THE HUTTIG NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. VIII. NO. 51.
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. APRIL 24. 1915.
PRICE, $1 PER YEAR
bershen-Cummings.
Rev. S. K. Burnett at the Meth
odist parsonage at 8 o'clock Mon
day evening performed the marriage
ceremony of Miss Bonnie feershen
and Mr. G. C. Cummings* in the
presence of a few friends and rela
tives of the bride. Miss Bershen
is the daughter of Mrs. D. F.
Collett and recently returned here
to live from El Dorado. She is a
charming young lady and has a
large circle of friends who will
wish her well. The groom is a
young man who holds the position
of time keeper for a railway com
pany at Parsons, Kans., for which
place the happy couple left on the
early train Wednesday morning
The News extends congratulations.
The Scenic Line to the San Francisco Ex
position.
If you are going to the Panama
Pacific Exposition, you will surely
want to use the railroad that will
permit you to see the most on the
way. Lying between the Missis-,
sippi river and the Pacific coast is
a stretch of more than two tnous
and miles of wonderland. All the
magnificent sights of Europe do
not compare in natural grandeur
with the mountain heights, the
canon depths, the crags and cata
racts, the forest giants, the
sweeps of plain and river vistas
which unfold in kaleidoscopic order
before the eyes of the traveler be
tween St. Louis and San Francisco
if he uses the Missouri Pacific,
Denver & Rio Grande and Western
Pacific.
The trip over these lines is abso
lutely the most picturesque from
the Mississippi river to Colorado,
. across the Rockies and through
the Sierra Nevadas to the Pacific
coast. This is the route of The
Scenic Limited, a fast, all-steel
train between St. Louis and San
Francisco and the only through
train between St. Louis and the
Pacific Coast.
Be sure to use The Scenic Lim
ited one way anyway. For com
plete description of train and trip
call upon or write
adv S. Manheim, Agent.
Notice.
I now have my Denmark stallion
Black Squirrel, at the Union Saw
Mill barn where he will make the
season of 1915. 1 solicit your
patronage. Terms $1 5.00 for foal
insured. L. F. Magee.
Don’t Be a Pessimist.
A pessimist is a queer fellow.
He couldn’t be much else, be
cause he is a pessimist.
He borrows your horse and then
kicks at his gait.
He begs a cigar and complains
of the quality.
He profits from the prosperity of
his town and then gives it a kick.
He listens to a five-dollar ser
mon and then drops a nickel on the
collection plate.
In the height, of prosperity he
sees nothing but gloom ahead.
He gloats over his own virtues
and rails at the frailties of his
neighbors.
He was born with a grouch, lives
the life of a grouch, dies the death
of a grouch and turns hell into a
realm of grouch.
Don’t be pessimist.
A Maverick.
Don’t poke fun at the boy who
comes in from the forks of the
creek, with seed in his hair and
mud on his face, patches on the
south department of his pants and
one gallus on. He may look seedy
now, but 10 years from now he
may be president of some bank,
pastor of some church, judge of
some court or physician to some
people. Just because a boy lives
in town, wears t-n kinds of socks,
parts his hair in iha middle, sucks
a cigarette, curls his hair on his
mother's curling tongs, and has a
daddy with spondulix to burn, that
is no sign that he is going to run
the country in the future. We'll
put our money on the sound, sane
and sensible boy from the forks of
the creek.—Ex.
T aun ton* Thompson.
Miss Alice Taunton, sister of
Mrs. W. R. Dickerson, and Mr.
Fred Thompson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. T. Thompson, surprised
their friends Monday by going to
El Dorado where they were mar
ried at the home of Frank Harrison
at 9 o’clock in the morning. They
returned to Huttig that afternoon.
The News joins in extending con
gratulations.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot
reach tho diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an Inflamed condi
tion of the mucous lining of the Kusta
chian Tube. When this tube Is inflamed
you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect
he-rlng, and when It is entirely closed.
Deafness Is tho result, and unless the in
flammation can be tahen out and this
tube restored to Its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed condi
tion of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars forany case of
Deafness (carnet by catarrhuhat cannot ho cured by
Ball's Catarrh Cura. Send for circulars, free.
r. J. CHENEY, * CO, Toledo, Ohio.
Bold by Drosflsts.TJe. -
t Slake Ball's fatally Pills for con stl nation.
Sold Some Eggs.
In a conversation with Store
Manager D. M. Clowney on last
Saturday night we were surprised
to learn that since the first of Janu
ary they have sold 3,000 or 3.GOO
dozen eggs, most of which were
purchased from farmers residing in
this end of Union county. At 20
cents per dozen this represents a
money value of $600.00, which
will give you an idea of how valu
able an adjunct to the farm the hen
is and we see no reason why this,
locality should not be shipping
chickens and eggs in car load lots
to the big Eastern markets the
same as the people of Monroe and
vicinity are doing.
When Dad Is All Right.
He may wear a greasy hat and the
seat of his pants may be shiny, but
if a man's children have their noses
flattened against the window pane
a half hour before he is due for
supper, you can trust him with any
thing you have. He is all right.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
King of Kings No. 4280.
My famous stallion, King of
Kings No. 4280, will make the
season of 1915 at my home in
Huttig. Fee $15.00, foal guaran
teed. A. E. Lucas.
Notice of School Election.
There will be an election held at
the City Hall in the town of Huttig
on Saturday, May 5, 1915, for the
purpose of election six members of
the board of school directors for
Huttig^-Consolidated School Dis
trict No. 60; voting a school tax
and for and against county super
intendency of schools.
Polls will open at 9 o’clock, a.
nr., and close at sunset.
F. W. Scott, Pres.
W. H. Moore, Secy.
Consolidated Board
For sSme time a Huttig young
man has been the object of sus
picion by the head of a house in
which lives a very popu'ar young
woman, the object of the young
man’s attentions. But the young
man is forehanded. When he calls
on the girl now the first thing
he does is to take his cigars out of
his pocket and lay them on a piano.
His reasons are two-fold. One
shows the Suspecting Pa that the
young man is making a peace
offering. The other well, it
shouldn't be hard to solve.
Tell us the news for the News
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EELL TELEPHONE CO. WILL
, SPEND THAT SUM IN NEXT
FIVE YEARS.
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FEW REALIZE AMOUNT NEEDED
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Has Faith in Future of This State—
Already Has Invested Over
( Five Millions Here—Is
,‘l a State Builder.
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Little Rook.—A budget of four mil
lions. of dollars for improvements for
Arkansas in the next five years has
been prepared by the Southwestern
Telegraph and Telephone Company,
according to an announcement just
made here by S. A. Lane, commercial
superintendent for the company for
this state. And this estimate follows
the expenditure by the company of
several millions in Arkansas in the
past few years. Besides the material
benefit that will result to the state at
large in a direct way from the ex
penditure of this large sum of money,
there is the even greater benefit of
confidence in the certain growth and
development of the state that will re
sult in a general way.
The Bell Telephone company does
not appropriate great sums for im
provement of its lines and exchanges
until Its expert estimate engineers
and executive officials have analyzed
the situation from many angles and
have gone over the ground thorough
ly and staked their reputation on the
certainty of the development of the
state where the service is to be t,hds
improved and enlarged and the
growth of the population and the add
ed volume of all lines of business.
Business men at home and finan
ciers and investors and homeseekers
over the country will note this an
nouncement of the Bell’s confidence
In the growth and development of Ar
j kaneas. They will count it as a more
certain Index of the state’s great fu
ture than any mere assertion not
backed by the investment of good
money Irt that assertion. '*
The Bell has been recognized for
years in all business and financial cir
cles as a careful and successfully
managed concern. It plants Its ex
penditures In fruitful soil and builds
constantly for the future.
With a property value in Arkansas
*t the present time of $5,600,000 and
an annual pay roll of $600,000. the
Bell company's announcement that it
Intends to spend four millions more
In this state, coming at this particu
lar time. Is most welcome to all loyal
Arkansas folks who have faith and
confidence in the future of their
state. They know that good and sound
business reasons dictate t,he policy of
this great telephone company. And
so they can draw most favorable con
clusions from the result of a careful
analysis of their state’s future by the
experts who wound up (heir work by
declaring that *our millions of dollars
would be necessary in the next five
years to meet the state’s growth and
prosperity.
The part played by the Bell com
pany In the development of Arkansas
Is worth more than passing notice.
Few people realize the part played by
the telephone these days In the build
ing up of a state by the knitting of its
separate units or communities to
gether.
The Bell company has crossed
mountains and valleys and wild
streams and long stretches of forest
i»nd uncultivated and unsettled lands
in this state and spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars to connect the
business centers of the state with all
the outlying towns and settlements.
It is impossible to suppose that these
lines crossing so many miles of un
settled country should pay at first..
They are the forerunners of business,
t,he pioneers of development, the
builders of a state. They connect the
sawmill and the country store and the
mine with the business world as rep
resented by Little Rock. Fort Smith.
Pine Bluff. Mena, or with Dallas,
Tex., or Oklahoma City, or St. Louis,
or Memphis. The telephone line, the
telegraph and the railroad come first,
and after them come the small in
vestor and business man and worker
who build an isolated-community into
a city or a community where all the
advantages of modern life can be
found.
Few people realize the immense in
vestment necessary to knit the com
munities of a state together by tele
phone. It is true that there are no ex
pensive grades to build and rails to
lay for trains, but the building and
maintenance of a telephone line re
quires great sums of money and it is
often necessary to wait for years for
the returns to begin to come in from
a certain line. It. is not a question
merely of connecting Little Rock with
Pine Bluff by telephone. There is
plenty of business to make this line
nav. But to give the universal serv
ice lhat is its ambition the Hell must
build a hundred lines, so that Little
Rock may be connected with all towns,
big and little, in the state. Switch
board equipment and copper wire nin
, into money like building a battleship.
; For instance, a single section of a
I switchboard costs as much as a hand
i some cottage or bu::galow. The com
: pany has thrown out the old equip
! ruent and placed new equipment in
new exchange buildings in th>- past
two or three years in Hot Springs,
Fayetteville, Rogers. Little Rock, Coo
way a-a ArKad'>irhta and several oth
er smaller cities and towns.
The copper wire circuit alone from
Little Rock to Texarkana costs over
$50,000.
Every time the telephone company
builds a new toll line that means that
a dozen or so towns are brought in
closer and quicker communication
with the business centers of the Mis
sissippi valley, and that means a de
cided advantage for these towns, an
Impetus toward growth and develop
ment. That toll line alone may cost
$10,000, without cQtisidering the thou
sands for equipment and switch
boards at the various exchanges or
the rentals for buildings or t£e pay
rolls of scores of employes along the
line. Any little old toll line of 70 or
100 miles through small towns anu
sparsely settled country means just
the investment noted above, and the
returns may not start for five years,
but the company knows that -this line
runs thiough timber lands that will
be cleared some day; it knows thal
the soil is rich here in the bottom,
and that fruitful orchards will some
day flourish on the hillsides and that
miners will dig rich ore from tht
mountains and that these towns will
become small cities.
The telephone is a builder and
therefore must keep on building. No
stop, no rest, no time to wait to col- j
lect on the investment. It must in- i
vest more to keep up with a develop
ment that it was far ahead of in the
beginning.
Wlven the Bell company builds an
exchange nowadays it provides not
only for present business demands,
but also for an increase in the future.
It erects not only a building sufficient
to care for its business, but also pro
vides rooms for the recreation of it.s
operators—restrooms tboy are called
-—and every exchange in the state of
any size has these rooms for its girl
employes. They're not necessary for
business, but the Bell figures they are
worth wiiile if they add to the con
venience and contentment of the
army of girls who have introduced to
fame the "voice with the smile.’’
The company's exchanges over the 1
state are models of architectural |
beauty and the employes are encour
aged to make them attractive. The
yards are flower gardens and the
windows and niches are decorated
and made homelike.
Beil officials and employes are j
urged at all times to work with local
and civic bodies for the good of the
community in ail things. The other
day the Ad Men's Club of Little Rock
called on Curtis Stout., district man
ager of the Bell company, to make a
talk before that body on the com
pany's advertising methods. Mr.
Stout and his company entered the
plan heart and soul. The advertising
for the event was unique and attrac
tive and stirred up a lot of interest.
The attendance was fine. Mr. Stout's
address was declared a treat and res
olutions were passed afterward by the
club most favorable to the Bell com
pany and its co-operation. Mr. Stout,
in the course of his address, with the
aid of a lantern" and electrician, alius
(rated the work, development and
methods of the telephone company
from many and interesting view
points. Tlie pictures showed more
plainly t,han words .could tell the ex
pense of construction and replace
ment that the company is put to all
the time.
Another view of the Bell company
not generally known or talked much
about is its pension and benefit plan
for retired, injured or sick employes.
The employes do not contribute one
cent to the support of this plan, but
conduct the affairs of this pension
plan and administer its benefits as a
part of their company duties. It has
proved a success from the,beginning
and is now a fixed company policy.
While the Bell company lines covpr
Arkansas with a network, yet it has
no monopoly on the state's telephone
business. There are 125 other com
panies in the state. Beside the Bell
investment of nearly six millions in
the state, its announcement of the fu
ture investment of four millions in
five years, Its annual i>av roll of
$<500,000 and its development of the
state by bringing communities togeth
er and expediting business, it pays
Into the state treasury over $80,000 it
taxes every year. In fact, the" Bell
company of Arkansas is doing man)
big things for its employes that are
not generally known to the public; i’
is spending more money and buildin'
more for the future than people think
and it is playing a not ineonsiderab!
part in the industrial, business ar
social life of the state and in the df
velopment of these things to a biehr
pent year by year; and, mere iV
these, it has
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detice when most needed, with the
announcement of a certain policy to
cpend millions on the future growth
and prosperity of this state.
FOR SUCCESSFUL DAIRYING
Quality Sots Price on Milk, Cream
and Butter.
Where whole milk is delivered tc
‘he creamery in a sweet condition and
separated there, the subject of grading
is unheard of. because the resulting
ream is all of a good uniform oual*
Ity.
The policy of paying a patron just
s much for a pound of butter fat in
ad cream as in good cream is surely
1 njust to the patron who thinks well '
nough of his product and himself to
nke c-are ol his cream and keep It
lean. A number of creameries in
everal states have attempted to put
:ito effect a grading system and pays
patrons according to quality. The plan
has b< en quite successful in some
cases. However, its success would
be assured were it adopted more uni
versally.
Plan For Grading Creams.
The plan in general Is to grade
cream as it arrives at the creamery
into three grades according to quality,
and pay, a different price for each
grade, (trade one to be clean, sweet
cream, and commanding from three
to five cents more per pound of but
ter fat than grade two, which is but
moderately sour but clean, of good
odor and flavor, and free from foreign
matter. Such creameries reject grade
three cream or hny it at a great reduc
tion and churn out the fat to be sold
renoviiting plants where it is used
In the manufacture of renovated but
ter. If often brings about half as
much as grade one.
Dirty Milk Under Ban.
The above plan should he encour
aged. as under the old system of ac- j
opting all cream at the same price, a
premium is being placed on dirty
and careless dairy practice. Unless
we do something or this sort the qual
ity of the hotter made fs heund to be
come gradually poorer. Where onal
ity is lackirg prices are sure to go
down. Then some good old prophet
will announce that there Is no money
In the dairy business, hut. he will like
ly fail to qualify the statement hv
making it. "There is no monpv in the
dirty and careless dairy business."
1. K. Dvorachek, Animal Husbandman.
Arkansas Kxpcrlmont Station,
Alfalfa alone will not produce per
•ptible gains on pigs, and if fed alone
ay he. considered as a mere mainte
iance ration.
He Got Them.
"I want damages.” shouted the
bruised and battered citizen who had
Just been beaten up by his athletic
rival. “I think," replied his friend and
adviser, after a critical inspection,
"that if you look in the glass you'll
find you’ve got ’em.”
Hl» Own Detective.
In Schenectady, N. V., a farmer rec
ognized In a leather shop the green
hide of a horse which had be^n stolen
from him but two weeks beiore. By
means of the hide he traced the thief
and eventually was paid for the horse.
Words Are as Cheap as Ever.
An English economist announces
that a world-wide decline In the price
of commodities has begun, and that
probably it will be more pronounced
at the end of the year.
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 7:30 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 tc attend these services.
Rev. S. K. Eurnett 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
rwson shall be convicted of depre
ciating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, J 906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Secy, and Treas
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BANKING
SERVICE
We want you to become acquainted with
the fact that we have one of the best
equipped banks in the county and it is of
ficered by MEN, not by icebergs or moss
backs. We want your business and are
in a position to give you prompt and
courteous service Let our bank be your
bank
Interest Paid on Time Deposits.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HUTTIG, ARKANSAS