1NDFPEND NT.
[ CI ST 2.’>. 1912. M MliKU 121.
Deterioration
OF COTTON GENERAL
0ter fu,h
Escepi 1» Iw0 S,at('s F°r
Past Week.
Deterioration in the condition
r the cotton crop is indicated
the week ending August 22,
gverv state, save North and
,uth Carolina, where the stat
jjgS jjeen barely maintained,
i a]l the important cotton pro
ving states the loss appears
have been in excess of what
ay be termed usual for the sea
n attending the gradual ma
ritv of the plant.
Except in Lousiana, where re
sted showers aided the boll
ievil, the loss has been due en
ly to lack of rainfall. In Gor
! and to a smaller extent in
abama, the plant which had
en abundantly nourished by
Kjuent rains, was checked in
owth and gives evidence of in
ility to mature the young fruit
less more rains come. In the
gsissippi valley the plant is
rdier than in the southeast,
fr.oofls moisture to maintain
> promise that has heretofore
en its meed.
tn Texas and Oklahoma long
itinued drouth with accom
nying suns has dried out the
land the plant has wilted and
ched to an extent that prom
s only very moderate recov
in the event soaking rains
1 at once. The late growth
it rain would produce would
id a favorable fall for its frui
! j
j BY STATES.
North Carolina—Fields look ,
iwy and are yet quite green.,
ny reports good, but large 1
t of the fruit set is not well j
eloped. Sandy lands are be
ning to need rain,
iouth Carolina—Reports are J
re irregular- Some very ex
ent with old cotton well de- j
oped and opening. Other j
lions'cotton late and green ;
h much young fruit. As
ole state in good condition,
itinued showers needed. j
leorgia— Some deterioration
icated for week. Older cot
good. but lack of rain in plac
es caused shedding of young
t and much of cotton is re
!
loving: Pictures i
^theOpera House
18 Reels Per Week.
TER THE honeymoon
newly weds quarrel, sepa
!> fteet and make up, that’s
lraT but the picture tells a
•risingly funny story, feat
>6 Robert Thornbv and Mary
rleson.
'Comedy—VIT AG R A P H)
THE HERO-COWARD
| Williams, policeman, is
because of cowardice, later \
®®ptures a bandit. He is j
1 ^instated as lieutenant as }
e,'ard for his bravery.
(Drama—ESSANAY)
FRIEND JOHN
j^keress marries Howard
K' Par% for love and partly
iase she believes it her duty
■ orm him. In his city home
°°n( tires of her old fashion- ;
—A good drama.
(LUBIN)
^^ood pictures and good
J ; 'be orchestra.
MISSI°N 5 and 10 CENTS
j 1
ported late, so that further rains
1 are needed where plant is tender.
Picking only in localities,
i Alabama—Generally hot. dry
weather prevailed. Cotton be
j ginning to open rapidly. Young
j cotton suffered from drouth and
; condition is substantially lower
jthan a week ago over the whole
,state.
| Mississippi—Rain needed in
l many counties. Bolls are open
ling rapidly. Crop lost ground,
but is still good. Some splendid
crops in boll weevil territory.
' while others have been badly
damaged.
Tennessee—Rains rather gen
eral and very beneficial checking
deterioration which had set in.
. Crop in good condition, but not
; fully up to brilliant promise of
month’ ago.
Arkansas—Some reports very
good and others quite bad indi
cating marked deterioration.
State of crop is matter of rain
fall. Central and northern
counties have generally had
rain. South and west dry and
suffering.
Louisiana—Repeated showers
greatly facilitated work of
weevils and damaged crop. Fair
■uiplrl fnv ■jftifp huf pnpnino
slowly and outturn in some
doubt.
Oklahoma—Deterioration in
great measure beyond recovery.
Small bolls have dried up and
dropped from the plant which is
often withered. Making no
growth or advancement whatev
er. Popular estimate fifty per
cent condition.
Texas—In northern Texas,!
which reports best crops of any
pai’t of the state, shedding and
premature opening of bolls was j
general during the week. In j
western counties similar condi-!
tions prevail with soaking rains
badly needed. In central coun
ties fatal deterioration has ta
ken place. Around Austin, Ta
lor and Hearne sufficient local
rains have fallen to revive the
plant. Elsewhere precipitation
was too light and scattered to
help. Rain now can bring only
partial recovery. In southern
counties rainfall of no benefit,
as cotton nearly open and being
picked out with outturn below !
last year.
I
—
Cool Weather for Week.
Washington, Aug. 24.—Mod
erate temperatures during the
coming week, except in the far
West, and irregular rains, were
forecast today by Chief Marvin
of the weather bureau. The
weekly forecast says:
“The distribution of atmos
pheric pressure over the North
ern hemisphere is such as to in
dicate a continuance of moderate
temperatures for the coming
week in all parts of the country,
except the far Southwest, where
readings will be above normal.
“The rainfall during the week
will be generally local and irreg
ularly distributed.
“A disturbance of moderate
intensity will appear in the far
West about Wednesday. It will
move eastward, attended by lo
cal showers and thunderstorms,
and cross the middle West
Thursday or Friday and the
Eastern states near the end of
the week.
“There are no indications at
present of a disturbance in the
West Indies.”
_Card case containing
Iron Mountain pass. Reward
for return to owner.—C. G. j
Smith. 20d3t
$74.50 CASH
FOR FIRST BALE
—
Premium Offered By Newport
Bu.'iness Men for First
Bale of Cotton.
Newport business men offer a
jcash premium of $74.50 for the
I first bale of cotton of 1913-14
; season to be marketed upon the
| streets of this city and as many
Farmers in this section have con
siderable open cotton, the race
for the easy money will doubt
j less be on at once.
H. Patton and Lawrence
I Bailey very public-spiritedly so
licited the donations and secured
a purse of pledged money, that
any farmer will be tickled to re
ceive. They request that con
testants for first bale honors re
port at Independent office with
the cotton on the wagon and the \
winner evil] receive the list of j
donations, pledged and can then
collect his money.
Following are the subscribers
to the first bale fund:
We. the undersigned, do here
by pledge ourselves to present to
the Planter who markets the
first bale of 1913-14 cotton on !
the streets of the City of New
port, the following premiums as ,
placed by our respective names: i
Lfcs.ser-Goldman Cotton Com
pany, $5.00.
George H. McFadden & Bro
thers Agency, $5.00.
Wolff-Goldman Mercantile
Company, $5.00.
First National Bank, $500
Arkansas Bank & Trust Corn
pan, $5.00.
Lee Earnheart, $5.00.
S. Heinemann, $2.50.
A. D. Bailey, $2.50.
Tom Hutson, $2.50.
Phillips & Ferguson Agency, |
S2.50.
Jim Sanders, $2.50.
P. H. Van Dyke, $2.50
A- W. Anderson & Co., $2.50.
W. R. O’Neal, $2.50.
Newport Furniture Compa
ny, $2.50.
Star Clothing Co., $2.00.
Grossman & Solomon, $1.00.
C. Cohn, $1.00.
Fife <£ Moore, $2.00.
H. O. Walker, $1.00.
C. Bach, $1.00.
T. D. Price, $1.00.
J.'Balmaz, $1.00.
The Realty Co-, $2.50. ;
W. E. Sevens, $2.00.
u ri . T_^ P_ CO kO
J-i* Cfliiiioii vx^ •
Hazel Hotel, $1.00.
R. J. Wise Grocer Co., $1.00.
J. R. Holden, $1.00.
Valley Commission Co-, $1.00.
Bert E. Snetser, $1.00.
Kilted by Lightning.
Harrisburg, Aug. 24.—Ralph
Winters was struck by ligntning
about 6 o'clock yesterday even
ing and killed. He was repair
ing a wire fence when a thunder
cloud came up and the lightning
struck him- He was killed on
his rice farm 14 miles west of
this citv- He was born and rais
ed here, but after marrying
Miss Millahn he purchased a rice
farm two miles further out on
the Nickel Plate roa.d and had a
fine rice crop. His father, C. H.,
Winters, two married brotheis
and two married sisters reside
in this f'y. Funeral services |
were held at the Methodist j
church at 1 o’clock p. m. and the ;
interment followed w.th Muon
ic ceremonies.
*
Dredges For Arkansas River.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock. Aug. 23.— V R.
Van Frank, of the F. S. Engin
eer’s office, has just returned
from a visit to Dubuque, Iowa,
where two large dredges for use
in the Arkansas river are being
built. >He reports that the house
and boilers have been complet
ed on one of them, and that it
should be ready for delivery the
latter part of next February.
The hulls of these two dredg
es are the largest that.- have
been laid for the use of me gov
ernment on any of its rivers, al
though the pumps are not so
large. They are built on a light
draft in order that they may be
used to the best advantage on
the Arkansas river.
Wants Assessment Reduced.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug- 23.— Judge
W. M. Kavanaugh, president of
the Little Rock Railway and E
lectric Company, was given a
hearing by the Arkansas Tax
Commission today, to enter his
protest against the SI,800,000
- . . _ - X ... ,1 r. C »•% ., 4- 4 It /-\
ftoocasiincm 1HC4V4V. v.»^
company. Judge Kavanaugh
contends that this is an excess
ive assessment, and that it
should be reduced. On the other
hand, members of the Commis
sion have expressed themselves
as considering the assessment
ultra conservative. The publica
tion of the assessments of the
various public utilities corpora
tions has made business pick up
at the Commission, and there
are many that are asking for
another hearing.
The Voice of the Quail.
Did you ever listen to a Bob
White call his mate ? Have you
listened to her soft, sweet ans
wer? When you wandered
through the high grass and
came near a dove’s nest have you j
seen the mother dove flutter a- j
way in a. seemingly crippled j
state as if one wing was broken,
and when she had lured you far
enough away from her, nest, fly
gracefully out of sight? Have
you caught the jay bird’s poise
on a twig of a high elm tree and
that restless warbler dressed in
his coate of blue with a black jet
spot now and then for trimming
in his coat? And then all the
oth'er birds mingling their notes
of joy ? Have you ever sat by a
rippling, pebbly stream out in
the quiet woods, when high up
on a swinging limb a slim grace
ful, little bird perched as though
seeking you for an audience?
They call him the mocking bird'!
How poorly named! Why, he is
the composer of the symphonies
and harmonies of the woods. All
the other birds are his Grand
Concert support. He is the lead
ing singer of the Wood, God's
empire, and is celebrated in song
and story in all the great wide
world. You say you have ?
Well, then you have written a
great chapter in your book of
life. If you have never had an
other joy in all the years this
was pay enough. If you have not, j
before another day has passed go |
and seek the place and all these I
things will come a-seeking you. ,
—Huntington Hummer.
Mrs. John W. Wallace, who
has spent the summer at Fort
Worth, Texas, arrived home
Sunday evening. She was ac
companied home by her daugh
ter, Mrs. Will C. Eichenberger,
who will visit the parental home
for a few weeks.
SCHOOL HYGIENE
AND SANITATION
l rged Hy l)r Garrison In I.ec
tures to Jackson County
Audiences.
Dr. \V. (’. Garrison, who trav
els under the direction u the
Rockefeller Institute, has heen
spending several days in .Jack-on
County, having addressi d ;■
large crowd at the sc'tool house
in District No. .".7 of Darren
Township Saturday and again at
Tuckennan Monday aiiori'.oun.
He was accompanied t > Drad
ford hy County Health Officer
Dr. K. L. Watson and by W. M.
Shaver, county superintendent of
schools and to Tuckennan also
by Dr. Watson.
Dr. Garrison and his assist
ants are doing a {—eat work in
the state in the interest of pub
lic health and they start where
they should, with the children.
Dr. Garrison’s subject is “school
hygiene and sanitation," show
ing how surface closets spread
hookworm and how the other
unsanitary conditions of most
rural schools spread disease
germs among the children. He
offers remedies and sugges
tions by which the schools may
be made Healthful and the dan
ger of disease lessened.
Dr. Garrison states that in
many counties of South and Cen
tral Arkansas, hookworm infec
tion is found in 30 per cent of
the examinations made, but that
the disease does not exist in any
serious proportions in Jackson,
though cases have been reported
to his department from Brad
I'urd, • I mi id Claize and (Jrubb.-,
A child or person becomes in
fected with hookworm in two
ways, through the toes and bare
foot in going barefooted, the
germs reaching the blood, the
lungs and then into the stomach,
the other source of infection be
ing through llies which carry the
germ-- Tom surface closets
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New port.
J’copie are sometimes slow to
recogni/.t true merit, and they
cannot be blamed, for o many
have been humbugged in the
past. The experience of hun
dreds of Newport residents, ex
pressed publicly through news
papers and other sources, places
Doan’s Kidney Pills on a firm ba
sis here.
W. P. Jurney, Newport. Ark.,
-ays: "I was in had shape with
my kidneys. Sharp, cutting
pains often darted across the
small of my back tit 1 1 had trou
ble from the kidney secretions.
I lost my strength and vitality
and 1 knew that something must
he done. As soon as I began tak
ing Doan’s Kidney Pills, procur
ed at Dutton’s Drug Store, (now
Walker’s Pharmacy), I im
proved. A few boxes practical
ly cured me.”
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Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
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