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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. XI. NO. 26
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1917.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
INDEPENDENCE OF
FARMER IT SHE
RIGHTS OF AMERICAN AGRICUL
> JURISTS ENDANGERED BY
EUROPEAN WAR.
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SHOULD BE FIRST TO HELP
Every Purchase of Liberty Bond Is
Blow at German Autocracy and
^ Adds Strength to Boys Fight
^ ing for Democracy.
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I"' BY HERBERT QUICK
Member of the Federal Farm Loan
Board.
When I am asked why a farmer
should buy Liberty Bonds I wonder
xvhat I should say. It is so clear that
the farmer, of all persons, should
make himself the greatest buying
class in the world.
If all the other classes in the United
Ptates should lie down and refuse to
buy, the farmers should rally to the
flag and buy, buy, buy these bonds as
long as they had a cent to invest.
I do not wish to appeal to farmers
to buy bonds because they are good
Investments. They are good invest
ments, as any good business man can
see. They are safety Itself. Nothing
can ever throw doubt on them as In
vestments. Many farmers are hold
ing lands which do not pay them more
than 2 to 3 per cent after the rents
are collected, the repairs kept up, In
surance paid and taxes settled. If all
‘he actual and retired farmers in the
c.»-Hed States would put In Liberty
Bonds the money they could get for
lands which pay them less than the
Liberty Bends will pay, they alone
could buy all the bonds to be Issued
Liberty Bonds pay 4 per cent. They
are the best security for loans at the
banks when the owner wants a loan.
They are cheaper to carry than the
land. A man may buy Liberty Bonds
and forget about them except to col
lect the Interest every six months.
But that Is not the main reason why
wo should buy, and buy, and keep on
buying us long as any are offered. The
farmer should buy Liberty Bonds be
cause the value of his farm, the
chance to make a peaceful American
living, tlie very right to an Independ
ent life Is staked on this war.
The German empire threatens the
world. It .seeks to take from us the *
very thing that makes our farms val
uable. What is the value of a farm,
anyhow, except the privilege of liv
ing a free American life on a particu
lar piece of laud? Take that away,
•nd your farm becomes a thing which
is worthless.
Germany is out to conquer the
world. Germany still has the chance
to crush Russia, France. Italy and
Brest Britain. If she crushes them,
• he crushes us: for we are in the war
until the finish.
If Germany wins, osr lands will at
Snoe be mortgaged for all the terrible
Kruggle which wilt then be upon us
to save ourselves from invasion. She
t\ ill demand of us that we puy her
indemnities running into the tens and
perhaps hundreds of billions of dol
lar*. All these indemnities, if Ger
many could defeat us, and the fight
•gainst them in case we alone are
• ble to defeat her, will be a mortgage
»n every acre of farm land in the
United States.
Germany Is half licked now. We
• are fighting with us the mightiest
nations of the world. If we cannot
whip her with their help what will a
term be worth In the United States
when we face her alone?
Buy bot.ds, farmers, and help make
the world safe for our kind of life—
the life of democracy. Let us strike
lor freedom as did the farmers of New
England at Iyexington and Concord,
ind the farmers of the South at
King's Mountain
T<0t us finish Germany now, while
we have help.
Let It never be said that the farm
trs of the United States refused their
money while our young men are giv
ing their lives for the holiest cause
rvsr fought for. Let us strike for our
•ltare and our fires—and for the farms
wre love. All these are at stake in
ihia the greatest of all wars. Don’t
let your dollars be slackers.
DEFENSE COUNCIL WOMEN OF
KENTUCKY AID BOND SALE
Mrs. Donald McDonald, Louisville,
Date chairman of Kentucky of the
Woman’s Liberty Loan organisation,
hue appointed Mrs. Frazier Bonnie as
LoDtavllle city chairman. She is co
rrelating with Mrs. George C. Avery,
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Louisville city chairman for the Wom
an’s National Council o/ Defense.
Kentucky is thoroughly organized in
National Defense work and the entire
organization is devoting its efforts to
(he sale of the Liberty Loan Bonds
during the whirlwind campaign, which
will close October 28.
The kaiser is waiting to bear from
the sale of United States Liberty
Bonds. Make your share of that loud
noise. Buy today.
Make your sweetheart a present
that means profit and patriotism. Buy
her a United States Liberty Bond.
Lilifrly Bond Day.
On Wednesday afternoon at Z
o'clock the entire plant of the
Union Saw Mill Co. was closed
down in celebration of Liberty
Bond Day, and Hon. A. Flenniken
of El Dorado made a very interest
ing patriotic speech to almost the
entire citizenship of this communi
ty. His speech was very enthus
iastically received and created
quite an interest in the sale ot
Liberty Bonds at this place.
J. H. McWilliams, who accom
panied Mr. Flenniken down from
El Dorado, drove on to Felsenthal
where he delivered a speech to
j twelve people and secured the ap
plication for five bonds from his
hearers.
The total subscriptions of Liber
ty Bonds taken through the First
National Bank amounted to $12.
000.00 up to Thursday morning.
An Ounce of Meat.
An ounce of edible meat—lean
meat, fat and lean, suet or fat
trimmed from steak, chop or roast
—seems hardly worth saving.
Many households take just this
view of the matter do not trouble
to put such an insignificant scraD
into the ice box or soap pet. do not
bother to save for cookery a spoon
ful or two of drippings or a tiny bit
of suet or fat.
Yet if every one of 20,000,000
American families on the average
wastes each day only 1 ounce of
edible meat or fat, it means a daily
' waste of 1.250.000 pounds of ani
mal food—456,000.000 pounds of
valuable animal food a year.
At average dressed weights, it
would take the gross weight of
over 875,000 steers, or over 3,
000.000 hogs, bones and all,
to provide this weight of meat or
fat for each garbage pail or kitchen
sink.
'w/i , again, n me waste were uib
tributed according to the per capita
consumption of the various meats
(including bones) it would use up a
combined herd of over 538.000
beef animals, 291,000 calves, over
625,000 sheep and lambs and over
2,1 32.000 hogs.
Millions of tons of feed and hav,
the grass from vast pastures, and
the labor of armies of cattlemen
and butchers also would be
scrapped by this meat-waste route.
Every household doesn’t waste
an ounce of meat or fat every day?
Very well, make it one out of a
hundred families, but keep in mind
that all meat allowed to spoil and
all meat rendered inedible by im
proper cooking, scorching or burn
ing, must be considered as waste.
Make it an ounce every other day
or an ounce a month. Such waste
still would be unendurable when
meat is scarce and when fat is of
such vital food importance to many
nations.
Waste of meat or fat is inexcus
able. Every bit of lean meat can
be used in soups, stews, or in com
bination with cereals; every bit of
fat can be employed in cookery;
every bit of drippings and gravy
can be saved so easily and used to
add flavor and nourishment to oth
er dishes.
To get thenews read The News
ADMITS TO ROBBING BANK.
Carl lewis. Arrested at Malvern last Week
Makes Full Confession of Robbing
the First National Bank.
Carl Lewis, arrested at Marlvern
last week as the lone bandit who
robbed the First National Bank of
Huttig September ?th, last, of
$6,556, and who was caught after
he had been trailed for two weeks
through Missouri. Kansas and back
through Arkansas, last Friday
waived a preliminary hearing and
made a complete confession to
Prosecuting Attorney Joe K. Ma
hony and Sheriff Finn Craig. Two
other parties were with Lewis at
the time of his arrest and were
taken into custody, but as Lewis
implicated no one else in the rob
berry of the bank, the other parties
were released'.
After robbing the bank. Lewis
remained at Felsenthal for a few
days and invested about $1,500.00
of the money in real estate, and if
this property can be sold for the
amount paid for it. about $4,000
w ui uie muney win ue recovered.
He also had money on deposit in
several banks throughout the coun
try, where he had placed it as he
was scouting around in his at
tempts to evade the officers.
About $600.00 was found in his
pocket when he was arrested, but
the officers failed to find $1 500.
00 in currency which he carried in
a large belt under his clothing, and
Lewis says he burned this while he
was in the Malvern jail. Two .4E
caliber revolvers were found or
Lewis when he was arrested, anc
on searching his trunk the officer:
found an automatic shot gun, a
winchester rifle, a small revolver
and a considerable amount of am
munition.
Lewis' capture is due largely to
the efforts of Mark A. Shipley, rep
resenting the Fidelity and Casualty
Co., of New York and the officers
of the bank, with the assistance of
the officials of Union county.
Lewis will be held in jail at El
Dorado until Circuit Court meets
on the third Monday in November,
when he will plead guilty to the
charge of robbing the bank, as he
says that he wishes to begin his
sentence as soon as possible.
There Is more Catarrh In this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and for years it was sup
posed to be Incurable. Doctors pre
scribed local remedies, and by constant
ly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a
local disease, greatly influenced by con
stitutional conditions and therefore re
quires constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a consti
tutional remedy, is taken internally
and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces of the System. One Hundred
Dollars reward is offered for any case
that Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Fills for constipation.
Tor Sale at a Bargain.
One large sideboard, one square
dining table and six dining chairs.
Apply at the News office.
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 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.
The Elimination of Waste.
The most vital issue in conser
vation is the elimination of waste,
in the estimation of Hamp Williams.
Federal Food Administrator, wno
declares that "waste is the most
destructive element in the econom
ic status of the American people."
This is the crying evils which
the Food Pledge Card Campaign
seeks to overcome. The issue is
vital. Food will win the war. and
food conservation will make a
more prosperous people after the
war is over. These ideas are most
emphatically expressed in the fol
lowing statement by Mr. Williams:
“Waste is the most destructive
element in the economic status of
the American people; waste of
wagons, buggies, farm implements
and machinery of every kind and
character by leaving them out un
protected from the elements: waste
by not using paints, oils and re
pairs at the proper time; waste of
harness, rope and tools by lack of
proper care: waste in the proper
application of labor; waste of labor,
land and tools in using poor seed
! and seed that will not germinate:
waste of labor and feed on poor
breeds of stock and fowls: waste of
time in gossip that should be used
i in reading literature suited to your
line of business; waste in not hav
ing a market for surplus fruits and
vegetables: waste in transportation
over bad roads; waste of health and
vigor in not eating well balanced
rations.”
RUB OUT PAIN
with good oil liniment. That's
the surest way to stop them.
1 he best rubbing liniment is
MUSTANG
LINIMENT
Good for the Ailments of j
Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc.
. Good for your own A ches.
Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains,
Cuts, Burns, Etc.
25c. 50c. $ I. At all Dealers. J
L. L. McMillan Dead.
L. L. McMillan, aged 25 years.
8 months and 1 7 days, died at the
home of his sister, Mrs. J. D. Brig
man, at 9:20 o'clock Tuesday
morning, October 23, 1917'. of ty
phoid fever from which he suffered
for 31 days. His remains were
laid to rest in Harper Springs
cemetery at 4 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, Rey. E. F. Cole con
ducting the funeral services.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to express our thanks I
to the people for their assistance
and many kind deeds shown us
during the illness and death of our
son and brother, L. L. McMillan.
Mrs. Mattie McMillan
and Children.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pay $50.00 as a reward to any j
one, not in its employ, who will fur- j
nish information from which any ;
person shall be convicted of depre-1
uating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 1906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Se'"'. and Treas
Most Pernicious talsehood.
A Logan county woman, writing
to Food Administrator Williams,
says the pernicious falsehood is!
still in circulation in some sections j
that "the government will confis-j
cate all canned stuff and ship to j
France.” The government author
ties have adopted all known means
of branding this as an enemy re
port calculated to cause discon- j
tent. Rewards have even been |
offered for those who wilfully cir-!
culate the report. It is too redicu-!
lous to merit a moment's notice by j
intelligent people. _
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li. S. GOVERNMENT BONDS.
The Safest Investment in the World.
"Our first duty is not only to subscribe but to over
subscribe the second Liberty Loan, it is our soldiers, our
sailors and our own guns that are going to win the victory,
vindicate America's right at home and upon the high seas
and make the world safe for democracy.
"The least service of patriotism that any man or
woman who stays at home can perform is to lend their
money to his or her government, an impregnable security
at 4 per cent interest. They risk nothing while the soldiers
risks all.” "Secretary McAdoo"
Buy a Bond of the Second Liberty Loan
AND
Help Win the War.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS
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