DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. IX. NO. 17.
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 28. 1915.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAF
Speaking For Farmers.
El Dorado, Ark , Aug 21, ’15
Editor Huttig News,
Huttig, Ark.
Dear Mr. Ber. y:
The Department of Farm Ex
tension will have speaking at the
following places in this county on
the following dates:
Strong, August 30, at 10 a. m.
Shuler, August 31, at 10 a. m.
El Dorado, September 1,10 a.m.
Junction City, Sep*. 1,2:30 p. m.
As we only have three days, we
can’t give every town a date. Insist
on your neighbors meeting these
men at Strong. They are able
men and will be able to tell us
things we ought to know. We
want everybody to come and hear
these talks.
Yours very truly,
W. T. McKell,
County Agent.
Plan for Next Year’s Crops.
It is now high time to be laving
the plans for next year's crops.
Determine now what shall be put
upon this field and that, where the
wheat shall be sown, where the
oats shall be sown, where the next
year’s corn crop will be grown, and
what land shall be put in cotton.
Now is the time to plan because
the wheat land should be broken as
early as possible, likewise the land
where the winter oats are to grew
should be broken early in order to
have it ready for seeding on time.
It is now time to sow a cover crop
of rye or burr clover in the cotton
or corn middles where either corn
or cotton will be planted next year.
If we are able to get our crops in
on time next spring we must have
system. There can be no system
of farming unless w* plan out
crop6 ahead of time. Let’s begin
to plan now for next year and see
if we can't have a better systema
tized farm in the future. Plan
with a view of making the soil bet
ter and the farm more profitable.
If in doubt as to the best plans, why
not write to the Extension Division
University of Arkansas. Fayette
ville, for their opinion?
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Adv
The Week Is History.
Monday, August 23, Duke of
Buckingham assasinated in Eng
land, 1628.
Tuesday, August 24. City of
Washington taken by British and
public buildings burned, 1814.
Wednesday, August 25, Mitch
ael Faraday, England’s natural
philosopher, dies 1867.
Thursday, August 26, Declara
tion of strict neutrality in Franco
Prussian war, on the part of the
United States, 1870.
Friday, August 27, Henry Ward
Beecher acquitted by his church of
the accusation of adultery with
Mrs. Tilton, 1874.
Saturday, August 28, Basque
provinces of Spain put in state of
siege, 1870.
Sunday, August 29, Death of
Sir Charles Napier, English gener
al, 1853.
(Jse Cotton Goods.
While everybody is working hard
to help Arkansas raise the things
she eats, why not all join hands in
a movement to ‘‘Get Arkansas to
wearing the cotton she raises.” If
put into practice the latter slogan
would place the balance of trade
on the Arkansas side of the ledger
and everybody—farmer, banker
and merchant would be more pros
perous. Let’s not only practice
cotton but preach it by wearing
cotton goods. Many beautiful gar
ments can be made from the voiles,
crepes, poplin cloth, percales, ging
hams, linens, cotton whipcord,
piques and organdies. The Ex
tension Division of the University
of Arkansas suggests a general
movement to get Arkansas folks
in the habit of wearing cotton
goods where these fabrics will con
veniently substitute for silks, lin
ens and woolens.
Rape for the Pigs.
Rape has long been known as an
excellent pasture for swine. It
can be seeded any month from May
to the middle of September. Use
small patches prepare good seed
bed and sow about five pounds per
acre. Begin to pasture when
about eight inches high.
Warnock Challenges Goodwin.
Magnolia. Ark., Aug. 18, 1915.
Hon. W. S. Goodwin,
Warren, Arkansas.
Dear Sir:—
1 have announced throughout the
7th Congressional District that I
am a candidate for Congress to
succeed you. No doubt you are
aware of that fact. Now there
fore, as the information has come
to me that you are actively en
gaged in speech-making in differ
ent parts of the District, 1 would
be pleased to know whether or not
you are a candidate to succeed
yourself for a fourth term? If you
are, please permit me to suggest
that we meet at once and arrange
far n }wn>—dfowooiowttiroug+iout
the District during the month of
September. I not only make this
as a suggestion, but earnestly in
sist that you meet me in such a
! discussion. You may name the
: number of dates if you so desire,
as my wish is to meet with your
convenience.
Trusting that the above will
meet with your hearty approval
and that 1 may receive an early re
ply, 1 am,
Yours very truly,
R. S. Warnock,
Growing Wheat.
In planning to grow wheat re
| member there are certain require
! ments for success. Among these
assentials are. a fairly productive
soil, early breaking and thorough
preparation for the crop, the choice
of a good variety of wheat, the use
of the grain drill in seeding, seed
ing usually from one inch to one
and one-half inches in depth, seed
ing at the rate of six pecks per
acre, seeding at the proper season,
the middle of October in Northern
Arkansas, the last of October in
Southern Arkansas and in case of
danger from smut treat the seed
for smut. Full information can be
secured at any time by writing to
the Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Why He’s Called “Tommy Atkins.”
The sobriquet “Tommy Atkins’’
as applied to the British soldier
dates from the time when it was
the custom to supply every man in
the army with a small pocket man
ual in which was intered a record
of name, age, date of enlistment,
length of service, wounds and med
als of honor of the individual
soldier.
In sending out these forms for
information the war office used a
hypothetical name. "Tommy At
kins,” instead of the real one to be
written in later, In this way the
name came to be applied to desig
nate any British soldier,
In the same way the British
sailor got his name. “Jack Tar.”
Epworth league Elect Officers.
A call meeting of the Epworth
League was. held at the church
Monday evening. The following
officers were elected:
President—W. A. Hemphill.
1st. Vice-President Mrs. S. K.
Burnett.
2nd. Vice-President- Mrs. W.
A. Hemphill.
3rd. Vice-President- Miss Mur
ray Pilkilton.
4th. Vice-President—Miss Clara
Hendrixson.
Secretary—Miss Lillie Sims.
Treasurer—John Jeffus.
Epworth Era Agent—Miss Ar.
nie Sims.
Organist—Miss Lucile Bedford.
Corresponding Secretray Miss
Blanche Benson.
Ordination and Installation Services.
Rev. John Stanley Thomas, of
the First Presbyterian church of
El Dorado, will occupy the pulpit
at the Methodist church here at
the 11 o'clock services Sunday
morning.
At 3:30 o'clock Sunday after
noon Rev. Thomas will hold an or
dination and installation service at
the Ebenezer Presbyterian church
near Strong. The communion
service will follow the ordaning and
installing of C. E. King an elder,
and T. M. Gorman, jr., and W. C.
Radford deacons, elect. The pub
lic is cordially invited to attend
both of these services.
You can't tell a woman's age by
her store teeth.
Weekly Weather forecast.
Weather forecast for the week
beginning Wednesday, August 25,
.,1 ,£>15, iftOMnad fay .that- Umshwi
Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C.
For the west Gulf States:
Generally fair weather is indicated
Local thunder showers Wednesday
will be followed by generally fair
weather for three or four days and
again by showers during the latter
part of the week. Tempera
tures will be seasonable.
Now to Make Money at Home.
Start a saloon in your own home.
Be the only customer (you'll have
no license to pay.) Go to your
wife and give her two dollars to
buy a gallon of whiskey, and re
member there are sixty-nine drinks
in a gallon. Buy your drinks from
no one but your wife, by the time
the first gallon is gone she will
have eight dollars to put in the bank
and two dollars to start business
again. If you should live ten years
and continue to buy booze from
her, and then die with' snakes in
your boots, she will have money
enough to bury you decently, edu
cate your children, buy a house
and lot, marry decent man and quit
thinking about you entirely.
Winter Oats.
Most every farmer needs from
three to five acres of oats for ev
ery horse on the farm. In plan
ning the oat crop don't forget that
the winter varieties outyield the
spring varieties. Therefore, makr*
preparation to seed as many oats
this fall as possible. For Central
and North Arkansas use the Win
ter Turf variety and seed with drill
between the first and fifteenth of
October. In South Arkansas, eith
er the Winter Turf or the Red
Rust Proof oats may be used, and
their seeding should be done with
the drill about the last half of Oc
tober. Seeding with the drill and
seeding at the proper season help
prevent winter killing. Detailed
information can be secured by
writing the Extension Division,
University of Arkansas, Fayette
ville. _
When a man is down and out he
is abou t all in.
National Farmers’ Union Renders Un
selfish Service to Agriculture.
By Peter Radford.
The National Farmers’ Union will
hold its annual convention in Lincoln
Nebraska, on September seventh, and
will round out the eleventh year of
its activities in the interest of the
American plowman. When that con
vention is called to order every farm
er in America should pause and bow
his head in honor of the men gath
ered there to render a patriotic and
unselfish*service to agriculture. That
organization, born in the cotton fields
of Texas, has grown until geograph
ically it covers almost the whole of
the United States and economically
It deals with every question in which
the welfare of the men who bare
their backs to the summer sun are
Involved. It has battled for a better
marketing system, rural credits, cheap
money, diversification, scientific pro
duction, agricultural legislation and
has carried on its work of education
and co-operation in season and out.
The Farmers’ Educational and Co
operative Union of America brings
the question of organization squarely
before every farmer in this nation.
Without organization the farmers can
neither help themselves nor be helped
by others and through organization
and systematic effort all things are
possible.
The farmers of the United States
contribute more and get less from
government than any other class of
business. They have better securities
and pay a higher rate of interest
than any other line of Industry. They
market more products and have less
to say in fixing the price than any
five legislation than any other class
of people. The farmers can only ac
quire such influence in business, in
government and in economics as will
enable them to share equitably the
fruits of their labor through organiza
tion and every farmer on American
soil who desires to help himself and
his fellow plowmen should rally
around the Union.
POLITICAL GOSSIPS
When one class of people has any
thing to say. It has become largely
the custom to make a political issue
out of it instead of a friendly discus
sion, to print it in a law book instead
of a newspaper and to argue it be
fore a Jury instead of to settle it in
the higher courts of Common Sense.
As a result, political agitators, polit
ical lawyers, political preachers and
masculine women are powerful in
politics ajid dissension, selfishness, in
tolerance and hysterics run rampant
in public affairs, for when the low,
damp, murky atmosphere of misun
derstanding envelops public thought
it breeds political reptiles, vermin,
bugs and lice which the pure air of
truth and the sunshine o? understand
ing will choke to death.
We have too many self-appointed
interpreters of industry who are In
capable of grasping the fundamental
principles of business and w ho at best
can only translate gossip and add
color to sensational stories. No busi
ness can stand upon error and might
rules—right or wrong. No industry
can thrive upon misunderstanding,
for public opinion is more powerful
than a King's sword.
When prejudice, suspicion and
class hatred prevail, power gravitates
Into the hands of the weak, for dema
gogues thrive upon dissension and
statesmen sfcken upon strife.
The remedy lies in eliminating the
middleman—the political gossip—and
this result can be accomplished by
the managers of business sitting
around the table of industry and talk
ing it over with the people. Inter
change of Information between indus
tries and the people is as necessary
to success in business as interchange
in commodities, for the people can
only rule when the public under
stands. Away with political Interpret
ers who summon evil spirits from
their prison cells awd loose them to
prey upon the welfare of the people
In the name of "My Country."
When the Splinters Appear.
The ascent of the ladder of fame
may be difficult, hut we never notice
the splinters until we begin to slide
down again.
j Home, Sweet Home
Do you want a home? Ask those who have them how
they secured them. Nine out of ten will tell you they
started a bank account when they had but a few dollars
and then watched it grow until it was large enough to se
cure a home. You can do it.
IT MAY TAKE
SOME WORK,
SOME WILL POWER,
SOME SELF-DENIAL,
at first, but it will surely bring you a home as night follows
day. Gome in and let us talk about this
Home, Sweet Home.
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BACK IN 1900.
15 YEARS ago—a little furniture store was opened at 121
North Second St., Monroe. La. Through the full fifteen years it
has progressed and prospered until today it occupies four big
floors 70 x 150. and besides commanding an enviable position in
the merchandising affairs of Monroe, it is recognized far and
wide as one of the leading furniture stores of the state.
Occupying its own building, and thus having no rent to pay,
The Monroe Furniture Go., gives its customers, of which it num
bers thousands, the very maximum value for the money in every
instance. Fifteen years experience in buying and selling furni
ture. carpets and home furnishings has taught us what our cus
tomers want and where to obtain it for them. Our furniture
goes into a majority of the HOMES of this section; it furnishes
comfort to the home of the well-to do business man or
planter, and it answers the need of the working man’s cottage.
No matter what may be the size of your pocketbook you will
find what you want and save money on it.
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