THE INDEPENDENT
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES. !
for Congress— _
W. A. OLDFIELD
for Circuit Judge—
R. E. JEFFERY
for Prosecuting Attorney—
HUGH WILLIAMSON
For Representative—
W. M. SHAVER
For County Judge—
W. D. McLAIN
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
For Circuit Clerk—
C. E. SMITH
For County Clerk—
G. L. ROBINSON
For Treasurer—
J. H. CAMP
For Assessor—
W. M. TIMS
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS
For Coroner—
W. H. NOLEN
For School Superintendent
El. H. BOWMAN
For Justices of Peace—
J. M. BELL
L. B. HARRIS
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN
For Road Overseer—
W. F. HURLEY
' additional local.
Miss Myrtle Jackson of New
ark has accepted a position as
saleslady with S. Heinemann
Miss Elise Hirsch has return
ed from a week’s visit to Mr,
and Mrs. Irving Hirsch at Little
Rock.
Miss Lucy Brandenburg began
a six weeks’ summer course ol
music this mjoming and will al
so be ready for her fall classes
in September. It
The Busy Helpers of the Pres
byterian church will meet with
Mrs. I. D. Price Monday even
ing at 7:30.
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Motorcycle for sale. 1914 In
dian model, good as new, usee
for demonstration purposes, for
$150. Can be seen at R- H. Hun
ter’s, Tuckerman, Ark. 64dtf
Sheriff J. F. McCuistion was
telephoned for and left on the
7 o’clock train with his twe
blood hounds for the county seat
of Stone, where the robbery oc
curred. W. H. Nelson, editor ot
the Stone County Record, was
only recently sworn in as post
master there.
Palm) Beach suits cleaned anc
pressed for 50c at Barker’s
64d6.
Mrs. Harry Lee Williams anc
little daughter, Lucille, will ar
rive home Monday from Tucker
man, where they are the guest:
of Mrs. Williams’ parents, Mr
and Mrs- R. W. Bandy. Mastei
Richard Williams will remaii
with his grandparents severa
weeks longer.-—Jonesboro Tri
bune.
Building Rural Brick Road.
Cleveland, Ohio, June 15.—
Cuyahoga county will add sixty
miles of rural brick road to its
400 miles of similar pavement,
according to the 1914 road im
provement plans announced by
County Engineer Stinchcomb,
thus strengthening its distinc
tion of being the best paved ru
ral district of any similar area
in the world.
A minimum width of sixteen
feet has been adopted for roads
to be laid during the coming
summer, and the entire expendi
ture, including fills, bridges,
etc-, will be somewhat in ex
cess of $900,000.
The adaptability of brick to
rural roads was first proved in
Cuyahoga county and the policy
of building for permanence was
adopted here even before auto
[ mobile traffic drove other local
ities to copy similar construc
tion. Cuyahoga county has ex
pended more than eight million
dollars in this type of road and
the repair bills have amounted
1o practically nothing.
A perfect system of radiating
highways now extend to the
county line in every direction
and the task which Engineer
Stinchcomb has outlined is that
of connecting these main arter
ies with suitable cross roads.
In spite of the cost, the coun
! 4-xr i ci •mAnmr o Vi aorl o ? l Y\ Cf fr.
county officials, for the increase
in taxable rural land values has
yielded more than the total cost
in revenue. Cleveland with 600
miles of brkk paved streets will
pave abou^ eighty miles of
streets this year, including the
repaving of some of its main
highways
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Warning Order.
! In the Justice Court of Union
!township, in Jackson County,
^Arkansas, before H. C. Nuckolls,
'Justice of the Peace.
1 Wilmans Mercantile Co.,
Plaintiff.
vs
West Tennessee Grain Com
pany. Defendant.
The defendant; West Tennes
jsee Grain Company, is hereby
warned to appear in this court
within thirty days and answer
the complaint of plaintiff herein,
else said complaint will be taken
as confessed.
Given under my hand this, the
13th day of June, 1914.
H- C. Nuckolls,
Justice of the Peace.
Jas. H. Johnston, Non-resident
attorney. 63d 14w
Big Wheat Yield.
I United Press Service.
Dallas, Texas, June 15.—Sixty
• per cent better than the best
: crop in six years was the condi
. tion today of the bumper wheat
• crop now being harvested west
i today. Farm hands were in
1 great demand and the estimated
- wheat yield is fourteen million
bushels.
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INCREASE YOUR
CULTIVATED LANDS
The Need of Arkansas Is More
Open and Improved Lands,
Says Page.
One thing that Arkansas needs
is more open land, developed
and improved. We must have it
to make room for the increased
population we want and expect
to have. Clearing land is hard
work, winter or summer, but in
the summer, when it is intensely
hot, it takes a man with pretty
good grit to go out into the
woods where the leaves are
thick and no breeze stirring,
and put in a hard day’s work,
clearing land. To clear land is
hard labor, if you do it your
self, and expensive if you hire
the labor. A good way is to
deaden the timber a couple of
years ahead. Now is a good
time to begin the work when
ever you have a spare day or
two- Deaden everything that
is large enough to deaden. The
bushes and saplings can be cut
doWn. It is a good idea to hack
the saplings off about two or
three feet from the ground, let
ting them fall and hang by the
back.
I 'T'V.a, 1Via fVic will file
; and fall first. Some of the trees
will then fall- The grass, weeds,
vines and briers will come up. In
the late fall after about two
years have elapsed, you can set
fire to the whole mass, and most
likely will burn up the most of
it. You can then go in with
teams, chains and cant-hooks
and soon finish up a good job
jof clearing, and your land will
|be in good condition, as the
roots will be dead and partially
lotted.
This is a cheaper method than
taking the timber down green.
Now I am going to tell you a
secret. about deadening timber.
Make a solution of arsenic and
sal soda. Dissolve the arsenic
at the rate of one pound to the
gallon of water- Put the arsen
1 Ic in the water and heat and
stir until it is dissolved. If any
of the water is spilled or evap
orated, replace. Then dis
solve the sal soda at the rate of
one pound to the gallon of wat
er. Then mix the twro solutions.
Put the mixture in a coal oil
can, or something having a
small spout- Pour a small
stream around the trees dead
ened where the trees were hack
ed By this means you poison
them and they die surely and
, suddenly, and begin to rot,
clear down into the roots. In a
short time the worms begin to
i work on them, and the trees dis
! appear much sooner than by the
nlrl wav Rpsidps it is not nec
!
essary to cut out the chips nor
, to go so deep in deadening. Be
careful about the mixture and
do not let any stock get to it,
because it is poison
i Wash out the vessels good and
do not pour any of the fluid on
the ground where it will poison
! stock. You will find this meth
od valuable in saving time and
, money in clearing land. It is a
good idea to put in some new
; ground every year. It soon
counts up.
The good women need some
j helpful suggestions in their
At this season of the year
are bothered about moths
amongst the woolens. Moth
balls are a nuisance in use and a
i source of annoyance on the day
of resurrection of the woolens in
the fall A perfectly good way
to protect woolens against the
moths is to get some good
brown domestic and make bags
and put the wroolens in these
bags. Then tie or sew the mouth
of the bag so tight a moth can’t
get in. If you will sewr the bag*
so well the moth can’t get ir
through the seam, he will nevei
bother your woolens, and yot
can put them away much more
\ conveniently instead of resort
jfi For ten days we are offering the best cultivator made oy Jgj Y
if. AVERY & SON, on the mark t. We are also making y ou a Eg \
special price of $22.50. It is known as the Southern Queen. Eg *
The regular price was $27.50, and you must remember i you Ijg
should ever need any part of this cultivator you can get it a jg
our place.
HEINEM ANN’S DRY GOODS S T O REJj V
ing to the old time methods of j
moth balls, cedar chests, etc.
Let the mothers and girls can
all the surplus fruits and veget
ables. It will save many dollars.
You can buy home canning out
fits now at from six dollars up
to twenty-five that will can stuff
as good as you can buy in dny ,
store- Get an outfit and try it.
JOHN H. PAGE,
Commissioner.
Railroad’s Help In Farming.
One does not have to look far
to discover results in the work
of the agricultural department
for many sections of the state
of the Iron Mountain railroad,
bear prosperous evidence of as
sistance rendered by this depart
ment. Nearly every side track
between Russellville and Little
Rock has a squatty looking
storage shed, which W'WlIl
hardly attract attention from
the passerby, yet these stole
houses are working a revelation
’in diversified farming, and the
Iron Mountain agents are direct
ly responsible- These buildings
are store houses for sweet pota
toes. The railroad agents look
a country over and after many
experiments discover what crops
can be most profitably raised
and marketed. W hen this is
discovered the agents assist the
.farmers in getting started in
the growing of such a crop.
Sweet potatoes was found to be
,the profitable crop after it was
harvested. The railroad agents
then made a close study of stor
age houses, and discovered the
kind to solve the question, and
they are now supervising the e
rection of such buildings along
the Iron Mountain lines. C. O.
Carpenter, assistant commis
j sioner of agriculture to the rail
| road, last week started a ware
house at Atkins, and expects to
see others started soon.
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1 Few Celebrations Of Fourth.
Special to Independent,
j Little Rock, June 15. —There
'seems to be a dying out of the
j Fourth of July spirit with the
'advent of the safe and sane
. theory, for many of the old
S standbys over the state are to
ibe without celebration of the
nation’s birthday this year
This has caused a waste of ora
torical talent this year. So far,
Earle W. Hodges is the only
state official invited to orate
■ on July 4.
Light Showers In Little Rock.
! Special to Independent.
| Little Rock, June 15.— A
very light shower of rain fell
| in Little Rock Sunday morning,
cooling the atmosphere for at
| least thirty minutes, after which
the sun came out again hotter
than ever This little cracking
of the six weeks’ drouth has giv
en planters hope that a break
, | will soon occur, and that a por
tion of their crops will yet be
saved. Reports from all sec
tions are gloomy, and unless
falls in sufficient quantities to
Looking For Trouble
You can look trouble squarely in the eye without K
flinching—you are rea dy for any emergency when you K
have a bank account. It gives you a feeling of confi
dence and power that means half the battle. Make a re
start and once tried, will never be regretted. We wel
come your account.
f he Farmers Bank j' 5
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soak the ground during the pres- j
nt week, Arkansas crop pros
pects will fall fully fifty per j
cent.
NEWPORT’S REPLY.
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Newport Accepts the Evidence
and Many Newport Readers 1
Will Profit By It. ^ |
Which is the more weighty
I-roof—a fewr words from a
Newport resident, whom we
know and respect, or volumes
from strangers in distant towns? i
There can be only one reply.
Mrs. M. Porter, 416 Hazel St-, |
Newport, says: “I had a con
[stant ache in the small of my
back- Stooping or lifting made
me suffer intensely and I felt
languid and worn-out most of
the time. My kidneys didn’t act
as they should. On a friend’s
advice, I got a box of Doan’s
Kidney Pills from Walker’s
Pharmacy. After using them, I
was free from the ailments."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy
—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the
same that Mrs. Porter had.—
Foster-Milbum Co., Props., Buf
falo, N. Y
The Price of Truth.
D. Cady Herrick, at luncheon
in Albany, said of the truth:
The truth is rarely palatable
They who would bring overmuch
truth to bear on their profession
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t»r trade are usually corrected af
ter the manner of Young Jones.
“Young Jones, a cub reporter,
on the Cinnaminson Scimitar,
wound up an article about the
town meeting with the words *jj|w
“Mr. Smith then rose and made
a few feeble remarks, dating ^
which the audience dispersed.
“The editor of the Cinnamin
son Scimitar snorted when he^
saw that sentence. He dashed^
his blue pencil through it fierce
ly. Then he wrote in its placer
“The last speaker was our em
inent fellow-citizen, Mr. George
William Smith, who, in crisp
and wrell-chosen sentences,
viewed the subject under dis
cussion, giving to it that clear,
well-considered and logical treat
ment which has made Colonel
Smith one of the foremost ora
tors in the state. The audieo££
dispersed, after expressaS"
warm approval of his polished
and eloquent utterances."
“There!” said the editor,
“That’s how to do it " ■'*
“But the reporter sullenly re- 3
torted, “The difference between
our versions, sir, is the differ
ence between the true and the
false.”
“No," snorted the editor, “It
is the difference between old
Smith stopping his paper and
cutting me out of 75 cents a
year, or coming in here and buy
ing 100 marked copies to send
around to his friends." J
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