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THE HUTTIG NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. IX. NO. 23
HUTTIC. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1915.
PRICE, $1 PER YEAR
School Opens Monday.
The 1915-16 term of the Huttig
Consolidated School District No.
60 will open Monday morning. Oc
tober 1 1, and it is the wish of the
teachers that every pupil be pres
ent on the first day for enrollment.
The special teachers for the
coming year will be: Miss Effie
Jane Combs, from Cotter, Ark.,
music; and Miss Kate Murphy,
from Caldwell, Kans., domestic
science. The grade teachers will
be: Miss Luta Ballard. Edwards,
Mi^s.; Miss Eunice Chancellor,
Huttig, Ark.; Mrs. G. C. Barnett,
Huttig, Ark.: Miss Henrietta Rus
sell, Benton, Ark.; Miss Agnes
McGehee. Kingsland. Ark.; Mrs.
Annie May, assistant principal,
Grand Lake, Ark.; A. J. Dowis,
principal, Perth, Kans.
The Union County Text Book
Board,has made an almost com
plete change in books this year,
but the old books will be accepted
as part payment on the new. We
will try to have a complete list of
these books and the prices pub
lished in the News next week.
We expect the class rooms to be
finished so that we can begin
school in the new tuilding Monday
morning. At present we will not
be able to have chapel exercises.
Until the auditorium is .completed
every pupil will go direct to their
class room.
Every room has been furnished
with a pencil sharper so that the
boys may leave their pocket knives
at home.
Every boy should search himself
and see that he brings no matches
or tobacco on the school grounds.
Both boys and girls should watch
closely to see that our school proD
erty is kept free from pencil and
crayon marks. Our new building
is one of which every bov and girl
can well be proud, and it is
up to them to keep it looking as it
does now. A. J. Dowis, Supt.
J. T. Spencer Murdered.
J. T. Spencer, prominent mer
chant and planter of Spencer.
Union parish. La , was assassinated
late Sunday and his companion.
John Dean, was probably fatally
wounded by John Pinkard. a white
man. The shooting occurred near
Spencer’s home while he and Dean
were driving in a buggy. Pinkard.
armed with a double barrel shot
gun, met them in the road, it is al
leged, and commanded them to
wait a minute and fired a full load
of buckshot into Spencer's face,
killing him instantly. As Mr. Dean
jumped from the buggy and started
to run Pinkard fired at him striking
him with seven buckshot. Mr.Dean
was taken to Monroe and placed
in St. Francis sanitarium where
physicians say his wounds are se
rious. Pinkard was arrested with
his three sons and is in the Far
merville jail, according to reports.
The two men have had several law
suits in the civil courts and one in
the Federal court. Mr. Spencer
was well known in North Louisiana
and was a brother of our towns
man, D. W. Spencer. Mr. Dean is
a brother of Mrs. E. H. Coston of
this place and also well known.
Weekly Weather forecast.
Weather forecast for the week
beginning Wednesday, Oct. 6,
] 915, issued by the United States
Weather Bureau, Washington,D. C.
For the west Gulf States:
Generally fair weather is indicated
for the week, with rising tempera
tures Wednesday and Thursday
and nearly stationary temperature
thereafter.
The Week In History.
Monday, Oct. 4, Sultan of Tur
key declares war against Russia,
1853.
Tuesday, Oct. 5, First railway
train enters city of London. 18G4.
Wednesday, Oct. 6, Great earth
quakes in England. 1863.
Thursday, Oct. 7, Second battle
of Stillwater, Revolutionary war. ■
1 777.
Friday, Oct. 8, Chicago fire
starts, rages four days. 1871.
Saturday, Oct. 9, French army j
almost destroyed in Franco-Rus- ;
sian war. 1812.
Sunday, Oct. 10, Wm. Henry
Steward, American statesman died,
1872. _
Little Rock Fair Adds Many New Features
This Year.
The largest Fair in Arkansas this
year will be held at Little Rock.
October 18th to 22nd, with exhib
its from many parts of the State
cattle. horses, hogs, poultry and
farm products of every kind. A
race track has been constructed
and there will be running and dri
ving contests every afternoon, as
well as a horse show at night.
Amusement features, seen only at
the largest fairs in the country,
have been engaged. Ten thous
and school children will take part
in and witness »n outdoor produc
tion of “The Bird Masque, ’ origi
nally presented before President
Woodrow Wilson. The display of
woman's work, art and craftman
ship will be upon a large scale.
The Iron Mountain has extended
special low round trip rates to
Little Rock for the Fair. Alto
gether the exhibition has been
much enlarged, the admission price
will remain at 25 and 15 cents. A
trip to the Capitol during these
festivities will be enjoyed and Lit
tle Rock is looking for a big crowd.
See Iron Mountain agent for par- j
ticulars regarding low fares and
train service. adv
New Library Board.
The annual election of a board of
trustees for the Huttig Public li-!
brary was held in the library at:
8:30 o’clock last Monday night and
the following board chosen:
Mesdames R. W. ^argill. F. E.
Wood and L. F. Magee; Messrs. W.
A. Benson, T. B. Weaver and C. A.
Berry. The new board will meet
next Monday night for the purpose
of organization.
Boll Weevil in Top Crop.
J. G. Freeman, one of the best
farmers in this end of Union coun
ty, reports a large number of boll
weevils in top crop of cotton and
suggests that all farmers turn their
cattle into the cotton fields to eat
same as soon as the crop is gath
ered, which should all be picked by
now.
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Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps,
Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cufs and
Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects
Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used in
ternally and externally. Price 25c
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
oerson shall be convicted of depre
dating 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 Treas
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 2:30 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.
Tell us the news for the News
Cemetery Association Meets.
The fourth quarterly meeting of
the Huttig Cemetery association
was held in the library last Monday
night. Routine business was
transacted and the following report
of the board of trustees was re
ceived and adopted:
Huttig. Ark., Oct. 1, 1915.
To the Huttig Cemetery Ass'.n.
The Trustees appointed by your
body to supervise the care of
the Gemetery beg to report
that we have had Cemetery
grounds cleaned nicely and
placed in good condition.
Below you will find an itemized
statement of expenditures:
Harold Moore 40 hrs work $
Pierce Heard 40
Jack Williams 50
Buck Millstead30
Alec Snow 34'
Cuice Hogue 25
J. G.Williams 4
A. W. Myers 20
Wade Johnson 10
N. Jenkins 10
C. Thompson 15
15
Eli Crabtree
Ellis Sehon
Brooks Will
21
2
10
1.25
5.00
3.75
3.75
3.20
3.00;
.50 j
2.50;
1.25 I
1.20
1.85
.75
.15
1.25
4 50
G. A. Deshaiser 15 hrs. work
horse and wagon
Total hou s 301
Total amount $33 90
We advise aising more funds for
ur> keep of cemetery grounds.
T rustees,
J. F. Johnston. Chm.
T. B. Wfaver. Sec.
T. E. Voss.
Farm Demonstration Work In Arkansas.
Union county has received a
proposition from United States
government and Gollege of Agri
culture, cooperating, offering to
contribute from $450 to $660 for
the improvement of farming and I
stock raising in the county during)
the coming year. This money
would help defray the expense of
maintaining a demonstration agent
in the work of demontrating profit
able farming methods. This is the
class of work that enabled farmers
working under the direction of
these agents in the State to grow
an average of 28 bushels of corn
while the Arkansas farmer's aver
age corn yield is only 18 bushels to
the acre. The cotton yield was
524 pounds. State average, but
farmers following the advice of the
farm demonstration agents raised
an average of 1.128 pounds to the
acre.
County Judge H. S. Yocum has
received a proposition from C. W.
Watson, state agent farm demon
stration work, to be submitted to
the quorum court that meets on
Oct. 27.
The work costs more than the
amount contributed to the county
by the government and State Col
lege of Agriculture, and the differ
ence. of course, has to be borne by
the county where the work is done.
For instance, if the court will levy,
in cash. $750. the college and gov
ernment will contribute $450 cash,
and if the county will increase the
amount by $ 1 50, the government
and college will increase its gift by
the same amount, or $900 to
$600. There is a regular scale of
increase for larger amounts.
That most of the counties in Ar
kansas have snapped up these of
fers of free aid for several years
past is shown by the fact that in
1913 government aid amounted to
$53,000, including $2,780 con
tributed by the railroads in trans
portation to the farm demonstra
tion agents.
This amount was greatly in-;
creased in 1914 when a total of
nearly $112,000 was spent for
farm demonstration work in the
State. It is expected that a still!
larger increase will be seen this
year, particularly in view of the |
great interest shown in improved)
and profitable farming methods,
and the remarkable awakening
shown by bankers, business men
and the public generally.
With increased crop production
absolutely shown bv farm demon
stration methods it is plain that
money spent to maintain ai> agent
in a county, with the government
and college contributing nearly half
the amount expended, is brought
back into the county and spent
among local business men through
the increased value of crops pro
duced. In addition to this the
farm demonstration agents are in
strumental in making farm life
easier and more satisfactory and
therefore happier. A phase of this
is seen in the boys’ corn, pig and
pou'try club work and in the girls'
canning club work, in demonstra
ting good roads, and other forms of
construction and instructive meth
ods.
Accord.ng to a decision of the
department of labor, any American
who enters the military service of
a foreign government and takes
the oath of allegiance to that gov
ernment automatically expatriates
himself and becomes an alien.
There are many Americans now
fighting with the European bellig
erents and their only remedy, gov
ernment officials say, will be found
in taking out naturalization papers
when they return to this country
at the end of the war.
The postoffice department wants
1.500,000,000 yards of cotton or
jute twine for tying mail packets
next year. Formerly jute twine
has been used exclusively but last
year cotton twine was used satis
factorily and now Southern manu
facturers. of the cotton product are
asked for bids on the required
amount.
Linguistic Crows.
Nearly ail the true crows, as well
as many of their near relatives, will
pick up more or less of human speech
in captivity, and it is sometimes hard
to believe that the slyness with which
they invest their remarks, their apt
ness and intonation, are altogether ac
cidental.
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Yes you will, and the answer will not be very
gratifying either, we fear, unless you “rustle” some
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and find out where a good, trustworthy bank is at.
It will not be necessary to look far. We are
anxious to help you gain your bearings, my non
depositing friend.
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The Largest
Arkansas Fair
this year will be at
Little Rock
October 18-22,1915 E&
Forty Acres of Attractions
Many New Features Added
Fine Race Track with Running Races Every
Afternoon. Horse Show at Night
"The Bird Masque" Magnificent Outdoor Celebration to be presented.
Amusement features seen only at large Fairs have been engaged.
Special low round trip rates via the
Iron Mountain Route
Tickets on Sale Daily October 18-22.
Call or write for particiars
F. H. MOORE,
AGENT,
HUTTIG, ARKANSAS
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BACK IN 1900.
15 YEARS ago a little furniture store >*'as 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 Co., 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 home 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 pockctbook 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.
Lid.
132-138 North Second St.
MONROE, - LOUISIANA ‘
Freight paid on all orders, over Ten Dollars