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. DECEMBER 11. 1915.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
TO CONTINUE RIVER WORK.
Army fnqincrrs Make Tavor.ible Report Cn
The Ouachita Work.
Residents along the Ouachita
river south of Camden, are glad to
know there will be no di-contin
uance of river improvement work
as the report of the army en_.in ers
to congress contain recommenda
tions for appropriations to com
plete locks 3 and 7 and for chan
nel work. People living along the
river were aroused to action during
the past few months bv a fear that
the government would abandon the
locks and dams, though more 'han j
half of the work had been com
pleted, because a proper use was
not being made of the river by ship
pers. Several conferences were
held at Monroe and at Camden
with government engineers and it
was made plain that a continuation
of the improvement depended on
the measures taken to utilize the
river for the shipment of frieght.
The report of the engineering corps
to congress indicate the plans out
lined were satisfactory. The re
commendations include $474,000
for locks 3 and 7 and $25,000 for
channel work.
State of Ohio. City of Toledo,
Lucas County, ss.
Frank J. Cheney mak.-s oath that he
is senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doinjr 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 eared by the use of HALL'S ;
CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscript d
in my presence, this fith day of Decem
ber. A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON.
(Sea!) 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. .1 CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. '
Sold by ail druperi.-Rs, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Second lyreeum Course Pleasing.
The Kuehn Concert Co., which
appeared at Union church on
Thursday night of last week, as
the second number of this year's
lyceum course, was greeted by a
crowded house and gave better
satisfaction than on their previous
appearing here last year. Haze! j
Folsom-Daggv,-the coloratura so- i
prano, who took the place of the
reader with the company last year,
was very fine, the only regret of
the audience being that she did not
render more numbers. Nicolai
Zedeler. cellist, was also good and
his number greatly appreaciated.
The Kuehns were perfection and
have won a place in the hearts of
our people.
Bids Wanted fur Janitor.
The school board of Consolidated
District No. 60 will receive bids for
doing the janitor work at the new
school building up to Wednesday.,
Dec. 15, at 10 o'clock a. m. For
services required see Prof. A. J.
Dowis at school.
L. F. Magee, Pres.
W. H. Moore, Secy.
Will Exchange School Books.
Manager D. M. Clowney, of the
Union Saw Mill store, informs me
that all pupils having school books
to be exchanged must have them
at the store by Saturday night,
December 11. He says books will
be exchanged up to that time but
not after that date.
A. J. Dowis, Supt.
Page’s Weekly Letter.
The crop gathering season is all
most over and all corn land that
has not been broken should be
this month and all the stalks,
weeds and grass p'owed under.
Any meadow land that you expect
to plant in other crops next spring,
should be'turned under this month.
Flat break all the land you can
during December. It will also pay
well to disk the land as fast as you
break it. Do not leave the furrow
slice unkroken and unsettled, but
| pulverize it into a loose bed. It
i will hold plant food, and make a
better reservoir for water in the
spring. Large clods and furrow
slices with air places in between
are hard on the land and will tell in
the next crop. Get rid of them by
disking. A clod in the Held is real
ly worse than a rock.
Now is the time to look after
your seed for next year if you have
not already done so. Cotton seed
will be scarce and high priced in
the spring. If you have not saved
your cottonseed do so without
further delay. Good seed corn is
always scarce in Arkansas. If you
have a good variety of corn stick to
it and pick out the best ears now
and hang them up in a good dry
place where they will be protected
from the freezing weather. A
good way is to swing it to the raft
ers in the house over the living
room. Never keep more than two i
varieties of corn on the farm, one
white and other yellow. Select
your seed carefully every year and
build up these two varieties. Do
not be experimenting with every
new variety you happen to hear
about. Remember that all good
varieties of corn are produced as a
result of breeding and careful seed
selection year after year, without
allowing any mixture. It will do
but little good to get the very best
variety unless you keep it from
mixing with other varieties, and ’
are also careful in selecting seed
every year. Without care in seed
selection the best seed will run out
Observe equal care with cotton
seed, and have as few varieties as
possible. One good variety i?
enough On my farm had three or
four kinds this year. Next year
will have but one. as we produced
enough of one variety for the whole ;
crop next year. The seed we will
plant averaged 36 per cent lint
From 1600 pounds we got a bale
weighing 576 pounds. From 1600
pounds of the other kind we got a
bale weighing 496 pounds. Tak
ing the average yield per acre on j
the farm 1 calculated the differ-:
ence and found that the one we are
going to keep produced at the rate j
of $6.40 per acre more than the j
other kinds. However, it yielded
better than the other kinds, and
the real difference amounts to
about $9 per acre. A cotton that
will pull a one inch staple and
make 36 per cent lint and is a good
yielder is a good kind to stick to.
It pays. Suit yourself about the
variety, but stick to it and improve
it by careful seed selection.
Woodmen fleet Officers.
At the regular meeting of Sweet
Bay Camp No. 411. W. O. W., last
Saturday night the following offic
ers were elected for the ensuing
year:
C. C. C. A. McCormick.
A. L.—J. C. Phillips.
Banker W. L. Carter.
Clerk J. C. Bridges.
Escort A. P. Phillips.
Watchman Lester Malone.
Sentry T. N. Rubottom.
Mgr. C. R. Duncan.
Physician Dr, Foster Jarrell.
The Week in History.
Monday, Dec. 6. Carver landed
in New England, 1620.
Tuesday, Dec. 7. Deleware ad
mitted to Union, \ 787.
Wednesday, Dec. 8. Washington
crossed Deleware. 1776.
Thursday, Dec. 9. Buffalo burn
ed. 1813.
Friday, Dec. 10, Mississippi ad
mitted to Union, 1817.
Saturday. Dec. 11, Pilgrims
landed, 1620.
Sunday. Dec. 12. Pennsylvia ad
mitted to Union, 1787.
Be sure you're right then act
just as courteously as if there were
a possibility of your being mistaken
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One Shock Probably Lastinj
More Than a Few Secor
Others Think Uonger.
Memphis, Tenn.—Distinct
/luake shocks, covering a wic
tory over four or five states
Memphis territory, were felt.
Reports indicated that th<
tremor ran from the northeast
southwest, although In this im
section there are no seismogr.
that no exact record could be
ed, either of the trend of the
or of their duration.
Most accounts agree that th
Rebekohs f let * Officers.
last
The following officers for Huttig
Rebekah Lodge No. 66 were elect
ed last Monday night:
N. G. Mrs. Lou Millstead.
V. G. Mrs. Wilkie Frost.
Secy. Miss Murray Pilkilton.
Treas. Mrs. Dorathea Greer.
These together with the appoint
ive officers will be installed on the
first meeting night in January.
We print ladies' calling cards.
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 ! ague at 6:30 p
m. A cordial it „ion is extend
ed to all to att d these services.
Rev. S. K. Burnett Pastor
Tor Sale.
Sixteen acre Truck farm, in high
state of cuicivatioii. One five
room house, two tenant houses,
two good wells, pasture with water
tank and barn. One-half mile west
of Huttig. For prices see
W. L. Reagan,
at Huttig Meat Market.
New Cdd Tellews Officers.
On last Tuesday night the fol
lowing officers for Huttig Lodge
No. 348. 1. O. O. F., were elected
for the ensuing year and will be
installed along with the ; ppointive
officers on the first Tuesday night
in January:
N. G. E. L. Ware.
V. G. M. L. Phillips.
Secy.—Harlan Sehon.
Treas.—L. M. Despain.
Trustees M- L. Phillips, L. M.
Despain. J. E. Greer.
County Medical Society fleets.
At the regular monthly meeting
of the Union County Medical so
ciety at El Dorado last Monday the
following officers were elected:
President Dr. Foster Jarrell of
Huttig.
Vice-President Dr. W. N. El
kins. of Junction City.
Secy.-Treas.- Dr. H. H. Neihaus
Delegate to State Convention
Dr. G. H. Mitchell; alternate, Dr.
F. 0. Mahony.
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
uating or trespassing upon the tim
Per of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 1906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Secy, and Treas
Ups and Downs.
This life is composed of ups and
downs; I might give myself as an
example. Of course, I t^refer to win,
but if not I won’t be dissatisfied. I
have had my share of successes and
reverses; successes I have endeav
ored to meet without elation, reverses
without depression, and whenever I
have fallen it has been my motto
and I think it has been a good one. to
try again the following day.--Sir Wil
frid Laurier.
' CLING TO BLEAK LAND
' NATF’ES OF SHETLAND ISLAND
I LOVE THEIR HOME.
Have Hard Work to Coax a Livir.p
From Almost Barren Reck. But
Leave It Unwillingly—Spot
Has Figured in History.
Fair island, 25'miles south of all
the other Shetlands, has had a
strange enough pageantry passing
over its rocky surface For not only
was it the home of the I’icts, and then
of the Norse; and for the Norse, the
signal beacon to give warning of the !
coming of the hostile sail; besides ;
that, it supplied a chapter in the ro
mance of the Spanish Armada.
For here was wrecked the ship of
Don Gomez de Medina, and that noble
and his men were for a time most
generously entertained by the island
ers, writes Maude Radford Warren in
Harper's .Magazine. But time passed,
the Spaniards stayed, the meal and the
mutton diminished. Then the island
ers. wrapped in by the wild storms,
unable to get to any other island,
fearful of famine, hid their food. The
forced guests grew weak, many died
of starvation, and some, it is said,
were pushed over the tall cliffs into j
the sea.
At last one Andrew Umphrey took
the Spaniards away in a ship, and
since that day the name of Fmphrey
has been powerful in the Shetlands.
The Fair island people show plain
traces of Spanish blood, but they re
sent the. suspicion of it. saying that
the Spaniards were isolated when on
the island.
It is hard to conceive how isolation
could well be possible on an island
two miles square; besides, the Fair
island people do not deny that the
strange patterns and the lichen dye
ing of the stockings and caps and
ehaw-ls their women knit were taught
them by the Spaniards, and indeed the
same sort of handicraft is found to this j
day in country places of Spain.
The Fair islanderg -were treat
Bnonn-ters In the otff hrivt VnW LYlPy
are still good bargainers. They are
very intelligent, seeming to know in
stinctively how to read; and not so
very long ago they would follow the
mail steamers in their light canoe
shaped boats, which none but them- j
selves can manage, begging for news- j
papers and books.
One of their terrors is of infec
tious disease; another is of the dog
tax man, against whose coining they
are said to hang and drown their j
dogs; a flier is of emigration, for
they love Fair isle. Yet emigrate they
must; about forty-five years ago a
hundred of them went, unable longer
to coax a living from their bare rock.
Their greatest joy is the occasional
visits of the minister, more frequent
ly now than in the old days, when
he arrived but once in about two years
to marry and christen, lie preaches
every day of his stay, and they pro
long his visit on every possible pre
text, using, when all else fails, the
solemn prophecy of a storm.
Vicious Wolves in France.
To talk of wolves in France seems
absurd—a country that has been set
tled for 2,000 years, and has a popu
lation of 160 lo the square mile. Yet
in several of the departments (or
counties, as we would call them)—
notably in the Department of Yonne,
in the heart of France—the wolves
are extremely bold and enterprising.
Two troopers, one day last spring,
who were riding in company, came
suddenly upon a huge wolf that, with
out the slightest hesitation, sprang j
upon the nearest horse. The sol
diers dismounted and drew their sa
bers. expecting the wolf to turn tail,
but he showed light and but for the
arrival of a farmer with a gun, who
shot the animal, the republic might j
have lost two of her army. The com
bat would be thought nothing of in
Russia, or eren in this country but. in
fYance- well, it shows how hard it is
for man to exterminate the wild ani
mals that infest the earth.
Doubtful About It.
Nath Taylor could neither read nor
write, but he put one over on the city i
preacher that he engaged to marry j
him. Nath had for a long time con-;
templated marrying, but never had
the nerve to inquire into the neces- |
sary legal formalities. A preacher
from the city happened to be visiting
on the farm where Nath was em
ployed. When Nath learned of file
presence of the preacher in the house
he decided to go up and inquire just
what had to be done. When Nath
reached the front steps his courage
left him. and there Mr. Smith, his em
ployer, found him Nath explained his
mission and the preacher was called
to enlighten him.
“And so you wish to get married,
my man?" the preacher nodded en
couragingly to Nath, whose courage
was list slipping away
“W-e 1-1, i think I w ill try It a while,"
Nath replied. “How much does It
cost?”
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Christmas Cheer
Will be more cheering and the spirit of “Peace on
Ea>-th. Good Will to Men" will be more manifest to you if
you have a snug bank account to tide you over this season
of much giving.
We would not encourage anyone to be “stingy." and
we would not think of asking you to deprive the young
folks of Christmas joys. Give them their little pleasures
now. but do not forget to provide for future Christmases.
Lay up something for the future, or the time may come
when you will have to disappoint them. Sickness may
come or the loss of your job may haDpen at any time when
it would be a calamity indeed.
Think not only of their pleasure and comfort at
Christmas time, but for all the year round. Make sure that
they will get what they deserve at all times by saving a
part of everything you earn and banking it to provide for
your own and your family's future needs. We will help
you save.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS
Interest Paid on lime Deposits.
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The Sunshine Special
will be placed in service between
St. Louis
Dallas
Fort worth
Houston
or immediate points by ihe
Galveston
San Antonia
Iron Mountain Route
Texas and Pacific
International & Great Northern
This train will be a duplicate of the famous Scenic
Limited and will leave St. Louis at 6; 15 p. m.
Fastest Time—Shortest Route
Between St. Louis and Texas
Call or write for particlars
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HUTTIG, ARKANSAS ■
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