THE IMTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Nuttlg, Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3, 1*07 at
the postofflce at Huttie, Ark., under the act of Con
gress of March 3. 1879.
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Saturday, June 20, 1914.
TOWN OmCIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
tig:
Mayor—C. T. Thompson.
Recorder—W. H. Moore.
Marshal—Thos. Ashcroft.
Aldermen—L. A. Bodine, A. E. Lucas.
J B. Crockett, D. A. Keasler and F. W.
Scott.
Board of Education—W. H. Moore, F.
W. Scott, C. T. Thompson, E. N. Collett.
L. G. Gibson and L. F. Magee.
Democratic Nominees.
U. S. Senator:
James P. Clarke.
Congressman
W. S. Goodwin.
Governor
George W. Hays.
Associate Justice
J. C. Hart.
Attorney General
W. L. Moose.
Secretary of State
Earle W. Hodges.
. Auditor
L. L. Coffman.
State Treasurer
R. G. McDaniel.
State Land Commissioner
Wm. B. Owens.
Gom. Mines, Mfg. & Ariculture
John H. Page.
Supt. Public Instruction
George B. Cook.
Railroad Commissioner
W. F. McKnight.
Circuit Judge
C. W. Smith.
Prosecuting Attorney
E. O. Mahony.
Chancellor
J. M. Barker.
Representative
W. H. Helms.
Circuit Clerk
» Archie D. Murphy.
County Clerk
Jesse J. Craig.
County Treasurer
Finn Craig.
County Judge
Henry S. Yocum.
Sheriff
J. M. Wallace.
Tax Assessor
R. E. Harris.
Surveyor
W. B. Armstrong.
Coroner
T. M. Pinson.
LAPILE TOWNSHIP.
Justices of the Peace
C. B. Wood.
W. R. Richardson.
Constable
J. D. Nelson.
Road Overseer
Walter McGowen.
WHAT ARE YOUR CHILDREN READING?
One of the greatest things that
can come to the growing boy or girl
is a desire for wholesome reading
matter; and. once this desire is
created, it is a sacred duty to see
that only the best is furnished the
child. In this day of literary trash
and dirt this is not easy. Many
publishing houses are perpetrating
stuff on the public that should be
barred from the mails—stuff the
very cheapness of which makes it
all the more likely to fall into the
hands of the book-hungry boy or
girl.
Now by good literature we do
not necessarily mean the ponder
ous classics, the slowness of Dick
ens and Thackeray, or the tedious
ness of others for whose works a
taste must be acquired. The boy
of the present day is normally a
creature of red blood, and his lit
erary food must abound in action
&.nd “go.” Anything else he is apt
15 regard as “medicine,” and he is
likely to look upon it and take it as
♦ uch—only when he has to. The
first essential in creating a desire
for good literature is interest—
gripping interest from beginning to
end. Given a good clean story,
full of wholesome adventure, and
the farm boy will read it with de
hght and beg for more. Hence
forth the problem is not how to get
the boy to read, but how to direct
his reading that interest may be
sustained, that nothing unclean
may come in his way, and that
gradually there may be created a
taste for the more difficult, but at
the same time thought-stimulating,
works that stand among the world's
best literature.—Progressive Far
mer.
In Union county the administra
tion of public affairs is on the av
erage about like that of other
counties of Arkansas. There is a
great deal of public work done.
There is nothing secret about the
records and any citizen or inter
ested person is at liberty to exam
ine the books, and as a matter of
fact, many do so in the pursuit of
their business. But also as a mat
ter of fact, the great mass of citi
zenship never sees the records and
knows little or nothing about con
ditions affecting the county's fi
nances or administrative matters.
This is not the fault of the officials
nor is the public to blame. It is a
condition due to our present laws
which do not call for enough pub
licity in public affairs. Arkansas
is years behind other Southern
states in such matters, simply
through neglecting to correct mat
ters. Nearly eighteen thousand
voters of this state became suffi
ciently alive to the welfare of the
state to initiate a law which will be
voted on in the September election,
which will correct these conditions.
Act No. 3 will be voted on in Sep
tember, and when it becomes a law
there will be a state-wide change
for the better in fhe handling of
public funds and public business.
With all his millions John D.
Rockefeller is an unhappy man.
Any man who has to be guarded
night and day by armed patrolmen
cannot be happy and secure. Any
man who fears his fellow citizens
is not a good citizen himself and is
a pretty good proof of the trite old
saying that "where there is smoke
there is sure to be fire."
The Biblical injunction to love
thy neighbor is very well as far as
it goes but can it be stretched to
cover thy neighbor’s chickens?
Speaking of the absolute zero in
something or other, this office has
just received a copy of a magazine
which contains, among other things,
a number of beautiful pictures of
cemeteries exclusively for dogs in
an eastern community.
Do you know whether your
neighbor’s taxes are less in propor
tion to the value of his property
than your own? If they are, how
can you protect your own interests
without a great deal of trouble and
without incurring the displeasure
of the other man? When Act No.
3 is passed in the September elec
tion, it will be one of the greatest
moves for lax equalization ever
taken. All changes from the as
sessment made either by the board
of equalization or the county court,
must be published in the news
paper so that all who will may read.
It will bring the wealthy tax-dodger
to time and lessen the taxes of the
small tax-payer.
Mr. Wilson has one noole talent,
and lhat Mr. Roosevelt can never
acquire—the gift of silence.
If we don’t soon have another
war some of the clerks in the Pen
sion Office may be thrown out of
work.
Worth Knowing.
Every person when he takes up his
cards at a game of whist holds one out
of 635,013,559,600 possible hands. As
for the total hum her of variations
possible among all players. It is so
enormous as almost, to exceed belief.
Mr. Babbage calculated that if 1,000,
000 men were to be engaged dealing
cards at the rate of one deal every
minute, day and night, for 100,000,000
years, they would not have exhausted
all the possible variations of the cards,
but only one one hundred thousandth
part of them.
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BACK TO LIFE :
By LAURA KIRKMAN. J
John Rand blamed only himself. He
had known before he asked Pearl to
face ranch life with him that only one
woman In a hundred strikes happines.s
under such conditions.
"Pack your trunk, kid,” he said kind
ly, patting the bright head that lay de
jectedly on the round arms. "It’s got
on your nerves. There’s just one thing
to do and that's to get back to civiliza
tion. I’ll try to follow, girl.”
"You'll follow!” Up came the yel
low head. The blue eyes lighted with
hope. “Oh, John!” she cried, “do you
mean it?”
He nodded—first half-heartedly, then
more vigorously and convincingly.
"See!” she cried, clutching the door
jamb, “can you blame me? What girl
brought up to dances and music and
theaters could drop to this without
going hrflf mad?”
He went to her quietly. Soothingly,
he patted her arm, gradually drawing
her away as he did it.
“I know,” he said gently. "And
come! Now you’re going to pack.
You'll go back to your mother—until
we see what can be done.”
"Back to life!” she caught him up.
The following morning he drove her
to the station.
“Good-by!” he Bang out as the train
pulled away.
He stood a long time looking after
it. Then, whistling a tune that had
strange hitches In it, he sprang into
his wagon and turned Demen’s head
homeward.
When he reached the ranch he flung
the reins over the mare's back and
strode Into the house. No doubt one
of the boys would attend to the horse
He went straight to the little room at
the hack of the house which had been
Pearl's.
‘'God!" he whispered, "bring her
bark! Bring her bark!”
For, all at o«ce, he knew that unless
he had hopes of her coming bark he
could not go on. He had thought he
could grit his teeth and work. Now
he knew that he couldn't.
The only way he could get himself
to go out with the hoys and work was
to tell himself that her first letter
would bring news of her coming back.
And so he lived, in hope, until the
letter came. One of his boys deliv
ered It to him two nights later, as he
sat smoking on the back step, watch
ing the red ball of the sun drop behind
the prairie.
With eager hands, he took It. His
fingers trembled as he tore it open. He
bent, shoulders contracted. His eyes
were like fires.
“Darling Johnnie,” he read, “I can
hardly wait till you sell the old place
and come East."
He dropped the letter. He covered
his eyes with his shirt sleeves. His
shoulders heaved. He was sobbing as
he had sobbed when a little boy.
But gradually he got back the cour
age to goon: "Oh, Johnnie darling this
is the only place to live! I have been
in a dream of happiness since I re
turned. Of course I could not be so
happy if 1 didn't know you were com
ing soon. Goodness! Ilow 1 have
danced, and teaed, and played the
pianola!”
After all he did not go on. He could
not. He knew what the rest of the
letter was like. Hearing a commotion
in the corral, he got up and pushed his
steps toward it. He dared not sit and
think.
And it was with welcome that he
saw an obstreperous broncho tearing
round and round the corral, defying
authority.
“Don’t go in!” cried the men in hor
ror, as he vaulted the fegce and made
toward the wild beast.
John laughed. Here, for a moment,
he could forget his pain. He headed
off the animal, cornered it. Then reck
lessly, step by step, he neared it.
When be came to he was lying in
bed with a doctor bending over him.
One movement told him that his leg
was broken. He lay back, closing his
eyes in pain.
Dimly, lie saw figures flying about
waiting on him. He was conscious of
some one puttering over the fire. An
other of the boys straightened his pil
low. Still another asked him if there
was anything he wanted.
“Ther'e's not a letter?” he asked.
Hut through the long day none came.
Quietly, he, lay on his bed with his
eyes wandering out over the plain.
The darkness fell at. last. Pitch-black
ness came.
‘‘Johnnie, darling!" he was saying to
himself, as she used to say it. ‘‘Oh,
Johnnie, darling.”
Or was some one else saying it? Sud
denly it seemed to him that a voice in
the pitch-blackness about him was say
ing it. He propped himself up on his
elbow. Yes, there it was again:
"Johnnie, darling!”
And his own lips were closed! He
sat up straight now.
"Pearl!” he cried, in the threatening
voice of a child, who, if disapi>ointed.
will go into wild, inconsolable, hysteri
cal crying.
But there was no disappointment in
store for him; Pearl was really there
in the darkness beside him.
With a broken cry, she flew to him.
She sobbed herself still in his arms.
“I took the next train back—after
writing that letter—” she whispered
"Oh, Johnnie, darling, I missed you so
—and our life out here—and, yes—and
the silence! 1 have been deaf, before.
Oh. I love it, now! Don’t leave it, dar
| ling! Let us stay here, always, you
i and I!”
Colored Column
A good crowd was present to
witness the Children's Day pro
gram Sunday.
The officers of Lapile Lodge
were installed at the last meeting.
Some good talks were made,, after
which refreshments were served
and enjoyed by all present.
The Union County Colored
Teachers' Normal and Institute
closed a month's session on last
Wednesday. There Were 75 teach
ers enrolled. The Normal was
conducted by Prof. J. R. Dykes
Just before the Normal closed tl e
annual teachers’ meeting was he d
and the following officers»elected:
C. J. Allen, president; L. S. Scrog
gins. vice-president; Alabama Ire
land. secretary; B. J. Gardener,
treasurer; C. Phillip, cor. secy ;
normal board members. J. R. Dykes,
R. B. Benson, S. IV>. Thompson,
J. H. Henderson, R. S. Scott. The
Normal was quite beneficial to all.
Old papers at the News office.
Lodge Directory.
Roosevelt Chapter, No. 188. Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every second
and fourth Tuesday in each month.
Mrs. C. Williams, W. M.
Emma Bear!, Secy.
EAST LAKE LODGE No. 6362 G.
U. 0. of 0. F. meets First and Third
Thursday in each month.
G. W. Smith, N. G.
T W Scates, P. S.
GOOD LUCK LODGE No. 259 F. &
A. M meets First and Fourth Saturday
night. All visitors welcome.
Geo. Kelso. W. M.
S. L. Glenn, Sec.
OMEGA COMMANDERY No.4 Knight
Templars meet every 2nd Thursday
night in each month.
J. H. Law. E. C.
E. Brooks. Recorder.
SPINOLA Lodge No. 261, C. of W.
A., meets every first and third Wednes
day night at 8 o'clock.
J. C. Ellis, Gov.
S. G. Crayton, Secy.
LEBANON, Chapter No. 41, R. A. M
meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday night
at 7:30. Emmett Holly, H. P.
W. A. High, Secy.
Royal Circle of Friends, R. A.Williams
No. 324, meets every first and third
Friday night. All visiting friends are
welcomg. G. W. Smith. President.
Lula Oliver. Secretary.
JEWEL TABERNACLE, No. 412,
meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.
Augusta Steverson, H. P.
Tena Harris, C. R.
BLUE LIGHT LODGE No 153 K.ofP.
meets First and Third Tuesday in each
month. J B Francis, C. C.
A. Lewis, K. of R. S.
ELECTRIC LIGHT COURT OF' CA
LANTHE, No. 70, meets first and third
Tuesday in each month at 1:45 p. m.
Lizzie Oliver, W. C.
Ever Pittman, R. D.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO TA
CONSTITUTION OP THE STATE
or ARJCANSAS.
Notice is hereby given that the
following Joint resolution, proposing
an amendment to the State Const!
tut ion, was passed by the General
Assembly at its regular session of
19)3, and that the same will be
submitted to the electors of the
State at the next general election,
to lie held Monday, September 14 th,
1914, for adoption or rejection.
Proposed Amendment No. 15.
That tiie following is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to the
Constitution of tiie State of Ar
kansas. and tiie same being submit
ted to tiie electors of tiie State
for approval or rejection at tiie
next general election for Senators
and Representatives, If a majority
of tiie electors voting at such elec
tion adopt gut'll amendment tiie same
shall become a part of tiie Consti
tution of tiie State of Arkansas
to-wit:
That Section Fifteen (15) of Article
Five (6) of tiie Constitution of tiie State
ot A-kansas, as amended by Amendment
No. 13. declared by tiie Speaker of tiie
House of Representatives on February
Kith, 1913. to have been adopted, be
amended so As to read as follows:
"Section 15. The members of tiie Gen
eral Assembly shall receive »s their
salary tiie sum of Seven Hundred and
Fifty ($750.00) Dollars, pxeept the Presi
dent of the Senate and Speaker of tiie
House of Representatives, each of whom
shall receive as his Salary Fight Hun
died and Fifty ($850.00)' Dollars. Tor
tiie term of two (2) years; and In ad
dition to such salary the members of the
General Assembly shall receive five
cents per mile for each mile traveled in
going to and returning from the seat of
government over Hie most direct and
practicable route. Said salary shall be
payable in the following mariner, to-wlt:
Five i$5 00) Dollars per day for the first
hundred days of any regular session of
tiie General Assembly; Provided, the
President of the Senate and Speaker of
the House of Representatives may draw
Six i $0.00) Dollars per day for the first
hundred days of any regular session.
Tiie remainder of their salary shall be
paid to them uuarterly on the first dav
of January. April. July and October of
the year following any regular session
of the General Assembly, and the Audi
tor of State shall draw his warrants In
favor of the members of the General
Assembly or said dates for the amount
of salary due each at that time, and
mail same to the members at their re
spective postoffice addresses. No mem
ber of either House shall receive any
salary or emoluments for his services
other than Is provided for herein. Th<»
terms of all members of the General As
sembly shall begin on the day of their
election.
Tiie above resoldtlon was Tiled In the
office of the Secretary of State on March
6. 1913.
Each elector may vote for or against
the above amendment
Witness my official signature this 19th
day of February. 1914.
EARRE W HODGES.
(Seal) Secretary of 8tate.
Life's “Commencement” Non?
Upon You
El
All over the country thousands of young men and wo
men are being graduated from high schools and colleges in
this glorious month of June.
This is “commencement” mo’th, the month when
young people, the thrift of whose parents have permitted
them an education, are beginning life in earnest.
To wage the battle successfully requires capital and
there is no better, surer way of getting capital than to save
a margin of vour income every month and put it beyond the
reach of chance or caprice.
Put it in this bank, where both your efforts •’nd ours
will add to its steady growth and where it will always be
ready for you when the “big chance” comes along.
It’s a safer way for the present and a happier way for
the future.
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