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Cleanses the Liver of Bile
Sweetens the Breath
Purifies the Bowels
Corrects Dizziness
Restores Energy and Cheerful Spirits
Price 50 cents
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COUNTY JUDGE GIVEN
POWER IN TAX APPEAL
Attorney General Arbuckle
Hands Down Opinion on
New Law
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Abolition of boards or equal- ,
ization under act of the last
General Assembly places di- ‘
rectly in the hands of the coun- (
ty judge power of passing on j
appeals of property holders
from the action of the tax as- (
sessor, according to an opinion
from John D. Arbuckle, attor- ,
ney general.
According to the opinion,any (
error or injustice may be cor
rected by the county judge ]
provided the aggrieved person
shall file his petition with the ‘
court during the term next suc
ceeding the assessment. No ap
peal filed after the adjourn- j
ment of the term of court may
be allowed, and under decis
ions of the Supreme Court no ■
petition for adjustment may be
entertained after the fourth ,
Wednesday in October, of any
year.
Among other possible ques
tions touched upon in the opin
ion was that of the navment of
tax on property destroyed by
fire immediately after its as
sessment and before tax paying
time. Attorney General Ar
buekle holds that the tax must
be paid, as the assessment is
* made upon the state of the
property at the time of the as
sessment, and not for future
periods. Under this opinion,
should your hous^be destroyed
by fire immediately after it
has been assessed, the county
court will have no power to
relieve you of the payment.
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SINGING CON V EN T ION
MAG NESS. APRIL 22
Our first singing convention for
this year will be held at Magness
the fourth Sunday in April, 1917.
We hope there will be several class
es present. Every leader is request
ed to bring their judge. Let every
one prepare and make this convention
the best. MURIEL ASHLEY,
Secretary. 1
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ABOUT USING THE
SCHOOL HOUSE Q
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In the days of the pioneers
‘amides lived to themselves,
jut now we are neighbors and
he affairs of each other over
ap. Apparent conflict of in
erests arise, followed by di
vergence of views, misunder
standings, even hostilities. We
iced a means of excluding such
lisruptions from the commun
ty.
Every community needs a
;enter, a place where the peo
le may come together occa
sionally for common council.
kVe have differing political, so
•ial economic and moral views.
We hold each tenaciously to
lis own opinions and look with
surprise, intolerance, or even
iistrust.on ihose who subscribe
o the opposite. It is necessary
hat a simple means be found
>y which, by an interchange of
joints of view, we may get to
gether and discover what is
he common interest.
The common schoolhouses
jffer the opportunity to meet
his common need of a com
nunity forum. They are pub
ic buildings, built and main
;ained by the community. They
are conveniently distributed,
usually being located at the
ooint most accessible to all the
"amilies of the community.They
already belong to the commun
ity and seldom require other
:han a small expense to fit
:hem for the new and enlarg
ing service.
The community has hun
dreds, or even thousands, of
dollars invested in its school
house, and yet it is idle and
unused a far too great a por
tior of the time. Its usefulness
is too circumscribed when op
ened only for the children of
the commuity. It ought to be
used one or more nights or
days every week in the year by
all the people, and thus fur
nish the 'deal place in which
to assemldc and discuss public
affairs. It is just what we need.
—Holland's Magazine.
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Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
Malaria.cnrichea the blood,and builds up the sys
tem. A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c.
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tiraiiiy s i
a!k to Yoiiiig Mothers
“Granny” Cbassberlsia "Few young motheis realize the extent to
which a cold lowers the system and makes it susceptible to con
tagious diseases, it has been proven l the majority of diseases
arise from germs, but it is not widely known that a healthy sys
tem will repel their a''jacks.
Mothers should never allow a cold to run for twenty-four
hours without attention. !f this is made a rule there will be less
sickness for young mothers to worry over. A good reliable med
icine for coughs, colds, croup and bronchitis should always be
kept in the home where there are children. You may say that
you have no confidence in cough medicines, but that is because
you have never tried
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
This medicine is tho^ ghly reliable and has stood the test of
nearly half a century. ^ARk^ill not Kurt the children—there is
nothing in it that wo i 'niure the baby.”
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DON’T NEGLECT LAND
FOR MONEY CROP
John H. Page Says Plant Cows Peas,
Soy Beans or Velvet Beans
To Build up Land
Little Rock, April 4.—Farm crops
, are now commanding good prices,
along with everything else, and with
reasonable industry and frugality
the farmers on the poorest land can
do fairly well and escape many of the
hardships in life with which they
have heretofore had to contend. This
will naturally cause the most of the
farmers to plant as extensively as
they can of the money crops, with
the consequent result that other crops
and the land itself will be more or
less neglected and run down. This
' will be a misfortune that will rise up
and stare you in the face in the fu
ture. At no time is it more important
to raise plenty of feed crops for all
live stock and to farm the land so it
will be improved. The humble cow
pea was not raised as extensively as
heretofre, and the supply of seed is
low and the price high. The cow pea
makes good hay, and nearly always
brings a good price on the market.
They should be planted in all the
corn, and after wheat and oats. All
the spots of poor land on the farm
should be planted in cow peas, soy
I beans, or velvet beans. Sow the cow
peas broadcast and cut for hay. The
hay is good and the crop helps the
land. The soy beans makes a good
hay crop and is better for the land
than peas. A soy bean crop is hard
to save except for hay. The pods pop
open when the beans ripen and many
are lost if the crop is picked, but the
little beans are hard and will remain
on the ground until you can turn
the hogs in to eat them after the
crop is gathered. They maek the very
best hog feed. Soy beans can be
planted between the hills of corn in
the row and be “hogged down” after
the corn is gathered, or before. If
you will feed the hogs on soy beans
a few days before you turn them in
the corn field, there will be little
damage done to the corn by pastur
ing the hogs in the field before gath
ering the corn. They will like the soy
beans better than corn, and will let
the corn alone until the beans are
gone. They may break down an oc
casional stalk of corn, but if the soy
beans are plentiful they will do but
little damage to the corn.
The velvet bean is one of the best
soil improving crops for Southern
farms. It is rich in nitrogen. The
velvet beans can be planted in rows
with the corn at about the third plow
ing. After the corn matures and the
blades dry up you can go in the field
and break and bend over the tops
just above the ear. This will not hurt
the corn, but give a good support for
the bean vines, and prevent them
from breaking down the stalks. The
beans should be planted about six
feet apart in the row between the
corn hills. The vines are very vigor
ous and make a heavy growth. In the
Fall the corn can be gathered early
and then the stalks and vines be run
over with a roller or drag, aftei
which a heavy disk harrow can be run
over, which will enable you to plow
under the whole mass. This will add
lots of vegetable matter to the soil
and produce splendid results in the
crop that follow's the next year.
JOHN H. PAGE,
Commissioner of Agriculture,
THE I'OOH FARMER
Here, you bull-tongue, one eyed
mule feller—I am coming after you.
“The poor farmer”—1 have been
hearing this v 11 of my life anil have
seen the poor lazy devil all of my
life. Why is he poor? A thousand
voices rush up to say, “I know.” The
merchant has beat him out of all he
raised. Not so. The doctor has skin
ned him to the bone. Not so. The
lawyer got his goat. Well, if it was a
have to go to law I pity the poor
fellow. But some go when they could
settle the difference without law. But
the average lawyer has some con
science. The school teacher is paid too
much. Not so. The preacher has to be
paid, and he gets too much. Not so.
It was too wet, it was too dry. Not
so. If land is wet, ditch it; if poor,
enrich it. There is more in the man,
than in the land. The writer was born
and raised on a 200-acre farm. Dur
ing the war we had to dig up the dirt
in the old smokehouse and put in a
hopper like ashes, pour water over it
j and run it out like lye, boil it down
and make salt. Had to make every
rag of clothes we wore, from top to
toe; and spin, dye, weave, cut, make,
and make buttons of gourds and cov
j er them with cloth. But the wolf of
want never got in our door. We fed
“feds and rebs,” and always had three
good meals a day, winter, spring,
; summer and fall. How did we do it?
We stuck to the job—did not go to
[ town once or twice a week and spend
SCHOOLS FARE WELL
IN APPROPRIATIONS
Governor Approves Appropriation
Aggregating Nearly Million Dol
lars for State’s Schools
The educational institutions of the
state call for the expenditure of large
sums of money for maintenace and
improvements, and Gov. Brough has
approved appropriations aggregating
more than $850,000 for that purpose.
In 1915-17, the total appropriations
less vetoes, were $564,505.97, which
left a deficit of $108,488,93 that had
to be taken care of by the Legislature
of 1917, making the aggreagte cost
of maintenance for the period $672,
994.90.
The recent legislature appropriated
$801,733, including an item of $100,
000 for a new building at the State
Normal, which was reduced to $75,
000. Items aggregating $146,000 were
vetoed. Including the deficits for the
preceding biennial period, this makes
a total of $825,221.93.
To this must be added the appro
priations for the Schol for J,he Blind,
and the Deaf Mute Institute, now
classified as educational institutions,
the Medical School, Educational Aid,
and the Smith-Lever agricultural ex
propriation, which, after cuts were
made,, amount to or a
grand total of $1,217,589.93. This in
cludes the following items:
Jonesboro Agri. School_$ 53,100
Russellville Agri. School_ 59,900
Magnolia Agri. School_ 53,400
Monticello Agir. School_ 52,400
Branch Normal_ 20,000
State Normal_ 121,315
University _ 323,618
Medical School_ 52,708
Smith-Lever Fund_ 52,860
Educational Aid.l_ 25,000
School for Blind_ 84,600
Deaf Mute Institute_ 138,500
a whole golden day worth one good
gold dollar. No, we did not loaf and
hang around town. We had for win
ter, sweet and Irish potatoes, a hill
of beets, a bed of big fine flat dutch
cabbage hills of summer turnips and
winter turnips for greens in the
spring, dried fruit by the bushels,
beans, corn and wheat.
And any man with a bull-tongue
plow and a one-eyed mule can have
all this if he has the “pep” in his
feet and the “grit in his craw.” The
one-eyed mule, or mare and colt, was
about all we could keep that the
“feds” or “confeds” would not take
away from us.
It is all wind about the por farmer.
He is a prince if he knew it, and his
wife a princess. We never got rich—
did not try. Riches are troubles by
the loads. The good liver is the rich
man, without the troubles.
I saw not long since a Bohemian
neighborhood. They have good houses,
nice gardens, clean premises, and go
to town twice a week, but not to loaf.
I met fifteen wagons going into Dar
denelle and every one had his dollar
load of wood, bucket of eggs and
butter. The poor farmer, if he has
five acres ten acres twenty acres and
health, and two feet, two hands, a
good back and good stomach, if he
is poor, he is to blame.
1 see where a farmer in Mississippi
raised $800 worth of pigs from one
sow in one year. The sow had three
litters of pigs in one year. The pigs
were worth $20 apiece at weaning
time. You razor-back farmers, get up
and get you a fine sow, a fine cow,
and tend to them, and a few good
hens and tend to them ,or let your
wife do it, and you will get the razor
back out of you. And then you will
be the most prosperous man in the
land. Make one acre do what you
have made five do. Plant a half-acre
in garlic, one in peanuts, one in sweet
and Irish potaoes, and see if things
don’t get better and better.
Too much playing at he game, too
much piddling. I used to go four
times in a row and had to walk. You
go once in a row and ride. But things
are so high, What things? The very
things you can raise in abundance.
Meat is high. W’here are your pigs?
Chickens high.Where is yourhennery?
Butter is high. Where are your cows ?
Flour is high. Where is your wheat
bin? JAS. F. JERNIGAN,
Paragould, Arkansas.
EYEBALL Ok HIGHBALL
An old Scotsman was threatened
with blindness if he did not give up
drinking.
“Now, McTavish,” said the doctor,
“its like this: You’ve either to stop
the whiskey or lose your eyesight,
and you must choose.”
“Ay weel, doctor,” said McTavish,
“Pm an auld man noo, an’ I was
thinkin’ I haG seen everything worth
seein’.”
Children Cry for Fletcher’a
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
j? — and has been made under his per
, sonal supervision 6ince its infancy.
y~*uXS'sy* socsCCfU/i/Zj ^jiow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTOR IA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
(GENUINE CASTOR!A ALWAYS
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
T H E O F NTAUn COM RAM V, NFW YORK C«TY,
For My Demonstration Orchards
I WANT one farmer in each neighborhood to write me at
once for my unusual and money-making proposition. You’ll be
surprised when you see just what this proposition is — so write me at
once for full particulars. Here’s a hint of what I am doing—read it
then write me promptly —
A Lifetime Opportunity
I want you to put your waste land
to work, by lettintr me plan tin orchard for
you. My expert, orchardist will lay it out,
examine your soli and determine just what
trees and varieties would be best adapted.
All Ibis tm done without expense to
you. Then, you can order as many trees as
as you want, and, if you want to, you can pay
for a few trees each year—just as you please.
When your orchard is planted. I’ll make
you my raanagerin your neighborhood and you
can make money with me ri«ht from the start.
Thi3 plan has been worked out in
various sections of the state and
has proved a big success. My
farmer managers are enthusiastic
over it—you will be the same.
There are other features that I can’t ex
plain here because of limited space, but if
you will just drop meanoteor a postal and say
"Trll me all about your Demonstration Orchard
—I’ll answer personally, by return mail. Make
■nomey with me — it'a all simple and easy.
GEORGE PARKER. Manager
PARKER BROS. NURSERY CO.
•‘The Fayettovllio Nursorle%’•
K/ker Building, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
ADAMS BROTHERS
Cotton and Corn Buyers
General Merchandise
To the Farmers:—We want your produceand will
pay the highest market price in cash or trade
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
Arkansas College
Preparatory Department
immimni
The best place to educate your son or daughter; a
high-toned student-b<vt"* the teachers are men and
women of the highest JLre refinement, and ability.
The student’s course of study and conduct is care
fully supervised. When completed, he enters college
easily and pursues his studies with pleasure and suc
cess.
Experienced teachers. Small classes. Thor*’ a and
rapid progress.
Considering time saved and character of i e work,
it is cheaper than the public school. '
Students admitted as low as the eighth grade.
New classes after the £{ew Year.
Get ready for entrance by writing for information
to
E. D. BROWN, DEAN
Batesville, Arkansas
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