DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF St JTH EASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
/OL. XI. NO. 50
HUTTiG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. APRIL 15. 1918.
PRICE. SI PER YEAR
ISITTKi OVER THE TOP.
Sale of Third Liberty Lo?n Bonds Here tx
ceeded Both former Issues.
One of the larg°st crowds that
has ever assembled in Huttig was
present last Saturday afternoon at
the patriotic demonstration launch
ing the Third Liberty Loan Bond
sale.
There ceremonies were opened
by an invocation by Rev. A. Tur
rentine, followed by the sing:ng cf
America by the school children.
After a few remarks by the
chairman, Mayor Thos. Green
raised the large American flag to
th? top of the seventv-fcot flag
staff erected between the bank arid
postoffice buildings and the school I
children sang the' "Red, White and 1
Blue.” Little Miss Hazel Bentley
then recited Our Flag in a very
impre-sive manner a’->d wis fol
lowed by A to Allen, a colored g 1,
who sang "In Times of Peace Pi .
pare for War" in a most creditable ;
manner.
The ladies of the Huttig Branch j
of the El Dorado Chapter Red !
Cross had marched in front of the
speaker's stand dressed in u,e.
uniforms and Mrs. H. F. Mayfield
read a most excellent paper on the 1
work being done by the Red Cross,;
which had been prepared by Mrs.!
F. W. Scott, supervisor of the local
branch, who was unable to attend I
on account of illness.
Albert Rowell, cashier of the
First National bank of El Dorado
and chairman of the Liberty Loan
organization for Union county, was
then introduced and after a very
timely and interesting talk intro
duced Lieut. John W. McGuire, of
the 312th sanitary engineers of
Camp Pike, who made a stirring
address that was appreciated by
the large crowd in attendance.
The program was closed bv Hon.
Aylmer Flenniken of El Dorado,
who has charge of the sale of
bonds among the negroes of the
county, and as usual he made a
strong speech that inspired all to :
do their best in the present crisis.
Huttig's quota of the first Liber
ty Bond Loan was $9,000.00 and '
the subscriptions amounted to
$15,000,00. Our quota for the
second loan was $10,500.00 and
the subscriptions amounted to
$13,000.00. In the first loan
there were 48 individual subscrib
ers and in the second 36 individ
ual subscribers.
To date in the Third Liberty
Lean there are 167 individual sub
scribers with a total subscription of
$16,350.00 and the sales commit
tee feel confident that the total j
sales will reach $30,000.00 before
the campaign in closed.
It is the aim and desire of the
government to have a Liberty
Bond in every home and it is very
gratifying indeed to report the
large list of subscribers to this last
loan. Another gratifying feature
in the present campaign is the fact
that 90 per cent of the farmers
approached have been purchasers.
which was not the case in the pre
vious campaigns
"This proves that the people of
this commun'ty are loyal and also
entitles us to one of the Honor
Flags awarded by the treasury de
nartmant to towns that oversub
scribe their quota as well as having
two blue stars in the white field to
indicate that we went “over the
top” on both other occasions
J. A. Rowland of El Dorado,
county chairman of the sales force,
accompanied the speakers "from El
Dorado to Strong and then on here
and was profuse ;n uis compliments
of the support given the local sales
committee by the people of this end
of the county ana expressed the
wish that every locality in tne
county would do as well.
Men Needed for New Branch
The following classes of men are
needed immediately for the "In
U’d W .te-w^ys" and s soon as I
ac pee y • u.tmg officer,1
will be sent to camp at Laurel.
Maryland, for instructions:
iviaster ship carpenters, ship
carpenters, marine gasoline engin-!
eers. steersmen, hoisting engineers,!
■ 'm.t■ s. r >g • - n^akers.
Sd0ut6i6, tccimotzTo, burgsmsn.
It is thought that there is a large
number of men in this state who I
would like this new branch of the
service and are only awaiting an
opportunity to enlist therein. Any ;
man who has slight knowledge of :
any clatss in the above list may en
ter this service now by applying to
the Recruiting Officer at Little
Reck 01 Texarkana.
W. W. Morgan for Road Supervisor.
In our announcement column
this week will be found that of W.
W. Morgan as a candidate for the i
nominat on for Road Supervisor of
Union county, subject to the action i
of the Democratic primary.May 28.
Mr. Morgan is a native of Union
county and has spent his life in El
Dorado. His father was circuit
clerk of the county at time of his
death. Mr. Morgan was for six
teen years justice of the peace of
El Dorado township and is well
known throughout the county.
He is a carpenter by trade and
has built more good bridges in this
county than any man who ever
lived here, is a hard worker and
understands contract work thor
oughly.
He says, if elected to this posi
tion, he will see that roads are
built according to plans and speci
fications and will see that the peo
ple's taxes are used to the bost
advantage in road building, that he
knows how to build good roads and
bridges and will see that they are
so biylt.
When you are making out your
ticket be sure to give the claims of
Mr. Morgan your most careful con
sideration, and if you elect him
your road supervisor he will look
carefully afrer the duties of the of
fice.
School Election.
There will be a school election
held in Consolidated School Dis
trict No. 60, on Saturday, May 18,
for the purpose of electing two
school directors for a term of three
years and one to fill the uhexpired
term of W. H. Moore, and to vote
for or against a school tax.
The school board desires the
names of any and all candidates
for school director, for the purpose
of having names of all candidates
placed on the ticket. The names
should be furnished either secreta
ry or president by Monday, May
15. J. H. Sehon, Sr., Pres.
C. A. Berry, Secy.
Thos. Green Notary Public, at
the Union Saw Mill Co. store.
To Make Survey of Crops.
Dear Editor:
It has just been reported to us
that the Agricultural Denartment
! of our government deems it neces
sary to make a survey of crops
; planted all over the United States,
and the are going to ask all of the
; farmers to sign a pledge showing
what they have planted and what
they will p'ant. This pledge is
made to the United States govern
ment and is undoubtedly the most
far reaching thoro campaign ever
adopted.
The demand upon our govern
ment for food sucplies makes it im
perative that we grow more food
and feed crops and raise, more live
stock, and we hope that each farm
er ift this county will get a pledge
card. Our agricultural agents will
have them and al! of our mer
chants. Tnis wori to be started
immediately.
Ve -y tr j^rs,
J. anony Chm.
R. N. BenoOn, oecy.
Union County Council of uefense.
Noticp.
In preparing my Red Cross paper
rj- last Saturday I forgot to
mention the ten pillows, each with
an extra slip, which were donated
to soldiers in the camps, and three
ambulance pillows with slips which
one of our ladies in the country
donated. And right here I want to
say that there is a demand in the !
hospitals at the front for what are
called ‘'Comfort Pillows,” of all
sizes.
Let's save'our chicken feathers
and make some!
1 was bitterly disappointed not to
be able to be out with my Red
Cross workers on last Saturday, but
t-ust the paper proved to them that
I am still interested, heart and sodl.
And once more I want to repeat
my appeal: "Ladies, we need your
time and your services in our work
room!’’
(Signed) Mrs. F. W. Scott,
Supervisor Huttig Branch
El Dorado Chapter, A. R, C.
Camp Pike Notes.
Perhaps the most interesting
place just now at Camp Pike is the
receiving station where the new
draft men receive their issue of
supDlies and clothing. Immediate
ly upon arrival, they go to the sta
tion and receive a big blue bag
which contains their blankets, tow
els, mess, kit, hair brush, tooth
brush, comb, soap, etc., and are
then assigned to one of the casual
company barracks until permanent
ly located. This issue of supplies
is made before the medical exami
nation and if the recruit is rejected
Uncle Sam makes him a present of
the comb, brushes and soap as a
partial restitution for .the loss of
time. Anyhow, no one has any
use for second hand articles of this
nature.
Later, after his period cf con
finement in quar' s during quan
antine, the new,. jmer again finds
his way back to the same building
for his iss le of clothing. As the !
line files down through the alley
way between the great stacks of
clothing, each size in a separate
pile, a keen-eyed little sergeant
sizes up the man and dies the out
fit in the outstretched arms. The
record for outfitting the men is
something less than one a minute.
To be fair about this matter, it
might be well to add that the offic
ers are prouder of the record
than some of the men who get
clothes that are too large or too
small. But the average of misfits
is small in comparition with the
number of men outfitted each dav.
Most of the men comr’ain at first
that their shoes are too large but j
after they wear them a few weeksj
, they are apt to chemge their minds
about that.
Rev. C. H. Dickey, pas:,', •••f the
Baptist church at Paragould, is at
tending a school of instruction at,
! Ft. ivjonroe, Va.. and writes home:1
"I do not see how ihe modern army
could do without the Y. M C A
If the people at home could s^ „he
great service that is being rendered
(they would understand what it
j means to the men. It is the life of i
'■ the armv. After seeing it in act
ual operation, one is glad for the
sum he may have invested in it.”,
And what is true of the Y. M C. A.
at Ft. Monroe or any other camp is
true at Camp Pike. Erwin Funk.
Surplus Hour to be Returned.
To the People of Union County:
Hamp Williams, food administra
tor of ihe state of Arkansas, has)
directed and ordered that your food ;
administrator for this county re- i
quest each individual, householder'
or purchaser of flour to return any
sur Jus flour which may have been
nu.-chased in the past to the mer
chant from whom said individual
purchased said flour. Each indi
vidual is considered to have a sur
plus of flour on hand who live in a
rural community and has more
than 48 pounds of flour on hand,
unless said flour came in a wooden
barrel and said barrel has been
opened; and each individual living
in an urban community, who has on
hand more than 24 pounds of flour,
unless in wood barrel and the same
is opened.
1 am directed to inform^ the peo
ple that anyone who violates this
ruling is considered a hoarder of
flour and wili be subject to the pen
alties of the law provided in such
instances; that the law will be j
strictly, fairly and impartially en
forced against anyone, whomever
he or she may be.
This appeal is directed to the pa
triotism of the people of Un'on
county, and it is expected by the
government of the people that each
individual consider it his or her
duty to mould public opinion in
each community, thereby enforc
ing this rule and law by public opin
ion, rather than by causing the De
partment of Justice the expense
and time of enforcing this law. In
the event public opinion fails to
handle any case in any community,
please notify your food administra
tor and said information will be
promptly gi’ven to the Department
of Justice of your Federal govern
ment.
Thanking you for your hearty co
operation in this work which is so
vital to the interests of yourselves
and your government. I am,
Yours very truly.
J. K. Mahony, Food
Administrator Union County.
War Exhibit Train
On Saturday, April 13, at 3 p. m.
at El Dorado, there will a Special
War Exhibit Train, consisting of
big guns and various other articles
actually used in- warfare, and an
aeroplane. Soldiers and sailors
,u be on the train to explain use
of this material. The exhibits will
be placed that the people can walk
through the train, and the big guns
will be on flat cars. This will bn j
the greatest exhibit that was ever:
brought to Union county, and will
be free, as it was sent to you by
your government, and you are ex
pected to be there to review same
so you will know just what our
boys are fighting for and against.
T. P. Marks. Director
of Publicity. Third Liberty Lean.
Fight It Out Now.
Ton run not run away from n weak
ness; you must sometime fight it out
or perish, anil If that he so, why not
now and where you stand?—It. L. Ste
venson.
Sunday at the Baptist Church.
Sunday school at 1 0 o’clock. W.
H. Wheler. superintendent: preach- \
ing at 1 1 by W. T. King, pastor.;
subject, “The Compassionate
Christ.” Sunbeams at 3 o'clock:
preaching at ?:30, subject, “God’s;
Call.” Everybydy welcome. A
special invitation is given to the j
men to line up in tlje Sunday school j
class, which will be taught by R.
E. Ebbs.
There is more Catarrh in this section ,
of the country than all ether diseases
rut together, and for years it was sup- !
posed to be incur >ble. Doctors pro- j
scribed local remedies, and by constant
ly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a ,
local disease, greatly influenced by con
stitutional conditions and therefore re- j
quires constitutional treatment. Hall’s
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. !
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a consti-.
tutional remedy, is taken internal .y
and acts thru the Blood on the Mur aus
Surfaces of the System. One Hundred
Dollars reward is offered for anv case
that Hall's Catarrh Cure fails *o cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials
F. J. CHENEY .t CO.. Toledo, Ohm
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family l’ills lor constipation, I
Your $50 liberty Bond.
It will protect 1,000 soldi' rs
from smallpox and 666 from tv
phoid. It will assure the safety of
139 woundei J soldiers from lock
jaw, the gern 15 of which swarm in
Belgium soil.
It will rencVr painless 400 oper
ations, supp’i y 2, miles of bandages
enough to. bant'age 555 wounds.
It will crj-Q for. 160 injuries in
the way of. “fii -ct-a >d packets."
It will furnis h aainersive piaster
and surgical ga uzeenough to bene
fit tiiousa nds of wounded soldiers.
Every purcha ser of a Liberty
Loan B ond perf. Vnns a distinct in*
[dividu? 1 service >° Lis country »nd
I to our boys fightir 6 in France.
V ethodist Chui\tf Services.
”'he fcjllowing s jqviced - will be
he'd at Union church S unda\M Sun
dr y school at '.0:00 a. m. Pi'cach
ir g at 11 a. m. and 8:0 3 p. by
the pastor. Ju.oior Leai tue at 3:00
x m. Epworth League at 7:00 p.
m. A cordial in\ station is extend
i eel to all to attend these ;services.
P°v. a. T ' RUENT't ", Pastor.
Her View of Reciprocity.
He—“l>o you belie v<i that u married
couple should lire a life of give and
take?" She—*Te»j; p rovided ,his Is the
HUNGER.
For three years America has
fought Starvation in Belgium
Will you Eat Jess — wheat
meat —fats and sugar
that we may still send
food in ship loads ?
VMITSO ITATII rasa tlKmilTUTISN
Children Like It
‘ ^ ou know it is not an easy matter to
get children to take medicine, and forcing ... .
•..II , », , Granny Chtaberlafa
it on them dees no good. Mcst mothers
know that a cough medicine, while palatable, should contain no
drug injurious to the child.
The grea^ popularity of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is ex
plained by the fact that it contains no opium or narcotic of any
kind, and at the same time is so pleasant and agreeable to the
taste that children like
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
t or this reason alone it is a favorite with the mothers of young
children.” ’
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Back Your Soldiers hi
With Your Dollars 111
A War Savings Stamp
IS AS SECURE
As A National Bank Note
Both are backed by the United States Government.
About the only difference is that the SU mps pay you 4 per
cent interest compounded quarterly on January 1, 1923.
If you are pressed for money at any time, you can
cash a War Savings Stamp for its current value at any
money order post office on ten days’ notice.
War Savings Stamps are convenient and easy in
vestments. no “red tape," and are backed by the entire re
sources of the people of the United States.
Every Stamp you buy helps to keep the Germans
out of your own home. Every Stamp you buy brings you
nearer to financial freedom.
This War will be wgn onl/jv when
thrift becomes our watchword.
This space patriotically contributed to War S» kings Committee by
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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HUTTIG, ARKANSAS
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