THE IUITTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Huttlg, Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3, 1 907 at
the postofhce at Huttig. Ark., under the act of Con
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Saturday, August 3, 1912.
TOWN OEFICIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
tig:
Mayor—C. A. Berry.
Recorder—W. H. Moore.
Marshal—Thos. Ashcroft.
Aldermen—L. F. Magee, J. W. Perritt.
J B. Crockett, P. H. Pitts and D. F.
Collett
Board of Education W. H. Moore, F.
W. Scott, C. T. Thompson, E. N. Collett.
L. G. Gibson and L. F. Magee.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For President Woodrow Wilson
For Vice President Thomas Marshall
Governor .... .Joe T. Robinson
Secretary of State Earle W. Hodges
Attorney General wm. L, Moose
State Treasurer John W. Crockett
State Auditor.J. M. Oathout
Supt. Public Instruction.. Geo. B. Cook
Com. State Lands R. G. Dye
Com. Mines, Mfgs., Etc. ... John H. Page
Chief Justice Supreme Court.E. A McCullough
Associate Justice, . Frank Smith
Railroad Commissioner W. F. McKnight
Congressman . W. S. Goodwin
Prosecuting Attorney E. O. Mahony
State Senator J. Monroe Smith
Representative . W. J. Pinson
County Judge..W. M. VanHook
Sheriff . J. M. Wallace
Circuit Clerk B. F. Miles
County Clerk ... ... ... ... J. M. McCain
County Treasurer. Finn Craig
Assessor W. H. Mathews, jr
Coroner ... T. M. Pinson
Surveyor . Levi Graham
Don't be a knocker unless you
are born that way; if you are. there
is no cure for your ailment.
If all political candidates would
make good in the promises they
make to the dear voters before
election what a great old world
this would be.
St. Louis has a hale and hearty
citizen of 80 who claims he never
has consulted a physician. Never
theless. the undertaker will nail
him at the finish.
Our idea of economy is that
shown by the man who can make
up his mind to buy a winter over
coat at a reduced price in the mer
ry melting month of July.
A man who has lived through
the fashion fads of the past twenty
years is not going into hysterics
just because women insist upon
wearing the “tube" skirt.
The chances for making a geta
way nowadays after pulling off a
criminal stunt are so remote that
one wonders why the raw material
never gets any scarcer.
Two Texans became involved in
an argument over religion and one
of them was shot to death. He lost
the argument, but he is in a possi
tion to know more about religion
than the winner.
In spite of the fact that express
trains come together occasionally
resulting in death and disaster, it
should be borne in mind that riding
on trains is*a great deal safer than
joy-riding in an automobile or vol
planing to earth in an aeroplane.
A lot of well meaning people who
are supporting the tariff would
have you believe that you needn't
worry over its exactions unless
you wear silk socks and drink
champaigne. but the average voter
thinks a good deal when he buys a
suit of clothes or a pair of shoes
now. _
Grass and good livestock go to
gether. Where one is found, the
other is almost certain to be. The
farmer from other sections is very
likely to comment unfavorably on
the poor stock of the South and the
bare or brush and weed-grown
fields. Probably no other one
thing has done more to discourage
immigration from other sections
than has the endless stretch of
bare fields which the winter travel
er sees throughout the Cotton
Belt. Yotthe cotton farmer has
to fight grass with all his might to
keep it from growing. Isn't it time
for a change of policy? -The Pro
gressive Farmer.
In the Teeth
of the Storm
fty CLARA INEZ DACON
"Coula you tell me, Mrs. Clates,
where i can find a laundress—a really
good laundress?” Miss Ritchdon
queried, somewhat diffidently of her
summer landlady, who was placidly
bending over her cook stove in a
temperature of about 100 degrees
Fahrenheit.
‘‘Well, now,” returned Mrs. Clates,
with a finely expansive air, “I’d do it
In a minute just to accommodate, but
I’m expecting company of my own
next week to say nothing of roomers,
and I don’t see how I could. Maybe—
she’s a laundress that would suit any
body, but I don’t know; I s’pose you
could try her—some folks get along
with ner all right—” she paused.
"Who is she, please?” inquired Miss
Ritchdon curiously. “And what's the
matter with her?”
“She’:. Rosetta Prent, and—well,
she’s one of the best, but she’s a little
—queer.”
“Oh, if that’s all!” returned Miss
Ititchdc n, with evident relief. “Please
give me her address; I'll go at once.”
Miss Ritchdon heaved a little sigh
as she went along, glancing out over
the blue water o’ the harbor, dotted
with yachts and buzzing with motor
boats.
Rut Geoffrey had accused her—Iola
Ritchdon—of flirting! Well, a girl
must be civil, even to men, as she had
told Geoffrey, who had retorted—well,
who cared for what Geoffrey had said
or for Geoffrey, for the matter of that?
Thanks to the efforts of several
neighbors. Miss Ritchdon finally found
Miss Prent's house, perched as It was
on a precipitous ledge, cat-a-qornered
to the street. Miss Prent appeared
at the door.
“It's all of ten o’clock In the morn
ing," she announced in rather severe
tones. “There’s boats in the harbor,
too. You come righf along after me.”
She mounted the stairs with consider
able alacrity and Miss Ritchdon fol
lowed, wondering.
“What a charming view!” she re
marked with disarming graciousness
as she entered the room.
Her hostess turned towards her with
lackluster eyes and a tremulous face.
“I’m waiting and watching, deary;
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waiting and watrhing,” she quavered,
in a voice that had lost all its irrita
bility. "Had any news, deary?” she in
quired eagerly.
“I’ve brought some things for you to
wash and iron, if you will.” Miss
Ritchdon felt that this matter-of-fact
statement might lessen Miss Trent's
queern^ss, and so it proved.
Miss Prent undid the bundle with
practiced fingers. “You want 'em done
up?” she queried. “I'll have to charge
you 12 cents apiece for the waists ,and
I dqnno's I ought to take less'n 15
cents for the skirts.”
“Oil, I m sure 1 shan't quarrel,” be
gan Miss Ritchdon; but Miss Prent
checked her with a little cry:
“1 didn't mean to quarreT with
Steve! no, 1 didn't. Set down, set
down!” she went on hastily, “and I'll
tell you all about it. You see”—she
stopped, her eyes wandering wistfully
out of the window. “But there! He
knows it's all right, he knows. Just 10 |
o'clock in the morning, deary, and a
man and a girl and a foolish word He
sailed away on the fastest schooner in
the fleet and he'll come a-sailing back
some day, I know! I’m watching."
Miss Ritchdon went down the nar- j
row staircase with a dull terror at her !
heart against which she strove vainly j
The tiff between Geoffrey Kenton and ;
herself had never struck her as ser!
ous—she had vaguely imagined a j
reconciliation; now it suddenly oc
curred to her that life without Geoffrey
would be dreary indeed. Was she to
wait and watch through the years that
awaited her. as that poor creature had
done, maundering her tale, half wit
less, in a stranger's ear?
A sudden gust of wind swept by her,
chill and salt from the sea; the light
grayed; a multitude of small clouds
thicKened overhead. She hurried along
into the house.
“My! You look real pinched!” ejac
ulated Mrs. elates. “Wind's gone east,
ain't it? And there’s a mackerel sky.
sure sign of a storm. Well, how'd you
make out with Miss Trent? Could 3he
do ’em?”
“Yes. She said they'd be ready Sat
urday " Miss Richardson spoke with 1
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an effort and Mrs. dates looked at
her curiously.
“Miss Prent’s been telling you about
Steve Mnpton?" she queried. “She’s
pretty doleful at times. You see, she
and Steve set everything by each
other and—”
"I—I guess I’d better go upstairs.
Mrs. dates, and get on something
thicker,” Miss Rltchdon interrupted.
“It’s growing rather cool.”
"Well, maybe you had,” returned
Mrs. dates, with a hint of vexation in
her tone.
The wind steadily increased during
the afiernon and by supper time it
was blowing a stiff gale.
” ’Tain't often we have a harder
blow than this, even in winter,” re
marked Capt. dates. "Guess you’d
better not go out for supper, Miss
Ritchdon—you might blow away; sup
per's all ready, we have it at half after
five, summer ’n’ winter. Seems like the
middle of the afternoon, this time of
year.”
Miss Ritchdon, nothing loath, took a
seat at the hospitable table, shivering
a little at every howl of the wind as it
rattled the windows on the eastward
side.
its a ary storm, went on the cap
tain, and his voice had a suggestion of
the quarter deck. “There'll be some
wrecks before tomorrow morning if
this wind holds, and there ain't no
sigh of its dropping. Scott!’’ he ex
claimed, as the door burst open and
the wind sent the Harmerston Weekly
flying about the room. “Bear a hand
lively, Persia! And you, Miss Ritch
don, cirtch hold and shove! We’ve got
to get the door to or the winders will
blow out, and then where’ll we be?”
There came a moment’s lull and the
three pushed the door shut, while
Capt. dates hurriedly shoved a heavy
chest against it and wiped his fore
head. "Don't recollect that ever hap
pened before—and summer, too!” he
exclaimed. “Guess folks will stay in
doors to-night!” He stopped and
seemed to listen. “Hark!” he whis
pered. “Thj bell's ringing on the life
saving station. There's a vessel In dis
tress—maybe it’s a wreck—”
Miss Ritchdon sprang to her feet.
“Oh! I can’t sit here!” she cried.
"Can't i go out—out where I can see
—for myself?”
The captain regarded her with dis
favor. “Well, 1 don't see why any sen
sible girl,” he began, protestingly, but
a look from his wife checked him.
"Hr—well, if you’re set on It, Miss
Ritchdon, I s'pose I can manage it,
but it’ll be a pretty hard beat to wind
'ard. You get into your sweater—a
shawl’s no good—a hat? My, all the
hatpins you could stick in wouldn't
hold it on! Put on a hood and tie it
tight, too. We'll go out the back
door.”
The two struggled down to a bluff
commanding the harbor, buffeted by
the wind that tugged at Miss Ritch
don’s skirts, as if seeking to hold her
back. The sea was pounding on the
rocks below them, and its foam flew
high, smiting them with a sudden on
slaught of spray at every fiercer gust.
Capt. Clates drew the girl behind a
projecting shoulder of rock. "That’s
a mite tetter,” he panted. “Where’s
the boat?” he inquired of a bystander
“There she is—just outside, a big
schooner-yacht.”
Capt. Clates shook his head. “She'll
never make it in this gale, Jack; she
can’t clear the point.”
“Guess you’re right, captain,” re
joined Jack Somers, deferentially.
A hoarse shout came from the
shingly beach below them as the life
saving crew made its appearance
dragging a mortar into position, while
a crowd oi hardy sailors, more burly
than ever in their sou'westers and
cork belts, shoved the lifeboat into a
welter of foam, scrambling aboard at
the last moment to send their boat
seaward with mighty oar strokes.
“Any notion whose yacht it is?”
queried Capt. Clates.
Off on a cruise two weeks back—
name 's Kenton,” Somers responded.
“Ah!” Iola Ritchdon's voice went
out in a sharp cry. "Geoffrey Kenton
was my friend—my lover—”
"My pity and grief!'’ muttered Capt.
dates, turning toward the girl who
cowered by his side.
Somers gave a sudden shout of con
sternation. "What's that blamed idiot
up to, anyway?” he erfed excitedly.
"He couldn't beat to wind'ard long
enough on the old tack to make the
channel, and now he's fell off and
a-running before the wind into shoal
water!”
Miss Ritchdon felt a hand laid gen
tly upon her shoulder and, looking up,
she saw Rosetta Frent’s face, no
longer anxious, with wandering gaze,
but calm and confident.
"Don't be afraid, deary!” The voice
was lull, sweet and compelling. "It's
Steve that's steering that yacht. He
was the only one in the whole fleet
that knew the harbor well enough to
dare to take his schooner through
Half Tide Cut, where that yacht is
coming in. Steve’s a-coming home to
me.”
"She can't make it!” cried Somers,
despairingly, but even as he spoke the
elose-reefet yacht scudded in before
the wind with scarcely a foot to spare
between her hull and the angry reefs
to leeward and, racing defiantly to her
moorings, lowered her sails and let go
her anchor, while the lifeboat men
pulled alongside with a cheer.
Two men slid from the pitching
deck of the yacht into the lifeboat,
which came bounding landward over
the tossing waves.
"Geoffrey!” cried Miss Ritchdon. as
a bronzed young fellow dashed up the
long flight of wooden stairs to catch
both her heads in his; but no word
■ante from Rosetta Front's lips as she
vent quietly to the grizzled man who
oliow id him. She laid her head upon
fiia breast.
Colored Column
Baptist Church.
Huttig Baptist church has services
every 1st and 3rd Sunday morning at 1 1
o'clock. T H Evans, Pastor.
Preaching every third and fourth Sun
day at Smith Chapel.
M F Holley, pastor
Lizzie Brown, secretary
The Baptist Sunday School meets ev
ery Sunday morning at S:30 o'clock. All
welcome to attend.
Sanders Simmons, Supt.
J S Jones, Secy.
The B. Y. P. U. meets every Sunday
afternoon at 5:30.
Prof, 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. Hardor., 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
lodge Directory.
GOOD LUCK LODGE No. 259 F. &
A. M meets First and Fourth Saturday
night. All visitors welcome.
J. S. Jones, W. M.
S. L. Gleen, Sec.
Roosevelt Chapter, No. 188. Order of
i the Eastern Star, meets every second
and fourth Tuesday in each month.
Mrs. C. Williams, W. M.
Emma Bearl. Secy.
BLUE LIGHT LODGE No 153 K.ofP.
meets First and Third Tuesday in each
month. J B Francis, C. C.
Sanders Simmons, K. of R. S.
LEBANON, No. 41, R. A. M. meets
fourth Thursday evening in each month,
at 7:30. Joe Scott, H. P.
John Law. Secy.
EAST LAKE LODGE No. 6362 G.
U. 0. of 0. F. meets First and Third
Thursday in each month.
G. W. Smith, N. G.
W. I. Henry, P. S.
ELECTRIC LIGHT COURT OF CA
LANTHE, No. 70, meets first and third
Tuesday in each month at 1:46 p. m.
Mrs. Sanders Simmons. W. C.
Queen E. Tate. R. D.
HOUSEHOLD RUTH, No. 2990. of
G. U. O. of O. F., meets the first and
third Thursday in each month at 1:50
p. m. Laura Sims, M. N.G.
Cornelia Peoples, W. R.
SPINOLA Lodge No. 261, C. W. of
A., meets every first and third Wednes
day night at 8 o'clock.
W. I. Henry, Gov.
S. G. Crayton. Secy.
Board of Education W. A. High,
president: W. M. McCormick, vice presi
dent: Joe Scott, treasurer; Prof. L. S.
Scroggins, secretary; Lonnie Poole, as
sistant secretary.
Royal Circle of Friends, R. A.Williams
No. 524, meets every first and third
Friday night. All visiting friends are
welcome. S. S. Simmons, President.
Lula Oliver. Secretary.
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Oscar Warren
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days, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff,
Pearl Warren. This July 1 8th, 1912.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THU
CONSTITUTION OF IKS STATE
OF ARKANSAS.
Notice Is hereby given that the fol
lowing joint resolution proposing an
Amendment to the State Constitution,
was passed by the General Assembly at
its regular session of 1911. and that
the same will be submitted to the
electors of the State at the next
general election, to be held Monday.
September 9, 1912, for adoption or re
jection.
Proposed Amendment No. 11.
That the following article shall be
proposed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of tiie State of Arkansas,
which, when agreed to by a majority of
all the members elected to ea«*h House
and adopted by a majority o»f the elec
tors of the State voting at the next
general election for senators and rep
resentatives, shall become a part of the
Constitution of Arkansas.
“Every male citizen of the United
States, or every male person who has
declared his intention of becoming a
citizen of the same, of the age of
twenty-one years or upward, who has
resided in the State twelve months, in
the county six months, and in the pre
cinct, town or ward one month next
preceding any election at which he may
propose to vote, and who is able to read
and Interpret, or interpret when read
to him, if he is prevented from read
ing the same by reason of any physi
cal disability, any section of the Consti
tution of the State of Arkansas, except
such persons as may. for the commis
sion of some felony, t>« deprived of the ;
right to vote by law passed by the Gen
eral Assembly, and who shall exhibit a
poll tax receipt or other evidence that
he has paid his poll tax at the time of
collecting taxes next preceding such
election, shall be allowed to vote at any
election held in the State of Arkansas;
but no person who was. on January 1.
IXtJB, or at any time prior thereto, en
titled to vote under the Constitution or
statutes of any State in the United
States, wherein he then resided, and no
male person of foreign birth who was
naturalized prior to the adoption of
this amendment, and no lineal descend
ant of such person, wno^hall possess
tiie other qualifications described in this
article, shall be denied the right to
vote because of his inability to so read
and interpret sections of the Consti
tution of this State; provided, that male
persons who make satisfactory proof
that they have attained the age of
twenty-one years since the time .
for assessing the taxes for the
year next preceding the year in
which the election at which he
may propose to vote is held, and pos
sesses the other qualifications required
by this article shall permitted to
vote; and. provided, further, that the
said tax receipt shall he so marked by
dated stamp or other written endorse
ment by the judges of election to whom
it may first be presented, as to pre
vent the holder thereof from voting
more than onrp at any election.
The judges of election shall enforce
the provisions of this article and shall
be the Judges of the qualifications of
electors.”
The above resolution was filed in the
office of the Secretary of State on
March 16. 1911.
Each elector may vote for or against
the above amendment.
Witness my official signature this
12th day of February, 1912.
KAHLE W. HODGES,
Secretary of State.
(Seal.)
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LODGE DIHLCTORY.
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. R. Duncan, V/. 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.
C. T Thompson, H. P.
C. A. Berry, 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. W. H. Moore, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson. Sec’y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 1. 0. 0. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
T. P. Millstead, N. G.
M. H. Ciaybaugh, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every second and fourth Wednes
day night at 7:30 o'clock. Visitors are
invited. Mrs. G. C. Waller, N. G.
Mrs. J. C. Phillips. Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 411 W.O. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
J. R. Sims, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
SWEET BAY GROVE. No. 145. W.
C.. meets every first and third Wednes
day afternoon in each month. Visitors
always welcome.
Mrs. C. A. McCormick. Guardatn.
Mrs. J. C. Bridges. Clerk.
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