AUTO LICENSE MONEY
USED ON COUNTY ROADS.
Objection has been raised by several
of our citizens to the new automobile
law, because they are of the opinion
that the seventy-five per cent that is
sent to the State Treasurer is not
spent upon the roads in this county.
In this they are in error. All of the
money paid as automobile licenses in
this county will be spent upon the
roads in the county. The twenty-five
per cent that is retained here by the
county treasurer is to “be used by the
county board for road dragging, and
equipment for road dragging, for
strawing, claying or stable littering
the roads and for no other purpose.’1
The money that is sent to the state
treasurer, that is the seventy-five per
cent of the automobile license money,
is placed in the State Highway Fund
to the credit of this county and will be
used on the roads in this county and
in no other. The only difference is
Fisk Tires Going Onto More
Cars Every Day
CONDITIONS these days—the larger demand*
on everybody’s purse—are leading motorists
everywhere to look more closely into the actual
value of automobile tires.
We see it every day. See it in the steadily in*
creasing demand for Fisk Tires.
Fisk Tires give certain very definite features
that more and more motorists have come to look for
—greater uninterrupted tire mileage, longer life,
greater safety under all driving conditions.
As an enlightened motorist you want
your tire expense cut down to where]
it really belongs. Next time—Buy Fisk.
FOR SALE BY
J. B. MELLOR
FISKmidTIRES
that the money sent to the state will
be spent upon the roads in the county
under the supervision of the State
Engineer for the maintenance and
building of the roads in the county.
The sections of the statute covering
this, taken from House Roll No. 299
passed at the last session of the legis
lature, are as follows:
Section 1G. All registration fees
provided for in this act shall be paid
to the county treasurer of the county
in which the applicant for registra
tion resides, and such treasurer shall
credit tweny-five per cent of all fees
so paid to the road dragging fund of
the county and it shall be used by the
county board of said county for road
dragging,and equipment for road drag
ging, for strawing, claying or stable
littering the roads and for no other
purpose. The county treasurer shall
immediately transmit the remaining
sum of any registration fees so col
lected by him to the state treasurer to
be placed in a fund to be known as
the “State Highway Fund,” and all
money remaining in the motor vehicle
fund on March 31, 1919, and all money
paid into said fund after March 31,
1919, shall be immediately transfer
red to the State Highway Fund. The
state treasurer and state auditor shall
each keep in his books, a separate ac
count with each county showing the
amount received and the amount ex
pended therefrom under this act.
Section 18. Said State Highway
Fund shall be used on the State High
way system in such manner that each
county shall receive the benefit of all
money paid into said fund from such
county, and there is hereby appro
priated to be expended as provided by
law under direction of the State Board
of Irrigation Highways and Drainage,
for and during the biennium, ending
March 31, 1921, all the money now in
the State Highway Fund or that may
come into said fund at any time during
the said biennium, and immediately
after the taking effect of tliis act, the
secretary of state shall transfer to
the State Board of Irrigation High
ways and Drainage, all records, books,
blanks, reports, motor vehicle num
bers, and all other appurtenances and
property pertaining to motor vehicles.
Telephone Company To Increase Rates
Patrons of the Nebraska Telephone
company will be called upon to pay an
increased rate for their telephones,
commencing June 1, that will amount
to an increase of about thirty-seven
and a half per cent over that paid one
year ago. The company made appli
cation to the State Commission last
fall for an increase of about twenty
per cent. Last fall they increase®
rates ten per cent and now the in
crease they are putting on theii
patrons here will amount to an in
crease of twenty-five per cent. Ii
Burilson continues to have control oi
the telephone system much longer the
rates will become so high that the
average customer will be unable tc
continue to use them.
The new rates for O’Neill, that gc
into effect the first day of June, are
as follows:
Residence, one party.-$1.7E
Residence, two party . 1.5C
Business, one party . 2.7E
Business, two party . 2.2E
The rates charged since the in
crease in phone rates last fall is as
follows:
Business phone . $2.20
Residence phone . 1.38
How He Looked At It.
“Papa,” said a small boy to his
parent the other day, “are not sailors
very, very small men?”
“No, my dear,” answered'the father.
“Pray, what led you to suppose that
they are so small?”
“Because," replied the young idea
smartly, “I read the other day of a
German sailor going to sleep on his
watch."
Her Opportunity.
They were discussing entertain
ments of various kinds, and one girl,
whose plainness of feature and gen
eral air of thing old maidishness was
very marked, said:
“For my part, I don’t care a rap for
your dances and receptions and teas.
What I like is a dinner party.”
“Mercy!” exclaimed another worn
an, “are you becoming a gourmet?”
“No,” said the old maid,‘ ‘the food
doesn’t matter, but it is the one time
when I am sure of having a man on
either side of me who can’t get away.”
—Philadelphia North American.
Inherited.
The schoolteacher had punished
Tommy so often for talking in school
and the punishments had been so ap
parently without effect that as a last
resort she decided to notify Tommy’s
father of his son’s fault. So, follow
ing the deportment mark on his next
report were these words:
“Tommy talks a great deal.”
In due time the report was returned
with his father's signature and under
it was written:
“You ought to hear his mother,”—
Milwaukee Journal.