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Bellefonte, Pa., January 20, 1922.
DOES YOUR INCOME
REQUIRE A TAX RETURN?
The following statement is issued
by Collector of Internal Revenue Da-
vid W. Philips, the 12th District of
Pennsylvania.
Now that the time for filing income
tax returns has arrived, January 1st
to March 15th, 1922, tax payers are
advised to lose no time in the compil-
ation of their accounts for the year
1921. A new and important provision
of the Revenue Act of 1921 is that
every person whose gross income for
1921 was $5,000 or over shall file a
return regardless of the amount of
net income upon which the tax is as-
sessed. Returns are required of every
single person whose net income was
$1,000 or over and every married per-
son living with husband or wife whose
net income was $2,000 or over. Wid-
ows and widowers and persons sepa-
rated or divorced from husband or
wife are regarded as single persons.
Net income is gross income, less
certain deductions for business ex-
penses, losses, taxes, etc. Gross in-
come includes practically all income
received by the tax payer during the
year; in the case of the wage earner,
salaries, wages, bonuses and commis-
sions; in the case of professional men,
all amounts received for professional
services; in the case of farmers, all
profits from the sale of farm products,
and rental or sale of land.
In the making of an income tax re-
turn for the year 1921, every taxpayer
should present to himself the follow-
ing questions:
What were your profits from your
business, trade, profession or voca-
tion?
Did you receive any
bank deposits?
Have you any property from which
you received rent?
Did you receive any income in the
form of dividend or interest from
stocks or bonds ?
Did you receive any bonuses during
the year?
Did you make any profit on the sale
of stocks, bonds, or other property,
real or personal ?
Did you act as a broker in any
transaction from which you received
commissions ?
Are you interested in any partner-
ship or other firm from which you re-
ceived any income?
Have you any income from royal-
ties or patents?
Have you any minor children who
are working ?
.Do you appropriate, or have the
right to appropriate, the earnings of
such children? If so, the amount
must be included in the return of in-
ecme.
Has your wife any income from any
source whatsoever? If so it must be
included in your return or reported in
a separate return of income.
Did you receive any directors’ fees
or trustees’ fees in the course of the
year?
interest on
Do you hold any office in a benefit
society from which you receive in-
come ?
Answers to all of these questions
are necessary to determine whether a
person has an income sufficiently large
to require that a return be filed, and
may be the means of avoiding the
heavy penalties imposed for failure to
do so within the time prescribed.
REMOVAL OF WAR TAX ON EX-
PRESS SHIPMENTS WILL
BENEFIT THE PUBLIC.
The public will save approximately
$1,500,000 a month as a result of the
elimination of the war tax on express
shipments, according to George C.
Taylor, president of the American
Railway Express company.
The “Revenue Act of 1921” elimi-
nates the war tax of one cent on every
twenty cents and fraction thereof in
transportation charges on all express
shipments. This tax during the year
of 1920 amounted to $17,502,918. The
average transportation charge for
each express shipment was approxi-
mately $1.50 and the average war tax
for each shipment was eight cents.
The elimination of the tax, therefore,
Mr. Taylor states, will virtually
amount to a decrease in rates of a lit-
tle over five per cent. Mr. Taylor be-
lieves that this should have a tenden-
cy to stimulate business and thereby
accelerate the rapidly improving con-
ditions throughout the entire country.
“The American Railway Express
company handles approximately one
million shipments a day or nearly four
hundred million shipments a year,”
Mr. Taylor goes on to say. “The
elimination of the tax will relieve the
American Railway Express company
of an immense amount of labor which
has been involved in calculating, en-
tering on waybills and collection of
tax, not to mention the expense of
checking and accounting entailed.
“The Treasury Department has re-
quested express carriers to advise all
claimants who have claims pending,
for overcharges, or who file such
claims after December 31, 1921, that
claims for refund of tax should be fil-
ed separately on Treasury Depart-
ment Form No. 46, with the Commis-
sion of Internal Revenue within your
years from the time tax was paid,
claim being barred by statute of lim-
itations if received after such time.”
Animals’ Rights Centenary.
One hundred years ago next June
was passed the first Act of Parliament
recognizing the legal rights of ani-
mals. The passing of this Act, which
is known as Martin’s Act, will be cele-
brated in England by an important
public demonstration on the occasion
of its centenary. A large number of
humanitarian and animal protection
societies are combining to carry out
the work.—Our Dumb Animals.
——“Getting acquainted” is the new
spirit of this age—it affords many op-
portunities not given to the man who
lives within a shell, by himself and
for himself alone.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
KILLING AND CURING PORK ON
FARMS FOR HOME USE.
Though the home-curing of pork is
an old practice, it now seems to be an
almost forgotten art on many farms.
It nearly went out of style, but as
many styles return to popularity so
is this one coming back. Many hogs
though they meet the inevitable fate,
are saved a long and tiresome journey
to the packing house, and instead are
the guests of honor at their homes on
butchering day. To revive the custom
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture has published Farmers’
Bulletin 1186, “Pork on the Farm—
Killing, Curing, and Canning,” which
tells how to butcher a hog properly,
and contain the best of the old and
some of the new, and important meth-
ods and formulas for curing and can-
ning the meat. The following sug-
gestions on killing and curing the
meat are given in this bulletin:
Cleanliness is a very important fac-
tor in butchering and in curing meats.
Meat very easily becomes tainted.
Save all trimmings of meat for sau-
sage. There are many ways of con-
verting such trimming into a palata-
ble product.
All soiled fat, trimmings, and skin
should be rendered and the product
used to make soap.
Bones should be crushed or ground
for chicken feed.
Never put meat into cure until the
animal heat is out of it.
Always pack meat with the skin
side down when in the curing process,
except the top layer in a brine cure,
which should be turned flesh side
down.
Keep close watch of the brine; if it
becomes “ropy,” change it.
Do not forget to turn er repack
meat several times during the curing
process.
The fat of dry-cured hams some
times becomes yellow, but that does
not make it unwholesome. Bacon be-
comes rancid more quickly than hams.
It takes longer to smoke dry-cured
than brine-cured pork.
Slow smoking is much better than
rapid smoking, and less dripping of
the fat results.
If meat becomes mouldy, brush it
with a stiff brush and trim the moul-
dy parts with a knife. Good ventila-
tion retards mould development.
Be sure that meat, after smoking
us is thoroughly cool before it is sack-
e
The seasoning of sausage is gener-
ally governed by taste.
Fresh sausage can be kept under a
covering of lard for a number of days.
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PAST SEASON
GOOD FOR GAME.
According to estimates made by
the State Game Commission at Har-
risburg, over 3,000,000 rabbits were
killed in Pennsylvania’s recent hunt-
ing season, netting over 7,200,000
pounds of meat. This is considered
a banner rabbit kill.
The game figures in addition to
4836 deer, already reported, included
510 bears, 500,000 squirrels of various
kinds, 325,000 ruffed grouse, 4654
wild turkeys, 34,200 raccoons, 15,400
ringneck pheasants, 49,885 Virginia
quail, 500 Hungarian quail,
-woodcock and 46,780 wild water fowl.
These figures are made up from re-
ports of game protectors who inter-
view hunters and represent about
4788 tons of meat secured through
hunting. The figures, however, do
not include about 250,000 black-birds
or any shore birds.
The kill of ringnecks is considered
good, as 21 counties are closed to
such hunting. The hunting licenses
issued have risen from 262,355 in 1915
to 462,374 in 1921.
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THE TRUSTY SHEEP DOGS.
i The sheep dogs of Scotland are
guides and defenders not only of the
- sheep flocks, but also the children of
: the crofters. Were it not for these
| shaggy, intelligent fellows, born shep-
herds of the weak and defenseless, it
{ would be unsafe for the children to
{ go far from the lonely and isolated
| crofts in the outlying districts. The
i schools are far distant and it is a long,
| rough journey across the moor from
{ home to school and back again. And
| so the sheep dog goes along - with
them and safely conducts them to and
fro. Moreover, he must carry the
‘books for them, for the little folk
| would be unequal to the task of car-
| rying any extra weight in the long
i tramp. Over the dog’s back the books
| are slung and no one need worry for
the safety of the children or their be-
longings. The sheep dog knows his
duty and is proud and eager to do it.
The rural libraries established by
the Carnegie Trust, are also using
! the dogs in distributing books among
the homes of the crofters. In fact, it
would scarcely be possible for the in-
habitants whose crofts are so far from
the library centers to share in this
great Carnegie beneficence, were there
not the sheep dogs to act as librar-
ians. Good literature for the elders
as well as the children is dispatched
and returned on the sturdy backs of
Thope reliable dogs.—Our Dumb Ani-
mals.
SHE IS “FULL OF PEP”
THEY SAY
She is Good-Looking and Gay and is
Always Ready for a Good Time.
Why is a girl popular? Look
around and see what a good time the
good-looking ones have all the time.
Men seek them out and ask them to
parties, dances and entertainments.
And notice that it is not the doll-face
type real men like most, but the red-
blooded girl with “pep” and happy
good nature. Any girl who is tired
and languid and has a poor complex-
ion and dull eyes can improve her
condition and be far happier if she
will simply take Gude’s Pepto-Man-
gan until she has put her blood into
good condition. Red blood means
“full of life” and “full of life” usually
means happiness.
Try Gude’s Pepto-Mangan and see
how much better you feel. Doctors
have used it nearly thiry years for
weak, run-down people. It helps
them get well. Sold in both liquid
and tablet form.—Adv. 67-3
385,250
TEACHING GEOGRAPHY
IN NURSERY.
Children are always interested in
games and puzzles that involve build-
ing operations. In them is sprouting
the impulse for architecture which
governs so many of the activities of
grown-ups.
All of us have played with building
blocks when we were little. Why not
extend and elaborate the idea by the
construction of miniature cities in the
nursery ?
Too large scale an affair? Warren
M. Rasely, of Worcester, Mass., does
not think so. His idea is to furnish a
good sized toy box filled with blocks,
each one of which represents a build-
ing, the problem offered to the chiid
being to put them together in such
wise as to compose a miniature city.
Each such box would contain blocks
for a particular city—let us say Bos-
ton. They would in that case repre-
sent the principal buildings of the
modern Athens; the State House, Old
South Church, Faneuil Hall, Quincy
Market, the Public Library and other
well known structures. If it were a
Philadelphia box the great municipal
building-and Independence Hall would
of course be in it.
In any case the box would also con-
tain a sort of ground plan of the city
—not attempting to represent it as a
whole, but in part sufficiently well to
enable the child to arrange the minia-
ture buildings in a way that would
somewhat approach the actual topo-
graphic relation of the originals.
Much effort is devoted to teaching
children about the large civic centers
of the country, yet no adequate means
has been furnished for presenting to
their minds a definite understanding
of the appearance and architectural
characteristics of these cities—unless
perchance they have an opportunity
to visit them.
It is this want that is sought to be
supplied by the building blocks here
described. They are meant to be ed-
ucational. Assembled properly, they
give a notion of what the city looks
like—particularly as regards its prin-
cipal features, which, after all, are
what a visitor notes and remembers.
He sees little or nothing of the minor
streets and shabby neighborhoods.
A suggestion offered by the invent-
or is that the larger buildings repre-
sented by the blocks might be made
in sections so as to be put together or
taken apart. Thus, for instance, a
church steeple or the roof of a mar-
ket house might be removable.
VELVET JOE’S 1922
ALMANAC IS READY.
‘Over two hundred interesting and
highly informative statements and
tables are contained in the 1922 Al-
manac published by “Velvet Joe” the
good-natured philosophical friend of
the pipe smoker.
The reader finds all sorts of useful
information. Helps and economies
for the automobile owner, especially
prepared by a leading authority, im-
portant government information about
crops, valuable information on rare
coins, some particularly valuable in-
formation about Liberty bonds and
the dates on which coupons are due.
Disabled veterans, and every one
interested in them will find a special
official message from the American
Red Cross. It tells how to secure
compensation and medical service, the
best procedure to follow in obtaining
help for the veteran’s family and how
to secure the vocational training to
which disabled soldiers are entitled.
And it explains how the Red Cross
assists in looking after Liberty bonds,
back pay bonus claims, loss of bag-
gage, etc. It offers to keep disabled
veterans posted on such new laws as
may be of advantage to them.
Eentertainment is blended with use-
fulness. The Almanac describes the
telling of fortunes by the signs of the
zodiac and gives a diagram and in-
structions for reading the character
and future from the hand. Even
home games—with playing directions
—offer a means to make many a stor-
my evening pleasant.
“Velvet Joe,” publisher of this
unique volume, will be glad to mail a
copy of his Almanac to any one who
desires it. He does this absolutely
free of charge. “Velvet Joe’s” ad-
dress is: 4241 Folsom avenue, St.
Louis, Mo.
MEDICAL.
A Talk With a
Bellefomte Man
Mr. James H. Rine, of 239 High St.,
Tells His Experience.
There is nothing like a talk with
one of our own citizens for giving
hope and encouragement to the anx-
ious sufferer from the dread kidney
disease. We, therefore, give here an
interview with a Bellefonte man:
“My back was in such a weak con-
dition, I couldn’t put my shoes on
and could hardly drag myself around,”
says Mr. Rine. “I had very severe
pains all through my back and limbs.
I used Doan’s Kidney Pills for these
troubles and they cured me. Others
to whom I recommended Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills were cured of backache by
this remedy.”
Over three years later, Mr. Rine
added: “It was ten years ago I first
used Doan’s and I haven’t been troub-
led since. I recommend Doan’s when-
ever I hear any one complaining of
backache or kidney weakness.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Rine had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 67-3
FINE JOB PRINTING
o—A SPECIALTY—o0
AT THB
WATCHMAN OFFICE
There is no style of work, from the
cheapest * er’ to the finest .
BOOK WORK,
that we can not do in the most satis-
factory manner, and at Prices consist-
ent with the class of work. Call on or
communicate with this office’
Mingle’s Great Opportunity Sale
The Only Strictly One-Priced Store in Centre county, where goods are sold at one
uniform low price, where goods are always marked in plain English at the lowest pos-
sible price; where the child buys as cheaply as the parent; where the goods and prices
are our best advertisement.
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390 Pairs Ladies’ Queen Quaility Boots
All purchased during the year 1921,
originally priced from $8 to $12.
ALL GO AT, PER PAIR,
$3.05
OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF NEW SPRING QUEEN QUALILY OXFORDS, ALL LEATHERS AND STYLES ; MANY
OF THEM NOW BEING UNPACKED, AT A 10 PER CENT. REDUCTION. AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE NEWEST
AND BEST SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE THEY WILL BE REGULARLY STOCKED AND AT A SAVING.
ALL REGAL, ALDEN, EDUCATOR AND ENDICOTT-
JOHNSON MEN’S SHOES—TAKE 20 CENTS OFF EACH
DOLLAR PURCHASE.
TAKE 20 CENTS OFF EVERY DOLLAR ON WO-
MEN’S SILK AND WOOL, ALL SILK AND LISLE, AND ALL
CHILDREN’S HOSE.
TAKE 10 PER CENT. OFF ON ALL RUBBERS.
THESE QUOTATIONS CAN BE RELIED UPON.
GOODS EXCHANGED BUT NO MONEY REFUNDED.
Sale Opens Friday Morning, Jan. 20th, and Closes Saturday Evening, Jan. 28th, 1922
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