you are satisfied oi am all the rest, until Jeems Stair, the first earl of that name, was sometimes talked aa if the cooking, II14ATX41 far Traebrra .SHAT 4t4t4t4lttftftftftft4HOyon are going to find a far Rrpalra got about. Marla had treated him mainly responsible for the massacre of state capitol, the state ,1S Never pass a street car when it to make a reduction way SNASS .. for ,. Fael. AS much as she did hla dog, Fllttermue Glencoe, and In revenge an old High government, the university stopping, or. If the law permits, proThe biggest thing th tQMO for Booho AH fed him, scolded him, and played with land woman called down a fearful end normal schools, the SSR4H AH for Booho we Trxt In oui ceed very slowly past It at the legsF accomplished him whiles to ths complete effacing I curse on his house, prophesying among SSSAH state lnetltntlons for de.IT for Faraitare distance. was not the county saving 14C4S for dll Other 11 of the solid Caines Image. Likewise, I other things that the future holders of pendents, state roads as e e of more than $30,000 or SAO for Boado when the revival gave several and the title would die childless, And as if these things were takRural express routes are great alio the nor the cut bridges sundry aspirants to Sally Anns favor a matter of ffect the second and sevSXSAXHAH where the farm Is small and the milk ing the money. But If we fatal .1IUC in taxes In the various chances for gallantry out of the com- eral later earls did die without Inua had cut out all of these : : VILLAGE OF WALTHILL school districts, nor the or garden product haulage la not A ouperatltlons lady once aaked the things altogether where I mon, Jeems had countered by making . dAS resurrection of much hid heavy enough to Justify the running or XAO Baada aad lalrrral Grapevine home to all the visiting min- present Lord 8talr If that were true. lived. It would have deden property. The big- a truck to town.e isters who naturally laid all the local creased our tax hill only e e Quite true," answered hla lordahlp gest thing wss that tlie SAO Tatal gallants In the shade. about 10 per cent. The briefly. The total eatlmated found out that the people expenditure TOTAL TAX ,,,. ,,,, i ,ee,e ,e "And do yon attribute It to tbo largest expenditures were ,$30120 Theoretically Jeema shrank from question of taxes rested for new highways by all agencies and curve of Glencoe?" persisted the lady, concentrated right down In thought of a preacher In the family from all sources during 1821 amountH4I I II I I III II I I I III H I I I I I Ml I I I 'j with themselves. but aomehow he warmed mightily to Possibly," was the guarded reply. ed to more than $7,000,000,000. The Brother Benkard. Possibly because "Though as regards two of the earls figures for 1822 were slightly less. Benkard came, weak and thin, from a at all events there wts whnt tlie law- BOAT CALLED ON TO and, with hla hat cocked on one side, Let go, then," he roared. bed of pain, he needed coasettlng, yers would call contributory neglisaid: "Cap'n Sturgis, you're getting a Down went the anchor, out rattled It Is estimated by highway SERVE TWO MASTERS leetle Inn expert close to them flats. Hadn't the chains, and like a flash the Susan that mileage of surfaced feeding, much sound sleep, rich cream gence." roads In the IIow sor was the puzzled Inquiry. and fresh eggs and he got all of them better ye Allen came luffing Into the wind and rntted States has reached at go about?" least Some years ago tne Yankee schoonThe captain stared nt hlin. without stint. Maria Pease aaw to Well, you aeo, madam, neither of then brought up all standing. Mr. 4r0.(MXl miles, &ot er Com"Sir. married." Susan that she had stayed on at Youth's thpm Collins. Jest you go forward Collins walked aft and touched his Allen, under the comninnd e e e Ann'a of Cnptnln Sturgis, wns beating up and tend to your part of the skunner. hnt. almoHt tearful Insistence. She was Pnlnn Modern highway transport has unWell, cap'n: my pnrt of the the Connecticut river. Sir. Collins, I'll tend to mine." radiant of health, strength, youth skunner Is to onehor," Kansas City doubtedly done more tlinn any other Mr. Collin went forward In high Star. wns the hla at the forward. mate, station minister naturally throve under Ingle factor In tanking life on the Long Enough her clicrldilng. farm brighter and easier. Dugan Did you zee thnt brick fall According to his notion of things, the dudgeon. schooner wns getting too nenr certain Jeems rejoiced to see It going so on my head? "Boys," he bellowed out. "see that At Washington. D. C.. In winter there tar even as to say, 'l.ooky here, Billy A farmer must be Finnegan Yes; but whnt are you mud flats which lay ulong the port that mudhook'a all deur for letting nre twice ns many dust partlclcii In the able to move hi shore. what you need la a family. Since yelling about? It stayed there go!" nlr as there nre In products when the demand I so counts summer, rapidly only The male went aft to the captain. you say you've got none, a'pose you second. "Aye. ay?, sir." active, especially if perishable, and by the weather bureau show. element of time la of vital ha- oortanre to the modern farmer. new 7..' st - 1 undcr-standingl- y d Bo-for- lm-un- two-thre-e wood-wagon- one-luil- f hundred-thousan- d fifty-thousan- o rore-stlc- wor-run- d ts k it say-ln- npiH-nre- d d snow-flurr- y. I d land-lovin- book-learnin- 1 IHII 1 1 1 1 Hli 1 1 1 1 1 $11,-576.0- 1 1 1? $33.-593.9- S - ' -- - mil 1 ....i,,,,.,,..,..,, 1 I I 1 1 1 |