Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, September 30, 1921, Page 2

THE DIFFERENCE IN PR ICES YOU SAVE AT THIS STORE DURING THE YEAR IS OF THE UTMOST INTEREST TO YOU WE DO NOT SACRIFICE QUALITY FOR LOWER PRICES J. V. BAKER & SON “WHERE QUALITY AND PRICES MEET” "BOSCH Service Station WILLARD Batteries U. S. Royal Cords The best in tires U. S. Fabric Tires A tire at a price to fit your purse COTTONWOOD BATTERY AND WELDING SHOP REVIVAL OF CLAS SIC GREEK Western Rianne ican Pose sibility of Its Becoming, in Time, a World Language. Were one to judge from the fuss made from time to time, one would suppose there was real need of an in- ternational language. In the age of the ish language queen addressed the ambass: r at her court in Latin, and all diptomatile conversation and co ndence of Europe was tn Latin stius, the great scholar and writer, who visited the court of Elizabeth's father, Henry VIL, wrote Latin works that pro- duced an effect comparable to that produced by the writings of Voltaire two centuries later. Much pains have been expended in fabricating artificial language, such as Esperanto, to serve as the medium of communication. But such construc tions have no chance of practical adop- tion, nor could they answer as well as actual language whether dead lke Latin or living like English. There is a language, however, hich is gradually becoming agulu a LIN RRB mcm ving one, and wich as a wortd lan- guage would be ideal The Greek unl- versities and Greek men of cutture, including Venizelos himself, are en- gaged in an attempt to restore classl- Greek. It is satd that the endeavor is by no means vain, and that gradu- ally the ancient model is being ap- proached. We may yet have the speech of Pericles, the written language of | Plato, employed in social intercourse and commercial transactions, in con- tracts, In courts of law, in houses of assembly.—Minneapolis Journal, | | | NOT AN EXCLU. SIVE PRIVI- LEGE. Visitor — Don't ® you sometimes envy the idle rich? Farmer — No; I know men that haven't a dollar | who can be just as idle as any- body. 39-tf cal purity and perfection to modern | é Mrs. Jennie P. Musser of Salt Lake | City, the first woman collector of cus-! toms named by President Harding, will have charge of the Utah district. ee’ SHRINKAGE - IN TAXES EXPECTED Washington, D. C.—A shrinkage of | more than $1,000,000,000 in income and excess profits taxes this fiscal year) was reckoned on by the senate fin- ance committee in revising the house | tax bill with a view of raising $2,324, | licans and made public. | October 5, it has been announced | Philippine islands. | Masonic order unanimously pi offices in that country | professor in Columbia university, to 000,000 in internal revenue in the 12 months ending June 30. H This was disclosed by the majority report approved by committee repub- The estimat- ed total of revenue is $136,000,000 less than treasury experts have figured would be returned this fiscal year un der the present law, but is $84,000,000 more than the revised total under the house bill The estimated year from income are $1,880,000,000, report as against actual collections in the ended June 30. Only about $50,000,- returns this fiscal and profits taxes according to the $2,000,000,000 of fiscal yea 000 of this difference of 31,120,000,000 | is accounted for by proposed changes Treasury officers and committee mem- bers explained that the remainder is charged to shrinkage on account of business depression, diversion of funds to tax exempt securities and other causes. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS The world baseball series will start Major-General Leonard Wood was formally Harding to be governor-general of the nominated by President Unless Germany discourages emigra- tion, a flood of Germans may follow re-establishment of American consular in the opinion of officials of the department of labor Joseph C. Grew of Massachusetts, now American minister to Denmark, was nominated by President Harding to be minister to Switzerland. President Harding has nominated John Dyneley Prince of New Jersey, a be minister to Denmark A fund of $100,000 has been raised among friends of the late Franklin K Lane, former secretary of the interior, the income of which will be paid to | Mrs, Lane for life of the doa resolution prohibiting any member of that organization in the state from joining the Ku Klux Klan More than 100 Russian anarchists are at liberty in this country under bonds covered by $600,000 in Liberty bonds deposited with the secretary of labor, it was stated at the department of labor. On account of the refusal of the Russian Soviet government to ac cept the anarchistg, it has been im- possible to deport them. The Missouri grand lodge Mrs. Southard Placed on Trial. Twin Falls, Idaho—Potson said to have been found by state chemists in | the bodies of the four husbands and | Falls county, one brother-in-law of Mrs. Lyda Meyer Southard led to the filing against her of the charge of murdering her fourth husband, Edward F. Meyer. Mrs Southard’'s trial opened Monday morn. ing. According to Prosecuting At torney Frank L. Stephan, of Twin Mrs. Southard collected | $9500 insurance on the deaths of three FOR SALE—My _ residence | property in Cottonwood. Theo. | est their books and equipment, valued Schaecher. of the five men. All were insured, with Mrs. Southard as beneficiary. Hood River School Burns, Hood River, Or—The junior high school here was destroyed by fire Sun- day night. The loss was about $15,000, with $12,000 insurance. In addition, the 60 pupils who attended the school at about $400. sight and unseen,” That is why buying an implement : good judgment. 3 satisfaction in the hands of the user. Our implements have a long-established reputation for giving greatest “unsight and unseen” don’t do business in that way. We want to show you the implement before you buy it. to get fully acquainted with it before you invest your money. tion, advaritage. No more lost hats. A bright young man in the Wall street section of New York, who had lost several hats, con ceived the idea of sticking his girl's photo in’ the crown of his latest pur- chase. So far, although he has in- vited the gentlemen who take “better hats for bad ones” to get his, they have left it strictly alone. Man. “Man is hard to understand.” “What's the matter now “He'll go out in the woods for two weeks and let the mosquitoes have a million free shots at him, and never | then he'll come home | and kick like a steer if one mosquito | into the | once complain ; happens house.” to find his way Bulgarians Reduce Alphabet. Simplification of the Bulgarian or- thography by eliminating three letters | of the alphabet, recently ordered by The Safe Way to Buy an Implement See It Before You Buy; Have It Set Up Right; and know How to If you bought implements by the pound, you could afford to buy “un- A ten-year-old boy could buy as wisely as you. But the fact is that you buy implements entirely for what they can do. Performance is what counts. know that it is set up right and that you understand every important detail of its operation before you start it to work as a factor in your crop produc- We give special attention to these matters because we know that they mean satisfaction to you—and that’s the big thing with us. Tell us what implements you need and let us help you buy them to best Drop in the next time you are in town. Cottonwood Hwd. Imp. Co. more safely than you could buy any others. Operate It calls for the exercise of care and We believe that you could buy them But we We want you We want to the cabinet council, has Just been put | 7 into effect. The censorship, still exist- ing here, will enforce the new spelling | = in all publications, These three letters are remnants of | the old Slav tongue. ist In the Serbian language and they recently were ordered stricken from the Russian alphubet by the soviet winistry of pub!’ instruction. Their principal speling is taken in some quarters to be an ffort toward closer relations with the Serbs, DODGING THB DELUGE, Mrs. Noah: What are they kicking about? Noah: Some of them want to know if there ts They do not ex: | MONOGRAM OIL MONOBILE OIL FEDERAL TIRES DIAMOND TIRES Let Us Overhaul Your Car WINTER WILL SOON BE WITH US AND IT IS DUR- ING THIS TIME THAT MEN OWNING AU'TOMO- BILES, WHETHER THEY BE TOURING CARS OR TRUCKS SHOULD BEGIN TO THINK OF HAVING THEIR CARS OVERHAULED. DO NOT WAIT AND PUT IT OFF UNTIL YOU WILL ACTUALLY NEED THE CAR AGAIN NEXT SPRING. BRING IT IN |; RIGHT NOW AND DURING THE WINTER SEASON WE WILL BE IN A POSITION TO GIVE YOUR CAR A THOROUGH OVERHAULING DUE TO THE FACT THAT YOU WILL NOT INSIST ON HAVING IT DONE IN A FEW HOURS, WHEN IT ACTUALLY REQUIRES A DAY OR TWO TO DO THE JOB THOROUGHLY. FREE STORAGE BRING YOUR CAR IN AT ONCE AND LEAVE IT WITH US ALL WINTER IF YOU SO DESIRE, WE WILL OVERHAUL IT AND GUARANTEE THE JOB, CHARGE YOU NOTHING FOR STORAGE AND DUR- ING THIS TIME WILL ALSO TAKE CARE OF YOUR BATTERIES, FREE OF CHARGE. Every Job is Guaranteed Cottonwood Garage HUDDLESTON AND SPECK, Proprietors Lathe and Machine Work First Class Auto Mechanics