NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUMN 4
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FEBRUARY 28, 191S
NUMBER 32
In Order to Be Helpful to Public,
Interna! Revenue Bureau
Has Every Available
Officer in FieJd.
SEVERE PENALTIES IF YOU
DELAY BEYOND MARCH 15
With the due date for Income Taxes
only a few weeks away, the collection
of this far-reaching tax on 1018 in
comes has started off with a bang.
Everybody is figuring income tax.
Payments and sworn statements of
income must reach Internal Revenue
offices on or before March 15, and there
are severe penalties for delinquency.
Residents of Arkansas are required to
make their returns and pay their taxes
to Jack Walker, Collector of Internal
Revenue, Little Roek, Ark., or to any
of his deputy collectors who are now
(loing free advisory work on Income
Tax. i
“Pay your Income- Tax ny March
15,” is the slogan of the Internal Rev
enue Bureau, which has sent every
available officer into the held tcdielp
the public to understand the require
ments and to prepare the returns.
Who Must Make Return.
It is estimated that many thousands
of single and married persons in this
section of the Unted States who have
never before made annual returns are
required to do so this year.
Income tax returns must be made
between now and March 15 by persons
who come under the following classifi
cations :
Any unmarried person whose. 1918
net income was $1,000 or over. Wid
ows and widowers, divorcees and r ar
ried persons who are living apart from
their husbands or wives, are for the
purposes of the Income Tax classed as
unmarried.
Any married person'living with wife
or husband whose 1918 net income was
$2,000 or pver. The income of both
husband and wife must he considered,
together with the earnings of minor
children, if any.
Revenue Bureau Offers Aid.
Each person in the United States
is in either of these Ha. situations
must get busy at once if penalties are
to bp avoided. He should secure a
blank Form 1040 A for reporting net
i!><'oine up to $5.0t >, or Form 1040 if
bis net Income exceeded that amount,
f orms are being distributed’ by Oollec
,ors an(i their Deputies, also by banks.
f<»llovving rite instructions on the
01 ms a correct return can be prepared
at home. If a person needs advice or
ai(l> the deputy Collectors in die flelu
Ornish this without charge.
I he new Revenue law places the. In
,'oine lax duty on citizens and resi
' tuts. J he Internal Revenue Bureau
* Se,u1lnK its men to work right with
Public to get the rax and the re
lrns in. With active co-operation
(**ry tax (itie March 15 will be paid
i! * e\cry return required by law will
t 111 the Revenue offices on time.
Exemptions Allowed.
A ,8*nkr'e Person is allowed a per
»al exeiUpti0n of $1,000. If he is sup
tax in his household relatives who
Oil ’ <’1>0nc*ent upon him he may claim
has t! ?US °f 8 family who
A u same exemption as if married,
matried person who lives with
RED CROSS NOTICE
We have received another
shipment of refugee garments
to make. The ladies who can
help make them please go to
Mrs. G. L. Carson and get the
work to take home as we have
no fire in the work room.
Mrs. H. C. Shearer was a
visitor in Augusta Thursday.
For Sale—Three good milch
cows. H. W. Jernigan adv tf.
Miss Margaret Hargis is the
| guest of friends in Little Rock
this week.
Mr. W. B. Fakes was a busi
! ness visior in Little Rock
Thursday.
i
i Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Crossett
were visitors in Memphis the
first of the week.
Mr. R. A. Drewery was a
business visitor in Memphis
Monday and Tuesday.
We are glad to note that
tittle Miss Irene Dve is recov
ering from the measles.
We are glad to state that
Mrs. T. J. Fakes is improving
afer an illness of several
weeks.
wife or husband is allowed a personal
exemption of $2,000. The head of a
family is entitled to claim a similar
personal exemption.
An additional exemption of $200 Is
allowed for each person under eight
een or incapable of self support who
was dependent upon and received his
chief support from the taxpayer.
A husband and wife living together
are entitled to hut one personal ex
emption of $2,000. If they make sepa- ,
rate returns the exemption may be
claimed by either or divided*
Accuracy Required.
Absolute accuracy is necessary in
making up income figures. Any per
son who is working for wages should
find out exactly how much he received
during the whole year 1918. Fees,
bank interest, bond interest, dividends,
rents received and all other items
must be reported correctly. Mere
guesses are not accepted, for they are
unjust alike to the taxpayer and the
Government and defeat the proper ad
ministration of the law.
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ANSWER TO CHARGE
THAT Y.M.C.A.MEN
AVOIDED DANGER
Genera! Dickman, Hero of Chateau
Thierry, Issues Order on Conduct
Free Supplies.
Spread upon the records of the
Third division, A. E. F., and just
brought to the attention of the Na
tional War Work Council of the Y. M.
C. A., is a general order issued by
command of Major General Dickman,
which “Y” officials have hailed as an
emphatic answer to charges that Ited
Triangle workers had avoided the dan
ger zones in France and had wrung
exorbitant prices from the soldiers for
the comforts which the association
had sent overseas. General Dickmar.
directed that a copy of the order be
sent to every one of the thirty-four
men and six women who went with
the division through the fighting at
Chateau Thierry and along the Marne,
to St. Mihiel, and later into action
north of Verdun and along the Meuse.
The Y. M. C. A. has made public
General Dickman’s order along with
a communication from Col. J. C. Rhea
of another division which was in the
St. Mihiel fighting. Colonel Rhea gave
figures showing the large amount of
supplies which were distributed in his
division by “Y” secretaries without
charge. The order of General Dick
man, who is now in command of the
Array of Occupation in Germany, is
as follows:
"±ne commanding general desires 10
make of record in the general orders
of this division his appreciation of
the part taken by the members of the
Y. M. C. A. who have been attached
to this division and actively carried on
their work in all its phases during the
time that this division was in contact
with the enemy from May 31 to July
30.
_ “During the days beginning July 14,
when the enemy made their attack and
for days and nights afterward, the
Y. M. C. A., through its faithful
members at their posts of duty, not
only with chocolate and cakes and to
bacco cheered our soldiers, but were
of efficient assistance to our medical
staff in caring for wounded- Hot
chocolate was served, in many cases
free, both day and night to the wound
ed and ambulance drivers.
“While the men ot the x. m. u. a.
were with the troops in the front line
the young women of the Y. M. C. A.
were detailed with the hospitals and
the medical staff of this division bear
testimony of their most efficient help
during these two weeks of great strain.
“The conduct of these self-sacrific
ing and brave men and women who
have so unhesitatingly given their
services to their country, establishes
a standard of prestige, exceptional
courage, devotion and resources which
the commanding general particularly
commends.”
Colonel Rhea, chief of staff of the
general staff of one of the divisions
which helped to straighten out the St.
Mihiel salient, wrote to the Y. M. C. A.
overseas headquarters in l’aris as fol
lows :
“The division commander directs me
to thank you in the name of the offi
cers and men of this division for your
great work in having distributed gra
tis to this division, between Septem
ber 10 and 18, a total of 147,908 pack
ages of cigarettes, 67,540 bars of choc
olate, 29,900 packages of cakes, 3,320
pounds of hard candy, and hundreds
of gallons of coffee, chocolate and
TOM DARLING
Qn last Friday afternoon at
5 *.30 o'clock, Tom Draling, 15
years of age, while playing in
the yard with a pole and a
wire on the end, struck a tree
and the wire wrapped around
the tree with such force that
it struck the lad in he neck
causing instant death. He liv
ed with his uncle, L. P. Saw
yers of near Bullviile.
For Sale—Seven pure bred
duroc pigs, H( W. Jernigan. tf.
Wanted—To buy your Lib
erty Bonds—See G. W. Bar
ber. adv 12-20 tf
One good milch cow and
young calf for sale. Mr. L. J.
billiard, adv. 2-28-ltp.
FOR SALE—Double wagon
harness in good condition.
Cheap, Mrs. R .L. Fraser, ltp
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Barber
are in Memphis this week,
where Mr. Barber is in the hos
pital for an operation.
Mayor Grover McCrory and
Misses Pauline McFall and
Rena Berry spent two days
this week in Memphis.
bouillon.
“It is impossible to express to you
the appreciation of the officers and
men of the pleasure and comfort you
have brought to them when each one
was struggling under the greatest
hardships, to do hi» duty toward his
country. You probably realize better
than can be expressed the appreciation
of your kindly work.”
FIVE “Y” MEN GET
CROIX DE GUERRE
Of Two Latest to Receive Great
Honor, One Wounded by ShelL
According to a cablegram from
France Henry Wharton of Chestnut
Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., the president
of a coal company in that city, and
Benton V. Johnson, a real estate man
of Detroit, Mich., both Y. M. C. A.
workers in France have been decorat
ed with the croix de guerre. General
Petain himself presented them. Their
decorations increased to five the num
ber of Y. M. C. A. workers receiving
the croix de guerre. »■
xijeir citations, wuicn were given u>
them at general headquarters, com
mended the two for their work under
shell fire with the Twenty-sixth divi
sion, and especially mentioned their
“zeal and devotion in carrying aid to
the wounded under a very violent
bombardment/'
Both men have followed their divi
| sion, which has been in the thickest
of the fighting, to several fronts. They
worked as stretcher bearers in the
Toul sector, at Chateau Thierry and in
the Argonne woods. Their job was to
carry the wounded through the
trenches, often several hundred yards,
until it was possible to leave the
trench for the road, where they put
them on stretchers and carried them
under fire to the dressing station.
While engaged in this work last,
summer Mr. Johnson was wounded by
shell fragments and forced to spend
I two weeks in the hospital. He re
! ceived his former citation for Ills
cervices at this time.
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