THE HUTTIG NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. XI. NO. 17
HUTT1G. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 25. 191?.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
** BETTER FARMING HINTS. ^
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SAVE FARM MACHINERY.
Only recently, a manufacturer
of farm implements told the writer
tiatp'.-'ron which f rmerly sold
for $8 a ton is now selling for more
than $58 a ton, and th=»t this in
crease in price will practically pro
hibit the manufacture of a great
number of cheaper grades of farm
implements next year. Conse
quently, it will pay to take good
care of those which you now pos
sess. Don’t forget that the open
air machinery shed offers very lit
tle protection and that rust costs
the average land owner in this
state as much as the wear and tear
necessitated by actual work. Keep
the machinery greased and under
shelter if you expect to have any
thing to work with in the next two
or three years. It probably will
not be a question of price altogeth
er, since, if pig-iron is not availa
ble, the manufacturers cannot
make machinery regardless of
what the farmer is willing and able
to pay for it.
HANDLE SWEET POTATOES CAREFULLY.
It will soon be time to b?gin dig
ging the sweet potato crop. Why
not get busy and build a suitable
storage house or shed. Now is
about as good a time as the farmer
has for such work which will sure
ly pay this season. Let us put
forth every effort to save the sweet
potato crop, remembering that
successful storage may be said to
depend upon several factors:
1. The maturity of potatoes at
time of digging.
2. Proper drying out of the po
tatoes shortly after they are
dug.
3. Freedom from disease and
serious bruises when placed
in storage.
The pit or bank method of stor
ing the crop is very satisfactory for
the small home grower. A de
scription of this method and plans
and suggestions for building wood
store houses may be secured by
writing to J. S. Knox, Extension
Division, Fayetteville, Ark.
PLAN FOR WINTER PASTURES.
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With all kinds of grain needed
for human consumption and com
manding exceptionally high prices,
farmers should plan to put in more
wheat, rye and oats for cover crops
and winter pastures. Everyone
should have enough winter pasture
for all of his livestock. One of the
best crops to be sowed for fall,
winter and early spring pasture is
rye. This serial is very hardy and
seldom winter kills in this state.
It makes a rapid growth and does
well during weather too cool for
wheat or oats. As a green manure
crop it is ready to be turned under
in the spring before either wheat or
oats. It is a very suitable crop to
be planted between rows of cotton,
even on poor soil, for pasture or
green manure.
The Abruzzi variety, which is
becoming popular at least in the
Southern two-thirds of the state, is
somewhat earlier than common
rye and as a rule produces larger
and better grain. Abruzzi rve is
not as hardy as common rye in
Northern districts of the state.
Rye is usually planted at the rate
of four pecks per acre. It can be
planted somewhat later than wheat
but otherwise the culture is the
same.
Tell us the news for the News
Warm Paragraphs.
While the people of the United
States are burning up $30,000 an
hour through careless fires some
folks cuss the insurance companies
for increasing rates- and forget to
have the flue mended.
A Little Rock girl who started
the fire with gasoline last spring is
reported convalescing.
Between every two issues of a
weekly paper 154 persons go to
their death through fire in the
I United States and to list their
names would take an average
newspaper column. The possibili
ty of fire does not worry you or me
however, than it did the 154. You
and 1 don’t take any more precau
tions against fire than did the 154,
however.
The best way to rectify a scan
dal is to whip the editor who pub
lished it—if you can! That’s the
way some people argue, at least,
and that same brilliant reasoning
is discerned in the theory that the
best way to lower insurance rates
is to whip the insurance companies.
People who live in wooden
houses shouldn’t strew trash.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucas County, ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
Is 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. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of Decem
ber. A. D. 1SS6. 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 & CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists. 76c.
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Use Less Gasoline.
The subject of gasoline conser
vation, which is being emphasized
by the National Council of De
fense, has be*>n brought to the at
tention of the State Council. It is
estimated that 1,250,000,000 gal
lons of gasoline is used annually in
the United States and that half of
that amount is used in pleasure
riding. The United States armv
will need 350,000,000 gallons for
aeroplanes, trucks, automobiles,
tractors and other machines. This
cannot be obtained except by sav
ing the existing supply. If pleas
ure riding is cut down one-half,
there will be a sufficient saving to
supply not only the United States,
but its allies for war purposes.
The following suggestions are of
fered for the consideration of auto
motobile owners:
Reduce pleasure riding one-half.
Do not allow the gasoline engine
to run idle.
Use kerosene, not gasoline, for
cleaning purposes in the garage.
See that the carburetor does not
leak.
Form the habit of shutting off
the gasoline at the tank.
By judicious regulation of the
mixture of gasoline and air in the
motor, both greater power and
economy of fuel may be obtained.
Use cars for both business and
pleasure purposes thoughtfully and
judiciously.
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 3:00
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.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pay $50.00 as a reward to any
one, not in its employ, who will fur
nish information from which any
person shall be convicted of depre
dating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 1906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
* S*>c»’. and Trees
Gin first Bale.
Wade Cux, who lives near Ma
rion, La., won the $10 premium
offered by H. P. Heard for the first
bale of 1917 cotton on Tuesday
afternoon. He carried the cotton
back to Marion where the mer
chants had offered 28 cents per
pound for the first bale.
The bale weighed 570 pounds
and sold in Marion for $159.60.
The seed brought $30.72 and the
premium offered by Mr. Heard,
which included free ginning and
bagging and ties, amounted to
$15.60, making the bale net Mr.
Cox $205.92.
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t Ladies desire that irre
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complexion. Of course
they do not wish others
to know a beautifier
has been used so they
buy a bottle of
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Sample (either color) for 2c. Stamp*
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Mrs. A. Newby Dead.
The following from the Nacog
doches, Texas, Daily Sentinel of
August 14, will be read here with
sorrow by a number of residents
who knew Mrs. Newby while 3 res
ident of Huttig:
“Mrs. A. Newby, a sainted old'
mother of the city, died at her
home out at the mill at 9:45 last!
night. The funeral will occur from
the residence at 10:00 o’clock
Thursday morning Rev. Weaver
officiating. From the residence
the remains of the good lady will
be borne to Oak Grove cemetery'
with Messrs. H. W. Howland, Bert
Walker. Fred Wilson, J. R. Futch,
Fred and Horace Ford acting as
pall bearers.
“Mrs. Newby was fifty-nine
years of age at the time of her
death, and is survived by her de
voted husband, and several sons
and daughters. The latter are
Mr. A. D. Newby and his wife of
Wesson. Ark ; A. K. Newby of
Houston; Mrs. Midgie J. Cox of
Pheonix, Arizona. She has been a
faithful member of the Christian
church for more than fourty-four
years, and her parents were long
members of the same church. In
the days of her health she was a
most useful Christian woman, and
was loyed and admired by all who
knew her.”
What a $50 Bond Will Do.
The proceeds of one fifty-dollar
Liberty Loan Bond will purchase:
Thirteen 13-pounder shells for
destroying submarines.
Four 5-inch shells for the same
purpose.
One hundred pounds of smoke
less powder.
Eighteen gas masks for a like
number of soldiers at the front.
Enough coal to drive a destroyer
one hundred twenty miles.
Enough gasoline to drive a sub
marine destroyer one hundred and
fifty miles.
A sailor’s uniform outfit.
Four month's subsistence for a
soldier._
Pardons Union County Man.
J. R. Manning, convicted in Sept.
1916, of second degree murder,
for killing a painter in Union coun
ty. and sentenced to serve ten
years in the state penitentiary, was
pardoned Monday morning by Gov.
Brough. Since beginning his sen
tence Manning was transferred
from the penitentiary to the State
Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
Petition for the pardon was in
dorsed by Judge E. O. Mahony of
El Dorado, who was prosecuting
attorney at the time ol Manning's
conviction, and by several Union
county residents.
A statement issued by Governor
Brough ' explains his action in
granting the pardon. The state
ment follows:
"The petition represents that
Manning was probably insane at
the time of the commission of the
act. Subsequent to his incarcre
tion in the penitentiary, he was
placed in the insane asylum for
treatment. Since that time he has
remained in the asylum and has
been treated and his mental facul
ties are now about recovered. The
then prosecuting attorney tells me
that he is now convinced that Man
ning was insane at the time and
that if he had believed then what
he does now, he would have had
h m incarcerated in the asylum in
place of the penitentiary. His in
formation is based largely upon the
statement of Dr. R. E. Rowland,
whom, he tells me, he has every
confidence in as a physician.”- Ar
kansas Democrat.
Exemption Board Report.
Up to Thursday afternoon the
Union county Exemption Board
had examined 535 men for the
first draft of the national army, of
this number over 300 passed the
physical examination, 135 failed to
pass and 110 exemption claims
were allowed. The board'has cer
tified up to date 128 men as eligi
ble for service and have a number
of exemption claims yet to act up
on to fill out the county’s quoto of
'236. Those certified as fit for
service who registered at Huttig
up-to-date is as follows:
Charles Kochlefl, Manual Will
iam, Bud Gaston. Charley Ross,
Lon Gaden, Duncan Bragg, Tom
Benford, Albert Harris, Gordon
Marony, Ivory Collins, John Haw
thorne.
Those exempted from Huttig up
to date are E. R. Schee. Wm. Rick.
A. R. Stinson. Geo. Billingsly, Rich
Henry, J. C. White, Will Knight,
Henry Coleman, O. T. Bowen,
Jewel Neelon, J. F. Poole, Wm.
Boyd. C. A. Thompson, Charley
Dixon, T. B. Weaver, J. H. Hal
brook, Wade Benford, J. W. Griffin,
W. L. Gamble.
Attention farmers.
The County Council of Defense
has called a meeting at El Dorado
for Saturday morning at 10:50 to
be held at the court house to dis
cuss the conservation and the
economic use of the enormous feed
crop that has been made in the
county this year. Also to discuss
the wheat growing proposition and
securing of a mill in the county to
grind the wheat after it is made.
Every farmer in the county is in
vited to attend this meeting. Full
instructions as to the feeding value
of the different feeds grown in the
county will be given, as well as
proper mixtures of different kinds
of feeds to be used to give the best
results.
We believe this county has pro
duced enough feed, if properly
used, to last the county two years.
Lets not waste our feed. Know
what a balanced feed is and what
feeds to use in order to get the
cheapest feed. These are the
problems to be discussed at the
meeting next Saturday, and we
hope every farmer in the county
will meet promptly at 10:30.
W. T. McKell,
County Agent.
To get thenews read The News
More than anything else causes men to be business
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 sa'ary. 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 he 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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