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J yed to announce the candidacy of
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) ence County for re-election as
congressman from the Second
district, subject to the action of
the Democratic primary.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
The want ad column is a great
%_ help to people in want.
Mrs. Frank Pace of Little
Rock was here yesterday en
route to Harrison to visit rela
tives.
Just received—Fresh Country
Sorghum. — Snetzer’s Grocery.
52d6
Prof. Fogg, principal of the
Swifton public school, was a vis
itor to our city schools Thurs
day.
Hickory Stove Wood—any ■
size load.—John R. Loftin, Jr.
Phone 58. IBdtf.
Mrs. Ernest Neill has returned
home to Batesville after a visit
to her sister, Mrs. Samuel R.
Phillips.
For drayage, see B. G. Gra
ham, the transfer man. Phone
334. OOdtf
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hewett of
Hoxie have moved to our city
and have gone to housekeeping
on Main street. Mr. Hewett is
employed at the express office.
Miss Annie Martin and Mrs.
Sam Churchill of Little Rock,
s*>vwho stopped off here for a short
yisit to Mrs. Gus Martin on their
return" home from French Lick
Springs, Indiana, have returned
home to Little Rock.
w. A. Ruth
ville was
route
tation,
Mrs.
mother,
mloved from
of the Wish'on cottages
street.
Geo. W. Reiley, national lec
turer for the Modern Woodmei
of America, will give a lecturi
tonight at the opera house, 01
the subject of consumption
which he will illustrate witl
stereoptican views. Mr. Reile:
is a speaker of national reputa
tion, and will no doubt give hi
hearers a rare treat upon hi
subject. Admission free. Yoi
will be amply repaid for you
time if you go to hear him. Thi
ladies are especially invited t<
be present.
James P. Duck, one of New
port’s substantial citizens, h
' among the number of business
j visitors in the city today, am
paid this office a pleasant and
appreciated call. — Batesville
Guard.
The Home Department of the
Presbyterian Sunday school will
observe children’s day Sunday
morning at 10:45.
W. D. McLain will take your
order for either Pennsylvania or
Arkansas hard coal. Better
place your order early. 85dft
CITY AUDITORIUM,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
Thursday, October 5th, 1911
Matinee and Night. .U. S.
Marine Band
of Washington, D. C., Seventy
five performers. World’s Great
est Military and Concert Band,
Southern Tour by special per
mission of Hon William H. Taft
president of U. S. A. Reserved
seats for Matinee 50 and 75
cents; Night,50, 75 and $1. For
sale at O. K. Houck’s Piano Co.
NO |
Motion |
Pictures I
I AT
OPERA HOUSE
TONIGHT
On Account of Lecture by
GEO. W. REILEY
National Lecturer Eor the
MODERN WOODMEN
Special
Little Roc ,
t ansas is to have a Fire Protect
; tion Day. It was suggested by
1 the Insurance Commissioners’
, convention in Milwaukee, and
i brought to the attention of Gov.
r Donaghey by the Insurance
- Commissioner. It is to be held
3 on October 9, which was origi
3 nally designated by Gov. De
i neen, of Illinois, being the anni
’ | versary of the great Chicago
3 fire.
) The governor yesterday is
sued a proclamation setting
■ aside October the 9th as Arkan
s saS lire Prevention Day, ur
gently urging “that it be so re
cognized by all departments of
state, by all business interests,
by all public and private insti
tutions of learning, by all organ
izations, brotherhoods and per
sons interested in the financial,
moral, economic and social pro
gress of our state.”
The governor calls attention
to the fact that “already some
seventeen states have given
much labor and thought towards
formulating some plans that
will eventually materialize into |
o rlonawhfisP fill
ties will be to preserve and pro
tect our property similar to the
manner in which our Boards of
Health preserve and protect the
lives and health of our citizens.”
Referring to the tremendous
waste of fire in the United
States, he says: “This waste
by fire is an irretrievable loss
to our local and national govern
ments and affects the material
property of all our common
wealths. This waste increases
the burdens of taxation directly
upon those who insure their
property and indirectly to the
people at large who lose the
taxes upon the property de
stroyed. This loss has been ap
proximately termed waste, for
these fires could be prevented
or extinquished. The loss to
Arkansas for the year 1910 was
three and one half million dol
lars.
Laws Not Enforced.
The statute book of Arkansas
is full of laws which are not en
forced, but many of these should
not be repealed. Conditions will
change so that in years to come
they can be enforced.
One of the latter clas-> is the
anti-cigarette law. It is evi
dently not the will of the people
that this be enforced, when
there is not a county in the state
in which one or more official in
the law enforcement end of the
administration who does not
take great delight in puffing
away at the coffin nail.
Take them for yourself and
you will see that this is true.
Pulaski county has officials who
i smoke them. Little Rock has
city officials who smoke them
habitually.
“There is no law that can be
enforced against the will of the
people,” remarked one of the
best known prosecutors of Ar
kansas recently, “for the will of
the people is the law.
“Take drunkenness 20 years
ago. There were the same laws
then as today. Had you under
taken to prosecute a man in
those days for being intoxicated
on a train, or the streets, he
would have considered it a re
straint upon his personal priv
ileges and the community would
i have condemned the prosecutor.
! Today, just give a country jury
j a defendant with a red nose, or
| a whiskey breath, with very lit
j tie evidence that the man had
been intoxicated and he will be
: convicted in short order.!’—Free
Lance.
rooms and bath, to you, senator—
without meals,’’ said the clerk dream
ily. When the senator caught his
breath, he was two blocks up the
avenue.
He tried another hotel; a moder
ately exclusive house whose lobbies
were a sort of eddying pool of states
men and "influential” lobbyists. To
him the attendant flamen of this
gilded shrine remarked: “Now, we
have a choice two rooms with bath,
at $350 per month—”
"Without eating—just for a sleep
ingplace!” broke in the senator, “why,
I’d burn up with fever if I had to sleep
at that price! ”
The salary of a senator is $7,500,
and it is figured on the high level ot
"simple living” in Washington that he
ought to part with that much for as
sured rest at a good hotel. But the
new senator didn't feel that way about
it. Finally it was suggested that he
might take a room at the simple ho
tel of the old days, at $1 per 24 hours,
and save money, using the parcel
room for baggage when away over
Sunday. Then he could take a peep
at Peacock alley and meet friends in
the “lobby” which the more wealthy
statesmen and tourists support.—Na
tional Magazine.
HIS PiCTURE IN EVIDENCE
Should be Warning to Man With
Weakness for Penny Arcade
Photographs.
Should you feel a desire to visit a
iummer garden or a penny arcade and
experiment by having yourself photo
graphed in a ridiculous pose, remem
ber the fate of Horace E. Todd, candy
maker and formerly the husband of
Beulah Todd.
Beulah Todd was granted a divorce
last week by Judge Goodrich. She
said that Todd was addicted to drink.
“And the proof?’’ the court suggest
ed.
Beulah Todd drew from her purse a
photograph postal card. It appeared
to be a photograph of Horace E. Todd;
his cheeks were puffed, his hair dis
heveled, his collar unbuttoned, and
his necktie untied. In one hand he
held a flve-dollar bill, in the other
hand, four aces. Beneath the picture
there appeared this line: “A million
aire today; a tramp tomorrow.”
“Is that a picture of your husband?”
the court asked.
“It is.”
“Divorce granted,” the court de
cided. And Mrs. Todd, tucking the
postal card safely away in her purse,
walked from the courtroom.—Kansas
City Star.
House Haunted? Low Rent!
When alien immigrants arrive in
this country they often bring with
them a stock of misapplied ingenuity.
The tenant with a ghost is a game
that is being played by foreigners in
various parts of the United States,
and, what is more, it is being played
successfully.
The newcomer takes a house, and,
after one or two payments of rent,
complains that the premises are [
haunted. Quaking with simulated j
fear, he tells a tale of horror—of a
headless man seen stalking from the
coal cellar, a lady in white or of some
thing invisible but groaning. Now, a
ghost is the average landlord’s prime
aversion. Spectral visitors afford
splendid subjects for gossip in tb*
neighborhood, and prospective ten
ants seldom fail to hear and be
warned off by the story.
Anxious that the report shall not
get about, landlord confers with ten
ant, and in several such Instances the
result has been this—the tenftnt
agrees to stay on, to say nothing
about the matters to others and tc
put up with the ghost, providing the
rent is substantially reduced.
Encouragement.
"Why should you ba despondent?*
j asked the poet’s friend,
j "Why shouldn’t I be despondent?”
1 the poet replied. "I’ve been trying to
add a bit of cheer to the world. I
have written some things that men
who ought to know have said were
I sublime. I have endeavored to de
j scribe tl j beauties of nature, to
spread the gospel of brotherhood, to
teach kindness and goodness and
hopefulness. But the people persist
in ignoring me; the publishers de
cline to accept my poems; my genius
is unrecognized; I am left to starve
in my attic.”
“Cheer up, old man. A hundred
years from now your poems may be
illustrated by some artist who will get
$500 for each of the pictures.”
—
A Maine Record.
“I think I can safely lay claim to
i having hauled more wood into Rock
I land than any other one man,” says
! otis Tolman of Rockville. “I have
! been at it sixty years, hauling an av
erage of 200 loads a year with an av
erage of seven feet to the load. 1
1 brought my first load into town behind
I a pair of steers In 1S50 and sold it to
the late S. H. Burpee for two dollar)
a cord.”—Kennebec Journal.
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