THE HUTT1G NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. IX. NO. 27.
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 1915.
PRICE, $1 PER YEAR
Levying Court’s Action.
The Union County Levying
court met in El Dorado on Wed
nesday of last week and made the
following appropriations for the
county for the coming year:
Circuit cou t ..$8,000
County court.. 3,000
Chancery court 5C
Probate court 650
Justice peace courts ...... ZOO
Levying court . 100
Coroners court 200
Assess, and tax books .... 1,500
Criminals in jail 2.000
Roads and bridges . 3.500
Public buildings 600
Janitor court house. 500
Lights and fuel . 950
Stationary and records . ... 600
Stenographer .. 535
Quarantine and con. dis. 1.400
Paupers. 1,500
In. ex. circuit court . 50
Convicts on road. 500
To buy convict cage . 500
Farm demonstration 1.000
Canning club . . 400
County general .5 mills
Road tax . 3 mills
Every township in the county
was represented at the meeting
except Smackover.
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 7:30 p. m. by
the pastor. Junior League at 3:00
p. m. Epworth League at 6:50 p.
m. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. S. K. Burnett Pastor.
Using New Building.
All the high school grades and
from the A-Fourth up in the
grammar grades are now occupy
ing the upper story of the new
school building and it is hoped to
have the other grades transferred
within the next two weeks as well
as the domestic science room fitted
up and ready for work.
The Keek In History.
Monday, Nov. 1, French Direc
tory chosen after death of Louis
XVII, 1795.
Tuesday, Nov. 2, National
Thanksgiving for Peace, 1865.
Wednesday. Nov. 3. Earl Rus
sell made premiere in England,
1865.
Thursday. Nov. 4. Dey of Algiers
suffers defeat of fleet in war with
France. 1827.
Friday, Nov. 5. New commercial
treaty with France signed in Lon- j
don, 1 872.
Saturday, Nov. 6, Abraham Lin
coln elected President, 1860.
Sunday. Nov. 7, Battle Belmont,
Mo., 1861.
October Weather.
The highest temperature record
ed in this vicinity during Oct was
on the 3rd when it was 93 degrees
above, and the lowest on the 1 1th
when it was 32 above. The rain
fall for the month was 1.53, which
is below normal for the month.
The frost on the 1 1 th caused near
ly everybody to dig their sweet
potatoes which would have been
bettet had they been left in the
ground. __
Get Ready for Next Sprinq.
Now is a good time to begin your
calculations for next year. Take
into consideration the acres of land
you have to farm, the number of
head of stock you will have to feed
and carry through the winter of
1916-13. and the following sum
mer. Calculate the amount of
corn, hay and forage necessary for
them, and then calculate the num
ber of acres you will need in corn
hay and other crops to keep your
stock. Do not under estimate yorr
needs, ncr over estimate your
yield. Prices of feed are always
high when the shortage comes. Be
sure and raise enough. Be safe.
If you put in spring oats, also put
h some kind of clover on the same
ground. Red clover, sweet clover,
alsike or lespedeza will do. Use
the kind the land will grow. Dc
not undertake to follow oats wit!
late corn. It will not pay. It will
do to sow cowpeas after cutting
the oats. The same is good treat
ment after wheat, especially if you
plow under the second crop of pea
vines just before frost. Cow peas
make a good hay, and improve the
land. Sudan grass makes a fine
hay. and can be cut from two to
four times a season, but Sudan
does not help the land. It is hard
on the land, and to get good re
sults requires good land. Do not
overlook the truck patches and
garden. Plant plenty of potatoes,
tomatoes, beans, sweet potatoes,
peanuts, popcorn, watermelons,
cabbage and such like. Then turn
your attention to your staple crop,
whatever it may be. but do not
over crop yourself. A small crop,
well cultivated, is much more prof
itable than a large crop poorly cul
tivated. Now is the time to think
about these things, and plan ahead.
You have your experience of the
past y( ar right before you now, and
experience is a good teacher.
Be sure and raise your own meat
next year. One good litter of pigs,
wellkept and pastured and fed, will
make enough meat for a family of
six people. If you haven't the
brood sow, get her at any reasona
ble sacrifice, and remember that it
is as easy to raise a crop of hogs as
to grow a crop of anything else.
Plow all the land you can between
now and Christmas. Break deep,
and turn under all weeds, grass and
stalks. The weeds that grow on
your land take plant food from
same. Turn them under, and you
put it back; burn them and you
loose it. See? These simple sug
gestions carried out on the farms
in Arkansas, I believe, will make
the whole State prosperous. What
do you think about it? Do you be
lieve it? If so. adopt them and im
prove them. If you don't, write to
me, and make me some sugges
tions. I am your servant and want
to help you if 1 can. If 1 can't,
then 1 want you to help me, so 1
can help some one else.
John H. Page,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
He Was Honest.
A small colored boy stole some
brass fittings from a building and was
taken before the judge, who severely
reprimanded him and bade him take
back the stolen property. Turning to
the officer the judge requested him
to see that this was done, when the
youngster broke out: “Dat's all right,
jedge. Tse gwine to take ’em back,
and yo' needn’t send no cop wif me,
for I’se hones', I Is.”—Cincinnati En
quirer.
$100 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces of the System thereby de
stroying the foundation of the disease,
giving ttie patient strength by building
up the constitution and assisting na
ture in doing its work The proprie
tors have so much faith in the curative
powers of Hall's Catarrh Cure that
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case that it fails to cure. Send for list
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Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, 76c.
To get the news read The News.
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
oerson 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,
Secy, and Treas
Joint Debate By Candidates Congress.
The undersigned candidates fcr
Congress will meet in joint debate
at the following times and places,
towit:
Hamburg Tuesday, November
23 rd.
Warren. Wednesday, November
24th.
Hampton, Friday, November
26th.
El Dorado, Saturday, November
27 ih.
Everybody cordially invited to
att md.
Respectfully,
W. S. Goodwin,
W. F. McKnicht,
R. S Warnook,
J. O. A. Bush.
Willie’s fssay On the head.
The human head is located at
one end of the body and the feet
at the other. The head can be
told from the feet by shaking. If
the thing you are shaking is empty
and rattles it is a head, if it don't
rattle it is feet.
Men’s heads is held onto
their shoulders by Adam's apples,
while wimmins' is united to their
shoulders by swan-like necks, that
show the marks of the pin feathers
awl too plane.
The front of a head is a face, and
the back is a body of noth ng.entire
ly surrounded by hair—sometimes.
When a man is bald it is hard to
tell which is the front and which is
the back, but an intelligent person
can always tell in this manner:
The front is full of holes, while the
back is not.
Faces is useful for many things.
They can be used for garde/is for
growing whiskers, back grounds
for paintings, incomes for barbers,
blocks for setting under hats, mir
rors for reflecting emotion and
patterns for valentines. They can
also be used, when they are of the
female variety, for littering up the
front page of magazines.
Heads is divided into many kinds,
among them being swelled heads,
pumpkin heads, egg heads, head of
navagashun. sore heads, barrel
heads, and head of the class, of
which 1 know very little.
Tell us the news for the News
Public Education
in Arkansas
Eight Studies in Vital Agricultural
Problems.
KIMTOirS NOTH.
The Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas, in co-operation
with the United States Department of
Agriculture, will offer this year,
through this paper, a free correspond
ence course in “Education in Arkan
sas,“ consisting of eigtit lessons or ar
ticles edited by Dr. J. K. Jewell, Uni
versity of Arkansas. These lessons
will appear in this paper at intervals
of six weeks. Those who wish to take
this course should write to the Direc
tor of Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas, at Fayetteville,
stating name, age. occupation, and s
word about his (or her) general edu
cation, and stating tiiat be (or she)
proposes to carry the work through
for the eight lessons. An educational
bullet in will he sent to supplement
lesson No. l. and later for each lesson
if tiie question blank be returned for
the preceding lesson. These question
blanks will be sent with each bulletin.
'Phe additional lessons on “Education
in Arkansas” will bo; “Consolidation,"
“The County Unit." ‘Troper Taxation."
“Training of Teachers,” "The High
School Problem,' and "Vocational Ed
ucation (2). Extra - proof sheets of
each lesson w ill he kept for those who
may decide later to undertake the
course.—-J. H. Miller, Director Co-oper
ative Extension Work.
I. AN EDUCATIONAL SURVEY.
Some Fundamental Problems.
Notwithstanding tin* commendable
growth In our public schools in the
past six years a recent survey of the
schools in all states made by the Sage
Foundation shows that In the basis ol
efficiency the schools of Arkansas
rank forty-third. This means that so
far as educational opportunities are
concerned there are forty-two better
states in which to rear children. This
information ts humiliating to our state
pride, it is alarming to those of us
who have children to educate, tf it is
true wo should face the situation
siiuarely. Kvasion amt explanation
will not mend it. While we are de
nying or apoiigizing fifty thousand of
our children are every year passim;
beyond Die school age without the op
portunities offered to children tr.
other states.
The Rural Schools.—Tliese school
ar( kept open less than six months of
the year, some of the > far one month
I only; they are in chary r teachers
who are paid less per year then is
earned by unskilled laborers, less than
one-sixth of them having had any edit
cation beyond the common school
branches and no professional train
ing whatever; considerably less thru
one-half of the children of school a<re
are in daily attendance: that is, then
is no day when half the children of our
j state are in school, and less than six
] dollars per annum per child is expend
I ed for maintenance, it is painful to
contrast these conditions with those
in Illinois, for instance, in which the
anuual expenditure per pupi' is twen
ty-three dollars, or with Washington
in which it is thirty-two dollars. In
both of these states the school term Is
one hundred and seventy days, prac
tically all of the teachers have iiad
some professional training, and nuclei
compulsory attendance laws all chil
dren under sixteen years are in schorl
Special Districts. In toe village-,
and larger towns conditions are some
what better. Tiio school term is
■oncer, teachers are better paid and
therefore better trained, and the per
cent age of daily attendance is higher
But even here, except in a few places
Die schools are far below the sta>’<1
arils in similar places in surroundin;
states In many districts Die free
term of from three to (iv
twonths lias been followed bv a
private term, and in some cases liter,
has been no free lerm at all. payment
tor tuition having been required of all
high school pupils and occasionally
from all pupils.
Teachers.—The chief factor in the
etliciencv of the schools is the teacher \
He must have not only native ability !
hut training as well.
School Laws.—The inefficiency of
our schools is not due primarily ta
itick of funds. The source of the
trouble lies in our antiquated school
laws. Under these and the recent de
cision of the Supreme Court in the
State Aid case our public reboot rys
tern is about to break down under the
demands made unon it bv the condi
(ions of modern life.
Remedies. These unsatisfactory
conditions deserve the attention of all
thoughtful people. They affect every
home and every child in the state, es
pecially those in the rural districts.
We need a new system with a new set
of school laws, beginning with the
constitution so far as it concerns edu
cation. Among the changes needed to
modernize the system are the follow
ing:
1. The passage nt the next general
election of the constitutional amend
ment permitting local districts to vote
a maximum school tax of twelve mills.
2. A constitutional amendment
making the county the principal school
unit.
2. A county board of education
with authority to manage the si liools
of the county.
4. A county suncrintendept in each
county appointed by the county board
of education.
5. A county high school in each
county of the state under the manage
ment of Die county board of education.
R. The adaptation of the common
school course of study to the needs of
the children by the introduction of
industrial courses.
7. An awakening to the fact that
half the children of the state are al
ways out of school; eventually they
will all vote.—B. W. Torreyson, LitUo
Hock, Arkansas.
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BACK IN 1900.
15 YEARS ago a little furniture store was opened at 121
North Second St.. Monroe, La. Through the full fif;een years it
has progressed and prospered until today it occupies four big
floors 70 x 150, and besides commanding an enviable position in
the merchandising affairs of Monroe, it is recognized far and
wide as one of the leading furniture stores of the state.
Occupying its own building, and thus having no rent to pay.
The Monroe Furniture Co., gives its customers, of which it num
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