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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1920
Page
6
The 1919 income tax is being collected. Returns under oath are due by March 15 for single filers with net income 1000 or more or married filers with 2000 or more, with full disclosure of all income and dependents. Texans file with Collector Alexander S. Walker in Austin.
Austin reports war department figures: Texas lost 1,620 men killed in action or died of wounds in the great war. The state’s death rate is 92 per 1,000 in service, with 175,344 Texans in the army. Oklahoma deaths were 993, with total U.S. battle deaths at 47,949 from a 4,090,000-strong force.
The article notes the South Texas Fair at Yoakum from October 5 and mentions a large Ney fair in June in Shiver, a neighbor to the south. It ends with a casual remark that everyone will attend.
Herbert Hoover declines to enter his name in the Georgia Democratic presidential preferential primary. The text notes March 2 marks the 84th anniversary of Texas declaration of independence, and observes Hoover wavering on his political stance as he debates which side to support.
Read along with port news update. Preparations begin in New Braunfels for a May celebration marking the city’s seventy-fifth founding. Sugar imports at Galveston port in February reached 12 million pounds, the highest since last August. LaGrange wins against commission form of government 131 to 71, with cities adopting it seeming satisfied. New Jersey Assembly passes 3 1/2 percent beer bill 37 to 21 with Governor Edwards said to approve. aussi clean-up day in Moulton urged to improve sanitation.
Single persons with net income of 1000 dollars or more and married couples with net income of 2000 pounds or more face a 4 percent normal tax on taxable income up to 4000 dollars, 8 percent on the excess, plus a surtax up to 65 percent on net incomes over 5000. The final filing date is March 15, 1920, with forms 1040A and 1040 and IRS guidance from the local Collector of Internal Revenue.
The death of Judge John C. Crisp occurred at his Beeville home on February 27. A Mississippi native, he was 63 years old. Survived by his widow and three daughters.
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