THE HOME NEWS
Published every Friday at McCrory, Ark.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
Subscription $1.00 per Year in Advance.
Phone: 40
Entered as second-class mat
ter August 26, 1915, at the post
office at McCrory, Ark., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
JUNE 14, 1918
FARMING HINTS
Pei’sistant early cultivation !
largely determines the success
of the corn or cotton crop. It
not only makes it possible to !
control the grass and weeds, f
which musntoebt etaoinetaoi ;
which must not be tolerated,
because they hinder the
growth of the plants and util
ize the fertility needed for the
crop but stirring the soil helps
to warm it by permitting a cir
culation of air which is neces
sary for the roots. Warm soil
hastens the growth of young
plants. By all means do not
let the corn become stunted
in growth. Good early culti
vation also helps to put the
cotton in a thriving condition
and enables it to resist disease.
Push the cultivation of both
cotton and corn without de
lay. Do your work thorough
ly. Cultivate after each rain,
as soon as the soil is in con
dition to work, ana In dry wea
ther it will be well to go over
the field every ten days or two
weeks.
Make every foot of land
work. There are hundreds
of acres still left on Arkansas
farms in small patches hardly
fit for some field crops, yet
they should be producing some
thing. Utilize these., waste
natches. Anything will be
better than wees that will fur
nish some feed for the stock or
something for the table. If
you have the seed plant sor
ghum or put in peas, beans,
turnips, mangel, wurtzels, or
pumpkins or squashes. The
squash will keep all winter.
They should be planted in hills
about 8 feet apart. Put about
two good shovelfulls of rotten
manure in each hill and you
will be surprised at the results.
Winter squash are very much
like a pumpkin and taste like
them. The Hubbard Delici
ous is a good variety.
RED CROSS NOTICE
For the present the Red
Cross Work Rooms will be
open onlv three afternoons a
week, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Friday.
NOTICE!
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L . _ PRESIDENT C7 THE UNITED STATES PROCLAIMS
^ FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1918
AS
fiaticnal War Savings Day
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GOVERNORS AND MAYORS MAKE SIMILAR PROCLAMATIONS
7T T T
MEETINGS WILL BE HELD IN EVERY COMMUNITY TO SECURE
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
Pursuant to the proclamations of the President of the United
States and the Governor of this State, I, War Savings Director for
Arkansas, acting under the authority of the United States Treasury
Department, have called all tax-payers and wage-earners to meet on
Friday, June 28, to give their subscriptions for War Savings Stamps.
In rural communities and the smaller towns and cities, meetings will
Le held in the school houses at 2 p. m.
The school officers will conduct the meeting in each sohool house,
keeping a record of the proceedings and reporting the names of all
persons present and the amount of War Savings Stamps subscribed for
by them. The names of absent persons, and of those who refuse or
neglect to subscribe, with their reason for so doing, will also be re
ported. ^
War Savings Stamps (which are United States Government Bonds
the same as Liberty Bonds) can be paid for during any month in the
year 1918, but it is intended that subscriptions will be signed for them
on June 28.
The price of each War Savings Stamp depends upon the month
during which it is bought. During June each Stamp will cost $4.17.
In July each Stamp will cost $4.18, and so on, one cent more each
month during 1918. On January 1, 1923, the Government of the
United States will redeem all War Savings Stamps at $5.00 each, no
matter during which month in 1918 they were bought. They cost
less during the early months in 1918 than during the later months
because the person who buys earlier has loaned his money to the
Government for a longer time than if he should buy later.
By way of illustration, note the following- table:
COST OF WAR SAVINGS STAMPS DURING JUNE, JULY
AND AUGUST, 1918.
1 i ^ 19*%
1 Stamp_
20 Stamps..
50 Stamps_
100 Stamps_
200 Stamps.—
And Are Worth
on Jan. 1,1923
$ 5.00
100.00
250.00
500.00
1,000.00
$
Cost in Cost in Cost in
June July August
$ 4.17 $ 4.18 $ 4.19
83.40 83.60 83.80
208.50 209.00 209.60
417.00 418.00 419.00
834.00 836.00 838.00
The money invested in War Savings Stamps is not a gift, or a
donation, but is a loan to the Government. It will all be paid back
with 4% compound interest. If, because of some serious financial
reverses, or calamity, it should be necessary to get your money before
January 1, 1923, you may do so by giving ten days’ notice to any
Money Order postmaster, in which case you can get what you paid
for the stamps, with interest to date of payment. The Stamps are
free from all State and local taxes; when registered at the postoffice
they are insured against loss; they are backed by all the property in
the United States; they cannot fall in value below the price you pay;
they are as convenient and as well paying an investment as has ever
been offered by our Government.
A definite quota of War Savings Stamps has been assigned each
school district and community, which will be announced at each meet
ing on June 28. The Government of the United States expects all
the citizens of every school district and county to subscribe for its
quota and to pledge themselves to save and economize to help win
the war.
It is to be rfbped that the subscriptions taken at the meetings in
your county will show you and your neighbors to be loyal Americans
to whom our Government, in this hour of need, does not call in vain.
[Signed] MOORHEAD WRIGHT,
Arkansas War Savings Director appointed and acting under the
authority of the Secretary of the United States Treasury.
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