The Newark Journal
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Money Grows But We
Have to Gather It.
A remarkable story of
what a farmer of small means
may achieve in a short time
by work and frugal manage
ment comes to The Journal
from Bald Knob, where the
farmers have only recently
taken up strawberry culture.
It is a story of how eight
men took 40 acres of non-pro
ductive brush land, cleared it
for cultivation and made it
produce seventeen thousand
dollars worth of strawberries
the past season.
And it might be mentioned
in passing that this little
story of success, coming from
a neighboring community,
where conditions are much
the same as they are in our
own community, adds addi
tional proof of the little rec
ognized and oft-forgotten
fact that there are opportun
ities lying at our very doors
and all around us, if we only
have the judgment and com
mon sense to recognize oppor
tunity when we see it, and
have enough sand in our giz
zard to roll up our sleeves
and DO.
The people who DO are the
people who achieve. There
are hundreds of people in ev
ery community who see op
portunities for making mon
ey, but they lack sand. No
man ever gets anywhere on
the road to success if he has
n’t got sand in his gizzard.
Here’s the story of the
eight Bald Knobbers who had
sand in their gizzards:
In the fall of 1919 Tom
Humphrey and Ernest Wil
liams leased 40 acres of un
cleared brush land, cleared it
up and prepared it for straw
berry plants. Being men of
small means, the proposition
became too big for them to
finance the entire deal and
they divided the land into
eight five-acre tracts and in
duced six other men to take
five acre tracts. The berry
plants were set in 1920 so as
to yield their first crop in
1921 and the following was
the result.
lom Humphrey and C.
Durham worked ten acres to
gether on a partnership basis,
and from their 10 acres they
picked and sold $4,528 worth
of berries.
Ewen Hambry realized $2,
471 from his five acres.
P. H. Humphrey had a low
tract and the heavy rains
damaged his crop, but he sold
$1,321 worth of berries from
his five acres.
T. B. Frizell had better
success and realized $2,663
from his five acre tract.
Orvil Manees produced $1,
677 worth of berries on his
five acres.
Ernest Williams had five
acres and sold $2,531 worth
of berries.
Caldwell & Whitman had
a five acre partnership tract
and sold $2,012 worth of ber
ries*
The total value of the ber
ries produced on the forty
acres was a little more than
$17,00. It is estimated that
$6,000 will cover the of
plants, setting, cultivation,
picking and cases, leaving
$11,000 for the first
crop produced on 40 acres of
ordinary land.
We don’t have to go to Ok
lahoma, Texas, California, or
some other distant place to
find success. Success is lying
all around us all the time.
There are lots of 40 acre
tracts of land around Newark
that arc full of money. But
it will take men with sand in
their gizzard to get it out.
Summer terms of school start
in nearly all rural districts
of the county soon, or have
recently started. Parents liv
ing in range of these schools
where summer terms are be
ing held should see that every
child old enough to to go to
school attends this summer.
Remember that the term is
shorter in nearly all the
rural schools than in the high
schools in the towns of the
county. This itself is a handi
cap to your child, and you owe
it to yourself and to your
child to see that every avail
able day of the short term is
filled. If you had the misfor
tune yourself never to have
been able to attend school,
don’t think your child is j
going to be able to get by as!
well as you have. An educa
tion is a priceless possession ;
which can be gained little at!
a time, and every three or!
four months term of school
your child attends helps that!
much.
With good roads it is cheap
er to haul by truck and travel
by auto than it is to ship or |
travel by rail.
FOREIGN NATIONS PAY
Small Payment Made on Rig
Debt Due U. S.
Washington July 25—Re
payment. of $70,706,899 by
foreign governments on the j
principal of obligations to i
this country was used by the
treasury to retire $73,939,300 j
face amount of liberty bonds'
during the last fisical year.!
Secretary Mellon announced
tonight.
The foreign payments from
which that amount of bonds
were purchased and retired
comprised $30,517,634 from
the British government on ob
ligations on account of Pitman
silver and $19,302,358 by
France, $1,512,901 by Belgium,
$605,326 by Servia, $1,679,680
by Roumania and $974,500 by
Cuba.
MOONSHINE GETS 'EM
Former Prohi Agent Now
Faces Liquor Charge
—
Little Rock July 22—B. W.
McNutt, former agent of the I
Anti-Saloon League of Ark- j
ansas, was arrested this after-!
noon and bound over to the
federal grand jury, charged
with having in his possession
two 10 gallon kegs of ‘“Moon
shine" whisky, a sack of em
pty quart bottles and 50 emp
ty pint bottles. His 20 year
old son, Merle, was also bound
over. Both were released on
$500 bonds.
BOY DROWNS
Rector July 27—Charles
Roland, 14-year old son of a
prominent farmer livig netr
Rector, while fishign from a
bridge, fell into Old river
Tuesday and was drowned. He
was one of a picnic party
spending the day at the river.
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** PAROQUET ITEMS »
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Paroquet, July 27.—We are
having pleasant, fine weath
er. Crops are looking fine.
1). P. Whisnant and daugh
ter, Miss Ailie, spent Satur
day here with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Yaney
spent Saturday evening at
Newark.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarie Meri
wetheir and Mrs. G. W. Meri
wetheir of Wycough township
spent Sunday evening here.
B. R. Clark made a business
trip to Newport Monday.
. Miss Bernice Long and
Flossie Tunsel of Wycough
township spent a few days
here visiting relatives.
Mrs. C. C. Whisnant is
spending a few days in Logan
township with relatives.
Ernest Wayman spent Sun
day evening at Newark with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob McClure
spent Saturday evening at
Newark shopping.
Mrs. Grace Moxley and Mrs.
Belle Wayman spent Monday
Morning at Newark shopping.
Mrs. Mary Long of Okla
homa spent a few days here
‘isiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. Tissue Hutchinson and
daughter, Miss Maude, of
Newark spent Saturday night
and Sunday here with rela
tives.
A. K. Cronise made a busi
ness trip to Newark Saturday
T. J. McDoniel and son, Ad
ler, of Wycough township
spent Saturday here with rel
atives and friends.
Mrs. W. E. Self and daugh
ter, Miss Ethel, are spending
a few days here with rela
tives.
FARM
BUREAU NEWS
FROM THE
COUNTY
AGENT
I
THE COUNTY FAIR
Here are some reasons why
you should have an exhibit
jat the county fair:
1. Improve your knowled
ge of the best type of your
product, enabling you to get
an ideal to work to. This is.
an essential factor in making
a success of farming.
2. Broadens your acquain
tance among farmers and
others interested in the best
type of your product. This
i.> a great advantage in many
w ays.
3. Introduce your product
to many prospective buyers.
4. Secure for your product
recognition among the lead
ing growers of your particu
lar product.
o. snowing tne product at
the fair is one of the best
ways of getting publicity for
it and its owner, through the
press and in other ways. Ac
counts of the fair will be sent
all over the state.
(> It is often, in the case
of those who have not shown
their products very much, the
turning point up the road to
success.
7. Helps to increase inter
est in your paticular product.
A large showing of a good
product is often the influenc
ing factor that causes per
sons, as well as entire com
munities, to become convinc
ed of the popularity and val
ue of your product. Remem
ber “In numbers there is
strength.” Cooperate and
show your products this fall.
8. Increases appreciation
and interest in your product
by your own family, particu
larly the boys; often the de
ciding point by them in favor
of remaining on the farm.
Your community, county and
state also have a greater ap
preciation of your products
after seeing them at the fair
and learning of their win
nings.
9. Helps your fair to be
more successful as an educa
tional and commercial enter
prise, thereby bringing credit
and prosperity to your county
and community.
10. Last but not least “It
pays to advertise.”
SAPIRO TO SPEAK
Aaron Sapiro, probably the
best authority on cooperative
marketing in the United
States, will speak at Newport
August 4 to the farmers of
this section of the state. Mr.
Sapiro’s talk will be of inter
est to every farmer and busi
ness man particularly inter
esting to farmers who will
have cotton to sell next year.
He will talk on the cotton
marketing association and
will show how every commod
ity can be marketed on the
same plan and as he is attor
ney for the sixteen market
ing associations of California
he is in position to know his
subject.
Mr. Sapiro will explain the
California marketing plan
that has proved so successful
in that state. Those of you
who heard him recently at
Little Rock know he is worth
going many miles to hear.
SELECTION OF SEED
H. K. Thatcher, district
agent, will be in the county
August 2 and 3 and will have
charge of the meetings for
! the selection of seed corn in
| the field at Oil Trough on the
'second and at Sulphur Rock
on the third. It is especially
requested that every farmer
who possibly can, come out to
these meetings. Mr. Thatch
'er will be able to give us
much interesting informa- j
; tion on the selection of seed 1
corn and on man> other mat- J
ters of interest to farmers.
Come out and bring your
neighbors with you.
MIX A WHIRLWIND
IN “PRARIE TRAILS”
“Prairie Flowers,’ a most
successful novel by James B.
Hendryx, has been made into
a motion picture with l orn
Mix playing the leading part,
and the picture will be shown
at the Royal on Friday August
5
In every picture Tom Mix
makes he introduces some
■original stunt in riding, rop
ing, or just straight acro
batics. “Prairie Trails” is said
to be cramed with such thrills.
Those who have read the book
and have been enthralled by
! Benton’s hair-raising exploits
will reliaze the terrific punch
they will carry when actually
presented on he screen by Tom
Mix.
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KILLED BY LIGHTNING
White County Man Is Struck
Near Higginson.
Higginson July 22—Alford
Collins, a farmer living near
Higginson, was struck by
lightning yesterday and in
stantly killed.
THE OLD BRUTE
"What would you suggest
for our literary club to read?”
asked Mrs. Flubdub.
“A cook Book,” responded
her brutal husband.
CJ The Journal’s printing plant
has been turning out good
printing for twenty years.
Always it has kept abreast
of the times. The mechanical
equipment is complete in every
detail.
The plant now is far above
the average country printing
plant. For six years The Jour
nal has held State printing
contracts secured in competi
tion with the largest towns in
the state.
We have recently secured
the contract to print Rev. J. L
Brown’s new book, in competi
tion with firms in Little Rock.
Memphis and Kansas City. No
other small town was consid
ed. Cf N<vjob too large; none
too small.
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