DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. VIII. NO. 46
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. MARCH 20. 1915.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
Mrs. Julius Tike Dead.
Ella, the beloved wife of Julius
A. Fike, died at the family home
west of town at 5 o’clock Saturday
afternoon, March 13, 1915, of
apolexy, brought on by headache.
The deceased was a sister of
Mrs. G. B. Wood and a daughter of
Frank Taylor, one of Union coun
ty's oldest and most respected citi
zens. She was beloved by all who
knew her and was a loying and
devoted wife.
She leaves a husband and five
daughters, the oldest 12 years of
age and the youngest 5 months, to
mourn her demise and miss h$r
loving care.
The funeral services were held
at 4 o clock Sunday afternoon and
the remains laid to rest in the
Jameson cemetery near Strong.
Rev. R. Hester officiating.
The husband has the sympathy
of all in his bereavement.
Methodist Church Services
The following services will be
hbld at Union church Sunday: Sun
day school at 10:00 a. m. Preach- j
ing at 11 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.
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Last Lyceum Number March 20th.
The Taormina Trio, the last
number of the School Improvement
lyceum course will appear at Union
church Saturday night, March 20.
This attraction promises to be as!
good as the Kuehn Concert Co.,
which was here last week and all
who attended that number were
loud in their praise of the enter
tainment and spent a most enjoy
able evening. If you wish to enjoy
yourself and at the same time help
along a noble cause be sure and at
tend the Taormina Trio.
Lumber Notes.
A great deal of the oak used on
the Pacific coast comes from the
eastern part of Asia.
The timber industry represents
37 per cent of the annual produc
tion of wealth of British Columbia.
Virginia uses more wood for
boxes and crates than any other
state, followed by New York, Illi
nois, Massachusetts and California,
in the order named.
The annual cut of British Co
timber is approximately 2
billion feet. There are 420 mills
and 790 logging camps in the
province, employing about 60,000
men.
Boxmakers in the United States
use more than four and a half bill
ion board feet of lumber each year,
or more than one-tenth of the en
tire lumber cut of the country.
In parts of the west where trees
are scarce, sage brush is used for
fuel. In Nevada the large main
stems are trimmed by Indians at
$3.00 a cord and delivered to the
user at about $6.50. Sage brush
burns rapidly and is rather dirty,
but produces good heat.
A log raft containing one million
feet of cedar, said to be tne largest
ever floated on the Pacific, recent
ly made trip from British Columbia
to Puget Sound. It was 100 feet
long and 70 feet wide: it stood 15
feet out of the water and 20 feet
under. _
Diversify, But be Cautious.
The agitation of the subject of
diversification during the fall
opened the way for a good many to
urge diversi'atin who are the
wisest counsellors about farming
The subject of diversification is
broad and deep and has many an
g'es. Itisane^y matter to ad
vise a man to diversify his crops
and leave the subject there; but
that is not all.
The man who diversifies is going
to succeed or fail, accordingly as
he does it. Some who have been
won to diversification, and away
.from so much cotton and corn, are
going to substitute crops that will
involve them in failure, just as
surely as cotton and corn would.
Some are going largely into the
growing of potatoes, others are
turning their attention to cante
loupes, watermelons, cabbage, etc.
It does not make so much differ
ence what crops are grown, if they
are produced at the lowest cost,
and can be marketed at a profit.
However, ft should be remem
bered that diversification does not
mean to quit raising one thing and
go to raising another. Under that
plan, the same old troubles would
be met in a different form. The
Lord says in the good book, “Seek
ye first the kingdom of Heaven and
all else will be added unto you.”
In diversification it might be as
truly said Seek ye first a living at
home, then put your surplus into
any good money crop, and prosper
ity will be added unto you.
It is wise to produce, first of all,
the necessaries for home and farm
use, then grow the staple crops,
such as corn and cotton. Cotton
is a good money crop if not de
pended on to buy everything else.
Corn is a fine surplus crop. If it
cannot be sold for cash at a good
price it can be fed to stock, and
sold at a good price in that way.
A bushel of corn will make ten j
pounds of pork. But corn should |
not be fed to grow hogs. A little
corn fed to growing hogs is all
right, but if you depend on corn
entirely to grow hogs, you will lose
money. Pasture, sorghum, peas,
soy beans, raps, skimmed milk,
middlings, rice polish, etc., are the
things to grow hogs with, and corn
is the thing to fatten them for the
market with.
Do not go too strong on potatoes
and truck, unless you are a truck
farmer. Anyway, a variety is bet
ter than a single crop. Get into
the stock business as soon and as
strong as you can. Get hog vacci
nation started in your neighbor
hood and stamp hog cholera out.
You can do it.
John H. Page,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Notice ot Election.
Notice is hereby given that an
election will be held in the incor
porated Town of Huttig, Ark., on
Tuesday, April 6, 1915. for the
purpose of electing a Mayor, Re
corder and five Aldermen to serve
for one year.
C. T. Thompson,
W. H. Moore, Mayor.
Recorder.
At Least Three Candidates for Congress.
Present indications are that
there will be at least three candi
dates for congress from this dis
trict at the next primary. Taking
it for granted that Hon. W. S.
Goodwin will be a candidate for re
election he will be opposed by R.
S. Warnock of Magnolia, who made
the race last time against Sam
Samson and Mr. Goodwin, and
Representative Farrer Newberry of
Arkadelphia. Several other names
have also been mentioned and it
may be a lager field than three be
fore the time rolls around.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pay $50.00 as a reward to an>
one, not in its employ, who will fur
nish information from which an\
09rson shall be convicted of depre
uating or trespassing upon the tim
Per of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 1 906
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Secy, and Treai
New Game Law In force.
The measure for a new game
law, enacted by the last legislature,
has been signed by Governor Havs
and is now a law. It is the first
real game law Arkansas has ever
had. No county is exempt.
The bill was a Senate measure
and had a strenuous career. The
main features were included in a
bill by Senator Futrell, but the
measure finally passed was from
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The principal features include a
system of game wardens and depu
ties. supported by the licenses and
penalties, a bag limit for quail and
ducks, shortened hunting season
and a commission to serve without
pay.
Written permission Is required
when the hunter desires to go up
on the enclosed lands of another.
The bag limit is 15 quail and 25
ducks for one day. Licenses are
requires as follows: On bird dogs
$1 each per year; fishing with arti
ficial bait, $1; trapping for fur
bearing animals with more than 10
traps, $10.
Rigid restrictions are placed up
on nonresident hunters, and no
game may be shipped from the
state for market purposes.
The open season for quail, tur
key and deer is from Noverber 10
to January 10.
> How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially abl > to carry
out any obligations mado by l.is firm.
NATIONAL LANK OF COMIIEUCE,
Toledo, O.
| Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu
I cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
s^nt free. prire 75 cents p< r bott'e. Sold
by all Druggists.
Tak UaU's Family Fills for constipation.
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Notice Tax Payers.
All taxes are due April ICth.
1915, the provisions of the Depos
itory Law compells me to report all
taxes delinquent, not paid to the
Collector by 12 o’clock, p. m.,
April 10th, 1915, which will be
complied with bv me.
J. M. Wallace,
Collector.
WHY?
Was it really a gruelling cont€3tf
Who would tether a horse to a sap
ling?
Why did the song die In her white
throat?
Could the dog look as if he, too, un
derstood?
Do they usually remain tacit after
trimming the heavy villain?
Wouldn't such love making have a
tendency to scorch the begonias?
Who can prove that, surely, the sun
was never so bright as upon that day?
Who can say they lived happily ever
after? Didn't their troubles just be
gin?
Do you believe, for a moment, that
the soldiers didn’t know it was a
woman?
Do you believe an ordinary man
could say all those things right on
the spur of the moment ?
Would a thinking girl refuse him
because of his vast amount of moneys?
And why not call it money?
Is it reasonable for her to sit and
look out Into the night when all good
people should be hitting the hay?
Why didn't ho explain on page 7.1,
Instead of going away and waiting un
til page 475 to straighten things out?
What governor of today would say.
"Give me a kiss, sweeting, and tell me
thy name? Would the voters stand
for such a thing?
Is it credible to state that the sim
ple, homemade thing she wore looked
better than any Worth creation in the
ballroom? On the novel, don't you
think it sagged«a trifle in the back?
BORDEAUX MIXTURE UCED SUC
CESSFULLY AT EXPERIMENT
STATION FARM AT FAYETTE
VILLE—OTHER MIXTURES.
The parlv crop of Irish potatoes in
Arkansas is especially subject to fruit
troubles that can be kept out largely
by spraying. These are the early
blight, sometimes called black rust,
and the Colorado potato beetle, sotne
irnes called simply the potato bug.
The early blight causes the loss often
■is much as fifty per cent of a crop
because of the failure to form tubers.
It makes matters worse in a dry sea
son, and in dry seasons causes the
greatest trouble. Every Irish potato
grower should spray for the blight
because it is so vide spread
that there is hardly a potato patch in
the state free from it, and we should
spray also for the potato beetles if
they appear in the potato patch. The
spray for the beetles can be simply
added to the regular spraying for the
blight and will cost no more for ap
plication, the only cost being the small
amount for the poison.
For the early blight use Bordeaux
mixture at the strength of 4-4-50. This
is the ordinary Bordeaux mixture. For
the potato beetle you can add to this
mixture when you are making the or
dinary spraying, five or six ounces of
Paris green to every'50 gallons of
spray mixture, or you can use two or
three pounds of arsenate of lead paste
to 50 gallons of this spray mixture.
The regular spraying will be given
as follows: The first one when the po
tato plants are about 8 inches high,
the second and third ones at intervals
of about two weeks following this.
Usually these three will be sufficient
in any ordinary season.
Lee Hewitt,
Arkansas College of Agriculture.
ARKANSAS CATTLE DECREASE
Hunger and Disease Are Instrumental
In Disappearance of Good Stock.
Kaeh year witnesses a decrease In
the number of Arkansas cattle, in
late years the rate of disappearance of
the cattle of this state has become ap
>alling. With this fact staring him in
•he face the cattle raiser of Arkansas
has begun to cast about for a reason.
He asks, "why is this taking off of the
best Arkansas cattle getting greater
every years?"
The answers to this question are
nanifoid. Many of the very best cat
tle of the state are being sold annual
This type a monev maker.
ly because the scarcity of feed does
not justify the Arkansas cattle raiser
In keeping: them. He is forced to sell
or lose money.
The greatest cause of this decrease
in the number of home cattle, however,
is death. Cattle, like other domestic
animals are heir to many diseases.
Kvery year cattle raisers of this state
lose hundreds of thousands of dollars
on cattle dying from tick fever, but the
most rapacious disease among Arkan
sas cattle and the one that causes
more deaths than probably any other
one factor, is starvation, aided more
nr less by last season’s tick crop.
We say wie cannot afford to buy feed
for those starving animals, yet there
is one resource, our credit. It would
pay to mortgage those cattle to raise
the price of a little grain for them to
eat. In early summer when they have
had a chance to fatten we can sell
thoFe we ran spare to pay otT the mort
gage. Two pounds of cotton seed meal
per day contain more nourishment
than all those bleached out stalks i
row can held, in sixty days we shall
begin to have good pastures. Twen
tv beat eat forty pounds a day. Fixfv
days requires 2,400 pounds of cotton
seed meal. Feeding that to vour cat
tle will leave a fertilizer on your field
that will cost $M0.4»i.
It is a great benefit to the farmer
to have his community recognized as
the place where stock of certain type
and quality can bo secured in largo
numbers. This is the secret 'of man;
of the great breeding cenlt rs of the
country.
Dr.Prkes
CREAM
BAKING POWDER
Made from cream
of tartar, derived
from grapes, the
most delicious and
wholesome cf all
fruit acids.
Its superiority is unquestioned.
Its fame world-wide.
Its use a protection and a guar
antee against alum food.
If you wizh. to avoid a danger to your food
READ THE LABEL
and decline to buy or use any baking pow
der that is not plainly designated as a cream
of tartar powder.
Cats.
Cats are urban nightingales, sing
off key. Their note is plaintive be
cause they are genuine artists, their
luck is rotten They turn instinctively
i to a minor key because the major, or j
house, key has been turned on them. !
j ■' hey would be. pastoral could they but
browse off the heather, but their
tastes are table d’hote and hereditary
sorrows have driven them to milk.
Having destined them for sorrow,
1 fate has been consistent and made
j r them flexible and limp so that they
j w ill not he broken. Like hash and
J actors, they have pine lives, and all
1 of them like the iives of hash and
actors. When they have gulped fhefr
fill of woe nine times a wagon runs
over them and they vanish.
Mautical Speed Terms.
“Knot,” the conventional nautical
mile per hour, is assumed to be 6.080
feet. A statute mile Is 5,280 feet. For
navigating purposes a mile of latitude
and a minute of latitude are consid
ered to be of equal value. Consequent
ly a nautical mile equals the length
of a minute of the meridian, and,
strictly speaking, is different for every
latitude. The United States sea
mile is 6,082.66. For charting and
other purposes ten cables equal on®
knot, although a cnble length is gen
erally assumed to be 600 feet. The
1 term 'knot’’ originated from the fact
that knots were tied in the log line
which was used to ascertain the rate
of speed a ship was making through
the water.
The incubator is not changeable.
After it is once started It will set per
sistently until the end of the hatch.
if the farmer of the present day
does not succeed It will not be be
cause he is not being offered every
possible assistance. The United
States Department of Agriculture is
I conducting extensive investigations, to
1 solve his problems, while most of the
; states are co-operating along the same
i lines through state agricultural experi
ment station*. '***
I It fs no longer necessary to sepa
I rate the sheep from the goats, because
in many of the western market?
choice. Juicy lamb ciiops come from
fat little Angoras, and it is said no
body can tell the difference after they
have been served on the table.
HELPS TOWARD LIVING
"Make each day a critic on the
last.”—Pope.
"I like not only to be loved, but to
be told that 1 am loved.'*—George
Eliot.
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia has do
nated $2,000,000, to Belgrade Univer
sity.
Mrs Kussell Sage will pay an In
come tax of $200,000, and Mrs. Hetty
Green is down for $180,000.
mm
ioney Makes
if planted in cur bark. Keep in mind
that we are a bank that does things Ev
ery man can't get rich, but every man
can save something. The only sure way
of saving money is by depositing it.
When it jingles in your pocket you want
to spend it. Your name would look well
cn our books. Ge.il and let us put it there
today.
Interest Taid on Time Deposits.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HUTTIC. ARKANSAS