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MARIANNA, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917. NO. 29
B; Registration Day for Women
has been named by Governor Brough as Regis
men throughout the state of Arkansas. It is as
every woman of Marianna to walk to the City
and register and sign the pledge card for food
was the duty of the men of Lee county to regis
sident asked it of them. From 9 a. m. t0 4 p. m.
imittee at the Red Cross Headquarters to assist
these cards. When you say that you will not
conserve your food and do your little bit toward
■xamine yourself carefully and see if the word
apply somewhere. This is somethin? the Gov
*mment is asking of you and surely Mr. Hoover knows more
about the subject of how we should conserve our food than any
woman in Marianna; will you stand behind your president? If you
have no son or husband to send to the front, be able to say to the
woman who does have one—while you are making your supreme
sacrifice I am making my small one. Oh, women of America do
your frivolities and your luxuries mean more to you than the
splendid young manhood that is going to the training camps to
defend your home and theirs. Let us listen to those in authority
and profit by the mistakes of other nations. If you cannot carry
«ut the pledge card to the letter carry it out as far as you can; at
least make an effort.
REGISTRATION COMMITTEE
_
. WATSON WRITES
ABOUT BOLL WEEVIL
ITE DEMONSTRATION AGENT
IS THERE IS NO OCCASION
TO BECOME ALARMED.
he following letter from C. W.
toon, state demonstration agent, to
F. Newell, agent for Lee county,
ilains why Mr. Evans, the govem
nt boll weevil expert, was not able
come to Lee county upon the occa
n of his recent visit to Arkansas,
wever, Mr. Watson states he him
f will be glad to visit Lee county
1 advise with the planters on the
it method to fight the pest. His
ter follows:
I wired you today that Mr. Evans
i to leave for Washington and the
lerary was made out for his trip
fore we heard from you. Am aw
lly sorry we couldn’t get up there,
feel that he could have been worth
ile in your county, not only from
II weevil investigation, but to allay
y feeling on the part of the busi
is interests that would cause panic,
fii your people still feel that the
evil is going to do them any great
mage, I would be glad to go over
metime during the middle of next
*k to help you out.
"For your information let me state
it we visited Lonoke, Pulaski, Jef
rson, Desha, Lincoln. Drew, Brad
f, Calhoun, Union and Ouachita
mties, made investigations and de
mined to what extent the weevil
is working and we came to this
serai conclusion that if the hot
ither continued there was no cause
r alarm, but it is evident that there
a general infestation, more so per
is that at any time in the past and
ile the weevils are not in sufficient
mbers to destroy &e crop, ttiey can
found almost in every cotton field.
"Mr. Evans seemed to think that
die the smaTT late cotton is at a
•advantage, yet there is one fea
•* that makes it more hopeful and
at is that the small cotton will per
rt the sun rays to enter and cause
•e weevil damage. If I can be of
•vice to you in making an investiga
* and you will Tet me know, I will
1 and go over myself and do what
•an, but I believe you will find your
■ty very much in line with the
rision as above stated.”
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amoved as member
1 OF EXEMPTION BOARD
Vka, Kan., July 24.—George W.
*• county clerk of Reno county,
^yesterday removed as a member
®e Reno County Exemption Board
^Governor Capper. The action fol
•w Lee' demands that he be paid
nia service as a member of the
Option board. He is the only
■ay clerk in the state who asked
•remuneration. Lee sent in a bill
'♦105 and yesterday protested to
f^rnor because of publicity
2 “*s demand. His removal fol
•W immediately.
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, Ungrammatical,
once wrote on a blackboard.”
* Philadelphia teacher, “these
"^e toast was drank in sil
and then asked my class, ‘can
,one me what the mistake in
Sentence is?’
i i ?U^S Pondered. Then a lit
** held up her hand, and at a
b +? me went to the board and
*Tv 6 *°N°wing answer:
*** t°ast was ate In silence.’’ ’
this period of multiplied mis
. he country frowns only on
l*0C8—Newark News.
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Us*!!*.h°w sincerely she sympa
•Jth the Russian idea of “no
|hk '?8, ’ Germany has assessed
fine of $50,000,000 on Rou
Herald,
DEFORMED BABIES
AWAITING DEATH
WITH PERMISSION OF PARENTS,
CHICAGO SURGEON, DECLINES
TO OPERATE UPON HOPE
LESS CASES.
Chicago, 111., July 24.—The hope
lessly deformed daughter of William
and Eva Meter, bom at a North Side
hospital yesterday, died this after
noon after Dr. Harry Haiselden re
fused to perform a surgical operation
which would have saved its life.
The case parallels that of “Baby
Bollinger,” who was attended by the
same physician and allowed to die
under similar circumstances more
than a year ago.
Dr. Haiselden examined the infant
and decided its deformity was of such
a character that would be best to let
it die. The parents of the Meter
child agreed with the doctor.
The baby was fed regularly until
death relieved its sufferings. Many
doctors and nurses visited the hospi
tal today to see the baby.
ur. naiseiaen, wno siarnea me
country when he decreed that Baby
Bollinger should be allowed to die
when an operation would have pro
longed its life, is today permitting
two other defective babies to die, he
announced this afternoon.
“Some day people will wonder how
there should be any criticism of such
a course,” he said.
In addition to the Meter baby,
which was bom with deformed neck,
no skull bone and malformed,. Dr.
Haiselden told of two other cases.
“The first of the other babies is 5
months old, bom to a family named
Martys, living on North Springfield
avenue.” he said. “He was brought to
me a month ago, paralyzed and with ;
the head incurably affected. By op-1
erating, I could have prolonged the
life for a year or so. But I explained
matters to the parents and they are j
willing to wait for death.
‘The third baby is named Paul
Haidza. He is 3 months old and his
head is misshapen and defective and
there is a malady that makes breath
ing an agony for the infant. I am
prescribing enough paregoric to keeD
it drugged until death ends it all.
“I feel that I am doing the great
est service to humanity possible in
these cases. It is better than experi
menting with a knife for my own
satisfaction.”
Many prominent persons voiced
their approval of Haiselden s deci
sion.
Mrs. Samuel Meter, grandmother
of the Meter baby, called up Dr. Hais
elden today and added her permision
to use his own judgment about the
baby’s life. The grandmother is her
self the mother of a baby 11 days
om. f
“Dr. Haiselden is absolutely right, ’ j
said Mrs. Charlotte Rhodus, vice j
president of the woman’s party of t
Cook county. "I? It were my own
child I would want the same thing
done. It would be a crime to let such
a deformed infant survive.”
“If the life of this imbecile, a de
formed little babe of innocence were
spared or prolonged the life of the
mother would be endangered, said
Rev. Johnston Meyers of Immanuel
Baptist Church. ‘‘The child would be
an immediate burden to the mother
and it might cost her life."
Dr. Isaac A. Apt, noted baby doc
tor. said that when there is a rea
sonable hope of saving a baby—even
a defective baby—it should be saved.
“If it’s hopelessly deformed, that's
another question.” said the doctor.
“Such cases cannot be handled as
general propositions. They must be
solved as individual cases.”
Health Commissioner Robertson
this afternoon started an investigation
of the Meter baby’s death.
MARKETING PROBLEMS
WILL BE INVESTIGATED
D. C. WELTY, MISSOURI PACIFIC
AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION
ER, WILL SPEND DAY
HERE.
The special marketing committee
of the Marianna Commercial Club
Wednesday received a telegram from
D. C. Welty of St. Louis, agricultural
commissioner of the Missouri Pacific
railroad, stating he wouli arrive in
Marianna this (Friday) morning at
nine o’clock for the purp-se of mak
ing an investigation into conditions
here with a view to assisting the
farmers in securing the best markets
for their surplus products. Mr. Wel
ty has been engaged in this line of
work for many years and he will
bring with him the accumulated ex
perience covering a long period of
activity in solving marketing condi
tions. Today he will go with P. F.
Newell, county demonstrator, and
several other citizens, to points in the
county and make a first-hand study
of conditions. He will talk with the
farmers in order to get first-hand in
formation with reference to the dif
ficulties they have been encountering
in seeking to profitably dispose of
their products. He will also advise
with the local merchants. After se
curing all the available information
he will be prepared to make many
practical suggestions in an address
he will deliver at the Elks Club to
night (Friday) at eight o’clock. The
nffir»pr« nf tVip Pr»fr*mprria1 C!lnh »rp
anxious to have a large crowd present
tonight to hear Mr. Welty. Every
interested farmer is especially urged
to attend the meeting tonight at the
Elks Club.
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“TED,” THE CARTOONIST. IN
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS TONIGHT
‘Ted,” (Billy EUwood), creator of
the Dingbats and other comic pictures
now business manager for the Ma
jestic Theatre here, will appear at
the Majestic Tent tonight in his Chau
tauqua chalk sketch entitled “Folks
We See.” Mr. 'EUwood is a rapid
fire sketch artist, and during his stay
in Marianna he has created much
amusement by exhibiting pen draw
ings of well known citizens and fami
liar scenes. In his chautauqua pro
gram which he will follow tonight he
draws his famous cartoons in view
of the audience on paper five feet
square—consuming approximately
forty minutes in his work.
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0 TOPICS IN BRIEF. o
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0-O-0-0-0——0-0-0
Turks say all they want is the right
to exist, but the Americans said it
first—Wall Street Journal.
***
The German general in East Africa
money is refused in the counting
roogn of the Staats-Zeitung.—New
York Sun.
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The German general in aEst Africa
permitted by the Belgians to retain
his word for honorable conduct in war
probably will spend the rest of his
life keeping away from Berlin.—
Newark News.
***
“Let the American Army Come,”
says a Berlin paper, which is verv
sound advice under the circumstances.
—Indianapolis Star.
Queen Sophia of Greece is the first
member of the Hohenzollern family
iu nave wie dx- uexure wie uue, uui
will probably not be lonely long.—
Wall Street Journal.
***
The voting age of Englishwomen
has been fixt at thirty. There is lit
tle likelihood of a stampede to a poll
ing-place that has been made a con
fessional.—Newark News.
**•
Count Seebach. of Berlin, says: “It
is in vain to desire to win Americans
with civilities and sentimentalities."
Never heard the submarines called
that before.—San Francisco Chroni
cle.
**•
The Kaiser’s wrath over the de
thronement of his brother-in-law, the
King of Greece, makes it plain that
the Allies had very good reason for
insisting on this step. — Oshkosh
Northwestern.
A Mexican paper of pro-German
stamp, called La Defensa, having
proposed a war to regain California
and Texas, and an American officer
with a Prussian point of view having
proposed seizing Mexican oil-fields we
can call it even.—New York Evening
Post.
*•*
Gust J. Papatheodorokounoundur
gis-Tomichlakopulos, of Chicago,
bought a United States bond and
says he is an American citizen.
What’s the name, please.—Kansas
City Star.
NO. ABATEMFNT IN |
BUILDING ACTIVITY
MANY SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVE
MENTS ARE UNDER WAY IN
MARIANNA—NO VACANT
BUILDINGS HERE.
War time conditions are causing
no tightening of purse strings in (
Marianna. In fact, the people here
are taking the very sensible view that j
the unprecedented period of prosperi
ty through which the nation has been
passing will continue, that the bil
lions of dollars to be spent by the
government for war supplies will
serve to increase the volume of busi
ness rather than to diminish it, and
that this condition supplemented by
the prospect for good crop yields and
high prices for farm products justi
fies the mcst steadfast confidence in
the future security of the nation’s
business.
In Marianna, in part’cular. the sit
uation with reference to financial
conditions and building activity is the
best it has been in many years. All
the banks are carrying record-break
ing deposits for this season of the
year. Every character of business is
prospering. There is not a vacant
building of any kind in Marianna.
Every contractor is swamped with
work and every laborer is employed
at increased wages over the scale a
few months ago.
Through the courtesy of the Mil
ler Lumber Company and the Home
Lumber Company the Courier-Index
is able to present below a brief re
sume of the building activities in
Marianna during the past weeks:
T OaHnrnA now rpsiHpnrp on
Chesnut street, $10,000 to $12,000.
Brick veneer, tile roof, red gum and
oak finish.
Brian Frazier, $5,000 bungalow on
South Poplar street.
Wm. Friedman, $6,000 to $7,000
brick veneer bungalow on South Pop
lar street.
W« A. Willis, new $5,000 bungalow.
W\ B. Mann, new $7,000 bungalow
on Main street.
J. B. Daggett, brick addition to re
sidence and improvements on inter
ior, $2,500.
Mrs. T. D. Benthal, three new 5
room bungalows for rent, on West
Main and W'est Chesnut streets,
$3,000 each.
R. L. Derrick, brick veneer bunga
low on West Main street, $5,000 to
$7,000.
R. L. Mixon, two-story brick veneer
.residence on South Poplar street,
$10,000.
W. S. McClintock is building a
large brick addition to the Karicofe
garage. Mr. Karicofe will install a
modem machine and wood-working
plant in this building. Co$>t of build
ing $5,000.
J. L. Isaacs and R. D. Jarratt are
erecting brick building on East Chest
nut street. The building is divided
into four apartment for rental pur
poses. Cost $2,500.
The colored Baptist congregation
has begun the erection of a modern
church on the comer of West Main
and Alabama streets, to cost between
$6,000 and $8,000.
Judge J. A. Plummer has had the
interior of the court house overhaul
ed, the walls and ceilings replastered
and tinted and new flooring put in.
He has just received the plans for
the remodeling of the county jail. The
old jail will be overhauled and a
large addition built. The structure
will be thoroughly modem, having
apartments for whites and blacks,
males and females. Hospital quarters
will be provided. The improvement .
will cost between *6,000 and $8,000.
The brick livery bam formerly oc- ]
cupied by Lee Derrick has been leas
ed to Roane & Atkins. The building
has been remodeled, concrete floors
put in. and a modern garage install
ed. The firm deals in the Paige and
Maxwell cars. Cost of improvements
$2,500.
The Lee County Motor Company
has moved into its new building on
South Poplar street. The new home
of the company is one of the hand
somest in this section of Arkansas.
It has every modern convenience.
The company handles Ford cars and
I Am Learning
that success is a matter of habit
ual concentration upon higher
ideals. I am what I set out to be.
The things I read and talk about
today and the thoughts I think
today are a forecast of what I
shall become. I have learned that
i am a composite of the things I
have said, the thoughts I have nur
tured. the company I have kept
and the habits I have pursued. I
am learning that success lies with
in myself—my brain, my ambition
and my determination— and that
difficulties and hard experience
are not to be dodged, but met with
courage, that they may be turn
ed into future capital.
Donations to the Red Cross Fund
Leader Store, 20 yards of domestic.
Mrs. Maud Somn.ers, 32 yards of chambray.
Mrs. W. S. McClintock, one dozen bath towels.
Mrs. H. B. Derrick, 6 sheets and 6 pillow cases.
Mrs. J. I. Morris. 25 yards outing flannel. 10 yards Lonsdale
and one dozen bath towels.
The ladies have been sewing at the work rooms in the City
Hall for almost two weeks, and have quite a large quantity of
hospital garments and bandages finished, and expect soon to be
ready to make a shipment to Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, N. Y. From
there the shipment will be forwarded to our soldiers in France.
Mrs. Morris has organized auxiliaries in Haynes. Moro. Oak
Forrest and Brickeys. Yesterday she went to Oak Forrest to
take patterns and instruct the ladies in the making of the gar
ments. Within the next week or two Mrs. Morris expects to *
have auxiliaries organized at Aubrey and Rondo.
deals in all auto accessories. It main
tains a modem garage and machine
shop. The improvement, outside of
the cost of the lot, approximates
$12,000.
The Miller Lumber Company has
remodeled and enlarged its offices
and installed a modem heating plant.
The private offices of the managers
rt-e finished in beautifully figured
red gum panels. The large retail
shed is also being repainted.
Ike Panich is remodeling the store
building recently vacated by Thos.
G. Johnston’s Pure Food Grocery. He
is installing a modern front, over
hauling the interior and will use the
room as an addition to his store.
T. C. Conner of Cody, is erecting a
new gin at a cost of $7,000 to $8,000.
J. L. West of Gill is erecting a new
gin to cost from $7,000 to $8,000.
Boyce & Kausler, near Cody, are
erecting six new tenant houses at a
cost of $400 each.
The exterior wood work on the
First Baptist church has been re
painted.
Within the next two weeks the
Missouri Pacific railway company
will begin work on the new $40,000
passenger station here.
Banks McDonald of La Grange is
making some substantial improve
ments on his residence.
E. M. Spain is putting the mater
ials on the ground for the erection
of a modem bungalow on his lot on
South Liberty street. The building
will cost $3,000.
Wallace Greenhaw is spending $1,
OUU iu UiV CICUVIUII ui a Iicv» wuuru
low in Southeast Marianna.
J. L. Isaacs has just finished a new
rental bungalow in North Marianna
and one in South Marianna, the two
combined costing S2.400.
Wm. Friedman has just moved into
his new brick veneer bungalow on
South Poplar street, erected at a
cost of $7,000.
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BAND CONCERT PROGRAM
THURSDAY EVE, AUGUST 2
Opening ‘‘America.”
1. Demonstration March
_ Rosenkrans
2. Where the Blackeyed Susans
Grow.Whiting
3. Rosemary Waltz-- Von Hagen
4. How's Every Little Thing in
Dixie -Gumble
5. Overture "Migonette”—
_ Beauman
INTERMISSION.
6. Down Where the Sewanee
River Flows.Von Tilzer
7. Underneath the Stars—
_ Spencer
8. Good-bye, Good Luck. God
Bless You, “Waltz" —E. R. Ball
9. Trombonium "Trombone
Troubles" . Withrow
10. And They Called it Dixie
Land . Whiting
Finale “Dixie."
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Times Have Changed.
Little Mildred came home from a
day's visit in the home of little Har
riet.
“She was awfully rude to me. ma
mma,” said Mildred. She talked
cross to me and she wouldn't let me
play with her dolls and she told me
her father was richer than mine and
everything.' '
“Why didn’t yoti come home,
asked the mother. “That's what I
should have done if a playmate had
treated me that way when I was a
little girl."
“Maybe that’s what you would
have done, mamma,” Mildred replied.
“ But times have changed since you
were a litt girl. When Harriet acted
mean I just slapped her face and stay
ed.”—Newark News.
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The suffrage movement is now so
strong in this country that it is cer
tain to succeed in spite of the tatics
of ladies like those camped in front
of the White House.—Chicago Herald
FOREIGN FOE WOULD
BURN FOOD SUPPLY
WHAT SPIES DO FOR THE KAI
SER AT RISK OF LIFE SOME
AMERICANS DO THROUGH
CARELESSNESS.
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Finding the great Waahbum-Cros
by and Pillsbury flour mills guarded
by an elaborate system of human
sentries and official red tape and that
in Minnesapolis and St. Paul the en
emy alien is held responsible for fires
that have already destroyed four
large grain elevators, the editor and
publisher of the Southern Contsrue
tion News has returned from Minne
sota and other northern points with
fresh determination to wage war on
the curse of fire waste.
What is the diffemce in result, asks
the Southern Construction News,
whether a grain elevator is destroy
ed by an emisary of the Kaiser or
through the carelessness of an Ameri
I can manager of mill hand. The Cen
j tral Powers are benfited just as truly
when American food is destroyed by
a careless fire as by a spy fir« and
fire is as effective in preventing our
food from going to help our allies as
is a German submarine.
What is true of grain in northern
elevators is true of cotton in Southern
warehouses or of any other commo
dity representing human effort and
potential war power.
That thoughtlessness, ignorance,
slack management and other forms
of carelessness are responsible for
| nearly half of our fires, as proved by
i fimires of the Arkansas Actuarial
Bureau, is a fact that should and will
cause a public demand tor more
stringent fire-prevention regulations.
The remedy for extreme and wanton
fire waste lies with public sentiment.
Insurance Not a Fire Extinguisher.
The question of insurance does not
enter into the crime against humanity
that is committed every time^gooda,
food, supplies or other forma of hu
man wealth are wiped off the face
of the earth by fire. Fire is a great
thief that robs the human race of
the products of its labor. Insurance
is simply a shock absorber that pro
tects the individual from ruin. -It
collects the loss from many pocket
books instead of one. But it doean t
replace the goods that were destroy
ed in the world s storehouse.
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The Ffre Fiend Says:
I love to think of modern war
That’s fought with liquid fire
Of Conflagration's rapid spread
And ruination dire.
I am Mankind’s most hateful fos
It’s very strange to see
The humans fighting other folk
And not molesting me.
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When He Volunteers.
The Minister—Trust in God and
make your powder fly.
His Doting Mother—I wonder how
lorg before he’ll be a general ?
His Militant Father—Bully for him!
His Pacifist Uncle—Dear me! Dear
dear me!
His Proud Aunt—He gets his bravo
spirit from our side of the family.
His Little Brother—Gee! I wish I
could go.
His Uttle Sister—I wish I had a
dress like that uniform.
His Chum—I hope he pays me that
five bucks before he goes.
His Best Girl—Isn’t he grand!
His Girl’s Chum—Oh, you must
| give me a military button for my
1 collection.
Their Next Door Neighbor—I s’P
j pose they’ll be more stuck op than
ever now.
Drill Sergeant—Oh, Gawd!
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Evidently the American people
think more of the Red Cross than
j they da of the iron cross.—Oshkoeh
j Northwestern.