THE HliTTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at lluttig, Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3, 1907 at
the postoffice at Huttig. Ark., under the act of Con
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Saturday, January 9, 1915.
TOWN OrNCIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
tig:
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. Mague.
This year got off on the wrong
foot, beginning on Friday. How
ever, 1914 began on Thursday and
what good did it do?
How quickly we become used to
horrors. When the Titanic was
lost at sea, the whole world shud
dered, sobbed and sympathized.
Off the coast of South America
the other day, thousands of miles
from home, over 2,000 men. more
than those who died on the Ti
tanic, went down, to the bottom
less depths of the restless sea.
And the world gave the story a
passing glance and read on. Is it
because there was a glamour at
tached to the death of the Titan
ic’s victims, or was it because the
men who died on the German bat
tleships are paid to die? Or,though
we dislike to believe it, is it be
cause, like the man who stands
with knife in hand at the abbatoir,
we have became hardened and
take the death in battle as a mat
ter of course?
“I WILL”
I will make the New Year worth
while, i will drop the past re
membering it only as a valuable
path through which 1 have walked
into the Now. L will take up work
of the New Year as a personal
pledge to do my best with interest
and enthusiasm. 1 will do the
things I have failed, to do before. I
will attempt new things that I
know now that I can do. I will go
ahead. I will play the game this
New Year with a warm heart and
a cool head. I will smile when I
feel like frowning. 1 will be patient
when 1 feel tempted to scold. 1
will take personal command of my
self. I will be faithful to all my
trusts. I will master the smallest
detail. 1 will boost- not knock.
1 will get things done. 1 will work
because 1 like to. I will be fair
and just because there is no other
way—to win. I will do right be
cause it is right. I will sweat by
courageous effort—determined to
succeed at 3.11 times. 1 will be
careful of my time, considerate of
my health, jealous of m;y honor. 1
will help make the New Year great
for everyone with whom 1 come in
contact. I will make the New
Year worth while.
HOW TO BOOST ARKANSAS
Every housewife, wlien making pur
chases, should always ask foj’ “Arkan
sas Products."
Serve a dinner in your home at
least one a month using only products
grown in Arkansas.
Get behind the "Let Arkansas Feed
Herself" movement.
Local merchants should psatromize
home farmers by buying home’ grown
products in preference to those ship
ped in from the outside-. Patronize
home people and they will patronise
you.
Encourage diversified farming and
livestock growing in Arks nsas.
Every boy and girl in your county
should own a pig, a ctitjf or some
chickens.
Bankers should loan, money on
farms to do livestock farming.
Have the schools Pa. yotur county
take up the study of Arkansas
products.
When buying anything, call for
“Arkansas Products" and if your mer
chant hasn’t them he- will be com
pelled to get them.
Old papers for ss le at this office.
10c per 100.
To get the news read The Ne
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1915 SEED CORN MUST
BE SELECTED ST ONCE
Delay Until Time to Plant to Secure
Good Parent Stock Why Arkansas'
Average Yield Is 20 Bushels an
Acre.
Do not wait until planting time to
pick out or buy the seed corn. Begin
to look for good seed ears now and
keep them in a dry place and protect
ed from the grain moth so that they
will grow. Many farmers depend on
picking the seed corn out of the crib
late in the season only to find that
during the winter most of it lias been
fed, and that only a few bushels or
nubbins remain from which to select
the parent stock for the crop of next
year.
Corn that is allowed to stay in the
crib all winter, especially if it was put
Good Seed—More Bushels.
In damp or became damp, will not ger
minate strong, with the result that
there will be many weak plants oi
missing hills in the field. There Is a!
ways a rush of work in the spring at
planting time. Seed should be select
ed before this rush begins.
A man who is no* pushed for time
will do better worlC so that seed that
is selected early will be of better
quality than that selected when the
farmer feels that he ought to have his
teams in the field. Select fifty ears for
each acre that is to be planted. Some
of it is likely to be spoiled or become
damaged. At a second selection at
planting time, some of the ears will be
thrown out because they do not look
as good as they did at first.
Plans may be changed so that a few
more acres may be planted than was
at first intended. After all if there is
a small surplus it may be sold to
Borne neighbor who has neglected hie
seed, and who will be willing to pay a
good price for It, or It may be fed and
nothing lost. If you must buy seed
get it early. The seed houses usually
sell their best seed first and if there
is a demand may sell very inferior
seed at the end of the season. The
failure of so many of our farmers to
get superior quality of seed early in
the season is one big factor in caus
ing the average yield of corn to be
only twenty bushels per acre In Ar
kansas.
Earl Kilpatrick,
Experiment Station, Fayetteville.
HORTICULTURALISTS TO MEET.
The Arkansas Horticultural Society
will hold its annual state convention
at Fayetteville January 11 to 16 inclu
jrive. Convention week will be ‘'Farm
er's Week” at the university. The
Arkansas College of \grlculture has
arranged for the entertainment of the
visitors. A large exhibit of spraying
machinery and cultivating materials
will be on display, which will give
prospective purchasers an opportunity
to see machinery in operation before
buying. It is expected that the largest
attendance in the history of the or
ganization w ill be present.
TICKS FROM TALL TIMBERS
How to Get In Tick Free District
This Year.
ir you want your county to be In the
tick eradication district and rid your
county of the Texas fever tick and
save thousands of dollars of loss an
nually, then hustle out with petitions
to local representatives of the Arkan
sas Legislature which convenes next
week, urging that your county be
placed in the tick eradication district.
There are now two eradication dis
tricts fn Arkansas, the Northeast Tick
Eradication District, under the control
of a commission, and the Northwest
District, in charge or a board of con
trol, and under the direction of the
head of the Veterinary Science Depart
ment of the State College of Agricu'
tuTe at Fayetteville.
The work has been carried on in
these districts by counties who levy
an annual tax of five cents on all cat
tie or dairy and beef class in those
counties.
In any part of the state outside the
tick eradication districts it would be
practical for several counties in o
group to join forces and form a local
district. These counties could come
in under the present laws and regula
tlons provided they are placed legally
and the tax of five cents is levied on
all neat cattle within your borders.
R. M. (low, State Veterinarian.
Next to having good seed, a prop
oriy prepared s«aj bed is of most im
portance ia planting « crop.
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PERMANENT PASTURE FOR
STOCK RAISING IN ARKANSAS
Bermuda Grass Excels Kentucky Blue
Grass for Pasture.
Feed and Pasture Must lie Provided Before (doing Into Live Stock
Extensively—Arkansas Can Raise More Good Forage
Crops Than Northern States.
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Bermuda, Lespedeza and Bur Clover Give Pasture for All the Year
—Make Good Hay or Pasture—Excel Other Grasses—Ar
kansas Farmer Praises Them for Raising Stock—
Is Seeding a Thousand Acres.
One of the growing needs of Arkansas today is permanent pastures,
and we may never ^expect to have livestock to any extent, that can be grown
profitably, without taking into consideration the question of permanent pas
ture.
In Kentucky blue grass is the basis for their pasture, but in Arkansas
we have a grass that is adapted to our climate and soil that is far superior
to the blue grass of Kentucky; namely the Bermuda Grass. This grass is
recognized as the blue grass of the South, and is splendid for hogs,
horses, sheep and poultry. It is easily seeded either by planting the seed or
transferring the sod, and makes a pasture from the early Spring until Kail.
In addition to this lespedeza may be sown with this grass in the spring,
which affords a pasture for th^ Fall season. Lespedeza. itself, being one
of the grasses used for hay in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, is con
sidered among the foremost grasses grown, and the combination of Ber
muda and lespede a gives us a pasture for at least two-thirds of the year.
All stock grazes these grasses readilvat almost any period of their growth.
In addition to these two grasses, which should be sown together, bur
clover may be added in the early Fall, which provides a Winter pasture,
and the three grasses work beautifully together as Bermuda comes on tn
the early Spring, furnishing pasture through the Spring and Summer, les
pedeza through the late Summer and early Fall and the burr-clover coming
on in the Winter. ,
The th^ee grasses sown together will feed three head of cattle per
acre, which the blue grass of Kentucky feeds but one head per acre.
These grasses can be grown in most any section of Arkansas and nro
especially adapted.to the bottom lands of eastern, central and the southern
part of the state.
The Bermuda grass when once planted, remains on the land Indefinitely,
and the lespede.:a reseeds itself each year, as Will the burr-clover. There
fore, we call it a permanent pasture, as it stands the freezes of the winters
of this climate admirably and will withstand th« heat of the summer.
These grasses are very nutritious and will make wholesome food by
pasturing or being cut for hay. It is not uncommon to get from one to
two tons of Bermuda grass for hay and from one and a half to two and a
half tons of lespedeza hay on medium and rich soil during the winter
season.
There are a number of other grasses that have been sown in this state
and have b en tried, but none that equals the ones above suggested that
has come under the observation of the writer. There is no question that
if the average farmer will plant grasses above suggested it will be-a solu
tion to his problem of permanent pasture for Arkansas.
One man in Senior county, in the southwestern part of this state, is now
seeding to Bermuda grass and lespedeza one thousand acres for perma
nent pasture, after having tried out a number of other grasses recom
mended to him for his section of th'- state. His claims are that cattle
thrive better on it than any other grass that he has grown, and that these
grasses grow better in acid soils and humid climate than other grasses
that he has tried on his farm. In looking over the entire state and seeing
them grown on the roadsides and in the worn out farms, I am convinced
that no other grass is equal to Bermuda for Arkansas.
C. W. Watson,
State Agent Farm Demonstration Work.
This little Mississippi girl likes to feed chickens. She calls them “My
chickens,” and seems to be happy and proud of the ownership. There are.
thousands of boys and girls in Arkansas who, if they had a chance, are no
different in this respect than this little girl. Every farm boy and girl can
help in the movement "Let Arkansas Feed Herself” by raising a pig, some
chickens or a calf. Write W. J. Jermgnn, Little Rock, Ark., for pig and
poultry club plans.
FARM MACHINERY AN
IMPORTANT FACTOR
Improved Farm Machinery Reduces
Cost of Production—Much Needed
on Arkansas Farms.
One of the principal Implements
needed in Arkansas is a large two
horse plow. Plows can be used to
stir the soil deep and plow under vege
table matter, thus increasing the hu
mus which Is so much needed In our
sells. The use of the Georgia stock :
and small plows inevitably means soil
low in humus, that bakes, and one '
with decreased productivity. Big plows
drawn by heavy teams, mean deep til
lage and no necessity of burning vege
table matter which can then be plow
ed under. Nearly every season our
farmers are confrontpd with the prob
lem of dry weather. Two of the things
that will help tide the crops over and
keep them growing through this sea
son are liumus in the soil and surface
culpvation. One pound of manure, It
is said, well decayed, will hold seven
times as much moisture as a pound of
sand and three times as> mucli as a
pound of the ordinary soil. Without
good plows this vegetable matter can
not be properly handled.
The disc harrow is one of the bes.t
Implements that is made for the cul
tivation of crops. It is good for cot
ton. corn, cow peas, etc. Its draft is
light and leaves the surface in a cul
tivated condition. There is no better
tool for the preparation of the seed
bed than the disc harrow. It leaves the
ground in good condition for receiving
the seed and is large enough to en
able the operator to cover a good sizeo
area in a day .with ease. It enables
one man to utlize more power than
with any other cultivating type of im
plement. The "Let Arkansas Feed
Herself” movement, among other
! things, means better conditions on tie
farm, greater crop production and the
° use of improved implements and more
| power, J, E. Waggoner,
Of the International Harvester Co.
Unwelcome Invitation.
Donald, aged four, had been kept at
home for some time for fear of catch
ing the whooping cough, so one after
noon, after much pleading with his
mamma, he was permitted to take a
little outing. While sitting on a bench
in the park a child sat down beside him,
who at once began to cough violently.
Donald’s mother snatched him away
quickly and immediately started for
home. Donald was quite silent on the
i homeward journey, but Just as soon
as he stepped inside of the door of his
home he exclaimed excitedly to his
sisters: "O, kids! What d»»y«n think?
I got invited to the whooping cough
today." _
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Colored Columr
Mrs. L. M. High is sufferinf
from an effected eye.
Mrs. Wilkinson of Monroe te here
visiting Mrs. Reed.
Mary Pascal is up from a severe
attack of fever.
Rev. John Smith will preach here
Sunday.
A large crowd was cut to the
New Year concert. Everybody
enjoyed themselves and Santa
Claus delivered over a hundred
present from the tree.
J. E. Bradley and Frank Cole
man sold 120 tickets for the Nev.
Year concert.
The following were guests at the
birthday dinner given at ihe home
of W. I. Henry: Charley Driver
and wife. J. W. Bailey and wife. R.
F. Fairchild and wife and Prof. P.
A. Cook.
Emancipation celebration will be
held on Jan 17. Committee, Rev.
Nelson, H. B. Lewis. E Driver. A
Lewis. G M Avery, Prof P A Cooh
G S Scates
Henry Reed of Monroe is here
visiting Rev Johnson
JEWEL TABERNACLE, No. 412.
meets every list and 3rd Tuesday.
Augusta Steverson, H. P.
Tena Harris, C. R.
Spanolia Camps No. 261 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
1:30 o'clock. Emma Barns.Gov.
Mary Adkins. S&cy.
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, C. M.
W. B. Barnes, C. 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.
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.
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 1*0DGE No. 6362 G.
U. 0. of 0. F. meets First and Third
Thursday in each month.
G. W. Smith, N. G.
T W Scates, P. S.
GOOD LUCK LODGE No. 259 F. &,
A. M meets First and Fourth Saturday
night. All visitors welcome.
Geo. Kelso, W. M.
S. L. Glenn, Sec.
OMEGA COMMANDERY No.4 Knight
Templars meet every 2nd Thursday
night in each month.
J. H. Law, E. C.
E. Brooks, Recorder.
SPINOLA Lodge No. 261, C. of W.
A., meets every first and third Wednes
day night at 8 o'clock.
J. C. Ellis, Gov.
S. G. Crayton, Secy.
LEBANON, Chapter No. 41, R. A. M
meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday night
at 7:30. Emmett Holly, H. P.
W. A. High, 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. |
j Lula Oliver, Secretary.
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SEEDS
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the country will mail a copy of their Big
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is complete on all farm and garden seeds.
It tells how to grow'big .yields arid all
about the best varieties of * orn for your
locality; also Seed Oats, *VVh< at Harley,
Speltz, Grasses, Clovers, Alfalfa, Pasture
and Lawn Mixtures. Seed Potatoes and
all other farm and garden soeds. This
Book is worth dollars to all in want of
seeds of any kind. 1 i S b f k.K to all
our readers. Write for it today and
mention this paper. The'address is
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Shenandoah, Iowa.
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 59-1 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:50 o'clock, '.'.siting
Masons always welcome.
F. O. Mahony, W. M.
D. F. Collett, Sec'y.
HOWARD CHAPTER. No. 122. R A.
M. meets every first and third’ Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
D. F Collett, H. P.
C. A. Bfrry, Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320. Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. A. E. Lucas, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec’y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. 0. O F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
M. H. Claybaugh, N. G.
E. L. Ware, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAM LODGE No. 06.
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Ciias. Saxe, N. G.
Mrs. May Claybaugh, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4 1 1 W. O. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
C. M. Caldwell, C. C.
J."€. Bridges, Clerk.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE,
St, Louis, Iron Mountain &, Southern
LITTLE ROCK & MONROE RY.
South
5:25 a. m .
7:55 a. m .
Leaves
I 1:55 p. m.
. Huttig ... .
Monroe
local. *
Huttig
North
3:23 p. m
1:00 p.m.
Arrives
12:15 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
FARMERVILLE & SOUTHERN RY.
North South
4:42 a.m. ..Huttig 3:54 p. m
3:15 a.m., Farmerville 6:20 p. m
local, f
10:15 a.m. Huttig 2:25 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ilie.
Arrives Tuesday. Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.