THE
HUTTI6
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. VI. NO. 15.
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 10. 1910.
PE ICE. Si PER YEAR
Throws Away $3,000,000.
There is a woman who throws
away usually $3,000,000 every
day. Sometimes it is only $2,
000.000. Again, if she is feeling
particularly robust and business is
brist, this much-to-be-envied per
son is able to boost the damage
mark up to $5,000,000 which,
we might add, is about twenty
large sized trunkfulls of $5 and
$10 bills. t
Her name is Miss Louise Lester,
and she is the only woman member
of the currency destruction com
mittee of the treasury department.
The task of this organization is to
destroy all government securities
which have been declared unfit for
circulation. Of course the bulk of
this is paper money. The average
life of a silver certificate bill is less
than three years. Sometimes a
dollar bill is worked so hard that it
isn't able to weather the pocket
book storm more than a year. This
money is redeemed by your bank
and in turn by the subtreasury
Then it is sent to Washington to be
destroyed, and that is where the
destruction committee comes in.—
Robert D. Heinl in Leslie's.
Advertised inter List.
The fol.owmg letters remain un
claimed in the Huttig postoffice for
the weekending August 7. 1912:
Gents.
J W Spurlosk
Tyre Carroll
J G Dyer
Burl Houdes
Elijah Jones
Everett Smith
Will Young
Dave Avett
Henry Hicks 2
Lemos Lawson
L P McKinney
Cal Scott
Ladies.
Betty Pitts Annie Sims
Golden Rochell Mary Sims
- “ -'jMfmfMww*
When calling for above letters
please say advertised.
• E. N. Collett. P. M.
We print visiting cards and
stationery of all kind.
Speaking Appointments.
There will be speaking by the
nominees of the Democratic party
of Union county at the following
places and dates:
Caledonia. Thursday Aug. 15, 10a.m.
Hillsboro. Friday “ 16.
Strong, Saturday “ 17. “
Huttig, “ “ 17,8 p. m.
New London, Monday “ 19, 10 a.m.
Corinth, “ “ 19, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia. Tuesday “ 20. 10 a.m.
Champagnolle, Wed., “ 21,
El Dorado. Thursday “ 22.
Smackover, Monday “ 26,
Mt. Holly. Tuesday “ 27,
Lisbon, Wednesday “ 28,
Midway, Thursday “ 29,
New Hope, Friday “ 30,
Three Creeks, Saturday" 31,
Wesson, " “ 31, 8 p.m.
Scotland. Monday, Sept. 2, 10 a.m.
Junction, Tuesday, “ 3,
Lapile, Thursday “ 5, “
El Dorado, Friday " 6,
The opposition cordially invited,
and will be given a fair division of
time. C. W. Hearin,
Chm. Dem. Cen. Com.
C zo. Tatum. Secretary.
Rub-My-Tism will cure you.
farming With Electricity.
Very successful efforts have
been attained by William Stahl of
Evanston, 111., in his efforts to fa
ciliate the growth of vegetables
and grain by the use of electricity.
He has a network of wires spead
over his farm at a point eight feet
above the surface, and after the
seeds have been planted a current
of electricity is maintained con
stantly passing through these, and
in this manner the air is kept in a
constantly charged condition.
At times the polarity of the wires
and ground is 'changed so that
sometimes the earth is the nega
tive terminal and at other times
the wires are. Specimens grown
almost side by side, except that
some were in the field of electric
influence and others were not, have
made a great showing in favor of
the current. Mr. Stah! is an elec
trician as well as a farmer, and he
i& convinced that electrical farming
is a commercial and practical suc
cess. — Oklahoman.
The Lurkv Seventh.
Lillian Nordica claims to have
discovered the secret of luck. It
is the old magic of the number
seven.
"I have found that many of the
most important events of my life
occurred on the seventh day of the
month and that the years ending in
seven 1877, 1887, 1897 and
1907 were among the most im
portant in my musical career. All
of this has so interested me in the
number seven that I have accumu
lated a lot of data about it. Here
are a few of the sevens:
‘‘There are seven days in the
week.
“It took seven years for King
Solomon to complete his temple to
the most high.
“There were seven altars in it.
“Seven priests in each band.
“Seven candlesticks in each
group.
“Rome was built on seven hills.
“So were Hamburg, Lisbon.
Moscow and Nuremburg.
"Solomon had seven wives.
“Elisha commanded Naaman to
bathe seven times in the River
Jordan.
“Nebuchadnezzar ate grass for
seven years vegetable diet, I sup
pose.
"The Lord cast seven devils out
of Mary Magdalen.
"The seventh is the Giants’
-mnmg,
“The seventh son of a seventh
son is considered lucky.
"There are seven principal plan
ets.
"There is a seventh heaven of
delight.
"There are seven precious met
als.
"Seven notes in the musical
scale.
"Seven colors of the rainbow.
"Seven cardinal virtues.
"Seven sciences.
"Seven geological ages.
“Seven arts.
"Seven ages of man.
"Seven openings in the human
head.
"A child's first teeth appear at
the age of seven months.
"It has perfect teeth at seven
years.
"At twice seven it loses its first
teeth.
"At three times seven the hu
man faculties develop.
"Seven times ten years is the
natural period of life.
"The moon changes its phases
every seven days.”
Will Not Affect lo( el Opti >n.
State Superintendent Barrett,
in charge of the Statewide Prohi
bition bill, makes the following'
statement: "The report has gone
out that if the statewide bill is de
feated our local option laws are
null and void. If the statewide bill
is defeated it will not affect any
of the local option laws. If it is
elected, it will not affect the local
option laws further than to extend
their beneficial results to all coun
ties of the state. As^a matter of
fact, every county will vote on the
question of local option as hereto
fore. Liquor has been voted out of
sixty-six counties of the state all
ready by local option, and this time
we propose to make a clean sweep
of the state."
For polishing places on metal
work not easily reached an emery
cord has been devised, a strong
thread being coated ■with finely
powdered emery.
In One Hundred Years.
The world has changed more in
the last 100 years than in any
1000 years that have gone before,
says a writer in St. Nicholas. One
hundred years ago dinners werr
cooked in fireplaces. There were
no ranges, no gas stoves, no oil
stoves, no coal stove, no coot
stoves of any kind. And they hac
| no matches, no electric lights, 01
! gas light and no kerosene.
There were no sewing machines.
! All clothes were made by hand.
There were no ready-made things
j of any kind: not even shoes or hats
Nearly every family spun its own
wool and flax and made its own
thread and yarn and cloth. The
clothes for the boys and girls and
the men and women were made at
home. Also were the carpets, the
candles, the soap, the mattresses,
the chairs and the tables. There
wure no lurrmure iacioues, no
ready-made desks or bookcases or ;
bedsteads or anything else. Such 1
things as were not made at home
were made to order by the shoe
maker or the hatter or the tailor or
the cabinet maker. Clothing
stores, shoe store, hat stores, fur
niture stores were unheard of.
Nobody wore rutbers. That
was because there were no rub
bers. There were no rubber goods
of any kind -overshoes, water
proof raincoats, rubber balls pencil
erasers, hotwater bags, or anything
of that sort. There was no garden
hose; no fire hose. There were no
water mains; there were no fire en
gines.
Fireplaces were the only means
of keeping a house warm. There
were no furnaces. Here and there
a wealthy family owned a wood
burning stove, but that was a rare
luxury. Steam heating and hot
water heating was undreamed of.
There were then no bath rooms;
there was no plumbing, and the
towns had no sewers. They also
had no street cars. All city travel
was done cn foot or by means of
horses and carriages. And if any
one ventured out at night he car
ried his own light with him a
lantern with a candle in it; for
there were no street lamps. Elec
tricity and gas and coal oil had not
yet come into use.
Of course there were no airships
or automobiles or motorcycles in
1811. Neither were there any
bicycles, nor any trolley cars, and
there were not even any railroads.
The locomotive had not yet been
invented, and the steamboat was
being tried for the first time as an
experiment. All travel was done
on horseback or by stage coach.i
and those who crossed the ocean i
did it as Columbus did in a sailing ;
vessel. There were no postage
stamps. The person who received
a letter paid for it in cash accord- j
ing to the distance it had come. 1
And there were no envelopes and
no letter boxes. Letters were
simply folded and the corners held
together with sealing wax. and the
address was written on the outside
of the letter.
Mo uicic wGitj iiw lauiuo-uo, i n ; w o
traveled only as fast as a horse
could run or a ship sail. There
were no wires to carry messages,
for there was no telegraph and
there was no telephone. Conse
quently there was not many news
papers. and such as there were did
not have much news to print.
Most of them were issued only
once a week, and such news of the
world as ihey contained was from
several days to six months old.
All printing was done by hand on
wooden presses. The paper was
made from rags. All the writing
was done with quill pens the bony
end of a feather p’ucked from a
goose. There wa; no steel pens,
no gold pens, no f untain pens, no
manufactured lead pencils, no'blot
ters. no typewriters. Pictures in
books, of persons or places were
all made from sketches drawn bv
hand and engraved on wood.
There were no photographs; no
ameras: no kodaks There was
such word as ph Paraph,
"hose who wanted portr-ii . of
hemselves were ob'iged to h e an
irtist to paint their pictures.
RIG GAME
HUNTERS’
c FIRST Choice
*rj liifi enough
w -r~for the biggest
PJ flame of North
\ America.
STEVENS
'“High Power” Repeating
Rifle No. 425.
List Price • - $20.00
.25-.30-30-.32 and .35 calibers
Use Horn. Auto T.oa/ilnir Cartridges
with copper printer8
SURE TIRE NO BALKS
Our "High Power
Rifles also fur
nished in fancy
fTradc?. fl-l< year Dealer.
Sr!irl foi handsome,
Catalog,
I. STEVENS ARMS
& TOOL COMPANY,
P. O. Box 5004
CMICOprr FULLS,
MASSACHUSUFS
Do It Now!
E3E1
Now right now start that long delayed Savings
Account, not tomorrow, not r ext week or next month:
this is the month and the day. Do it now. You
may begin wi h a dollar or more and deposit just as
much or just as little as you wish, and 4 per cent in- g
Lerest will help the account to grow into something
more substantial and helpful. You ought to save
part of your income, no matter how small your in
come may be. And if you are gcing to save, you
should keep your savings here, where the interest
will increase the amount.
First National Bank, L
HUTTIG, ARKANSAS.
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Democratic Candidates Both Favor Local Option
\\ oodrow W ilson leaves no doubt as to bis
views on Prohibition. lie says:
"I am in favor of local option. 1 am a thorough
believer in local self government, and beheve tliat
every self-governing commnnitv which constitutes
a social unit should have the right t > control the
matter of the regulation or the withholding of li
censes."
“National reforms never work down, but always
up: so character is budded from the inside of the
individual man. Legislative enactments should
not precede Imt should succeed civic reforms. The
prohibitionists have been working the other wav.
i hey ga\e up character budding for legislative
enactments and constitutional amendments. The
outcome ha-, been not reform but a farce "
-KIRSSKVGVa
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