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LAWYER
Practice in State arid Federal Courts
BATESVILLE, ARK
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Batesville Steam Laundry
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Will Appreciate Your Patronage
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Batesville, Arkansas
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Hemstitching and Picoting
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Cotton Thread Furnished
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MRS. S. W. WEAVER
Batesville, Arkansas
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DON’T FAIL TO SEE
In Old Kentucky!
ROYAL THEATRE
Newark, Friday, Oct. 21
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Independence County Fair
Batesville, October 18-22
Keeping Young People
In the Old Community
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All country people like to
see their bright young folks
settle clown in their home
town or community, but often
they fail to take any steps
whatever to accomplish that
result.
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The first thing to be done
to keep them, is to give them
a chance from early childhood
to have little enterprises of
their own. The old time far
mer’s boy had practically
nothing he could call his own.
Sometimes some calf of other
animal to which he became at
tached, would be called his.
He would give time and thou
ght to its care. But when it
was sold, his father would
pocket the money, telling the
boy he would use it to buy
clothes for him.
The boy felt he was entitled
to the clothes anyway, so he
was getting no return for all
the effort he had made to
bring up that calf. This tend
ed to develop a feeling of re
sentment ih his mind, and a
dislike for farm lif?. He
would make up his mind that
the first chance he got he
would strike ofT for nimself, li
and go out in the world wThere:
whatever he did would count
directly and visibly in his own
interest.
The boys and girls clubs
formed all over this country
have furnished to a large ex
tent a solution of this probltm.
They encourage country fam
ilies to let their children have
their own enterprises, their
own gardens and pigs and
calves and other products. A
A boy who has these projects
of his own can lcok at country
life in a wholly different way.
He is incited to study scien
tific methods and he can see
ways by which rural indus
tries can become profitable.
He gets interested in compet
ing with other young people.
Instead of drtaming about
fabulous fortunes in some
great city he is pondering how
he can make that calf of his
grow faster. Country life
seems full of hope to him, he
gets the lural point of view,
and loses the restless desire to
wander.
The Big Road to the Farm is the \
Road to Industry—Keep it Open
It is interesting to read
about the progress in building
trunk line highways. The Lin
coln highway, running across
the continent for .°>000 miles,
542 miles of new construction
of which was accomplished
last year, is a remarkable
achievement. These trunk
lines are desirable, to encour
age free travel. Yet probably
too much money has been
spent on them in comparison
with other requirements.
What this country needs
more than anything else, is the
secondary roads running from
the little villages into the main
roads, so as to give the farm
ers in the back districts as easy
access to market without wal
lowing through mud and sand.
A good deal of the money that
has been put into the boule
vards might well have been
used to develop the back
country. What the country
needs is roads of industry
more than roads of pleasure.
Motorists on long distance
pleasure drives feel deeply
aggrieved if they are bumped
around a little as the result of
a worn out road. It is of
course -always good policy to
take care of a highway after it
is built. Skimping on main
tenance is poor economy. Hut
in the present condition of na
tional and state finances, the
big pleasure boulevards can
not be kept in as smooth con
dition as a billard table. The
motor parties who are slightly
jolted on a road that has 3een
its best days, should think how
the cost of their food is in
creased by forcing the people
in the rural districts to get
along with the almost impas
sable trails that they now use
in so many places.
With good roads, farming
becomes profitable in the back
country. Mapy families would
like to move from unhealthy
city neighbovhoods, into vil
lages where they would have
comfort and food. But the
rough road is a terrible bug
bear. Give them a decent sur
face over which they can drive
their little flivver, and country
iife would seem possible to
them.
Newton M. Alexander
ESTABLISHED 1877
W tchmaker and Jeweler
Come to see us When you
Come to the Fair
Batesville, Ark
We Have Everything in Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
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FAMOUS NUBONE CORSETS
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Non-Rustable Un-Breakable
Guaranteed
MRS. I. J. MATHENY
Batesville, Arkansas
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VISIT THE FAIR
NEXT WEEK
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And While in Batesville Call at
Crouch's, We are anxious to show
you our New Store and Furniture
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A. L. CROUCH
BATESVILLE, ARK
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REAL MUSIC
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NEW EDISON
Also hear the Ampico
I layer Piano that Sounds
like I land Played Music
J. H. SHOOK
The Piano Man Batesville, Ark
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