DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. VIII. NO. 40
HUTT1G. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 191$.
PRICE, $1 PER YEAR
Plant Sudan brass.
Sudan grass can now be recom
mended as a good genera! forage
crop for practically every Arkan
sas farm. It is well adapted to a
wide range of soil and climatic con
ditions. After several years test
it has proven its worth in Nocth,
Central and South Arkansas.
Sudan grass produces large
yields of hay, varying from two to
four tons per acre and sometimes
more. It is similar to the millets
» in its ability to make large yields in
a short period of time, but it is far
better than the millets in that it it
a superior hay and can be fed to all
kinds of livestock. It has much
finer stems than the sorghums and
1 is very easily cured into hay.
Seed Sudan grass in rows 30 to
36 inches aDart and cultivate oc
casionally during the growing seas
on. Use from three to four pounds
of seed per acre. The crop is very
drough resistant. It will make
from two to three cuttings in the
northern part of the state
and from three to four cuttings in
the central part and from four to
five in the southern part.
It resembles Johnson grass very
closely, but it does not possess the
underground root stocks and there
fore does not live over winter. It
has io be reseeded each year.
Since the seed cannot be distin
guished from Johnson grass seed,
it is necessary that the planting
seed be secured from a reliable
source. The Kansas Experiment
Station. Mahattan, Kansas, is of
fering seed^ at 50 cents per pound.
Seed can also be secured from the
Lubbock Sudan Grass Seed Asso
ciation, Lubboch. Texas, from L.
T. Shoemaker, Camden, Ohio, or
from Geo. T. Mitchell, Vineland,
New Jersey.
If you are in need of forage for
the work stock, the milk cow or
growing cattle, sow one or more
acres to Sudan grass. It is not
necessary to seed a large acreage
because it produces heavy yields.
Don't buy hay wjien it can be easi
ly produced at home.
W. C. Lassetter. Ark.
Experiment Station,
Tax Collector’s Dates.
Junction City, Henderson twp.,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
February, 10,11 and 12.
El Dorado from February 15 un
til April 10, by which time all
taxes must be paid or become de
linquent.
A Surprise Wedding.
A surprise wedding occurred at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Greer on 5th street at 2:30 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon when Rev. S.
K. Burnett performed the ceremo
ny which united in marriage Miss
Alice Bridges, the lovable daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.Bridges, to Mr.
Harry B. Martin, brother of Mrs. J.
E. Greer. The happy couple 'eft
that afternoon for Farmerville, La.,
and left there Wednesday morning
for Cushing, Okla., the home of the
groom, to make their home. Both
have a large circle of friends here
who will join in wishing them much
happiness and prosperity.
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 5:30 p. m. by
the pastor. Junior League at 3:00
p. m. Epworth League at 6:30 p.
m. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. S. K. Burnett Pastor.
Annual Teachers’ Meetinq.
From reports coming in from the
attendance leaders from all parts
of the state, the officers of the
State Teachers’ assoc:ation predict
that the annual meeting to be held
at Little Rock Apnl 8, 9 and 10.
will be the most largely attended
meeting in the history of the asso
ciation.
Every teacher should plan to at
tend the April meeting. The in
spiration and professiona’ up'if;
that comes from these meetings
must mean much to the teachers i.
their worK. An attendance of 2.
500 teachers has been set as th
standard for the April meeting
It will be a matter of special inter
est to the large number of rum,
teachers of the state to know that
he discussions at the genera
meetings will have as their therm
"The Twentieth Century School
The Needs of and the Demands
Upon the Same.”
Beware of Ointments for
Catarrh That Contain Mercury
as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as the damage
they will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Hall's
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.. contains no
mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. In buying Hall’s
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genu
ine It is taken Internally and made in
Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Tes
timonials free.
Sold by Prugglsts. Price TBc per bottle.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Install New Officers.
The Womans’ Missionery society
of the Methodist church met in
open session Monday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. L. F. Magee and
the following visitors were present:
Mesdames W. H. Wheeler, C.
Howard, D. M. Clowney. C. T.
Thompson and A. G. Stephenson.
After two songs and a prayer.
; the meeting was turned over to
j Rev. S. K. Burnett who publicly
| installed the newly elected officers
of the society for the coming yeai
in an impressive manner.
After the installation refresh
ments were served and a social
| hour was greatly enjoyed by all
j present.
COLDS & LaGRIPPE
5 or 6 doses 660 will break
any case of Chills & Fever, Colds
& LaGrippe; it acts on the liver
better than Calomel and does no*
gripe or sicken. Price 25c.
A Few Health Hints.
An open window is better than
an open grave.
It is better to sleep in fresh air
than in a fresh grave.
Open your windows for fresh air
and you will seldom have to open
; a pocket book for the druggist
A careless spitter with a little
cough is more dangerous than a
careless man with a revolver.
Warm rooms have killed more
people than ever froze to death.
Estrayed— Red and white spot
ted muely heiffer about 3 years old.
Owner can get same at old
McLemore place.
’ Wood & Neel.
A Great Variety.
There is an old saying that it
takes all kinds of people to make a
world, says a Kansas editor, and
this is a pretty complete old world,
anyway it is the most complete we
ever lived in. There is the worth
less whelp of a man who blows in
all the money he makes and who
never amounts to anything until he
marries some frugal girl with a lot
of common sense and she teaches
him how to manage his business.
Then, there is the steady, hard
working fellow who could get along
nicely on his $15 a week salary if
he didn't have a $50 a week wife
who insists on spending all the
week’s wages before Saturday
night. Either of these two combi
nations are not so bad as when Mr.
Worthless Whelp gets tied up to
Miss Fifty Dollars —then’? when
the trouble begins and another
name is added to the "dead beat"
list.
January Weather.
Last month was an extremely !
sold one for This part of the conn- |
try. There were nineteen days
that the thermometer registered
aelow freezing, the coldest being
m the 25th when it registered 19 !
tbove zero. The highest temper
ature was recorded on the 14th.
/hen 70 degrees above was reg
itered. The rainfall for the month
/as 6.1 4 inches and the snowfall
m the 18th was about 3 inches.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Gompanj
/ill pay S50.00 as a reward to any
ne, not in its employ, who will fur
iish information from which any
orson shall be convicted of depre
lating or trespassing upon the tinn
ier of said Company.
This 1st, day of February. 1 906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Secy, and Treas
A Mistaken Idea.
The other day a man connected
jvith The News overheard a mother,
siy she hoped her child would con- !
trajt the whooping-cough and have
it over with. That woman didn't
mean any harm when she made the
statement, but she might bring in
calculable harm to her child.
Whooping-cough is especially dan
gerous in infants under one year of
age. In winter broncho-pneumo
nia is the most common and dan
gerous result of whoop-cough. In
summer bowel complaint of a se
vere type is the most common
complication. Tuberculosis not
infrequently follows prolonged at
tacks of the disease. In some in
fants the loss of weight due to
vomiting after the cough is often
so great that the baby dies of mal
nutrition (starvation.) These
complications are so serious that to
expose a child to whooping-cough
so that it will get through with the
disease, is criminal. Shield your
child from whooping-cough, or any
other infections and contagious dis
ease. as you would from any other
physical danger. Don't think you
are doing the child a service by do
ing otherwise. A reputable physi
cian will say the same.
Does Prohibition P.iy?
Few people realize the wonder
ful record that Kansas shows at
the end of her thirty years' prohi
bition of the sale of alcoholic li
quors. A careful investigator,
writing in "The Outlook” recently,
showed that—
In eighty-seven of her one hun
dred and five counties Kansas has
now no insane:
In fifty-four of these counties
there are no feeble-minded:
Ninety-six of her counties have
no inebriates:
Thirty-eight of her county poor
houses are empty;
Fifty-three of her jails were re
cently empty and sixty-five coun
ties had no prisoners in the state
penitentiary:
The entire number of prupers in
the state falls short of six hundred:
So Tie counties have not c( lied a
grand jury to try a criminal case in |
ten years:
Not long ago Kansas had two!
hundred millions of collars in her!
banks: her farmers owned live j
stock valued at two hundred and ;
twenty-five millions of co’lars, and
in one year the people have added
i forty-five millions of dollars to their
itaxable property;
Only 2 per cent of the entire
I population is illiterate:
The mortality rate has cropped
from 17 per 1,000 to 7 per 1.000.
Does prohibition pay the people of ;
a state? Kansas certainly an
I swers the question with wcnderful
figures.
Rock Balanced Over Village.
A 20-ton balanced rock overhangs
die village of Thomary in France.
The Local Paper a Most Useful
Agency on the Farm—The
Press, Pulpit a;V School a
Trinity of Influe; cc That
Must Be Utilized in
Building Agri
culture.
By Peter Radford
National Fanners* I'nion.
A broad campaign of publicity
on the subject of rural life i
needed in this *tate today to
bring the problems of the farm
ers to the forefront. The citvj
problems are blazoned upon the
front pages of the meii opolitan >
dailies and echoed in the country j
press, but the troubles of the \
farmers are seldom told, except
by those who seek to profit by j
the story, and the glitter of the'
package ofttimes obscures the '
substance. A searching investi- ]
gation into the needs uf the farm- j
crs will reveal many inherent de-1
fects in our economic system that
can be easily remedied when
properly understood and illumi
nated by the power of the press.
1 he rural press, the pulpit and
the school are a trinity of pow
erful influences that the farmer
must utilize to their fullest ca
pacity before lie can occupy a
commanding position in public
affairs. 1 hese gigantic agencies
are organized in every rural com- 1
munity and only await the pat- I
ronage and co-operation of tne
farmers to fully develop their
energy and usefulness. Thev are ,
local forces working for tne best
interests of their communities j
1 heir work is to build and their
object is to. serve. They prosper
only through the development
and prosperity of the community.
Every farmer in this state
should subscribe for the local
paper, as well as farm periodicals
and such other publications as
, he may find profitable, but he
| should by alf means subscribe
' f°r his local paper, and no ftome
should he without it. The local
j paper is part of the community
I Jile and the editor understands
the farmer’s problems.
A Noble Task.
In too many instances the
country papers mimic the citv
press by giving prominence to
scandals, accidents and political
agitation. The new rural civiii-i
zation has placed upon the rural |
press renewed responsibilities,
and enlarged possibilities for use
fulness. It cannot perform its
mission to agriculture by record
ing the frailties, the mishaps and
inordinate ambitions of human
ity, or by filling its columns with
the echoes of the struggles of
busy streets, or by enchanting I
stories of city life which lure our
children from the farm.
It has a higher and nobler
task. The rural press is the gov
erning power of public sentiment
and must hold steadfast to prin
ciple and keep the ship of state
in the roadstead of progress. The
rural press can best serve the
interests of the farmers by ap- I
plying its energies to the solution
of problems affecting the local
community. It must stem the
mighty life current that is mov
ing from the farm to the cities,
sweeping before it a thousand
boys and girls per day. It has
to deal with the fundamental
problems of civilization at their
fountain head. Jts nwssion is
to direct growth, teach efficiency
and mold the intellectual life of j
the country, placing before thei
public the daily problems of the
farmers and giving first attention
to the legislative, co-operative. '
educational and social needs of I
the agricultural classes within its
respective community.
The Power of Advertising.
The influence of advertising is !
clearly visible in the homes and j
habits of the farmers, and the ;
advertising columns of the press
are making their imprint upon
the lives of our people.
The farmer is entitled to all
the advantages nnd deserves all
the luxuries of life. We need
more art, science and useful fa
cilities on the farms, and the ad |
vertiser can render a service by
teaching the advantages of mod- '
ern equipment throughout the
columns of the rural press.
Are jcu alt( t ding tie mect'ngj
3E
Getting lip in the World |
Some men work almost day and night all their lives and yet nev
er have anything while others with apparently not half the effort
live well and locate on Easy Street before they reach middle age.
Some people say it is luck, but if you get down to the real cause
of the one s fadure and the other's success you will find that it is all
most always because of the different habits.
Tne one man carries his money around in his pocket and spends
it freely and thoughtlessly for everytning he see that he wants, while
the other banks his money, saves some part of everything that he
earns, keeps a business-like record of his transactions by means of
his checks and establishes a standing at the bank that enables him to
get financial aid whenevrr he needs it.
Nothing can be of more help to you in getting up in the world and
making a success of your business than an account at this bank.
It is not what you make out what you save that counts.
Interest Paid on Time Deposits.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HUTTIG, ARKANSAS
Hie Monroe Furniture Company’s
BUSINESS POLICY!
To maintain our supremacy with the HOME-LOVING public it
has been, ami at ways will be. our business po icy to sell only de
pendable merchandise at popular prices, to give the maxium of value
and if wanted, to extend accommodating credit. The store ser
vice can be hulgfui only by permanwy^i sat^fying the customer.
The greatest asset a merchant can have is the good-tvill of the
public, and that is our constant aim.
If vou need Furniture, Rugs. Stoves. o,_ anything for the I o : r,
buy at The Momoe Furniture Co., as it will mean satisfaction.
We absolutely guarantee to undersell any fnm in the United
States, quality considered, and in addition; we pay the freight
charges on all orders over ten dollars. Write us today.
The
MONROE FURNITURE CO.
Ltd.
132-138 North Second St.
MONROE, - LOUISIANA
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ROUND TRIP TICKETS
This office has been made a regu
lar Coupon ticket office and we
are prepared to sell straight or
round trip tickets to any point in
the United States on short notice.
We can check your baggage through
saving you trouble in rechecking.
We can also save you money by
buying round trip tickets, and
will be glad to accommodate you
in this manner
# via the
Iron Mountain Route
“The Line Witlp the Service”
For Particulars See
D. A. Keasler,
Local Agent
or address
F. E. Schroeder
Assistant. General Passenger A gent
Little Rock, Arkansas
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