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Volume 31—No. 3 Springdale, Washington County, Arkansas, Friday, May 18. 1917 Eight Pages. STRAWBERRY rop >\ ill Be Very '■hort on V cut of Drouth and Freeze—Thirty < ars Probable Maximum t ar Lot Shipment* h Saturday *_ - — ----2 '*■ .Monday Tuesday _ ------ - Wednesday - - Thursday (prohat le > Fhe strawberry rap in th< r sir dale district s d's.-ouri*.:.-•• e to say the least. The crop is very short, much shorten than was a- tied at •! I ' ■ .1 a.' s' 1 avo. It :• .■ v thought by those in 'lose touch with the ;h > that cars vi]i be maxiir»i m r.h-pnir‘i! : m Sprircdalo, - *h eh: - ■ f • a : • •••• number. ]v are beuitr ? • • . r I. i’hrw rca crop The <trouih last ? r p c •. > te 1 the first year beds from i.ud • the • r: the coir . ■ • . ’ • • •: a in vented the other beds from lauturinr, and thirdly a hat did mat - were bad ly damatred by the hail !' iris are above normal. $.i 0;) per crate were n■■■•rived for ail slacsents up to and including th< -e of fuesdav. and n Wednesday droppt to It . Fd M SPRINGS Born to Mr. and Mr- R. F S’ a ly May 2nd. a daughter. The relatives of Kaymon hile gathered n Saturday a:.- j .. * him a surprise dinner. Mr. and Mrs .)<>•• Kin s : - • dr* . f Osceola, sir,. A dir her mother, Mrs. J. W. Fergus Mr. and Mrs. un Ander d children visited Sunday with Mr and V r < M> • Thurman, of Oak On » I'he iicrry < p *n ta - ■ ,.:y do*-s not -■ m *t be good as al Owing to th< eo<*l weather they not ripen ver; fast. Several of tru Elm Springs beys have enlisted with Company A of Springdale. v* hat* to ee Mi*, b go bet glad t s**e th* m - ady 4 -erve their country Rev. G. ( Donald- *n. o4 Rent. n , v.lie, d« !iver«*d an abb and. inter* st ing sermon at the Methodist < hur-.-h Sunday morning H** was on ‘nr ’ ay !(■ Farrn.n. * • ; rd -topped here. VLandy. t ROSS ROADS Berry picking is the rder of '.re day. Mrs. Harris and ch*le!r« r r**t .ir • d 1 m Texas last wet k * * urge Plumb e and wift spent Sjn day at Price Plumlee's. Tom Sti v art and family -pent S .nday at his brothers’ m the S lent Grove neighborhood Calvin Gully had the mist *rtune t lose one if his twin calves last week from arseni poison ag. Mr and Mrs R. .1 Kosheski w* re called to Kansas last week to the bedside of her brother-m-law, " ho died later. Mr. an.i Mrs Ollie Piumlee went t< Z *,n Sunday and Miss \ vian Gates returned with them to stay through the berry season Louis Stevenson and family spent Sunday at G. W. Halsey's I’rie Baggett, Edgar Pier * and ( ».i-il Harris vent to Johnson last Sunday afternon. Biliikm. HINDSVII LE Mrs. John i ’ombs, of Hunts', lit. Visited her s ster, Mrs s !. Pars'ev, Sunday. L. V. Parker, S G Parsley and C. F. F’itoh have each purchased a new Ford touring car. Hr. Harrison, of Lowell, ;s visit ing his parents, Mr and Mr- Jas. Harrison this week. Miss Annis Wilkes is home rom Braggs, Okla., visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs. W. N. Wilkes Mothers’ Day was celebrated with a very appropriate and well prepared program rendered by the Sunday School. Mr' and Mrs. Homer Anderson, r ioyd Garret and Albert Guthrie, of F’ort Gibson, Okla , motored over to Himlsville to visit a few days with relatives and friends ■-♦ “Prepare to feed yourself.” M AY FI ELI) Miss Eiffel Reeve is iil at this writ in jr. Miss Slide Ailson was on the sick list latter part of last week. Mrs. Joe Frost spent the evening with Mrs. Green Mayfield Sunday. .1. H. Buckley made a busines trip to Fayetteville latter part of last week. .Miss Opal Frost is visiting with her s ‘ter, Mrs. John Clark, of Fayette • ille, at present. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Buckley were Sunday guests at Mr. and Mrs Joe Head's, also music in the evening. Hosea Trammel’s grandmother has been v.siting with him for the past few weeks andd has returne 1 to her home near Richland View. Misses Martha and Zella Jones, of Mayfield, are vi-iting their < ster, Mrs Eula Neill at Lowed, and also ms ire th< ;r for:unes nicking berries. M.ss Iri K .•• kley received a Letter trim her brother n Californio stat ing that his wife and three children had bad eases of the wh- .ping cough. V> ' L ‘!MK!{ HIA’l YF \K Snow. aril lev Prevailed in June. July and August, lhlb The ; r 1K16 as ' • ■ tJ r<>ugh r?i the United States and Europe as the oldest ever experienced by any per?i.ns then living There are per sons in Northern New York who have the habit of keep ng diaries for years, and it is from the pap.es of an old Uary begun r lhlO and kept unbroken until iv . t.he following; information ret.ir vnr this year without a summer has teen taken: January was so mild that most per --’.s ai •■‘•e tht.r fires to go out and Uh.1 i. >: b..m wood except for cooking, j Th " ere a few coid days, but they vert • few Most of the time the air «• .’arm «nd spring-like Feb ruary was m t old. S me days were nr January, hut the ; weair r is ... c the same. March from the first 1 sixth, was inclined :■> !>• iv. Jt .me ! a smal! lion aim v.• nt out like a very innocent sh en Apr.! arm- in -aarm. but as the days grew i i.pt-r the air became colder and by the tst i.f May there was a tem perature that . c inter, with plenty of s >v> and ice. In May the 1 young I’Ui.s c. • -** frozen dead, ice for med half an inch thick on ponds arid rivers, corn was killed and the corn : lit-ii - .•.ere f iante 1 c. . n and again, I until it t-ecame too late to raise a crop the last f May in this <. :mate the trees art usually in leaf and the Fire- and flowers are plenti ful. V. he . the last >f May arrived in lh’C everything had been killed by tht cold. June was the coldest month roses I ever '-xpert need in ‘his latitude. Fr sc Were as common as butt* n-ups a? tally ar>. Almost ev ery green thing v as Killed, fruit was destroyed. Snow fell in Vermont. There wins a seven-meh fall in the interior of New York -date and the rum tu Mass achusetts I'l er • were only fi ■ n.oderatujy . :. days. Everybody looked, i >ng< 1 and waited for warm weather, but warm weatn i r did not come. It was also dry; very little rain fell. All “ long the wind blew stead lv from the north in blasts laden with snow and ice Met hers knit socks of dooMi thickness for thor children, j and made them thick mittens Plant ing and sh vering were done together, and the farmers who worked out their taxes Oil the country roads wore over coats and mittens. The farmers near Tewksbury. Vt.. j .i\vne : . large field ot corn. He built ■fires. Nearly every night he and his men o k turns in keeping up the fire Fund watch.ng that the orn did not ! freeze. The farmers were rewarded ! for his tire’e- s labors by having the i only crop of corn in the region. July tame in witn snow and ice. | On the Fourth of July ce as thick as I window glass formed throughout New ! Englan l. New York and in some parts | of Pennsylvania. Indian corn, which I m some parts of the East had strug | gled through May and June, gave up, | froze and died ( To the surprise of everybody, Aug i ust proven the worst month of all. j Almost every green thing in this coun j fry and Europe was blasted with frost, i Snow fell at Barnett. 30 miles from j London, England, on Augrnst 30. The ! newspapers received from England stati c! that 1810 would be reniember i od by the existing generations as the , year in which there was no summer, j There "were great privation, and thou ; sands of persons would have perished I in this country had it not beer^for the j abundance of fish and wild game. KECRUTING OFl’IiELs HEKE .Major W. (J. Ovvnbey. I -ut. Har:*y Hough and Sar. Chas. Ode of the S- • olid Regiment of Ai-.ansas Nation;, (luurds have been in : • . i!e *■ •• *. ’ early yesterday forere» for the ;• pose of securing recruits Co A, the I Springdale company, ; • the folk ,v iug have been enrolled at to the t me ! of the Democrat going to ; ;< Albert Markley. Lem Lewis. C larence Hodge. Tom Hutchinson, i Sam Clements. Clarence Mayes, i Frank Mayes. The last named three olunteered to join Company A at tV* tiro* the guards were sent to the Mexican bor der, but were reject*. - •.•a a< count < •' minor deficier.c:es. It - i ■ * <ed tney will be accepted at ‘.Vr time. Presuming that tht.e v. y be son1-. ,vho are postponng the ration of vol unteering unt:l the . re-Merit's , on scription proclamation- is made and a ho then intend • . *.; t • r before draft can • order*, n . i - ■ . O- re authorises the Derm rat to say that he is oftk-ialiy mf.-rr that no o*. 'will be allowed t* < : < ‘ er for ser vice as a national g a.; r in the reg ular army even after t rt evdratio: l is begun. So if any prefer to go as a volunteer rather ". .. a >>e ■. onscrip ted. now is the ini* t > volunteer. 11 antsville 1 -era •« rat. LOBBY AGAINST Hm*I> BILL Washington, May li Sensation al charts that a lobby •! “food yam biers, S' me of thorn of mmu'- sc ' wealth," already at work .>■ Washing Iton. seeking to defeat the uhnini - tration food control bills, .re made tonight in a formai statement by As sistant Secretary Carl H Vrooman of the department of agr ulture. “Allies of the kaiser -unpatrioti-. and disloyal—who should bt made to feel the loathing and contempt of ce lery patriotic American, ’ are some of the character zations applied by Mr Vrooman to food “spe. ulators, food 1 cornerers and food gamblers.” who he , promises will in time U too hed by appropriate legislation. Mr. Yrooman's statement said: “Never in the h story of the world have business men showed .so much patriotism and unseliish ness as has been manifested since the war began by the busine men of America. “However, this attitude has not been universal. Thera are j food speculators, food cornerers and food gamblers, some of them men of immense wealth, and oth ers very small means who art to day taking advantage of war con ditions to exploit their felhv. cite I zens to the full extent of thir ability. "These men art allies of the kaiser, are doing their utmost to defeat the patriotic purposes of the nation. Wherever they are to be seen, in high places or low, they should be condemned and made to feel the loathing and con tempt of every patriotic Ameri can. These men will be taken care of in due time by national, state and municipal legislation, but until such legislation can be enacted the only effective pov or j that can be brought against them * is the power of an outraged pub lic sentiment, and that should be used vigorously and mercilessly. “I am told that some off these i men are actually in Washington today conducting a lobby against the request of President Wilson i that congress empowers him and his cabinet to take the necessary means to mobilize the agricultu j ral resources of this nation for victory. f’lEIU'E-BR \ 1)Y Roland Pierce and Miss Kitty Bra dy were very quietly married Sunday afternoon. May Cth, at the residence of the officiating minister*. Rev W. A. Piper, pastor of the M E. Church The News must apoligize to these | well known young people for non mention of the marriage last week, but we will not take ail the blame, part of it lies with the officiating; minister, who f'orgot or neglected to mention the marriage, i Both poung people an well known I in Springdale. Roland just recently I returned home from a four year ser . vice in the U. S. Navy, and the bride is a daughter of T. W. Brady, who has made his home here for nme time For the present they are at home on | Holcomb Street. -« THE FIRE FIEND SAYS ! 1 love to think of the boys and girls j Who play with matches slyly. If they don’t mind, i Some day they’ll find Experience bought highly. -• It’s a wise proverb that never has its wisdom questioned. N » EXTRA SESSION OK LEGISLATIKE fit'-. llrough Does Not Think Extra Advisable at this Time tile Roc k, May 11.-Replying to to letter of Joseph M. Hill of Fort Sr.dth, date ! May 5 and published in a r* • nt issue of a local paper, in vhr n Judge Hill suggested that the g ■ ' * ■ ■ ■ r all an extra session of the Jet • .re to deal with problems a ris nt '! m the war; also suggesting that t' • constitutioal convention be a a • -ff. Governor Brough yester lay - he could not comply with ( ;h-r suggestion, and gave his rea so . Hill wrote that the legislu t..J-. . ;iii m "t to make a large ap pr • at'on as a war measure, naming . i. >, to render such aid to the | go" ne-.t as niight he required and ! cit* • - liar action by some of the ■fudge Hill said that in view ; of ’: " nditions the expense . f the j cenvent’on should be saved and that ! In h - i pinion the present situation ; re.1 holding the convention this 1 ■ e nportune. iy < lovernor r>rougn <to ..1 together the legislature * ssion to appropriate $1,000 ,y j art thereof, for the rea 1 .<• - taxes for war purposes are I es- ..illy on a federal basis and that j no re .• -t for sueh appropriation has been n. ,<le by the government! Ad mit*;: „ that some states have made app" : r at ns as a war measure, the j gt r points out that in most of i such states there are shipping inter Jest- ... last lines to protect, and [that t'v.r legislatures doubtless had ' thos- • facts in view. A- t< the constitutional convention, l the i rnor wrote in part: | “W :h reference to your second sug | ggestkn that this is an inopportune tine ■ or holding a constitutional / ! co* v» rtion, you may be right in your j cor. -.s ns. but 1 am fully convinced j th .*. the .: terr.al improvement of our . states ar.d the strengthening of our '( •*■-. ■ . laws, would be wise steps in <• ;r .->e and national preparedness. ' i re advised that the .onvention, when t assembles next November, a.-, tak< cognizance of the war condi tion, and recess for such a period as it: members deem lit. The law pro . ides that a special election must be vabed by the governor not less than i (1 r more than 90 days after iinal aajournment of the constitutional convention when is has completed its draft It does not specify how long the convention may sit. however, and decs • it : rohib t the convention, af ter organization, from recessing from i time to t:me. Arkansas sadly needs a new con stitution. .n my humble opinion, and perhaps new powers could be confer red under this constitution, which would enable the state more effect ively t<> aid the federal government. I It appears to me that the patriotism . i : the members of the convention is | a soffit lent guarantee for a reason in.be- length of time, if it should then j be deemed advisable. The primaries ' 1.... ■■ already been held, and all that • 'Ms'- - t>> definitely settle tlie per s. nnel if the convention is the for t■ — 11y uf the election on June KI NDS } OK UK.II S< HOOL Little Rock, Ark., May 10- The Arkansas sate board of education touaj fixed the followin.tr as abas s j i\ ; tiie 1018 apportionment off the ! $25.i>ou vocational educational fund | appropriated by the last legislature I for aiding hitrh schools in towns under 1.000 in population: One hundred dollars for schools j teaching domestic science, manual training or agriculture; $150 for J schools teaching two of the subjects; $20<> for schools teaching all three, | and $250 for thos< teaching domestic sccience. manual training and agri ; culture to both boys and girls. The original bill carried an appro priation of $50,000 but (iov. Brough Iwitheld $25,000, defering the opera I ten of the law until 1018. ♦ - II. S. MOBLEY APPOINTED Little Rock, May 11.—H. S. Mobley, of Prairie Grove, formerly president of th Arkansas Farmers Union, has been ejected deputy Warehouse Com missioner under the provisions of the law creating that branch of the De partment of Agriculture. For the past year he has been with the Inter national Harvester Co., extension work in Chicago. He is well known to the farmers of the state. The act specifies $5,500 as the salary of the ! office, but the legislature appropriated only $1,800. -• A woman complains the men do not know' how to make love. It is not nec essary with some girls. I.MTIA I E HiCi ( !. \SS State .Manager R. K. Miller, of the Woodmen of the World Lodge was in Springdale Tuesday night last week, and assisted in the mitiation of a class of fifteen into the I>ccal camp. Deputy Home has i»e*n here for the past several days ■ di. iting mem bers, and he also ass sled in the ini tiation. The dr.11 team from Fayette ville lodge was also ; resent, as were a number of the members from that place. Interest in the ioceal order has taken on new iife - nee the initi ation. and the time of the special dis pensation has been extended to Mon day night, May 20th. A number of members of the "rd. r from Elm Springs. Dos hen and Sonora were pn sent Thursday evening. 9 SRKIND ( KEEK Blomiv had straw! .. short cake for dinner Sunday. "Null' -ed." Bro. Johnson fille i •• - regular ap ' pointment at this ph e Saturday and ( Sunday. Albert Reed and no . Ruth Reed, 1 of Springdale, were ~ ' • y at Jake Reed’s Sunday. Burl Atk -or a- '• ’ ’ y. of are Springs, visited a: An t Watkins’ | Sunday of last week. | Ed Conley ami famny were out from Springdale S w-ay attending | church and vD iting v. ivi relatives. I Will Wiley and family and Mrs | * 'arl Atkisor: and baby snent Sunday with relatives at Pra-rie Drove Sun day. Those who have strawberries have begun harvesting ths ,r crop. The weather stays so coo tie- berries do not ripen fast. Smiths moved their saw mill back to the Grmsley pla.< «•:.<* day last week. There is quite a number of logs tht T“ for them to saw. Ed Kelly and family <ume up from Watts. Ok la., one iay astv.eek -'or a visit with relative- Hi- daughter llah, will stay her* •* -• . eh the ber ry season. Mrs. Van Cowan ha*; h r self play er jnam brought <1 • • from Pea i Ridgt on* day last week and was j enterta n ng several fro •; with mu sic Sunday evening. Eliza Cowan ami gentleman friend, of Pea Ridge, • down Sun day visiting the former's mother, Mrs. Nannie Cowan, S..mlay of last week. - ■ * j LITTLE WILLIES L>' \Y ON “EIRE PREVENTION ’ ! 1-’ re is a hot substar e made of fu*‘i and usually started by a match. A fire bug < an also start a hot tire by friction by rubbing a fiCono policy on a $‘>,000 risk. A tire started by a near-sighted woman ■ oking for a light dress in a dark closet is just as hot as tire started by fire bug, only the woman is sorry aft* rward. One funny thing about : fire is that it won’t start when you want it to and you can’t stop it unless it wants to If you try to make a fire in the grate with kindling and newspapers it will take ten matches to start it and then t won’t burr u:d< ss it wants to, but if you drop a lighted match accidentally on a wet and it is liable to set th«- house .-.tire. You can’t start a tire with th* la*t match in the box or lig'ht a *gar with the last match in your p* vket unles- you i have some more mat* hes handy. 1 Fires art .'ike darkies. They work better in hot weather an i after keep ing all day will raise the mischief at night. When i prow up ! v. -it ;<> oe ! fireman so 1 can turn the hose <>n folk* 1 don't like and chop holes in : their roof .vithout petting arrested A fireman pets to sit a round all day i and play checkers and ’ hen there is ! a fire he is the first one to know about it and gets to ride thtre n an auto mobile and 1 have to run there on my ! own leps. The best way to keep a ■lire from visiting you is to treat it | like maw treats paw’s second cousins. In the first place she don't invite ’em [ and if they visit her anyway they ! soon see it ain’t no pia; > for them to on jov themselves at. -♦_ AKKANS \S LEADS Arkansas leads the nation in the i production and shipment of straw j berries. The weekly summary of car load shipment of produce issued by the Department of Aprieulture and which includes the total shipments for last year, shows that 1,698 car loads of berries were shipped ' from Arkansas last year West Tennessee shipped 1,667 car loads -•--— Hcv. W. J Elledge, pastor of the First Baptist Church left fore part of the week for New Orleans to attend the Southern Baptist Convention. He will be away a week. THE EDITORS HERE 1 he members of the Arkansas Press Association arrived in Springdale 1 hursday morning on the "dinky” pas senger at am! were entertained with an auto tour over the country adjacent to Springdale. The party was divided part going over the north east part, while the others were taken to Tontitown and west. A large crowd met the train when it arrived, and the local band played while the crowd was placed in wait ing automobiles. After a short ad dress of welcome from Mayor Smith, the sight-seeing trip started. After the trip strawberries were served by the ladies of Springdale at the Auditorium Park. Some one hun dred and twenty live were in the par ty. A more extended write-up of the meeting and trip will be given next wek. SI LPHI R C ITY and BEACKOAK Mrs. Foote has been on the sick list the past week. Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Ear! Shook were shopping in Fayetteville Friday. Matt Jones, of Durham, visited his son Will and family here Saturday night. .Tim Kin ion and family and John Harrelson and family went to the ber ry fields Sunday. The county demonstrator and Miss K-ng, of Fayetteville, were at Black oak Friday night. Jim Fincher and sister, Mamie, of Fayetteville are visiting relatives in the Blackoak neighborhood. D. C. Thurman, of Sonora, filled his regular appointment at Blacoak , Saturday night and Sunday. We understand that Pearl Cook has sold his place and will move on the Margaret Reef place soon. Mrs. Newell, of Trace Valley, at tended church at Bkukoak Sunday and took dinner with Mrs .1. G. T 3r ! ry. * L. H. Criss and family and Mr. Sole and family of Fayetteville, were here Sunday afternoon drinking sul ' | hur water Clifford Jones and sisters. Esther and Emma ami Miss \ eta Ramsey and ye ~< ribi attended prayer meet ing at Rlackoak Sunday night. 1 must not fail to make mention of the new foot bridge across the branch at Blackoak. The old men have been careless about fixing a way for people afoot to cross the branch, so three of our bright young men said, "we are going to fix that bridge” They hauled lumber and made the bridgt It >s made of cable wire and s substatia! in every way So let’s tip ymr hats to these three young men j and give them praise for the new | foot bridge. Lone Star. HICKORY FLAT Yes, we had some frost, but it nev er hurt our garden any. “Celsus and family came over in the car and spent Sunday afternoon with us. Isom Means who has been ill for two or three weeks past, is some bet ter at this writing. Shade Gibson and .-on. Marion, made a trip to Monte Ne Sunday, returning Tuesday. Marion Fitch and Herman Gibson i visited the latter’s sister. Miss Ber tha Gibson, at Alva Harp’s berry , patch, near Sonora, Sunday. Miss Gracie McCullum, who is stay ing at Uncle Tommy Johnson’s near Pilgrims Rest, spent Sunday with home folks. Sherman Garnett ac companied her. Mrs. Ellen MeCulIum ami daugh ters, Opal and Elsie, Misses Bertha and Bertie Gibson and Cora and !'»o ra George are picking berries for Alva Harp at Sonora “Celsus says the snakes in our vi cinity have all died of spina! nienti gitis trying to travel our roads. It is true our roads arn’t in the best of condition. None of the roads ov er here are county roads, and the peo ple know if they do work them they will get no credit for it, and will have to go three or four miles to work the roads near the Valley, so they just ! let these go. But L A. Coger and the Fitch boys did work the Coger | hill and Celsus says he is going to try his car on the route again. There 1 are three more hills that need woik, i but it isn’t known when they will get I v \ enus. It is reported that sea gulls are dis 1 closing the presence of German sub marines. Could the allies train the i English sparrows to do something useful, too. -— Some of the ladies with their new clothes seem to have ignored the safe ty first injunction.