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Far-seeing business men have come | to realize that it is the country that makes the cities and not the cities | that make the country | WRONG GUESS Didn't you Say before we were married, that we'd get along like a pair of turtle dov | should ha’ said “snappin’ turties.” Plant Shrubs Now. Now is a good time to plan for some flowers and shrubs around the house. They are worth the little extra care they make. ‘ The public sale season will soon be here. Let us print mr bills for you. How about that subscription? INCOME EXEMPTION INCREASE IS VOTED Tax-Free Amount Is Set at $2500 and $400 For Each Saqennent, Washington, D? C.—Practically wind- ing up revision of the levy sections of the 1918 tax house ways and means committee republicans voted to increase from $2000 to $2500 the ex emption-allowed married men having | an annual net income of $5000 or less. This change would be retroactive to | January 1, 1921, and would be in addi tion to the increase of $200 in the ex emption for each dependent of a head | of a family previously decided upon Announcing completion of their work, members of the committee said they believed the bill as agreed upon would produce the $3,000,000,000 total which Secretary Mellon estimated at the White House conference it would be necessary to raise from internal revenue next year. Not all of this | sum would be collected on this year's | business, however, as the total includ- ed $300,000,000 which treasury officials be collected on back law, estimate taxes, The bill as finally drafted by the under present plans of re- leaders will be passed on | Saturday. From the house ‘4t will go to the senate, where the finance com- | mittee will consider it during the pro: | posed congressional with a view to reporting it to the senate when congress reconvenes, probably late in | September. REIMBURSEMENT RATE FOR OCCUPATION SET Paris.—The American and British | armies of occupation, according to a recommendation by the allied financial committee, should be paid by Germany at the rate of the upkeep of French soldiers on the Rhine, plus two gold marks daily a man. | It is proposed that this new rate of | reimbursement date from May 1. Re- imbursement as decided on by the committee as fixed policy and the can committee publican recess, | sas City, league of nations is proposed as the | gutomobile held “0 a deputy sheriff | proper authority to appoint arbitra- tors in future disputes of a financial nature. American arbitration is recom- mended to asttie whether reimbursement of Belgium's debts to | es, Great Britain and at the war or cur the United St France shouid he rent rate of exc RELIEF HEADS: DEADLOCK Litvinoff Declines to "Surrender shevik Right to Control. Riga, Letvia ~ A deadlock was reached in the negotiations relative to American relief for Russian’s famine sufferers between the American relief | administration and Maxim Litvinoff, | acting on behalf of the soviet famine relief committee. Action by Wash- ington and Moscow will be necessary to decide the issue, it is declared. Litvinoff has declined to surrender | the Bolshevik government's right to the control of persons for joint control has been effected. Floods of Liquor From Ontario. Detroit, Mich.—Federal, state and with intoxicants from Canada, follow ing a Windsor court ruling that the Ontario temperance act does not pro- hibit export of liquors. Portland Judge For State Bench. Judge Robert Tucker of Salem, Or the circuit court of Multnomah coun- | ty will be appointed to succeed Charles A. Johns as justice of the Oregon su- | court in the event the latter resigns to accept the office Justice of the the Philippine preme clate supreme court of islands, This was an- | nounced by Governor Olcott. Extradition of Seattle Holdups Asked. Olympia, Wash rants for the return to this state of Edward Patton and Louis Lazarus, alias Louis Gordon, held by the Ka Mo., authorities in connection $25,000 bank robbery in Se- issued by Governor Hart, upon the governor of Missouri, with the attle, were Shipping Board Appropriation Voted. Washington, D. C.—Preceding its action by severe criticism of Chair- emergency appropriation of $48,500, 000 for the United States shipping board The vote was 159 to 87. Robbers Get Payroll of $114,000, Springfield, I!).—Four outlaws in an and mine officer of thé Peabody min- ing interests at Kincaid aud escaped with a payroll of $114,000. distributing 7 | food and Mr. Brown said that no plan | county authorities have joined hands | in an effort to halt what was said to | be an effort to flood the United States | of asso- | — Extradition war- | | man A. D. Lasker, the house voted an | ‘HUGHES TO HEAD ~ U. S, DELEGATION i] Secretary of State Is Defin- | Itely Designated By Harding. Washington, D. C.—Any expectation | that President Harding would himself | act as a delegate to the disarmament | conference was overthrown by a White | House announcement that he had | definitely designated Secretary Hughes ; of the state department to head the | American delegation. | The United States, putting into | | definite terms its proposals for a dis- | armament conference, in formal, iden- tical notes of Invitation forwarded to Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, | pledged its own unstinted co-opera- | tion in such an effort and defined its | | own conceptions of the principles in- | volved. Coincidentally with the dispatch of | the invitations to the four great pow- ers, China was asked to send a dele | gation to take part in those discus- | | sions of the conference which relate | | to the Pacific and the far east. All| five nations thus invited have indi- | cated informally that they would ac- | cept, | ALLIES MAY REMOVE ECONOMIC BARRIER Paris.—The allied supreme counctl decided to abolish the economic bar- rier of the Rhineland on September 15, if Germany continues to pay promptly | her indemnities, but decided to main: | tain the occupation of the right bank of the Rhine and the Rubr until the | next meeting of the council, when it | | was agreed that the matter should be reconsidered. | | The council decided that the inter national Russian famine relief com: | mission be composed of three dele- | | gates from each country represented | | in the council, including the United States and Belgium. | In a@ resolution adopted by the su- preme council the United States con- | gress was urged to pass as s00n ag | convenient a measure in connection | with financial relief for Austria, that | | Ambassador Harvey informed the | meeting was still pending, so that the | Austrian plan may be put Into opera- tion. HIGHTOWER IS ‘ACCUSED | | | Ease of Baker in Finding Body Causes | | Suspicion. Sap Francisco.—A complaint charg ing William A. Hightower, itinerant | baker, with the murder of Rev. Patrick | E. Heslin, Colma priest, was sworn to before Justice of the Peace Johnson | at Daly City, San Mateo county, by | Constable Landini of Colma. j The police said Hightower would | be held until he could give satisfac- tory explanation of the ease with | which he found the body and sub- | stantiate a story he had told involv | ing information of the grave. | Rev. Mr. Heslin had been missing since the evening of August 2, when | he left the parochial residence in com- | pany with a stranger to answer a/| death call, Constant search had been made for him since the following day and rewards totaling $8000 were of fered, | Idahe Court Upholds Settier. | Boise, Idaho.—-The supreme court of | this state has handed down a decision in which it says that to hold that the | settler on a Carey act project in Idaho who, at the invitation of the federal and state governments, goes upon land | and spends his substance and strength | in improving it by the use of water, obtains no right to its use unless the secretary of the interior patents the | land, would be an unjust rule and in | plain disregard of the fundamental principle of Idaho's irrigation laws Japan Reported Building Huge Divers. Washington, D. C.—Naval experts were much interested in a report that Japan is building the largest sub- marines ever launched by a naval | power and that they will have an eati- mated cruising radius of 20,000 miles | nd be capable of crossing the Pacific and returning to home bases without refueling. Veterans Oppose Ku Kiux Klan. Albany, Or.—A resolution opposing the organization of a branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Albany was adopted by McPherson Post of the Grand Army | of the Republic of this city in a meet- ing held at the armory. The resolu- tion was called forth by the fact that ap organizer for the Kian is here, Oregon Judge Gets Philippine Post. Washington, D. C. — Charles A. Johns, associate justice of the Oregon supreme court, will be named to the supreme court of the Philippfiie is | Ington will be more than $28,000,000, | of thelr home, {| loans has been much greater than the Strawberries DIRECT FROM GROWER Nice Large Berries, Write for Prices C. 0. McFARLIN Culdesac, Idaho DR. J. E. REILLY Dentist Office, Nuxoll Block Both Phones ‘DR. J. D. SHINNICK Physician and Surgeon Office Over Turner Drug Store DR. WESLEY F. ORR Physician and Surgeon Office in Simon Bldg. Both Phones DR. C. SOMMER Graduate License VETERINARIAN Residence North end of town Both Phones KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS McKinley Lodge No. 38 Meets every Tuesday evening. John Homar, C. C. Bert Schroeder, K. R. & 8. COTTONWOOD POST NO. 4 The American Legion COTTONWOOD, IDAHO Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month in the I. O. 0. F. FELI” MAXTZEN Real Estate, Voans, Fire and Life Insurance Insure in the Northwestern Mutual and save 26 to 45 per cent on your insurance, JOHN REILAND CONTRACTOR & BUILDER Estimates furnished om any class of Work. Repairing promptly done. Auction Sales I cry auctions anywhere at not to exceed 2 per cent; work guaranteed or no pay; make dates at this office, write or phone me over Pac- ific States. H. C. QUIGLEY Star Route, Lewiston ASSIST IN BUILDING HOMES Associations Through the Country Teach Thrift and at the Same Time Make Good Citizens. Pointing out that a man who owns his own home probably will be a good citizen, ©. Clinton James, president of the Building Associations’ council for the District of Columbia, issued a statement showing what bullding as- sociations in the district are doing te encourage home owning and thrift. While complete figures are not avail- able, it is estimated that the total as- sets of building associations in Wash- he announced, “The building associations through- out the country are teaching thrift and trying to edugate the public to own thelr own homes,” Mr, James stated, “The motto of the United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations is ‘The American Home— the Safeguard of American Liberties." “The bullding associations have as sisted very largely in solving the hous- ing question by assisting persons of limited means to finance the buying but the demand for funds available,” it Is asserted. While building associations are not as necessary in smaller towns as in the cities, the same itlea expressed to community spirit will work out to the desired result in the end. We print butter wrappers.