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Williamsport Review Republican (Newspaper) - February 27, 1919, Williamsport, Indiana A i Mil v 16 19 a a a # Sievie a a ili i a a a is we series volume two Lam Short la trial Sra was sis Suomi to tiiu Bedat Feim uart 27, 1919, number 19 Oay licht saving again this year very same i an As last. On unless tiie Law undergoes a change do not forget to turn the clock one in our ahead when you go to bed on the last saturday night in March for the Daylight saving Law goes into effect on the last sunday of next month. The National War Garden commission is getting inquiries rom All Over the country As to whether the Law continues so As to set your mind at rest Here is the Law Quot that at 2 o clock Ante Meridian of the last sunday in March of each year the Standard time of each zone shall be advanced one hour and at 2 o clock Ante Meridian of the last sunday in october in each year the Standard time of each zone shall by the retarding of one be returned to the mean astronomical time of the degree of Longitude governing each zone respectively Quot never mind about the october part of it. The thing to remember is the March end of the program and thus get started right. Charles Lathrop Peck president of the National War Garden commission gives a great Deal of credit for the great War Garden record of 1918 to the Daylight saving Law. According to the estimates of the commission the War Garden crop was Worth $435,-000,000. There was an increase of 51 percent Over that of 1917. The commission s Survey showed that 5,285,000 Home food producing plots were planted. With Twenty six working Days in each of the seven a months you have 182 extra hours of time. It Only one Gardner worked this extra hour of time in each plot it will be seen that 961,879,000 hours of time would be added to the country s wealth. Since there Are 8,700 hours in a year you find the staggering total of 109,80?. Years of Twenty hours Days. Anarch 15th last Day for income tax there will be no general Extension of time beyond March 15th for the filing of returns and for the payment of income and excess profits taxes due on that Date is the decision of Dan a c. Roper commissioner of internal Revenue. The announcement made monday by collector Isaac immediately following the approval by the Senate and h ouse of the report of the conferees on the new Revenue Bill. Quot it is necessary to get the initial tax payments in by March 15th,&Quot says commissioner Roper. Quot no other course is possible. Some months ago the Treasury issued certificates of indebtedness to an amount approximating $80,0000,000, maturing March 15th. The first payment of the income and excess profits taxes for 1918 planned for that Date to meet this huge of news from from Leonard d. Etnire Hil Scheid Germany Farmers meeting Friday afternoon at 2 o clock All i pure bred live Stock men will Assenia ble to organize a Warren county live Stock breeders association. All Sci i could get out of it. I am just going to offer a Sugges cattle horse sheep men hog men Jan. 23, 1919. J quoth you would consider and Poult men. Don t forget the my dear father and sister i received your sad and sorrowful letter of dec. 29th telling me of the it it might be for the Best. Why Don t you either sell or rent out the \ two Homes. The old Home is tool hour. You can t afford to stay Avay. News of interest picked up by our Specia correspondent for death of my Mother. The news of for just you and sis. A Small the death of my Mother came As an electric Shock i can not express my or House would be better. You see sis a ill have her hands full with feeling on paper. We Are now look other cares. This is Only a Sugges ing Forward to a a orld of peace and lon but i think it for the Best. I Sellers Yarbro miss Leah Pauline Sellers daughter of or. And mrs. Frank j. Sellers of West Lebanon and Audrey c. Yarbro of this City son of or. And mrs. Charles Yarbro of near West Lebanon were married at 4 o clock Friday afternoon by Justice h. Clay Bryant in Lafayette. Or. Yarbro runs a Barber shop and billiard Hall in this City and has made warm friends while in the City. The review Republican joins their Many friends in extending congratulations and wish for them a lifetime of happiness and Prosperity. Quot the american people have proven that there is no emergency too great to be met and solved by cooperation. This present situation is another emergency which can be overcome by cooperative Effort. The Bureau extends its every Force toward this end and 1 am relying upon the people to meet the situation wholeheartedly. Quot the internal Revenue Bureau must carry out the program prescribed in the new Law which requires All returns for 1918 to be filed on or before Maith 15th, 1919, and requires the first quarterly payment or the entire payment to be made on or before that Date. Quot every taxpayer who can possibly do so is urged to make full payment of his income tax on or before March 15th. The quarterly payment method is intended for taxpayers whose financing of the tax at one time would tend to upset local financial conditions. Quot the approval of the report of the conferees by the Senate and House of representatives brings the new Revenue Bill to the Point where it May be assumed to be Law. The internal Revenue Bureau has been making preparations to collect the taxes which it provides and is now putting All of its efforts into aiding the taxpayers to fulfil the Obliga a Lions imposed. Quot the Bureau his arranged to Send an advisory Force of several thousands of deputies and agents to assist taxpayers. These officers will be stationed at convenient Points where they May be consulted without charge. Taxpayers should take the initiative and get in touch with these Revenue men for any needed advice and assistance in preparing returns. Quot the forms for the tax returns Are being printed and All forms will be in the hands of collectors Between february 15th and March 1st.&Quot an Early return of the boys Over Here. My Mother after living through the trying Days of the War has passed to a realm better far than this. Although it was her greatest earthly desire to see me Home again and be with her but it was the will of our heavenly father and now it is up to us the rest of the family to so live that a Hen our summons comes to be Able to join her in our Home above. I have ofttimes thought in this far away land of my Mother never a Day passed in which i did not in some Way think of her and Home. Now that i am older and can understand i look Back Over the Days of my childhood the Happy hours i spent with Here my Mother. I fully realize now that in loosing my Mother i have lost my Best Friend on Earth. I did not know As a boy and a Young Man around the old Home town How much worry and sleepless nights i was causing her my Mother who always had my interest at heart. I have heard her say that it was her children that she was living for and nothing was too Good for them. We the children have Many times thought our Mother wrong in the Way she treated us she would not let us go certain places and forbid us doing certain things it is All Clear now that we have grown up we see where Mother was right. It was always for the Best it was our future she was looking at. It is hard to give her up but he who rules the universe knows Best Quot his will be up and know it would be hard to break the old Home. I will not say More about it. I will close for this time and May god Comfort you and brother and sister until i return May god Speed that Day. Don t worry about me for i am o. K. Your son and brother. Pvt. Leonard d. Etnire amb. Co., no. 2, a. E. F., a. P. Of no. 729. Your perusal we have engaged w. G. Eckhart farm advisor of Dekalb county 111., to speak at the Warren county Farmers meeting March 3rd at 2 o clock at Williar sport. Or. Eck Indianapolis ind., feb. 24. Hart has ten years of experience in the state Board of education seems county agent work in Dekalb coun to have placed itself in a position to 111. He is one of Illinois first j that to say the least is disagree county agents and is assisting in bringing about a National Farmers organization. Tell your neighbors. From Charles Anno Camp Stuart va., feb. 16, 1919. My dear folks a i vill write you a few lines to let you know How i am. I suppose you got my Telegram. I knew you had not heard from me for so Long that you would be anxious so i sent it to let you know that i was Back in god s country once More and i sure intend to stay in it. We left Paui Lac France on the 31st of january. We landed Here on the 12th of february almost sixteen Days on the water but we had some bad weather went through about a dozen storms seemed like to me. I sure have got some bad cold but it has begun to get better now. I guess we leave Here tomorrow for Camp Eustis but Don t know for sure. I Don t believe we a ill be in serve very Long now at least i Hope not. 1 got along All right in this army until the War was Over but now i am sick of All of it. Our colonel just gave us bur far Ewell address tonight and froth what he says it is just a matter of a few Days i am so glad that you were Able before we get discharged. That is educational association fleets supt. L. Stewart went to Chicago last monday to attend the National educational association. Important issues Are up before the country in the line of educational reconstruction just now. The War had sunday feat stolen. John Shamp reports that some one stole his sunday s beef roast sat night together with Between 6 to 10 pounds of fresh Side meat. Or. Shamp had the meat placed on a Bench in the Yard under an in to be with my Mother when she died and i am also satisfied that through her Long period of sickness you Faitler saw to it that she wanted for nothing and nothing but the Best was Good enough for her. You done the very Best you could and May god bless you for it. Say dad we can be old pals when i get Back won t that be Fine. Father i Don t know when i will be sent Home. I was among the first 30,000 to land in France but that does not seem to make any difference. You spoke about me not depriving myself of the Chance of seeing anything Over Here. Gee father i have seen enough i am ready to return and have been for some time. I want to get Back to work and the sooner the better. The b. Goodrich co., also sent me a letter with the Promise of my old Job and More Money. I am just crazy to get to work this army is no life for me. Don t think for a minute that i would be Over Here if folks would pester me somebody asked an old Missouri store keeper Why he did t put a Small and in the local newspapers to advertise a Quot Home blend Quot of Coffee that was particularly Good. Quot i Don t wanta Quot he replied lazily. Quot if i did folks would pester me All the time to show emmy thus did an old Missouri storekeeper pay unconscious tribute to the business getting of advertising. He missed a lot of business of course but there s another Side to it. Lots of people who want this Par. Sicular Brand of Coffee were unable to get it because no one Ever told them where it was to be had. You know yourself that it would take you twice As Long to shop if there were no advertisements to guide you in your buying. You would t know where to Start. You d miss a lot of Good values because no one Ever told you about them. The Man who advertises is glad to have you Quot pester him Quot to show you his goods. Don t miss the advertisements. They will save you Money. Vertex Wash tub so As to keep it i has brought problems that require immediate consider Uon by the peo pie and educators throughout the Shamp had relatives vis nation much will be done m out ting sunday and he says it was very iming the program or reconstruction embarrassing to have his sunday at the Chicago meeting Ott a As-1 Socia Tion. The meeting will last i for a until saturday. It could catch him. I Leckie says about the Best news i have heard since i left France. Well i m sure it won t be Long now. Will be glad when 1 can look on your dear faces once More. I have not got a letter for so Long that i Don t know whether i would know How to open it or not. The last letter i got was about the Middle of december almost two months ago. We heard once in France that the 47th c. A. Started Home in december run ashore on an Island and that the ship went Down but i Don t hardly think it was so. I met Harold Herlinger and Ray Slaughter while i was Over there and saw Ray again tonight. He came Over right behind us. Fred is still Vith me. Believe me we Are tvo Happy ones. I Don t know How we will be mustered out we May be sent to Camp in our Home states and maybe we will get our discharge Here. I Don t care which so it happens pretty soon. Well i must close with love to All. L am your Loving son and brother. Charles. The thief if he George Madison dead George Madison a Well known nine circus son the Road this season there will be nine circuses on the citizen of Williami Ort died this summer it became known last week when representative j showmen met at Chicago to outline i plans for the season. The War hit i the show business hard and six cir Mich tel o Bren nou of eve t go Dov it jew <0 Quot we Tram to up Theu Ksenni a re As por the ?er.,for Cooee to veg to Church with my. \ Swo Ulo Quot think Vou d ret pm ouch 09 that / of fico Dur mgr the Sneek nest Hoke a vex ova Noo r a\4d Oast so Hoik s \ Home in the East part of the City last thursday morning after a lingering illness of tuberculosis. He was 51 years of age and was born i in Kansas april 17, 1867. Or. Madi i dropped out leaving Barnum son leaves a wife formerly Martha it Robinson. Hagenbeck Shaw with a Host of friends in this i Downes Sells Floto Vicinity to mourn his loss. Funeral j Barnes Sparks and Gentry. Many held at the m. E called to will be services were Church by Rev. Mccloud at two a o clock last sunday afternoon. Back in the Arena. Giris and boys teams of Boswell win. A i tvo basketball games were played Attica overwhelmed by Oxford tossers at bos veil Friday night and Boswell in a one sided game played at of teams won both tilts. The girls Ford Friday night the Oxford High team of the Boswell High school Deku a a heated the girls from Oxford 14 to 5, school a netball quintet romped and the Bowell boys team Defeated met the Attica fire by a score of the second team from Oxford 30 tois amp Tsa 122-. Bat quote Quot 47th art., c. Port news a. I or. Bust recovering Henry bust who recently Quot moved to the Hartz property act big the Street from the jail is now recovering from the second attack of the "flu.&Quot, or. Bust states he. Is the last living relative of Abraham Lincoln and that he is a second Cousin of the late president. Or. Bust has in his Possession a candlestick a stand table and a Teapot a hich he claims were used by president Lincoln and family. He says he has been offered Large sums for the relics but would not part with them. Another hog stolen. Some one stole a Fine Young Shoat weighing about 150 pounds saturday night from Charles Etnire. Or. Etnire had the hogs on the River Bottom farm and were away quite a distance from any House thus making the theft easy. This i the second hog he has had stolen from this farm the other one was taken sometime ago. Or. Etnire is getting badly peeved Over the occurrence and it a ill not be healthy for the offender if he can find out who did it. Such men should be dealt with without mercy. A. C., new i Replevin suit. I the Replevin suit of Harrison a i vis of Warren county against Rex i Judy of Attica is set for trial at Covington March 6. Judy traded a from Oliver p. Astill Gieres . January 24-, 1919. Car to Davis last fall for another car my dear wife and father and $800, Davis giving his notes for received your letter late last night the difference. Some time after telling me of Mother s death. It wards Davis became dissatisfied makes me so sad that it is nearly and claimed that Judy misrepresent impossible to a rite. The last letter de his car and wanted the Trade i had from Kathryn she was in annulled. Judy refused he having proving rapidly and the one that sold the notes. Now Davis has came last night was a great Shock brought suit to Replevin both the to me As i expected by this time notes and the car he traded to that she at Home. Am so glad Judy. That Kathryn so bravely stood the most trying time of her life in the g. Pii Arcus fined death of her Mother. I know that Marcus a piano Man blew you will do All in your Power to make it As easy As possible for Lier to Bear. One of the Best things that would help her to Bear the great Shock that is g. Marcus a piano Man into this City last wednesday night and in a few minutes was in bad with our police. Or. Marcus had evidently been to Quot Westville Quot and had looked too Long on the flowing would be my return Home. That is arraigned before one thing i can not say much about pig a to because i do not have any idea when gig intoxicated. Or. Powell As they will Send another company a egg Dollar and Cost from this Camp. All orders for the j continued of Sage 8, column l Bride your Job print into us Able. It appears that the Board Gaye its approval to a set of school maps which Are known As the Mcconnell maps. This approval was Given upon the recommendation of prof. James a. Woodburn head of the department of history of Indiana University but it appears prof. Wood Burn later withdrew his re comma Tion however in the meantime the agents for the map company had been Busy and sold about $35,0ik Worth of the maps to various schools throughout the state. It is said a late examination by the state Board of education showed the maps to by defective in Many respects and the state Board has been notifying school officials of the fact and Wam ing them not to buy any More of ill maps. The first Steps in an Organiza Loti of Farmers was taken in Mario county last week. Those behind the say it May develop throughout the nation into one of the most powerful and influential organizations in America. It is the object to co operate with other organizations of a like kind already in existence in Many states and to eventually Weld them All into a compact organization. The object is not to sustain High prices but Quot the activities of the organization will be confined to efforts to sustain prices at a reasonable figure. Also it is proposed to bring a bout direct dealing Between the Farmer arid the consumer and in that Way eliminate to a certain extent the middleman s profit. Almost every Day Small groups of wounded soldiers Are received at fort Benjamin Harris of and assigned to the general Hospital there. The most of them Are local men or from surrounding cities in Indiana and Are sent there for treatment. Some of them Are suffering from injuries of a serious nature and will be retained until they regain their health As the authorities will not discharge men unless they appear to have recovered. Life at the fort is not unpleasant for the men there As Many societies in the City provide entertainment and amusement for them several times each week. The Federal grand jury which co Nye. De Jan. 27th, reported the re suits of their investigations feb. 14. There were 320 returned and out of this number 296 were for alleged violations of the Reed Bone dry Law which forbids tile transportation of intoxicants into dry territory. It is believed by Federal officers that the number of indictments returned Breaks All records for any Federal grand jury. Contracts were let last week for the Complete remodelling of English s theatre. When they Are completed it will mean that English s will practically be a new play House. For years it has been one of the favorite theatres for out of town patrons and a trip to Indianapolis for any lengthy duration usually included an evening spent at English s on the Circle. The y. M. A. Of this City offers the privileges of membership free of charge to returned soldiers and sailors. It is announced that More than 500 returned soldiers and sailors have taken advantage of this offer in the last four weeks. A visit to the y. M. A. Building almost any evening would give the impression that it was a soldiers and sailors club from the number of uniformed men to be seen there. It is announced by the scottish rite bodies in the Valley of Indianapolis that they will hold their 54tk continued on Page 3, colours

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