THE HliTTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Nuttlt, Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3. 190? at
the postoffice at Huttig, Ark., under the act of Con
gress of March 3. 1879.
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Saturday, June 19, 1915.
TOWN OrriCIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
tig:
Mayor—C. T. Thompson.
Recorder—W. H. Moore.
Marshal—Thos. Ashcroft.
Aldermen—L. A. Bodine, A. E. Lucas,
J. B. Crockett, T. B. Weaver and F. W.
Scott.
Board of Education—W. H. Moore, F.
W. Scott, L. F. Magee, S. R. Neel, J. H.
Sehon and C. R. Duncan.
Bryan thinks we have no rights
in Germany’s ocean anyway.
It is better to bluff the other fel
low than to have him call you.
No need to hunt trouble. If you
really want it, loaf on the job and
it will hunt you.
It ils also important that those
new seagoing submarines shall be
able to “come back.”
Another industry that the auto
mobile has killed is that of the old
f ashioned horse thief.
None of the Mexican generals
approve of charity from this coun
try. They are not among those
who need it.
Prohibition spreads and the drink
bill rises. Anybody can explain
this to his own satisfaction, but no
two men will agree on the explana
tion. Discussion of it is an endless
controversy that gets nowhere.
The cold figures of the Internal
Revenue bureau proves that the
consumption of taxable spirits and
liquors grows a little faster than
the population. Who drinks it?
One of the alarming effects of
war is just making itself evident in
France. May, 1914, showed
births in Paris of 3,500; in May,
1915, the number dwindled to 1,
900. As has been pointed out by
students of warfare since the world
began, the evil which follows the
battle is far more terrible and de
teriorating than the carnage itself.
Generations yet unborn—and if the
European war continues long
enough there is little likelihood of
a prosterity, so far as numbers are
concerned—will pay the penalty
for this cataclysm which began last
August. What France finds is
happening to her birth-rate un
doubtedly exists in. other nations at
war.
Once in a while it is well for us
to pause in the njad whirl we call
life and take our bearings; to stop
from the contemplation of other
people and to contemplate our
selves. What is the business of
life? Is it merely to get ahead of
someone, or is it to get ahead of
ourselves? Isn’t the thing we are
after a better record? If this be
so, then let us rjo our part. What
ever that part may be, let us ap
proach it on a noble plane. Let us
resolve here and now that the
strain and stress which yesterday
bore us down, today we will bear
with a new courage and a stronger
faith; let us resolve to give way to
no petty or childish burst of tem
per, but to be patient; to be ever
considerate of our neighbor’s feel
ing and work with cheerful help
fulness with those about us; to
judr^e no man harshly, and, so far
as, we can know, to judge no man
unjustly. We may not win, but
even if we fail we shall have done
our best; and to do one’s best con
sistently is to win in the highest
sense; for life returns to us in equal
measure as we give to life. __
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C. C. Bell of West Monroe was a
visitor here Tuesday.
W. E. Clark of Strong transacted
business here Tuesday.
Mesdames J. H. Nix and R. E.
Ebbs were Monroe visitors on last
Friday._
For Sale—Oak kitchen stove
wood. See A. G. Stephenson or J.
A. Woolley.
Miss Glara Perritt was at Strong
and New London this week visiting
with friends and relatives.
Mrs. H. P. Heard and baby are
at Oakland, La., on a visit with rel
atives. _
Save while you can that you may
spend when you must.
The First National Bank.
For Sale —Pointer pups. Good
ones $5 each. H. Holbert, Haile,
La. _ 612-4t
The News force is very thankful
to W. L. Carter for a bucket of nice
peaches and apples he brought us
Tuesday._
G. C. Pyle, foreman of No. 4
logging camp, has purchased an
Overland automobile and is looking
for it in any day soon.
Several from here attended the
Childrens’ Day exercises and din
ner on the ground at Bolding last
Sunday. _
Miss Beatrice Smith of Farmer
ville was the guest of Mrs. H. P.
Heard and family last week.
Mrs. Chas. Saxe of West Monroe
was here this week the guest of
Mesdames E. E. Buchanan and A.
G. Stephenson.
Mrs. Frank Harrison of El Dora
do returned to her home Monday
after a visit here with her brother,
C. E. Thompson, and family.
Mrs. J. H. Towns has purchased
the A. L. Sullivan farm southwest
of town and removed here from
Malvern.__
Miss Inez Hilliard, the postoffice
girl, left Monday for a two weeks
vacation visiting with friends at
Monroe, Warren and Blue Ball.
Quite a large number of the
young people enjoyed an entertain
ment at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Jeffus last Saturday night.
No. 666
This it • prescription prepared especially
(or MALARIA or CHILLS A. FEVER.
Five or (is dotes will break any case, and
if taken then at a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c
Frank Williams, who is working
in tne A. L. & G. railway shops at
Crossett, spent Monday and Tues
day with his family here.
Feminena has cured thousands
of cases of Female Troubles and is
becoming more staple all the time.
At the Union Saw Mill Go. 4
No man can place a limit on
your possibilities, but a growing ac
count at this bank will increase
them.
The First National Bank.
Misses Flora Cargill and Clyde
Pitts accompanied Mrs. P. H. Pitts
to her home at Monroe last Sun
day and will visit there several
weeks. ___
Teams Wanted—To haul ties at
Farmerville. See
A. G. Stephenson.
I will be at Huttig Sundays and
Mondays—Farmerville balance of
week.
The marriage of Miss Elsie
Baldwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. W, Baldwin, to Dr. H. F. May
field of Huttig, Ark., will take place
at the family home here June 23
Several events of social importance
are planned in honor of the bride
to-be.—Cleveland County Herald,
Rison, Ark.
Rev. J. F. Johnston, of the Bap
tist church, commenced a revival
meeting at Camp No. 5 Tuesday
evening of this week.
Rev. S. K. Burnett arrived home
Thursday from Conway where he
attended the summer conference
and school for Methodist ministers.
Mrs. T. B. Weaver arrived home
Sunday from a three weeks visit
with Mrs. J. B. Calvert at Houston,
Texas. Mr. Weaver met her at
Monroe._
Tax Assessor R. E. Harris and
his deputy, W. H. Matthews, jr.,
were here last Friday and Satur
day assessing taxes for 1915 and
report a good business.
Misses Marie Graham and Edith
Carter, who were the guests of the
latter’s sister, Mrs. C. A. Berry,
last week, returned to their homes
at El Dorado Monday.
Don't cast your money to the
four winds of heaven. Put it in
The First National Bank where it
will grow and do some visible good
now and in the future.
Carbolic acid, much used in the
manufacture of explosives, has
gone up 1800 per cent since the
beginning of the war. It is also
much used as an antiseptic.
Miss Mamie Wood and Miss Wil
kerson of Strong were here Tues
day having dental work done by
our popular dentist. They were
accompanied by Miss Louise Cox
of Sadie.
Since the beginning of the war
more than 250,000 American
horses have been shipped to Eu
rope. Horses are now being
shipped at an average of more than
1,000 per day.
The tent in which the revival
meeting to be conducted by Rev.
A. C. Holder will be held, is to be
erected in front of the Union hotel.
The meetins will commence Sun
day and everybody is invited to at
tend. _
You will find it easy to form the
habit of bringing your spare change
to The First National Bank. That
will prove a good habit. Much
better than the one you have
formed of spending every cent you
earn. _
Rev. Arch C. Holder, who is to
commence a revival meeting here
Sunday in a large tent in front of
the Union hotel, comes to us high
ly recommended as a strong
preacher and conscientious worker.
Everybody should attend these
meetings.
Mrs. F. W. Scott entertained the
members of the Sunday school
classes of which she is superin
tendent at the Baptist church
Wednesday afternoon from 4 until
5 o’clock. Ice cream and cake
were served and the little fellows
report a nice time.
George Smith, living about seven
miles west of here, had the mis
fortune last Sunday afternoon to
get his horse killed by being struck
by lightening. He had just ridden
the horse home from a visit with
R. R. Cole and turned it in the lot
when lightening struck the barn.
In March of this year shipments
of cotton goods to the United King
dom amounted to 1,800,088 yards,
against 228.834 yards in March,
1914, while Canada took 2,45?,
593 yards, compared with 2,216,
400 yards last year.
The largest shirt in the world is
being manufactured at Parsons,
Kan., for a customer at Ames, la.
The shirt has a 23 inch collar, 83
inch waist. 66 inch chest and 28
inch arms. It is made of cheviot
and will cost $11. The customer
weighs 495 pounds and is only 5
feet 6 inches in height.
All the bids submitted to the
school board on the 15th for the
new high school building were con
sidered too high and the plans are
now being worked over by Archi
tect H. R. Morrison of Little Rock
and new bids will be opened on
Saturday, the 1 9th.
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At the recent meeting of the
school board Mrs. Anne May of
Little Rock was elected to teach
the sixth grade and Miss Henrietta
Russell of Star City to teach the
third grade in place of Miss Elsie
Baldwin who did not accept. This
completes the list of teachers and
we look forward to a most success
ful term of school next fall.
“This thing of a man imagining
that he requires beer is foolish
ness,” said a woman to her hus
band. “Hereafter, George, when
you think you need a glass of beer,
just eat an apple.” "But, my
dear,” said George, "who in the
world wants to eat fifty or sixty
apples at one time?”
The growth of steam railways in
the United States since 1890 has
kept close along with the increase
in population. In 1890 were 384
persons to each mile, in the year
ending June 30, 1914, there were
591. In none of the intervening
years has this number gone below
370. In 1890 there were 159,
272 miles of railway to a popula
tion of 62.947,000 people, and in
1 914 252,959 miles serving 90,
027,000 people.
J. G. Freeman is confined to his
bed suffering from an attack of ty
phoid feyer.
Mrs. W. R. Griffin cf Minden,
Texas, is here visiting her son, J.
W., and daughter, Miss Kathereen.
Mrs. J. T. Fike and children of
Hampton are here the guests of
her sister. Mrs. C. A. Berry.
Will Spells, who is working the
old Raybourn place west town for
S. R. Neel, sent two cotton blooms
to this office Wednesday, His
crop is clean and he has excellent
prospect.
_
John T. Willi.ims Dead.
John T. Williams, aged about 45
years, died at the home of J. E.
Goats, with whom he was visiting,
at 10 o’clock Tuesday night from
typhoid fever. He was buried in
the Huttig cemetery at 4 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon. The de
ceased was a section foreman and
leaves two brothers, one living in
Georgia and the other in Oklahoma.
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II—L. E. Johnson
On Two-Cent Passenger Rates
The farmers or
this nation are
vitally interested
in railroad rates
and equity be
tween passenger
and freight rates
is especially im
portant to the
man who follows
the plow tor the
farmer travels
very little but he
is a heavy con
tributor to the
freight revenues.
Some of the
states have a two cent passenger rate
and whatever loss is incurred is recov
ered through freight revenue. The jus
tice of such a procedure was recently
passed upon by the Supreme Court
of West Virginia and the decision is
so far-reaching that we have asked
L. E. Johnson, president of the Nor
folk and Western Railway whose road
contested the case to briefly review
the suit. Mr. Johnson said in part:
“Some ten years ago, passenger
fares were fixed by the legislatures
of a large number of states at two
cents a mile. As a basis for such
economic legislation, no examination
was made of the cost of doing the
business so regulated, nor was any
attention given to the fact whether
such a rate would yield to the rail
way companies an adequate or any
net return upon the capital Invested
in conducting this class of business.
“Such a law was passed in West
Virginia in 1907. The Norfolk and
Western Railway Company put the
rate into effect and maintained it for
two years. Its accounting during
these two years showed that two
cents a mile per passenger barely
paid the out-of-pocket cost and noth
ing was left to pay any return on
capital invested. It sought relief from
the courts. Expert accountants for I
both the State and the Railway Com
pany testified that the claims of the
railroad were sustained by the facts.
Two cents did not pay the cost of
carrying a passenger a mile. The
State, however, contended that the
railroad was earning enough surplus
on its state freight business to give a
fair return upon the capital used in
its passenger as well as its freight
business. For the purposes of the
case, the railroad did not deny this,
but held to its contention that the
State could not segregate its pas
senger business for rate fixing with
out allowing a rate that would be
sufficient to pay the cost of doing
business and enough to give some
return upon the capital invested iu
doing the business regulated. This
was the issue presented to the Su
preme Court. Its decision responds
to the judgment of the fair-minded
sentiment of the country. The Su
preme Court says that, even though
a railroad earns a surplus on a par
ticular commodity by charging rea
sonable rates, that affords no reason
for compelling it to haul another's
person or property for less than cost.
The surplus from a reasonable rate
properly belongs to the railway com
pany. If the surplus is earned from
an unreasonable rate then that rate
should be reduced. The State may
not even up by requiring the railroad
to carry other traffic for nothing or
for less than cost.
The decision is a wholesome one
and demonstrates that the ordinary
rules of fair dealing apply to railway
companies. The fact that one makes
a surplus on his wheat crop would
never be urged as a reason for com
pelling him to sell his cotton at less
than cost. It would not satisfy the
man who wanted bread to be told
that its high price enabled the cotton
manufacturer to get his raw product
for less than cost. In this case the
court reaffirmed the homely maxim
that each tub must stand upon its
own bottom.”
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ST. LOUIS, MO.
For sale at Union Saw Mill Co. Store.
Colored Column
Rev. John Smith preached here
Sunday.
The Baptist Sunday school ren
dered their Childrens’ Day pro
gram Sunday.
Ida Bell Driver and Edward
Bradford are on the sick list.
Rev. F. J. Johnson of Oak Ridge
preached here Wednesday night.
Simmie Coleman’s mother and
sister are here visiting her.
Rey. Nelson will preach here
Sunday.
Irene Stewart was at El Dorado
this week taking the teachers’ ex
amination.
Prof. P. A. Cook. Prof. J. W.
Wright and Ida Bell Driver arrived
home Sunday from Hamburg where
they attended the Normal and re
port it a grand success. On last
Friday Prof. Cook instructed the
class in physiology and he also de
livered the closing address,
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Methodist Church.
African Methodist Episcopal church
preaching every 2rd and 4th Sunday in
each month. D. A. Hardon, Pastor.
The A. M. E. Sunday School meets at
2:30 each Sunday evening. All welcome
to attend. G M Averette, Supt.
Clint Royston, Secy
JEWEL TABERNACLE, No. 412,
meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.
Augusta Steverson, H. P.
Tena Harris, C. R.
Spanolia Camps No. 261 C. W., W. O.
W. mee every first and third Thursday at
7:30 o’clock. J. C. Ellis, Gov.
S. G. Crayton, F. S.
OBLIGE GALE CIRCLE No. 2)3
meets every first and third Saturday at
1:30 o'clock. EmmaBarns.Gov.
Mary Adkins. Secy.
HOUSEHOLD RUTH. No. 2990. of
G. U. O. of O. F., meets the first and
third Thursday in each month at 1:60
P- m- Laura Simms, M. N. G.
Carrie Averett, W. R.
STATE LINE TEMPLE NO. 337
meets every 2nd and 4th Friday night at
8 o clock. C. S. Scates, C. M.
W. B. Bannes. C. S.
ELECTRIC LIGHT COURT OF CA
LANTHE, No. 70, meets first and third
Tuesday in each month at 1:46 p. m.
Lizzie Oliver, W. C
Ever Pittman. R. D.
BLUE LIGHT LODGE No 153 K.ofP.
meets First and Third Tuesday in each
mor|th- J B Francis, C. C.
A. Lewis, K. of R. S.
lodge Directory.
Roosevelt Chapter, No. 188, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every second
and fourth Tuesday in each month.
Mrs. C. Williams, W. M.
Emma Bearl, Secy.
EAST LAKE LODGE No. 6362 G.
U. O. of O. F. meets First and Third
Thursday in each month.
H. B. Lewis, N. G.
T W Scates, P. S.
GOOD LUCK LODGE No. 259 F. &
A. M meets First and Fourth Saturday
night. All visitors welcome.
c . _ Geo. Kelso, W. M.
b. L. Glenn, Sec.
Baptist Church.
Huttig Baptist church has services
every 1st and 2nd Sunday morning at 1 I
o clock. John Smith, Pastor.
Preaching every third and fourth Sun
day at Smith Chapel.
M F Holley, pastor
Lizzie Brown, secretary
Womens Home Mission meets every
Monday at 1;30 p. m.
J. M. Collins, President
Susie Mayo, Sceretary.
"The Baptist Sunday School meets ev
ery Sunday morning at 9:30 o’clock. All
welcome to attend.
-r .j J S Jones, Supt.
Tena Harris, Secy.
The B. Y. P. U. meets every Sunday
afternoon at 5:30.
... . S. Scroggins,Pres.
Miss Lula Oliver, Secy.
DRS. MAGEE & MAYFIELD
Physicians and Surgeons
At Company Hospital
0,fice Hours.-Rio 12 a. m.. | to 6 p m
Sunday s--9 to 11 u. in., 3 lo 5 p. p m
Residence Phone 12; office 18
HUTTIG
ARKANSAS
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Practice in All Courts. Rooms 15 and
16, Postoffice Building
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