THE HiniG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Nuttig, Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3, 1 907 at
t he postoffice at Huttig, Ark., under the act of Con
gress of March 3. 1879.
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Saturday, September 29, 1917.
TOWN OrriCIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
tig:
Mayor—C. T. Thompson.
Recorder—-W. H. Moore.
Marshal—W. T. Terrell.
Aldermen—L. M, Despain, A. E. Lucas,
J. B. Crockett, T. B. Weaver and F. W.
Scott.
Board of Education—W. H. Moore, F.
W. Scott, C. A. Berry, J.C.Bridges, J. H.
Sehon and C. R. Duncan.
A great mind doesn’t necessarily
require a large hat.
Prayer is effective only when it
has your assistance.
As yet there has been no whisky
panic nor rioting for booze.
It is unlucky to meet thirteen of
your creditors on Friday.
To the woman who carries her
age well life isn't much of a burden.
Wolves in sheep’s clothing are
very rare nowadays. It’s too ex
pensive. _
If you follow all the wise old
saws, you will never cut much of a
figure in life.
Although you never saw a purple
cow, you have seen blue milk,
haven't you?
One way to make people believe
i i you is to pretend that you be
lieve in them.
With the liberty of the country
threatened, this is no time for in
ternal quarrels.
American soldiers have a camp
aho “somewhere in England," and
they are planning another camp
somewhere in Germany.
Fred Lundin of Chicago is ac
cused of doing Mayor Thompson’s
thinking—a terrible indictment of
both, considering the quality of the
pi iduct. _
As for the critter that bites the
hand that feeds it, there are “too
many of him” in this land of the
fres and the home of the good
natured. _
One advantage of soldiers' in
cui ance over the pension system,
some would say, is that to benefit
fro n the former a man has to at
tend the war.
German soldiers are building a
budge over the River Aa. Glad we
only have to write it, for these
Ru;sian names are either too sim
ple or too complicated to pro
nounce. _
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How Nature Protects Orchids.
Orchids are the most skilled of all
plants in the art of simulation. They
choose for imitation some Insect, bird
oraunlmal free from danger. Some or
chids imitate poisonous spiders. The
lly orchid and the bee orchid are ex
amples which Imitate so sklilfiilly that
trained scientists are often at fault
in detecting the deception. These or
chids resemble clusters of bees or die!
resting ou a dry twig.
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We print ladies’ calling ~ards.
J. E. Coats went to El Dorado
Wednesday.
Mrs. H. P. Heard visited at El
Dorado Wednesday.
Miss Eulah Sehon of Felsenthal
visited with Mrs. J. C. Bridges this
week. _
Orin, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Bridges, was on the sick list this
week.
A fine little son was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Sid Nash Tuesday night
at 12 o’clock.
E. N. Collett accompanied his
daughter, Miss Mary Bell, to Little
Rock Wednesday.
C. G. Bell, of the Bell Manufac
turing Co., of West Monroe, was a
visitor here Wednesday.
J. E. Sehon was a business vis
itor at El Dorado Wednesday but
did not stay for the circus.
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Herman Ashcroft and wife ar
rived home Thursday from a visit
with relatives at Farmerville.
For Sale—Barred Plymouth
Rock chichens. Dr. J. M. Perrine,
Felsenthal, Ark.
I will run my grist mill every
Saturday, beginning September 1.
H. P. Heard.
Several automobile loads of peo
ple from here attended the Cole
Bros, circus at El Dorado Wednes
day night.
G. C. Barnett left Tuesday for
Sparkman where he will engage in
the mercantile business. His fam
ily will follow later.
Lost—Gold stick pin on Sixth
street between R. E. Ebbs’ and F.
1, Dupois residences. Reward for
return to Mrs. R. E. Ebbs.
We will buy Mutton, Pork and
all kinds of Cattle, Hides, Furs,
Beeswax, etc.
Union Saw Mill Co. Meat Market.
Rev. B. F. Neel will preach at
Harper Springs church next Sun
day morning and evening. Every
body cordially invited.
A number from here went to
Farmerville Tuesday afternoon to
see Gole Bros, circus that night re
turning home Wednesday morning.
Miss Mary Belle Collett left
Wednesday for Little Rock to en
ter St. Vincents hospital and take
a nurses’ training course of two
years. _ __
F. W. Mulkey, Guice Hogue,
Luther Jeffus and Jesse McKinney
left Wednesday for El Dorado and
from there will report at Camp
Pike for military duty.
Rev. E. F. Cole and A. K. Voss
attended the annual meeting of the
Liberty Baptist association at
Hopewell church near El Dorado
last week, returning home Sunday.
Grady Everett, who has been
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employed in the Marion State bank
has accepted the position as book
keeper in the First National bank
here to succeed W. P. Reasons, re
signed.
lost—] 7-Jewel Rockford Indi
cator, cpen-face, 16 size gold
watch with chain attached and
locket with Masonic emblem. Re
ward of $10.00 will be paid for re
turn to E. B. Terry, clerk at the
depot.
No. 666
This it a prescription prepared especially
(or MALARIA or CHILLS 6. FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe oi sicken. 25c
A revival meeting will com
mence at the Methodist church
Sunday, October 11. Presiding
Elder J. A. Sage will occupy the
pulpit at the evening service and it
is expected that Rev. Clem Baker
will assist the pastor in the meet
ing. Everybody is cordially in
vited to attend and work.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucas County, ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is senior partner of the tirm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing- 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 cured by the use of HALL'S
CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed
In my presence, this 6th day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON,
(Seal) Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally and acts through the Blood on the
Mucous Surfaces cf the System. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Had His Turn.
Mr. Oldun—“Life is full of strange
turns.” Jack Young—“I know it. I
turned up at a girl's house tonight,
got turned down and turned out, and
now I'm going home to turn in.”
Signs.
“Remember, my friend, that much
money does not necessarily mean great
success.”
“No, but its entire absence Is &
pretty sure sign of failure.”
Not Strange.
"Strange how Mrs. YVoodby Swell
man hates everybody who is in trade.”
“Nothing strange about it. People
don’t usually love their creditors, you
know.” >
Circuit Court Postponed.
Judge C. W. Smith continuned
the September term of the Union
Circuit court at El Dorado until
Monday, November 1 9, in order to
give the farmers a chance to gath
er their crops while the weather is
favorable, arid he is to be com
mended for the action.
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Cattle Raising Possibilities.
Utilization of the South's cut
over lands for live stock production
will meet a world-wide demand and
will perform a service of world
■ wide benefit, declared Geo. M.
Rommel], chief of the animal hus
bandry division of the United
States department of agriculture,
in an address at New Orleans be
fore a conference of the recently
organized Southern Gut-Over Land
association on "The Necessity for
Increased Meat Production.”
"The section of the United
States of greatest promise for the
future development of meat pro
i duction is the southeast of the Mis
sissippi, the states of Louisiana
and Arkansas, and the eastern part'
of Texas," said Mr. Rommel. "In
addition to the partially used farm
ing lands of this region, here lie
millions of acres of cut-over tim
ber lands now practically unused,
to which large areas are being an
nually added.
i ne area or inese ianas is esu
mated at approximately 76,000,
000 acres, to which the cutting of
timber is adding about 10,000,000
acres each year. Eventually the
total extent of the cut-over timber
lands in the South will be in the
neighborhood of 300,000,000
acres, which is greater than the
present unsettled public domain of
the United States. The utilization
of these lands is therefore very
much in the nature of a public ob
ligation.
"To get enough competent men
to develop these areas for cattle
or sheep ranching will be a serious
problem but not an insoluble one.
To get approximately half a million
farmers to develop 160-acre
homesteads or a quarter of a mill
ion to develop 320-acre home
steads is a practical impossibility.
There are approximately s'x million
farmers in the United States. If
the drafting of a small percentage
of their employe into the army is
working a hardship on the owners,
what hope is there then to get
nearly 10 per cent of the owners
of farms elsewhere to undertake
the agricultural development of
these cut-over lands.
"Finally, the problem seems to
resolve itself into a question of
whether the Nation and the world
needs most the live stock which
these lands can produce or the
crops which may be grown on
them. The live stock shortage is
an undisputed fact. So far as crop
production is concerned, let the
experience of the settler on irri
gated or dry farm land in the West
bear witness. What those men
fear most is competion and what
they need most is an opportunity
to market the products of their
farms by way of live stock.
"In plain English, neither the
Nation nor the world needs the
fruit and vegetable products which
these lands could grow, but they
do need the animal products which
they can give us. Stated as a
formal logistic syllogism, our con
clusion is: Live stock can be
raised on these lands: the world’s
supplies of animal products are not
equal to its necessities; therefore,
‘.he utilization of these lands for
live stock production will meet a
world-wide demand and will per
form a service of world-wide bene
fit.”
To eet thenews read The Newr
NEILL C. MARSH
Lawyer
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EL DORADO, - ARKANSAS
DR. E. A. KINNEBREW
Office Just West of Barber Shop
Residence 46 Fifth Str.
Calls Answered Day or Night
Both Phones
HUTTIG, ARKANSAS
ORS. JARRELL & MAYFIELD
Physicians and Surgeons
At Company Hospital
Office Hours:
■ 8 to 9 a. m., 3:30 to 5 p. in.; 7 to 8 p. m
Sundays: 9 to 1 0 a. m, 3 to 4 p. m.
HUTTIG
ARKANSAS
BIG CANALS IN MESOPOTAMIA
Bagdad Once Had the Most Remark
able System of Irrigation That
Has Ever Been Constructed.
Many years ago great irrigatloi
schemes enabled Mesopotamia. Ar
menia and other countries in the neai
and middle East to become the seat:
of empires in spite of their arid cli
mates. Today, writes Dr. Arthur Sel
wyn-Brown in the Scientific American
they have few cities of uny importance
Bagdad, which has a population oi
about 150,000, had 2,000,000 ten cen
turies ago. The difference betweer
Mesopotamia then and today is the
result of the destruction of tin
canals.
In the height of Its prosperity Bag
dad had the most remarkable systeu
of irrigation that has ever beer
constructed. The canals about the
city measured over 3,000 miles ir
length.
There are others, both north nnc
south of the city, that joined the Eu
phrates with the Tigris, and there were
several that ran parallel with the
rivers.
The largest was known as the
Chosroos canal. It was built in earlj
historical time# to connect Bagdac
with the city of Dur, about 100 miles
north. Whenever this canal passed
through loose soil it was over 200 feel
in width and six feet deep. Where the
ground became rocky it was reduced
to a width of 40 or 50 feet.
Between Dur and Bassora there
were over 50 trunk canals between the
Tigris and the Euphrates, and they ir
rigated 37,000 square miles of rich
farming land.
DRAINAGE DUE TO MOSQUITO
Saving of Millions Results From De
termination of Status of Insect
by Army Hospital Corps.
The National Chamber of Commerce
declares thut had not the hospital
corps of the army definitely deter
mined the status of the mosquito and
thus caused menacing swamp lands to
be drained, It Is an open question
whether the building of the Panama
canal would have been possible.
In following up this work we find
that the United States, In draining
breeding places of the mosquito, has
reclaimed thousands of acres of luud
and made them available for agri
cultural purposes. There are approxi
mately 100,000,000 acres of Swamp
lands In the country, where for years
the mosquito has held undisputed
sway, of which 75,000,000, or about
one-eighth of the total area of the
country, can be reclaimed for the plow
share. The only value of swamp land
lies In Its possibility of reclamation;
otherwise It Is a Berlous liability as e
breeder of disease,—Leslie’s Weekly.
8am Has Sunlit Nation, Too.
I shall not forget my first sight ol
the Aleutian islands, writes Frank G
Carpenter from Alaska. We hud
passed no land for two days when we
came to the Island of Unimak, which
Is at the end of the Alaska peninsula
and which forms the beginning of the
great chuin of islets thut reaches from
Aluska almost to Asia. The islands
lie in a great crescent which look like
stepping stones on the face of the sea,
They form the arc of a great circle
reaching from the western to the east
ern hemisphere. Unimak lies on our
side of the w’orld and Attu, the last
of our Islands, is in the orient, 1,500
miles distant and not far from Kam
chatka. We have a coaling station
on the Island of Klska, which Is In
the eastern hemisphere, and there the
evening twilight bus not disappeared
when the sun Is rising in Maine. John
Bull often boasts thut the sun never
sets on British possessions. The same
Is true of Uncle Sam’s dominions,
when we take in Attur island and the
Philippine archipelago.
Queer Way of Smoking.
When you sit down comfortablj
with your pipe, tobacco and matches
intent upon a quiet smoke, it prob
ably doesn’t strike you that there art
smokers of other races who go abou
wooing the goddess Nicotine in verj
odd ways. The natives of South Af
rlca are inveterate smokers, but som<
of them Indulge In the habit in a din
tlnetly queer fashion. The “pipe” h
made by trusting two sticks Into tht
ground so as to meet at an angle
when they are withdrawn two tunneli
are left behind. A hollow reed ii
stuck in one hole, and the tohacct
placed ih the other and lighted. Be
fore beginning operations the nativ<
fills his mouth with water, drawing lr
the smoke with a gurgling sound an*
blowing out the water and smoki
through a second reed. A poor waj
of smoking to a white man, but th<
kafirs are very fond of it.—\\ld<
World Magazine.
Sea-Salt as Fertilizer.
Close observers at the Royal AgrI
cultural Station of Magyar-Ovar, Hun
gary, find that sea-salt markedly af
fects certain crops. It is generall;
supposed that sea-salt is poisonous ti
plant life—an Impression strengthene<
by the fact that many parts of th
country near the sea are burren. Som
plants, however, thrive well on soi
that has been washed by the sea, am
the Hungarian experiments seem t
prove that a certuln quantity of sea
salt acts as a stimulant to crops ii
I general. The investigutors fertilize!
some beet-sugar fields with sea-salt un<
; got astonishing crops. The experl
| ments will be continued, ulthough th
I results for the last four years hav
| fjeea uniformly the same.
1 Colored Column
Ned Hughes went to Collinston
Monday.
1 Lossie Williams left for Wesson
r Tuesday.
, Rev. Watson preached here Sun
• day and left for Little Rock Mon
• day.
Mary Jones is here visiting her
r sister. Marandy Collins.
Emma Barnes returned from
> Stamps Sunday and brought her
? niece to enter school here.
Susan Collins, who has been vis
, iting her son, James, returned to
i her home at Pine Bluff Tuesday.
Fred Daniels returned Wednes
day from Little Rock where he at
I tended the A. M. E. church con
gress.
Amos tirov/n, tmei drown, au
am Lewis and Georgia Williams
are on the sick list.
A reception was given in honor
of Rev. Watson last Saturday
night. He was given a fine hat
and several other nice presents.
Mary Lockhart, who was visiting
her granddaughter, Bessie Daniels,
1 returned to her home at Bastrop
Tuesday.
Rev. H. G. Givens and wife left
for their home at Ansley, La.,
Monday.
Nonnie Chapman left for Bas
trop to visit relatives.
All colored men who have been
selected for military duty will be
called about the first of October, so
should keep a watch for their mail
as the card notifying them when to
report must be presented by them
to the exemption board for idden*
tification.
Camp No. 4 News.
The Beulah Grove Baptist
church of Camp 4 closed one of
the greatest revivals in its history.
The meeting run for seven days,
and added 35 members to the
church, 16 by baptism and 19 by
letter. The pastor, Rev. H. Wood,
was assisted by Rev. W. M. Rodg
ers of Huttig. This is one of the
best camps in the country. They
have a regularly organized Baptist
^uuiuii wilii a guuu ounuay scnooi,
Home Mission band. Sun Shine
band, B. Y. P. U. and a good build
ing. The church has as pastor
Rev. H. Wood. They have a nine
months' school, in charge of Rev.
W. M. Rodgers of Huttig. The
general manager, Mr. Conway
Pyle, helps us in every move for
our advancement. He sees to it
that every man working here pays
from 25c to $1 per month for the
benefit of school. I have been in
this camp three months and have
not seen a drunk man nor heard of
a fight. 1 think he has won the
confidence and respect of eyery
man here. This is an ideal place
for a man who follows public works
and has a family. Sunday school
every Sunday morhing at 10
o’clock, Sun Shine Band each Sun
day at 2 p. m., B. Y. P. Y. 5 p. m.,
Home Mission every Monday at 12
m. Regular pastoral day every
third Sunday.
The following persons gave the
teacher W. M. Rodgers, wnen he
was leaving on his vacation last
month the amount opposite their
names.
I U S Mitchell
Young Hadley
i Lewis Sims
i Jim Kindrix
» J B Anderson
■ Tosey Billbery
< Johnson Taylor
B W Gillum
1 Sam Jackson
1 H Luther
Dennis Harper
’ H Simmons
Robt. Williams
Floyd Sims
Will Howard
Mr George
. Ben Taylor
. Rich Turner
r Hy Furlough
> Minnie Dennis
l Hy Johnson
s Hattie Wright
* Jerry Glover
* Velver Dennis
1 Jewlee Burks
} Leon Furlough
’ Van Williams
I Lizzie George
1 Mary Harper
. MandaSims
i Mary Turner
e Sun Shine Band
Home Mission
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