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Newspaper
Grass Range Review
Location
Grass Range, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
13
Montana braces for a sweeping tax overhaul as a federal revenue bill raises rates, including a 20 percent surtax on clothing above set prices and higher income taxes. The plan taxes corporations at 18 percent after excess taxes, with inheritance rates up to 40 percent and specific levies on tobacco, automobiles, motorcycles, and gasoline.
A. B. Cook of Montana, famed railroad builder and cattle breeder, won the contract to rebuild Halifax after a munition ship explosion damaged the Canadian port. He employs thousands for a two year project, extending his reach from Montana ranches to western Canada.
The war has sidelined the Montana bar as many lawyers enlist or are drafted. Courts see far less litigation while lawyers focus on collecting debts and foreclosing mortgages. Many offices remain closed or repurposed as hundreds enter officer training camps or head to France.
The priorities board has ruled gold mining essential to the war effort and entitled to preferential treatment in supplies. This includes tools machinery equipment transport fuel and related services as men guns and munitions are rushed to the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia.
Helena based union leader John Baker, dean of the art preservative in Montana and head of the International Typographical Union, declares union labor fully supports victory in the war. He notes 4,308 ITU members in service, 77 killed, and urges reservation of union politics during wartime while advocating conciliation over strikes.
Washington reports the food administration backs lighter cattle under 475 pounds to divert heavier beef to soldiers and export. Retailers should buy lighter cattle and the public should accept the shift to conserve heavier grades for military use and export while aiding drought regions.
A union leader cites increased wage scales and minimal use of strike funds from the defense fund, praising the International Typographical Union for patriotic leadership as it defends the nation's destiny and glory of humanity amid a pivotal era. The speaker urges support and honors union members for contributing to national preservation.
The governor proclaims Tuesday November 5 1918 as the Montana general election day. Voters will decide on a terminal elevator bond issue exempting debt from tax chiropractic licensing and a state chiropractic board. Counties Wheatland and Carter elect clerks and commissioners under 1906 and 1914 court clerk rulings.
The daughter of Charles W. Spear of Billings became separated from her family in Yellornatone National Park. She wandered for 36 hours before searchers located her near silver tip bears and returned her to her disappointed parents.
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