DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. X. NO. 1
HUTT1G. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. MAY 6. 1916.
PRICE, $1 PER YEAR
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A* BtUilt I MIMIMi HINTS, w
don't forget the garden.
Don't forget that the gander
pays a better rent than any other
SDct on the farm. Keep a nice
mulch and never let the weeds g^t
ahead. Plant long rows and don’t
make beds. Plant carrots, ccllards,
egg plant, kohl rabi. okra, squash,
pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes,
turnips, beets and stick in potatoes
in ev<=-ry waste corner and patch,
and sweet potatoes for folks and
pigs. Keep on planting and hoeing.
The Extension Division of the Uni
versity and U. S. Department of
Agriculture, with offices in Little
Rock, will mail bu'lelins
TIMELY BULLETINS.
Arkansas farmers should writ
to the Director Agricultural Ex
tension Service, old state house.
Little Rock, for bu'letins on sub
lets of interest. The following
are timely and will be sent free:
Spraying Manual, Cowpeas. Soy'
B-^ans. Sweet Potatoes. Care of
Food in the Home, Houseflies. The
Sanitary Privy, Canning Peaches, i
Homemade Silos, Silage and Its
Uses. Home Gerdens in the South.
Care of the Baby.
PROPER CULTIVATION.
The progressive farmer will ob
serve three rules in cultivating
corn and cotton: ( 1 ) Cultivate
early, preferably with the section
harrow: (2) Practice surface
cultivation, all the time, and (3)
— ♦ & T-t-B—er»~-<wW raV* n tr »ft*r most'
people have quit. One farmer who
got 60 bushels of corn per acre last
summer wrote that he went over
his field after the corn was p'anted
1 1 times, three harrowings and
eight surface cultivations.
PEAS. BEAhS. PEANUTS.
Every acre of corn in Arkansas
should have peas, beans or peanuts
planted between the rows this
summer. We must build up our
soil. One county agent reports
that nine-tenths of the corn in his
county will have either peas, soy
beans, velvet bean or peanuts be
tween the rows. Why not make
it unanimous? Better make sure
of seed. This plan will not
only build ud soil but pigs can
do much of the harvesting and with
the corn get a well balanced feed.
PREPARE FOR BOL.I, WEEVIL.
The boll weevils were very nu
merous in most weevil territory
test fall and the winter does not
seem to have been severe. Ev
ery cotton grower should prepare,
therefore, to beat the weevil to it,
by taking advantage of every op
portunity to hasten the develop
ment of the crop. Thorough prep
aration of land, planting early
varieties early, cultivating early
with section harrow, and then per
sistent cultivation throughout the
growing and fruiting season will
help beat the weevil. On thin soil
200 pound of cottonseed meal and
200 pounds 16 per cent acid phos
phate per acre will help. On
heavy soils, 300 pounds 16 per
cent acid phosphate per acre will
increase the yield and hasten the
fruit production and maturity.
Write Director of Extension Serv
ice, University and U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Little Rock,
for bulletins.
School Closes May 19th.
The public school of consolidated
district No. 60 will close its first
term which has been a most suc
cessful one on Fr:day night. May
19. at which time about twpnty
young men and women will grad
uate from the grammer grades to
take up the high school work next
year. The closing exercises will
be held in the auditorium at the
school building and will consist of
an address by Rev. J. F. Johnston,
of the Baptist church, the presto
l tation of diplomas and a number
; of vocal and instrumental pieces.
| On Sunday night. May 14. at the
j Methodist church Rev. S. K. Bur
nett will deliver a sermon to the
graduating class.
On Friday the 19th a school
picnic to be held in the woods near
; here has been planned to which
everybody is invited and requested
: to bring a basket.
Methotfist Church Services
The following services will be
held at Union church Sunday: Sun
day school at 1 0:00 a. m. Preach
ing at 1 1 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. by
the pastor. Junior League at 3:00
p. m. Epworth League at 7:00 p.
m. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. S. K. Burnett Pastor.
$^00 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will he
p)i ise<J to learn that the''- is i t ieist
one dreaded disease that science lias
lie. 1 able to cure in ail i's stages, and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
Inlluemeu by constitutional conditions
rviuires constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts thru the L51ood on the Mucous
Surfaces of the System thereby de
stroying the foundation of the disease,
giving the patient strength by building
up tin- constitution and assisting na
ture in doing its work. The proprie
tors have so much faith in the curative
powers of Hall's Catarrh Cure that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
ea- that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials.
Address: F. J CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
Ohio, hold by all Druggists, 75c.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pay $50.00 as a reward to any
, one. not in its employ, who will fur
nish information from which any
j ne-son shall be convicted of depre
: uatmg or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February. 1 906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Secy, and Treas j
Laziness.
The trouble with Hiram H. Ha-1
zy. whose prospect of riches is
slim, is that he is painfully lazy,
| and work is a nightmare to him
i He sees the procession of winners,
with prizes and medals bedight.
and he, the most dejected of sin
ners, remarks that his^Juck is a
fight. He sits in the shade and
j discusses of war. and such topics,
all day. and keeps up his speil till
he hoarse is. while others are har
vesting hay. He talks of thfe needs
of navy, and proves that our army
is punk, while neighbors are hustl
ing like gravy, and earning the,
shining plunk. And so while the
others are drilling around in a
praiseworthy cause, he sics by the
postoffice killing the time with a
lank pair of jaws. He's talking of
men and of measures infecting this
land of the free: while others have
comforts and pleasures, he's broke,
as he always will be. He might
have a home and an auto, he might
have a watch and a chain, a lawn
with a fountain with a grotto, if he
would be active and sane. His
friends are all disgusted, with see
ing him sit in the shade, but Hiram :
would rather be busted that band
ish a hoe or a spade. Walt Mason.
Do You Know That
Light promotes cleanliness?
A clean mouth is essetial to good
health?
Physical training in childhood is
the foundation of adult health?
The U. S. Public health Service
issues publications on hygiene and i
sanitation for free distribution?
Issolation is the most efficient
means of controlling leprosy?
Headache is natures's warning
that the human machine is running
badly?
Bullets may kill thousands flies
tens of thousands?
Obesity menances longevity. j
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Presidential Pointers.
At the third presidential election. j
1 796, 16 slates took part, having
138 electoral votes. 7’he elector
al vote-was scattered among 13
candidates. John Adams received
71, Thomas J°fferson 68, Thomas
Pinkney 59, Aaron Burr 30, Saim
aa! Adams 15, Oliver Ellsworth 1 1.
George Clinton 7. John Jay 5
James Eredell 3. George Washing
ton. John Henry and S. Johnson 2
eacn, Charles C. Pinkr.ey 1. John |
Adams ana Thomas Jefferson as :
president and vice president were i
inaugurated in Philadelphia March |
4, 1 797.
In the fourth pres:dential elec- ;
tion, 1800. 16 states took part ,
having 138 electoral votes, the;
same as in 1736. The count re-I
suited in a tie for president ;
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Bun
receiving 73 votes each, John Ad I
arris 65, Charles C. Pinkney 64, |
John Jay 1. There being a tie vote i
between Jefferson and Burr, the ;
election was carried to the House :
of Representatives. Jefferson'
there received the votes of 1C
states and Burr the votes of 4 2
states voting blank, mak'ng Jeffer
son president and Burr vice presi
dent. They were inuagurated in
Washington, March 4. 1801.
At the fiffh presidential elec
tion. 1904, the constitution having;
been amended, the electors voted
for president and vice president in
stead of two candidates for presi
dent as before. The result was as
follows: For president, Thomas
Jefferson 162; Charles C. Phkney
14. For vice president, George
Clinton 162; Rufus King i4.
Seventeen states took part in
the election and 176 electoral;
votes were cast. Jefferson and
King were inuagurated president
and vice president in Washington
March 4. 1 805.
At the sixth presidential elec
tion in 1808, 16 states took part,
having 175 electoral votes. For
president James Madison received
122, Charles C. Pinkney 47 and
George Clinton 6. For vies presi- 1
dent George Clinton received 113.;
Rufus King 47. John Langdon 9,
James Madison 3 and James Mon
roe 3.
Madison and Clinton were in
augurated March 4, 1809.
Students Test Milk
As a part of their course the
class in agriculture in the high
school made a number of milk
tests last week which showed the
following per cent of butter fat in
the different samples tested, being
from cows owned by the following
people:
Dr. L. F. Magee’s, 4.4.
Mrs. Mary Darby's, 3.
Mr. McGowan's, 8.5.
D. M. Clowney’s, 8.
D. M. Glowney's, 9.
W. J. Jeffus’, 6.8.
R. E. Ebbs', 9.
R. E. Nash’s, 7.
Mr. Gathright’s. 8.8.
We think this an excellent show
ing. as we understand that 5 per
cent is good.
AFTER THE GREAT WAR
SPECULATION AS TO PLEASANT
PATHS OF PE CE.
Woman Who Has Known Conditions
at the Front Wonders What Real
Return to the Normal
Will Mean.
Centuries ago a chronicler of the
Crusades recorded quaintly of a cer
tain vain and valorous knight:
“Three wounds he received in this
battle, whereat he laughed, hut the
1 ayiiim who shore nis tall plume he
cursed deeply and rested not till he
had, with’his good sword, shorn oft his
head.”
That was in the day when every
gentleman who was not a priest must
be a fighter, and could be a dandy only
by the way. It was many years later
that another type arose, dandy first
and fighter afterward; the graceful
idler, the society fop, suddenly trans
formed by patriotism, at his country’s
call, into a hero. History proved him,
fiction adopted him; he became one of
the most popular figures in drama,
story and romance. Hut until now
neither fact nor fiction has supplied a
corresponding tyre of heroine.
The great war of today, although it
demands of many of the noble women
who have answered the call greater
ability, responsibility and thorough
ness of training than has ever been de
manded of women before, has also of
fered opportunities of service to oth
ers, hitherto merely women of fashion
and the gay world, which many have
eagerly accepted. Women used only
to organizing halls toil on committees;
women who have shone in foreign cap
itals interpret for hapless refugees;
women who have played with petted
children in charming nurseries estab
lish orphanages, care for destitute
mothers or adopt war babies. Other
women of the modern athletic type,
untrained to nursing, devote their
nerve and muscle to slaving in hos
pitals—hastily improvised, ill-equipped,
overcrowded, undermanned hospitals
—wnere they tag for me rent nurses,
and turn their hands to anything from
writing wills and messages for dying
men to menial and often horrible tasks
of washing, scrubbing and disinfecting.
Otliers give themselves, with their
automobiles, to the Red Cross, and
drive their own cars, filled with wound
ed, over war torn roads and half
wrecked bridges with skill and daring.
Often they run them under fire, and
not one of them has flinched.
“If ever this terrible time, which
seems an endless nightmare, does real- ]
iy end,” the American wife of an Eng
lishman of high social position, who j
has been loyally working with the rest, '
wrote home recently, says the Youth's [
Companion, “and if 1 wake up to peace J
and pretty clothes and gay doings, and j
life as it used to be—sometimes 1
wonder who it will be that will wake? I
Not I, the old 1 of before the war: |
that I, my dear, is dead os if she had
been shot. 1 want to he happy and
jolly again, yet when I think of the j
old life it seems no more possible to !
take it up and live it than to go hack j
and he a little girl. I have died, or ,
grown up. or been born again since \
then—I don't quite know which! 1 j
only know that I am and must be, dif- I
ferent and that 1 cannot even wish to I
be the same again.”
Sometimes to lose a self is to find a 1
soul. 0
Another One on Taft.
“Uncle Joe" Cannon tells this tale !
on ex-President Taft, though he is al- |
ways careful to assure his hearers j
that he will not vouch for the ac- |
curacy of it:
“It was when the president was
merely Mr. Secretary and was visit
ing Japan on liis famous trip through i
the far East. Mr. Taft was caught ;
fast asleep In a hammock by a mov
ing-picture mail, and this interesting
film was being shown at a county fair
in my home state. Illinois. The mo
tion picture was being reeled off to :
the great amusement of the rural
spectators, when a huge tlaw line sud
denly darted across the film and the
screen went dark.
“ ‘Land o' mercy. Hiram.' gasped an
old lady in the rear of the hall, 'what
was that ?'
“ ‘Hush up. Mirandy,’ croaked the
husband. 'Don't yew ask so many
questions. I reckon that s where the
hammock busted.’ ”
His Precarious Condition.
“I overheard someone saying that
your nephew. Emmett Uckles. is lying :
in a critical condition. What is the |
nature of his complaint?’’
“He isn’t making any,” replied
Uncle Fogy. "It is his wife who is
doing the complaining. You see, Em
mett went to Kansas City not long j
ago to buy goods, und a few days after
his return there came a dainty note ,
signed ‘Your IJttle Sunshine.' It fell '
into his wife's hands, and he lias been
lying ever since. 1 should call his con
dition middlin' critical, too. for I don't
8eo how in tunket he is going to
falsify his way out of it. —Kansas
City Star.
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YOUR RECORD
At the end of each year as you look back at what you
have accomplished, how does the record look to you? Does
it really show a gain toward independence or does it show a
less? Does year after year record a failure for you, or at
any rate no noticeable gain in your condition?
After a long life of hard work it will not be a very com
forting experience to look back at every year’s record a
record of nothing gained. It will not be a very cheerful
prospect to have to face old age dependent upon your daily
labor. Now is the time to make the record look right. Re
solve to save and make every year's record show some
thing laid up to bring you an income later on. The gain of
these years will provide for a comfortable old age and be a
pleasant record to look back upon. We will help you save.
1 nterest Paid on Time Deposits.
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Another New Train For
The Southwest
On December 5th a new. all steel, fast, daily,
through train, to be known as
The Sunshine Special
was be placed in service between—
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St. Louis
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
Galveston
San Antonio
or intermediate points by the
i Iron Mountain Route
Texas and Pacific
International & Great Northern
This train will be a duplicate of the famous Scenic
Limited and will leave St. Louis at 6:15 p. m.
Fastest Time—Shortest Route
Between St. Louis and Texas
Call or write for partlclars
F. H. MOORE,
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DRESS UP THE HOUSE
Let os help you in the choice of new
Furniture for your home.
Afteu house-cleaning is the time to
refurnish. The season of spring de
mands new things in furniture as in
dress. If you are going to need a new
Refrigerator this season, you will cer
tainly save money by ordering it frofri
us. A purchase of two solid cars
enables us to quote you prices below
which you could possibly secure the
same quality elsewhere, and our ab
solute guarantee of perfect satisfac
tion or money refunded goes with ev
ery Refrigerator we sell. Could any
thing be more fair? The One Piece
genuine Porcelain lined Refrigerator
is by far, the best one have ever had.
You use porcelain cooking utensils
why not a porceain Refrigerator.
Write us for cuts and prices. Lawn
and gallery furniture in a large range
of styles and prices. Some as low as
$2.70 complete. Easy payments if
you prefer to buy that way.
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The
MONROE FURNITURE CO.
ltd.
132*138 North Second Sc
MOM ROE, - LOUISIANA
Freight Paid on All Orders Over $10.00
MHPWMHaBHBlKaid
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