THE H13TTIG NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. VIII. NO. 17.
HUTT1G. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 29. 1914.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
Commissioner Page's Weekly Letter.
I believe that the great majority
of our farmers have realized the
fact that there might be a little
shortage of money and feed this
winter and have made preparation.
In my opinion there has been and
will be more oats, clovers, alfalfa
and like crops sown in Arkansas
this fall than ever before. 1 have a
very interesting letter from one of
our South Arkansas farmers, who
says in part: “Never in my life
have 1 been so thoroughly convinced
that 1 ought to abandon old prac
tices, as 1 have this summer. 1
have fine corn, and 1 got it by prep
aration and almost continuous shal
low cultivation. I have peas in the
middles and expect to sell quite a
few bushels. 1 am going to use
every acre of land 1 can for some
winter crop. 1 will have some al
falfa, some turf oats, some clover
and 1 want a few acres of rye. 1
have found that my land is better
taken care of and I save money
and corn and 1 have something to
turn under in the spring. I see
now the mistakes 1 have made in
the past.”
Such reports are coming in from
every section and in many cases
the farmers are making extensive
preparations for winter feed crops.
The Judsoma Truck Growers' As
sociation asked the Department to
help locate a car of turf oat for fall
seeding. Arkansas farmers will
not be in a very bad need of stock
feed this winter, regardless of the
price of cotton or the yield of corn.
Certainly those farmers who are
making their plans for rye. oats,
alfalfa, etc., will not have to pay a
big price for feed.
It is rather hard to believe that
we have $^3,000,000 worth of
meat shipped into Arkansas yearly
and we have only about a $60,
000,000 cotton crop. It is hard to
believe that there is $12,000,000
annually spent for dairy products
from other states that could be
raised in Arkansas. Over half of
our cotton money spent for two
articles that we could raise at home
if we would only do so.
One of the greatest reasons why
we have depended on other states
to furnish feed, butter and meat is
because we have never been so fa
milliar with the growing of winter
crops and too familliar with cotton
to the exclusion of grain and hay
crops. The great movement now
on for winter cover crops will be
far-reaching and before many years
we will raise our own feed and !
meat and have some to sell. I am j
proud to see such great strides in j
agricultural pursuits. We are pav-1
ing the way for more live stock. :
When we increase the acreage of I
winter cover crops, we will neces- \
sarily have more live stock and j
then we will have more money, ,
more profit, more pleasure and bet
ter land.
John H. Page,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Parcel Post Ellmlaates the Middleman.
Officials of the United States
Department of Agriculture have
been testing out the parcel post as
a means of marketing eggs and |
have found it highly satisfactory.
The department has shipped 466
lots, consisting of 9,151 eggs to
various parts of the nation and upon
arrival at destination only 327
eggs, or three and one-half per
cent of the total, were broken.
Ten dozen eggs can be shipped in
one container a distance of 150
miles at a cost of 4.7 cents per
dozen. This includes the cost of
transportation and container.
Arkansas postal authorities ad
vise that the farmerk Arid farmers’
wives of this state are utilizing the
parcels post extensively in selling
farm produce direct to the consum
ers and excellent results have been
obtained.
Last winter when eggs were be
i ig soid by retailers at from 50 to
65 cents to the consumers the far
mers were only receiving 20 and
25 cents per dozen for their pro
duct, giving the middleman from
30 to 40 cents on each dozen eggs
he handled. The parcel post sys
tem of marketing entirely elimi
nates the middleman's profit and
divides it among producer and con
sumer. __
The Arkansas Potato Patch.
The Arkansas Irish potato patch
contains 24,000 acres this year
and the total production will be ap
proximately 1,404.000 bushels,
according to estimates made today
by the United States crop reporting
board. The condition of the crop
is 65 per cent of normal and the
price at the present time is aver
aging around 95 cents per bushel.
In Continental United States
there are 3,708,000 acres planted
to this product and this year's pro
duction is estimated at 360,614.000
bushels by the Federal Department
of Agriculture. This year's crop
will exceed tne average crop of the
past five years by approximately
4,000,000 bushels. The nation's
production last year was 331,525.
000 bushels, was produced on
3, 668.000 acres of land and sold
for 90 cents per bushel.
Headache Gone.
Rub a little Hunt’s Lightning Oil
fin and the pain is gone almost in-1
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.
Unde Sam Wants Better Children.
Tbe federal Department of La
bor has established a Children's
Bureau to teach parents how to
care for children, and has just is
sued a booklet on “Parental Cul
ture,” which is for free distribution.
For some time Uncle Sam has
been paying considerable attention '
to the improvement of hogs, chick
ens and livestock, as well as teach-!
ing us how to raise pumpkins and
potatoes, and it is encouraging to
find attention now being turned to
ward improving the human race.
Diseases Play Havoc With Arkansas Hogs.
Diseases caused swine breeders
of Arkansas to lose 187.200 hogs,
valued at $1,385,280 last year,
according] to a report which has
just been issued by the Department
of Agriculture.
This is an average death rate of
1 25 per 1,000 head. During 1913
the ratio was 160 per 1.000 head
and a total of 244.600 head were
lost. The latest census reports,
which are dated January 1. 1914.
show that there are 1.498,000
head of hogs in Arkansas and they
are valued at $11,085,000, or
$7.40 per head.
The farmers of the entire nation
last year lost 7.004,800 head of
hogs from disease. Their total
value was $75,000,000 and the
total death rate 1 10 per 1.000.
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 5:00 p.
m. B. Y. P. U. at 7:00 p. m. A
cordial invitation is extended all to
attend these services.
Rev. W. T. King. Pastor
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
person shall be convicted of depre
ciating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 1906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Secy, and Trsas
Subscribe for the News.
Will Not Close Down.
The item published in last week's
Union County Tribune to the effect
that the Union Saw Mill Gompary
contemplated shutting down their
mills here on account of having had
a 90-car export order cancelled,
was erroneous, as all who live here
know that this company has never
cut any lumber for export.
While the yellow pine lumber
market has not been good for some
time, the company at this time
have no intention of shutting down,
unless matters get considerab'y
worse than at present.
Two Children Dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Watkins, who
lives just west of Huttig, have the
sympathy of the entire community
in the loss of two children from
dyptheria within twenty four hours.
Elin Roy. aged 4 years, died early
Monday morning and was buried
late that afternoon, and Thomas)
Estus, aged 2 years, died early
Tuesday morning and was buried
late that afternoon. Interment
took place in Harper Springs ceme- j
tery, the services being conducted i
in both instances by Rev. W. T.
King.
Believes In Publicity.
L. A Cobb, of Caledonia, is one
of the hosts of farmers in Union
county who believes that Act No.
3 should become a law so that the
people may know how their taxes
are spent.
He says that the small cost of
publication of the matters will be
completely overshadowed by the
good results it will bring the people.
He says that on the one item of ex
tra vigani expanditure erf the cou»
ty's funds that the cost of publish
ing these things will be saved sev
eral times. Among the things the
savings will be greatest are the
publishing of connty court claims,
road district claims and the report
of the equalization board. He is t
an unqualified friend to the princi- ;
pie that "the people ought to |
know.”
I Vt'-.UL'/JI V-l' ,'4*«
FACTS WORTH KNOWING pi
There are coal fields in Great
Britain that have been worked for
at least 700 years, yielding every
kind of coal except anthricite.
Since the founding of the Pasteur
Institute in Paris there has been a
steady decline in the number of
cases of hydrophobia, none at all
occuring some years.
It costs the farmers of the United
! States $ I 5,000,000 a year to fight
jinsect pests.
The United States' bill for dia
| monds in the last ten years has
I been just about enough to buy and
! build the Panama Canal.
In these days of domestic science
and manuel training it is interest
ing to know that sewing and knit
ting were taught in the first frame
school house erected in Farming
ton. Maine, more than a century
and a quarter ago.
It has been computed that at the
time of the arrival of Columbus
there were 25,000.000 Indians in
North and Soi th America.
Wooden spoons are almost the
only kind used by the peasant class
of Russia, which forms 77 percent
of the entire population.
A count of the annual rings of a
California redwood tree indicated
that it began its career in 550 A. D.
Ski* Disease Cured,
Sold under the positive guarantee
to refund the money. Hunt's Cure
has become the standard remedy
for skin ciseases. You run no risk
in giving it a trial, because it is
guaranteed. Ask yuur druggist.
Things We Think
Things Others Think, and What We lhink
of the Things Olliers Think.
Sixty-one languages ire spoken
in South America which may ac
[Count for the fact that to many of |
the revolutions are mostly talk.
Some of the cooking recipes that i
; newspapers are allowed to print
leave no doubt as to the liberty if
the press.
"In God We Trust” appears on
many of our coins but if Uncle j
Sam didn't have his stamp on th^m
no one would accept them without
hesitation.
There are thirty-eight bankers |
In the federal prison at Leaven-i
worth. The money power is grab
bing everything.
If fish bait would only grow in j
the same place that the gard- n
needs digging, wifey would not need
to worry about getting that part of
the work looked after.
Probably the reason Americans
like to ride camels when touring
the old world is because that is the
dnly th'ng that seems to have a
hump on.
An Eastern legislature passed a
l»w to prohibit the publishing in the
state of stories of crime. It will ;
therefore be necessrry to have ;
outside printers print the leg
islative proceedings.
The woman of yesterday might
not be recognized as such in a cir
ole of fashio ably dressed women
of today, but attired as an artist's
model she is the same today as
when she appeared before the
startled Adam.thousands of years
ago.
Since the slit skirt came into
vogue men have learned a whole
lot about women that they weren’t
supposed to know before.
There is much value in some of
these new medical forms of treat
ment, but a man rails to see the
benefit of having his wife give his
spinal column an osteopathic treat
ment with her cold feet.
Stop That Uneumatism.
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- :
"ia and headaches there is nothing
better. Ask your druggist.
-I
Notice of Confirmation.
In the Union Chancery Court. September Term. I
1914.
Ex Parte Petition of Union Saw Mill Go. to Con- \
firm 1 itle 10 NE'i oi bW1* of Section 9. Township
18 South. Range 12 Wesi
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has
filed in the Union Chancery Court its petition to j
confirm title in it to the NEU of the bW’* oi Section i
9. Township 18 South. Range 12 West, containing
forty acres, and particularly confirming the same
against ary and all irregularities in the sale of said
land to Marsh 4* Ffenmken for the delinquent taxes
of 1910 and any irregularity or intoimality 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 Marsh & Flenmken to the said Union baw
Mill Company And the said n-tition to confirm
title, so filed on thi1- day will be heard at the Septem
ber term, 1914. of the Union Chancery Court.
This the 8th day of July. A D. 1 91 4
Union Saw Mill Company.
By F. w. Scott, Secy.-Tteas.
M'arninti Order.
^ ^ vY*VLOB I In Union Chancery Court.
Mrs. F. g'Tayloh. I Wrtrnin« Order.
The defendant, Mrs. F G. Taylor, is warned to
appear in this Court within thirty days and answer
the complaint of the plaintiff F. G Taylor
Given under my hand and sea! this August 1st.
19 14.
B. P. Mu ns. Chancery Clerk
J. K. Mahony. Atly for Plaintiff.
H.irnimj Order.
STATE OF ARKANSAS, I v
COUNTY OF UNION (
Minnie H. Nabors and
James V. Spencbk
vs.
T. C Starrett and
Union Saw Mill Co.
The defendant. T. C. Starrett, is hereby warned
to appear in the Union Chancary Court within thirty
days and answer the complaint of the plaintiff.
Minnie H. Nabors and James V. Spencer, hied
herein.
Witness my hand and seal as Clerk of said Court,
this 7th day ot August, 1914
R F. Milfs.
Clerk of the Chancery Court.
1
I In Union Chancery
1 ouit, September
I Term, 1914.
Guardian's Sale.
Notice h hereby given that by virtue of an order
of the'Union Pi abate Court on the 10th day ot Auir
u •!. 1 * i 4. I.*a M. JofjttS, Guardian of Verda Jones,
will Sail the following <ib5Ci,iN‘-d property. to wit:
SEV< of St'4 Sec. 2.4 Twp. 19 S. of Range 18
West.
| Said prop* rty will b*» coM at the East dooi of the
! court house of Un on County. Arkansas, on the I $nh
1 day of Sept*mb -r. 1914. to die highest ami best
binder on a credit of three months. 1 he purchaser
being required to give approved security and a lien
being retained on said property until the purcha.o
I price is iuliy paid.
G. M. jONkit, Gududmn.
El
In a Rut....
When anyone gets established in a certain habit they
find it veiy hard to break away from that habit, and we say
they are in a rut.
Let us not forget, however, that there are different
k'nds of ruts that one may get into, and some of these are
very good ruts indeed to get into.
Some men get into the rut of spending thoughtlessly
everything they earn, live hard all their lives, and old age
and sickness to them is a real calamity. Other men, who
perhaps earn no more than these, get into the habit of sav
ing a part of everything they earn, which is a very good rut
to get it.to. They think of their own and their family’s fu
ture and provide for it by saving while they have earning
power.
Which rut are you in? Get into the habit of saving,
and after the habit is formed it will be an easy matter to
lay up something for the future.
We will help you save.
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eRKANSAS
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