THE NEWARK JOURNAL
Published Weekly
O. F. CRAIG
Editor and Publisher
Preparedness That
Means Something
Cotton planting time is here
and The Journal desires to
speak a word of caution to the
farmers who may be inclined
to increase their cotton acr-e
age.
It will be a very unwise
thing to increase the acreage
of cotton. Everything this year
is against a big cotton crop. It
will be more difficult to ship
cotton to Europe than it was
last year. The home consump
tion of cotton cannot very ma
terially increase and there will
be little demand for our cotton
in Europe. A small cotton acre
age is, therefore, absolutely
necessary for our own welfare.
On the other hand. England
and France will be compelled
to buy large quanitities of food
stuff in the United States. The
foreign demand for corn and
wheat will hold up the prices
of these products.
If we grow no food reops,
and raise but a small part of
our living at home, and expect
to buy these from the North
and West, and have to pay for
these things with our cotton
money, we will buy at enor
mously high prices and be
compelled to pay from low
priced cotton.
Along with a small cotton
crop, be sure to raise a large
corn crop; but above all, keep
the cotton down to what it
was last year.
Grow corn and foodstuff
and grow every head of hogs
and cattle that you possibly
can.
1 ne country needs more live
stock. There is no danger of
any great decline in the price
of meat animals for at least
several years.
Be sure you grow your own
corn, hay, hogs and cattle.Then
whatever you get for your cot
ton next fall will be cash.
Diversify. Produce the living
at home and even if cotton is
low next fall you are not hurt
much, for the country will be
prepared to live at home—and
that is the very best sort of
“preparedness.”
The official returns from the
recent primary election show
that there were 1,995votes cast
against President Woodrow
Wilson. No one else appears to
have been voted for, however,
although one Pulaski county
farmer admits that he voted for
Senator James P. Clarke. It is
not clear just what they expect
ed to gain by scratching the
Presidential candidate, but
there were evidently nearly
two thousand citizens of the
state who desired to register
their protest against his foreign
policies, his second marriage,
or some other fact they could
not commend.
Earle W. Hodges, the pres
ent efficient Secretary of State,
who was defeated for Gover
nor by a combination of cir
cumstances over which he had
no control, is a young man who
has always made good on any
job he has undertaken. His pub
lic acts are without blemish,
and his defeat does not mean
that his usefulness in a public
way is ended. Mr. Hodges has
many friends who will stand
by him whatever comes, anc
with indomitable energy hewil
continue to be a useful citizer
of the state.—Monroe Count)
Citizen.
If Germany can put millions
of men into the war anc
still cultivate practically even
acre of waste land, why is it wc
of the United States can nol
more materially increase oui
yield when we have no one al
war? When we answer this
question in a practical mannei
we will be in a fair way to dou
ble the wealth of our country.
Don’t Like New Way
Selecting Delegates
Unless delegates from other
(states start something before
they get in action, Democrats
from Arkansas will come into
the limelight at the bignational
convention in St. Louis, with a
fight on the present method of
selecting delegates to the pow
wow of party leaders.
Heretofore the delegates
have been selected by the State
Democratic convention and the
district conventions. This year
those who desired to be recog
nized on the floor fo the Dem
ocratic National Convention
were forced to make a fight
for the honor, and conduct a
regular political campaign to
secure it. This is distaseful to
the men who usually represent
Arkansas in such affairs, and
as a result neither of theUnited
States Senators will wear dele
gates badges at the convention.
The four delegates-at-large
to the national convention are
W. V. Powell, industrial com
missioner of the Cotton Belt
railroad; Sheriff W. G. Hutton
of Pulaski county; Jerry South
of Mountain Home, and Judge
W. H. Arnold of Texarkana.
The young man who hasn’t
respect enough for himself to
respect others, need not expect
lucrative positions in this day
and time. Business men who
employ people are looking for
young men who value charac
ter and reputation high enough
to regard the feelings of others.
People who are in business re
alize that they must employ
young men whose style would
not drive patronage away.
Young men who are competent,
honest and polite are the kind
that are more apt to get the
preference.—Hope Gazette.
The call for strawberry pick
ers from the berry fields around
Judsonia and Bald Knob indi
cates that the luscious berry
crop will soon be ready to har
vest. And that means prosperi
ty for those communities. New
ark and this community could
be in position to enjoy a simi
liar period of prosperity if our
farmers would get berry cul
ture started in this community.
We could do it, you say. Yes,
but WHEN are we giong to
make a start?
Don’t try to be better than
somebody <dse; just try being
better today than you were
yesterday and watch how you
will improve mentally, morally,
physically and financially.—
Bentonville Sun.
Poinsett county has two
Democratic (’entral (Committees
and will send two sets of dele
gates to the State Convention.
But this is one time nobody is
worrying about Poinsett.
Every person is appreciated
in one way or another. The
grruu h, tor instance, when he
takes his leave.
WINDY ORATOR
How was the senator’s
speech?”
“It seemed to make a hit
| with his audience. There were
prolonged cheers when the
meeting broke up, but I don’t
know whether the applause
was due to what the senator
said or the fact that he had
quit talking.”
A Rainy Day Need
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SEARCY MAN HELD FOR
FIRST DEGREE MURDER
! Searcy, Apr. 17.—Joe Law
rence, former keeper of the
| county poor farm, has been
held to the grand jury without
bond on a charge of first de
gree murder. He is charged
with killing Mrs. Susie West in
East Searcy on the morning of
April 3. The woman, an inmate
of the poor farm, was last seen
alive driving in a buggy with
Lawrence in the direction of
the poor farm. Later her body
was found beside the road with
her throat cut. Lawrence, un
conscious, lay near by with
deep wounds in his throat,
which he had inflicted with
his pocket knife in an effort to
end his life. Lawrence is held
in jail here while his wounds
are healing. He has a wife and
several children.
PEACH CROP LIGHT
AROUND CUSHMAN
Cushman, Apr. 18.—The El
berta peach crop around this
place will be about one-third
lighter than it was last year.
Little green peaches are show
ing on the trees now.Two-thirds
of the crop was killed late in
the winter by the freezing'
weather that came when the
ground was full of moisture.
Fruit men here say, however,
that the one-third of a cropthis
year will bring more money
than the full crop last year.
Because of the increased size
of the fruit the lighter-laden
trees will bear more. There are
1,000 acres in Elbertas around
this place.The 450-acre orchard
of Walter Denison has been
leased to Hunt Bros, of St. Jo
seph. Mo.
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LET’S CLE\N UP
AND SWAT THE FLY
The coming of warm weather
brings on the pesky housefly.
We can do more to get rid
of this menace to our health
and the health of our family
by cleaning up.
All the rubbish piles around
your house are regular breed
ing places or the fly and should
be exterminated.
Not only will cleaning up
help to get rid of the fly but it
will help our town to look more
beautiful.
Newark should have a “clean
up day” some time in the near
future, and at this time all of
the rubbish, tin cans and other
like junk in the streets and
around the premises should
be cleaned up and hauled off.
Let’s clean up.
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RESIDENCE FOR SALE
Good six room frame resi
dence, with hall, two porches
good well of water, smoke
house and barn. Convenient
to business part of town. Will
sell cheap. Newark Real Es
tate Company.
LITTLE ROCK BANK
OFFICIALS CONVICTED
Little Rock, Apr. 18.—W. H. |
Garanflo, former president,and
R. D. Duncan, former cashier
of the defunct State National
Bank, convicted last week in
federal court on six counts of
misapplication of funds and
conspiracy, will be sentenced
by Judge Frank Youmans next
Thursday. Both men are under
$1 (),0000 bond and will appeal
their cases. It is possible to give
each an aggregate of fifty-two
Jyears. But by making the sen
tences concurrent, they may
‘be given a minimum of six
years. The State National Bank
closed on June 24, 1914, owing!
7,000 depositors approximately
I $900,000. Garanflo and Dun
'can were indicted October 29,
1915, following an investiga
tion by R. M. Houston of the
United States department of
justice.
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FLOODS HAVE NOT
AFFECTED NEWPORT
Newport, April 18.—Despite
, the fact that Newport and vi
cinity have been visited by two
[very disastrous floods during
I the past year, never have there
been more signs of prosperity.
The Arkansas Rank and Trust
, Company’s new building is
nearing completion. This will
;be one of the finest buildings'
| between St. Louis and Little
Rock. Much building is going'
on in East Newport. Within the 1
past 60 days more than 50 new!
autos have been shipped to this ■
city and several more carloads j
I will arrive within the next
month.
DIVERSIFICATION PAYS
IN POPE COUNTY
I Russellville, Apr. 19.—That
the diversified farming cam
paign of 1914 has borne good
•fruits in Pope county, is eviden
ced by the large shipments of
live stock, and poultry being
shipped from Russellville al
most daily.One local buyer has
shipped his tenth car of hogs
to Kansas City and St. Louis
within the past few weeks.One
to two cars of poultry is ship
ped every week, and car ship
ments of cattle and mules are
quite frequent.
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COLLEGE ADOPTS
SIMPLIFIED SPELLING
I Conway, April 18.—Simpli
fied spelling is being adopted
rapidly by educational forces
in Arkansas, Hendrix College
being the latest school to adopt
the spelling of 12 words recog
nized by the National Educa
tional Association. The 12
words approved by the Hen
drix College faculty are: Cata
log, prolog, decalog, tho, altho,
thoro, thorofare, thru,pedagog,
program demagog and thruout.
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This is the time of year when your system needs a
general overhauling. There is nothing that will put
more vigor and vim into your system than
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ATTEMPTS TO KILL
BALD KNOB OFFICER
Bald Knob, April 17.—An
unidentified man attempted t<j
assassinate Marhall J.W.Hobb*
about 10 o’clock Saturday night
as he was returning from the
east side of town. As the mar
shall passed the J. Collison
warehouse tin- man stepped
from between some freight can
and fired at him at close range,
The bullet passed through hi.
hat. cutting away some of his
hair. The shock temporarily
stunned him and before he had
recovered the assailant had es
caped. It is said that Hobbs b
a very fine marksman and that
the temporary shock probably
saved the assailant from beinj2
killed.
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BEST AGA’N PRINCIPAL
TUCKF.RMAN SCHOOL
J. W. Best, formerly of this
county who has been principa
of the Tuckerman High School
for the past year, has been re
elected as principal for the
coming year.
Beware of Ointments for
Catarrh that Contain Mercury
as mercury \% ill surely destroy the sense
of smell ami completely oerange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces Such arti les should
never !»•• used except on pre.N* ript ions
from Reputable physicians, as the damage
they will do is t‘*n fold to tie good you
I can possibly derive from them. Hall’s
| Catarrh Cure, manufactured by l\ 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 tin* genu
ine. It is taken internally and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by l*\ J. Cheney &. ('n. Tes
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Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per bottle.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
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