Kansas Tax Levy Fixed At 1 3/4 Mills Statewide
The Kansas tax commission fixed the state property levy at 1.75 mills amid legislative appropriations. The increase costs taxpayers 58.5 cents per $1,000 of property, yet is smaller than expected due to large personal property assessments and government ownership of public service assets. Total state property value reaches a record 3,438,7?9,871 with a broad rise in valuations driven mainly by personal property. Public and private budgets show $8,184,586.58 appropriated for the current year and $10,427,283.27 for the next fiscal year beginning 1920. The Public Utilities Commission fixed September 24 as the date for return proceedings with Southwestern Bell Telephone Co to determine permanent rates, with evidence on costs and wages to be presented.
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Kansas Tax Commission
Public Service
Kansas
The
Public Utilities Commission
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Burleson
Telephone Company
Topeka Mills Strike Signals Fight Over Hours and Wages
Two hundred fifty flour mill workers in five Topeka mills struck at noon demanding an eight hour day and pay raises from one to two and a half dollars daily. Employers rejected terms and will continue operations though two mills closed temporarily.
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Topeka
Cereal Workers’ Union
Will Probe Phone Charges In Kansas State Wide Inquiry
The public utilities commission orders a general inquiry into telephone installation and name changes and all service rules to standardize rates across Kansas seven hundred companies. It will set uniform rules and notify all interested parties to submit evidence on reasonableness of rates. The federal order cites 3 50 for installation and 1 50 for changes.
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Public Utilities Commission
Kansas
John E. Kinkel
Commission
Morton's Death and Kansas Legion Post Growth Report
John Thomas Morton a retired black Baptist minister died in Atchison after founding Ebenezer Baptist Church there and serving as Lincoln school principal. The Kan sas Commandery report by Neal E. K. Akers shows 38 posts with 1 451 members already, with about 50 more posts in process. A grasshopper eradication drive will distribute sixty tons of arsenic across 21 Kansas counties over two weeks under extension entomologist E G Kelly.
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John Thomas Morton
Atchison
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Canada
Lincoln School
Post Office
Washington
Kansas
The
American Legion
Neal EK. Akers
E. G. Kelly
Kansas State Agricultural College
Beloit Hosts Welcome for Soldiers Amid Chautauqua Opens
Beloit staged a large homecoming for Mitchell County veterans tying in the chautauqua opening and a postponed Fourth of July event. The program included an air parade and a Beloit Esbon ball game. A fatal crash occurred west of Sabetha when a Rock Island passenger train struck a motor car killing William Heiniger and Clarence Ei senbise and severely injuring Glen Emert.
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Beloit
Mitchell County
Esbon
William Heiniger
Clarence Eisenbise
Glen Emert
Rock Island
Sabetha
Spies of Germany Bothered Yankees on French Front
Paris American correspondents recount German espionage against American forces after their landings. German agents sought army details and morale, aided by sympathizers in Alsace. secrecy was constant as Americans redistributed units and dodged spy networks.
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Paris
General Wershing
France
Pershing
Seventy Seventh Division
New York City
Baccarat
Forty-second Division
Hindenburg
Seventy-seventh
No Man’s Land
Seventy
Heinie
Alsace
Impos
Elsie Janis Adopts War Veteran Michael Cardi
New York Miss Elsie Janis signs papers making Michael Cardi a foster son. The fourteen year old Italian war veteran, who stowed away on the Madonna from Marseilles, arrives six weeks ago and is now living with Janis in Tarrytown after a $5,000 bond to prevent public charge.
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New York
Elsie Janis
Michael Cardi
Madonna
Marseilles
Miss Janis
Michael
Tarrytown
Courted by Greek King Pierces Athens Society
Miss Josephine Marie Kelly of Chicago, in Athens with the American Red Cross, attracts King Alexander of Greece who has openly expressed admiration. Since their first meeting in January at a Greek friend’s tea they are frequently seen together at society functions. The question in Athens is whether the king will marry the American girl amid fragile Alsace tensions.
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Josephine Marie Kelly
Chicago
Athens
American Red Cross
King Alexander
Greece
Alexander
Naval mine sweepers face deadly North Sea barrage
United States navy mine sweepers clear the 200 by 45 mile North Sea mine field almost 80 percent American made. Four vessels hurt, one officer killed, others wounded as 4,000 mines are mapped with zones of danger and safety. Project may last into autumn with about 2,500 personnel.
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London
North Sea
Scotland
Norway
U. S. S. Bobolink
Aan
Bruce
U. 8 S. S. Patuxent
Sexton
Prodigy Willy Ferrero Leads 100 Piece Orchestra Abroad
Italian American prodigy Willy Ferrero born in Portland Maine at thirteen leads a 100 piece orchestra in Wagner, Beethoven, Rossini and Greig. He attracted European attention since age four and has performed for Emperor Nicholas II Queen Alexandra and Pope Benedict XV.
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Rome
Willy Ferrero
Greig
Portland
Maine
Europe
Italan
Associated Press
Willy
William Ferrero
Italy
Paris
Costanza Theater
Nicholas
London
Queen Alexandria
England
Marlborough House
Benedict XV
Wily
Shooting a pigeon costs man in Belleville forty seven fifty
Philip Hommel of Belleville shot a pigeon that ate his garden seed and vegetables. He then argued with Anton Sehlinger, owner of the third. Hommel faced charges for threatening to kill and was ruled against in all four cases. He paid $86.20 in costs. Sehlinger sued for disturbing the peace and was fined five dollars plus costs.
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St. Louis
Philip Hommel
Belleville
Hommel
Anton Sehlinger
Sehlinger
Lautz
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Topeka Aviation Commission
John Crawford
Atchison County
Maj
Thomas J. Dickson
Lawrence
Fort Sill
Lyon
Hutchinson Interurban Railway
Floyd Foster
James
State Utilities Commission
Chase County
Flint Hills
Crocker Brothers
Newman
Camp Creek
J. C. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
Altamont
Labette County
Parsons Fire Department
Germany
Yankees
Center ON Americans
Secret Service
North
Russia
Boy
Ister
Augusteum
Scandia
Harry Hohman
Nordman
Adolph Nelson
Lebanon
A. R. Morey
W. M. F. W. Kreitzer
Sec’y
Clarence Albro
V. C
J. W. Plotner
John A. Freebucg
Bluyers
W. N. UD
U Ahea
Commun
Jim Jones
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