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ansas, as second class mail
This is the time when the
days begin to shorten, altho
you won’t be able to notice it.
Help fight the war. Pay
your way with War Savings
Stamps if you cannot go to the
front.
The government forecast of
the present wheat crop is 9‘>0,
000,000 bushels. Sounds like
hot biscuits for all the world.
Never forget the investment
features of War Savings
Stamps. When you buy them
you become a stockholder in
the United States, the best cor
poration in the world.
If your neighbor offers his
life, surely you can loan your
money. Save with the same
eagerness that your neighbor
fights, and buy War Savings
Stamps with your savings.
There is an Indian soldier in
the army whose name translat
ed is Johnny-Chase-the-Weasel
After looking at a portrait of
the crown prince, we think that
Indian is the man to go after
him.—St. Louis Republic.
Germany laughed at the idea
of the United States sending a
million soldiers to France. Rut
they will be there by the Four
th of July and when Germany
meets them she’ll think there
are five millions of them in
stead of only a million.
Says the Houston Post: “Ev
en if that English ‘carry on’
were ever to get any sort of
foothold in this country, Ark
ansas would transalate it to
‘tote on.’ ”
Possily so, but its a cinch
she’d “tote” her full share of
the load. That’s Arkansas.
Absolute, bone-dry prohibi
tion, at least during the con
tinuance of the war, would be
a popular issue and one that
would carry by an overwhelm
ing majority. Four million
loaves of bread a day are sac
rificed to keep the breweries in
operation. National prohibi
tion is a righteous demand of
the people.—Randolph County
Democrat.
An American correspondent
tells us that our boys in France
are always smiling, even when
they enter the trenches, when
they charge and when they re
turn from battle. If they can
face death with a smile, cer
tainly we can do our part at
home without grumbling. And
that part consists in producing
all possible, consuming as little
as necessary, and buying War
Savings Stamps with our sav
ings.
ARGENTA MAYOR IS
INDICTED FOR ARSON
With Others He is Accused of
Burning Club House for
the Insurance
Little Rock, June 21.—The
Pulaski County grand jury to
day indicted Mayor D. M. Pix
ley on a charge of arson. He
was arrested late this evening
and released on $l,OUO bond.
The indictment charges Mayor
Pixley and others with burning
the Army Athletic Association
club house to secure insurance
money.
1 he fire was one ot a series
in which incendiarism was sus
picioned.
A few days before the fire
Secretary Grabiel and Billy
Haaek, the referee were fined
^1,000 each by Municipal
Judge Ramsey for conducting
prize fights. Officials had
given notice that they intended
3toppng the bouts whch the
club had scheduled.
Both Grabiel and Haac ap
pealed their cases to the cir
cuit court and a few days ago
the cases were nolle prossed by
Prosecuting Attorney M. E.
Dunaway.
FREIGHT WRECK
The Red Ball freight going
'vest was wrecked about three
miles above Batesville Monday
afternoon about 2:30 o’clock.
Six cars left the track and the
track was badly torn up for a
distance of about 200 feet. Fhe
wreck was caused by a broken
rail. None of the crew was in
jured.
The east-bound passenger
train was caught behind the
wreck and delayed 12 hours.
LIVER DIDN’T ACT
DIGESTION WAS DAD
Safi €5 year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Was Relieved
After a Few Doses of Black-Draught
Meadorsrlllei Ky.—Mrs. Cynthia
Higginbotham, of this town, says: "At
my age, which la 64, the liver does
not act so wall aa when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all out of
fix. I was constipated, my liver
didn’t act. My digestion was bad, and
it took so little to upset me. My ap
petite was gone, I was very weak.,.
I decided I would give Black
DraugBt a thorough trial as I knew It
was highly recommended for this
trouble. I began taking it I felt
better after a few doses. My appetite
improved and I became stronger. My
bowels acted naturally and the least
trouble was soon righted with a few
doses of Black-Draught”
Seventy years of successful use baa
made Thedford’s Black-Draught a
standard, household remedy. Every
member, of every family, at times,
need the help that Black-Draught can
give In cleansing the system and re
lieving the troubles that como from
constipation, indigestion, lazy liver,
etc. You cannot keep well unless your
atomach, liver and bowels are In good
working order. Keep them that way.
Try Black-Draught. It acts promptly,
gently and in a natural way. If you
feel sluggish, take a dose tonight.
You will feel fresh tomorrow. Price
25c. e package—One cent a dose
All druggists. J. 6i
INTERESTING LETTER
FROM NEAR LONOKE
Independence County Woman
Living Near Aviation Fielt,
Sees Thrilling Sights
Editor Journal.—Livery week
The Journal comes to us like .
letter from “home sw<
home" and vve read it eager!,
from cover to cover.
This week as w read the
list of men from on own home
county sent to Camp Like, a
feeling of pride is in gl< l witli
satlnes filled our hearts and \,<
were made sad to kurn oi do
recent death of did Ooleman in
France, yet as a soldier win
died bravely lighting for frt
dom his memory shall live o.<
and on in the hearts of a grate -
fill people.
If 1 do not take up too much
valuable space in your paper,
may I tell something of th
rice growing section of our
grand old state?
We live about seven mik
from the thriving little city of
Lonoke and about 23 mile
southeast of Little Rock in tie
very heart of the rice growing!
section and upon a farm of 500
acres planted in rice.
The country is very beauti-'
ful indeed so level and greet
every way you look ex cep
straight into the blue se
The pumping season has jusi
commenced and let me sa\ ,
here that this place is not
some think, a low, wet marsh |
the year round, it has bet 1
very dry and dusty for week:
past. Water must be pumped .
upon the rice fields from th<
time the rice is about two in
ches above the ground until k
has headed. The large pumps
are run by steam engines, oil
engines and electric motor. :.
there are many new electro :
power wells scattered over the!
prairie, one on this farm pump
about 2500 gallons of wnt .
per minute and furnishes wat-j
er for 250 acres of rice. The i
electric power comes from Pine I
Bluff, which places also fur-|
nishes Lonoke with electric
lights.
vone may wonuer now uu
fields are watered, that is, one
who has never seen rice grow
ing. The water is forced by
the pump through a discharge
pipe into a deep basin or larg<
pond and from there it goo
through canals which have
been constructed along the mo
er edges of the field. It is I t
out of the canals as no d
upon the field intersected i
levees thrown up so as to hold
the water where most needed.
Then the levee walkers n, is
see that the leeves are holdh m
the water and that the rice i
eufficiently flooded. He is sup”
posed to go over the levees
every day, cut some of them
to let the water into some < Ti
er part of the field or eh
some of the gaps to keep de
water where it is most need d
The cost of raising a crop m
rice is enormous. The cost a
this time of year on this la. i
when both pumps are running
is more than $70 a day and hit
er when harvesting commenu
it will be more than $100 per
day. This just includes the
farm help and cost incurred in
running the machinery. And
yet, the rice farmers are m 1
one bit worried—the yield •
poor indeed if it is not mor
than 50 bushels per acre, us ug
ly there is an average yield < f
75 bushels per acre, and la i
year rice s’old for $1.75 to xg
25 per bushel. It is interesting,
to hear the old residents her.
tell of the marked changes am i
wonderful improvements that
have taken place on this prai
rie within the past fifteen
| years. Not many years have
passed since they hunted the
wild dot r and the bear where
now milch cows by the hun
dreds graze peacefully on the
.verdant meadow lands. \nd
(he. hmd which, the n produced
nothing more valuable than
prairie hay which was free to
any one who wished to cut it.
now produces a food that feeds
thousands of people. Note "he
change in land values within
the nasi, fifteen years. This
farm then would h ive >!n for
from $5 to $15 an acre. The
present owner, a few weeks
ag.,, refused $100 per acre for
it.
There is one serious oTriec
iion that I have to this country
and that is that it is the annual
habitat of the gauzy winged
"skewer"—they are the larg
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PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES PROCLAIMS
FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1818
AS
National War Savings Bay
GOVERNORS AND MAYORS MAKE SIMILAR PROCLAMATIONS
,ir '4r ■Jr
MEETINGS WILL BE HELD IN EVERY COMMUNITY TO SECURE
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR WAR SAVINGS’STAMPS
Pursu at to the proclamations of the President of the United
States and the Governor of this State, I, War Savings Director for
Arkansas, acting under the authority of the United States Treasury
Department, have called ixY tax-payers and wage-earners to meet on
I riday, June 28, to give their subscriptions for War Savings Stamps.
In rural communities and tin smaller towns and cities, meetings will
be held in the school houses at 2 p. m.
The school officers will conduct the meeting in each school house,
beeping a record of the proceedings and reporting the names of all
persons present and the amount of War Savings Stamps subscribed for
by them. The names of absent persons, and of those who refuse or
neglect to subscribe, with their reason for so doing, will also be re
ported.
War Savings Stamps (which are United States Government Bonds
the same as Liberty Bonds) can be paid for during any month in the
year 1918, but it is intended that sir scriptions will be signed for them
on June 28.
The price of each War Savin. Sta. p depends upon the month
during which it is bought. Dun:;.; Juiv* ach Stamp will cost $4.17.
In July each Stamp will cost $4.18, and so on, oik cent mure each
month during 1918. On January 1, 1928, the Government of the
United States will redeem all War Saving. Stamj at $5.00 each, no
i matter during which month in 1.9<4 tl \7 were bought. They cost
less during the early months in 1918 t! ; n during the later months
because the person ho b y. i .09 has leaned his money to the
Government for a longer time than if he should buy later.
By way of illustiation, note tl. following table:
COST OF WAR SAVINGS S i \MPS DURING JUNE, JULY
AND AUGUST, 1918.
Co-tin C< t in Cost in
June July August
1 Stamp.$ '.17 $ 4.18 $ 4.19
20 Stamps . . 88.40 83.60 83,80
50 Stamps 20:-: > 209.00 209.50
100 Stamps.. 417.00 ' 1 419.00
200 Stamps_ 834.00 836.00 838.00
The law provides that no pe
And Are Worth
on Jan. 1, 1923
$ 5.00
100.00
250.00
500.00
1,000.00
Savings Stamps exceeding $1,000
Stamps, however, men
including minor children
The money
Lion, but is
a can hold in his own name War
maturity value. War Savings
u> pureha for other members of the family,
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te and local taxes; '
against i
Stamps is not a gift, or a
nt. It will all be paid back
use of some serious financial
ary to get your money before
wing ten days' notice to any
v- you can get what you paid
of payment. The Stamps are
en registered at the postoffice
. die arc backed by all the property in
t United Stab. ; they can ,ot mil in value below the price you pay;
t aii aa convt meat and v> i] paying an investment as has ever
been offered by our Government.
9 definite ;w la War 8. ings Stamps has been assigned each
sciu,-.] district . c .•mmuiuty, which will b announced at each meet
iur on June 28. The <9« .e i, ent < f tin* United States expects all
the citizens of every •law.! di iriei and county to subscribe for its
; a and to pledge themselves to . ave and economize to help win
the war.
It is to I o hoped that 'In ; iptions taken at the meetings in
yuur county will show you : >ur neighbors to be loyal Americans
to 9 m our Government, in t i - hour of need, docs not call in vain.
[.Signed] UO'^LAD WRIGHT,
Ar't an.'.as War Saving.- Director apj inted and acting under the
authority of the Si ■ y oe the United States Treasury.
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