STATE NEWS
BRIEFLYTOLD
For Readers Who Are Interested ?
In Arkansas and Its
Affairs.
■Camden.—Completion of the locks
nnd dams on the Ouachita river below
Camden will come up for discussion
at the meeting of the Camden Cham
her of Commerce The Chambers of
Commerce at ElDorado and Monroe
have been requested to send delega
tions. and these organizations will be
asked to lend their assistance in se
curing a sufficient appropriation from
<he present Congress to complete this
work.
Earle—Itinerary of the county-wide
diversification campaign in Critten
den county, in which Lindsey Rese.
■veteran farmer and soil and diversi
tiestion expert at Canton, Miss, will
be principal speaker, will begin Mon
day. January 23. and continue until
January 28. according to announce
ment by the local Chamber of Com
merce, co-operating with County
Agent K S. Barrentine in the cam
paign.
Grady.—Commissioners of the ir- |
kansas-Louisiana highway have a- [
warded the contract to the Oliver Con
•tructlon Company for resurfacing the
road from Grady to Gould.
bake Village—Lakeside high school
of I>ake Villago and Monticello and
Ewdoru high schools will stage a tri
angular dehate January 27, each
achool be*ng represented by t wo teams
one at home and one abroad. The im
migration question will be discussed.
Mountain View.—Arrangements are
being made for the erection of a new
ceurthouse here for Stone county II
8. Mabry, J. L. Lancaster and F- M |
Brewer of this place were appointed j
commissioners at the recent term of
the County Court, and work will likely j
begin in the early spring. An ap j
propriation of $40,000 was made by j
the Quorum Court for this purpose j
and the tentative plans are for the
erection of a suitable house of native
atone.
Bentonville —Benton county has
248,980 acres of improved land in
farms, the improved lands being of
greater extent in Benton county than :
In any other county in the state, ac
cording to figures issued by the Cen
bus Department Benton county also
ranks first in the value of live stock,
■$3,461,491; first in number of horses.
11,116; first in number of dairy cat
tle, 21,744; first In value of dairy pro
ducts, $648,496; first in value of poul
try. $268,313; first in production of
wheat. 290,662, and first in the produc ]
tion of apples, 3,187,012.
Magnolia.—The third number on the j
local lyeeum course was presented at j
the school auditorium Friday night!
by the Biltmore Society orchestra.
Heber Springs—R. A. Hamer, a
farmer Mving north of Heber Springs,
has just butchered two hogs that ag
gregated 1,272 pounds dressed, the
larger weighing 665.
Flippin.—John Stafford, farmer, liv
ing a few miles north of this pace,
la cashing in on a litter of five red
foxes he captured last spring in a
don. When he caught them he made
a wire cage for them and has taken
good care of them- Now they are
•leek and fat and their fur is prime
He has sold one for $8 and the other
four promise to bring more.
Eureka Springs.—Poultry dealers
In Carroll county last year shipped
poultry and eggs valued at $300.00
The turkey shipments in December
amounted to $40,000.
Ashdown.—A sale of pure bred Po
land-Chtna hogs was held one mile
•outh of town January 21 by J. A. Mc
Donald, owner of the Plainview stock
farm. This was the first sale of its
kind on the farm, it was said.
Piggott.—The directors of the Bank
of Piggott h've authorized the pay
ment of a semiannual dividend of five |
per cent to stockholders.
Ozark.—Work on the county high !
w-y will be resumed as soon as ina-1
ehinery arrives, according to the con- j
tractors.
Leslie.—A. N. Shipman of near Les
lie recently killed a hog that dressed
?60 pounds.
Conway.—C- A. Holland has been
appointed by Prosecuting Attorney
TV J Waggoner as special deputy for
thia county
Ijockesburg.—Plans are under way
here to gravel the principal streets of
lioekesburg. The work probably will
be completed within a few weeks.
Pas Arc—A new $2,000 clock has
been installed at the court house here
Bentonvllle.—Insubordination of 3
prisoners in the Benton county jail
culminated with an attack by Caarley
Darby on SherifT George Maples with
a piece of heavy pipe torn from the
bath tub connetions and an attempt
by Darbv, Mooney and Folser to es
cape
Newport.—Omer Allbright, former
ly with A. L. Crouch aJid Co. of
Batesville, today purchased the in
terest of T S. Holloway in the Hay
den-Hollo way Furniture and Hard
ware Company at Newport.
Mulberry.—Hal Hawkins and W. F.
Brlganoe have bought tha g/oorrj
store of Cazort ft Go here.
Cabot.—Tho Bank of Cabot made a
profit of IS per cant the past year,
it was reported at tha recent stock
holders’ meeting. A ten per cent divi
dend was paid, and the remainder of
the profits was passed to the surplus
fund. The deposits totaled $185,000.
Paragould.—Eugene Milam will
leave soon for Santa Fe, N- M., where
he will be manager of a branch store
of the J. Freeman Sho Company of
this city.
Earle—Tremendous cost of ship
ping feedstuff* into Crittendon county,
principally from the w-est, in view of
the amount to he saved by growing a
suffh ien: amount at home, is indicat
ed in a compilation of figures issued
by the Chamber of Commerce.
Leslie —A 10 per cent dividend was
declared and a considerable sum pass
ed to the surplus fund by the Board
of Directors of the Searcy County
Bank.
Hoxie.—C. C. Cherry manager of the
Arkansas Mill and Grain Company of
this place, has been appointed post
master at Hoxie to succeed B C.
Reid. Mr. Cherry was endorsed hv
the State Republican Committee. He
assumed the postmastership last
Wednesday
Newport—Willis Martin, the 12
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wal
ter Martin of this city, received pain
ful Injuries when he was struck by an
automobile.
Arkadelphia. — W. E. Barkman,
cashier of the Elk Horn Bank and
Trust Company has been elected presi
dent of the new Arkadelphia Chamber
of Commerce.
Hermitage.—The Hermitage S. I. A.
gave a minstrel last week, realizing
$50.
Thornton-—The Royd’s musical en
tertainers, appeared here recently as
the fourth attraction on the S I. A.
lyceum course.
Conway.—Three days of instruction
in sewing with demonstrations in
other lines by the county agents, will
be given in this county by Miss Leo
Griffin of Little Rock. Demonstra
tions will be given at Reeves, Perkins
and Providence
Fayetteville.—W. C- Remasters has
announced his candidacy for city clerk
in the Democratic primary to be held
in the latter part of February or first
of March. So far, Mr Lemasters is the
only candidate for the position.
Fayetteville.—J. F. Blaekstrom, field
representative of the Packing Sales
Corporation, left here recently for
Memphis, where he will attend the
sweet potato show held under the au
spices of the Farm Development Ru
reau and City Market Commission
The show is the first one of its kind
ever held.
Paragould. — Eolette, 14-yenr-old
daughter of Mr- and Mrs. George
Rogers of this city, is suffering from a
broken arm sustained when she at
tempted to throw a ball over the
house.
Cotter.—Baxter county is attracting
many liomeseekers who are coming
here from almost every state in the
Union, and while all are not buying
homes, yet not many are leaving
without buying.
Bentonville.—Bentonville friends of
J. Breckenbridge Eilis, author of "Lit
tle Fiddler of the Ozarks," are inter
ested in the film version of the book
which will be shown for the first time
on January 16 at Plattsburg, Mo.,
where Mr. Ellis now resides
Russellville. — The Rev. William
Hiram Foukes, general secretary of
the New Era Committee of the Pres
byterian church, preached at the Cen
tral Presbyterian Church last week
Magnolia—Taxes to be collected in
Columbia county from the 1921 assess
ments total ?G.ISO,030, according to
County Clerk John Marble. Clerk
Marble issued 272 marriage licenses
during the past year.
Quitman.—J. J. Meneos of Quitman
has installed a wireless outfit here,
with V. E. Phillips as operator
Conway—Judge and Mrs. W. R.
Wilson of Conway recently observed
the thirty-third anniversary of their
marirage.
I’aragould.—Thomas Watkins, son
of Ilev. T. H Watkins, pastor ot the
First Presbyterian church, won fust
prize in the essay contest instituted
by Superintendent J. W. Rainsey sev
eral weeks ago.
Leslie — A large barn on the Georgs
Rlair farm was destroyed by Are re
cently. A large quantity of corn and
hay was lost
Havana.—A revival is being con
ducted at the Baptist church here by
the Rev. J- A. Thompson.
McRae.—Several railroad officials
[ spent a day at this place recently
making inspections with the view of
putting in new tracks and enlarging
the loading sheds to take better care
of the strawberry shipments next
season.
Newport—The James Wholesale
Grocery Company of this city bought
out the Mullins Wholesale Grocery
Company at Jelks and has taken
chaige The branch house will be re
tained at Jelks, with Ben F. Burton
manager
STARTING PLANTS FOR GARDEN-SOWING SEED
HOW TO DEVELOP
THE BOX PLANTS
Transplanting and Nursing, the
Key to Success in the Art
of Growing Things.
HEAT AND SUNSHINE NEEDED
Tender Shoots Require Careful At
tention From Time They Come
Through Ground Until Planted
in the Open.
It is an art to produce from the
small vegetable or flower seed strong
and healthy plants that the owner will
be proud of when they are set out
in the open.
It is Intensely Interesting to note
the quick response plants will make
to a little attention and nursing.
Tomato, cabbage, pepper and other
vegetable plants, as well as any of
The Berry Box Plants.
the numerous kinds of flowers that
are first [planted in flats in the base
ment or placed in an upper fl >or win
dow where there is heat and sunlight,
must have attention. Next to warmth
and sunlight in importance is suffi
cient moisture to urge growth.
When the plants have reached an
age when they are large enough to he
r moved from the flat—without injury
to the roots, they should lie trans
planted to small pots or be»ry baskets
—anything that will hold the soil and
a little moisture. Cartons serve this
purpose very well.
Another transfer of the plant is
advisable as the roots betaine matted
—an indication that the basket or pot
it not large enough. It will he noted
that a larger container will soon
he found too small, and that an ad
dltionnl repotting will he advanta
geous, if a larger and healthier plant is
desired. Many careful gardeners make
at least three transplaatings before
the plant is set out In the open. By
that time It Is strong enough to battle
the elements with the possible ex
ception of frost.
In setting the plant In the open, by
this careful and Interesting method of
transplanting, the roots Intact with
the mass of soil clinging, may be
Long Earrings Worn.
Txmg earrings are worn by an In
creasing number *-f women with eve
ning or dinner gowns, and are being
worn on the stage by several of our
best dressed actresses. Jade, jet, coral
and lapis lazuli are frequent.
Diversity of Coat Designs.
Wraps sind coats for this winter are
noteworthy not only for their beauty
but for their diversity of design. There
la hardly a style trend that Is not
featured In one fora or another.
1 transferred in a tnnnner that not the
slightest injury is done to the tender
roots and soon tlie plant has taken
hold in its new home in a manner
that will astonish the inexperienced
cottage gardener—in fact it is not un
common for plants in the more ad
vanced stage of development to he
in blossom or bearing small fruit.
4 plants such as tomatoes transplanted
in the open in this manner should lie
staked at once—better still, have
the stakes in the ground before the
j patches may be seen on the roots and
sometimes on the lower part of the
stems.
HOMEGARDEN FLOWERS
What to Grow to Beautify Your
Home and Lawn.
Old-Fashioned Posies May Be Relied
Upon to Produce; Will Add
Beauty to Premises.
When making plans for the* home
vegetable garden all the emphasis
should not be placed upon vegetables,
hut provision should lie made for plant
ing a few flowers as well. Where a
cottage and a lawn are included in ilia
general scheme the Powers can often
tie arranged around the foundation of
the house, or in a bod separating the
lawn either from a neighboring
property or from the vegetable garden.
Old fashioned zinnia, petunia,
bachelor's button, cockscomb, scarlet
, 'age, and cosmos are among the most
I easily cultivated flowers and go a long
| way toward brightening up tlie general
i appearance of tiie home surroundings,
j Where space will permit a flower
! garden consisting of dahlias, asters,
: oanns, roses, gladioli, and various other
j (lowering plants that will add color and
| beauty to tlie place, and at the same
' time furnish cut flowers for tlie house,
j is highly desirable.
From the standpoint of economy, the
plantings around the foundations of the
j house should, ns a rule, he made of
j permanent low-growing shrubbery,
J mainly that which grows native In the
i locality, and the annual (lowering
[ plants given a place in connection with
I I
The Daisy—The American Legion's
Official Flower.
the garden proper or in a border. It te
urged, however, by the United States
Department of Agriculture that mop?
attention ln> given to improvement ol
j home surroundings, lac I tiding the care
1 of a good lawn and dowers.
Skirt Lengths.
Skirts are six or eight inelies from
the floor - some much shorter, some
longer—and the waist-line is at Hie
hips, the corsage often pour-lied slight
ly above a draped girdle which
swathes tin* hips closely.
For Party Wear.
For party wear— that is. daytime
festivities—smart little frocks of
white serge are being shown for chil
dren up to ten years, these sharing
honors with ruffled taffetas.
LIFE OF POPE
BENEDICT HAS
Bronchia! Affection, Not Consid
ered Serious, Developed
into Pneumonia.
NOT LONG ON PAPAL THRONE
Elevation to Hiad of the Church Took
Place in 1914—War Which He
Vainly Sought t<» End Af
fected Him Deeply.
Rome.—Pope* IVnediet XV is dead.
From a slight cold, which had not
■ been regarded an anything "-nous.
I double pneumonia developed, and ibe
physicians in attendance had given up
hope for the recovery ef their dis
tinguished patient, llieir bulletins bad
I in a measure prepared th* world for
! the sad event, which occurred early
| Saturday.
He bad lapsed Into delirium earlier
In the day and failed to recognize any
one at the bedside, and during the
early hours of the forenoon death was
i expected within a few hour*.
The pope wus in extreme weakness
! and restless.
Lying with closed eyes, he mur
mured "Peace, peace,” evidently allud
ing subconsciously to tba great mission
| of the pontificate in war time.
Tragic Scene at Dawn.
Other undistinguished messages fell
front his lips from time to time, but
his vitality had sunk so low that he
i spoke in the weakest of whispers.
Tlte day dawned upon a tragic scene
at the Vatican. The papal court joined
the cardinals in prayer. Outside in
rv
f
The Late Pope Benedict XV.
the plnzza of St. Peter's » crowd of
reverent men and women, mostly
kneeling with faces heavenward, ut
tered their supplications for the recov
ery of the Holy Father.
The four attending physicians did
all In their power to relieve Ids suffer
ings, hut they could hold out no hope
for ultimate recovery. The strain was
telling on all. In the anteroom off
the sick-ehamber high prelates of the
church, faces drawn with the agony
of their sorrow, prayed without ces
sation.
Suffers Great Pain.
At 8 a. m. the Holy Father was still
breathing, hut »ia in great pain and
suffering agonised contractions of the
throat. A brief bulletin was issued
saying:
•'His holiness is weaker. The symp
toms of pneumonia have extended,”
P*y this time ail hope had been alum
dune.d and the most optimistic of the
Vatican entourage laid come to realize
that tin! end was a matter of hours If
not minutes.
When the pope lost Consciousness
lute Friday afternoon the attending
physicians did not hesitate in express
ing the.r fears that death was at hand
The pope had linen sinking all daw
due to inliamuiation of the lungs and
weak :ieurt action, hut laid retained
consciousness. When he sank into
state ot coma, after many hours ,,f
patient suffering, all preparations had
been made and all pre-death ceremo
nies iiuupleled.
Shortly before noon the Vatican an
Bounced 'hat the pontiff had requested
the Iasi ■sueruiuHiits, realizing that he
was dying.
: -ilium ne was
I Wk-jn alive by use of ox.vjien and arti
| tii ial heart stimulants. At t|le
four physicians ut the ponMticaJ bed
side administered these resu»rntlveB at
frequent intervals.
Shortly after noon Mgr. Zatnpujjl
administered the last s»«>rament.
Cardinal Merry I tel Val, who, as
MAY AGREE TO ARBITRATE
Possibility of Amicable Settlement of
Dispute Between Nations of
Chile and Peru.
Santiago, Chile. Jan. 21 — Aeeeptanee
I'.v '"'tit Chile and I'eru of the United
States government's invitation for
them to send representatives to Wush
Injiton in an attempt to reach an njtree
nil nt regarding execution of the un
fulfilled ctauser of tin- treaty of Aneor
has revived Interest here in the ne
cardinal chamberlain, asuines papal
authority until a new pope is elected. 1
assumed permanent residence at the
Vatican.
Cardinal Glorg* began recitation of
the prayers for tlnr dying at 10 o’clock
I Friday morning. 'Ibis was the official
beginning of the grand penitentiary
; ceremonial.
At n o’clock oflrial notice of the 1
grave condition of- the Holy Father
was sent to the Italian government.
Cardinal Gasparrt was notitled as
soon as it was ascertained tlmt the
condition of his holimrtS was critical.
The cardinal, in tears, hurried to the
bedside of the pontiff.
When the papal secretary of state
arrived the pope whs resting tirun
] (jullly and immediately requested' that
the lust sacraments be- administered.
Ills holiness was conscious and calm
ns Mgr. Zampini read the ceremony.
Tiie pope then continued fully con
scious, hut owing to ids weakened
condition, only a small drop of holy
water was placed on his -t wigue. 1 h**
few cardinals gathered a brut the pun
tiffs bedside recited the Psalms in,
subdued tones while the- ceremony
lasted.
The grand penitentiary >f the sn.
(•red college, surrounded hy lsststnnts,
then approached the bedside and read
p, the pontiff the profession^of faith
as formulated by the Vaticarvand the
Trent councils.
Monks Recite Formulas.
Cardinal Giorgi, after reading the
profession of failh. gave to the pon*
tiff the absolution in artieulo- mortis
As thougli to impress on ovary one
within hearing the solemnity«of the
occasion, the words of thtr formula
were pronounced slowly.
The heads of all the various re
ligious orders in Home then entered
(be sick chamber. One by one they
bestowed on the pope the Iminlgenc*»■
of the various orders which each rep
resented. Throughout the ceremony
n profound silence pervaded the room
which was broken only by tb* low
voice of each aged monk ns lie recited
the formula for his order.
Following the ceremony the process
'don slowly returned to the Hiualiea
of Ht. Peter. Only the domestic prel
ates. whose duty It is to nssiat the
pontiff until ids death, remained
around tbe sick man.
Groups of nuns and monks belong
ing to nearly all of the religious or
ders having convents or mumwterles.
in Home gathered in the space extend
ing from the great bronze doors of the
Vatican to th*- top of tile Sealu Hegio.
praying for the pope.
HAD FILLED HIGH POSITIONS
Pope Benedict Prominent in Chureh
Counsels Before H'6 Elevation
to the Papal Throna.
pope Benedict XV nix*- to the su
preme head of the C athollc church
Sn|.it. <’>, Till4. less than six mouths
.iftnr he was elevated to the eardkial
ship He was born of noble parents
at lvigil, mar Genoa, Italy. N«v. 21.
is.-,4 llis father was Marquis i«e!!a
< lilesa.
Kdtteated at Onpronlnan college nnd
the Academy of Kccleslasties. he was
ordained to the priesthood In 1878.
lie was taken to .Madrid. Spain, by
< hard: on I Itampolia. and for four yenr*
was secretary of the nunciature la
Spain In 1 tx»1 he was appointed con
stjltor of the holy office and in 1!*)7
Pope Pius gave him the appointment
of archbishop of-the see of Bologna.
Me was made n cardinal In May. 1!>H.
Pope Benedict was much affected by
the horrors nnd sorrow of the World
war and many times tried to bring
! about pence negotiation*. Germany's
violation of Belgium’s neutrality filled
him with great sorrow and after the
i sinking of the l.usitnnla, he telegraph
ed the German emperor telling hi*
abhorrence of the deed.
Pope Bomsilet’s tlrs-t appeal for
peace was Issued one week after his
coronation. The appeal failed to bring
results, as did also his later plan for
a Christmas trio .* In January nnd in
July. F.llfi, In) again tried to tiring
about pence nogotlatton.*. In March.
1**16. he repeated his attempts and in
May of lire same year suggested that
I America should act as conciliator be
tween the warring nations. Ills note
to President Wilson to tills effect
reached Washington when Germany
and the I tiited States were Involved
in a diplomatic crisis. The Vatican ap
proved of I’reshtee t Wilson’s pence
note in FM7 tmt three months Inter
the United States entered the war.
The pope’s most memorable appeal
for peace was issued in his own hand
writing on August N, PilT, nnd asked
belligerent rulers to end the struggle.
Muring the peace conference his pleas,
were Issued iu behalf of weaker tin*
i tiuns
.lust before the conference President!
Wilson had a private conference with
Pope ftencdict at the Vatican In wliU'to
many ipiestions of a social am! infer
national nature were disetigsed.
'I lie settlement of tin* 71X> ynnr-ohl
Irish problem was receive,*! wltti great
I pleasure by t!ie pope, urho Issued a
! message congratulating the principal*
la tlie negotiations.
j gotlaf Ions begun several weeks ago,
i "hen Chile invited tvru to portlclpute
In a plebiscite to iJeteriutiM* the sov
ereignly of the provinces *4’ Tuena and
Ariiu.
A series of notes was exchanged by
the two countries outlining their views
in the forty years' controversy. The
diplomatic exchanges were abruptly
hiol.en off, however, when Chile
charged Peru with peremptorily re
fusing the Invitation to n plebiscite
ml with rejecting arbitration t0 Us
th« forui of Much an election