THE ItUTTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Huttig, Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3, 190? at
the postoffice at Huttig, Ark., under the act of Con
gress of March 3. 1879.
Subscription Price. $1.00 per year in advance
Otherwise $1.60 per year
Advertising rates will be Furnished on Application.
Saturday, May 9. 1914.
TOWN OEflCIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
Cig:
Mayor- C. T Thompson.
Recorder—W. H. Moore.
Marshal—Thos. Ashcroft.
Aldermen L. A. Bodine. A. E. Lucas
J B. Crockett, D. A. Keasler and F. W
Scott,
Board of Education W. H. Moore, F.
W. Scott. C. T. Thompson, E. N. Collett.
L. G. Gibson and L. F. Magee.
TOLL QUESTION TO BE AMENDED.
It seems now very certain that
wherr the free toll bill passes the
Senate that it will be so amended
that the foreign countries will un
derstand that we are not giving up
any rights whatever in repealing
t>~ e free tolls on coastwise shipping
through the Panama Canal, and^
that in the future if we should de
cide on free toll, that we will again
pass the ■ law without consulting
any other country. It is quite cer
tain now that the administration
bill will pass the Senate by equally
as satisfactory a majority as that
by which it passed the House. In
addition to having the support of
the entire Democratic wing of the
Senate, with a few insignificant ex
ceptions, the president also has the
ablest Republicans of the Senate
supporting the measure, such as
Senators Root of New York, Bur
ton of Ohio. Lodge of Massachu
setts, and others.
Out of the thirty or forty met
killed at Vera Cruz, ninety perceni
were boys under the age of 25
Since the beginning of time the
wars of the world have been fought
by boys, the flower of the manhood
of nations. And the burden rests
on women. Indeed, Generai Sher
man’s famous, time-worn declara
tion comes home rather poignantly
at this particular time.
Had Huerta been ordered tc
drink twenty-one well-filled bump
ers of brandy to the health of the
American government instead of
the warning to fire a salute of twen
ty-one guns, that well known Tam
pico incident might have passed off
pleasantly and successfully, es
pecially for Hon. Huerta, whose
love for inyigorating liquor re
freshment has attained an interna
tional reputation.
A-id if Huerta should take it into
his head to depart from his beloved
Mexico after having drunk all the
booze in sight and murdered to his
heart’s content, wouldn't his de
parture simplify matters a little and
mike it unnecessary for Uncle Sam
to wage a iongdrawn-outwar?
The fact that medical men sol
emnly declare the tango to be a
dangerous thing for the feet will
have no effect on the devotees of
vhe dance. They have been told
too much about the dance now to
make th m believe any part of it.
Mr. Taft has a sore toe which is
giving him considerable trouble,
hut he may feel better when he
learns that Col. Roosevelt emerges
from the Brazilian jungle with a
crop of good sized boils on the back
of his neck.
It is said the Madero family have
offered Villa $75,000 to assassi
i ate Hon. Huerta. There is a
sneaking idea, however, that Villa
will do the job for less money if he
has the opportunity.
The New Haven Railroad gave
Cl02.000 to the G. O. P. for cam
paign purposes, but thefe are no
present indications that the ex
penditure was a dividend-payer.
"General” Goxey says he is sat
isfied with the size of his army: and
if it keeps on dwindling, the rest ol
the world will join in his enthusiasm.
It should not be surprising that
Senator Smoot of Utah is much op
posed to hostilities.- Any man who
has more than one wife gets enough
war at home, we should opine.
The Spaniards who sent Colum
bus back in chains must have been
touched with a gift of prophecy re
garding what his discovery of
America would bring about.
The fact that the wor’d’s supply
of chewing gum comes from Mex
ico does not worry us a great deal.
We have plenty of other things left
for mastication purposes.
“Huerta Loses His Grip." reads
a pleasant-speaking exchange. He
will lose his trunk, and also his
head, when Hon. Villa reaches
Mexico City.
The scientist who claims to be
able to photograph thoughts ought
to be given a chance to try it on
John Lind.
Most Mexican names sound like
descriptions of the dope in the
family medicine chest.
AUNT ANNA’S ANXIETY
By LUCILE CUMMINGS.
Going to the country iu midwinter
seems so out of the question to me
that when I received a letter from
Aunt. Anna asking all the family
out to the farm for New Year's day
I did not think the invitation needed
to be taken seriously.
She wrote to me because she
wanted me to ch.%ige the gloves I
had sent her for Christmas. They
were several sizes too small for her
and she appeared to think it would
be an easy matter for me to exchange
them for the right size. They are
gloves that Carl Rates brought me
from Kurope two years ago, and
though they are beautiful they-are a
little too tight for even my small
hands. I thought, of course, that Aunt
Anna would simply put them away to
keep for one of the children That
i# what she should have done instead
of insisting that 1 take the trouble
to change them.
One’s responsibility for a present
ought to cease when the gift is made
but Aur.t Anna is one of those terribly
thorough-going persons who never let
a matter rest until it Is settled to
their satisfaction. I shall have to buy
a pair of gloves, I suppose, though I
have resolved to be as economical as
possible this year.
Arthur Knight had invited me to go
down to one of the hotels and see the
old year out, but when 1 inadvertently
mentioned it before father Saturday
morning he immediately vetoed the
plan.
“But, daddy," I told him, “It will
be awfully dull for me to sit drearily
at home the last night of the year
when one always expects to have a
little fun.” The disappointment was
so great that 1 couldn't keep my tears
back.
“Well,” said father, “if you are dreary
in the midst of your own family ask
some of your friends in and have a
quiet celebration by your own fire
side.”
I acted at once upon this sugges
tion ar.d when I called up Arthur
Knight he said he was glad of the
change of plan.
“I don’t believe you would have en
j yed the downtown celebration as
much ns you thought you would,” he
said, laughingly. “Your father is
quite right. We shall have a much
better time at your house.”
Although 1 am really fond of Arthur,
I think he is rather foolishly strait
1?'od in his ideas.
I was fortunate in finding a num
ber of friends who had no engage
! ments for New Year's eve and so it
was a congenial party that gathered
j to watch the dying of the old year.
1 think every one was a little sur
prised at the somewhat elaborate hot
i supper w<- had just, at midnight.
I managed things so well that it was
I really very little trouble. I got Cousin
Fannie to prepare in advance creamed
I chicken for me to serve from the chaf
ing dish and have the eoffee ready in
| the percolator so Betty could preside
! at that.
mine made it possible for Cousin Fan
nie anti mother to stay in the kitchen
and fry the fresh mushrooms, fill the
patties and make the hot biscuits, in
the morning grandmother had made
some of her old fashioned molasses
cake that the men always rave over.
I should have suggested it absolutely
fresh, but when 1 suggested it mother
immediately objected.
"Blanche," she said, "it 'would be
preposterous for you to keep your
grandmother up till after,. 11 o'clock at
night merely to bake molasses cake."
"Why, I believe she would like to
do it,” I answered. “Grandmother Is
such a wonderful woman that late
hours never feazo her. I'm always
bragging about how young my granny
is."
This pleased grandmother so much
that I think she would have stayed
up all night to bake the cake If that
had been necessaryfc.but stilj mother
would not let' her do as I had sug
gested. Mother really ought to let
gfandmother have her own way mote.
We were in the midst of our gay
little feast when the bell ranfc. Father
emerged from the library and found a
telegraph messenger boy at the door.
“Why. what's this?" he exclaimed
when he had glanced at the message
from Aunt Anna: “Why didn't you
come? Is any one ill. I am terribly
anxious.’’
“Blanche,” said father, calling me
out in the hall, “do you know any
thing about this?"
“I suppose she expected us out at
the farm to*day,“ I replied.
“Why should sho expect us?" In
quired father.
“Well, she wrote roe asking us all
out for New Year's. She said she'd
expect us if she didn't hear to the
contrary. Of course 1 knew that none
of us would care to go and in the
excitement of getting up this party
that you wanted me to have I forgot
to write her.”
“Forgot!" exclaimed father in a very
unkind way. "Blanche, without excep
tion, you're the most rattle brained
person I ever knew. Now sit down
and write a telegram apologizing for
your inexcusable negligence.”
I was really shocked that father
should start the new year by speaking
so harshly to me. All my guests no
doubt wondered what family calamity
had overtaken us. It was very em
barrassing for me. However, none of
my relatives ever appears to care
what awkward position I am placed in
by their thoughtlessness.
The weather man is frequently re
minded that the unexpected happen
How One Pastor Built Church.
Last winter one of the strong i
churches of Los Angeles extended Rev.
W. H. Sheffer of Memphis, Tenn., a
call to become their pastor, and after
considering all sides of the question
he decided to accept the call, relates j
the Christian Herald. So he con
vened his official board, placed before
them his resignation and asked to
be released His board being made up
ot tactful business men, and know
ing that their pastor had tried for
years to build a new church, request
ed him to hold the resignation in
abeyance for a week, which he did.
Then the board gol busy, bought a
new site for a church and paid $27,000
for it and reported t.o the church the
following Sunday that they would
build a new church on it urt once if
(heir paster would consent to remain
with them. He wanted another week,
and then said to his church: "I will
stay with you if you will subscribe
$15,000 for the new church at once.”
They took him at his word, and at
that service subscribed $54,000 for the
new building. It goes without say
ing that his church is very happy over
his decisioin to stay with them.
Something About Sleep.
hjow much sleep is necessaiy for a
man? The question was raised cen
turies ago by Montaigue. “Phistians,”
he wrote, ‘‘may consider whether sleep j
bo so necessaire that our life must |
needs depend on it, for wre find that j
Persus, king of Macedon, prisoner at j
Rome, being kept from sleep, w'as I
made to die; but Plinie aleagath that j
some have lived a long time without j
any sleep at all. And Herodotus re- !
porteth there are nations where men j
sleep and wake by halfe yeares. And |
those that write the life of Epimoniues
the wise affirm that he slept the con
tinual! space of seven and fifty
yeares.”
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO Till
COl'l&XXTUiTt.N OP laH STATE
O Jt* - AA O^-O
Notice is hereby mven tliat th«
following joint resolution, proposing
an amendment to the Mute L ..xisti
tutlon, was passed by tiie Genera
assembly at its regular session ui j
l‘J 13, and that the same will b«
submitted to tiie electors of tin- !
State at the next general election,
to be held Monday. September 14 th
1914, for adoption or rejection.
Proposed Amendment i*o. 15.
That the following is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to tie
Constitution of tiie State of Ar
| kausas, and the same being submit
- ted to tiie electors ut the Statt
| tor approval or rejection at the
next general election u>r Senators
and Representatives. if a. majority
of the elei tors voting at such e e<’
ti<»n adopt such amendment the saim
.Si ail become a part of the Consti
tuion of the State of Arkansas
to wit:
That Section Fifteen (15) of Article
j Five (5i of the Constitution of the sta.e
I of Arkansas, as amende I by Amendment
Nn. 13. declared by tlie Speaker of the
House of Representatives on February
1 Oth. 1913, to have been adopted, tie
amended so % to read as follows;
“Section 15. The members of the Gen
eral Assembly shall receive as their
salary the sum of Seven Hundred an!
Fifty ($750.00) Dollars, except the Presi
dent of the Senate and Speaker of tin
: House of Representatives, each <>f whom
I shall receive as his salary Fight Hun
died and Fifty ($<50.00) Dollars, for
the term of two (2) years; and in ad
| difton to sm h. salary the members of the
General Assembly shall receive five
cents per mile for each mile traveled in
! going to and returning from the seat of
government over the most direct and
practicable r#utc Said fwrtary shall he
I payable In the following manner, to-wit
Five ($5.00) Dollars per dav for the first
! hundred days of any regular session o'
the General Assembly; Provided, tin
Presi lent of the g.'nnt and Speaker <»t
the House of Representatives may draw
i Six i $(>.00) Dollars per dav for the first
! hundred da vs of any regular session
1 'Plie remainder of their spary shall b*
i paid to them nuarterty on the first dav
of January. April. July and October of
the year following anv re gular session
of the General 'ssemblv and the Audi
tor of Stnt*- shall draw' bis warrants in
favor of the members of the General
\ssemhly or? said dates for the amount
of salary due each at that time, and
mail same to the members at their re
spective p stoffjee addresses. No mem
ber of either House shall receive anv
salary or emoluments for His services
other than is provided for herein The ,
terms of all members of the General As
semble shall begin on the day of their
election.
The above resolution was filed In th«
office <if the Secretary of State on March
S. 1912.
Facb elector may vote for or against
the above amendment.
Witness my official signature this 19th
dav of February 1914.
EAni.R W UOPORS.
Secretary of State.
i(Seul)
Colored Column
Rebecca High has returned from
a visit at El Dorado.
Fred Daniel was a Camden vis
itor Sunday.
A. Moore has returned from a
visit at Taiula. La.
The G. U. 0. of O. will have their
annual sermon preached Sunday at
2:30 o'clock- by the Rev. T. H.
Evans, of Oak Ridge, La.
The R. A. C. held their annual
election last Monday nignt and
elected the following officers: E.
Hi l ey. H. P.; W. W. McCormack,
K : J. Reed. Scribe; W. A. High,
Secretary: E. Brooks, Treasurer:
Geo. Kelso, C. of H ; Chas. Driver.
Ps. J.: W. M. Oliver. 1 V.; A. West.
2 V.; Geo. Dobbs, 3 V.; W. M. j
Jones, O G.
Services for Sunday will be as
follows: Sunday school at 10:00
o'clock. Subject. “ The Unjust
Steward."-Luke 16:1-13. Preach
ing at 1 1:00 o’clock Dy Rev. John
Smith. B. Y. P. U. at 5:30 p. m.
Subject. "Fullness and Sufficiency
of the Scriptures."-Luke 16:20-31.
L. H. Pool. Annie Crayton and
Ida Duffey are on the sick list this
week.
Old papers at the News office
15c per hundred.
DR. BELL’S
BLOOD
POISON
• actually millions
IQ and millions of
germ3 that grow
from one or two that
g'»t under the skin
and into the blood.
Antiseptic Salve
applied right away would have killed those few
germs and kept these millions from being born.
To hnve a 25c. box of this salve ready for emer
gencies* ask for Dr. Dell's Antiseptic Salve.
\
‘Tell It By The Bell”
For Sale by B. F. Moody.
Lodge Directory.
Roosevelt Chapter, No. 188, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every second
and fourth Tuesday in each month.
Mrs. C„ Williams, W. M.
Emma Bearl. Secy.
EAST LAKE LODGE No. 6362 O'
U. 0. of 0. F. meets First and Third
Thursday in each month.
G. W. Smith. N. G.
T W Scales. P. S.
GOOD LUCK LODGE No. 259 F. &,
A. M meets First and Fourth Saturday
night. Ali visitors welcome.
Geo. Kelso, W. M.
J. H. Law, Sec.
OMEGA COMMANDERY No.4 Knight
Templars meet every 2nd Thursday
night i,n each month.
J. H. Law. E. C.
E. Brooks, Recorder.
SP1NOLA Lodge No. 261. C. of W.
A., meets every first and third Wednes
day night at 8 o'clock.
W. 1. Henry, Gov.
S. G. Crayton, Secy.
LEBANON, Chapter No. 41. R. A. M
meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday night
at 7:30. Joe Scott, H. P.
J. H. Law, Secy.
Royal Circle of Friends, R. A.Williams
No. 324, meets every first and third
Friday night. All visiting friends are
welcome. G. W. Smith,'President,
Lula Oliver. Secretary.
JEWEL TABERNACLE. No. 412.
meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.
* Augusta Steverson, H. P.
Tena Harris. C. R.
BLUE LIGHT LODGE No 153 K.ofP.
meets First and Third Tuesday in each
month. J B Francis, C. C.
A. Lewis, K. of R. S.
ELECTRIC LIGHT COURT OF CA
LANTHE, No. 70, meets first and third
Tuesday in each month at 1:45 p. m.
Lizzie Oliver, W. C.
Ever Pittman. R. D.
Spanolia Camps No. 26 1 C. W., W. 0.
W. mee every first and third Thursday at
7:30 o'clock. J. C. Ellis, Gov.
S. G. Crayton, F. S.
OBLIGE GALE CIRCLE No. 213
meets every first and third Saturday at
T:30 o'clock^ Emma Barns, Gov.
Mary Adkins Secy.
HOUSEHOLD RUTH. No. 2990. of
G. U. 0. of 0. F., meets the first and
third Thursday in each month at 1:50
p. m. Carrie Averett, M. N.G.
Eva Pittman. W. R.
STATE LINE TEMPLE NO. 337
meets every 2nd and 4th Friday night at
8 o'clock. C. S. Scates, Q. M.
W. B. Barnes, C. S.
Board of Education W. Af High,
president; W. M. McCormick, vice presi
dent; Joe Scott, treasurer; Prof. L. S.
Scroggins, secretary; Lonnie Pooks, as
sistant secretary.
IF you live three miles from town and
make one trip to town every week,
you will have traveled three hundred
and twelve miles in a year!
A Bell Telephone will save those trips
to town. It will put you in touch with the
stores and your friends at a moment’s notice.
Why not install a Bell Telephone in your
home and avoid driving that three hundred
and twelve miles.
The Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Company
C. H. NORWOOD, Manager,
El Dorado, Ark.
Rather Be Queen of
the May or King of the Year?
0
A man or woman who has the reliance of
a snug bank account can face every
month fearlessly, knowing that the thrift
of the past has safeguarded the present
and the future.
Start a Bank Account
with us and stick to it and every month
will wear as fair a face as May.
El
A few years of saving NOW will mean a
realization of all this THEN. The earlier
the start, the sooner the realization.
Interest Paid on Time Deposits.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Vestal Roses
excel in form, vitality and lovliness. Wespecialize
on ro ses and absolutely -guarantee every one to
bloom. We cannot tell vnu here all about their
wondrous beauty, nor ab out our many other
Flowers—but will with pleasure mail you our
, New Spring Ca/a/ogue describing our Roses and a vast assort
ment of other Plants, Shrubs, Fruits . Flower and Vege
table Seed for the Southern Garden, all means drop
a card for it today. Joseph W. V« ttal & Son,
Box 856, Little Roclc, Arfcei nu
U. C. V. Special Train
To Jacksonville, Fla.
For the accommodation of Confederate Vesterans, Sons
of Veterans and ,riends, tf e Iron Mountain will run a
special train frc,rr, Little R jck to Jacksonville via Mem
phis, Frisco a'jcf Southern Railways.
Leave kittle Rock, 10:00 P. M. Sunday, May 3.
Arrive Jacksonville, 7:00 A. M. Tuesday, May 5.
F,ound crip tickets at very ]< iw rates will be sold IAay 2, 3. 4, 5
and j, inclusive, with return limit May 15. Upon payment of
5Cj cents limit may be extei ,ded to June 4, 1914.
Pullman Tare, Li ;tie Rock to Jacksonville:
Standard, Lower B ,rth - - $5.25
Tourist, Lower Ber 3.00
Reclining Chair Cr.rs and C caches without additional charge—
ote that your ticket reads.
Iron Mountain
Via. Memphis. Frisco and Southern Ry’s.
rmation may be had upon application to
local Agent or
F. E. SCHROEDER,
Assistant Ceneral Passenger Agent,
LITTLE ROCK.