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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. XI. NO. 22
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1917.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
tluttig School Statement.
For the benefit of the patrons of
Huttig school District No. 60 the
school board presents the follow
ing figures which should convince
the most skeptical that in order to
run a free school for eight months
that it is necessarry to raise ad
ditional funds from some source:
The receipts from all sources for
the last term, including the
$801.78 donated out of the hospit
al fund, were $5,416.67 and the
expense of running the school was
$6,669.64, divided as follows:
Teachers’ and janitors’ salaries,
$5,024.00; interest on bonds.
$1,020.00; incidentals, $625.54.
The estimated expenses for
eight months for this term is $7,
150.00, and the estimated re
ceipts. $4,576,25, with a possible
$940.00 additional that may be
received from a tax suit.
Next year we will receive taxes
on a 12-mill basis, which will in
crease the amount to about the
actual running expenses of the
school.
it is the desire of the board to
run an eight months free school
but you can from these figures
that it is an impossibility and the
board asks the earnest cooperation
of all in the payment of the small
entrance fee asked.
If there are any pupils whose
parents are not able to pay th s
amount or any patrons who do not
have the welfare of the school and
their children at heart enough to
pay same several parties in Huttig
will see that the amount due from
them is paid in order that the chil
dren will not be the ones to suffer.
The board a’so requests that any
parties who buy books for children
unable to buy them give same to
the school instead of the child so
some other poor child can use the
books next term.
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New Royal Arch Officers.
The following officers were
elected on Thursday night of last
week for Howard Chapter No. 122
for the coming year and will be in
stalled along with the appointive
officers on October 18:
High Priest- C. T. Thompson.
King—E. F. Woolley.
Scribe—F. H. Moore.
Treasurer—E. H. Thompson.
Secretary—C. A. Berry.
Soldier Insurance.
One of the uses to which it is
proposed to devote part of the pro
ceeds of Liberty Loan Bonds is to
afford to our soldiers and sailors
life and indemnity insurance and to
provide for allowances to
their dependent families while they
are in the ranks. On this point
Secretary McAdoo of the Treasu
ry, whose plan of insurance for our
fighting men was endorsed by
President Wilson and is now em
bodied in a law pending before
congress, says:
‘‘Every soldier and sailor who
serves his country in this war will
earn everything the proposed war
insurance bill provides; to be a
beneficiary of the proposed law will
be a badge of honor.
"When we draft a wage earner,
we call not only him but the entire
family to the flag: the sacrifice en
tailed is not divisible. The wife
and children, the mother, the
father, are all involved in the sacri
fice—they directly bear the burden
of defense. They suffer just as
much as the soldier, but in a differ
ent way. and the nation must gen
erously discharge as a proud privi
lege the duty of maintaining them
until the soldiers and sailors return
from the war and resume the re
sponsibility.
"We have drawn the sword to
vindicate America’s violated rights,
to restore peace and justice, and to
secure the progress of civilization.
We cannot permit our soldiers,
while they hold the front, to be
stabbed in the back by uncertainty
as to what is being done for their
loved ones at home. Our tomor
rows are in their hands theirs in
ours. The national conscience will
not permit American soldiers and
their dependents to go unprovided 1
with everything that a just, gener
ous and noble people can do to
compensate them for the sufferings
and sacrifices they make for their
country.”
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Recruiting for Cavalry.
The U. S. recruiting office at
Little Rock has been authorized by
the War Department to receive
white men as recruits for the cav
alry. A number of Arkansas man
have already been accepted and
forwarded to Jefferson Barracks.
Capt. Cartmell has been author- j
ized to accept men for the engin-!
eering depot detachment. An ag- j
gregate of 1,875 recruits are!
needed to be distributed among the j
32 training camps. They are to
be enlisted as privates, and will
then be promoted as they may
show themselves qualified. Mar
ried men may be accepted for this
service if they present a card
signed by an officer of the en
gineer corps.
A Pat of Butter,
One pat or serving of butter is a
little thing, there are about 64 of
them in a pound.
In many households the butter
left on the plates probably would
equal one pat, or one-fourth of an
ounce, daily, scraped off into gar
bage pail or washed off in the dish
pan.
But if every one of our 20,000,
000 households should waste one
fourth of an ounce of butter daily,
on the average, it would mean
312,500 pounds a day—114,062,
500 pounds a year.
To make this butter would take
265,261,560 gallons of milk, or
the products of over half a million
cows.
But butter isn't eaten or wasted
in every home, some one objects.
Very well. Say only 1 in 100
homes wastes even a pat of butter
a day, over 1,000,000 pounds
wasted. Still intolerable when
butter is so valuable a food and ev
ery bit of butter left on plates is so
useful in cookery.
Thought Him the Stork'* Agent.
Carol, aged three, while at her grand
pa's store, was very much interested
In a traveling salesman and a small
cnse lie carried. Looking up at him
intently she said: “Is you a doctor?”
She kept very quiet when he said
“No,” until he picked up his case to go,
then she said with much excitement,
“Does you sell babies?”
Notice to Wheat farmers.
All farmers who are contem
plating planting wheat this fall wil
please at once notify D. M. Clownej
or C. A. Berry at Huttig how much
seed they will want so that it car
be ordered together and shippec
directly, causing a saving in freight
It will be ordered and sold to the
farmers at cost but the order musl
be sent off next week, so if you are
not coming to town drop one ol
these men a postal or letter. The
cost will be between $3 and $3 5C
per bushel and at least 1}{ bushels
should be sown per acre.
Have Your Cotton Graded.
The gins are now running and
we are kept pretty busy grading
cotton for the farmers. Under the
new gin law the ginner must take
two samples from the bale as it is
ginned and seal them. The cus
tomer gets one of these samples,
and if he wants to he can send it
by mail to me or the U. S. Bureau
of Markets, Little Rock, and it will
be graded and a report of the grade
and length of the staple sent back
the next day. This will enable
the farmer to know exactly what
he has to sell. He can keep post
ed on the value by reading the
market quotations.
It will be worth from one to five
million dollars to the farmers of
Arkansas if they sell cotton on
grade. Very few cotton buyers
outside of the cities know how to
grade cotton, and consequently
have not been able to buy or sell it
on grade. We have the services of
a government cotton classer to
grade your cotton, and it will cost
you nothing for the grading.
The government classer grades
cotton on the government stand
ards. The government standards
have been adopted by all the prin
cipal exchanges and markets in the
country.' When your cotton is
graded by our government classer
it will not be necessary to cut your
bale and take a sample. The gin
ner is under bond to take a fair
sample. When it is graded you
know the grade and staple. You
can guarantee the staple when you
offer it for sale. That is better
than anybody's sampling.
A good many cotton buyers and
ginners are trying to discourage
the farmers about the law and the
system. If the farmers and local
merchants could know how much
they have both lost in the past they
would understand some of the
knocks against the law. Some
ginners claim the buyers will not
buy on gin samples, and buyers
will no doubt insist on cutting the
bale and taking a sample. One
cotton buyer in Nashville got six
bales of cotton from the samples
he cut from farmers’ cotton last
year, and Nashville markets only
about 6000 bales. Practically all
foreign cotton is sold on gin sam
ples. Over 200,000 bales of for
eign cotton are shipped to the
United States and sold on gin sam
ples.
1 hope the cotton growers will
lend their cooperation under the
operation of this new law, and will
take advantage of its benefits.
John H. Page,
C\ r\ m A nrri/M i 1 f 11
Tor Sale at a Bargain.
One large sideboard, one square
dining table and six dining chairs.
Apply at the News office.
Save the Precious Grain Crop.
The official government estimate
of the American wheat crop for
1917 is 678,000,000 bushels.
This is 347,000.000 bushels short
of the 1915 crop. At a time when
the world is crying for more bread
| the earth answers with a small
yield. Every practical method for
conserving Arkansas' bountiful
grain crops should be adopted at
once. It is not sufficient to insure
your barn it must be made safe
from fire. When food that could
have been eaten has been destroy
ed, gold with all its alchemy can
not substitute; it has purchasing
power, not food value. Millions of
bushels of grain are. consumed an
nually by the flames. Roughly
speaking, 40 per cent of those fires
are preventable. "Do your bit" to
wards ending the war by removing
the fire hazards that surround your
barn and cribs!
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 8:00 p. m. by
the pastor. Junior League at 5:00
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.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pay $50.00 as a reward Lo any
one, not in its employ, who will fur
nish information from which any
person shall be convicted of depre
ciating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 1906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
See**, and Treas
Tell us the news for the News
No. 10060.
BEPOBT OF THE CONDITION
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HITTIG
At Huttig, In the State of Arkansas, at
the Close of Business Sept.
11th, 1917.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts. SI 1 1.402.97
U. S. Bonds deposited to secure circu
lation (par value). 6,250.00
Securities other than U. S bonds, (not
eluding stocks] owned unpledged . .
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per
cent of subscription)
Value of Banking House
Furniture and Fixtures .... .
Real estate owned other than banking
house .
Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve
Bank..
Items with Federal Reserve Bank in
process of collection.
Cash in vault and net amounts due
fun> i.,jional banks .
Net amoui^ due from Banks and
Bankers, .'id trust companies other
than above) .
J.399.95
850.00
2.400.00
1.700.00
461.50
1 1,552.21
3.000.00
46.974.16
161 80
Total of Items 24. 15,
16, 17 and 18 _$50,135.96
Checks on banks located outside of city
or town reporting bank and other
cash items. 753.82
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer
and due from U. S. Treasurer 312 50
Other assets.. 6,556.00
Total .$195,744.81
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock, Paid in $ 25,000.00
Surplus Fund . 3,600.00
Undivided Profits. $2,118.42
Less current expenses,
interest and taxes paid 1.796 72 321.70
Circulating notes outstanding 6,250.00
Demand Deposits:
Individual Deposits subject to check .... 143,263 34
Cashier's Checks outstanding . 827.72
Total Demand DepositsS 1 44.091.06
Certificates of Deposit. 1,487.00
Total time deposits. $1,478.00
Bills payable.. 15,000.00
Liabilities other than thwsc above stand 25.15
Total . $195,744 91
State of Arkansas. County of Union, ss:
1. C. T. Thompson, Cashier of the above-named
bank do solemnly swear that the above statement
Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
C. T. THOMPSON, Cashier.
Correct—Attest:
K. W. SCOTT,
C. A BERRY,
C. H. MURPHY,
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21 st day
of September, 1917.
W. S. SLOAN. Notary Public.
RECAPITULATION.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts $111,402 97
Overdrafts NONE
U. S. Bonds to secure ciiculation 6.250.00
Bonds, Securities, etc. 3,399.95
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank 850.00
Banking House and Fixtures 4,(00 00
Other real estate owned. 461.50
Cash and Exchange 62,441,99
Redemption Fund. 312.50^
Other asedts. 6:55*00
Total $195,77491
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock paid in . $ 25.000.00
Surplus fund and undivided profits 3,92 1.70
Circulation 6,250.00
Deposits 145,578.06
Bills Payable 15.000.00
Other Liabilities. 25 I 5
Total. $195,774.91
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