Section 2
pages 9 to 12
The Newark Journal.
All Printed
At home.
published In The Famous Big bottom Country, Where Alfalfa is King.
$1 Per Annum.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, June I, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 23.
WAIL OF A PESSIMISTIC EDITOR
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Dark Lantern Views of the
Farmer Brought to Light by
a Pine Bluff Editor
Hie editor of the Pine Bluff
Graphic doubtless grows pessi
mists at times and when in one of
these moods he penned the follow
ing.
"The average Arkansas citizen
iniagines that he lives at home but
Te doesn't. He gets up iu the
morning and puts on a sock made
in New York, shoes made in Bos
ton, pants made in Ohio, then
slips a pair of Conneticut suspen
ders over his shoulders. He dips
some water from a Missouri buck
et with a Chicago dipper and puts
it in an Illinois washpan and
washes his Arkansas face with a
■cake of St. Louis soap. He dries
his face with a Rhode Island towel
and roaches bis hair with a Ver
mont comb. He drinks Cuban
coffee from an Indiana cup and
saucer, sweetened with sugar from
Louisiana and stirred by a New
York spoon. His knife, fork, and
plate were made in the north, and
his table cloth ditto. He eats a
piece of Chicago ham fried in
Kansas lard, sops his St. Louis
biscuit, seasoned with Boston soda
and Michigan suit, into Louisiana
molasses. Me wipes his month on
a Vermont napkin and seats his
family in Michigan chairs around
a table from the same state. Mis'
meal was cooked on a St. Louis
stove with wood cut with a Pitts
burg ax, and hauled in an Indiana
wagon. The citizen -then puts a
Bo-tori bridle and harness on a
Missouri mule, gets out his plow |
and works in a field encumbered,
in all probability, with a New
York mortgage. He returns at
night, and satisfies his appetite
with another imported meal, tills
his Indiana lamp with Pennsylvan
ia oil. and lights it. with a New
York match, hie then tills his
Illinois pipe with North Carolina
tobacco and settles down in a
northern chair for a comfortable
.smoke. When bedtime comes he
takes down bis family Bible,
which was printed in Massachu
setts, reads a chapter, says a
prayer composed in Jerusalem,
then retires to bed slips under his
imported cov ers and is kept awake
for two long hours by the howls
of his Arkansas dogs, which are
the only home products he has on
his farm.” _
This may be a true pen picture
of conditions around Pine HlutF,
but in this neck ’o the woods
things are different. Of course
there are a great many of the nec
essaries of life that must be
brought from other states, but in
a great many instances the raw
materials from which these articles
are manufactured are Arkansas
products.
In this part of the country the
better class of farmers sop their
corn bread (which, by the way,;
when well made, is the best that
ever tickled the palate of man,) in
his Arkansas ham grave.v, eats
it with his Arkansas eggs, pota
toes and other home grown vege
tables, and tapers of with Arkan
sas preserves made of Arkansas
fruit by an Arkansas lady—a feast
tit for a king—then gets up and
plants a kiss on the ruby lips of
his Arkansas wife, the ecstacies of
which sends the blood surging
through his veins like water down
an Arkansas hillside gulle.v, and
he goes forth to work happy and
contented.
In its pessimistic wail the j
Graphic ignores the fact that the
majority of the manufactured ar
ticles it mentions as being products
of other states, were perhaps made!
from the raw materials produced in |
Arkansas for there is not a state
in the Union that can excell Ar-;
kansas in the quality and variety
of its raw materials. That these
raw materials are not manufactur
ed into the various articles of
commerce within the state, instead
of being shipped out for this pur- |
pose, is not the fault of the farm
er or laborer, bnt. more often the
fault of short-sighted, pessimistic
and indolent scribblers like the
editor of the Graphic, who, armed
with a dark lantern and a chronic
case of the gout delight in explor
ing the dark side of life and then
publish to the world their distor
ted impressions about the unhap
py conditions in Arkansas and
thus scare off the man with money
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: Possibly you who read this have never
S~ ' kept a bank account. If not, let us sdg
: gest that you try the experiment. You
ir will find it helpful in many ways. Aside
ffrom the fact that your money is safe from
theft and fire, such a habit tends to thrift,
5^ economy, discipline and a general under
standing of business principles, all of
which are essential to success. It also af
E fords a convenient method for the payment
; of bills, and, as the checks are always pre
•E ' served and returned to you, they serve as
|E receipts for the amount paid.
I THEBANKOFNEWARK
E. B. Chesser, Cashier.
G. O. Tlagness. Pres. C. M. Edwards,V. Pres.
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NEW BULLETINS UNSATISFACTORY
Discontinuance of Weekly Crop
Bulletins lias Caused Dissat
isfaction Among Farmers
The Gazette says the farmers,
cotton men and others who are in
terested in the crop conditions of
Arkansas are registering com
plaints against the new bulletins
being issued weekly by the gov
ernment weather bureau at Little
Rock. They claim the new bulle
tin is not as satisfactory as the one
issued during the past several
years. The former bulletin told of
the condition of crops throughout
the state during the week, but the
new bulletin contains no informa
tion other than the weekly report
of the weather conditions in the
various counties of the state.
It is claimed that the present
bulletin is not a success, in that it
does not supply the infoimation
sought by the farmers and men
who deal in cotton and other
crops. It furnishes no data other
than the weather conditions for
the week, while the former bulle
tin gave statistics on the condition
of cotton and other crops in all
sections of the state each week.
Those in close touch with the
farmers of the stale, claim the
present bulletin is causing a great
deal of complaint among farmers.
DELICATE TiriEPIECE
Each year the chronometers oT
the United States navy are sub
jected to a test to determine their
accuracy and to correct any irreg
ularities. This operation com
mences in January and usualiy
lasts until the middle of June, and
during that time these delicate
timepieces are kept on ice at the
United States naval observatory.
It is not for any fear that they will
spoil that they are subjected to
this frigid experience, but it is nec
essary for the purpose of accurate
adjustment that they should all be
maintained in a constant temper
ature.
I lu* necessity or having a snip s
clocks all absolutely alike will be
realized by the layman when he is
reminded that an error of four sec
onds in the chronometer means an
error of a mile in calculating the
vessel's location. The tempera
ture varies at different times of
the test from 50 to 00 degrees and
the losing or gaining qualities of
the chronometer under these con
ditions are accurately kept. Thus
with a chart expressing in curves
just what lie may expect from his
chronometer under different con
ditions of climate, and, with his
thermometer and barometer close
at hand, a sailing master may cal
culate to a nicety the correct time
and get his location to a certainty.
TRUTH ABOUT A WEDDING
The editor of a paper out in
Kansas got married the other day
and as he had to write up the wed
ding himself, here is what he had
to say about it.
“This is the first instance in
several years of newspaper work
that the writer has dared to tell the
truth about a wedding for fear of
getting licked, and does so now
with a keen relish. The bride
groom is an editor and is not a
popular and accomplished leader
of society, in fact he doesn’t know
as much about it as a rabbit.
His hair is red. and the freckles
on his face crowd each other for
room. In the dusk it is hard to
distinguish him from a telephone
pole. He lias never considered
that the future looked very bright
and promising—it has always kept
him too busy paying his board bills
to have any dreams about future
greatness. He is just a common
sort of a fellow, and claims dis
tinction only that he is a Kansan
from the soul of his clumsy feet
to the top of his head. The bride
is the youngest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. N. J. White and was
born and raised in Soloman Val
ley. .fudging from the job the
young lady has taken on her hands,
she has more than ordinary
nerve.”
WHOSE FAULT IS IT?
Again we ask, why is it that so
few of our ioca! county papers
have no school items in their col
umns!' Is it because there is noth
ing to tell about the workings of
our schools in the various counties
throughout the state f Is it because
the editors of these papers will not
give space to mention school af
fairs, deeming such news as unin
teresting? Is it because the local
teachers will not furnish the pub-1
lithers with items about their
schools and the educational status
of the community? There must
be some reason, for we search
many of our local exchanges week
after week, looking for some
school news, but never find a
word. We are inclined to the
opinion that the fault is with the
teachers in not furnishing school
items for their local papers, for
we believe there is not a publisher
in the state that will not gladly
give space for news about the
schools of his town and county..
We think it is a pretty sure sign !
of educational activity in any!
county to frequently see mention
of school affairs in the county pa
per. When this is done, you may
rest assured that there are some
active teachers at work there.—
Arkansas School Journal.
SCHOOL FURNITURE.
School directors are reminded !
that Craig & Henderson of New- |
ark still handle school furniture
and apparatus of all kinds, and are
prepared to sell first-class goods at
low prices. If you expect to buy
anything in their line see or write
to them and you will have prompt
attention.
ARKANSAS AS SEEN BY OTHERS
Comment of St. Louis Paper On
the New Era of Industrial
Development in Arkansas
The census bulletin showing
that the capital invested in manu
factures in Arkansas during the
past five years increased by more
than S*2 per cent is only a starter
for what the next live years will
show.
The percentage of gain in Ar
kansas manufactures is greater
than that of Missouri for the same
time, but of course it is estimated
on a very much smaller basis.
The manufacturing industries of
St. Louis and other Missouri cit
ies have been so long established
that they have a long lead over
those of our neighbor on the
South.
nut rue enormous increase in
the activities of Arkansas in the
manufacture of furniture, vehicles
and other timber products as well
as in cotton seed products and in
grain milling indicate clearly
enough that Arkansas is entering
upon a new era of industial devel
opment.
In the next five years cotton
mills are likely to enter largely in
to the list of Arkansas industries.
The miner's pick is opening its
bed of zinc and other ores, while
its coal mines are producing abun
dant fuel for minor industries of
several kinds.
Arkansas industries will take a
strong impetus from the new
plans for industrial education to
which the state is committed.
With the textile school favored by
Congressman Little, the Demo
cratic nominee for governor, and
with strengthning of the techni
cal branches in the Agricultural
and Industrial University at Fay
etteville, the trained youth of the
State will find scores of channels
through which to contribute to
the industrial wealth of Arkansas.
—St. Louis Republic.
In accordance with our custom.
The Journal will give a year’s
subscription to the first Indepen
dence county farmer who brings
or sends a cotton bloom to our
office.
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GRAND EXCURSION
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JOPLIN, no., AND RETURN
Sunday, June 17th
Via The
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arrives in Joplin at noon; returning, train leaves Joplin
about x p. m. This is your chance to see the country,
visit Carthage, Webb City and Joplin and witness the big
baseball game between Leavenworth ami Joplin.
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