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THE HETTIG NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. XI. NO. 2
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. MAY 12. 1917.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
WORLD’S BIGGEST ORDER
Government Contracts for Over Two Billion
feet of Lumber for Ships and
Army Barracks.
To meet its war requirements for
wooden ships, barracks and other
purposes, the government has con
tracted for the purchase of over
two billion feet cf Scu hern pine
While exact figures are not yet
available, it is understood that the
aggregate price which the United
States wi 1 pay to mills supplying
this lumber will be 1 etween $35,
000,000 and $40,000,000.
The tremendous volumn of lum
ber which this represents may be
understood when it is stated that
the total output of all the pine mills
of Louisiana,the largest yellow pine
producing state in the Union, in
1915 was but 2,900,000,000 feet.
The lumber which the govern
ment has bought is sufficient to
build homes for all the people of a
city of half a million inhabitants.
If loaded in a solid train of cars, it
would make up a train extending
from New Orleans almost to New
York.
The lumber will .be delivered as
needed, deliveries extending over a
period of several months. Special
equipment will be provided at many
mills which are subscribers to the
Southern Yellow Pine association,
so that timbers may be turped out
to exactly meet the requirements
of the standard type of wooden
vessel designed by experts of the
shipping board.
Mills which will participate in
supplying the country's lumber re
quirements are located in most of
tha atatfts of the South- and in
cludes nearly all members of the
Southern Pine association, the
combined monthly output of whose
plants averages about 450.000,t
000 feet.
There Is more Catarrh In this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and for years It was sup
posed to be Incurable. Doctors pre
scribed local remedies, and by constant
ly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it Incurable. Catarrh is a
local disease, greatly Influenced by con
stitutional conditions and therefore re
quires constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Curs, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is a consti
tutional remedy, is taken internally
and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces of the System. One Hundred
Dollars reward is offered for any case
that Hall’s Catarrh Cure falls to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohic
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
The School Election.
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Every voter should go to the
polls Saturday, May 19 and vote
fora 12 mill school tax and for
county superintendency. We need
the 12 mill tax to run a successful
school and the country schools
need a county superintendent to
assist the teachers in many ways.
A majority of counties in the state
have county superintendents and
are more than pleased with them
Arkansas is the only state in the
Union without a state law creating
the office in every county, but our
law makes it optional with each
county.
There will be three directors to
elect also, two for three years, to
succeed F. W. Scott a'd J. G.
Bridges, and one foi o e / ar. to 1 1
the vacancy caused by the death
of Dr. L. F. Magee. Be sure and
vote and see that your neighbor
does. _.
Trusts Hit.
Because a moving picture show
man used a different make of films
on a machine purchased from the
Motion Picture Patents Co. than
the manufacturers had specified,
action was brought against him for
infringement of rights. In deciding
the case the United States su
preme court ruled that the plaint
iffs could not limit the use of ma
chines purchased from them.
Such demands would result in a
monopoly of films, it was held, and
are invalid. The Victor Talking
Maching Go. recently sought an in
junction against a company that
was selling their machines below
the fixed price but the supreme
couct rejected the plea, holding
that the plaintiff had no right to fix
prices. And furthermore, the
court ruled, manufacturers must
not seek to dictate as to the kind
of need's or other accessories to
; be used on their machines.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pay $50.00 as a reward to any
1 one, not in its employ, who will fur
| nish information from which any
oerson shall be convicted of depre
uatjng or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 1 906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Sp^»... anc| treap
Mrs. \. H. Hilliard Dead.
Melissa, the beloved wife of Al
bert H. Hilliard, and a former
resident of Huttig, died at her
home in Alexandria. La., at 1 1:45
o'clock Wednesday night. May 2,
1917. of appendicitis and her re
mains were laid to rest in the fami
ly lot in the Klinewocd, La., ceme
tery at 9 o'clock Friday morning.
Th? deceased was 23 years of
age and of a kind lovable disposi
tion, loved by all who knew her
and in her loss the heartbroken
husband has the sympathy of his
many fiiends here. C. A. Petter
son and wife attended the funeral.
Appropriate to TradfcafTTrictsT
i A special session of the quorum
court was held in El Dorado last
Saturday for the purpose of making
an appropriation for tick eradica
tion in Union county.
After listening to speeches by
two government men who guaran
teed to put Union county in the
native district by the 1st day of
December, 1917, if the county
would give them the proper sup
port, an appropriation of $2,500
was voted to pay the expenses of
ten assistants to the two govern
ment supervisors who will be paid
by the state.
There were twenty-eight jus
tices of the peace present at the
meeting and twenty-seven voted
for the appropriation as they real- j
ize how much it means to this
county in dollars and cents to be
able to ship their cattle without a
quarantine tag. All cattle will
have to be dipped every fourteen
days to accomplish this result.
The Beauty Secret
a Ladies desire that irre
sistible charm—a good
) complexion. Of course
they do not wish others
\ to know a beautifier
has heen used so they
t y buy a bottle of
Magnolia Balm
LIQUID FACE POWDER
and use according to simple directions. Improve
ment is noticed at once. Soothing, cooling and
refreshing. Heals Sunburn, stops Tan.
Pink, White, Rose-Red.
75c. at Druggists or 5]) mail direct
Sample (either color) for 2c. Stamp.
Lyon Mfg. Co., 40 South Fifth St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Methodist Church Services. *
The following services will be
held at Union church Sunday: Sun
day school at 10:00 a. m. Preach
ing at 1 1 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by
the pastor. Junior League at 3:00
p. m. Epworth League at 6:30 p.
m. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. A. Turrentine, Pastor.
• Assessor’s Notice.
Notice is hereby given that 1 will
be at the following places on the
dates named below for the purpose
of assessing real and personal prop
erty and listing those subject to
the per capita tax:
New London,‘Harrison twp., Fri
day, June 8.
Pagan’s Store, Harrison twp.,
Saturday, June 9.
Felsenthal, Lapile twp., Monday
morning, June 1 1.
Huttig, Lapile twp., Monday af
ternoon, June 11, and Tuesday,
June 12, and Wednesday morning,
June 1 3.
Bolding. Lapile twp., Wednesday
afternoon. June 1 3.
Lapile, Lapile twp., Thursday,
June 14.
Strong. Lapile twp.. Friday and
Saturday, June 1 5 and 16.
The last legislature passed a law
requiring vou to assess in your re
spective townships or to file a list
of your property, both real and per
sonal. bn or before said day for as
sessing in your township, as you
cannot assess your prroperty ex
cept in the township where said
property is located, otherwise,
there will be a penalty of 25 per
cent of the amount of vour taxes.
Be sure and bring your deeds as
both real and personal property
will be assessed at 50 per cent of
its value. The directors will please
have ready for me a true and cor
rect list of the taxpayers in your
district.
Please meet me promptly on the
above dates. R. E. Harris,
Tax Assessor.
Pity the Poor Rich Man.
' TT^y iremtr havirTar a yearly In
come of $1.000,000 or more may
have to pay 47 per cent of it to
the government. Such an increase
of the income tax is being consid
ered by the Ways and Means com
mittee. There are said to be 124
I persons in the United States whose
incomes come under this class; and
451 who have more than $500,
000 a year.
The two largest incomes in the
country are understood to be John
D. Rockefeller’s and Henry Ford’s.
The latter's is estimated at $35,
000,000, and the proposed super
tax would take $16,450,000 of it
for the government. This is in ad
dition to the income tax fixed by
i the present law, which is to remain
j in force.
Phone Men Enter Signal Corps.
Virtually every man in the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.,
with headquarters in Arkansas, has
volunteered for army service under
the invitation issued to employes
on April 4 for the formation of a
signal corps batilion.
S. C. Poage, general manager,
said that his office had been literal
ly swamped with replies to the cir
cular asking for volunteers to form
a signal corps for the regular army
under a special arrangement
whereby employes will not lose
their connection with the company
through absence for army service.
Even the men who are beyond
military age have besought the
heads of their department for the
privilege of going, setting up the
argument that their physical con
dition is good and that their knowl
edge of telephone and telegraph
work makes them desirable.
Under the arrangement with the
government, we are to create a
signal corps in employes in the va
rious divisions of the system.
However, we have had enough vol
unteers in Arkansas for their entire
batalion. They have come from
every department of telephone
work in the state. • We were ex
pecting a hearty response to the
circular issued, but what we re
ceived was a wonderful outbrust of
patriotic enthusiasm.
Those who constitute it. under
the company's arrangement, will
retain their connection with the
company, and they, or their fami
lies, will draw pay during their field
service. At the expiration of the
war they will be taken back at the
old sa'ary. They will not forfeit
vacation or other rights under the
company's plan.
Crops in Kansas.
The Kansas state board of agri
j culture announces that about 55
per cent of the 1917 crop of wheat
in Kansas has been abandoned,
owing to bad weather and unfavor
able conditions. Estimates made
| of the probable wheat crop to be
1 harvested in the state show a de
crease of about 51.000.000 bush
els from last year's yield and over
123,000,000 bushels below the
amount harvested in 1914. The
report shows an increased acreage
of corn, oats and potatoes.
No. 10060.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
of the
NRST NATIONAL BANK OL HlITTIfi
At Huttig, in the State of Arkansas, at
the Close of Business May
1st, 1917.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts .$ 90,956.53 !
U. S. Bonds deposited to secute circu
lation (par value) 6,250.00
Securities other than U. S. bonds, (not
eluding stocks) owned unpledged 4,964.23
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per
cent of subscription) . 850.00
Valae of Banking House 2.400 00
Furniture and Fixtures ^ 1,700.00
Dne from approved Reserve Agents in
New York, Chicago and St. Louis 9.613.42
Due from Banks and Bankers otner
than above 30,575.29
Outside checks and other
cash items $626 14
Fractional currency ... 88.35 714.49
Notes of other National Banks .. 1,330.00
Federal Reserve notes . 745.00
Lawful reserve in vault and amount
due from Federal Reserve Bank. 11,92 111
Redemption fund wrtnU. S. treasurer
and due from U. S. Treasurer. 512 50
Total ... . SI 62,332.57
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stoek. Paid in. S
Surplus Fund ...
Undivided Profits.$4,332.34
Less current expenses,
interest and taxes paid 2.1 1 4.08
Circulating notes outstanding
Demand Deposits:
| Individual Deposits subject to check
Cashier's Checks outstanding.
Total Demand Deposits$ 124.4 I 6.31
Certificates of Deposit .
Total of Time Deposits $1.484.00
Liabilities other than those above stated
2*.000.00
3,250.00
9,° 1 4 26
5.950.00
122,721 60
1,694.71
1.484.00
14 00
Total . $162,352.57
5tate of Arkansas, County of Union. *5s:
I, C. T. Thompson, Cashier of the above named
bank do solemnly swear that the above statement
*s true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
C. T. THOMPSON. Ca hier.
Correct—Attest:.
F. W. SCOTT,
L. M. CARTALL.
C. A. BER°Y.
I“i rectors.
Subscribed and sworn.to before me this 8th day
of May, 1917.
F. W. MULKF.Y. Notary Public.
RECAPITULATION.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts. $ 90,956 55
Overdrafts . NONE
U. S. Bonds to secure circulation 6,2500"
Bonds, Securities, etc 4.964 23
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank . 850.00
Banking House and Fixtures . 4,100.00
Cash and Exchange 54,899.31
Redemption Fund . . *319.r0
Total $162,332.37
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock paid in $ 25,000.00
Surplus fund and undivided profits .. 5,468,26
Circulation . 5.950.00
Deposits 125,900.31
Other Liabilities . 14.00
Total. $162,332 57
Midnight Spreads.
For years it has been dinned into our
ears that we should not eat before go
ing to sleep, and we liuve forgone
many a pleasant bite for fear of sacri
ficing our good health. And now along
comes a noted physician and tells us
that many morning headaches were
merely the result of hunger. This does
not mean that we can immediately
proceed to gorge ourselves with ail
sorts of sweets uml not have to pay
the penalty the next morning. Sweets
should he eschewed during the mid
night repast, and one shnuflrsubstitute
some wholesome sandwiches—cheese
sandwiches are wholesome and nour
ishing uud can be eaten with impunity
even during the wee small hours.
Cheerful Surroundings.
Uncle Josh—“{lore's a letter froir.
Nephew Harry, that’s gone to Africa, i
and says that within 20 rods o’ Ids
house there's a family o’ laughing hy
enas.” His Wife—"Well, I am glad
lie’s got pleasant neighbors, anyway
that's somethin*.’—Tib-Bits.
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Do you own a farm or does about half you produce
go to pay rent to someone else? Will it be the same way
next year and the next? Why not resolve today to own a
nice little farm and use your money for yourself and family
instead of paying it for rent?
The way to do it is to begin NOW and deposit all you
can to your account as a farm fund. Add to it at every op
portunity. even though the deposits have to be small. You
will be surprised how much you can save. When you have
saved half of the purchase price of the farm you want,
then instead of paying rent pay the same amount in on the
farm each year and you will be surprised how soon you can
be the owner of your own home.
Be independent. Start today to buy you a farm by
opening up an account for that purpose at the
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