Sea Islands, Beaufort, S.C. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 2289.) June 30, 1870. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction
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jplrntufannb lisralb PUBLISHED EVEKY FRIDAY C S NELSON Editor and Publisher Entered hb secondclas matter Novemner 13 1908 at the post office at Plentywood Montana a ider the Act of March 3 187S TermsIn Advance per year 200 133 Advertising Rates very reasonable will be furnished upon application What Newspaper Ads Did It was only a few years ago that the retail stores in towns and the smaller cities did the bulk of their weeks busi ness on Saturday While the other five business days might have paid expenses the merchant depended upon the Satur day sales for the major portion of his weeks profit Needless to say the aver age merchant would have been exempt from excess profits taxes in those days The newspaper is given credit for dis covering the possibility of scattering the Saturday peak load over the six business days of the week and it was newspaper advertising which has achieved the pre sent more equitable distribution of the weeks business Saturday is still the merchants busy day but now he is onl a little less busy on the preceding five days This is only one of the many services performed for business by newspaper ad
NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters The State as sessors havecommiLied the semiannual i tax on the savings hanks and loan and building associations of the State This commitment was 17 higher than the dune commitment and the total tax for the year will be 500723 as i against 448827 for 1900 an increase of j 51905 This increase is partly due to the increase in the number of deposits and to the sale of government bonds exempt from taxation and the invest ment of the proceeds in securities which are taxableAt the head of a party of about 50 of his followers Rev 1 V Sanford of the Holy Ghost and i s band with headquarters at Shiloh sailed from Boston on the steamer New England Dec 4th bound for England The travelers will do evangelistic work for some time before proceeding to the Holy LandA verdict of murder in the first degree was returned at Dexter Dec 4th against Henry Lambert the voung French Canadian guide and woodsman charged with the murder of the Allen family at Shirley last May after one of the longest criminal trials in the history of the State The jury was out less
FI I PUBL GCL THREE LINES OF TYPE R In the Independent dont cost much but in t e For Sale Column the returns have aached into the thousands VOL XXXINO 145 HELENA MONTANA MONDAY MORNING JUNE 23 1890 FAVORITE CHAIRMEN The Men Chosen by Speaker Reed to Preside in Committee of the Whole Mr Oummings Gives a Few Pen Piotures of Bright and Pop ular Congressmen Judge Paysons Courtesy and General Grosvenors Tattoo Accompaniment Allen and ODonnell Special Correspondence of Tax INDLPENDZNT1 WAsmGTroN D C June 19The other day Speaker Reed called Watchdog Hol man to the chair It was the first time that a democrat had occupied the speakers seat since the 4th of March 1889 Mr Carlisle rarely if ever extended this courtesy to a republican Democratic speakers prd tem pore occasionally did so however Julius COesar Burrows was thus honored in the last session of congress and he honored the chair The speaker always selects the chairman of the committee of the whole Mr Car lisle has his favorites and Speaker Reed seems to have his In the Fiftieth congress the prominent chairmen in committee of the whole were Hon Benton McMillin of Tennessee James H