DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. X. NO. Z7
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. JANUARY 13. 1917.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
PROFITABLE FARMING CAMPAIGN
Notable Speakers and Experts Will be in
Union County on Wednesday,
January 17, 1917.
On Wednesday. January 17th
there will be four teams of two ex
perts each deliver eight profitabh
farming lectures in Union countv
and it is hoped that at each ap
pointment they will be greeted witt
large crowds.
The schedule will be as follows
Mt. Holly, Junction City, Strong
and El Dorado at 10 o'clock tha
morning and Huttig. Caledonia
Three Creeks and Shuler at 2:3C
o’clock that afternoon. It was on
ly possible to secure these men for
one day and the eight appoint
ments have been distributed tc
make it possible for every farmer
in the county to be able to attenc
one of them.
These men are not going to tell
you how to farm but what to plant
and why and be capable of answer
ing any questions that you may
wish to ask.
The profitable farming campaign
is financed by the State Bankers'
Association and the Little Rock
Board of Trade, they realing that
what helps the farmer helps every
body, so come out yourself and try
and get your neighbor out also.
Remember the two meetings for
this end of the county are to be at'
Strong. Wednesday morning. Janu- i
ary 17, at lOo’clook and that af
ternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Huttig
The Huttig^ meeting will be in the
high school auditorium and every
one is asked to advertise the event
as much as possible.
RUB OUT PAIN
with good oil liniment. That’s
the surest way to stop them.
Ihe best rubbing liniment is
MUSTANG
LINIMENT
Good for the Ailments of
Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc.
. Good for your own A ches.
Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains,
Cuts, Burns, Etc.
25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealers.
New Bank Officers.
At the annual meeting of stock
holders of the First National Bank
held Tuesday the following were
elected as the board of directors:
F. W. Scott. C. H. Murphy, M. W.
Hardy, T. B. Weaver, C. T.
Thompson, L. M. Cartall and G. A.
Berry. At the meeting of the
board of directors which followed
the following officers were chosen:
F. W. Scott, president; C. A. Berry,
vice-president; C. T. Thompson,
cashier; W. P. Reasons, assistant
cashier.
W BETTER f ARMING HINTS. ^
CLEAR MORE LAND.
“Farmers ought to use their idle
time in a way that counts.” says
A. D. McNair, with the bureau of
farm management, cooperating
with the Extension Division.
“When the weather is fair and the
ground dry, land should be broken
for the crops of the coming year,
but it may be that not more than
one-third of the time in January
and Februay is available for this
work. During the time when the
fiellds are too wet to plow or when
the ground is frozen, farmers can
utilize their time in cutting wood
and clearing land. Their wood for
fuel can be prepared at this time
and, in addition, some can be cut
and sold and the land cleared pre
paratory to making the crop for the
coming year.
The average farm in Arkansas
contains a good deal of unimproved
land which could be brought under
cultivation and this should be done
as a means of enlarging the farm
business and increasing the farm
income. There are many farms in
the state of about 80 acres, on
jvhich are two able-bodied men and
yet only 30 acres of these farms
ire under cultivation, whereas
double this area could be brought
under cultivation and the farmer’s
income increased greatly thereby
It has been proven in this state,
and in others, that farms which re
quire three or four horses to oper
ate them make more money than
those which require only one or
two horses and it would seem that
clearing more land is one of the
easiest ways to enlarge the farm
business, to increase the farm in
come and to make the farm itself
more valuable.”
CARDEN HINTS FOR JANUARY.
Do not forget the garden during
Janua'y. Now is the time to re
move and burn all rubbish and re
pair the garden fence to keep out
the chickens and rabbits.
Have you ordered your supply
of garden seed? If not. better
Diace the order now so as to have
them on hand when the planting
time comes on. Order a few more
and a larger variety this year and
let's make our living at home.
Next month will be time to sow
some of the early vegetables such
as cabbage, raddish and lettuce in
the hot bed. Have you the sashes
and frames ready?
WIN YEAR AT SCHOOL.
“That the various clubs for girls
and boys of the state furnish them
a means of earning large sums cf
money as well as a means of se
curing much valuable training and
information is proven by the fact
that ten girls and boys bibnging
to the different clubs, with the re
ceipts from the products producted
as club members, have been en
abled to attend an agricultural
school one year." says W. J. Jerni
gan. of the Extension Division of
tne Uuiversity. "It is the nature
of a child to wish to excel in what
he does and the prizes offered at
different times prove an incentive
for them to try to do their best and
in doing this they are kept on the
alert and thus gather not only a
great deal of information along the
special line of work being followed
but on other lines pertaining to safe
farming. There were 9.000 girls
and boys who belonged to the clubs
in 1916 and 15,000 members are
wanted for 1917. Are you going
to give your girl or boy the chance
that will prove of lasting benefit to
them? The girls of the state have
the opportunity of joining the can
ning or poultry clubs and the boys
may join the corn, pig, peanut or
cotton clubs. Anyone interested
should write to the Extension Di
vision, old state house, Little Rock.
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Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps,
Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and
Bums, Old Sores, Stings of Insects
Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used in
ternally and externally. Price 25c j
Methodist Church Services.
The following services rill 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 6:30 p.
m. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. A. Turrentine, Pastor.
Tell us the news for the News
Tax Collector’s Notice
Finn Craig, sheriff and collector,
will be at the fo'lowing places on
dates named below for the purpose
of collecting the real and personal j
taxes due for the year 1916:
Huttig, Lapile twp.. Tuesday and
Wednesday, Jan. 23 and 24.
Felsenthal. Lapile twp., Thurs
day, Jan. 25.
Lapile. Lapile twp., Friday, Jan.
26
Strong. Lapile twp., Monday and
Tuesday. Jan. 29 and 30.
New London, Harrison twp.,
Wednesday, Jan. 31.
El Dorado, Ei Dorado twp.. from
Wednesday. Feb. 7, to April 10.
Positively no taxes collected af
ter April 10. 1 91 7, without penalty
attached, so pay while he is here
and know you are safe.
Purchase fertilizers Early.
The high prices of farm products
and the growing need of food ev
erywhere indicate that farmers
will use an increased amount of
fertilizers this spring. About 300.
000 railroad cars are needed to
transfer the usual spring ship
ments. it is said, but as there is an
acute shortage of cars this year
farmers are urged to buy their fer
tilizers at an earlier date than usual
in order to insure their delivery on
time. By cooperating the rail
roads and farmers both can be
benefitted: the farmers can do their
hauling at a more convenient time
and the railroads can use their cars
to make several deliveries before
the need of &pdma fertilizers is
passed.
$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 ucts thru the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces of the System thereby de
stroying the foundation of the disease,
giving the patient strength by buildiflg
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
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
rase that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials.
Address: E. J CHENEY * CO., Toleio.
Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, lie
Texas and Ark. Solons Neighbors.
Senator Morris Sheppard and
Senator-elect W. F. Kirby are near
neighbors, living only a few blocks
apart, when they are among their
respective constituences, yet the
former represents Texas and the
latter represents Arkansas in the
upper house of the national legisla
ture. They both live in Texar
kana. Sheppard on the Texas side
and Kirby on the Arkansas side.
When they met in Washington
shortly after congress convened for
the present short session they
greeted each other with. “Why.
hello neighbor!” Then Senator
Sheppard conducted his neighbor
on a sight-seeing tour of the capitol.
Sentiment.
A white Indy was passing a small
cabin iu n Tennessee town when a
black woman came to the door and
hailed a pickaninny playing iu the
yard.
"You, Fertilizer 1” called out the
mother. “Come yere and got yore face
washed.”
The passer-by stopped.
“Excuse my curiosity, please.” she
said; “but what did you call that
child?”
"I called her by her regular name,”
said the colored woman. "I called her
Fertilizer.”
“Isn't that rather a peculiar nume
for a child';” asked the ludy.
“Not ef you knows how dat chile
come to git It,” stated the parent. “You
see, Missis, dat chile ia named purtly
fur her paw and partly fur me. Her
puw's name is Fertinaud and my
name's Eliza.”—Illustrated Sunday
Magazine.
Improper Uae of “Don’t.”
There Is nothing incorrect about the
elision of “do” and “not" which makes
“don’t," if 41 Is used correctly. Hut
there Is scarcely another word in the
English language which is so often
us(>d incorrectly. It is a strange thing,
hut we often hear otherwise educated
people using this elided form oil the
negative, }n l|ig singular, people, who
would not think of using the affirma
tive of it ns singula)'. "She don't” nnd
“he don't" are just as disagreeable to :
the cultivated ear as "she do" and "he 1
do” would he and it is astonishing that j
anyone of the most eleinentury gram
matical knowledge could he so deaf
to the values of English speech as to
Use them. Still the mistake Is annoy
ingly common. Recently we even
heard an actor, playing the part of a
gentleman of refinement, say “she
don’t love me." Ugh! And, if actors j
cannot at least speak our mother
tongue grammatically, what arc they j
good for? Kememher, it is just as easy !
to he right and say “she does not" or
"doesn't.”—Ohio State Journal.
Poker Chip Material Found.
Tt lias been several years since open
gambling was allowed In Texas and
other parts of the Southwest. Even
poker-playing ts becoming an almost
lost art. As an evidence of the fall
ing off in this one-time grent national
game, it may be stated that few peo
ple realize that there now exists un
unprecedented shortage of poker
chips, due to the war across the seas.
The knowledge of this threatened
crisis has caused a world-wide search
to be made for the mineral known as
barite, which enters largely Into the
manufacture of poker chips. In the
days before the foreign war barite i
eante chiefly from Austria.
It Is well known to mineralogists
that the Llano region of Torus con
tains many rare and little-known met
als. Tills fact caused a search for
harlfe to be Instituted, with the result
that a large deposit of the metal has
just been discovered in that district.
The tinker chip supply will soon he
replenished from this new source of
raw material.
Barite is also used in the enameling j
of iron and steel, the manufacture of
paints, the coating of linoleums and
oilcloths and the adulteration of
sugar.
Brace Up!
“T>rn<'<* up!"
“You w|m mU all <\ay in one position,
square your shoulders and brace up."
“The ‘consumptive stoop' does not
ninke for heulth. so brace up.”
“The slouch, ihc sag, ihe droop, the
slump are poor guarantees of tiiness.
They endanger your health and your
job. Prsee up
“IVjn't bow your back and round your
shoulders as If the burdens of life were
too heavy. All loads will lie lighter if
you brace up.”
These are a few of the paragraphs
In a circular sent out by tbe Chicago
health department.
, No. 10060.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HIJTTIf.
At Huttlg, in the State of Arkansas, at !
the Close of Business Dec.
27th, 1916.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts.$58,180.69
U. S. Bonds deposited to secure circu
lation ipar valued 6.250.00
Securities other than U. S. bonds, not
including stocks owned unpledged 1.947.35
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank '50 per
cent of subscription. 850.00
Value of Banking house if unencum
bered .. 2.488.85
Furniture, and Fixtures . 1.502.66
Due from approved Reserve Agents in
New York. Chicago, and St. Louis 1 1.894.73
Due from banks and bankers other than
above) . . ... 21.784.49
Outside checks and other cash
Items SI 92.42
Fractional currency f 52.20 244.62
Notes of other national banks 805.00
Federal Reserve notes . 90.00
Lawful reserve in vault and with Fed
eral Reserve Bank 15.525 26
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer
(5 per cent of circulation 312.50
Total . SI 21.876.15
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in $25,000.00
Surplus fund. 3,000.00
Undivided Profits $5,282.17
Less current expenses, in
terest, and taxes paid 2,694.18 2,587.99
Circulating notes outstanding. 6,250.00
Demand deposits:
Individual deposits subject to check 84,248.71
Cashier’s checks outstanding 760.10
Total Demand Deposits $ 85 008.81
Liabilities other than those stated abvove 29.35
Total. $121,676.15
Slate of Arkansas, County of Union, ss:
I, C. T. Thompson. Cashier of the above-named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowledge and helh-f.
C. T. THOMPSON, Cashier.
Correct—Attest:
F. W. SCOTT,
T. B, WEAVER.
C. H. MURPHY.
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day
of January, 1917.
F W. MULKEY. Notary Public.
RECAPITULATION
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts *58.180 69
Overdrafts NONE
U. S Bonds to secure circulation 6.550 00
Bonds, Securities, etc 1.947 35
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank .... 830.00
Banking House and Fixtures 3,991 5i
Cash and Exchange 50.344 10
Redemption Fund 312.50
Total *121.676 15
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in $25,000.00
Surplus fund and undivided profits 5 587 99
Circulation 6,25000
Deposits 85.008 81
Other Liabilities 29 35
Total.. *181.876.15
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When the winter days of life come and old age takes
away your earning power, what protection will you have?
Your wants then will be as great as they are now, and per
haos greater, for old age is usually accompanied by sickness
If you live up all your earnings now, what will you
do when your pay day comes no more? It would not be a
p’easant thing to live off the charity of strangers or even
the help of friends, so the best plan would be to provide
now for a comfortable old age by saving and banking some
part of everything you earn
Get into the banking habit. Your bank account will
not only provide protection for your old age, but will prove
a great help to you now by enabling you to take advantage
of your good onportunities as they come. Provide protec
tion for yourself and family by starting an account at this
bank and determining to add to it regularly. We will help
you save.
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HUTTIG, ARKANSAS
GREETINGS
^— FKOM THt ^i
Monroe Furniture Co.
The Yuletide Spirit pervades the House of the Monroe
Furniture Co , filling every nook and corner with Glad
ness and every heart with Good Will. It strengthens j
our Faith in the privilege of Work and the Blessedness
of Service.
As the candle of the Old Year burned low in its socket
this Spirit brougnt to us the grateful Remembrance of
your many Kindnesses and impels us to send to you our y
Hope that the candle of the New Year may illumine I
your pathway with the golden glow of Prosperity, Hap
piness and Peace. 1
The
MOI\IROE FURNITURE CO.
Ltd.
132*138 North Second St.
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