IttE lUiTTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at ttuttig. Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3. ! 907 at
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Saturday, March 20, 1915.
TOWN OrriCIALS.
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.
You must be bell-shaped to be in
style this season. Ring out the
old, ring in the new.
The Americans are mighty pa
tient and can stand almost every
thing except being hit in the bread
basket. _
About the only thing that can be
said in compliment of a submarine
is that no official is likely to take it
out for a pleasure excursion.
The Hague is still on the map,
and the world waits hopefully for
an announcement that it is doing
business at the old stand,
Do you know that there are
more saioons in the city of Chicago
than there are in all the states
south of the Mason and Dixon’s
lines. _
On the occasion of his 68 birth
day anniversary a few days ago
Thomas A. Edison prophesied that
the allies will win in the European
war, but that Germany’s defeat will
result in her reorganization into a
republic so that “within 50 years
she will be on top of us all.” The
war, he believes, will last two years
Silos are expected to materially
assist in furnishing an adequate
beef supply. Late statistics show
that the number of cattle are on
the increase, which is a condition
notin evidence in a number of
years, and with more wide-spread
use of silos, allowing more econom
ical feeding, this increase should
continue.
A feature of the wonderful de
velopment in motor manufacturing
that perhaps many of us do not
consider much is the enormous use
cf gasoline. It is estimated that
the automobiles and motors in use
this year will consume $2,800,
000,000. There will be operation
in this country this about 2,400,
000 machines. Nice business for
the automobile manufacturers and
every bit of gasoline used will also
help John D. weather the storm.
Every legislature in Arkansas
takes cracks at the newspapers,
and yet men who aspire to be so
lons are anvious to "stand in well"
with the journalists. It is note
worthy that most legislators ap
preciate the newspapers and know
what they are doing for this com
monwealth. The newspaper man
is no better and no worse than the
representatives of any other pro
fessions. Ninety per cent of the
men engaged in the business want
merely a square deal.
Uncle Sam has done a noble act
to alleviate the sufferings and ag
onies of hundreds of drug users
who have been cut off from their
supplies by the operation of the
new drug law which went into ef
fect on March 1. Following a
suggestion to the national health
department by the Chicago Trib
une the marine hospitals scattered
over the country, have been turned
over to the drug victims. It is be
lieved to be possible to accommo
date hundreds of these human
derelicts who have been cast loose
from their unstable and precarious
moorings by the new law.
EMMS' BtntFIT FUND
PHONE COMPANY PROTECTS ITS
WORKERS.
No Charge to Employe* tor Insur
ance Against Accident, Sick*
nets and Death.
Newport.—J. A. McMlchael, lineman
of the Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone company, who met with a
serious accident last .March while on
his way to repair a telephone line in
this city, is receiving a semi-monthly
allowanee amounting to one-half his
regular pay. This allowance is paid
by the Employes’ Benefit Fund estab
lished by the Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone company. Without one
cent of expense to employes, a fund of
$33,000 has been set aside to meet
payments under a broad plan cover
ing accident, sickness and death bene
fits.
McMichael received full pay for
thirteen weeks, and will receive half
pay until he is able to resume his
work. The maximum time for the half
pay benefit Is set at six years.
Another employe who is now receiv
ing payments from the fund is H. S.
Queen of Earle. Ark., who fell from a
pole last June and- broke hla arm.
Like McMlchael, he received full pay
for thirteen weeks and will continue
to receive half pay until he h&s re
covered from his injury. Queen was
in the service only nine months when
his accident occurred.
The family of another telephone
worker In Arkansas received $2,400
following his death, which occurred
while in the performance of duty.
This life insurance is another fea
ture of the Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone company's benefit
plan. Dependents of employee who
have been engaged In the business for
five or more years are entitled to one
year's salary, not to exceed $3,000, in
can* of death from natural cause*. If
death results from injuries received
while at work for the company the
amount is increased to three years’
salary, not to exceed $5,000.
The benefit fund also provides for
pensions for employes who have
served from twenty to thirty years.
The lowest pension is $20 per month.
The Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone company’s benefit plan is
considered one of the most liberal
now being followed by any public
utility In the country.
BRITISH TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Government Operation of Lines Is
Proving Unsatisfactory, Expensive
and Inefficient.
Little Rock.—A copy of the Shef
field, England, Dally Telegraph re
cently received here contains an arti
cle that would indicate that there Is
more complaint in that country over
government-owned telephones than
ever was known by a private tele
phone company In this country. T,he
article went on to say:
“The postmaster-general is said to
have complained some time ago that
he could not dine out, either in public
or in private, without hearing about
those 'confounded telephones.’ The
grumbles have not yet ended; there
was a sort of culminating outburst of
them in the house of commons recent
ly, when all t,he hard things that could
be said even about the telephone serv
ice were said with the utmost em
phasis.
"The service was said to he Ineffi
cient and expensive; Its management
was declared to be outrageously at
fault; painful comparisons were
drawn with the former system under
company management, and It was
pointed out that the government’s
profit through duties levied on the
National Telephone company was ac
tually greater than its present profit
as owner of the service. Altogether
this experiment In state monopoly
looks like anything but a success. But
the postmaster-general Is seemingly
impenitent; and anyhow he has the
telephones and means to stick to
them, so there Is no help for 1L But
one hopes, for the credit of the post
office, that an effort will be made to
give the public more satisfaction than
It has recently had."
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“HELLO GIRL” |
With a clamp on her head like a
eagre for her hair,
She sits all day on an upright chair
And answers the calls that come
over the wire
From people of patience and peo
ple of Ire;
And "Number?" she queries of no
ble or churl—
A wonderful voice has the tele
phone girl.
She has to be pleasant, and hus
tling and keen.
With a temper unruffled and ever
serene.
There are forty-five things she
must think of at once,
Or some rough subscriber will call
her a dunce.
Since it seems to be the custom
to hurl
The blame for a grouch on the
telephone girl.
Now. Central gets tired—as other
folk do—
And needs to be thoughtfully treat
ed by you;
Bo think of her doing her best
'mid the whirl
And be more considerate of the
Telephone Girl.
—Southwestern Telephone News
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The Universal Implement
HIRTY years ago the telephone was a luxury.
A Today, through personal initiative and private
enterprise, it has become a necessity within the reach of every
body. Where once a business had but one telephone with a
limited talking range, today that business has a service with a
range across the entire continent, and every branch of every
business is linked to every other by an intercommunicating tele
phone system.
The telephone has earned its responsible place and there are
now 9,000,000 Bell telephones in this country, over which go
29,000,000 talks daily.
Every Bell Telephone la a Long Diatanoe Station
The Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Company
TROUBLES OF A DOUBLE
By CARL SALOMON.
Blair had just pulled on his overcoat
and was on the point of leaving the
cafe, when a heavy hand fell on his
shoulder and a hearty voice shouted in
his ear, “Hello, Jenkins! Going to
meet with the boys tonight?”
He turned and faced a jovial looking
man whom he did not remember hav
ing ever seen before. "Who do you
think I am?” he snapped. “My name
is Blair.”
The other looked surprised, then
sheepish. “ ‘Scuse me,” he apologized.
"1 thought you were a friend of mine.
You’re Just his build. But, come
to look closer, your hair Is darker than
his.”
Haughtily Blair stalked out, having
gathered au unfavorable impression of
his double from the unpolished man
ner of his professed friend. Further,
it rather galled him not to be able to
choose his own double, for Blair prided
himself on the irreproachable char
acter of his friends, as well as on his
own impeccability.
He soon forgot the matter, however,
and was thoroughly surprised a few
days later, when he was again accosted
by a stranger. He was hanging by the
strap of a crowded elevated train,
when some one at his elbow mur
mured, “Say, Henry, could you lend
me a tenspot? I’m broke.”
Now, Henry is Blair’s first name. He
looked about sharply, but when he saw
the man who had spoken he paid no
further heed. But the voice persisted.
"You ain’t goin’ to turn down an ol’
friend are you?” There was reproach,
nay, grief, in the tones.
Blair looked down and into the plead
ing face of a shabby little old man who
; was evidently a down-at-the-lieel,
musty old sport.
“What do you mean,” he exploded,
“by asking me to lend you money? 1
never saw' you before?”
The sporty person opened his red
rimmed eyes wide with surprise. "Say,
hones’, I thought you was Jenkins,” he
I explained. “You’re the dead image of
him. Only—I guess, his face is kinder
redder’n yourn.”
Blair's opinion of Jenkins immedi
ately grew many shades darker, and to
the same extent he felt himself insult
ed. From the several encounters and
from the various greetings he had re
ceived he surmised that Jenkins and
his friendB were not of the elite, as
Blair liked to think that he and his
were.
One day at noon he entered one of
the parlors of a downtown hotel, where
he had agreed to meet Mrs. Blair. Be
fore he even caught sight of his wife
in the opposite corner of the room a
too fashionably attired young woman
arose from a davenport near the door
and addressed him.
“Now, Henry, you might ’ve come
sooner. I’ve been waiting—”
Blair looked unrecognizingly at her.
His discomfort lasted but a moment,
however, for she interrupted herself
with an exclamation of distress. “Oh,
beg pardon. I thought you was Mr. Jen
kins, a gentleman friend of mine.
Stoopid of me, for his eyes are brown."
There was a flash of annoyance In
Blair's gray eyes as he crossed over to
his wife. "I seem to have a double,"
he told her, “though his hair, eyes and
face do not quite match mine. Besides,
unlike me, he’s not punctual. I’m go
ing to wait here and find out wherein
my double and I resemble each other."
Shortly thereafter a burly but quiet,
inoffensive looking man hastened into
the parlor and greeted the damsel on
the davenport. She took his arm coyly,
and whispered something that caused
her escort to look inquiringly over to
ward Blair. If he expected a genial re
sponse from the latter the cold glance
that met him must have been a disap
pointment.
"Well, do we look anything alike?"
Blair asked his wife.
"Certainly not.” Mrs. Blair held her
aristocratic head high with indigna
tion at the idea. “I suppose it’s Just
a stupid story that you invented.”
“If I were trying to be funny I could
think of something more humorous
than that,” said her husband, as they
w’ent on into the dining room.
“I should hope so. Yet, come to
think of it, there Is a certain likeness
In your bearing. Besides, he wears
the same peculiar cinnamon brown
overcoat that you do."
111 give mine to the Janitor to
uight, declared Blair, as a load was
removed from his mind.
It is more blessed to believe you
are wise than really to be so.
Some people are as anxious to save
the heathen as if he were a souvenir.
The average self-made man is like
all the rest of the amateur perform
ers.
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Colored Column
H. Johnson and Lizza Ervin were
united in marriage iast Thursday,
, Rev. W. M. Johnson officiated.
Daisy High, Frank Jenkins, Pol
; lie Scates, Alberta Smith, Tama
Dyer and Violet Bradford are on
the sick list.
Bill Jones' house was destroyed
by fire Monday night. Origin of
the fire is unknown.
Rev. John Smith will begin a
revival meeting next week.
Willie Wilson and Rev. Scates
were at El Dorado this week.
Susie Mayo of Sterlington, La.,
is here.
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, Sceretary.
The Baptist Sunday School meets ev
ery Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Ali
welcome to attend.
J S Jones, Supt.
Tena Harris, Secy.
The B. Y. P. U. meets every Sunday
afternoon at 5:30.
Prop. L. S. Scroggins,Pres.
Miss Lula Oliver. Secy.
Methodist Church.
African Methodist Episcopal church
preaching every 2rd and 4th Sunday in
each month. 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. Ellis. Gov.
S. G. Crayton. F. S.
OBLIGE GALE CIRCLE No. 213
meets every first and third Saturday at
1:30 o’clock. EmmaBarns.Gov.
Mary Adkins, Secy.
j HOUSEHOLD RUTH. No. 2990, ot
G. U. O. 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. ofP.
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 of
the Eastern Star, meets every second
and fourth Tuesday in each month.
Mrs. C. Williams, W. M.
Erpma Bearl, Secy.
EAST LAKE LODGE No. 6362 G.
U. 0. of O. F. meets First and Third
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 Saturday
night. All visitors Welcome.
Geo. Kelso, W. M.
S. L. Glenn. Sec.
OMEGA COMMANDERY No.4 Knight
Templars meet every 2nd Thursday
night in each month.
J. H. Law, E. C.
I E. Brooks, Recorder.
SPINOLA 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, Secy.
Royal Circle of Friends, R. A.Williams
No. 324, meets every first and third
Friday night. All visiting friends are
welcome. • G. W. Smith, President.
Lula Oliver, Secretary.
LEBANON, Chapter No. 41, R. A. M
meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday night
at 7:30. Emmett Holly, H. P.
W. A. High, Secy.
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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 wiihin
thirty days and answer the complaint of
the plaintiff, J. D. Brown filed here n
Given under my hand and seal this the
3rd day of March, 1915.
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, 1915.
A. D. Murphy. Clerk,
by L. T. Earn1. D C.
Warning Order.
In The Union Circuit Court.
Mrs. A. V. Goode. Plaintiff
vs
McNally & Riddle, a parnership firm
composed of Pat McNally ai.d 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 qflmplaint of the
plaintiff, Mrs. A. V. Goode fi.ed herein.
Given under my hand and seal of said
court this the 3rd day of March, A D.
1915. A. D. Mlrphy
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. 0. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visitmg
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.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK a MONROE RY.
South
5:25 a. m
7:55 a. m
Leaves
1 1:55 p.
Huttig
Monroe
local. *
Huttig
North
3:23 p. m
1:00 p.m
Arrives
12:15 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
farmerville a southern ry.
South
Huttig 3:54 p. m
Farmerville 5:20 p. m
local, t
Huttig 2:25 p. m.
1'Arrives 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.
North
4:42 a. m.
3:15 a. m.
10:1