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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1921
Page
6
The War Department announced the sale of the old National Guard rifle range on Mack Avenue near Alter Road. The 191 acre site sold for 254100 dollars, 236824 dollars above its 20 year purchase price. The range has been abandoned since the end of World War I after active use by National Guard and Fort Wayne troops.
Secretary Mellon announces a net deficit of 161,464,774 in government expenses for the first two months of the fiscal year. He says September income and profits taxes should create a small quarterly surplus, after a Treasury offering of about 3.6 billion dollars.
Lansing reports the auditor general’s department mailed about 53,000 bonus checks to ex servicemen averaging roughly $200 each. State funds from a recent bond sale total $20 million, with over half expended. About 80,000 to 90,000 applications for compensation have been approved by the adjutant general’s department.
Nearly 4,000 buyers or would be buyers attended the government auction of one fourth of Camp Grant barracks and fittings. The sale brought in hardly two cents on the dollar. Barracks buildings suitable for lumber sold for about 150 dollars on average, while similar structures elsewhere fetched 300 to 400 dollars.
Secretary Mellon proposed wiping out income taxes above 25 percent as of January 1, 1922 and eliminating the capital stock tax as of July 1, 1922 in new revenue revision plans submitted to the Senate Finance Committee last week.
In New Orleans Margaret Speakman followed her curiosity about divorce courts. Her party attended a session where her husband appeared as a defendant’s counsel. The shock sparked her own divorce suit while the husband protests.
Mr. and Mrs. Polar Bear debate the heat and cold in a zoo setting. They complain that hot weather is foolish while noting cold seasons bring their own discomfort, and they yearn for cool ice as the keeper grants them fresh slabs. They contrast human moods with their own frolics and distant indifference to visitors.
A dialogue notes a parent and child discussing frugality. The boy jokes about buying a pony to save wear on shoes, and the father agrees the family must economize.
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