THE HLTTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Huttlg, Ark
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Saturday, March 13, 1915.
TOWN OrNCIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
tig:
Mayor—C. T. Thompson.
Recorder—W. H. Moore.
Marshal—Thos. Ashcroft.
Aldermen—L. A. Bodine, A. E. Lucas.
J. B. Crockett, D. A. Keasler and F. W.
Scott.
Board of Education—W. H. Moore, F.
W. Scott, C. T. Thompson, E. N. Collett.
L. G. Gibson and L. F. Magee.
Senator Shields of Tennessee
introduced a bill in the last con
gress providing for penalties of fine
and imprisonment for the shipping
of firearms in interstate commerce.
He believes that the suppression of
the traffic in guns would lessen the
number of homicides in this coun
try. ’ _______
But one thing remains to make
Billy Sunday really famous. His
voice has not yet been “preserved”
by the phonograph, although his
"cheer leader” or song general,
Mr. Rodeheaver, who heaves con
siderable music it may be stated,
has “appeared” frequently before
the horn of the Victrola. Bill is
overlooking one method to add to
his income.
Every year congress makes good
resolutions about economizing and
sets out to cut off the mileage al
lowance given to senators and
- members, namely 20 cents a mile
for each mile they travel in going
to and coming from Washington and
their homes. This time the House
decided that legislators should
draw only the actual traveling ex
penses of themselves and the de
pendent members of their family
The Senate cut this out and re
stored the old mileage of 20 cents
a mile straight, each way.
Mary Pickford, a famous movie
player, now draws from the box of
fice the sum of $2,000 per week.
She has just signed a contract foi
fifty-two weeks and chooses her
own plays. To be paid a larger
salary than the President of the
United States is a rather notable
achievement for one small girl
who, five years ago, was absolutely
unknown. Today probably twenty
millions of people recognize her
features the moment they appear
on the screen, while twenty million
pairs of eyes are much more inter
ested in her actions than they are
in the actions, attitudes and efforts
of the president. That much hae
the "movie'’ brought to America.
TWO QUEENS.
More than four hundred years
ago a queen pledged her jewels
that an ambitious visitor to her
court might achieve his heart's de
sire and bring everlasting fame to
her country. In the early years of
the twentieth century, after her
throne had been lost, her people
slain and her country devastated,
another queen has pledged her
personal ornament's to buy bread
and meat for the widows and or
phans of soldiers who died fighting
for their country. There is a
striking contrast between the deed
of Queen Isabella who made the
discovery of America possible in
1492 and the act of courtly and
kindly Queen Elisabeth of Belguim
w o is willing to undergo poverty
i order that her people may not
suffer.
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GEORGETTE AHO JOSEPH
By CARL MUN80N.
Georgette had resolved that her
small brother, Joseph, In one way or
the other, should take part in the na
tional fertival.
She was ten years old and he was
five. He was very small for his age,
with a wrinkled and grave little face.
He was always suffering from some ill
ness, and he was permanently bedrid
den, as his legs refused to carry him
along.
Two years had passed since their
mother had died, and It was Georgette
who took care of him now. The fath
er was fond of wandering about and
was very seldom at home. He strolled
around, working here and there, re
turning with some money and a secret
fear that the children might have died
of starvation in the meantime. He
cried and kissed them and accused
himself of being an unnatural father
and swo-e never to leave them again
Then he would stay at home for some
days without doing any work and com
plain of unemployment. This made
him nervous and uneasy and at last
he would make his escape, leaving
his last money with Georgette.
They lived on the top floor of a
house in one of the suburbs, an un
healthy house it was, so miserable that
it had become a proverb, even in this
shabby quarter. Its tenants were most
ly rag pickers, beggars and drunkards,
whose number was always decreased
by sickness and death.
In this house, in a small, shabby
room with one single window facing
a dark yard, a room which was always
dark even on a bright day, Georg
ette spent all her time with her broth
er. Once she had persuaded a phy
sician to visit him and he had given
her some medicine, but what was most
needed was fresh air and a more
healthful place in which to live.
Prom the beginning of July he had
talked to his sister of all the wonderful
things he had seen that year when be
himself had been able to go out In
the street and look at the festival, and
Georgette, who wished that he
shouldn’t be disappointed this year
and who did not dare to try to carry
him through the crowded streets, had
made up her mind to make an illumi
nation for Joseph alone.
uuw uoi yicpcuvuuu iu gwu
time. She helped her neighbor to un
wrap colored lamps and got three of
them In return. Near the mayor's
house one day she found four colored
glasses filled with oil, and for her
last few centimes she bought a small
Roman candle.
As the boy lay In bed she could not
surprise him, and he enjoyed Georg
ette’s preparations very much. She
hung the lamps on a cord.
In the evening when all the streets 1
were Illuminated the sister lighted the
-olored lamps, and the colored glasses
he put In the four corners of the room,
t was wonderful. Joseph lay in his
>ed and laughed with joy, but the
amps smoked and Georgette had to
ipen the window facing the Ill-smell
ing yard. At 10 o'clock she lighted
he Roman candle. It was a very cheap
one, and at first It would not burn, but
suddenly caught fire and filled the
room with a red light and a horrible
?moke.
The small boy coughed. Georgette
rushed to the door and opened it. In
the draught the flames in the lamps
reached the wall paper. In a few min
utes the fire reached the wooden
frames of the window and the door.
In vain Georgette *rled to stop the
fire, and with little Joseph clinging to
her neck she rushed to the stairs.
At midnight the old house had burn
ed down and only a heap of stones was
left.
A crowd of people had collected in
the square, together with the former
occupants of the old house. The au
thorities of the suburb had arrived
and one of them, a tall gentlemen,
put Borne questions to the concierge.
"It was the little one on the top
floor who started the fire,” she said.
“Only she and I were In the house
when the fire broke out. I won’t say
she did it purposely, but I shouldn’t
wonder if she did."
"Where is she?”
The concierge caught hold of a small
shadow who was carrying something
on her back.
Georgette, who was black with
smoke and still carrying Joseph, stood
before the stern judge, trembling and
unable to Bay a word.
"Is it you who put the house on
fire?" the tall gentleman asked her
harshly.
Georgette did not try to lie. If she
was to be put into prison and her lit
tle brother taken away from her it was
better to get through it as quickly ap
possible. She confessed with trem
bling voice:
"Yes, it was me. I did not do it on
purpose. It was for Joseph's sake. He
was ill and I wanted to amuse him by
illuminating the room—and then it
began to burn as I opened the door to
get some fresh air into the room.”
She stopped, awaiting her sentence.
Everybody was looking at her and the
fear nearly choked her.
"Excellent," said the judge sudden
ly. “It wasn’t done on purpose, but
it was excellent that it was done. That
miserable house has too long poisoned
the whole quarter. It was a very
wholesome fire. The occupants of the
house may occupy the new school
house and the community shall help
them. And you, little girl, I sentence
to three months In a house of recre
ation in the country, together with
your little brother. That is no more
than common justice."
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is the PLACE to find the QUALITY I like at PRICES 1 can
afford to pay.
By buying for our two stores and paying no rent, as we
own our own building, we can naturally do business on a less
margin of profit.
A comparison of our prices with others will soon convince
you of the truth ot this statement. We do not ask you to ac
cept it otherwise.
Write us today about the pieces you will need when you
clean house. We know the things you have been wishing for are
here. And the prices won't be as much as you thought. De
livery can be made after the cleaning is over, if you so desire.
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132-138 North Second St.
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Freight paid on all orders over Ten Dollars
BAD SEED OR BUGS, WHICH?
Combat Southern Corn Root Worm
Which Is Prevalent in Arkansas.
Although the seedsman Is blamed
for every poor stand of corn and cot
ton, an Investigation will show in
many cases the poor stand is caused
by either wire worm or by the South
ern corn root worm. These insects
and the eut worm are to be controlled
to a great extent by common sense
farm practices.
Wire worms are long, slender yel
lowish or brown grubs, with smooth,
glossy and unusually large bodies.
They are the Insects which bore in
to a kernel of corn or a cotton seed,
or in fact any kind of seed, usually at
fhe time that it is germinating. These
worms are the larvae of the bettles
which are variously known as jack
snapers, click-beetles, snap-jacks or
Mexican fleas. The most important
step in the control of this insect is
late summer or fall breaking, the
earlier the better. After breaking, the
land should be allowed to lay in fal
low for about a month, during which
time it should be plowed thoroughly
a number of times. It may be seeded
in the fall with some cover crop. In
order to lessen the damage to growing
crops one should practice anything
that will hasten the growth of the
plants. This is to get them past the
stage when they are in the most dan
ger.
Southern corn root worms or drill
worms. These are slender, yellowish,
white grubs about one-half an inch
long, which drill into corn stalks and
cause them to wilt or even die. They
are the larvae or grub of the little
green cucumber beetle so common dur
ing the growing season. Where they
are numerous enough to warrant spe
cial treatment the only practical
means of controlling them is to plant
the corn late, about May 5, for the
southern part of the state. May 12 for
the central part, and May 19 for the
northwestern corner. Land should be
well drained, well cultivated and well
fertilized to avoid injury.
Geo. G. Becker,
Entomologist University of Arkansas
Even if you have not gotten round
to have a little family orchard, you
can’t afTord to go longer without a
bed of strawberries, and probably
some raspberries, gooseberries, cur
rants and other small fruits.
It is of course possible to keep
drilled corn free of foreign grass in
the rows but a hundred-mile drive any
summer will not find more of such
fields than one may count on the fin
gers of one hand.
Professor Stewart of the Pennsyl
vania experiment station holds that
from the standpoint of the trees the
least harmful are tilled leguminous
intercrops, such as peas and beans,
on account of their favorable nitrogen
and moisture rations.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS
It costs the farmers of the United
States $15,000,000 a year to fight In
sects.
The area of corn harvested In the
United States in 1912 was 105,820,000
acres.
It will require 20,000-horsepower of
electrical energy dally to run the
Panama-Pacific exposition.
New Jersey has a timbered area of
about 2.000,000 acres, on which the
timber is worth about $8,500,000 on
the stump.
France maintains an Institute of zoo
logical psychology on a farm near
Paris for the study of the habits of
animals under natural conditions.
Manufacturers of greenhouses and
makers of boxes are getting in touch
so that the latter may use for box
cleats the qvpress waste from the
greenhouses.
Canadian Northern has 8,694 miles
of road completed and 7,152 miles un
Her operation In Canada. The com
pleted mileage has cost, for construc
tion and equipment, $303,319,232.
The largest known phosphate bear
ing field Is In the Rocky mountain re
gion through the states of Wyoming,
Utah, Montana and Idaho. It is at
least 430 miles long and 230 miles
wide.
Venders of new spapers in Berlin are
to be limited to calling out ttoe names
of the Journals they sell. To make
known the contents of the papers or
to Indicate any particular Item of news
Is forbidden.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
However, It Isn’t unlucky to find $13
on Friday.
Success worth having never arrives
unexpectedly.
Don't waste time or advice on peo
ple who can’t take a hint.
Our neighbors can smell fried
onions farther than roast beef.
The world Is filled with bluffers wfco
show up badly on a showdown.
At fifty a man has forgotten fully
half the things he knew at twenty.
A busy person Isn’t necessarily In
dustrious. Gossips are always busy.
Neighborly sympathy, as a rule,
turns out to be about three-fourths
curiosity.
There Is nothing natural about some
women except the foundation and
framework.
This would be a grand old world If
men would pay their bets as cheer
fully as they pay grudges.
HAMMER TAPS
The person who lives on hope Is
seldom troubled wtth obeBlty.
When the tango comes In at the
door, modesty flies out of the window.
The trouble with a loser Is that he
Is sure to lose more trying to get even.
Some of the summer gowns, disclose
almost everything but a woman's In
tentions.
No matter how much faith a girl has
In prayer, she always looks under the
bed before she goes to sleep.
After seeing the noisy clothes a girl
can purchase out of her |7 per week,
we are inclined to feel thankful that
she doesn’t get >70 per week.
SIDELIGHTS
Some people Indulge in the pas
time of splitting hairs until they
haven’t any left.
Some people are almost aa stuck
up as though they had been tarred
and feathered.
Some men are kept so busy main
taining their dignity that t;hey nev
er have time to do zmything else.
It should be a very easty matt*r
to bear other people’s burden®.
They are always so much lighter
than ours.
FROM THE PENCIL’S POINT
In a woman’s age a few years go a
long way.
Fault finding gives' friendship many”
a hard jolt.
Many a man who hitches hi? wagon
to a star finds himaelf up in th« ■ air.
Most of us are hard of hearing
when the still small voice ?jet i busy.
Old papers at the Newr^o fllce.
Colored Column
Richard High is on the sick list.
The Odd Fellows had their mem
orial sermon preached last Sunday
by Rev. Scates, Which was attend
ed by the Household Ruths.
Rev. John Smith will preach
here Sunday.
Rev. W. W. Williams of Pine
Bluff preached Sunday night.
Prof. P. A. Cook is on the sick
list.
Alma Oliver, Louisa Wilkerson,
Blanch an'd Julian Reed arrived
home Monday from a visit at Mon
roe.
The Sunday school workers are
making preparations for Easter.
Mary Pas'al is home from a vis
it with her father at Monroe,
The Odd Fellows had their pho
I
tograph made last Sunday while in
full regalia.
Francis Williams of Randolph is
here visiting her daughter.
You are hereby notified that the
Union County Colored Teachers’
association will meet Saturday,
March 20, at 10 o'clock, a. m., at
the public school building in El Do
rado. It is very fitting and proper
that a large attendance be present
so as to make arrangements for a
summer normal.
By L. S. Scroggins,
Vice President.
Baptist Church.
Huttig Baptist church has services
every 1st and 3rd Sunday morning at 11
o’clock. T H Evans. Pastor.
Preaching every third and fourth Sun
day at Smith Chapel.
M F Holley, pastor
Lizzie Brown, secretary
Women's Home Mission meets every
Monday at I ;30 p. m.
J. M. Collins, President
Susie Mayo, Secretary.
The Baptist Sunday School meets ev
ery Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock. All
welcome to attend.
J S Jones, Supt.
Tena Harris, Secy.
The B. Y. P. U. meets every Sunday
afternoon at 6:30.
Prof. L. S. Scroggins,Pres.
Miss Lula Oliver, Secy.
Methodist Church.
African Methodist Episcopal church
preaching every 2rd and 4th Sunday in
each montTi. D. A. Hardon, Pastor.
The A. M. E. Sunday School meets at
2:30 each Sunday evening. All welcome
to attend. G M Averette, Supt.
Clint Royston, Secy
JEWEL TABERNACLE, No. 412,
meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.
Augusta Steverson, H. P.
Tena Harris. C. R.
Spanolia Camps No. 261 C. W., W. 0.
W. mee every first and third Thursday at
7:30 o’clock. J. C.vEllis, Gov.
S. G. Crayton, F. S.
OBLIGE GALE CIRCLE No. 213
meets every first and third Saturday at
1:3Q o’clock. Emma' Barns, Gov.
Mary Adkins, Secy.
HOUSEHOLD RUTH, No. 2990, of
G. U. 0. of 0. F., meets the first and
third Thursday in each month at 1:50
p. m. Laura Simms, M. N. G.
Carrie Averett. W. R.
STATE LINE TEMPLE NO. 337
meets every 2nd and 4th Friday night at
8 o’clock. C. S. Scates, C. M.
W. B. Barnes, C. S.
ELECTRIC LIGHT COURT OF CA
LANTHE, No. 70, meets first and third
Tuesday in each month at 1:45 p. m.
Lizzie Oliver, W. C.
Ever Pittman. R. D.
BLUE LIGHT LODGE No 153 K. of P
meets First and Third Tuesday in each
month. J B Francis, C. C.
A. Lewis, K. of R. S.
Lodge Directory.
Roosevelt Chapter, No. 188, Order ol
the Eastern Star, meets every seconc
and fourth Tuesday in each month.
Mrs. C. Williams, W. M.
Emma Bearl, Secy.
EAST LAKE LODGE No. 6362 G
U. 0. of 0. F. meets First and Thirc
Thursday in each month. '
H. B. Lewis, N. G.
T W Scates, P. S.
GOOD LUCK LODGE No. 259 F. &
A. M meets First and Fourth Saturda;
, night. All visitors welcome.
Geo. Kelso, W. M.
S. L. Glenn, Sec.
OMEGA COMMANDERY No.4 Knigh
Templars meet every 2nd Thursda;
night in each month.
* J. H. Law. E. C.
E. Brooks, Recorder.
SP1NOLA Lodge No. 261, C. of W
. A., meets every first and third Wednes
day night at 8 o'clock.
J. C. Ellis, Gov.
S. G. Crayton, Sacy.
DRS. MAGEt fir MAYFIELD
Physicians and Surgeons
At Company Hospital
Office Hours—8 to 12 a. m.» 1 to 6
Sundays—9 to 11 a. m;t 3 to 5 p. p
Residence Phone 12; office 18
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HUTTIG - ARKANSAS
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MONROE, LA.
Specialist on Diseases of Eye, Ear,
Nose and Throat.
Adenoids and Tonsils Removed.
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EL DORADO, - ARKANSAS
Warning Order.
In Union Chancery Court
J. D. Brown, Plaintiff,
vs
Samuel Brown. Defendant.
The defendant, Samuel Brown, is here
by warned to appear in this court within
thirty days and answer the complaint of
the plaintiff, J. D. Brown, filed herein.
Given under rny hand and seal this the
3rd day of March, 1916.
A. D. Murphy, Clerk.
Warning Order.
In the Union Circuit Court, March Term
1915.
J. T. Smith, Plaintiff,
vs
Pat McNally. Defendant,
The defendant, Pat McNally, is warned
to appear In this court within thirty days
and answer the complaint of the plaintiff,
J. T. Smith.
This March 3rd, 1916.
A. D. Murphy. Clerk,
by L. T. Britt. D. C.
Warning Order.
In The Union Circuit Court.
Mrs. A. V. Goode, Plaintiff
vs
McNally & Riddle, a parrership firm
composed of Pat McNally and J. W. Rid
dle, Defendants.
The Defendants, Pat McNally and J.
W. Riddle, are hereby warned to appear
in the Union Circuit Court within thirty
days and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff, Mrs. A. V. Goode, filed herein.
Given under my hand and seal of said
court this the 3rd day of March, A. D.
1915. A. D. Murphy
Circuit Clerk.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. &, A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
C. T. Thompson, W. M.
C. A. Berry, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. F. Magee, H. P.
R. W. Beede, Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320. Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. C. A. Berry, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec’y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. 0. O. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
A. P. Holtsford, N. G.
E. L. Ware, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o’clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs". Dona Holtsford, N. G.
Mrs. May Claybaugh, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 41 1 W. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
L. M. DeSpain, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
1 RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
* LITTLE ROCK A MONROE RY.
j South North
5:25 a. m.Huttig 3:23 p. m
7:55 a. m. Monroe.1:00 p.m
local. *
Leaves Arrives
1 11:55 p. m... Huttig 12:15 p.m.
f
St. Louis, Iron Mountain &, Southern
farmerville a southern ry.
North South
1 4:42 a. m. Huttig.3:54 p. m
f 3:15 a. m. Farmerville.5:20 p. m
local, t
10:15 a. m.Huttig,..2:25 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
" Ville.
‘Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe,