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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, December 21, 1916
Vol. 16, No. 38
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ARKANSAS LEADS IN
RICE PRODUCTION
State is Third in Total Produc
tion But Yield Per
Acre is Greater
The 1916 rice crop in the
United States will be 9,609,175
sacks, according to the final
estimate issued Monday by the
Southern Rice Growers’ Asso
ciation. The production in the
various states is given as fol
lows :
Arkansas, 1,526,918 bags;
Louisianna, 4,611,468; Texas,
2,440,539; California, 980,000;
other states, 50,250.
Arkansas leads in the aver
age acreage yield with 12.87
bags per acre. Texas is second
with 10.50,and Louisianna third
with 10.49.
The percentage production
of the various varieties in the
three principal states is given
: Honduras, 21 per cent; Ja
>an. 22; Blue Rose, 56. Acre
age in these states is: Arkan
sas, 118,602; Texas, 232,126;
Louisiana, 139,544.
The size of the crop has not
affected the market, because
of the unprecedent demand,
says the report. Distribution of
clean rice to December 1 was
3,533,383 pockets, against 2,
: 561,692 for the same period
last year, a net gain of a mil
lion pockets. At this ratio the
distribution this year will ex
J ceed that of 1915 by 3,000,000
pockets. The imports have been
less, and the exports of domes
tic rice greater this year than
last. Shipments to Porto Rico
also exceed those for the same
months last season.
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|| PRAYER
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Teach me that sixty min
utes make one hour, sixteen
ounces one pound, and one
hundred cents one dollar. Help
me to live so that I can lie
down at night with a clear
conscience, without a gun un
der my pillow, and unhaunted j
by the faces to whom I have j
brought pain.
Grant that I may earn my
meal ticket on the square, and
that, in earning it, I may not J
stick the gaff in where it does
not belong.
Deafen me to the jingle of
tainted money and the rustle
of unholy skirts. Blind me to
the faults of the other fellows,
but reveal to me mine own.
Guide me so that each night
when 1 look across the dinner
table at my wife, who has been
a blessing to me, I shall have
nothing to conceal. Keep me
young enough to laugh with my
children.
And when come the smell of
flowers, and the tread of soft
steps and the crunching of
wheels out in front, make the
ceremony short and the epitah
simple—Here Lies A Man.
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BLYTHEVILLE EDITOR
DIES FROM INJURIES
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 18.—
H. C. Lawhorn, 75 years old,
Confederate veteran and farm
er editor of the Herald-News,
of Blytheville, Ark., died at the
home of his daughter here last
night. The body was taken to
Blytheville today for burial.
iColonel Lawhorn was injured
by an automobile here Novem
ber 23.
Come m;
ask oboutit
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2- cent club pays $ 25.50
5-cent club pays $ 63.75
10-cent club pays 127.50
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BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS *
TOTAL RESOURCES ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS
THE COUNTRY CHURCH
AND GOOD ROADS
Within Province of Church to
Awaken Public Sentiment
For Good Roads
(Government Bulletin)
Every fiction has failed to
give us stories of adventure
more thrilling than the actual
experiences of men who have
braved every peril to carry
Christianity into remote places
inhabited by primitive and oft
times savage people. Mission
aries have traversed the frozen
Northlands with dogs and
sledges and have founded mis
sions among the tribes of equa
torial regions. There have been
innumerable occasions where
they have toiled across wastes
or through forests to conduct
services for a congregation
comprising people so few and
so primitive that we are amaz
ed at such manifestation of
faith and courage.
But how does all this con
cern the country church and
the subject of good roads?
It shows how our interest in
potential results frequently
caused us to overlook or neg
lect the fullest development of
things already established.
The church provides funds
and missionaries volunteer in
her service upon the conviction
that final results will more than !
warrant endeavor in this field.
But when careful inquiry is
made as to the situation right
at home it will be found that
hundreds of thousands of peo
ple in rural districts, taking
the country over, do not at
tend services regular during
what may be termed the bad
road season.
To remedy this condition
does not require thatthe church
contribute funds for highway
improvement. She can, how
ever. do much to influence
public opinion in the matter.
Every country church should
be easily accessible at all sea
sons of the year. Any commun
ity sufficiently prosperous to
establish and maintain a church
can afford to have good high
ways. In many localities much
of the social life of the com
munity emanates from, if it
does not center in the church,
and to make it easy for people
to get to the church is a most
important factor in the pro
gress of the church.
It may be said that failure
to attend church because the
roads happen to be bad shows
only a superficial interest in
the church, but such is not the
case.Aged people and children,
especially, suffer the conse
quences of the »id road, and
it is frequently the case that
roads are absolutely impassible, j
It is surely within the province j
of the church to awaken pub- j
lie sentiment favorable to good
roads—in any event such roads I
as are used by the congrega
tion in going to and from the
church.
NAMING THE BABY
She ransacked every novel,
And the dictionary, too,
But nothing ever printed,
For her baby’s name would do;
She hunted appelations
From the present and the past,
And this is what she named him
When they christened him at
last:
Julian Harold Egbert
Ulyses Victor Paul
Algernon Marcus Cecil
Slyvestor George McFall.
But after all the trouble
She’d taken for his sake,
His father called him Fatty
And his schoolmates called him
Jake.
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With pleasure and pride we
invite you to visit the Xmas
store. Considering conditions
our holiday stock is wonderful.
Still more wonderful is the fact
that the prices are no more
than former years. But the late
shopper may go away empty
handed. Won’t you come in
at once? Miss Morgan’s Five
& Ten Cent Store, Newport.
887.000 ACRES MORE
WINTER WHEAT SOWN
Winter wheat was sown this
fall on an estimated area of
40.090.000 acres, an increase
of 887,000 acres over the
vised estimate of the acreage
' sown in the fall of 1915, the
j department of agriculture has
announced.
Condition on December 1
was 85.7 per cent of a normal,
compared with 87.7 last year,
88.3 in 1914 and 90.2 the ten
year acreage.
Rye sown this fall is estimat
ed at 4,214,000 acres—an in
crease of 740,000 acres over
the revised estimate of the area
sown in the fall of 1915.
FARMER BEATEN UP
DIES FROM WOUNDS
L. F. Isbell, a farmer 32
years old, died from injuries
received when he was assault
ed by two men a few miles
from Heber Springs. Isbell was
attacked and beaten over the
head with a revolver and then
shot in the head. Sidney Con
ditt, who was in the wagon
with Isbell,was prevented from
aiding the victim by one of the
assailants keeping him covered
with a gun. A man named Beau
champ and another man nam
ed Frank Colbrouth have been
arrested suspected of being the
guilty parties.
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appreciated than a cup of good
coffee—if it is GOOD. You are
always assured of GOOD cof
fee if you use Regina. Sold on
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