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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. IX. NO. 19.
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1915.
PRICE, $1 PER YEAR
RACE EOR CONGRESS OPENS.
Five Candidates In Seventh District Engage
In Joint Discussion.
The opening joint debate of what
promises to be one of the hottest
congressional campaigns in the
history of the state took place at
Okolona last Saturday according tc
the Gazette correspondent, before
a crowd of 800 persons. Five
candidates from the Seventh dis
trict spoke. They were Congress
man W. S. Goodwin, W. F. Mc
Knight, a member of the Arkansas
Railroad commission, State Sena
tor J. O. A. Bush of Prescott,
Representative Farrar Newberry
of Arkadelphia, and R. S. Warnock
of Magnolia, who opposed Mr.
Goodwin two years ago. Mr. Good
win spoke for an hour and a half in
the morning on his plans for a
national marketing system.
Representative Newberry said
he favored a rural credits system,1
repayment of the cotton tax of
1861 through the pensioning of
Confederate veterans by the feder
al government, federal improve
ment of highways, drainage and
levees, the damming of Ouachita
river, a federal child labor law and
national prohibition. .
Mr. Warnock advocated the
guarantee of national bank depos
its, taxing of the incomes of corpo
rations, a rural credits system, re
stricting the land owned by corpo
rations to that needed for
operating, a graduated land tax and
the prevention of gambling in the
markets on farm products.
Commissioner McKnight spoke
principally on railroad matters. He
advocated a closer control by the
government and many reforms in
the laws governing their operation.
He also advocated reforms in other
conditions.
Senator Bush express optimism
over present conditions and advo
cated a rural credits system. He
said that in 1861 he helped write
in the platform of one political par
ty the first rural credits plank en*
dorsed by any political party in the
United States.
Weekly Weather Forecast.
Weather forecast for the week
beginning Wednesday, Sept. 7,
1915, issued by the United States
Weather Bureau, Washington,D. G.
For the west Gulf States:
This week will be one of generally
fair weather and normal tempera
ture. __
The Week In History.
Monday, September 6, Imperial
German Congress entertains Czar
of Russia and Emperor of Austria,
1872.
Tuesday, September 7, Great
fire in London, 1666.
Wednesday, September 8, Battle
of Eutaw Springs. 1781.
Thursday, September 9, London
bridge destroyed by fire, 1725.
Friday, September 10, Perry’s
victory on Lake Erie, 1813.
Saturday, September 11, Battle
of Brandywine, 1777.
Sunday, September 12, France
makes treaty of commerce with
Madagascar, 1862.
Scientific Farming Pays.
The great possibilities of low
priced Arkansas lands for grain
production have been effectively
proven by results at the Iron
Mountain Demonstration Farm at
Hope, Ark., with both wheat and
oats during the past year. The
wheat yields averaged 29 bushels
per acre and oats 64 bushels. A
test field, put in for comparison,
of Fulgrum oats and winter turf
oats showed a yield of 77 bushels
per acre of the Fulgrum oats and
91 bushels per acre of the winter
turf oats. The other fields of win
ter turf oats yielded respectively
86, 70 and 64 bushels per acre.
The Iron Mountain demonstra
tion farm at Hope was started on a
piece of land that had been in cot
ton oyer fifty years, and which war
practically worn out. The yields
mentioned, made under practical
farm conditions and methods
therefore show what can be dom
even on exhausted land. Afte:
charging up rent on land, expense
of seed, fertilizer, team and driver
at 30 cents per hour, and labor at
15 cents per hour, the grain croj
on the Hope farm shows a nei
profit of $14.30 per acre, which is
more than the land itself was worth
three years ago, when the demon
stration farm work was started.
Tell us the news for the News
Notice to Mclemore Case Witnesses.
Judge W. C. Smith has informed
the News that none of the cases
against Hezzie McLemore will
come up at the fall term of
the Union Gircuit coyrt, and all
witnesses are warned not to go to
El Dorado on these cases as they
will not get anything for doing so.
$100 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all Its stages, and that is
Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken In
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system, there
by destroying the foundation of the dis
ease. and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Bold by nil Drucrl3ts, 7">.
Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation.
Adv
Now to bet Yoor fertilizers free.
Every spring, if you pay cash, o
every fall if you buy on time, hasu’
| your commercial fertilizer bill sore
■ ly worried you? Haven’t yoi
many times wondered how yoi
; might avoid at least a part of this
burdensome tax on your year's
work, only to decide that keeping
your yields up to the mark de
manded the continued use of ferti
lizers?
But there's a way out, friend
you don't have to continue to bu>
huge quantities of fertilizers everv
spring, nor by not buying them wil
you run the risk of short crops
On the other hand, there's a way, a
sure way. by which you can cul
your fertilizer bills in half and al
the same time make bigger crops
than you are now making. This
sounds unbelievable, you say? Ws
answer that thousands of Pro
gressive Farmer readers are prov
ing every year that it can be done
and that it is up to you to prove t<
your own satisfaction the truth o
falsity of our statement.
In the air all above the earth ar<
literally billions and billions of dol
lars worth of nitrogen, the elemen
you get in nitrate of soda and cot
tonseed meal, and for which yoi
pay from eighteen to twenty-fivs
cents a pound. A crop of crimsor
clover, growing in winter and earlj
spring when your land would othei
wise be idle and barren, has ths
power of drawing down this nitro
gen from the air, $10 to $25 wort!
for every acre in clover and, wher
plowed under in the spring, o
storing this valuable plant food ir
the soil for the crop that follows.
We only ask that you give crim
son clover one trial as a corn ferti
lizer. When you have seen th<
rank growth of corn that it makes
so rank, as one of our friends says
that "You can see lightening bug!
in it in the day-time;" when yoi
see how mellow and loose it makes
your soil and how it increases
yields for years afterwards, yoi
will bless the day you found it, anc
your only regret will be that yoi
did not discover it sooner.—The
Progressive Farmer.
Apportion State School funds.
The State Board of Education
has apportioned to the 75 counties
the amount due in the common
school fund, aggregating $1,377,
340.68. The report of the board
shows a total school population in
the state of Arkansas of 649,689,
the amount of the fund appor
tioned to each student being $2.12.
Last year the amount for each stu
dent was $2.05. Union county
has 1 1.372 children and receives
$24,108.64.
ladles' Aid Society Elect Officers.
At the regular meeting of the
tadies’ Aid society of the Baptist
church held Tuesday afternoon the
following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
President -Mrs. D. M. Glowney.
V.-President—Mrs. T. E. Voss.
Secy.-Treas.--Mrs. W. H. Moore
Cor.-Secy.— Mrs. J. B. Crockett.
Mesdames Addie Brown and E.
E. Eskeridge were elected as dele
gates to the association.
Mesdames A. G. Atnip and J. C.
Phillips were appointed to solicit
donations for the orphans' home at
Munticello.
Popular Young People Wed.
Cards were received this week
by Hultig friends announcing the
marriage of Miss Alto Ponder,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Ponder, at their home in Lillie, La.,
to Mr. Grover Cleveland Barnett
of Huttig. on Saturday afternoon.
September 4, at 1 o'clock, Rev. W.
O. Bryan of Simsboro, officiating.
The bride is one of the teachers
in the public school here and is an
accomplished young lady, while the
groom is a popular salesman in the
grooery department of the Union
r Saw Mfff Go. store. BoXK' have a
- large circle of friends who will join
with the News in wishing them
1 much prosperity and a long and
happy married life.
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 7:30 p. m. by
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. S. K. Burnett, Pastor.
The Schoop process by means of
which a metal can be sprayed upon
an object to from a thin plating or
1 coating is being employed in manu
1 facturing rifle cartridges. Paper
cartoons are covered with a thin
metal coating and serve in lieu of
■ the usual metal cartridge. This
’ method is not only economical of
metal, but the cartridge is lighter
so that more can be carried.
lhe Camel's Stomach.
The stomach of a camel is divi
ded into four compartments, and
1 the walls of these are lined with
large cells, every one of which can
1 be opened and closed at will by the
means of powerful muscles, says
the Presbyterian. When a camel
drinks, it drinks for such a long
time you really think it never
1 means to leave off. The fact is
| that it is not satisfying its thirst.
but is filling up its cistern as well.
1 One after another the cells of its
stomach are filled with water, and
as soon as each is quite full it is
tightly closed. Then, when a few
hours later the animal becomes
’ thirsty, all it has to do is to open
one of the cells and allow the wat
er to flow out. Next day it opens
1 one or two more cells, and so it
1 goes on day after day until the
; whole supply is exhausted. In this
curious way a camel can live five
or even six days without drinking
at all, and so it is able to trave
quite easily through the desert,
where the wells are often hun
dreds of miles apart.
ARE YOUTHFUL AT FORTY-FIVE
Women of That Age in Thia Genera
tion Do Not Look Over Thirty if
They Use "Precautions.”
The American woman of forty-five a
generation ago saw her forty-five years
unmistakably reflect! il in her mirror
in worry lines, flabby throat, graying
hair, and sagging farial nm.-cPs. I lie
woman of that day turned away sadly
enough, no doubt, but her predominat
ing feeling was a sad resignation to
the Inevitable law which decreed that
it was not only natural but right for a
woman of her advanced years to ap
pear old. The woman of forty-live to
day, yes, and even the woman of titty,
would laugh ii one advanced so absurd
an opinion. The life of today is more
wearing, more active, than was that of
a generation ago, hut her mirror re
flects a smooth white brow, from
which the worry lines have been ban
ished by the "forehead strap” and the
“wrinkle plaster," and a firm rounded
throat and chin, the contour of which
is preserved by the application of as
tringents and the artful “chin-strap.’1
Her hair is abundant and well cared
for, and her soft skin is tinted with a
vegetable rouge that cannot be de
tected.
Perfectly corseted and lithely youth
ful, she finds no difficulty in convinc
ing the most arrant skeptic that she it
under thirty.—Vogue.
PLEA FOR THE OLD HOME LIFE
Return to It Would Be of Benefit tc
the Nation, Is the Opinion of
New Yorker.
Again we hear the praises sung o!
‘‘the old-fashioned mother”—it is e
theme to arouse tender memories aud
to inspire imitation among the women
of today, remarks the New York Mail
The old-fashioned mother, home-loving
and devoted to her children, caring foi
them in sickness and in health, froir
the cradle to the end—it was she wh<
made the home and kept it, and wh<
made the nation strong and great ii
the stability of its units, the homes.
Rut there was the old-fashioned fa
ther, too, who found his greatest pleas
ure in being by the side of the old fast
ioned mother, with their childre
about them. To him the family fin
side was the best place on earth, an
he helped to make It* much, find moth'
and father were the best people In th
world in those days when they nlghtl
gathered their brood about them fo
the family hour—the best hour in th
twenty-four.
Parents of loday lose much by no
being old-fashioned, their children losi
more and the nation suffers most o
all, for no people ran bo truly strong
when the hearthstone ceases to drav
with compelling force, and when fa
ther and mother and children are sep
arated In the pursuit of the excite
ments that take the place of the old
fashioned home life.
When Danger Come*.
In the presence of clanger, onr In
telligence, onr Imagination, onr will
are unusually wide awake. We hcgii
to perceive the limits of accepter
forms of thought, the inadequacy ol
the standards hy which we have beer
accustomed to pass judgment on life
Bnd on history, and the partial nature
of truths we had regarded as flna
and complete. A great disturbance
like that of an earthquake, Is passing
beneath our life, and the elements o
that life, including those that are spir
Itual, are rearranging themselves ii
new perspectives. We are virtually
living in another world compared witt
that In which we were alive a yea:
*Ro.—Prof. L. P. Jacks in the Yah
Review.
Yawn for Your Health.
Doctor Naegoli, professor of modi
cine at Liege university, commend;
the practice of yawning as a physlca
reviver. A good yawn, the professoi
maintains, is excellent for the lungs
and for all the Dreathing organs aj
well. Hut there is an art in yawning
he says. Just as there is an art In
brealhlng. Every yawn should be as
deep as possible, so as to bring alf"thc
muscles of the throat and chest intc
action, and also to till the lungs with e
current of fresh air.
Doctor Naegeli has known of man]
cases in which a sore throat has beer
alleviated by persistent yawning, sayt
the London Chronicle.
Productivity of Organisms.
Many estimates have been made ol
what would happen If organisms multi
plied without let or hindrance. Wf
came across a new one In Prof. J. F
Abbott’s excellent “General Biology.’
“An ordinary mosquito hatching frorr
the egg reaches maturity and lays hei
own eggs ten days afterward. A sin
gle female lays about four huudreii
eggs, half of which become females
If a single female should hatch or
April l, ami lay her quota of eggs ter
tjayB later, on July 1, SO dayB l»ter, 11
all Hveci, thp progeny would numb.u
103,014, FiR2,RSt, 4 80,008.004,001, ninsqui
toes.” We have not verified this.—Ex
chaDge.
To get the news read The New
Home, Sweet Home
Do you want a home? Ask those who have them how
they secured them. Nine out of ten will tell you they
started a bank account when they had but a few dollars
and then watched it grow until it was large enough to se
cure a home. You can do it.
IT MAY TAKE
SOME WORK,
SOME WILL POWER,
SOME SELF-DENIAL,
at first, but it will surely bring you a home as night follows
day. Come in and let us talk about this
Home, Sweet Home.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HUTTIC. ARKANSAS
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ARE you to be one of the happy throng to visit
beautiful California and her wonderful exposi
tions?
Then a double treat awaits you, for in adition to
the wonders of the Exposition your journey there and
5 back from beginning to end—will prove a veritable
■ moving picture of marvelous scenic interest.
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IS Every Mile of the Way
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[ Iron Mountain Route
■ Denver & Bio Grande and Western Pacific
Both Standard Observation and Tourist
Sleeping Cars in service daily from St.
Louis and Kansas City to San g
Francisco.
F. H. MOORE,
AGENT,
HUTTIG, ARKANSAS
BACK IN 1900.
15 YEARS ago a little furniture store was opened at 121
North Second St., Monroe, La. Through the full fifteen years it
has progressed and prospered until today it occupies four big
floors 70 x 150. and besides commanding an enviable position in
the merchandising affairs of Monroe, it is recognized far and
wide as one of the leading furniture stores of the state.
Occupying its own building, and thus having no rent to pay,
The Monroe Furniture Go., gives its customers, of which it num
bers thousands, the very maximum value for the money in every
instance. Fifteen years experience in buying and selling furni
ture, carpets and home furnishings has taught us what our cus
tomers want and where to obtain it for them. Our furniture
goes into a majority of the HOMES of this section; it furnishes
comfort to the honae of the well-to do business man or
planter, and it answers the need of the working man's cottage.
No matter what may be the size of your pocketbook you will
find what you want and save money on it.
“From the Cheapest that is
Good to the Best that is Made**
The
MONROE FURNITURE CO.
Ltd. -
132-138 North Second St. ^
MONROE, - LOUISIANA '
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