DISCUSS FARMING
AND BALL PLAYING
Former Citizen Tells of Old
Time Game in Which New
ark Won Honors
Editor Journal.—If you will
allow me space, I would like
to say something about a ball
game that took place at Bates
ville 25 years ago last fall, in
which Newark won a premium
offered by the County Fair.
Ihe game—a doube header
—was between Newark and
Melbourne and Newark and
Greenbrier.
Newark won the first game
by a score of 7 to 5. This took
all forenoon, and at the close
of the game we just had time
to eat a lunch, standing, while
the second game was being
called.
The second game, between
Newark and the Greenbrier
boys, was won by a score of 9
to 7, and I think it was almost
dark when I caught the last
man out. I was catcher for the
Newark team, and during the
last game some one stole my
mask and mit, and I was forced
to catch one inning without
mask or mit, the other boys
thinking I would get hurt and
they would win the game, but
they didn’t.
Now I want to give some of
my farming ideas, especially on
cotton, as cotton is our chief
product. In the first place,
most people have their cotton
too close in the row and too
close in the hill. I think the
best distance is about 4 feet for
the rows, one stalk only about
18 inches apart and no closer.
This may seem too far apart
for some land, but your stalk
and bolls will get full growth
and the lint will keep its reg
ular length. Otherwise your
bolls will be no bigger than
hickory nuts and your lint will
get shorter and pretty soon you
will have to change seed for
you have run yours out.
i ou can improve your cot
ton as well as you can improve
your stock. Besides all of this,
you can work more land. After
you once get cotton chopped
out this distance, it is easy to
keep clean, for your hoe isn’t
hitting each side of the stalk
and skinning it up and making
your cotton look sick.
Besides all of this, if you
have given your cotton the
proper distance in the drill
and row, it very often happens
just when you are ready to lay
by your cotton, it comes a long
rainy spell and your cotton getsj
grassy and weedy and you
have it to hoe and of course it j
is hot and you are about half
sick. Here is where, if your cot
ton is close in the drill, it will
cause you trouble, for you will
have to take your hoe and
shove each stalk aside to find
a clear place to hit and then
you knock off the limbs and
skin up your cotton and if you
had cut you cotton out 18 inch
es or better at the start, you
could see what you are doing
and not skin up and bruise
your cotton. Besides all of this,
if you should have boll weevil
the thick cotton affords more
shade and they last longer. If
you should have a wet fall
your close cotton would rot
sooner.
Now as soon as cotton gets
up to where you can see it
bursting through the ground,
take a side harrow of some
kind and go around your cot
ton. Turn your side harrow so
the front tooth is just breaking
the crust, the next tooth deeper
and so on, and in this manner
you rake all of the trash to the
center and leave a nice clean
row to hoe. I never scrape cot
ton unless it gets grassy and I
have to in order to clean it.
Now about corn. Early corn
is most always best and one
big, round, fully developed ear
is worth two or three nubbins
and you must give your corn
I distance or you will have nub
bins if your corn is on old land.
1 think it ought to be worked
up until it begins to silk and
[tassel, if you don’t do anything
but run a V harrow in the mid
dle. This keeps the weeds down
longer and keeps the crust
broken and your corn will stay
green longer. If you ever get
your corn stunted, with a little
old round spindling stalk, your
corn will be stunted when you
go to gather it. It takes a bet
ter farmer to raise good corn
than it does cotton.
Most any kind of old block
head can raise cotton if he will
give it the distance and keep
it clean. I generally plant my
corn level with the surface
and when I am through plant
ing corn and see 1 am going to
get a stand I take a 16 or 18
inch sweep and go between the
rows and as soon as I can fol
low the rows I take a side har
row and go around my com
and next time plow with a good
cultivator or double shovel and
you have given your corn a
good start.
Now about alfalfa. I have
always had good luck sowing
oats with alfalfa, about three
pecks or a bushel to the acre.
You always have to cut the
weeds and grass off the first
time to give it a start, so in
this way I get half a crop of
oats. I am manager of a 1500
acre farm, all in cultivation.
A bookkeeper and I are the
only white people on the farm.
I am manager for Dr. D. P.
Robinson of Little Rock.
WALTER PASCOE,
Scotts, Arkansas.
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LEGISLATURE WILL
CONVFNE MONDAY
Candidates For Various Posi
tions Gather in Capital City
For Organization
Little Rock, Jan. 3.—The
Forty-first session of the Gen
eral Assembly of Arkansas is
upon us. It will convene at 12
o’clock noon next Monday. In
view of the large amount ot in*,
portant business to be consid
ered, much regret is expressed
that the session is restricted to
sixty days. While it cannot be
denied that much time is wast
ed with local legislation. In
consequence, there was more
of that character of legislation
which may be called half-bak
ed” in the recent session than
ever before. And it will require
the exercise of the greatest
care to prevent a recurrence of
similar conditions this time.
Legislative politics has the
right of way this week. The
members are beginning to ar
rive—in fact the advance
guard came last week. The
numerous aspirants for gav
el honors are opening up
headquarters in the Capital
and Marion where they are re
ceiving their friends and mak
ing and remaking their slates.
There is a large number of can
didates for all the offices, as
usual, and the applicants for
clerical jobs are as numerous
as ever. It is too early to make
prognostications about the
Presidency and the Speaker
ship, with any degree of cer
tainty. The indications are the
field for President of the Sen
ate will narrow down to about
three, and for the Speakership;
to less than half of the original
ten.
While Dr. Brough is not
taking any hand in the organi
zation, his influence is never
theless being felt in the House
and Senate. The prediction is
freely made that the adminis
tration will have a working
majority in each body, and that
the proposed measures to be
embodied in the new gover
nor’s inaugral will have the
support of the law makers.
Great interest is felt in the
message of Gov. Brough. No in
timation has been given out as
to its contents, except in some
minor details. It is believed
that he will advocate the call
ing of a constitutional conven
tion, since he has expressed
himself as favoring it. The
greatest interest is felt in his
recommendations for financial
legislation. This continues, as it
has been for some years, the
greatest question confronting
the law-makers. Several ef
forts have been made to solve
it. The natural increase in tax
able values, ano the slashing
vetoes of appropriations by the!
Governor, have helped some.
Two years ago, when the leg
islature convened, the outstand
ing indebtedness, represented
by unredeemed warrants, was
$448,065.06, and when the
Legislature convenes next Mon
day, there will be a deficit of
only $130,000. If the governor
can suggest a means for plac
ing the state permanently up
on a cash basis again, he will
have accomplished a feat that
will commend him to the peo
ple as a financial Moses.
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Charlotte, Jan. 3.—Sam ana
Turney Moore made a business
trip to Batesville Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Lindsey
visited relatives at Hazel Grove
Saturday night and Sunday.
Silas McGee of Cave City
I visited relatives here last Wed
j nesday.
Hubert Storey of Alicia was
the guest of Clyde Lane last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Jerni
gan entertained the young peo
ple with a party Thursday
night.
Dean Wiles of Sidney was
the guest of friends here a few
days last week.
G. W. Purcelly, Virgil Eu
banks and Johnnie Palmer
spent Sunday at McHue.
Miss Ora Stewart of Mt.
Carmel visited her aunt, Mrs.
W. C. Palmer last week.
. M&ss Vergia Weaver left
Monday for Conway to resume
her studies at the State Nor
mal.
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Yates
left Saturday for their home
near Paris, Tenn., after a pleas
ant visit here.
Dr. J. M. Byrum left Thurs
day for his home at Shawnee,
Okla., after a pleasant visit
with his parents. He was ac
companied home by his sister,
Miss Ethel Byrum.
Rev. A. N. Storey and Miss
Alma Lane were united in mar
riage Sunday by Rev. J. M.
Thrasher. The happy couple
left Monday for Conway where
Rev. Storey is attending Hen
drix College.
NOTICE OF COMMIS
SIONER’S SALE
Notice is hereby given that
the undersigned commissioner,
by virtue of the order and de
cree of the Independence
chancery court made and enter
ed of record on the 7th of De
cember, 1916, in the cause
therein pending between the
Doyle Kidd Dry Goods Co.,
plaintiff and C. E. Bonner, et
al., defendants, will publicly
offer and expose for sale at the
Main Street Door of the Inde
pendence County Court House
at Batesville, Arkansas, to the
highest bidder, the following
described lands situated in In
depenence County, Ark., to
wit:
Lot one (1) in Block 4 of
Arnold’s Addition to the East
ern Division of the Town of
Newark, Arkansas. Said sale
will be on
SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1917
between the hours prescribed
by law for judicial sales; said
sale to be on a credit of three
months, and the purchaser will
be required to give note with
[approved security and a lien
Mtill be retained on the land
to secure payment of same.
Given under my hand this
26th day of December 1916.
B. F. ADAMS,
Dec. 28 4t Commissioner.
NOTICE OF SALE
OF LAND
Whereas, the Independence
Chancery court on the third
day of its December term,1916,
did appoint the undersigned as
commissioner to sell the fol
lowing described lands, lying
and being in the county of In
dependence, state of Arkan
sas, towit:
The S. S. Clark lot,being 210
feet by 210 feet, and being a
part of lot 2 of the Northeast
quarter of section 5, Township
12 North, Range 4 West, and
being a part of the miscella
neous division of the Town of
Newark, Ark., said lands being
the property of Geo. F. Cros
ser and Addie Crosser, and be
ing ordered sold by the court
to satisfy a judgment in favor
of V. G. Richardson against the
said Geo. F .Crosser and Addie
Crosser.
And whereas, the said Geo.
F. Crosser and Addie Crosser
having failed to satisfy the said
judgment within the time re
quired by the said chancery
court.
Therefore, Notice is hereby
given that I, B. F. Adams, will
in pursuance to said order, of
ferlor sale to the highest bid
der, at the Main Street door of
the Independence county court
house in the city of Batesville,
on
SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1917
between the hours for judicial
sales the above described land,
on a credit of three months,
purchaser to give a note with
approved security, and a lien
to be retained on the lands un
til the purchase money is paid
in full.
B. F. ADAMS,
12-28-4t. Commissioner.
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WOMEN ACCUSED OF
AIDING IN HOLD-UP
Searcy, Jan. 2.—Two women
giving the names of Mrs, Ag
nes Overmiller and Mrs. Geor
gia White, arrested as acces
sories to the recent hold-up at
the Missouri anti North Ark
ansas railroad station, were
held to the Grand Jury after a
preliminary hearing in the jus
tice court of W. E. Harlan,
The women say that they
are the wives of Overmiller,
the man arrested for the hold
up, and White, the one who es
caped. They were in a Kensett
hotel on the night of the rob
bery. A Searcy officer, who se
cured a room next to theirs at
the hotel says that he heard
them talk of the robbers and
the hold-up in a way to indi
cate that they were connected
with the affair. The women are
in jail in default of bond.
WARNING ORDER
In Justice court, Big Bottom
township. Before A. II. Saylors,
Justice of the Peace.
D. P. Whisnant, plaintiff, vs.
W. N. Lewis, defendant.
The defendant, W. N. Lewis,
is warned to appear in this
court within thirty days from
this date to answer the com
plaint of the plaintiff, D. P.
Whisnant.
Given under my hand this
the 27th day of November,
1916. A. II. SAYLORS,
Justice of the Peace.
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