DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. VIII. NO. 9.
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. JULY 4 1914.
PRICE. $1 PER YE£R
Commissioner Page’s Weekly Letter.
Now is the time to begin to think
about utilizing the waste fruit and
garden crops that cannot be sold or
consumed at home. Peaches, ap
ples, tomatoes and other perisha
ble crops that get ripe and cannot
be sold are fine for canning. A
home canner can be bought for
$10 00, or you can get bulletins
that will tell you how to can vege
tables at home without even buying
a canner. If you decide to buy a
canner. get prices from your local
merchant or write me and I will
give you the names of several
manufacturers.
1 have 1.000 bulletins on “Can
ning Fruits. Vegetables and Pre
serves,’’ and 1,000 on "Canning
Howie Vegetables.” and I will be
glad to send both “to you. They
are valuable bulletins on how to
take care of something that other
wise we would lose.
Every county in Arkansas ships
canned goods in by the car load,
and we buy those things that we
couln have canned at home. We
pay for the products, the freight
and commissions, and if canned at
home, the only thing we would have
to buy is the cans. One little girl
last year canned more than 800
cans of tomatoes and sold them be
fore all the work was done. If we
put up more than can be used at
home, there is always a market for
good clean fruits and vegetables.
Write for the bulletins or any in
formation you desire about taking j
care of the products that are too j
plentiful now but will be verv j
scarce a little later on.
Many sections of Arkansas have
had rain recently to break the dry
“ BpelF«iW eorrwif fKVe mJt. Fn-either
case the importance of shallow
cultivation should not be over
looked. Many crops have be^n
made,-.simply by proper cultivation.
A farmer in north Arkansas writes:
"1 have made a better crop this
year than 1 have since 1879. 1|
prepared a seed bed and 1 have
worked my crop like it ought to be j
worked. A dry shirt causes more I
drouths than anything else in Ar
kansas.” The season has been
unusual but crops should not suf
fer so much if cultivated properly.
Continued shallow cultivation is
the only way to hold what moisture
there is now in the soil.
I have a great many letters from
farmers asking for help in saving
their hogs. Hog cholera is our
worst hog disease. Write for our
bulletin on hog cholera so you will
recognize the disease when it first
appears. The state veterinarian.
Dr. R. M. Gow, at Fayetteville,
will vaccinate your hogs and will
only charge you for his hotel bill
and the actual cost of the serum,
and will make no charge for his
services. The work can’ be done
for your neighbors who may have
sick hogs, at the same time, and
the expense will be much less.
John H. Page,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Nothing Bett< r for the Liver.
Simmons Liver Purifier is the
ideal liver medicine, because it con
tains no minerals. While it is thor
ough in action it is mild and pleas
ant to take. Price 25c. Put up
in yellow tin boxes. Ask your
druggist.
Hot Weather During June.
The month of June this year was
the hottest in this section in the
past seven years. The thermome
ter was above 90 degrees every
day except one when it reached
only 85. On six days it was 97
degrees, three days 98. one day 99,
three days 100 and two days 101.
The coolest night was on the 29th
whfen the thermometer registered
G4 degrees. The rainfall for the
month was three and 76 one-hun
dredth inches. This immediate vi
cinity fared much better during the
month in the amount of rainfall
than most of the state, but rain is
badly needed here now. as gardens
are drying up and farm crops a;e
commencing to suffer.
Huttlg Postoffice Statistics.
The receipts for the Huttig post
office for the year ending June 20
were $2,903.75. There were
5,707 money orders issued ar.o
1.019 cashed during the year; 31 9
registered letters dispatched ana
571 received; 481 insured pack
ages dispatched and 285 received;
13 G. O. D. packages cispatched
and 107 received.
The average number of pounds
of mail dispatched daily is 36 *2;
received is 136; the average num
ber of pieces of mail received dai
ly is 625. and dispatched 323. The
average number of general delivery
calls daily is 248.
The postmaster has purchased
an additional section of keyless
lock boxes which will be installed
the first of next week and he will
then have lock boxes for all and
will appreciate you renting one, as
it will increase the efficiency of the
office and be a great convenience
to you.
The Cow.
When summer comes the poor
old cow finds sledding hard and
comforts few, deep lines of trouble
crease her brow, for grief is hers,
the season through. Ten million
flies light on her back, ten million
more are on her legs, and every I
place the hide is slack, they build j
their nests and lay their eggs. All
day she wields her weary tail, and
swears in husky oovine tones; what
wonder if sbe- kii^kstbe pail, or tries
to break the milker’s bones? Alas,
the milker ponders not uron the
woes that gave her bats; he reaches
for a wet elmknot and plays a solo
on her slats. We should be pa
tient with the cows when fly-time
drives the beasts insane, for every
minute, while they browse, they
suffer many kinds of pain. If Bossy
kicks you on the chin, or puts her
trilby in the pail, or tries to drive
your whiskers in by blows repeated
with her tail, don’t let your angry
passions rise, or for a large spiked
bludgeon reach, but gen’ly brush
away the flies, and tell the critter
she’s a peach. Then put \our
mangled face in splints, and write
a creed, serene and wise, insisting
that the public prints should call
on folks to swat the flies.—Walt
Mason.
Arkansas at the Panama exposition.
No other Southern state is going
to outshine Arkansas at the San
Francisco Exposition next year.
This state is raising one hundred
thousand dollars to erect a building
and maintain an Arkansas head
quarters throughout the fair. Un
told millions of people from every
where will visit the Arkansas
Building and see moving pictures
of Arkansas towns and institutions.
Exhibits of the state’s natural and
manufactured products will, of
course be a feature. An inflow of
desirable people and investment of
foreign capital will be sure to fol
low. The site of the Arkansas
Building was selected this week by
Governor Hays. He selected a
knoll on the "Street of States," said
to be one of the most desirable
sites on the exposition grounds.
Don't Endure Headache.
Just get a bottle of Hunt's Light
ning Oil and apply it to the head.
The aching is gone quickly, in some
cases instant y. Seldom fails to
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Fine for rheumatism aLo. Sold by
all druggists.
Reform That Has Weight.
The only reform that really reforms
is at work all the time, and that is the
growing demand for belter men and
better women.—Tildeu.
ONLY LEFT PAIR OF SLIPPERS
Reason for Curious Monument In Am
sterdam Over Burial Place of
Eccentric Individual.
There stands in a church in Amster
dam an ancient and curious monument
of wli'Ke marble which always attracts
the attention of visitors, and their
curiosity is usually heightened by its
nscription. On the monument are en
<raved two slippers of a singular
nhape. with the inscription, "EITen
Nyt, which, in English, would be
even nothing.” or, more colloquially
ut. ' nothing else." The story that is
told of this strange device is as fol
lows;.
A certain rich man, who was very !
extravagant in his tastes, because
possessed of the idea that he had just I
so many years to live and no more, i
and he calculated that if he spent a
stated portion of his principal every
year his life and his property woujd
expire together.
He was lavishly generous to others,
as well as indulgent of his own whims,
and it so happened that he died the
very year he had prophesied would be
his Inst. He had, furthermore, brought
his fortune to such a low ebb that,
after his few' debts were paid, nothing
remained of all his possessions, aside 1
from the clothes in which he was to be
buried, but a pair of rhrious old slip- |
pers.
Some of his relatives, to whom he
had been hind in bis life, erected this
strangely decorate*) monument lo
mark his burial place.
WHITE GARMENT IN DEMAND
Pressing Need for “Coat" That Cricket
Umpire Was Wearing to Comply
With Regulations.
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John J. McGraw was talking at! j
Camp Marlin about his recent baseball
trip abroad.
"King George liked the game," he
said. "All the English liked the game,
in fact. It's a superior game to their
cricket, you know.
“I heard a lot of cricket stories in
London. A cricket umpire wears a
long white coat. Well, I heard a good
story about that.
"The Helionx Hampstead team was
to play a match, and orders went out
that the umpire must wear the white
coat—but that was an innovation in
that backwoods village.
"The umpire, anyhow, appeared Hi
white at the game all right.
“The teams were lunching—you
lunch and have tea and sleep in a
cricket game—when a little girl came
and said she wanted the man in the
white coat.
“ ‘The man in the white coat?' said
a player. ‘Well, you can't have him.
He’s busy carving a turkey.’
“ ‘Oh, is he busy carving?' said the
little girl. ‘Well, please tell him, then,
that mother’s busy havin’ a tit, and we
want the nightie he's wearin', 'cause
she’s got to go to bed.' ”
TEACHING THE BOY TO PLOW
°rai*e and Help Are Always in Or
der Even If the Work Done
. Is Poor.
“Let me have hold of that plow,”
said a father to his boy, who was do
ing the best he knew to turn a good
furrow. "It does not seem to be in
you to make a good plowman.”
Hurt, and his reeling of conscious
ability to do things much lessened, the
uoy walked sadly away to other work,
while the father did, it is tru^, a fine
job of plowing. The father had helped
the field and hurt the boy.
“Fine, son, fine,” said another fa
ther that day to His son, also wrestling
for the first time with the problem of
plowing. "You are doing bravely.
Now, may 1 suggest that you lower
your heel a wee bit and lengthen out
the braces a hole? You see the line
of draft is a (rifle high l*et me show
you the principle of the thing."
Together they counseled and link- '
ered. The lad started off again, do- i
ing better work, pleased, grateful and 1
confident. lie had been given a no
table start toward success in life just
by that bit of praise, encouragement
and teaching.
Half ihe value of the farm is as a
place to develop the boy.—Breeders’
Gazette.
Youthful Loyalty.
Young William is American bom,
but his Irish ancestry crops up now
and then in various manners. The
other day, for example, the little lad
was asked why he didn’t want to sit
on the knee of a certain business ac
quaintance of his father.
“Mr. So-and-So likes little boys," he
was told.
“Does he like you. mamma?" asked
William, after a momentary hesita
tion.
"Well, no," was mamma’s honest an
swer. "I don’t know that lie does, very
much."
“Then that's the reason I don’t want
to sit on his knee," was the quick wit
ted and flatte. r reply.
tlBFRI BfDE SAYS
What's the use stealing time that
you oari't use.
A woman sometimes makes her
self look old by worrying about how
to Keep ycung.
An 18-year-oli bride has di
vorced her nr illionaire f usband,
John Bell, and tapped him for
$53,000 ali nony.
Where the man gets the nerve
to make ej es at a girl that he does
not know is moie than we can see.
No person is worth a million
dollars he is m jrely ru itodian of
that amount of money for a few
years.
Whan steel gets too hot it loses
its temoer; when man loses his
temper ho gets too hot.
When a man has a good sizrd
nest eig he can usually find some
girl who is willing to be his chicken.
When a gi 'I marries a man who
ha's dec lared himself ready to die
for he>, she is likely to find that
she has married a dead one.
Too many people develop crow's
f *et under their eyes without suf
ficient caws therefor.
We have seen girls trust their
lives to men they wouldn't trust
their pocket books to.
A husband who lavs around the
house deserves to be henpecked.
If a man’s wife wasn't the better
half he wouldn’t think she was
good enough for him.
The price of goods is regulated
by supply and demand—the sup
ply ot cusUuuer* and the demand
for profits.
If mothers and fathers only knew
as much as they think their chn
uran do, there would be a wl ol
lot of highly educated people in
this old world.
Probably one reason children are
not punished more than they are is
because parents are reminded by
their own children of the thing
they did when of like age.
If no time were wasted it would
not be necessary to work mo.e
than about half as many hours as
we do.
The girl who fails to take advan
tage of the leap year may be just
as sorry as the one who did.
The real good roads problem
sticking to the straight and nai row
path. __
Skin Disease Cured or Money Bark.
Hunt's Cure is absolutely guar
anteed to cure itch, eczema, tetter,
ringworm or any other form of skin
disease. Failing to cure the drug
gist is authorized to promptly re
fund your money. Price 50c. Ask
your own drug-ists.
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 !
Jenson shall be convicted of depre- (
eating or trespassing upon thetim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 1906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Secy, and Treas
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Your Highest Patriotism
Should ever bo shown to those dependent upon you.
The lesso-1 of Julv 4th teaches this, for cur forefathers'
first thought was to defend their firesides. Else we would
not have a July 4th to celeorate.
How many men there are who fail to protect their
families by trusting to uncertain speculation rather than to
the certain method of a bank account. Many of them
shoot to the front in spectacular fashion and win the pub
lic's acclaim.
BUT THEN THEY FALL, and when their affa:rs
are cast up it is found that their failure involves those dear
est to them.
The best plan is always to have the bulwark of a bank
account behind you. Play safe, rather than spectacularly
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Spare! Oh, Spare Us!
The peddler who sold painted spar
rows for canaries in Hastings proves ;
that the old Yankee, invesntueiuess is
in no danger of dying out.—New York
World.
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Tbe parson on his way home one
evening to his horrified surprise found
one of hie flock sitting against a stone
wall, his face radiating o'erniueh ■ hour,
and a frayed cigar clutched in h.s fin
gers. "Dear me. John, dear me," said
the parson. “Whatever do yon sup
pose will happen to you if you go on
like this?” ^ “Nothin’, sir. if you (hie)
don't tcli ’erl"
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