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VOL. VIII. NO. 22.
HUTTIG ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1911..
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BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MEETING
Sixty-Ninth Annual Gathering of Liberty Bap
tists Was Very Interesting.
The Liberty Baptist Association,
composed of 45 churches in Union
and Ouachita counties, held its
sixty-ninth annual meeting in Hut
tig on last Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
Thirty-five of the churches sent
Messengers or letters and about
80 delegates were in attendance.
The introductory sermon was de
livered Thursday evening by Rev.
Alfred Worthington, of El Dorado.
The following officers were elect
ed and had charge of the business
of the meeting: Dr. W. A. Moore,
of Junction City, Moderator: Geo.
W Mason, of El Dorado, Clerk, ai d
B. F. Rogers, of Elliott. Treasurer.
The sessions of the Association
were harmonious throughout and
able discussions were had on such
topics as missions of various kinds,
Christian education, Sunday school,
voung people's and women’s work,
as well as local church problems,
and all in attendance gained many
useful suggestions to be profited
by on their return to their various
homes and churches.
Special interesting features were
solos by Rev. A. A. Williamson, of
Junction City; stirring addresses
by Dr. R. M. [nlow, general secre
tary of the Baptist mission work in
Arkansas, and Dr. S. Y. Jameson,
president of Ouachita college, who
talked concerning the crisis facing
Ouachita on account of the debt
hanging over it and brought home '
the fact forceabiv why the debt
must be paid.
Rev. W. M. Wright, of Camden,
preached an able sermon on mis
* turns slsv«n o’clock Friday
morning and Rev. N O. Hornsby,
of Cecil, La., preached at the
eleven o’clock hour Saturday morn
ing.
Gov. Geo. W. Hays, Moderator
of this body for several years past,
arrived in Huttig Saturday after
noon and was accorded a hearty
welcome. The governor and Miss
Myrtle Hoffman, state organizer of
the Woman’s Missionary Union, ad
dressed the Association Saturday
evening and both said many help
ful things.
Rev. Geren, of El Dorado, and
Rev. Hester, of Strong, occupied
the pulpit at the Baptist church
Sunday morning and evening and
Rev. W. F. Warren, a siudent of
Ouachita college at Arkadelphia,
and Rev. W. M. Wright, of Camden,
the pulpit at the Methodist church.
The reports of the delegates at
tending showed that there had been
295 additions to the membership
of the various churches and much
missionary and charitable work
done the past year.
A large number of .adies repre- '
senting the various Woman’s Mis
sionary Unions were present and
held their meetings in the basement
of the church. Miss Myrtle Hoff-.
man, the state organizer, with
headquarters at Little Rock, was
present and made several interest
ing addresses. The report of the
president, Mrp. Aylmer Flenniken ;
of El Dorado, showed what a great
work the women are doing and the ,
assistance they render the various
churches. The Huttig society was ,
given the banner for having raised
the most money of any society in
the association for the past year, j
The following officers were elected
for the coming year: Mrs. A.
Flenniken, of El Dorado, president;
Mrs. A. P. Kirby, of Strong, first
vice-president; Mrs. Wood, of Cam
den, second vice-president; Mrs. C. j
Howard, of Huttig, secretary.
Union church, eight miles east
of El Dorado, and the Junction City j
church asked for the next meeting.
The honor of entertaining went to
Junction City and the meeting will
convene on Thursday before the
fourth Sunday in September. 1915.
All the delegates present de
clared they had never received
more courteous and hospitable
treatment than was accorded them
here and each claimed to be located
in the best home in town.
Itiittig School Report.
The Huttig school opened Mon
day with a larger attendance than
ever. Wednesday Miss Ballard
had 67 pupils on the roll in the
first and second grades; Miss Pon
der had 44 in the third and fourth
grades; Miss Baldwin had 42 in
the fifth and sixth grades, and in
the Principal’s room there were
24 in the seventh, eighth and ninth
grades. As there are not enough
desks for all the pupils, in some
cases two have been given a single
seat for awhile.
Most of the children had enrolled
Saturday, and Monday the teach
ers were able to give their time to
organizing the classes. The first
days of the week were taken up in
finding out how many books were
needed by the children, and on
Wednesday we were able to make
out an order for all that are need
ed at present. These books will
be shipped in time for the children
to get them for Monday morning,
when work will begin in earnest.
Laboratory work in agriculture,
botany, zoology and other sciences
requires the student to make draw
ings showing much of his work.
As a teacher of mathematics and
science we have found that one of
the greatest of the student's trou
bles has been his inability to do
this, because he has not been
taught drawing in the lower grades.
So following the lead of the better
schools, we are placing drawing in
the grades. We will not teach it
to make artists, but keep in mind
the future need of the pupil when I
he takes up laboratory work. ItJ
will be given on alternating days
with pennmanship.
It is too bad that our report of
attendance for the first three days
shows 5 tardies on Tuesday and 10
on Wednesday. Too much cannot
be said against tardiness. The
tardy pupil missee the first study
period and recitation. In nearly all
cases he takes an extra year in
his school life making up the time
lost, or graduates at the foot of his
class. Frequently he becomes dis
couraged or loses interest and
drops out of school entirely.
Let us all be punctual. Let us
all pull togerher and make this the
best school we have ever had.
A. J. Dowis. Principal.
Annual Library Meeting.
All persons interested in the
Huttig Public Library are earnest
ly requested to attend the annual
meeting of the patrons for the pur
pose of electing a new library board
to have charge of things for the
coming year and such other busi
ness as may come before the meet
ing. at the library on Monday night,
October 5, at 7:30 o’c’ock.
Methodist Church Services
The following services will be
held at Union church Sunday: Sun
day school at 10:00 a. m. Preach
ing at 1 1 a. m. and 7:Z>0 p. m. by
the pastor. A cordial invitation is
extended to all to attend these
services.
Rev. J. R. Rushing Pastor.
lhe Magic Washing Stick.
“The Magic Washing Stick is
just fine. It did just what you said
it would do and the clothes were so
nice and white with afi that hard
rubbing left off," writes Mrs. Sarah
Goodale. Preston, Texas The
Magic Stick is not a soap nor a
washing powder. Sold by grocers
and druggists, three 10c sticks for
25c. or by mail from A. B. Richards
Medicine Co , Sherman, Tex.
Selection of Seed Con.
Ev°ry year there are farmers in
almost every community who want
to bu/ seed corn. Someti nes v. e
think that surely Illinois or some
other foreign grown corn is better
than any seed corn we can get in
Arkansas. The best seed corn for
Arkansas is Arkansas corn and in
the majority of cases the best f r
very farmer is the corn that he
might have selected in the fall
from his own field. We cannot de
pend upon the statements of seed
dealers in every case but we can
depend upon the appearance of the
ear and stalk in our own fields.
The corn for seed often may be se
lected in the spring from the crib
without knowing anything about
what kind of stalk the ear came
from, but experiment has proven
this method to be a failure. It is
unfortunately true that the great;
majority of seed corn in Arkansas'
is selected from the crib at random. '
The corn farmers of the North!
would not think of taking such!
chances with their crop. They
have learned by experience that
the first b g step toward success |
with corn is to go to some trouble
to select good ears with good ker
nels from good stalks in the fall
and to test these selected ears for
germination before they plant in
the spring.
«rkansas has never been very
high in the rank of corn producing j
states because we have not given '
much study to the culture of corn.!
We have been satisfied by a slight
care for corn and direct our studies
along other lines. Next year the
cotton acreage will be cut down
and necessarily must be cut. We
should therefore prepare for an in
creased corn crop. The proper
way to prepare for it is to select
s'eed this fall.
Go into the field after the corn
has ripened and select your seed
corn with these points in view,
good stalks, good ears and good
kernels. Get the good ears from
the good stalks and then you can
select from that lot afterwards, i
when you come to consider the !
kernels. A good stalk should be
thick at the base, have well devel
oped roots and the stalk should
gradually taper toward the top. It
should have no suckers and should
have at least one good ear about
the middle of the stalk. The leaves
should be well developed and there j
should be about 14 of them. The
ear should be attached to the stalk
by a shank which should not be
over about five inches long. The
stalk should not be abnormally tall.
Both the ear and the stalk should
be free from disease. You should
remember that you will have next
year a stalk very similar to the one
from which your seed corn comes.
A good ear should have well filled
ends. The cob should be an aver
age cob and should be as nearly
uniform as possible from one end
to the other. The kernels should
fit close together and uniformly on
all parts of the cob. The ideal ear
of corn should be kept in mind in
shlecting the ears. ^The kernels
that are wedge-shaped are the
most desirable. It is much better
to select the seed corn because of
the length of the Kernel than it is
to select it because of the small
ness of the co\ In selecting for a
small cod you eventually select
small ears. Soft chaffy kernels
are not desirable. Begin now to
make preparations for a good corn
crop next year by selecting your
seed corn from the field this fall.
John H. Page.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
The Work a Watch Does.
Out of sight, out of mind, is par
ticularly true in regard to the
mechanism of a watch, and even
those interested in mechanical
matters seldom consider the
amount of work performed by th s
useful little piece of machinery.
Take the balance wheel, for exarn
1 Die. In the average watch this vi
j brates 300 t mes a minute. I 8.CC 0
times each hour, 45'.-? 000 a day
and 157,788,000 times a >''ar.!
As each vibration covers about one
and a half revolutions, the shaft on
which the balance wheel is mount
j ed makes 236,682.000 revolutions
in its bearings each year. Com
i pare this with a modern locomotive
with 7-foot drivers, which would
have to run 985.824 miles to make
an equal number of revolutions:
and. running at the rate of a mile a
minute, without stopping, it would
take 683 days, or nearly two years
for the axle of the drive wheel of
the locomotive to make as many j
revolutions as the balance wheel !
shaft of the watch does in one!
year, •’nd it would cover a distance
of over 39 times around the world.
Scientific American.
Things We Think
Thiny; Others Think, and Whet We ihink
of the Thlnys Others Ihink.
The preacher who fills his pews
every Sunday fifty-two weeks in
the year, performs a harder task
than the lecture platform orator
who draws large crowds at every
stop, always with the same old talk
that has been polished up a little
bit after each delivery.
A woman has secured a divorce '
on the ground that her husband j
talked too much. Women has cer- j
tain prerogatives that must be re
spected.
We don’t see why we haven't as
much business sagacity as most of
those who have succeeded. That's
what the successful ones thought
but they didn't sit around talking'
about it.
Why can't older folks be like a1
child who turns to caress the one J
who has administered deserved
punishment?
An argument for prohibition::
Were it not for the fact that so
many girls get intoxicated with
love, few of them would get
married.
If the war spreads over much
more of the eastern world, there
will be no argument left for a tariff
high enough to keep out foreign
made goods.
To make a temporary optimist of
a pessimist, get him to run for
office.
Some people seem to have a
grudge against everybody, them
selves included. In the latter case
it seems excusable.
When we look at some people
and cog'tate upon the statement
that man is the nobles'- work of
God. we can t help feeling that
man himself is not as easily satis
fied as his creator.
When young folks figure that
two can live as cheaply as one,
they must use the amount they
consume gastronomically while m
love as the basis of computation.
Some self-made men shouldn't |
mention the fact when looking foi
a job. j
A man will do anything a woman i
wants him to do if she will go at'
him the way he wants her to.
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