THE HUTTIG NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. VIII. NO. 14.
HUTT13, ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 8. 1914.
PRICE $1 PER YEAR
THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW
Every Taxpayer in Arkansas Should Support
the Publicity Act.
Look well to the motives of those
who oppose publicity in public af
fairs.
When a person becomes over
sMicitous about how much some
thing is going to cost you, beware.
There are some asses braying
about that Act No. 3 is going to
cost too much: one Pine Bluff ora
tor, for instance, saying to a coun
try audience that Act No. 3 will
cost a half million dollars a year.
He expected them to believe him.
Now very few people in this day
and time expects something for
nothing. Yet, Act No. 3 will pay
its own cost in cutting out extravi
gance, inefficiency, and in some in
stances. actual graft in public
places. Instead of the half million,
that ignoramuses say the Act will
cost, the amount will be nearer
$20,000 for the whole state for a
period of one year. A half million
dollars would -purchase two ard
one-half pages every week in every
county paper in Arkansas, where
as five pages a year is a life al es
timate of the space that will actu
ally be required. Fcur pages a
y^ar would be more nearly correct.
Only one half the present legal
rate can be collected by newspa
pers for publications under Act 3,
and for much of this they will be
c >mpelled to accept county script
at whatever price the script is
worth.
Act No. 3 is an educatioral
measure. The people have a right
to know. Public officials who take
a stand against publicity in public
affairs are thinking more about
their private interests than about
the public interests they are paid
to look after. Act No. 3 was in
itiated by 18.000 voters. It will
be voted on by the people on
September 14 and you are one of
the legislators who shall say wheth
er or not you want publicity in pub
lic affairs. If you want to see how
tax money is being spent, who is
getting uhfair advantage over you
in low assessments; what your rep
resentatives in the legislature are
doing, and in fact, information that
you as a citizen have a right to de
mand so as to be able to keep up
with the men who are running af
fairs. vote for Act No. 3, the pub
licity measure.
There was once upon a time a
wise old captain of industry who
had built up a business with branch
es all over America and a good
part of Europe. One day a maga
zine writer asked him what were
his rules for carrying on such a
tr mendous enterprise. He re
plied in three words, “Organize,
Deputize, Supervise.”
This wise, old man knew the
rules of the game. He organized
his business, delegated a number
of subordinates to handle the de
tails and then he SUPERVISED
them. There isn’t a private busi
ness that succeeds unless it is con
ducted along these lines. Any line
of human endeavor must be organ
ized and supervised. If it is a big
project much of the work must be
deputized to agents or clerks. But
without supervision how long would
a private business last? A mer
chant who doesn’t supervise his
clerks and check up his books will
soon go to the wall.
But somehow we expect our pub
lic business to violate these rules
and not fail. And thanks to the
power of the people to tax them
selves, t.he public business strug
gles along. Of course, script goes
down and counties and cities, and
even the state, are frequently
"broke.” where a private business
would be in the hands of a receiver,
tut states, counties and cities pay
obligations at the rate of 50 cents
or 10 cents on the dollar ard the
debtor can do nothing but grumble.
And we are continually taxed to
the constitutional limit while riding
over roads that disgrace us. to get
to the court house to pay taxes.
We organize our ccunty, city and
state government alright, and we
deputize men to look after our pub
lie affairs, but there we stop.
When it comes to the highly neces
sary matter of supervising we are
in identically the same position as
the merchant or banker who would
court ruin by leaving the conduct
of his business to subordinates
without ever going near his office,
issuing an order or looking at his
books. Lack of supervision is
what's wrong with our script and
our treasury and our taxes. “Su
pervision” (super, meaning over;
vision, meaning seeing) has the
same shade of meaning as "over
seeing,” our more common w'ord.
Whep we start looking over our
public affairs, instead of overlooking
them, everybody will begin to feel
the effects of more efficient gov
ernment.
There is going to be a phange in
Arkansas in this respect after Sep
tember 14. The supervising act,
the publicity act. Act No. 5, is go
ing to be overwhelmingly adopted
at the polls on that day. Then the
public will know more about public
affairs than ever before in the his
tory of the state, and all thinking
people will begin to take an in
creasing interest in everything that
pertains to their government.
It will make us better citizens
and better neighoors. It will bring
about efficiency and economy in
the administration of our public
offices to a degree never attained
before.
And the adoption of Act No. 3
is walcomecfby 80 per cent of our
public officials. It is no more a re
flection upon honest and upright
public officials that the people want
to supervise their affairs than it is
a reflection upon his office force
when a business man counts his
cash, balances his books or issues
orders as to how he wants his busi
ness conducted.
July Weather.
The rainfall for this vicinity dur
ing July was only one and fifty-six
one-hundredths inches. The hot
test day was the 14th when the
thermometer reached 103. It was
100 on the 27th and 101 on the
28th. The lowest temperature
registered was on the 31st when
the mercury went down to 59 de
grees. Taken as a whole, the
month was cooler than June, al
though the hottest day of the year
occurred in July.
Notice to the Public.
I will not be connected with the
work at Neel & Brasher’s gin this
season, as 1 have a lung trouble
and the doctors think it best not to.
Mr. J. A. Cole, a man of long ex
perience in the gin business, will
run the gin, and Mr. S. R. Neel will
buy cotton and seed and pay high
market price for §ame.
Respectfully,
J. T. Brasher.
Stop lhat Rheumatism.
Get a bottle of Hunt's Lightning
Oil. This is the remedy that every
one is talking about because it stops
the pain so quickly. For neural
gia and headaches there is nothing
better. Ask your druggist.
Baptist Church Notice.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Preaching at 1 1:00 a. m. and 8:00
p. m. Sunbeam Band at 3:00 p.
m. B. Y. P. U. at~7:00 p. m. A
cordial invitation is extended all to
attend these services.
Rev. W. T. Kino. Paster
Frequently Very Much So.
You caunot admire will in general,
because the essence of will is that it
Is peculiar.—Chesterton.
Weekly letter of Commissioner Page.
There are various crops that
could be given consideration now.
Cow peas, buckwheat, preparation
for winter turf oats, wheat, rje,
alfalfa, vetch, rape, turnips, crim
son clover and several other valu
able crops. 1 want to urge at this
time proper preparation for all of
these, and especially, alfalfa ar.d
crimson clover.
Crimson clover has not been
grown to any g -eat extent on ac
count of the trouble in securing a
stand. The same is true of alfalfa.
The land should be well prepared
and limed if possible. The clover
requires a sweet soil. Select a
reasonably fertile piece of land,
preferably land that has had cow
peas on it. It is not necessary to
inoculate for crimson clover, how
ever, many have found it profitable.
The seeding may be done at any
time from now on. About 15
pounds to the acre are required.
Crimson clover is worth a trial, and
if you get a stand you will be more
than pleased with the result.
There are many combinations
that ca be made with crimson j
clover. You can seed one pound
of turnip seed and 15 pounds of
clover seed and get some mighty
good turnips and benefit the crim
son clover. A light seeding of
buckwheat or cow peas with the
crimson clover will act as a catch
crop, furnish hay if you need it and
p-otect the clover. Winter oats,
wheat, rye and barley may also be
sowed with the clover and will add
to the value of the crop next spring.
About 30 pounds of these seed
should be broadcasted with the 15
pounds of crimson clover.
Hundreds of our farmers are
making preparation for a trial of
alfalfa this fall. Thorough prepa
ration. land free of weeds and
grass, well drained soil that has
been limed, and inoculated seed, is
the only way to give alfalfa a fair
trial. Hundreds have failed in the
past because they left one or all of
these essentials for success with
alfalfa. It is a great crop and
should be tried out fairly. The
proper time to seed is after the
first good season after about the
1st to 10th of September. If you
have to harrow the alfalfa patch
over and over again, be sure chat
the land is in good condition. Write
for our bulletin on alfalfa, crimson
clover, rape and soy beans.
I have just received three re
ports of outbreaks of anthrax.
One hundred and fifty horses have
died in one small community. 1
want to urge the importance of
burning the bodies of all dead ani
mals. You will aid in preventing'
the disease for the next five years, j
Do not allow graz ng where the j
sick stock have been grazing. Sep- j
arate the well stock from the sick. I
John H. Page.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Iteadarhe Gone.
Rub a little Hunt’s Lightning Oil
on and the pain is gone almost in
stantly. For neuralgia and rheu- !
matism it seldom fails to give in
stant relief. Don’t suffer pain
when this splendid remedy can be
purchased at your drug store.
Demonstratioa Stock Farm.
The growing of live stock for
market by forage feeding is the
distinctive feature of the demon
stration on the farm of Mr. Joseph
Kinkaid at Warsaw, Mo., inaugura
ted by the Missouri Pacific Rail
way.! The railway company al
ready has demonstration farms in
operation at various points along [
its lines, but this is the first yenture j
of the company into the field of
animal husbandry. On September
1st 100 hpad of hogs. 200 sheep,
50 breeding ewes and 150 Idaho
lambs will be brought on the farm.
The soil is now planted to a variety
of forage crops, sown in succession, |
! consisting of cow peas and corn
! together cow peas planted sepa
; rately. oats, soy beans, rape and
i rye pasture. The crops are in
time. The animals themselves
will do the harvesting, thus doing
away almost entirely with the item
of expense for labor in that respect
As the experiment is for the pur
pose of showing that this kind of
animal husbandry, which has been
successfully introduced by Prof.
H. Doane, head of the Farm Man
agement of the Missouri Agricul
tural College, on many farms
throughout that statp. returns the
maximum of profit in addition to
building up the soil, close check
be kept on every item of expense
and on the gain made by the ani
mals on the different forage foods.
The agricultural department of
the Missouri Pacific-Irom Mountain
is one of the hobbips of President
B. F. Bush and much interest in
the experimental farm work being
done has been manifested by the
farmers along the company’s lines.
Just recently a large land company
in Colorado, desiring that incoming
settlers should have the benefit of
scientific farming methods, set
aside a 320 acre farm to be used !
under the direction of the Missourij
Pacific road as a demonstration
farm. Within the next year it is!
proposed to make this a model
farm for that section of the coun- i
try.
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
oerson shall be convicted of depre
cating or trespassing upqtj the tim
tor of said Company.
This 1 at, day of February, 1906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Secy, and Treae
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For the first ten lists received hy us
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anolher fountain pen. making two that
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testants.
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Falls Building Memphis, Tenn.
Notice of Confirmation.
In the Union Chancery Court. September Term. I
1914.
Ex Parte Petition of Union Saw Mill Co. to Con
firm Title 10 NE 4 ol SWH of Section 9, Township
18 South. Range 12 West.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has
hied in the Union Chancery Court its p uition to
confirm title in it to the N B * % of the SWl* of Section
9. Townsnip .8 south. Range 12 West, containing
forty acres, and particularly confirming the same
against any and all irregularilis‘> in the •sale of said
land to Marsh A Flenniken for the delinquent taxes
of 1910 and any irregularity or informality in the
assessment, levy, extension, collection, r-turn as
delinquent* notice of sal*. sale or execution of tax
deed pursuant to said sale and in the title conveyed
by said Maish A Flenniken to the said Union Saw !
Mill Company. And the said petition to confirm
title, so filed on this day. will be heard at tin*. Snpteirv
berterm. 1914, of the Union Clutncery Court.
This the 8th day ol July. A D IV* I 4.
Union Saw Mill Company.
By F. W. SOOT I, Secy. Trees.
WarniM) Order.
^ ^ vs*VL°R i- I*1 Union Chancery Court
Mbs. F. G. Taylor. ' Order.
The defendant, Mrs. F G Taylor, is warned to
appear in ibis Couit within thirty days ..net uiiswki
the cptnoiaml ol the plainlili. F G, Tayloi.
Given umici my hand and seal this Al.uusI 1st,
1914.
B. F. Mills, Chancery Cieik
J. K. Maliony, Ally, lor Plaintiff.
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of your family, it would be very embarrassing to have to let
him go away without his pay.
If fire should sweep away your home and household
goods, it would not be a pleasant task to ask friends to help
you out.
If the loss of your job or the change to a better one
should necessitate a long move, it would not be making a
good showing to have to borrow money to make the trip.
If the chance of a lifetime should come to you to invest
in some good and profitable business, it would not be a very
pleasant or encouraging experience to have to let it pass
you by because you did not have the money to take advan
tage of your opportunity.
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Good Rigs on Short Notice and at
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Draying, 40 cents per Single Load.
Special Rates Where a number of
Loads Are for Same Party.
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IHTTIG, ARKANSAS.
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