DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. VIII. NO. 38.
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. JANUARY 23. 1215.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
FR4NK VAUGHTERS MURDERED.
i Body Found Early Last Friday Morning
Riddled With Buckshot.
As G. D. Harris started to the
Ouachita riyer early last Friday
morning to get a load of fish from
Frank Vaughters, a well known
fisherman residing at Felsenthal,
he found the lifeless body of Mr.
Vaughters at the edge of the over
flow riddled with buckshot.
The murdered man had left Fel
senthal Thursday afternoon about
5 o’clock for his house boat on the
river near there with a sack of
flour and G. W. Tugwell says he
heard two gun shots just about
dark east of his place and from the
direction of the location where
Vaughter's body was found the
next morning, so his body probably
lay there all night before being dis
covered.
The deceased was about 50
years of age and leaves a wife and
one married daughter, Mrs. John
Harrison, who resides in Louisiana.
He was well liked by all who knew
him and was the clerk of R. H.
Partee Camp. W. O. W., of Felsen
thal.
Justice of the Peace C. B. Wood
of Huttig was notified and he went
to Felsenthal where he summoned
a coroner’s jury, composed of M.
B. Phillips. Ernest Smith, Walter
Kelly, Jeff Boyette. E. D. Garner,
E. L. Willians, M. A. Lewis. John
Dees, Allen Martin, C. R. Gillispie.
Joe Zumo and Gager McLemore.
After viewing the remains, exam
ining the ground and hearing all
the evidence available the jury re
turned a verdict that the deceased
came to his death from gun shot
wounds inflicted by some person
unknown.
The funeral was held from tin*.
family residence at Felsenthal at
10:30 o’clock Saturday morning
under the auspices of R. H Partee
Camp, W. O. W., and interment
made at Harper Springs cemetery.
The tragedy is deplored by all
and it is hoped that the guilty par
ty will be found and made to suffer
the full penalty as the murdered
man was evidently shot down in
cold blood without even a warning
of what was coming.
This line just filled the bill.
Tax Collector's Oates.
Strong. Lapile twp., Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday, January 27,
28 and 29.
Lapile, Lapile twp.. Monday p.
m., and Tuesday a. m., February
1 and 2.
Huttig. Lapile twp., Tuesday p.
m., and Wednesday and Thursday,
February 2, 3 and 4.
Felsenthal, Lapile twp., Friday,
February 5.
Junction City, Henderson twp.,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
February, 10, 1 1 and 12.
El Dorado from February 13 un
til April 10, by which time all
taxes must be paid or become de
linquent.
Attendtlon Old Soldiers.
There will be a called meeting of
James Newton Camp No. 1290,
U. C. V., at El Dorado on Satur
day, Feb. 6, for the purpose of
adopting resolutions regarding the
turning over of the Federal Veter
ans’ Home in East Tennessee to
the Confederate Veterans. A full
attendance is desired.
J. H. Lf.e, Captain.
Live Stock Raising In Arkansas.
Arkansas is one of the best
adapted states to live stock raising
in the United States. This fact is
predicated on several good and
well known facts.
1. Arkansas is a state of cheap
lands, and land is the foundation
upon which the stock-raiser’s busi
ness is built.
2. Arkansas is a well watered
state, and has an abundance of liv
ing springs, of running streams and
innumeralbe lakes, furnishing plen
ty of pure drinking water, and in
addition an abundant supply of well
water is available in all sections at
a nominal cost.
3. Arkansas has an average
rainfall of 51 inches, well distri
buted throughout the growing sea
son, insuring ample moisture for
hay. forage, grain crops and pas
turage.
4. Arkansas has a mean tem
perature of from 54 to 58 degrees,
evidencing a long pasturing and
growing season, and insuring a
mildness in winter that obviates
the necessity for expensive hous
ing for stock that is so often re
quired in the stock growing spates
of the north, east and west.
5. Arkansas has no blizzards of
severity to do damage in winter, no
oppressive hot and burning tem
perature or winds to cause loss or
damage in the summer.
i 6. Arkansas is a cotton raising
state, with 60 cotton oil mills,
producing annually over 300.000
tons of cotton seed meal, the best
and cheapest basis for a concen
trated feed or balance ration known
to the United States.
7. Arkansas has an abundance
of cheap and good labor available
for stock raising.
8. Arkansas has two modern
packing plants in driving distance
of much of her territory, qmd is in
easy reach of Memphis, Kansas
City. St. Louis, Oklahoma City and
Ft. Worth for marketing purposes.
9. Arkansas has sufficient
transportation facilities to put her
in easy touch with any or all of the
best markets with moderate cost
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10. Arkansas is the gateway to
a large part of the South now con
suming large quantities of meat
products, mules and horses, tnat
must be shipped in from other
states.
John H. Page,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
10 Cents Per Hundred.
Old newspapers for sale
at the News office at 10c
per hundred as long as they
last. Come early as the
supply is limited.
Brasher families to Move.
A real estate deal was closed
i Wednesday whereby A. G. Fish
and F. W. Scott become the own
ers of the farms of G. W. Bra h;r
and his sons. W. E., H. L. and J.
T., and his son-in-law, J. J. Cole.
Tne Brasher family is one of the
oldest in this part of the county.
They will move to Alice, Texas, to
try their fortunes in the Lone Star
State and the best wishes of the
community go with them.
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Home for Confederate Veterans.
J. H. Lee, captain of James
Newton Camp No. 1290, U. C. V.,
of El Dorado, has received a letter
from Major General J. R. Gibbons
of Bauxite informing him that a bill
now pending in Congress will prob
ably pass which will give to the
Confederate Veterans the Federate
Veterans’ Home located in eastern
Tennessee. The bill carries with
it a sufficient appropriation to care
for home and the change will prob
ably be made about July 1st.
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Sidelights on So'ons.
The eldest man in the Fortieth
General Assembly is J. Monroe
Smith. For 70 years he has re
sided on the same farm in Union
county and during that time has
served in numerous local offices
and has been a member of the:
legislature six times. His first*
public office was marshal of El j
Dorado. Later he served as sher- j
iff of Union county two terms arid |
a clerk of the Circuit Court one
term. He was also constable of
El Dorado township.
In 1383 Mr. Smith was appoint
ed sergeant-at-arms in the legisla
ture. Ten years later he was elec
ted to the house. He was re-,
elected in 1895. In 1897 he was
elected to the Senate. In 1907 he
was again appointed sergeant-at
arms in the Senate. In 1913 he
was elected to the Senate a sec
ond time.
He was the father of the famous
"Smith railroad bill." which passed
the legislature in 1897. It pro
vided that the state should give
1 0.000 acres of state land pcr mile
to a company that should build a
| railroad to compete with the Iron
Mountain between the northern
land southern boundaries of the
state. The road was never com
pleted and the land ultimately re
deemed by the owners.
In the present session Senator
Smith was a candidate for presi
dent of the body. He has intro
duced a bill to compensate state
convicts or their families out of the
products of their labor for the
state. He introduced the same
biil in 1913. The bill passed the
Senate, but failed in the house.
Senator Smith has also introduced
a bill to abolish the State Land
Commission.
Senator Smith is a war veteran.
-fcUUjaSJQB3^“ a prisoner the
battle of Getfvdfgjrg. Aflt-r' th*
close of the w‘ar he returned to the
Union county farm, where he was
reared and except for the time
when his official duties kept him
away, he has lived there since.—
Arkansas Gazette, Wednesday,
Jan. 20.«
A Correction.
The list of officers of the Wood
men Circle as printed in our last
week's issue was correct with the
exception of the following:
Attendant Mrs. N. H. Knox.
Asst. Attendant Mrs. M. L.
Phillips.
I. S. Mis. W. A. Br.nson.
0. S.—A. P. Phillips.
State of Ohio, city of Toledo, l gg.
Lucas County, 1
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
senior partner of ttie firm of F. J. Cheney 1
& Co., doing business in the City of To
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE ,
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev
ery case of Catarrli that cannot be eured
by the use of HALL’S CATARRH CURE. ;
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my preser.ee, tins 6th day of December,
A. D. 1SSG.
(Seal) A- W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY * CO., Toledo. O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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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- j
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. S. K. Burnett Pastor.
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GREATEST PROBLEM
wu are long on produc
tion, SHORT ON DISTRI
BUTION.
By Peter Radford
. Lerturpr National Farmers' t'nlon
The economic distribution of
arm products is today the world's
greatest problem and the war.
while it has brought it» hardships,
lias clearly emphasized the im
portance of distribution as a fact- ;
or in American agriculture and !
promises to give the farmers the
co-operation of the government J
and the business men the solution j
i of their marketing problem.
1 bis result will, in a measure,
compensate us for our war losses,
for the business interests and
government have been in the
main assisting almost exclusively
on the production side of agricul
ture. While the department of
agriculture has been dumping
tons of literature on the farmer
telling him how to produce, the
farmer has been dumping tons of
products in the nations garbage
can for want of a market.
The World Will Never Starve.
At no time since Adam and
Eve were driven from the Garden
of Eden have the inhabitants of
this world suffered from lack of
production, but some people have
gone hungry from the day of cre
ation to this good hour for the
lack of proper distribution. Slight
variations in production have
forced a change in diet and out
locality has felt the pinch of want
while another surfeited, but the
world as a whole has ever been
a land of plenty.
We now have less than onc
tenth of the tillable land of the
earth's surface under cultivation,
and we not only have this sur
plus area to draw on but it is safe
to estimate that in case of dire ne
cessity one-half the eartn s popu
lation cou'd knock their living out
\ o£ the trees of the forests, gather
from streams. i\o one should ne
come alarmed; the world will
never starve.
The consumer has always feared
that the producer would not sup
ply him and his fright has found
expression on the statute books
of our states and nations, and the
farmer has been urged to produce
recklessly and without reference
to a market, and regardless of the
demands of the consumer.
Back to the Soil.
Tlie city people have been urg
ing each other to move back to
the farm, but very few of them
have moved. We welcome our
city cousins back to the soil and
this earth's surface contains 16,- j
092,160,000 idle acres of tillable j
land where they can make a liv-'
ing by tickling the earth with a 1
forked stick, but we do not need j
them so far as increasing prodtic- j
tion is concerned. The city man
has very erroneous ideas of agri
cultural conditions. The common
ly accepted theory that we are
j shoft on production is all wrong, j
i Our annual increase in produc
tion far exceeds that of oar in- j
I crease in population.
The World as a Farm.
Taking the world as one big
farm, we tind two billion acres of
land in cultivation. Of this amount
there is approximately 750,000,000
acres on the western and 1,260,
000.000 acres on the eastern hem
isphere. iri cultivation. This esti
mate does not include grazing
lands, forests, etc., where large
quantities of meat are produced.
The world’s annual crop ap
proximates fifteen billion bushels
of cereals, thirteen billion pounds
of fibre and sixty-five million I
tons of meat.
The world shows an average
increase in cereal production of)
13 per cent during the pa-t de
cade, compared with the previous
five years, while the world’s pop
ulation shows an increase of only
3 per cent.
The gain in production far ex
ceeds that of our increase in pop
ulation, and it is safe to estimate 1
that the farmer can easily in- |
•rease production 25 per cent if a
remunerative market can be |
found for the products.
Are you attend,ng the meeting?
Your Mew Year Resolution
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Lot it be one that is within your power to keep and one
that will do you most good of all the many resolutions that
one might make. Resolve to save some part of your earn
ings each month during the year. Determine to have a
tank account and add to it faithfully and systematically
throughout the year.
Resoiye to get ready for the future opportunities that
may come to you, then strengthen that resolution by re
membering that emergencies often arise and that a little
ready cash comes in very handy at such times.
With this two-fold incentive start the New Year right
with the earnest intention of making this year more pros
perous and happy than any that have gone before.
We will help you carry out your good resolution by ex
tending tc \ ou every courtesy and accommodation we can
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BUSINESS POLICY!
To maintain our supremacy with the HOME-LOVING public it
has betn, and atways will be, our business policy to sell only de
pendable merchandise at popular prices, to give the maxium of value
anJ, if wanted, to extend accommodating credit. The store ser
vice can be heiptul only by permanently satisfying the customer.
The greatest asset a merchant can have is the good-will of the
public, and teat is our constant a,s,u»
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buy at ilia Monroe Furniture Co., as it will mean satisfaction.
We absolutely guarantee to undersell any firm in the United
States, quality considered, and in addition: wa pay the freight
charges on ail orders over ten dollars. Write us today.
The
FURNITURE CO.
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132-138 North Second St.
MOM ROE, - LOUISIANA
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P D. A. Keasler,
Local Agent
or address
F. E. Schroeder
Assistant Cent ral Passenger Agent
Little Rock, Arkansas
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ROUND TRIP TICKETS
This office has been made a regu
lar Coupon ticket office and we
are prepared to sell straight or
round trip tickets to any point in
the United £Tates on short notice.
We can check your baggage through
saving you trouble in rechecking.
We can also save you money h>y
buying round trip tickets, and
will be glad to accommodate you
in this manner
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