The courier-index., July 27, 1917, FIRST SECTION., Image 4

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in Marianna, Lee County, Arkansas,
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Subscription price $1.50 per year. H.
M. Jackson, Editor-Manager.
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SHADES OF BETSEY ROSS.
The measure of a great deal of the
individual patriotism of today seems
to mainly consist in the unlimited
display of the United States flag. We
have observed so many flaunting
flags, buttons and other regalia of
every description, that we fear there
is i.n inclination on the part of many
to let the purchase and display of
>. 'thede' emblems: take the place of a
nr,ore pubstantipl investment in Liber
ty Bonds, or a determination to serve
■ ’ the cOuhtry by enlistment in the
But, however much the slackers
' 'tnay make use of our beloved flag as
evidence of a partiotism they do not
feel, what manner of excuse can there
be for the town authorities to fur
ther contribpte to it’s degradation by
allowing a nameless something to
flutter from the towner of the City
Hall that might indeed at one time
have been called a flag, but which J
now resembles more than anything
else a cross between the walking j
skirt of a South Sea Island danseuse •
and the nether garment of a hobo ,
hung out to dry.
Gentlmen, if we can’t hoist a de
cent flag one on which the citizen may
look without shame and the stranger :
without commiseration, then let us
either remove that miserable, deso
late looking rag altogether or else j
tie some black streamers to it as
an acknowleged indication that our
civic pride is dead. Somebody get '
busy. *
There is no longer any doubt that
the boll weevil pest has hit Lee and ,
other counties in this section of Ar
kansas. It is gratifying, however, to
note that the farmers are not taking
stage fright. They have realized for
’ several years the weevil would soon
er or later reach this section and very
naturally they expected it to do some
damage. But they are going to fight !
it along sensible lines by cultivating
thelv cotton up to almost gathering j
time. Money is made on cotton in |
the heavily infested districts in Mis- I
sissippi because the planters are not
laying down. Lee county farmers
will show the same unconquerable
spirit.
A Kansas City man met a young
lady in Detroit, and after promising
to marry her, prevailed upon her to
let him have diamonds and money
enough to engage in a $25,000 busi
ness. besides $15,000 for spending j
money, after which, incidentally, he ;
refused to marry her. The news re- |
ports say, ‘ This man is credited with
having considerable political influ
ence.” Appears that he had. If he j
would remain in equal suffrage Kan
sas he could probably be elected sul- j
tan.
Every crisis brings out its ‘ muts” j
and its ‘‘nuts. ’ One of the latter !
gentry has figured it out that if every j
one of the hundred million inhabi
tants of the United States would
purchase and destroy a two-cent pos
tage stamp every day the saving to
the government would be two million j
dollars each day, or nearly three quar
ters of a billion a year. This saving
would build a battleship every ten
days. This is interesting chiefly be
cause it shows how the little things
couht.
Somehow we can’t help feeling
thankful for the fact that the ‘ bull”
in the registration returns was made
in New Jersey instead of in a south
ern state. Had we down south been
guilty of this error the Chicago Tri
bune and other traducers of the south
would have taken another fling at
the "ignorant, illiterate and back
woodsy” south.
When a bartender in a wet western
town registered in the military draft
he gave his occupation as that of an
expert interior decorator, which was
both euphoneous and truthful.
It is more than a mere coincident
that the ‘‘voluntary strategic retire
■ ment” of the Germans is always ac
companied by ‘material superio-ity”
upon the part of the allies.
turning the panhandlers into plow
handlers is another war-time conser
vation that is proving profitable.
“Pershing’s Personally Conducted
Tour of the Old World” may go dowrn
in history as an epoch maker.
Our growing young republics. Rus
sia and China, seem to be suffering
chiefly with pains inside, probably
because somebody besides mother
and nurse has been giving them
things to eat they shouldn t have.—
Kansas City tSar.
Can We Come to The Lick Log?
In Germany, yes even in France.
Russia and other countries people are
actually suffering for the necessities
of life, and yet we in free America
who laugh tt the news turn up our
nose and continue our wasteful ways.
In those countries the food and cloth
ing is doled out to the men. women
and children—a small allowance is
made to each family, an allownce that
they will not let go to waste, from the
fact they know they have to conserve
every ounce given them and save, and
save, before they can go to the au
thorities and ask for more. Yet, we
in this land of plenty are actually
throwing away and let go to waste
that which will feed many in the war
ridden country. We cook too much
and throw away the surplus. We eat
too much, which makes us feel heavy
headed and bad. We buy a 50-cent
roast when a 30-cent roast will do.
We kill two chickens where one will
do. We dress up and go to parties
and have banquets where food is not
needed, nor is it necessary. A deli
cious spread is set before us, and be
ing neither hungry nor in want of
food, we eat it anyhow in order to
keep the hostess from feeling bad,
and then go home and prepare sup
per for others of the family, and seat
ourselves down to a repast which we
should consume instead of eating the
stuff at the social, but our hunger
being once appeased we do not eat,
and what is left goes into the gar
bage can. Women, you are not the
only ones. The men are just as
wasteful. None of us does that which
is right, but if this war should last a
few more years and we will have to
have food and clothing doled out to
us, we will then realize that in the
day of wealth we did not save as we
should have saved. It will be a ter
rible fall for some of us to have to go
to a commissary and ask for a pit
tance to eat. It may be that way;
who knows? In order that it may not
let us stop this unholy waste right
now and begin to save and conserve.
Will you?
I WILL.
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ST. ANDREW S CHURCH
The Rev. C. C. Burke, Rector.
SUNDAY
Hoi; Communion .7.00 a.m.
Sunday School. 9:30 a.m.
Bible Class .10:00 a.m.
Morning Prayer .11:00 a.m.
Evening Prayer .7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Litany .10:00 a.m
THURSDAY
Holy Comunion .7:00 a.m.
FRIDAY
Litany. Prayer for the Peace
of the World.7:30 a.m.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Subject of the lesson sermon:
“Life.”
Golden Text: Deuteronomy 30:16,
20.
Services are held every Sunday
morning at ten forty five at the resi
dence of Mrs. Fletcher Rolescn, on
Mulberry Street.
The public is lovingly invited to at
tend these services and to take ad
vantage of the lending library, consist
ing of the Bible, Science and Health
With Key to The Scripture, by Mary
iiaker Kauy, and other authorized
Christian Science literature.
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First Presbyterian Church.
Attendance upon all services last
Sunday was most encouraging and
inspiring. Be in our Sunday school
and Mr. McKee's bible class next Sun
day morning. Always most instruc
tive and refreshing.
No preaching services next Sab
bath. Pastor will be in a few days
special services at DeValls Bluff over
Sunday. Will return Wednesday or
Thursday of next week.
Attention is called to the arbor
meeting at Gill to begin on the first
Sunday 3p. m. The large arbor will
be built there next week in same
place where meeting was held last
year. Everybody is cordially invited
BOMBSAGE TEA IN
HIDED ODM HAIR
If Mixed with Sulphur it Darkens
go Naturally Nobody
can Tell.
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Grandmother kept her hair beautifully ^
darkened, glossy and attractive with a
brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur. When
ever her hair took on that dull, faded or
streaked appearance, this simple mixture
was applied with wonderful effeet. By
asking at any drug store for “Wyeth’s
Sage and Sulphur Compound,” you will
get a large l>ottle of this old-time recipe,
improved by the addition of other ingred
ients. all ready to use, for about 50 cents.
This simple mixture can be depended
upon to restore natural color and beauty
to the hair.
A well-known downtown druggist says
everybody uses Wyeth’s Sage and Sul
phur Compound now because it darkens
so naturally and evenly that nobody can
tell it has been applied—it’s so easy to
use. too. You simply dampen a comb or
soft brush and draw it through your hair,
taking one strand at a time. By morning
the gray hair disappear; after another
application or two. it is restored to its
natural color and looks glossy, soft and
beautiful This preparation is a delight
ful toilet requisite. It is not intended for
the cure, mitigation or prevention of dis
ease.
to join with us in a special effort in
these parts. Good singing. Comfort
able seats. Fine hitching places for
team or auto. No excuse for not be
ing perfectly comfortable and help
ful during the meeting. Won’t you
arrange to start at the very begin
ning with us?
Walter K. Johnston, Minister.
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Methodist Church.
All the services last Sunday were
well attended. The pastor preached
at both hours, baptized Annie Belle
Payne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Payne, and married a young cou
ple from the eastern part of the coun
ty. On next Sunday the morning sub
ject will be: “The value and joy of
knowing.” At night we hold our
second ‘‘Junior Church Service.” This
is for the young people and children,
but all are invited.
The pastor with his family will
leave next week for the hills of North
West Arkansas, and be away for the
month.
Jno. A. Womack, Pastor.
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First Baptist Church.
“What Jesus Said About Heaven”
will be the subject for the Sunday
everimg sermon, at eight o’clock. The
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present last Sunday night. You are
cordially invited to come again this
week.
Morning services as usual. Sunday
school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching at
eleven o’clock.
B. Y. P. U. at seven in the evening.
The pastor expects to preach at
Cottrell’s Schoolhouse Sunday after
noon at three o’clock.
W. C. Boone, Pastor.
FOLLY OF SENDING
MONEY TO THE CITIES
CATALOGUE HOUSES DRAIN
CASH OF SMALL TOWNS.—
SOWING SEED OF DIS
CORD.
Men are seldom more innocently
employed than when they are honest
ly making money.
The value of a dollar is to buy just
things. A dollar goes on increasing
ip value with all the genius and all
the virtue of the world. A dollar in
a university is worth more than a dol
lar in a jail; in some industry in a
temperate, law abiding community
than in a "distant mine, oil well or
prolematical fruit farm in distant ter
ritory.
The lack of money has brought
many a community to a state of ob
livion, and the community’s pauper
ism is invariably the result of unpa
triotic residents sending their money
away to the large cities for suplies.
Catalogue Houses Sow Discord.
The retail mail order houses, as
leeches in the side of rural commer
cialism. work day «nd night, in fair
weather and in foul. They gnaw at
a community’s substance with invisi
ble teeth.
They bind industry with their film
ns a flv is hound with a snider‘s weh.
They sow a crop of discord, and the
harvesters reap thistles instead of
dollars.
Mail order buyinb builds up the
large cities a; the expense of the
smaller pities and towns. Every dol
lar used in this way by the residents
of a community takes a dollar out
of circulation at home and puts it in
to circulation many miles away.
Kesult of Violated Contracts.
The dollar spent with the home
grocer, dry goods dealer, hardware
merchant, druggist or other business
man upbuilds the community in which
you live.
These mechants pay taxes to sup
port your town, repair your streets,
maintain your schools and bund up
and sustain your churches ai . main
tain your markets.
If the people must have inferior
goods, such as many mail order
houses carry, the local merchant no
doubt can arrange his stock to cor
respond with their wants, both in
quality and prices.
In some instances the lower prices
quoted by the mail order houses are
the result of violated contracts and
chicanery, which have no place in an
honest merchant’s business.
Adepts in the Art.
The mail order houses are adepts
in the art and science of preparing
interesting and readable catalogues.
If read critically the skill with which
plausible sentences are put together
and words made to say what they
realy do not is apparent.
When a purchaser goes to his re
tailer he can examine what he wishes
to buy. He can look it over care
fully, test it and if he wishes receive
a guarantee from the merchant that
the article is satisfactory. The guar
antee is good because the retailer in
tends to remain in business among his
friends and he cannot afford to de
ceive.
Substitute Goods as Original.
The catalogue houses, however, may
offer to replace unsatisfactory goods,
but there is the annoyance of writing
claim letters, packing the goods found
not satisfactory and shipping them
back and waiting for the new ship
ment.
And there is the chance that the
substitute goods will prove to be no
more satisfactory than the original,
and all the trouble will have to be
experienced again.
When the consumer learns that it
is not only easier, but much more
satisfactory, to buy of the home
merchant than of the catalogue house
then the latter will have a much more :
stony path to travel than today, and
it is becoming more rough with the
passing of each day because the con
sumer is becoming educated to its
ways and methods of business.
Cash Versus Credit Business.
A’l that has been said is predicated
on the theory that the farmer wants
to do a cash business. He can do no
other kind of business with the mail
order houses.
Any man who expects common de
cency as a standard will tell him that
he has no right to send his cash to
the big cities and ask for credit at
the small local store.
That is not business. While such
a practice is not forbidden by sta
tute law, it is nevertheless immoral,
unjust, mean. No fair minded man
would have the consummate impu
dence to attempt a defense of such
conduct.
Entitled to Cash Business.
If the local dealer is good enough
to deserve the credit trade of his
community he is entitled to the cash
business as well. If he is not hon
est enough to entitle him to the pa
tronage of the cdsh customer he will
take advantage of the credit custom
er.
But if you deal honestly and fairly
with him by giving him both your
cash and credit trade the chances are
that he will deal fairly by you.
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If anything were needed to prove ,
the fact that this is a topsyturvy |
world it is the sight of a Russian |
Socialist audience cheering Elihu i
Root.—New York Evening Snun.
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Rananns arp immmip from insert
attacks and most fruit diseases.
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Medical statisitcs haves hown that
eight men die suddenly from disease
to one woman.
An electrically operated plane has
been invented for smoothing butch
er’s chopping blocks.
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New York city’s net revenue from
saloon licenses amounts to more than
$12,000,000 a year.
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Among the various economic pro
ducts of the plant kingdom the pith
of the sunflower stalk is by far the
lightest.
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Nearly one-third of the entire sur
face of the globe is covered by the
Pacific ocean.
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The temperature of Southern Aus
tralia varies not more than 20 de
grees during the year,
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Philadelphia cleanup week cost tlip
taxpayers $12,000 for disposing of
90.000 cubic yards of refuse.
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More than 2 000,000 European wo
men have been forced to take up
men’s work since the war started.
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Alocohol from chemical plant has
killed hundreds of brook trout in the
Blackberry river, which runs through
the “bone dry’’ Connect’cut towns of
Norfolk and North Canaan.
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In some parts of India castor oil
beans are made into an illuminating
gas that is said to be superior to coal
gas.
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After Providence, R. I., man had
been forced to register for conscrip
This Store Is Not!
the Largest! I
In town, but the best store intown to get 1
the cheapest prices and the best quality of goods 1
at spot cash prices or C. O. D. deliveries. All I
the way from 10 to 15 per cent cheaper. Honest I
weight in every transaction. flj
SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY I
241b. sack Gold Leaf Flour - - $1.59 I
Compound Lard, per lb. - - - 19 3-4c 1
Best Side Meat per lb. 22 3-4c ■
11 1-4 lbs. Sugar.99c ■
Bartlett Pears.28c I
Green Gage Plums.22c 11
Best Apricots.24c El
Best White Cherries - - - 33c I
We now have a first class stock |i
of Groceries at Cheap Prices jj
I Vernon Grocery Co. I
The Red Star Store I
Phone 93-W Main Street I
tion he was sent to jail for two
months as horse thief.
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When train that hit 18-months-old
baby was stopped in Eleventh avenue
New York, child was found dangling
by dress, unhurt, to cowcatcher.
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Society of doctors who eschew use
of drugs have offered government full
hospital unit “for service anywhere."
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To get at coal underneath, town of
Little Italy, Pa., is to be moved across
a creek to foot of mountain a mile
away.
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Stealing bicycles was specialty of
girl thief of New York, who sold them
at 75 cents to get spending money.
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After waiting for him 24 years,
Wisconsin woman, whose husband dis
appeared 20 days after marriage, has
brought divorce suit.
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Kansas City speeder escaped fine
because prosecutor recognized him as
man who gave him his first job at $3
a week 30 years ago.
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The California wrentit is so differ
ent from any other oird of America
that it is placed in a genus and fam
ily all its own.
A Cinch.
“How does Gladys manage to pi
serve her complexion so well?"
“Easily. She keeps it in air-ti{
jars.”—Baltimore American.
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Remember This.
“What do you think is the m
difficult thing for a beginner to 1«
about golf?”
“To keep from talking about it
the time.’-Boston Transcript.
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ARE YOU PREPARED
Against death at home?
Against old age?
Against business contingencies?
LIFE INSURANCE IS FULL
PREPARATION
LET ME SHOW YOU THE UI
TO-DATE POLICY.
W. J. SHORTEN, ACT
AMERICAN CENTRAL LIFI
INSURANCE COMPANY
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Our Grocer es
Satisfy!
THE SPIRIT OF ACCOMODATION IS THE DOMINATING ONE IN 0TTR
STORE. THE DESIRE TO PLEASE HAS TAKEN DEEP ROOT WITH
US, AND YOU WILL FIND IT MAGNIFIED BY EVERY PERSON IN
OUR EMPLOY.
WE BUY THE CREAM OF THE MARKET, KEEP OUR STOCK
FRESH AND UP TO THE MINUTE, AND ALWAYS CORDIALLY WEL
COME A PURE FOOD INSPECTION. THERE IS SATISFACTION
• EVER^ PURCHASE MADE AT THIS STORE. PUT US TO THE
TEST.
LEARY’S
GROCERIES OF QUALITY