Batesville daily guard., September 16, 1914, Image 1

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VOLUME VIII.
COLLEGE HAS AUSPICIOUS OPENING
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Encouraging Exercises Held at Alumni
Hall This Morning Marking
Opening of New Term.
Quite a number of Batesville citi
zens gathered at Alumni Hall this
morning to witness the opening exer
cises of Arkansas College. Many
students from different points of the
south were present to enter upon
, their duties in college life for anoth
er year.
The program was opened by Prof.
Dawes, who rendered very delightful
ly a piano selection. Prof. Dawes
comes from Colorado, Texas, highly
recommended, and will have charge
of the music and piano and harmony
department of the college this year.
Following came a hymn in which all
present joined, after which a prayer
and scripture reading was given by
Dr. O. G. Jones.
The address of welcome in behalf
of the board of trustees was deliv
ered by J. P. Coffin in a few well
chosen and encouraging remarks. The
welcome address on behalf of the peo
ple came from Rev. S. B. Callaway,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
in a very earnest and impressive de
livery.
Miss Florence Owens, who will
have charge of the class in expres
sion, delighted her hearers with a
short talk.
Dr. J. P. Robertson, president of
Arkansas College, acquitted himself
in a manner most pleasing to his
hearers with remarks that carried
convincing evidence of what may be
expected to be accompished by his
school during the ensuing year. Dr.
Robertson has spent much time and
effort during the past summer months
securing students for the college, and
in placing that institution better b*
fore the people. That he has suc
ceeded is shown by the attendance of
students this morning.
Superintendent Sidney Pickens of
the Batesville public schools gave a
short address to the students which
was received with deep appreciation.
After the benediction those in at
tendance were dismissed, every one
leaving with the conviction that one
of the most auspicious sessions in the
historv of Arkansas College has been
opened.
Both the students and faculty in
this school will receive the hearty co
oneration of the citizenship of Bates
ville, which means success.
J. A. Holmes. J. B. McCaleb, S. M.
Casey and Joe McCaleb spent a few
hours in Jamestown today looking
after business matters.
BOYSSurrs)
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From $2.50 to $8.50.
Our Elk Junior Suits at
$6.00
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Are warranted all wool
Let Us Show You
I Weaver-Dowdy Co.
The B/fj Gash Store.
BATESVILLE DAILY GUARD.
Independent Candidate Defeated.
In Monday's election in Sharp
county J. H. Kirtley, the regular I
nominee, defeated W. O. Smith, an in
dependent candidate for sheriff, by a
majority of between three and four
hundred votes. This race created a
kood deal of interest in that county.
No other democratic nominee there
had opposition except the nominee i
for representative, who was opposed
by a socialist. However, the -ocial
ist candidate received but few votes.
AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT
Annual Exhibit o; Products of Inde
pendence Club Boys to Be Held
Here October 23-24.
On October 23-24, about one month
distant, the annual exhibit for the
Boys’ Cotton and Corn Clubs of In
dependence county will be held in
Batesville, and now is the time to
start an interest in the coming event.
Farm and garden products and also
live stock will be exhibited. This
county has encountered a severe
drouth, but if the farmers will bring
in their choice products, it will be
shown that the drouth has not strip
ped us of everything. '
County Demonstrator Wells re
quests a big and enthusiastic attend
ance at the exhibit, and states also
that the ladies of the county are
urged to bring in fancy work and
place on exhibit. ■
CLEARED OF THEFT CHARGE.
Jesse Powell Is Freed By Jury of
Charge of Stealing Corn From
Neighbors in Elmo Section.
Jesse Powell, a citizen of Elmo, in
the Oil Trough bottom, was acquitted
Tuesday afternoon of the charge of
stealing corn from the fields of his
neighbors, which offense was alleged
to have been committed recently.
The trial was before a jury in the
court of Justice of the Peace Jim
Adams.
The defense was represented by
Attorney Tennison of Jackson county
and the prosecution was conducted by
Earl Casey of Batesville, who was as
sisted by John Seymore, a justice at
torney of Oil Trough.
BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16,1914.
The Cotton Situation ;
The present condition of the cotton market is unprece
dented. This bank, in keeping with its adopted policy to help
its friends, ha> arranged to assist its customers so they will
not have to sacrifice their cotton. We can make liberal ad
vances -on cotton stored in warehouses and insured, and those
customers of this bank, who are desirous of liquidating their
debts and still hold their cotton, are invited to call in and talk
the matter over with as.
In the meantime, gather the crop as quickly as possible,
with as little additional or outside expense as you can. As soon
as ginned rush it to a good warehouse in Batesville if possible,
where insurance rates ate small and can properly be cared for.
Then this bank can help you in your needs without having to
force your cotton on the present market.
This is a great time to illustrate the close relations be
tween the bank and the farm. Neither can work as well alone
as through mutual help. Dy working together the farmer and
the banker can relieve the situation more than through any
other medium. By rushing your cotton out and storing it, and
liquidating your debts, remember that the same amount will
start helping others to liquidating their debts.
This bank has helped a great number grow their crops,
and we are desirous of helping them gather and store it now
and hold it, if necessary. We hope for such a friendship from
our farmers that we will be able to care for their deposits
when they do sell their products. Such deposits help us all the
more to help other farmers. Let us all work close together, ’
and business will lie as strong and even better than ever be
fore. The lessons we will all learn from the present conditions
will eventually do us lasting good.
We must practice self-denial and self-control. We need to
jfo slower and “back down" to a more simple life. Economy in
business and in the home should be the order of the day. And
then let us plan for the future, and first of all cut down the
acreage of cotton. Have you failed to find a market for al)
the corn, wheat, oats, hay and grain of all kinds, and your
hogs, cattle, stock and produce of every kind? Let’s diversify
the crops, and raise more live stock, quit keeping our smoke
houses in Illinois, and our bread in Kansas. We will at the
same time build up our soils and find better markets for these
several products, that it can eventually be seen that this “Big
War” will have been a blessing in disguise to many a farmer
who had thought cotton was the only ready money crop.
(We will buy the first bale offered for sale under the “Buy a
Bale” movement.)
Union Bank and Trust Co.
Batesville, Arkansas
“THE BANK THAT HELPS”
State News Briefs
A news item from Hampton says.
"About 20 farmers of Calhoun county ]
have agreed to sow wheat this fall '
for a trial of the crop in this section. I
The largest acreage pledged is ten i
acres. Many farmers will sow large i
tracts of oats.” j
Alexander Luman, an insurance
man of Mena, was held to the United i
States grand jury at Fort Smith ।
Monday on a charge of white slav- ,
ery. It is alleged that he transport- ;
ed Mrs. Mary Riggin from Holston j
Creek, Okla., to Mena last January. (
Both are married.' ।
Charles Campbell, about 40 years
old, was killed by a Rock Island train
at Bauxite Saturday morning. It is
said he was sitting on the ties, and
as the train approached, it is said,
he threw himself in front of it. His
body was cut in half. Nothing is
known of his relatives.
A man named Webb, about 60
years old, was found dead in his tent
near Fulton Monday afternoon with
a bullet hole, apparently made by a
1 .22 caliber rifle, through his body.' A
' rifle of this caliber was found lying
; beside his body. At the coroner’s
’ inquest a verdict of death by accident
> was found.
[ Last Thursday night some mis
> creant busted the gum machine at
’ the depot all to pieces and secured
* therefrom about $6 in silver anj $4
* worth of gum. They tore the ma
> chine down and carried it to the ball
! ground before tearing it to pieces, but
• they certainly did a complete job.
• Agent Fuller now suspects everybody
I he sees chewing gum.—Altheimer
Banner.
! Said Tuesday’s Gazette: “Os 370
J votes cast in the Sixth ward yester
; day, the polling place for which was
! in Justice of the Peace Meisner's
! office, 105 Spring street. 369 of the
votes were by white men and the
1 three hundred and seventieth vote
! was that of a negro. A peculiar sea
! ture of this was the fact that the
[ negro’s vote was the last vote cast
1 before the polls closed. He being un
[ j able to read, asked for assistance in
[| making out his ticket. The negro, B.
• I J. Malone, voted for every republican
! i candidate on the ticket, scratching
> every other party’s candidate. His
J vote on the different amendments
was varied.”
The Freeman-Smith Lumber Com
pany's large sawmill located at Mill
ville, two miles south of Bearden, was
burned Monday with a loss estimated
at $40,000, only partially covered by
insurance. Fire was caused by a hot
journal bearing.
The Turner handle factory at
Marked Tree was totally destroyed
by fire at an early hour Tuesday
morning. It is estimated that the
less was at least SIO,OOO, with some
insurance. The exact origin of the
fire is not known, but it iS believed
to have started from the boiler rooms.
For the first time since the work of
tearing out the defective work on the
state eapitol was completed, state
co.ivuts are working on the grounds.
The striped garbed laborers are tear
ing away the old temporary heating
plant which has served to keep the
state house colony warm for the past
two winters. The penitentiary com
mission has purchased the boilers
from this station, and are moving
them to the state farm, where they
will be used to operate the gin and
other machinery at the farm.
The intimate relation of mosqui
toes to intellectual activity was de
monstrated one day recently by Drs.
Molloy, Taylor and Garrison of the
health service. They were driving
through the country in a southeast
ern country, when they stopped at a
rural school house which presented
an attractive appearance. The build
ing was well built and supplied with
modern equipment, and there were
thirty-three pupils in attendance. But
many of the pupils had chills and
fever. There were thousands of ma
laria-bearing mosquitoes on the walls
and ceilings and the comers of the
room. The children were complain
ing that the mosquitoes were biting
them so they could scarcely study.
The teacher had malaria. Thus there
was completed in that building the
life cycle of the malaria breeding
mosquito, which bites those afflicted
with maralia and carries the disease
to others. The physicians advised
that the building be screened at once.
In an adjoining district they found
the building screened, the sanitary
conditions of the school superior and
the children happy and contented and
doing good work.
AMENDMENTSJEPORTED DEFEATED
Returns Received in Little Rock Today
Indicate Defeat of Two Consti
tutional Amendments.
Tick Eradication in Stone.
John G. Simpson, tick eradication
agent in this section, returned this
morning from Store county, where he
-pent two days looking after matters
incident to his work. Mr. Simpson
-tates that the work of tick eradica
tion is progressing nicely and satis
factorily in that county, and that
practically no opposition to the move
ment is to be found there. At pres
ent there are five dipping vats in op
eration in Stone county.
BRIDGE WORK TO BEGIN
Delayed Steel Material Here and the
Contractors Will Begin Work
on Miller Creek Bridge.
After a delay of several weeks the
steel material to be used in the con
struction of the county bridge across
Miller Creek just east of Batesville
has arrived and construction work
will begin as soon as weather condi
tions will permit. The contractors.
Handford & Fugat, had ordered this
material quite a while ago from an
eastern concern, the steel being de
layed in transit. Owing to this fact,
the contractors were forced to get an
extension of time for the completion
of the bridge from Judge J. W.
Scott. All the preparatory work in
cident to the construction has been
completed, and as soon as the rise in
the creek disappears, and if the
weather continues favorable, Mr.
Handford states he believes the struc
ture will be ready for service within
the next thirty days.
Lodge Notice.
There will be a stated communica
tion of Mt. Zion Lodge, No. 10, F. &
A. M., on Thursday evening, at 7:30
o'clock, September 17. to pass upon
delinquents and to make up reports
for Grand Lodge dues.
On Thursday. September 24, at
7:30 p. m., the district deputy grand
master will make an official visit and
at both meetings the members are
earnestly requested to attend and
give the attention to business that is
required and demanded of the mem
bers.
Please take due notice and govern
yourselves accordingly.
C. P. Holmes, W. M.
John C. Bone, Secretary.
Misses Lois Martin and Mae Half
acre left this morning for Searcy,
where they will attend Galloway Col
lege.
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The Nation’s Debt ts President Wilson |
;; This country will he thanking President Wilson X
< ■ with increasing fervor as the years go by, for the very I
' I gn at service he has rendered it during the past year ♦
] ; and a half. ♦
.; ; Had Mr. Wilson not had a backbone of granite J
•! • he would have yielded to the clamor of the jingoes and ♦
-i [ of the speculators who have large investments in Mex- ♦
,! I ico, and we would now be at war with that unhappy a
1 i I country—and the pension roll would be growing.
,’ ; And but for his prompt and vigorous action in ;
■; > taking hold of the financial situation when the war j
1I I clouds broke over Europe and the large banking insti- !
’; ; tutions in this country went into hysterics, we would J
’' ’ be right now in the throes of a first-class panic.
’■ I Blessed is the Nation and happy the people whose !
•' I rulers are men of peace and firmness and unselfish ]
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e i; patriotism.
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Member of Federal Reaerve Board
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NUMBER 221.
Special to the Daily Guard.
Little Rock, Sept .16.—Returns re
ceived from practically every county
in the state make it certain that Act
No. 1, the child labor law, had an
easy victory in Monday’s general
election, and indications are that Act
No. 3, the publicity law, has also
carried, although by not so great a
majority. At present Act No. 3 is
leading by something like 8,000 votes,
with many voting precincts yet to
hear from.
It appears certain that two of the
amendments appearing on the ballot
have been defeated. Amendment No.
14 provided for the issuance of bonds
by cities; No. 15 placed members of
the general assembly on a salary of
$750, and No. 16 created the office
of lieutenant governor.
The last named amendments have
been defeated, but it is practically
certain that the bond amendment has
carried the state.
That Judge John I. Worthington of
Siloam Springs has defeated Judge
George W. Reed of Heber Springs for
judge in that judicial circuit seems
certain.
In Independence County.
Election Commissioners Dene H.
Coleman and T. H. Dearing are en
gaged this afternoon in making an
official canvass of the vote which will
be published in the Guard of ^tomor
row.
It is now believed that R. A. Dowdy
will have a majority of something
like 400 over W. P. Detherow, his
socialist opponent, several townships
having reported majorities for the
democratic nominee this morning.
County Clerk T. M. Waldrip has a
majority of at least 700 over his op
ponent on the republican ticket,
Judge J. W. Scott, while Lawrence
Ruddell, the democratic nominee for
sheriff, has defeated his opponent, H.
C. Scates, by at least 800 votes.
The county returned a substantial
majority against whiskey license. An
item of interest in this vote is the
fact that in Ruddell township 253
votes were cast for license and 317
against.
The road tax has a heavy major
ity in the county.
None of the acts or amendments
carried in Independence county and
there are few townships in which any
< f them received a majority.
Cotton Ginned in Jackson.
Joe Dunn, who is government cot
ton statistician for Jackson county,
reports 71 bales ginned in that coun
ty up to and including September 1,
compared with five bales ginned to
that date last year.