BIG CITY HAS MANY ’PHONES
Considerably Over Four Million Calls
Are Made in New York on
Every Working Day.
r A million is a casual sum in New
\ ork, whether a million dollars, a
million persons, or what. Before
the end of this year there will be
a million telephones in the city.
Id 15 months the telephone com
pany has installed 154,000 new
phones and a half a million miles !
of wire in the city, more instru
ments than there are in Detroit and
more wire than the Cleveland sys
tem uses, and still it is many thou
sands behind the demand. Six
hundred and twenty new switch
board-operating positions have been
put into service, as much switch
board space as Pittsburgh uses.
There are 101 central offices and
the company is kept almost as busy
thinking up new names for its ex
changes as the Pullman company is
for its cars.
The city's telephone system has
almost doubled in eight years, al
though the greatest growth has been
since January’ 1, 1920. Then 3V2
million calls were being made each
day. The number is 4,225,000 now,
V2 million of them between the
hours of 10 and 11 a. m. alone, the
peak load.
And there are 16,000 young wom
en to roll their R’s and tell you the
line is busy!
AND THE DISCUSSION ENDED j
On# Would Imagine It Wai High Time
to Put a Stop to Boyish
Controversy.
It waii at a closing day kinder
garten party in a legally “dry” city
in a legally “dry” state and nation.
Two little chaps fell into a discus
sion of what they liked best, and be
fore they were through they became
as daring as they were embarrassing
to their mothers.
"I like peanuts best,” said one.
* “I like popcorn best,” said the
other.
‘‘1 like an all-day sucker best,”
the former put in, taking a new
basis for argument. .
“I don’t. I like an ice cream
cone best,” said the latter, who was
1 not to be outdone, if he could pre
I vent it.
“Huh,” came back the former,
whose daring spirit rose to the
challenge. “I like beer best.”
. “Beer ain’t no good,” retorted the
latter, a bit shaken for a moment,
and then more determined than ever
to put his playmate to shame. “1
like whisky and wine best.”
It seemed for a few seconds that
the former had been put to rout,
but not so. Something popped into
his mind that the latter could not
counter.
“Well, my papa can make beer.”
was the assertion that closed the
controversy.
OBESITY IN RUSSIA CURED
A Russian medical mun has hu
morously .-aid thaL it is not true
that Bolshevik rule brought nothing
but fv il to Russia, for a certain
number of people who once suliens)
from obesity and chronic catarrhs
are cured, and even feeling younger,
writes Dr. Boris Sokolov, a profes
sor at the University of Petrograd,
in the Lancet. London. It is an
undoubted fact that many diseases
have entirely disappeared as a result
of the change brought about bv the
abolition of idleness. A Petrograd i
physician told m ■ that of 300 of his |
patients only nine suffered from
dilation of the heart caused by
obesity; five of these were well
known communists and the other i
four profiteers.
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HIS IDEA OF ONE.
The sixth-grade boy had writhe, I
a letter because his teacher de
manded one for a grammar lesson.
It was to a far away Chinese who
didn’t know a thing about America
ami he was telling him about Amer
ican amusements. After baseball
and field meets lie turned to de
scribe parties. And this is what
he wrote: “A party is a place where
the boys and girls play games and
the boys take the girls home after
it is all over. And, oh, boy, they
are lots of fun!”
BOY KNOWS BETTER.
Jud Tunkins says the country hoy
, gets many a laugh when he hears a
’ city man tell about how easy it is
to have a garden and raise your own
corn and potatoes and strings beans
gud so forth.
JAGUAR WAS “COUNTED OUT”
Fierce Animal Overestimated Its Fight
Ing Ability When It Entered Ring
With Locomotive.
A big and fierce Colombian
jaguar, with the same discretion
that characterized the bull that
thought it could butt a locomotive
off the track, tackled a similar job
in a jungle land near Santa Maria
with similar results, according to
passengers of the United Fruit
steamship Tivives, in recently from
Colombian, Canal Zone and Ja
maican ports.
When the Tivives arrived at
Santa Maria many passengers went
ashore for a ride through the wilds,
accompanied by two native guides,
who agreed to catch monkeys for $1
each for the women.
While chasing the monkeys the
jaguar, a female, appeared with her
cub, and all the party fled, except
one guide, who sought refuge in a
tree, with the beast in pursuit They
crossed the railroad tracks as a train
was approaching, and were pleas
antly surprised to note that the jag
uar apparently decided to knock out
the noisy locomotive before attack
ing the fugitives. A few snarls and
an aggressive paw did not count
much in the one-sided duel. There
was not enough left of the jaguar
to identify her as that sort of a
jungle creature.—New York Her
ald.
WARTS SPREAD BY INFECTION
Experiments Have Proved Beyond
Doubt That They Can Be Caused
by Inoculation.
The cause of warts has not been
clear, but many an old-time school
boy was doubtless convinced that
they were spread by contact and evi
dence of Doctors \Vile and Kingery
now seems to show that ordinary
warts are produced by a specific in
fectious agent, that differs from
most infections in not thriving on
ordinary cultural mediums, and
that belongs to the class of viruses
that cannot be caught on any filter.
In the experiments reported to the
Journal of the American Medical
Association, ordinary warts were re
moved and ground in a mortar with
salt, the mash obtained being passed
through the finest filter under pres
sure. The filtrate was shown by
the usual tests to be sterile, and it
was injected into several persons. In
four to eight weeks tiny warts ap
peared at the points of injection,
some of them gradually increasing
to the size of a split pea. Inocula
tion w'ith these warts gave a second
generation; and this proof of con
tagion is strengthened by the ten
dency of ordinary warts to grow in
crops, their transmission by contact,
and the appearance of frequent ipul
tiple daughter -warts.
SCIENCE WINS AIR SECRET.
The German method of treating
the aluminum alloy used in the
frames of their rigid dirigibles was
long a well-kept secret. Suspecting
that it was a heat-treating system,
the scientists in a large Pittsburgh
steel mill have, after conducting
many experiments along this line,
announced the discovery of the
method and have tabulated the
proper degrees of temperature and
the length of time these must be
maintained.
An unlooked-for outcome of the
experiments was the discovery of a
material which is said to produce
an alloy superior to that produced
by the German method.—Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
HOW KNOWLEDGE IS SPREAD.
Mr. Augustus Linkins of Sun
ville, Ala., was reading an old news
paper in which he chanced ppon an
item he thought might interest his
friend.
“I observes by dis pa pah,” said
Mr. TJnkins “dat de smallest cows
in de world is to be found in de
South seas. Dis papal) says dat de
average weight of sich a cow does
not exceed one hundred an’ fifty
pounds.”
-“Does yo’ suppose,” asked his lis
tener, “dat dat’s where dey gits de
condensed milk from?”—Harper’s
Magazine.
BRAIN TWISTER.
“I’ve got a hard one this time,”
said the man who makes the ques
tionnaires.
“What is it?” inquired the faith
ful assistant
“Step up to any man in a town
that has been dallying with daylight
saving and ask him what time it is.”
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AND HOME BURNED
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1 Charred Body of Newton
| County Farmer Found
.After Crime
Green Forest, July 25.—
The charred body of George
Rice, a Newton county farm
er, was found yesterday
among the ruins of his home,
about 15 nfcles from Green
Forest. It is believed the
man was murdered and his
home robbed and then fired.
Rice’s revolver and rifle, ruin
ed by the fire were found at
his side. The chambers of
both were empty. His horse,
saddled, was hitched to a post
in front of his house. The
crime is believed to have been
committed about a week ago.
Rice lived five miles from a
rural route, and his nearest
neighbor lived several miles
away. He was living alone,
while his wife taught school
in Minnesota. Rice came here
about a year ago from that
state . He is said to have car
ried a life insurance policy
for $20,000 in favor of his
wife.
THE KNOCKER
After God had finished the
rattlesnake, the toad and the
vampire, He had some slimy
subsanee left, with which He
made a Knocker.
A knocker is a two-legged
animal with a corkscrew soul,
a water-soaked brain and a
combination backbone, made
of jelley and glue, and where
other people have their heart
he carries a tumor of rotten
principles.
When a knocker comes
down the street, honest men
turn their backs, the angels
weep tears and the devil shuts
the gates of hell to keep him
out.
No man has a right to
knock as long as there is a
hole of water deep enough to
drown himself in, or a rope
long enough to hang his old,
dirty, stinking carcass with.
Judas was a gentleman com
pared to a knocker, for after
betraying his master, he had
enough character to hang
himself, and a knocker has
not.—Exchange.
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FARMERS UNION IN
j STATE CONVENTION
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; Annual Meeting to be Held at
Little Rock for Four Days
Next Week
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The fifteenth annual con
vention of the State Farmers’
Union will convene in the old
statehouse at Little Rock
next Tuesday August 2, for a
four-day session. _
According to Dr. George
L. Sands, state president of
the union, 61 counties will be
represented with about 500
delegates and 200 visitors.
Nationally prominent
speakers have been secured to
discuss problems of current
importance to Arkansas farm
ers. Among the topics wdiich
will be discussed are co-oper
ative selling agencies, trans
portation acreage reduction,
money and credit, and export
and domestic markets. Aside
from the discussion of these
questions the meeting will
elect officers for the ensuing
year and select delegates to
the national meeting of farm
ers’ unions which convenes at
Memphis in November.
Officers of the union are:
Dr. L. Sands, president; A.
F. Sandage, Bee Branch, vice
president; J. H. Norsworthy,
Nashville, secretary treasur
er.
ARKANSAS NEEDS MORE
LIVE STOCK ON FARMS
Since 1900 there has been
a 30 per cent decrease in the
number of beef cattle in the
United States. During his time
the population has increased
about 40 per cent.
While business depression
has affected the cattle market
adversely, it would be well
for Arkansas farmers to con
sider that this decrease means
a considerable depletion.
Present conditions indicate
that this is a favorable time
to improve the quality and in
crease the number of animals
on many farms of the State.
It s likely that very few breed
ing cattle will be sold from
Arkansas this year because
of present market conditions.
Crop reports indicate that
pastures have improved in
most sections of the state and
that the prospect for a hay
crop is now up to the 10 year
average. It would seem to be
folly to put young growing
cattle or breeding cows on the
market with such prospects
for pastures and feed and con
sidering the fact that now
there is only one beef to
every two farms in the State.
SINGING CONVENTION
Notice is hereby given that
there will be an all day sing
ing the fifth Sunday in July
at Mt. Carmel, better known
by the older people as Old
Shady Grove, three miles nor
th of Newark. Come Mid
bring your old Christian Har
mony song books and other
song books and let’s have
some good singing. Come one
and all with well filled bask
ets aricL let’s have a good time.
W. J. COOPER.
FIRE IN NEWPORT HOME
Newport July 26—Fire, the
orign of which is unknown,
partially destroyed the resi
dence of Bert Dean on Mal
combe avenue. The roof w’as
burned off before the Fire
Department got the blaze
under control.
Constance Talmadge Friday.
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Program For the
Coming Week
FRIDAY, JULY 29
Constance Talmadge
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“The Love Expert”
One of the brigthest and best
pictures ever made by this
brilliant star.
SNUB POLLARD COMEDY
Admission 15c and 30c
iflssiiMina’
SATURDAY, JULY 30
THE FLAMING DISK
Seventeenth Episode
ELMO LINCOLN
Two Reel Century Comedy
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International News
The World Before Your Eyes
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Admission 10c and 20c
TUESDAY, AUGUST 2
Magnificent Brute
FRANK MAYO
A red-blooded story of life
among the snow capped
mountains of the great north
west. One of the most thrill
f ing pictures made by this
great star.
“THE DIAMOND QUEEN”
Admission 10c and 20c
Two Shows Saturday Night
| First Show Starts Promptly at 7:30
Second show at 8:45
A Farmer's Store
Our storehouse is the farmer’s market place.
It is a square deal store where farmers can bring
their produce and know they are going to get the
best market prices that conditions afford.
Our Store is the place where the farmer can
buy his flour, sugar, coffee, and feedstuff under
the same conditions as when he sells to us—the
square deal way.
We are proud of the confidence the farmers
of this section have in us and we appreciate their
patronage.
FINK & GALLOWAY
Notary Public
I have served continuously as No
tary Public at Newark for 32 years.
Succeeded in getting more pensions,
both'Federal and Confederate, than
anyone in Newark.
DEEDS AND DEEDS OF TRUST
DULY ACKNOWLEDGED
WORK GUARANTEED
GEORGE F. CRASSER
Furniture at greatly reduc
ed prices and on the easy pay
ment plan at the Newark
Lumber Company.
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