AMAZING INCREASE OF THE
SOUTH’S GRAIN PRODUCTION
FIGURES SHOW VALUE OF
DIVERSIFIED FARMING
Grain Crop This Year Exceeds
in Value the Most Valuable
Cotton Crop Ever Raised.
The grain crop of the South
this year will exceed in value
by several hundred million
dollars the total of the most
valuable cotton crop ever pro
duced by the South.
This remarkable fact is due
to an increase in grain pro
duction throughout the South,
which will demonstrate what
this section is capable of doing
in the development of diversi
fied farming. According to the
forecast of grain production for
the country, based on condi
tions July 1. the production of
grain in the Southern States
for this year will be 1,540,000,
000 bushels, or a gain of 286,
000,000 bushels over lastvear.
If to the figurescovering wheat
corn and oats we properly add
the rice crop of 30,000,000
bushels, and as this year's rice
crop exceeds by 6,000,000
bushels last year’s we would
have a total increase of grain
of 292,000,000 bushels.
I his phenomenal situation;
is all the more impressive when i
taken in connection with the j
grain crop of the entire coun-j
try.
The estimated yield for the
country for the year, including j
rice, is 5,414,000.000 bushels,
or an increase of 490,000,000 j
bushels over 1914. Out of this
total gain, 292,000,000 bushels
or nearly GO per cent, is due to
the increase in the South. The
gain in the south will be nearly
23 per cent over last year as
compared with only 5 V-j per
cent for the balance of the
country. The actual gain in the
South is 94,000,000 bushels!
greater than the increase in the
balance of the United States.
These figures are wonderfully
significant of the agricultural
possibiilities of the South, and .
this increase in grain, whichty-;
pities the increase in foodstuffs
generally, will largely offset
the adverse situation in cotton, j
In the South corn demands a
much higher figure than in the
West, running often from 10 to
20 cents a bushel or more than
Western prices. On this basis,
therefore, it is safe to estimate j
that the grain crops of the
South will represent a gain of
at least $250,000,000 over last
year's figures.
The gain by States shows a
splendid steady expansion
throughout the entire South,
and for wheat, corn and oats
combined as follows.
Bu. Increase
States
Alabama.
Arkansas.
Georgia.
Florida.
Kentucky ....
Louisianna.
Mississippi.
Missouri.
North Carolina.
Oklahoma.
South Carolina.
Tennessee.
Texas.
Virginia.
West Virginia.
over 1914
16.905.000
23.591.000
18.701.000
109,000
22.375.000
16.248.000
19.914.000
26.169.000
. . 503,000
10.468.000
8,782,000
14.886.000
58.695.000
18.243.000
. 3,663,000
Increase. 286,021,000
Increase in rice. . . . 6,000,000
Total increase... 292,021,000
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Compliments Our
Prosecuting Attorney
The Memphis Commercial
Appeal publishes a picture of
Hon. Hugh U. Williamson, the
able young prosecuting attor
ney of this judicial district,and
pays him the following high
compliment:
“The Third Judicial District
of Akansas boasts the youngest
public prosecutor in the United
States in the person of Hugh
U. Williamson ofNewport. Mr.
Williamson is only 25 years
old, and has been in public
service since he reached his
majority. He first served as
county examiner ofStone Coun
ty, and was later representa
tive in the General Assembly.
He is now serving his first
term as prosecutng attorney of
the Third Circuit, and will
have practically the undivid
ed supports of the voters for a
second term when the primary
is held in March 1916. The
Third Curcuit comprises Jack
son, Stone, Independence and
Lawrence counties.
WHY WE ARE GREAT
America is a great country,
and much of that greatness is
due to the ability and fearless
ness of the people in think
ing and acting for themselves.
We elect our chief officers
for two to four years, and if
they don’t suit us we kick
them out at the end of then
terms.
We have a habit of frankly
and insistently telling our pub
lic servants what we expect of
them, and we unblushinglygive
them to understand that ifthey
do no make good we will have
no further use for them.
Nearly everybody works in
this country, and drones are
the isolated exceptions,
j We have no kings or emper
ors, or dukes or counts, for in
this country every man is a
king in his own right, with
more brains than half the
'crowned heads of Europe.
Yes, America is a great
:country, and it will always be
| great so long as we reverence
| brain and brawn instead of
lordlings and tarnished crowns
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VALUE OF FACTORIES
Pocahontas, July 20.—The
four manufacturing plants, the
Grafton Stave and Heading
I Company, Speice Bros. Hoop
Company, Bailee Bros. Handle
Factory, Pocahontas Lumber
Company and Western Tie and
I Timber Company, have paid
j for labor more than $200,000
;during the past year, which
has alike helped the merchants
and the farmers, who were en
abled to market their timber.
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perts in this country and Eu
rope that calomel has a very
violent effect on the system.
This accounts for the familiar
disagreeable feeling accom
panying a dose and the weak
ened condition following it.
Liv-ver-lax is a harmless veg
etable compound, that is mild,
but effective substitute for cal
omel. It has all the effective
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that in some states it has al
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DOUBLE KILLING
NEAR CONWAY
FAMILY FEUD RESULT OF
FORCED MARRIAGE
Father-in-Law Kills Son-in-Law
and is Then Slain By the
Young Victim’s Father.
Conway, July 19.—Tom Ac
ton and Virgil Bird, father-in
law and son-in-law, respective
ly, last night were killed in a
three-cornered tragedy be
tween the two and Jake Bid,
father of Virgil, near Bono, 15
miles northwest of Conway.
Acton and Virgil Bird, were
the first combatants, fighting
each other with knives, in
which Bird was killed. One
hour later, Jake Bird, father of
Virgil, surprised Acton at the
home of Sam Johnson, and
opeend fire on him with a shot
gun, before his victim was aware
of his danger. Acton fell from
his chair lifeless after the first
shot.
Sheriff Bishop was notified at
an early hour this mornging,
and Deputy J.I. Summers, with
Deputy U. S. Marshall Charley
Payne and Dr. G. S. Brown
went to the scene. A telephone
message from Summers to
Bishop this morning stated that
Bird offered no resistance to
arrest.
v irgil Bird was completely
disemboweled by the knife and
was without medical attention
until Dr. Brown's arrival,,
about six hours after receiving
the wound. But sugical aid
was useless.
The trouble to which resi
dents of the section trace last
night s affair had is origin in
the alleged compulsory marri
age of Virgil Bird to Bertha
Acton, daughter of the man
killed, about two years ago,
and his subsequent allegedmis
treatment and separation from
her.
About one year ago, live
stock belonging to Jake Bird
got into Acton’s field and bad
feeling was intensified when
Acton drove them out. Nei
ghbos sent for Deputy Charley
Payne, whose sister, married
Acton’s brother, and who was
formerly neighbors of the two
men, and he was able to patch
up the trouble. Since then
things has been quiet on the
surface, according to friends
of the men.
V lrgu bird, alter his mar
riage to Acton’s daughter, liv
ed with her for some time, but
aferwards separaed from her.
Neighbors patched up the trou
ble between them and Bird re
turned. It is alleged he mis
treated her, which Acton tried
to stop. During Bird’s absence
his wife saved with her parents
After the first fight Acton is
said to have left Bird wounded
on the ground and walked to
the home of Johnson some dis
tance away. Passers-by dis
covered Bird, almost lifeless,
and with a knife clutched in
his hand. When Jake Bird was
notified of what had happened
he armed himself, and went af
ter Acton. He is alleged to
have said that he had done
I just what he wanted to do anil
would stand the consequences.
He is a tenant farmer and has
a family of seven children.
Acton, the man killed, was a
well-to-do- farmer and the fath
er of three girls.
MAY OPEN SAND PITS
Ruddell, July 20.—H. E.
Gump of the Shreveport Win
dow Glass Company of Shreve
port La., has been here sever
al days looking over the glass
'sand deposits of this part of
Izard county considering the
'feasibility of working them on
a large scale. After making
a careful study of the deposits,
he pronounced them as being
ithe largest and best in the
.United States, and if the rail
roads will concede the neces
sary freight rate it is quite
probable that large quarries
will be opened in this vicinity.
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The Journal for Job Work.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENTS
In the Independence Coun
ty Probate Court, at its May
Term thereof, May 1915, the
following named guardians,
administrators and executors,
partial and final settlements
were examind and or
dered to lie over, for excep
tions, if any, until the next
regular term of said court,
which convenes the first Mon
day in August 1915, viz:
Partial Settlements
Mrs. F. M. Walker, guar
dian of Alfred and Harold
Sanders, minors.
Geo. F. Crosser, guardian of
Geo. W. R. Zarnes, a minor.
H. A. Gire, guardian of
Thomas and Agness Gire, min
ors.
S. A. Ruddell, guardian of
Willie Porter, a minor.
Mrs. Mary Prince, guardian
of Bertha, 011ie, Myrtle, and
Clay Prince, minors.
W. L. Porter, guardian of
Willie Porter, a minor.
A. Hindman, guardian of
Sadie Hindman, et al, minors.
J. W. Case, executor of es
tate of Mrs. Sarah Case, de
ceased.
H. W. Johnson, administra
tor of estate of J. C. Speed,
deceased.
A. T. Best, administrator of
estate of W. C. Best, dcasd.
A. T. Best, administrator of
estate of K. C. Best deceased.
Mrs. Ben May hue, adminis
trator of estate of Ben Mayhue
deceased.
inert aims, as guardian 01
Lena, and Alma Wiliams, min
ors.
Union Bank & Trust Co.,
Curator, Morie, Daisy, and
Thelma Treadway, minors,
W. A. Fike, administrator
of estate of Joel Jackson, de
ceased.
D. C. Lane, guardian of
Fay, Edith and Pearl Lane,
minors.
Final Settlements
S. A. Moore, guardian of
Uriah and Rebecca Murff, mi
nors.
R. R. Ratton, guardian of
John Wells, a minor.
Thomas Massey, guardian
of Sybil 1. Floyd, Jewel and
Paul Massey, minors.
T. B. Padgett, guardian of
Case heirs.
Katie and Walter L. Allen,
joint executors last will of
Geo. W. Allen, deceased.
W. C. Sanders, executor of
estate of Lizzie A. Sanders,
deceased.
Grace M. Hawley, adminis
tratrix of estate of J. M. Haw
ley, deceased.
J. B. Johnson, administra
tor of estate of W. B. Fry, de
ceased.
W. R. Baston, administrator
of estate of Perry Lusk, de
ceased.
Chas. Wright, administrator
of esttae of W. S. Wright, de
ceased.
I. Ed R. Hooper, County and
Ex-Officio Probate Clerk in
and for the County of Inde
pendence and State of Arkan
sas, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is cor
rect.
ED. R. HOOPER.
County Clerk
NEW $20,000 HIGH SCHOOL
, Judsonia, July 20.—At a
meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Judsonia Special
School District yesterday, the
contract for a new $20,000
high school building was
awarded to J. S. Kelley, ar
chitect and contractor, of Jud
sonia. Work will commence
at once.
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Main Street. Good business
location, and will be sold at a
bargain. Newark Real Estate
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There is more Catarrh in this section of
tlic country than .ill other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it a
local disease and prescribed local reme
dies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it incur
ahlc. Science lias proven Catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore re
quires constitutional treatment. Hall’s
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Tax Assessor’s Notice
Notice is hereby given that
I will attend in person, or by
Deputy, at the herein-after
mentioned places in the vari
ous Townships of Independ
ence County, Arkansas, for
the purpose of taking lists of
the Real and Personal Pro
perty of each resident of the
County, and the per capita
tax of all such persons as are
liable by law to pay same for
the year 1915, on days and
dates as follows, to-wit.
Salado township, at Salado,
Monday and Tuesday, June
28 and 29.
Rosie township at Rosie,
Wednesday, June 30.
Rosie township, at Hutson.
Thursday, July 1.
Magness township, at Mag
ness, Friday and Saturday,
July 2 and 3.
Craig township, at Ruther
ford’s Store, Monday July 5.
Gainsboro township, at Ham
School house, Tuesday and
Wednesday, July 6 and 7.
Ashley township, at Brew
er’s School House, Thursday.
July 8.
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Oct I It'll lUVVUMUp, clU ui«»
[School House, Friday and Sat
urday, July 9 and 10.
Jefferson township at Mont
gomery’s store, Monday, July
12.
Cushman township, at Cush
man, Tuesday and Wednesday
July 13 and 14.
Union township, at Salt Pe
ter School house, Thursday,
July 15.
Washington township, at
Bethesda, Friday and Satur
day, July 16 and 17.
White River township, at
Sulphur Rock, Tuesday and
Wednsday, July 20 and 21.
Big Bottom township, at
Newark, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, July 22, 23 and 24.
Ruddell township.at Bates
ville, at the court house, Mon
day. Tuesday and Wednesday,
July 25, 26 and 27.
And at my office in the
Court House, to and including
Saturday August, 7, 1915. Af
ter which time a penalty of
one dollar will attach those
failing to list.
Important to School Direct
ors.—The law requires you to
file a list of all the personal
and poll tax payers of your re
spective districts, and the pen
alty for failing to do so is $10.
Please furnish me such list on
the first day of assessing at
your precinct.
Assess in person, if possible,
as no person can list your pro
perty unless they can swear to
the correctness of same. Each
person will be expected to give
correct number of the school
district in which they reside.
Real estate owners are re
quested to bring deed and al
so last tax receipt to theirland.
Where I have more than
one day in a township, I re
serve the right to leave soon af
ter noon of last day there, in
order to reach the next town
ship S. D. LINDSEY.
Assessor of Ind. Co., Ark.
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