Mi. INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front St., NEWPORT, ARK.
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The lesson of the W'ork.
Governor Major of Missouri in
commenting upon the two days
road work in that state said that
the biggest lesson to the state
had been in illustrating the val
ue of good roads machinery.
“I've seen road equipment
that costs but $.‘5,000 and $4,000
build six to ten miles of perfect
earth road a day,” Governor
Major said. “It will do the work
of one hundred men and dozens
of teams. Next year we will be
better equipped. Wo will have
more machinery and will do
more economical and more ex
tensive work.”
We cannot afford to waste
money and energy even in a
good work. The demands are so
great and the funds available so
small in proportion, that it be
hooves us to exercise the econo
my attained through modern
machinery and what has proven
an object lesson elsewhere,
ougnt to oe investigatea ana
profited by here.
Our county judge has th'e past
week been over in Greene coun
ty to see for himself and as an
official what can be accomplish
ed by traction engines and pow
er graders in the making of
roads. If he finds, as Governor
Majors has found in Missouri,
that they reduce the cost of
building highways, then Jack
son county should have machin
ery of so useful and saving a
character, for to do road work
more economically means that
we will do more of it, that the
tax moneys will be better spent
and hasten the day of good
highways over our county.
Governor Mease of South Car
olina, who has done about as
much to disgrace his state as a
governor very well could in the
eyes of the nation, threatens to
ask for a seat in the senate and
perhaps South Carolina will fol
low the example of other states
and put him upon this very shelf.
Men of the Blease type soon be
come very tame, when shorn of
influence, appointive and pardon
ing powers.
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Jonesboro is going to close her
stores tm good roads days and
Craighead county citizens ex-1
pect to meet their neighbors of
Greene on the county line and
complete splendid thorough
fare between the two cities of
Jonesboro & I’aragould. Poin
sett county will observe the day
What are Newport and Jackson
j County going to do?
Hodges Returns From Vacation.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 2*).—Secre
tary of State Earle W. Hodges
has returned from a vacation of
several weeks at his old home
| in Randolph county and in
neighboring counties. He says
that North Arkansas has not
had better crops or had a more
flattering outlook for a prosper
ous season in twenty years. Mr
Hodges says that he will be in
the race for re-election, it does
not matter who becomes a can
didate for the place.
Over in the east part of Pike
county, near Delight, lives Far
mer Dabbs, who bought 40 acres
of wornout land that was pro
ducing six bushels of corn per
acre. He was told he was stung
because he paid $15 per acre.
This year he has sold over $102
per acre in cantaloupes from the
the land and is still shipping. It
is a safe bet that Farmer Dabbs
is the kind of a farmer who will
be able to make from 50 to 75
bushels of corn on that same
land if he tries.—Pike Courier.
These hustling farmers, we
have in every community, men
who can raise more crops and
create more money on a piece of
post oak land than the average
fellow can on a splendid tract of
loamy soil. It’s just the differ
ence between thrift and indus
try intelligently applied and
making a half-way sort of far
: mer.
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The Texarkanian expects to
I stand or fall on its merits as a(
worthy newspaper, without re
sort to the questionable “con
test" scheme.—Texarkanian.
The sooner all reputable news
papers stop these questionable
methods of securing subscribers
the better. No newspaper that
deserves a circulation has to use
such methods. — Batesville
Guard.
That’s the kernel of the nut.
A real newspaper doesn’t have to
adopt such schemes. A worthy j
newspaper ought to sell on its
own merits and not the popular
ity of this or that young lady
The public is really to blame for
newspaper contests however in
patronizing them, even to buy
ing what they do not want.
I
I,. S. Dunaway, the Arkansas]
Gazette man and perhaps “the (
best known man in Arkansas’’ is j
^» |i
pending the day in the city. He
has many friends in every sec
tion of the state and is consider
ing entering the race for secre
tary of state, which appears to
be the most desirable plum of all
the state offices.
W. T. U. Program.
The following program will be
rendered at the meeting tomor
row afternoon of the W. C. T. U.
The subject will be “Woman’s
Work in Extending the Gospel.’’
1. Paul and His Helpers—
Mrs. E. L. Boyce.
2. Women's Work in Extend
ing the Gospel—Mrs. W. B.
! Grant.
3- Vocal Solo—Miss Ander
|
son.
4. The Marys of the Bible—
Mrs. E. Kelly.
5. Queen Esther—Mrs. Fred
Suits.
(I. Vocal Solo—Miss Johnson.
7. Reading— Woman’s In
fluence.
Machines Cut Off Fire Plugs.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 2G.—Little
Rock will undertake to remedy a
new fire hazard that is becoming
noticeable here as in other cities
where similar conditions exist.
It is brought about by the in
creasing number of automobiles,
and the disposition of many of
the owners to park them on
in :>ucn cl way ciical
to fire hydrants is practically
shut off.
An ordinance will be introduc
ed in the city council making it
unlawful for an automobile to be
left standing within fifty feet of
a fire plug. In case of a fire, it
would be difficult if not impossi
ble for the fire fighting equip
ment to reach the hydrants
when they are surrounded by au
tomobiles. The problem has
been taken up by the board of
fire masters at Atlanta, and they
will endeavor to regulate the
parking of automobiles in the
fire district.
617,263 School Children
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 26.—The
Department of Education has
just completed the calculation of j
the school population of the
state for the purpose of making
the annual apportionment. All
of the counties have reported in
cluding' St. Francis, Greene and
Lawrence, which had not report
ed last week.
The total enumeration for
1913 is 617,263, being a gain of
14,037 over that of 1912 The
enumeration for 1910 was 573,
842, and for 1909 it was 554,468.
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RAISE WHAT
YOU NOW BUY
The Main Points Which It Takes
To Make A Success On The
Farm.
Since I have been your com
i missioned I have tried to have
I something of value and interest
| to say to the people in each
: weekly letter. In each one there
; has been one main point. I no>\
I want to emphasize some of the
main points. I want you to re
member them, and some of you
try them out.
The farmers of Arkansas
should plant less than hair as
much cotton next year as this,
j If you don’t reduce our cotton
, crop, you can’t raise enough of
j other crops to make you a suc
cessful farmer. So arrange your
! crops so that you will not have
to buy a single thing that is pro
duced on the farm except sugar.
Abandon cotton altogether as
soon as possible. Other crops
pay better. Arkansas is a great
! alfalfa state- It will grow on al
most any kind of soil. Study al
falfa and how to grow it. It is
the foundation of successful
l stock raising- It is a money
maker without stock. It will
grow three to four tons to the
acre, and two dollars a ton will
pay for the cutting. You know
what it is worth. Figure for
yourself, and you will see that
it will beat cotton too bad to
talk about. Then plant plenty
of corn. You need corn to go
with alfalfa. The two make a
good balanced ration for horses,
cattle and hogs. Now is the
time to prepare your land for
alfalfa. Sow it any time you
like between now and October
the 15th.
Some burr clover or winter
vetch for a winter pasture for
hogs and cattle. Either one
will pay better than any crop
you had this summer if you have
the stock to pasture. Give at
tention to good cattle and hogs
at once. Get some good males
and cross them with the grades
and scrubs. It don’t take long
for good blood to tell. Remember
that hogs and cattle are the
surest and best money on the
farm now. There is not enough
live stock in the United States
to furnish a supply for the in
habitants for six months. If
you had you proportionate per
capita amount of the fresh meat
supply in Arkansas, after all
the hogs and cattle were butch
ered, you would have about 180
pounds, so you see the high
price of live stock has come to
stay- The number of cattle and
hogs has been decreasing for
several years. The number of
people—the meat eaters—having
been increasing. Anybody
knows that means high prices
for stock- Get in the game and
get your share of the profits.
Help feed the nation. Thev must
have it and will pay for it.
Make pastures and grow hay.
Corn gathering time will soon
be here. Some have topped the
corn, ami some have gathered
the fodder. Either way is a
mistake. The corn will lose
more weight in maturing than
the forage is worth. If you
planted peas in your corn and
have cattle and hogs to fatten,
you may turn the stock on the
crop at gathering time and feed
it down. The hogs will eat the
peas and waste the corn. The
cattle will eat both. There will
be less waste this way than to
gather and feed. Try it once
and you will like it. Of course,
you will have to pen your stock
at the finish to put them in the
best condition. Prepare to save
the barnyard manure this fall
and winter. Make some pens
and cover them for the pur
pose. It pays big
Yours trulv,
JOHN H. PAGE.
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