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RECEIPTS SHOW
SMALL REDUCTION
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Although
numerous cuts in tax rates were
effective at the beginning of the
fiscal year 1925, total internal rev
enue receipts for the period were
only §212,038,988 less than those
for the fiscal year 1924.
The annual report of the internal
revenue bureau, made public to
night by Commissioner Blair, placed
total receipts from all internal
sources during the last year at
§2,584,140,268, compared with $2,-
796,179,257 in the preceding fiscal
year.
Comparative receipts for the two
years, divided under the general
heading by collection sources, were
shown by the reports, as follows:
Distilled spirits, including wines,
etc., for 1925, $25,902,820.28; for
1924, 27,580,380.64.
Fermented liquors, for 1925, sl,-
954.04; for 1924, $5,327.73.
Tobacco manufacturers, for 1925,
$345,247,210.06; for 1924, $325,-
.638,931.14.
Oleomargarine, for 1925, $3,038,-
927.84; for 1924, $2,814,104.14.
Capital stock tax, including other
special taxes, for 1925, $95,914,-
152.60; for 1924, $95,286,105.44.
Miscellaneous, including war, ex
cise taxes, etc., since 1918, for
1925, $344,738,257.14; for 1924,
$490,675,910.89.
Sales of internal revenue stamps,
by postmasters, for 1925, $7,737,-
895.47; for 1924, $12,418,189.28.
Income and profit taxes, for 1925,
$1,761,659,049.51; for 1924, $1,841,-
759,316.80.
Total receipts, for 1925, $2,584,-
140,268.24; for 1924, $2,796,170.06.
Income and profit taxes, as here
tofore, produced the big share of
the revenue, but as shown by this
table, the receipts from tobacco
taxds and the miscellaneous and
excise levies again played an im
portant part in furnishing funds for
the government. The monthly to
bacco collections in the fiscal year
1925 were larger, except in one or
two instances, than for the corres
ponding periods of the preceding
year.
The rate changes in the revenue
act of 1924 plainly were reflected
in the receipts from taxes on auto
mobiles, parts and accessories and
from the tax on admissions. Taxes
in the former group fell off $53,-
327,964 and those on admissions
dropped nearly $17,000,000 from
the previous year’s receipts.
Mr. Blair calculated that it had
cost the government $1.44 to col
lect each one hundred dollars in
revenue in 1925. In the fiscal year
1924, the collection cost was given
at $1.24.
With much of the work left over
from the widespreading war taxes
out of the way, Mr. Blair said the
bureau, particularly the income
tax unit, rapidly was getting on a
satisfactory basis. While the thous
ands of cases originating in the
war years or immediately thereafter
remain to be settled, the bulk of
the controversial questions arising
during the times have been solved
and precedents have been establish
ed which generally can be applied
to the remainder.
The commissioner’s discussion of
the prohibition unit, which is part
of the internal revenue bureau,
was confined to a relation of sta
tistical results -of the year’s work.
Enforcement agents, he said, made
62,747 arrests and seized 6,089 au
tomobiles and 182 boats during the
year. As a result, the report
stated, 44,900 cases were handled
in Federal courts and 39,800 per
sons were convicted.
The report also gave detailed sta
tistics relative to the collection
of taxes by states and territories,
which previously had been announc
ed. The final figures differed
only slightly from the incomplete
totals made public shortly after the
end of the fiscal year. June 30.
AN EXHILARATING EFFECT
A bottle of Herbinc on the shelf at
home is like having a doctor in the house
all the time. It gives instant relief when
the digestion gets out of order or the
bowels fail to aet. One or two doses is
all that is necessary to start things mov
ing and restore that tine feeling of exhil
aration and buoyancy of spirits which be
longs only to perfect health. Price 60c.
Sold by *
Balkcom’s Drug Store, Blakely, Ga.
Wants, For Sale, Etc.
FOR SALE— One house and lot
cheap. If interested, see W. N.
WEST, Blakely, Ga. 11-4 t
LOST DOG— The party who pick
ed up my pointer gyp will return
to owner dnd avoid trouble. HOYL
FLEMING.
FOR SALE— Eggs for hatching
from Smith-Owen strain of Rhode
Island Reds, dark mahogany color.
OSCAR SANDERS, Rt. 6, Blakely,
Ga. 3-ts
LOST—Between Deal’s Service
Station and just beyond Powell’s
■mill, suit case containing ladies’
clothing and 14 year old girl’s cloth
ing. Suitable reward if returned to
DEAL’S SERVICE STATION.
LOST DOG— Pointer female, liv
er spotted, one year old, untrimmed,
expecting litter of puppies when left
home. Answers to name of Pokey.
Suitable reward. C. W. BRIDGES,
JR., Route 3, Blakely, Ga. 17-4tp
STRAYED MULES—-One gray
horse mule, one black horse mule,
two black mare mules. Strayed
from my place near Arlington Mon
day. Any information will be ap
preciated. R. H. BOSTWICK, Ar
lington, Ga. Ipt
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,N VALHALLA
/ AND OUT
%EORGt ETHELBERT WALSH
COPYRIGHT W.G.CHAPMAN
NOT the Valhalla of Scandinavian myth
ology, the hall of Odin, where war
riors slain in battle were supposed to
spend their future existence in combat with
each other as their daily sport, but an island
somewhere near the tropics. The actors are
all flesh and blood and of the twentieth cen
tury, and they stage some plots and combats
of a peculiarly modern character. Here is an
old-fashioned sea story translated into the
atmosphere and conditions of the present
without lessening any of the romantic and
stirring qualities. For entertainment and ex
citement, you will find it hard to beat.
This Lively and Fascinating Tale Will
Run as a Serial in
THE EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Beginning Next Week
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
PECAN TREES are the longest
lived and probably the most profit
able orchard grown. Write for
price list, directions for growing
and other valuable information. J.
B. WIGHT, Cairo, Ga. 12-24-4 t
SALE OF LAND.
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
On January 22, 1926, there will
be sold by the undersigned, at pub
lic outcry, to the highest bidder
for cash, within the legal hours of
sale, before the court house doer
in Blakely, Ga., the following lands
located in the Sixth District of said
county, towit: Forty acres off the
North half of lot number Two Hun
dred and Forty-Eight, purchased
from J. A. Hightower by D. W.
Sasser, Jr.; also, the house and lot
in Rowenrf, Ga., where the said
Sasser resides, and the store house
and lot rn said town used by him in
his mercantile business; the afore
said property being more fully
described in a security deed from
the said Sasser to the undersigned,
recorded January 12, 1924, in Book
37, page 52, of the deed records
of said county. Said sale will be
made under a power of sale in said
security deed, and said lands will
be sold as the property of the said
D. W. Sasser, Jr., he having made
default in paying the indebtedness
secured by said deed. This Decem
ber 30, 1925.
THE BANK OF ARLINGTON.
When the flavor of the Orange
changes then will the flavor of bot
tled ORANGE CRUSH change.
HAVE YOU PAID YOUR ACCOUNT?
Our existence depends upon collecting
for goods after we sell them. It has reach
ed the place that a great many people
have a very light regard for their promise
regarding a nobligation for goods bought.
It has been our policy to be liberal in ex
tending credit. We regret to say it has
been very expensive, as we have a good
many customers riding in six-cylinder
cars that have forgotten where our store
is, and for some reason always cross the
street to keep from being asked for what
they justly owe. **
During the New Year we will extend
credit to a selected few on terms of 30
days—and no more. If you do not pay
up in 30 days days from the time of your
purchase your account will be closed.
We are forced to do this to stay in busi
ness, and we will have to adhere to it
strictly without favor to any one.
HAMILTON HARDWARE CO.
Blakely, Georgia
SENECA
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW AT THIS THEATRE
i
T onight—Thursday.
JACK PICKFORD
—in—
“GARRISON’S FINISH”
One of the greatest pictures of the race track
ever produced.
Pathe Comedy
Friday
BESSIE LOVE and WARNER BAXTER
in
“A SON OF HIS FATHER”
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
A story of Arizona—where pioneer blood and
pioneer traditions still exist, written by that
great American auhor, Harold Bell Wright.
—and— i
Educational Comedy
Saturday
JACK PERRIN
—in—
“RIDIN’ WEST”
—and—
“SUNKEN SILVER”
Coming Next Wednesday and Thursday
“THE PONY EXPRESS”
James Cruze’s greatest production since “THE
COVERED WAGON”