S$!R8W rr. 3" Vs„ f„ *W yi: 4& \i/£v m-x -§r i/V INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWO 1 1 FEDERAL INCOME TAXIN BRIEF Power Company Provision Store 1 V- .• Program of County Institute of American Red Cross We Have reduced the prices on all Meats and Groceries The Requirements Boiled Down from 10 to 15-per cent, and more in many cases. We for Busy Folks. are going to do our "bit" towards making Returns must be filed on or before our city the best place in Minnesota April 1, 1918. NEW SCHOOL HOUSE, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1918 Tax due may be paid now or*bn or to live in. General Sessions in High School Assembly Room on 3rd Floor. before June 15. 1918. If you are single and your net Income M. & 0. POWER CO. for 1917 was $1,000 or more you must file a return. MODEL WORKROOM. If you were married and living with PROVISION STORE 10:00 to 12:0Q—-Domestic Science Room, 1st floor, in charge of Mrs. M. L. wife (or husband) and had a net income of $2,000 or more for 1917 you Els'emore, Chairman, Int'l Falls Military Relief Committee. must file a return. pAIF^y Husband's and wife's income must BUSINESS EFFICIENCY. the Brst list. Three years later, May, he considered jointly, plus Income of 1917, saw 487 cows in the 50-pound 10:00—Call to Order, John H. Brown. minor children. list. This means that 487 Jersey cows Income of a minor or Incompetent, 10:10—Developing the Branch Territory, led by D. B. Jewell. on test were producing at the rate of derived from a separate estate, must more than 50 pounds of butterfat, or 11:00—Business Management of the Branch, led by Mrs. E. E. McDonald, be reported by his legal representative 66 pounds of butter in that month. At Bemidji, Director of Woman's Work for Northern Minnesota. present 500 Jersey cows on test are Vs 1 (fr Severe penalties are provided "for 11:30—Ways of Raising Money, led by Mrs. Stewart Campbell, Minneapolis. producing at the rate of 600 pounds of e^Va'l those who neglect evade the law. butterfat, or 750 pounds of butter per I 12:00—Luncheon oh 1st floor, 35 cents, for benefit of Junior Red Cross. 1 For false or fraudulent return there year. During the luncheon F. J. Bruno of Minneapolis will talk on "The Task of is a penalty not exceeding $2,000 fine f&crs the Red Cross. or year's imprisonment, or both, plus TREATMENT OF KICKING COW 100 per cent, of tax. For failure to make return on or WOMAN'S WORK.' Care and Patience Will Effect Cure if before April 1, 1918, fine Is from $20 Right Methods Are Used—Two to $1,000, plus 50 per cent of tax due. 1:00—Question Box, on Morning Topics. Ways of Tying. Returns must be filed with the Collector 1:15—What Women Can Do, Mrs. Stewart Campbell, Minneapolis. of Internal Revenue of district JERSEY IS HEAVY PRODUCER Care and patience will cure the 2:15—Inspection and Shipping, Mrs. E. E. McDonald, Bemidji. In which you live. kicking cow if the proper methods An agent may file return for a, person*\vho 2:30—Ordering Supplies, Dr. Elizabeth Monahan, Chairman Chapter Purchasing Milk Scales and Butterfat Test Determine are employed. One method is to pass is ill, absent from the country Committee. Whether Cow Is Proving a rope or strap with a loop in one or otherwise incapacitated. 2:40—Question Box, Woman's Work. Profitable or Not. end of it around the body of the cow Each return must be signed and and draw it tight. The cow will usually sworn or affirmed by person executing The milk scales and the butterfat jump at first, but when she finds it. SURGICAL DRESSING CLASS. test tell the story of whether a cow she cannot get out of the rope she Single persons are allowed $1,000 is producing or not. Jerseys have will stand still. If this method causes 3:00 to 5:00—Third floor, in charge of Mrs. J. H- Brown. exemption in computing normal tax. been making and breaking records for the cow to give bloody milk, place the A mairied person living with wife production with great rapidity during rope or strap behind the' udder, and (or husband) is allowed $2,000 exemption, WORK FOR SOLDIERS' FAMILIES. the past year. More cows are now being draw it tight as before. plus $200 for each dependent tested than ever have been in the Another method is to hobble the child under 18. 3:00—Civilian Relief and Home Service, F. J. Bruno, Minneapolis, head of past, and the individual and average cow by passing the rope around each A head of family, though single. Is Civilian Relief Bureau, Northern Division. production is higher than in other leg behind the udder, and tying just allowed $2,000 exemption If actually years. 4:00—The Soldiers' Insurance and Compensation Laws, F. J. McPartlin. above the hocks. This njethod is a supporting one or more relatives. In May, three years ago, a list of dangerous one, however, for the person Returns must show the entire 4 dOy—Question Box, Civilian Relief. Jersey cows on yearly test that were tying the rope. After these methods amount of earnings, gains and profits Sessions open to all interested in the Red Cross. Bring your questions have been repeated a few times received during the year. the cow will stand quietly to be milked. Officials and employees are not taxable in writing Tor the Question Box. Register as you enter the building. Be on the salaries or wages received sure to visit the Model Workroom and Surgical Dressing Class. Mrs. F. C. from a state, county, city or town in Camel Driver an Ishmaelite. Correll, County Superintendent of Woman's Work, and Mrs. Hughes Van the United States. "?X In China camel drivers are Ishmaelites Interest on state and municipal Etten, County Supervisor of Woman's Work, will be in the workroom during who have little or nothing to do bonds issued within the U. S. is exempt with their fellows. Through the the afternoon for consultation. from federal income tax and twelve months of the year they live should be omitted. and sleep in the op£n and in this life Interest on United States government they acquire brown skins, bulk of muscle bonds is also exempt, except on and sinew and a taciturnity which individual holdings of Liberty Fours in repels advances. Nine months of the excess of $5,000 par value. year they are on the road, following Dividends are not subject to-normal the long, faint trails that lead to such Jersey Cow of Merit. tax, but must be reported and included places as Urga, Uliassutai, Kuchengize, In net income. producing over 50 pounds of butterfat Karkul, Sirring and Daugar. They Gifts and legacies are not Income per month was published for the purpose never sleep under roofs, but carry md should not be included on the return of keeping breeders informed as their own tents and bedding, food and of the beneficiary. to the month-by-month production of utensils and camp wherever there is Life insurance received as a beneficiary cows on test. There were 132 cows in :ee grazing. oi as premiums paid back at maturity or surrender of policy is nol income. Payments received for real or personal A Great Patriotic, Moral property sold is not income, but LUCKY STRIKE ilie profit realized thereon is income for the year of sale. Amounts received in payment of notes or mortgages is not income, but CIGARETTE the interest op such notes or mortgages and Religious Campaign is taxable Income. From the entire gross Income certain allowances are made in arriving at the net income. IN Necessary expenses actually paid In a year it has become the conduct of business, trade or profession may be claimed:' FOR BETTER CITY famous the man's cigarette A A farmer can claim payments for! labor, seed, fertilizer, stock feed, repairs for the men who are on buildings, except his dwelling repairs of fences and farm machinery, working over here, and The meetings are to be held in the materials and small tools for immediate fighting over there. use. BAPTIST AN|D METHODIST CHURCHES The amount of rent paid for a farm may also be claimed as a tenant farmer's Thb reason? Because expense. Payments for live stock are allowable i':'s made of Burley pipe if bought for resale. But If bought for breeding purposes cattle are an investment, Commencing in the tobacco and because— not an expense, and cannot he allowed. BAPTIST CHURCH storekeeper can claim amounts paid for advertising, clertj hire, telephone, NEXT SUNDAY EVENING, water, light and fuel, also drayn^e and freight bills and cost of operating and repairing wagons and. trucks. MARCH 17th A physician can claim cost ot his professional supplies, rent, office help, AT 7:45 telephone, expense of team or automobile used in making professional calls and expenses attending medical conventions. And Continuing for Ten Days, and 1 A dentist can claim similar Items, except team or auto expense, Which 'Afterwards for Ten Days are not necessary In his profession. Expenses (hat are personal oi* connected In the in any way with the support or well being of-a person or family are METHODIST CHURCH not allowable. The costs of machines. Instruments, vehicles or implements that are more or less permanent In character are not allowable as an expense. They are Investments. ^THIS CAMPAIGN WILL BE ^.ED -s Interest paid on a mortgage or other BY THE SINGING EVANGELIST, personal indebtedness is allowable on a personal return. 1 REV. R. H. WHITESIDE All taxes paid within the year can be taken out or a federal return, except federal Income taxes, inheritance taxes and assessments for local improvements OF CARBERRY, MANITOBA E v. The citizens of[International Falls are cordially invit#d to cooperate losses sustained In business "or 'through fire, storm or shipwreck or by and participate in this campaign'which is held the welfare theft, except when compensated by insurance and best interest of our city. or otherwise. 1 ^AVear and tear of rented buildings or mrchirery used In business may be claimed E,- (So You can also clal'" tjhevmnount paid •a the lied Crovs and to Other chairita IJ--• F'-is ble religious -o ^educational organ lata: lion to the extent ,of 15 per .cent. 'of four net Income. iLVJf tit