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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. XI. NO. 58
HUTT1G. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. JANUARY 19. 1918.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
Red Cross Instructor Coming.
Mrs. Byrd Helwig of El Dorado,
who has taken all the Red Gross
courses and has been appointed
sewing room inspector and instruc
tor for this territory, will be in
Huttig next Wednesday and Thurs
day, January 23 and 24. for the
purpose of opening a Red Cross
sewing room here and instructing
all the ladies who will attend how
to make surgical dressings which
are so badly needed by the Red
Cross at present.
The basement of the Union ho
tel will be fitted up for a sewing
room and she will want At least
thirty ladies to take the instruc
tions so that ten can devote at
least one afternoon a week. This
will keep the sewing room open
three afternoons each week.
The local branch has $495.25
on hand with which to buy the
necessary material, and by our
patriotic women doing the work a
large amount of surgical dressings !
can be sent to headquarters from
here.
If every lady in Huttig and vicin
ity could realize the great need of
all doing something along this line
as well as many others, Mrs. Hel
wig will have a larger class than
she can handle.
Every lady who attends is re
quested to bring scissors, thimble,
spool of white thread, pencil and
tablet on which to take notes, and
a head covering, and to make ar
rangements to attend classes both
morning and afternoon for the two
days._
New Time Card Elfectlve
A new time card was effective
Sunday morning on the Missouri
Pacific railway which makes the
following changes in the arrival
and departure of trains here:
The north oound passenger train
from Farmerville will arrive here j
at 8:1 7 a. m. instead of 7:45 and
make direct cqpnection with the
Gurdon train at Felsenthal. Going
to Monroe the train leaves here at
8:40 a. m. instead of 7:53. and ar- i
rives at Monroe at 10:40 a. m
Leaving there at 1:00 p. m. the
train arrives here at 2:55 p. m.
Returning to Fa-merville it will
arrive here at 3:24 p. m. and at
Farmerville at 4:40 p. m.
The local arrives here from Mon
roe on Mondays. Wednesdays and
Friday, at 12:20 p. m. and returns
to Farmerville at 1:45 p. m. On
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days the local arrives here from
Farmerville at 10:00 a. m. and re
turns going to Monroe at 1 1:25
a. m.
Waste is Criminal.
‘‘To waste now is nothing short
of criminal.”—Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo.
The duty of the American peo-:
pie to economize in consumption of
food and all other materials as well
as save money, can not be too oft
en or too strongly urged upon
them. The duty is so imperative,
its observance so vital to our coun
try s ^success, that it should be
kept constantly before them.
The proposition is plain and un
derstandable. We have lessened
the productive powers of tue coun
try by taking 2 000.000 men away
from the productive forces of the
country: ind of producers of
one kind or another the sold ers
are consumers of the products of
our farms, factories, and mines,
and when the munitions they ex
pend and will exeend against the
enemy is considered they are tre
mendous consumers of the manu
factured products of the country.
A tremendous amount of the
manufacturing energy of the coun
try h°s been withdrawn from man
ufacturing the things we use in
peace and put to manufacturing
the things we use in war. The to
tal loss to the country of the pro
ductive energy of our soldiers and
sailors and the diversion of a great
portion of the Gther productive en
ergy of the country to war pur
poses lessen to a great extent the
amount of material and supplies
produced by the country.
To this condition of lessened
production and increased consump
tion of and by our own men must
be added the extraordinary demana
made upon this country to supply
the armies of our allies and to a
great entent their population with
food and other material.
We must meet the condition that
confronts us in two ways by the
strictest economy in consumption,
for every pound we refrain from
using adds a pound to ’ be devoted
to tne uses of our armv and navy
and the military forces of our allies:
and by speedmg up our production
to the limit. The American peo
ple are going to do all that thev
know to be necessary to win this
war to shorten this war. They
have only to realize the imperative
duty of economy in saving and
they will economize and sav*.
\cw Odd Fellow Officers.
The following is the list of new
officers for Huttig Lodge No. 348.
1. O. O. F., installed Tuesday night:
N G. A. V. Frost.
V. G. J. D! Brbman.
Sec —J. H. Sehon, jr.
Treas. L M Despain.
Warden— D. C# White.
Con.— M. L. Phillips.
, R. S. N. G.—Levi Cole.
L. S. N. G.-M. W. McCoy.
R. S. V. G R. L Claunch.
L. S. V. G.— A. J. Jamison.
Chap W. E. Chadwick.
1. G. P. J. Maxey.
\ few “fluovcrisnis.’*
Are you obserying meatless
Tuesday and wheatless Wednes
day?
Now is the time for every good
eater to come to the aid of his
country.
Remember that being a slave to
your eating habits is one way of
helping the kaiser.
The proper study of mankind
i just now ) is the food question.
Meatless days and wheatless
days are sure steps towards fight
less days.
There has never been found a
food which can compare with corn ,
as a weight builder for animals, j
Plenty of com in the feed troughs)
will mean fat hogs for market.
In the matter of food, do not
mistake substitution for starvation.
The United States food adminis
tration asks for the former in order
to guard against the latter.
Practice food conservation for
the sake of your stomach, for the
sake of your pocketbook, for the
sake of your country or for any
other reason under the sun, but
Be sure you do it.
Corn this year will serve two
main purposes. It will help to feed
us so that we can reduce our con
sumption of wheat and send more
to Europe, and it will feed hogs for
both ourselves and our associates
in the war.
The food supply of the world is
short and gettig shorter. You can
not take eighteen million men out
of production and put them into
destruction of human products and
expect things to go on as before.—
U. S. Food Administrator.
Burn Gas Jet Under Water.
In a new European method for pro
ducing steam a high-pressure gas jet
Is burned under the surface of the wa
ter In a steel boiler.
Farmers’ Attention.
Are you going to use any ferti
lizer this year?
How much are you going to use?
Who are you going to buy it
from?
Has he got it in stock now?
flow long will it take him to get
it for you?
Every farmer who expects to
use any fertilizer this year had bet
ter get busy and settle every one
of the foregoing questions today.
Fertilizers are going to be scarce
and. therefore, going to ne hard to
get. It is going to be hard to get
cars to shin fertilizer in. Unless
you give your dealer plenty of time
to get your fertilizer you may be
one of the many who will have to
try to make a cron without it.
No farmer can afford to make a
crop without some fertii.zer. With
the present price of farm products
nothing will pay bigger dividends
than the money invested in the
proper amount of fertilized Use
Fertilizers. Decide how much you j
want and give your merchant the |
order TODAY. Tomorrow may |
be too late to get it in time to make
this year's croo.
W. T. McKell. County Agent.
Tax Collector's Notice.
The tax collector will be at the '
following places in Lapile township,
on the dates named for the purpose '
of collecting real and personal j
property for the year 1917 and,
everybody should meet and pay up
so as avoid a penalty and prevent!
a congestion in his office the first
of April:
Huttig, Wednesday and Thurs
day, January 23 and 24.
Feisenthal, Frida , January 25.
Lapile. Saturday, January 26.
Strong. Monday and Tuesday.
January 28 and 29.
$i00 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to leirn that there la at least
one dr< td< d disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
inllU'-n ed by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment.
II i i! s Catarrh Cur. is taken internally
and acts thru the Mood oil the Mucous
Surfaces of the System thereby de
stroying the foundation of the disease,
giving tic patient strength by building
up the eonstitution and assisting na
ture in doing its work. The proprie
tors have so much faith in the curative
pow-rs of Kali's Catarrh Cure that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials. i
Aibirt sh : F J CHENEY & CO, Toledo.
Ohio. Sold by all Druugiote. 75c.
Cur Stork of Geld.
The gold monetary stock (coin
and bullion used as money ) in the
United States on Nov. 1. 1 SI 7. is
estimated in Secretary McAdoo's
annual report at $3,041,500,090.
The increase in the*past 10 months
has been $174,500,000. and in
the past three years $1.27b.500.
000. in five years the portion of
the world s gold monetary stack
held by the United States has in
creased from approximately one
fifth to more than one-third.
income Tax information.
The following letter has been
mailed by Collector Jack Walker to
all assessors, collectors and news
papers in the state and is self ex
planatory:
Little Rock, Ark.. 1-8-1918.
Dear Sir:
There is in the heart of every
American citizen a desire to do
something to help his country in
the present crisis. Unfortunately,
not every man can be given oppor
tunity to help in a substantial way,
but this opportunity is yours and I
am sure you will be glad to im
prove it. Without cost to yourself
in money, and at little loss of time,
you can very materially help the
government, as no other man can
help so well; and not o. ly the gov
ernment, but you, ghbors also.
The idea prev . in rural sec
tions that the income tax is a rich
! 'nan's tax and that it does not ap
! ply to small business men and
I farmers. This is a mistake. It
! applies to every sing! p •m-in who
has a net income of $ i ' or
more, and every married person
who has a net income of $2,000 or
more for year 1 91 7. You will see
therefore, that it applies to most
1 of your neighbor. Now, if they
don’t pay the income tax when it is
due. they will be violators of the
law, subject to the penalties of 50
i per cent of the tax, fine ranging
: from $20 to $ 1.000 and imprison
ment in case of fraud. It is cheap
er to pay the tax than the penal
ties. By helping the government
get the tax from people liable to it,;
you will serve not only them, in |
warning them in time so that they!
can avoid the penalties, but the
government also.
The shortest way to determine
if a person is subject to the income
tax is to add all the money for its!
equivalent-notes, etc.) which he
receives from every source during
the calendar year 1 91 7—from Jan.
1 to Dec. 3 1. Then subtract frcm ;
this amount the total of his ex
penses and other authorized de
ductions. “Expenses," however,
do not include personal, living or
family expenses: neither do they
include cost of new machinery.new
buildings, new silo, new fences,
drainage or ditching. Expenses
do not include any expenditure for
anything of the nature of perma
nent improvements or betterments. I
or anything which adds to the val- j
ue of the farm. Expense include
.only what is actually paid for labor
Kexcept ort«'« own male chil
jdren under 21 and female children
under 18. ) tools that wear out in a
year or two. repairs for machinery
used on the farm, fertilizer, spray- j
ing material for orchards, ginning, J
threshing, gasoline for power on I
the farm, seed for planting, twine. 1
grease, oil and such like expenses
actually incurred in producting the :
year's crop. State and county
taxes are also to be deducted, but
taxes paid for drainage and im
provement districts cannot be de
ducted. Now, when these ex
penses are added together and the
tcta! amount is subtracted from the
total income the amount left is
“net" income. If. as above stated,
this is $ 1.000 or more in the case
of an unmarried person and $2,000
in the case of a married person.!
such person must make return of
income between Jan. 1 and March
1, 1918, to escape penalty.
There are thousands of peop'e
in this state who will be effected by
the income tax law. They may
not hear of it, or of their duty in
time, unless you tel! them, because
no one representing the govern ,
merit will call on them personally.
The law makes it the duty of the
tax payer to call on. the collector.
A government tax expert will be
at the court house in El Dorado
from Feb. 1 8 to 28 to assist you in
filling out your papers if you are
laible to the tax and answer any
questions over which you are in
doubt.
Methodist Church Services
The following services will be
! held at Union church Sunday: Sun
day school at 10:00 a. m. Preach
ing at 1 1 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. by
I the pastor. Junior League at 3:00
p. m. Epworth League at 6:30 p.
m. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. A. Turrentine Pastor.
Gardening Indoors.
A small funnel Inserted in n fern
hull facilitates a continuous supply
of water and does away with the ne
cessity of taking the hail down for
submersion. It is easy to find out
how much water will he absorbed with
out dripping, and there is never a lack
of the necessary water to make the
I ball come to a fine mature growth.
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“A Happy New Year”
To Our Friends and
Patrons! May Pros
perity, Health and
Happiness be yours
throughout
“1918”
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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