THE HETTIG NEWS.
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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. XI. NO. 18
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1917.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
Attention farmers
Every farmer in the vicinity of
Huttig is urged to be present at a
meeting to be held at the Princess
theatre in Huttig at 3 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon, September 1, un
der auspices of the Gounty Council
of Defense.
Speakers will be present to ex
plain the necessity of conserving
the large amount of feed stuffs
raised in the county and also to
show you the necessity of our
farmers planting wheat or going
without biscuits.
Make it a point to be here on
that date and bring your neighbor
with you. Union county has raised
more feed stuffs this year than
ever in her history, now let us save
it so that all stock in the county
will be fed as well as the people.
T. L. Pllkinton Dead.
Thomas L. Pilkinton, aged 70
years, 9 months and 1 day, died at
8:15 o'clock Monday night, August
27, 1917, of kidney and heast
trouble.
The deceased was bora in Gile
county, Tennessee, November 25.
1847, and has been a resident of
Huttig for eleven years. He was
respected by all and his death will
be mourned by a large number of
friends who sympathize deeply
with the bereaved children.
He leaves two daughters, Mrs.
G. W. Clarkson, of Dumas, and
Mrs. E. M. Maroney, of Huttig,
and one son. James Pilkinton, of
Huttig. The funeral was held
from the late residence at 3:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, inter
ment being in the Huttig cemetery.
The services were conducted by
Rev. E. F. Cole and Rev. A. Tur
rentine.
School Report Filed.
County Examiner Perry F. Nel
son has filed his report with Coun
ty Clerk Geo. S. Tatum. The
report shows the following inter
esting facts: Enumeration white
male, 3141; female, 2949; total
whites, 6090. Colored, male,
2779; female, 2793; total colored,
5572. Total school population of
county, 1 1,662.
The enrollment was white, male,
2550; female, 2468; total whites,
5018. Colored, male, 1644; fe
male, 1815. Total colored,
3459. Total enrollment of coun
ty. 8477.
Daily attendance, white, male,
1610; female, 1727. Total, white,
3337. Colored, male, 1001, fe
male, 1102. Total, colored,2103.
Total daily attendance, 5440.
There are 84 white school
houses in the county, valued at
$183,325, and 56 colored school
houses, valued at $13,225. There
were 8 school buildings erected
last year at a cost of $14,991,
The total money received last year
for school purposes was $117,
091.06.—The El Dorado Times.
Methodist Church Services.
The following services will be
held at Union church Sunday: Sun
day school at 10:00 a. m. Preach
ing at 11 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. by
the pastor. Junior League at 3:0C
p. m. Epworth League at 6:30 p
m. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. A. Turrentine Pastor
Can Still Volunteer.
While the regular army and navy
are recruited to their maximum
authorized strength, recuits are
still being received for both arms
of the service. They are bein«
held in reserve to be used as need
ed to fill vacancies that may be
caused in the various units by any
reason. Gapt. N. M. Cartmell, of
the regular army, is untiring in his
efforts to secure good men for the
service, and is meeting with great
success, due to the energy of his
officers. The draft has not had a
deterrent effect upon recruiting,
but has had a tendency to aid,
since a drafted man is eligible to
volunteer service until he is called
for examination by his local board.
Recruits now being accepted for
the regular army may be used in
filling gaps and completing the
quoto of the Arkansas regiments,
who are now in the federal service.
To Raise More Wheat.
The County Council of Defense
met at the court house in El Dora
do at 10 o’clock last Saturday
morning with a large number of
farmers present to discuss the
conservation of the present food
stuffs which have been raised and
also to secure pledges from farm
ers that they would plant a given
number of acres of wheat this fall.
The indications are if the war
lasts through next year that the
South will get no flour unless we
raise the wheat to make it with
ourselves. Nearly every farmer
present at the meeting agreed to
plant from one to ten acres of
wheat and assurances were made
them that there would be plenty of
threshing machinery and flour
mills to thresh and grind every
bushel made.
Democracy’s Industrial Army.
Democracy's first great victory
in the world war has been won with
hammer and saw.
One hundred thousand men, the
greatest industrial army ever re
cruited in the western world for
such an emergency undertaking,
has, within Tittle less than two
months, constructed over 24,000
buildings for housing the new
national defense forces during
their period of training for service
in France. So, when the selective
army is called into service it will
find, ready and waiting, the most
complete and perfect quarters ever
erected for a fighting organization.
With cantonments, national
guard camps and aviation stations
completed or nearing completion at
half a hundred points in the United
States, there is now being brought
to a close not alone the most re
markable record of building ac
hievement in the history of the
country, if not in the world, but the
most stirring chapter of activity
ever recorded in the Southern pine
lumber industry.
The South, and the Southern
pine industry in particular, can de
rive special satisfaction from the
success of the great undertaking,
for the lumberman, to a greater
extent perhaps than any other
class, was called on to “do his bit"
in connection with this work.
Lumber was the one big item that
nau to De proviueu piompuy anu in
immense quantities, and the gov
ernment early called on the lumber
industry, with its tremendous re
sources, to furnish the major por
tion of wood needed. In fulfill
ment of these requirements, ap
proximately 200,000,000 feet of
Southern pine has gone into the
construction of cantonments and
smaller camps, to haul which there
has been required over 10,000
freight cars, or between 238 and
250 solid train loads of lumber.
All this lumber has been moved
without disturbing the domestic
market, or causing price advances.
A man's virtue can never be
taken from him; it is the only thing
that he gives himself.
BtITLK FARMING HINTS. i*
PLANT TURNIPS FOR FEED.
“Turnips as a stock food has
been overlooked by Arkansas cat
tle raisers. This is a mistake,
especially in cases where the stock
man is not provided with a silo,”
says J. H. McLeod, livestock spec
ialist, University of Arkansas.
‘‘Because it has been found, so far
as dairy cattle are concerned, that
turnips are just as valuable for
market production as silage; in
fact, where men have dairy cows
on test, they usually prefer the
roots to the silage in pushing their
cows to the highest record.
“Turnips are very watery, but it
has been found that pound for
pound of dry matter, that the dry
matter in the turnips is just a val
uable as the dry matter in grain.
Aside from the food value which
turnips contain, they are very ben
eficial as a tonic for the animal.
They are especially helpful in keep
ing breeding caitle, sheep and
swine in prime condition. Turnips
should be fed to dairy cattle di
rectly after milking. They will
taint the milk if fed previous to the
milking period. The suggestion
for raising turnips is not given to
lead one to believe that it would
pay better to raise turnips than to
raise silage; for, although the food
value of silage and turnips is about
equal, it costs mucn less to handle
silage than it does to handle fhe
turnips. The raising of turnips
will be more profitable to those
people who have not a sufficient
| number of cattle to justify the
j building of a silo.”
MAKE FULL USE OF HAY CROP.
It is likely that feed will be
! scarce and grain very high priced
this winter; consequently, all farm
ers should make full use of the hay
crop. In many sections of the
state good hay is going to waste
along the roadside and the railroad
right-of-way. This hay should be
cut and stored for winter use, since
it will not only mean a great saving
but will enable the farmers to car
ry their stock through the winter
in much better condition than if
they were allowed to depend upon
range or pasture altogether.
SAVE THE GRAIN,
“Sow winter pasture crops, such
as wheat, oats and rye and con
serve both grain and hay in order
that these crops may be released
for other uses,’’ says S. P. Welgart,
district agent, Extension Division.
“Supplement the corn crop with a
winter oat crop so that there may
be a surplus of corn to feed the
live stock engaged in timber and
other industries.
“Put up an ample supply of corn
fodder so that this product may
take the place of hay. not only
saving the necessity of shipping in
hay the coming season, but in order
to conserve the supply for other
uses. Thousands of cars of hay
are shipped into the state every
year; and yet there has been corn
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LIQUID FACE POWDER
and use according to simple dire<5tions. Improve
tnrnt is noticed at once. Soothing, cooling and
refreshing. Heals Sunburn, stops Tan.
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fodder enough grown in Arkansas
each season to feed every animal
the state possesses. This is a
mistake. Why not adopt a better
farming practice?”
SUGGESTIONS FOR COTTON FARMERS.
The state produced 1,134.000
bales of cotton in 1916, worth ap
proximately $100,000,000. It is
safe to estimate that on such a
crop no less than $5,000,000
would have been saved by observ
ing the six cotton “Don'ts" by A.
E. Ayers, cotton specialist, Univer
sity of Arkansas:
Don’t let open cotton remain in
the field.
Don’t harvest any more trash
than can be avoided.
Don’t mix inferior cotton with
that of better quality.
Don’t pile picked cotton on the
ground in the open.
Don’t gin damp cotton.
Don’t allow baled cotton to take
the weather.
CUT AND SHOCK PART OF CORN.
Farmers should cut and shock
part of their corn at a stage of
growth about a week later than
fodder pulling time in order that
they may be able to prepare this
land early for wheat, oats or rye
this fall. Farmers who expect to
put in small grain will find it diffi
cult to prepare the ground in time
unless they cut and shock their
corn.
SUGGESTIONS TO WHEAT GROWERS.
“Farmers who expect to put in
wheat in addition to thorough prep
aration of the land, should buy the
best seed they can possibly get,
whether they are going to put in
one or fifty acres,” is the opinitiv
of the specialists of the University
of Arkansas. Because in order to
insure a successful crop, seed
must be viable (alive) and must be
free from weed seed and 'be a good
producing variety. In order to se
cure seed of this kind, the farmer
can expect to pay a good price for
it. Those who will use the seed
grown in the home community
should remember to clean it thor
oughly before planting. To clean
wheat properly, a fanning mill must
be used; consequently, several
farmers in the same neighborhood
should go together and buy a fan
ning mill, the cost of which will
vary, depending upon the size and
make. Where only a small acre
age is to be put to wheat, grain
drills should be purchased in the
same way, since it is better to plant
wheat with a grain drill than to
sow it broadcast. Broadcasting is
a poor practice, according to the
results obtained at the Arkansas
Experiment station, where wheat
put in with a grain drill has pro
duced on an average of three and
one-half busheles per acre more
than when broadcasted.
Write to the Experiment Station
at Fayetteville, Arkansas, for
bulletins on wheat planting and the
best varieties for Arkansas condi
tions.
State of Ohio, City at Toledo.
Lucas Qounty, as
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
la senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo. County and State afore
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S
CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENET
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of Decem
ber. A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON,
(Seal) Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally and acts through the Blood on the
Mucous Surfaces of the System. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & OO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by al| druggists. 75o.
Hall’s Family Fill* for constipation.
Taught Him a Lesson.
“You can’t always Judge h.v appear
ances." "I just had n costly demon
stration of tiiat fact. Because I saw
Flubdub chewing a toothpick, I
thought It would he safe to invite
him to lunch. But he went right
along and hung me up for an expen
sive lot of grub."—Kunsus City Jour
nal.
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failures. Look around at the failures and near failures that
you know, and you will find that they are men who were
indifferent as to their future and spent their earnings
thoughtlessly.
A man need not be declared bankrupt by court or
have his business closed by creditors to be a failure. If for
long years you have had the health and strength to earn a
good salary, but now have nothing to show for it you are a
failure. Perhaps you consider you never had a fair chance.
The man who saves his money makes his own chance. By
his thrift he establishes a good standing with successful
business men and his savings enables him to get into busi
ness with them where lie can make good. Just stop a mo
ment and see if you are not, through indefference, letting
your earnings slip away from you to be deposited by some
one else. Resolve today to begin building for your future
business success. Do not be indifferent, but make a start
by determining to deposit a part of all your earnings with
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