BATESVILLE DAILY GUARD.
VOLUME
WILL HAVE NEW
FOOT BALL COACH
Coach Wilber Will Not Return to Ar
kansas College Until Opening
of Baseball Season.
Prof. D. M. Frierson, president of
Arkansas College, was a caller at the
Guard office this morning, having
with him a telegram which he had
just received from L. J. Quigley of
Concordia, Kan., who announces he
has accepted the position as footbal
coach for the college here during the
approaching season, and will arrive
in Batesville at an early date.
Mr. Frierson feels gratified at se
curing Mr. Quigley’s services, as he
comes to Arkansas College highly
recommended by Mr. Wilber and
others of his personal acquaintance.
Mr. Wilber, who is now at Yellville,
will not return to the college until
the baseball season opens. Mrs. Wil
ber, however, will have charge of the
boys' dormitory during the entire ses
sion of school. None is more popu
lar with the students and friends of
Arkansas College than are Mr. and
Mrs. Wilber, ami it is good news to
earn that the latter will preside over
the dormitory and that the former
will return in the spring to take up
his duties with the baseball team, in
which department he is very efficient.
Mr. Quigley in his wire to Prof
Frierson announces he has interested
pome good football material, and will
'likely bring students from Kansas to
Arkansas College this year.
The prospects for a better attend
ance at the college have never
bem brighter than now. Prof. Sidney-
Pickens, superintendent of the Bates .
rille public schools, has spent several
weeks this summer canvassing the'
state in the interest of the college
an I he has invariably brought home
flattering reports and believes a num- |
ber of new faces will be seen on
opening day at the college.
There are to be but two changes
in the teaching force this year. Prof. 1
Sims comes from Cuba, where he
taught eight years, and takes the
place of Prof. Rodgers, who resigned J
at the close of last term. Prof. Sims
will have charge of the science de
partment. He is a teacher of ability
•nd a gentleman of high attainments,
and his coming adds materially to
the institution.
The other change in the faculty
•rates to the Bible cla-a. Rev M K
Sim’h, pastor of the Presbyterian
thurrh, will have charge of that de
partment. and all who have come in
tontact with this good man know how
BUY YOUR
Dry Goods
at
EDWARD’S
and get the best
well he will discharge his duties.
Following the resignation of Dr.
Robertson from the presidency of Ar
kansas College last September, Prof.
Frierson was selected to occupy this
important position. Prof. Frierson
has been for years one of the most
efficient and popular members of the
faculty the college ever had, and that
no mistake was made in the choice of
a new president is attested by th°
long and faithful and successful work
which he has performed in this insti-1
tution.
The school opens Wednesday. Sep
tember 15. As we stated, prospects
for the term are bright. Great things
are ahead for the college.
On opening day. as many as can
should attend the exercises and lend
their encouragement.
Forecast Is For Wilson.
Washington, Sept. 2. — President ।
Wilson’s closest friends expect him to I
, he renominated for the presidency in I
1916 and are planning accordingly.
। The president, it is said, is taking no ;
I part in such plans.
Recently a number of democrats in I
convention over the country have en- ।
dorsed President Wilson, and there |
has arisen practically no opposition 1
so far to hi mfor a second term.
MAKE EXAMPLE OF SOLDIER
I*rivate Robert Watson Handcuffed
nnd Chained to Telephone Pole
on Front Street.
—
Robert Watson, a private of Com
pany G, Arkansas state guard, ac
cused of holding up a negro. Chris
Brown, and robbing him of $3.65
Wednesday night while on patrol
duty, was orederd handcuffed and
chained to a telephone pole in front !
of the Arkansas Bank and Trust Co.!
on Front street next morning, where
he was viewed by hundreds.
I.ieut .1. A. Brookens stated to the
Independent that the people of New
port had been so courteous and con
siderate of the militia, so hospitable
and appreciative of their services,
that he was determined to show that
robbery or any other violation of the
law upon the part of his men would
meet with quick punishment and dis
grace for the offender. He said that
his men felt very keenly the shame
of the act of one member and that
Company G wanted Newport to know
that they could not condemn too
strongly the unlawful act.
Chris Brown was held up on Main
street and at once reported the rob-1
bery to Sheriff McQuistion. who with '
I.ieut. Brookens immediately began '
to work upon the case. Upon arrest
Watson's uniform was removed and
court martial ordered later.—New- 1
port Independent.
BATESVILLE. ARKANSAS. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3. 1915
“Save First" and
“Safety First"
have been the popular watchwords during the
last year, and the need for both applies equally
at this time after the overflow as it did in times
of abundant yields.
The SAVING or “laying by" or such "rainy
days" can not be begun too soon, for the most
comforting thing to find right now is the result
of having laid aside in some good ami sale bank
a portion of the yields and earnings of former
days of prosperity to meet just such emergencies
that come every year in some form or another.
This bank, besides paying the depositor in
terest on his SAVINGS laid aside in this manner,
offers the advantageous opportunity of complete
ly protecting same in the SAFEST and most sub
stantial way that is possible, and we invite even
those who are hard hit by disaster, in their nat
ural necessity to economize by SAVING every
thing possible, to use this bank as their SAFE
DEPOSITORY for amounts however small until
compelled by most urgent need to use same as
desired.
Union Bank & Trust Co.
—Officers and Directors—
I). D. Adams. E. H. Glenn. J. C. Fitzhugh.
C. W. Maxfield. Albert Sims. C. D. Metcalf.
C. C. Fitzhugh. J. C. Hail. M. C. Weaver.
Samuel M. Casey. J- W. Williamson.
NEWS LETTER FROM LITTLE ROCK
Little Rock. Sept. 3.—The unprece
dented drop in the market value of
the English pound sterling is being
felt all over the world. Before the
war the pound, the world's standard
of value, was quoted at $5.02. a prem
ium of 16 cents, the nominal value be
ing $4.86 6.1-2. During the last few
weeks it has been taking a slump, and
has reached $4.50. the lowest ever
known in the history of the world.
That this is felt everywhere is
shown by the fact that one Little
Rock jobber buys 1,000 bags of cof
fee a month in Brazil and pays for
it in English sterling. A year ago
he paid 16 cents discount, a difference
of 52 cents on each $5 purchase, or
10 per cent.
The state auditor has just an
nounced that the total fund availab.e
for apportionment among the school
children of the state is $1,378,976.69.
derived from the following sources:
Balance from third quarter. 1914. $55,-
755.02; from sale of state lands.
$144.69; from sale sixteenth section
lands, $6,941.95; commissioners sales
and redemptions, $427.49; state de
pository interest, $2,882.58; sale of
ODD FACTS IN NEWS
Sport shirts barred from dance
floors of Seattle.
Hello girls form sharpshooters’
corps for Chicago's home defense
forces.
Snake instead of flower picked
from bush at Lenox, Mass , bit girl
on hand.
Huckleberries so plentiful in Jer
sey, cows, pigs and birds won't lon
ger eat them
Moonshine still for making third I
rail whiskey found on fifth floor of a
New York flat.
Speaker took off coat during debate
at Friends of I’eace meeting in New
ark. and everybody got ready to fight.
May Be Another Hanging.
Although hanging is no longer the
method of legally executing Arkansas
criminals, Will Davis, negro, may be
hanged at Newport for a crime com
mitted three years ago. Davis was
I recently captured at Jonesboro and is
now in the Jackson county jail. He
killed John Bateman in a fight over
a pint of whiskey. As the crime was
committed liefore the law providing
for electrocution of murderers went
> into effect, the old law of hanging
will apply if he is convicted and sen
' tenced to death.
escheated lands, $997.38; penalties
from anti-trust suits. $1,750; refund
from Calhoun county treasurer,
$256.13; from three mill state tax
$1,278,001.95; interest on permanent
school fund. $34,035.
The total school population of the
! state, as corrected and announced by
l the department of education, is 649,-
I 689. Expenditures of the school fund
; for the fourth quarter were $2,215.80
Last year the total amount appor
; tinned was $1,358,403.48, among 635,-
| 162 scholastic population, or a per
| capita of $2.05. The increase in
■ population in 1915 is 14.227. and in
I 1914 it was 18.097.
There have been 7.544 automobile
licenses issued this year, compared
with a total of 5,642 for last year.
A telegram received in Little Rock
announced the critical illness of At
torney general W. L. Moose at Wau
kesha. Wis., to which place he went
two weeks ago for the benefit of his
health. Waukesha physicians have
diagnosed his malady as an affection
of the heart, and his recovery is con
sidered doubtful. Mrs. Moose and
daughter have gone to his bedside.
For stealing four ears of green
corn, Jersey youth of 18 sentenced by
justice of peace to serve five years in
navy.
To be a mother to him. Maryland
woman of 60 married 21 year old
youth, who is younger than any of
her seven children.
Purse of $250 has been offered Col.
Roosevelt by Milwaukee German-Am
e ricans to join Canadians going to
France to fight Germans.
Thief who stole Bible and coat last
May in Ho« kinsville, Ky., has return
ed them with explanation that the
Bible converted him. They gave him
the Bible back.
Two From Island Placed in Pen.
Dave Hearne, white, and Maggie
Townsend, negress, sentenced to 21
and five years, respectively, in con
nertion with the murder of Sheriff
S. D. Mauldin during a raid on boot
leggers and gamblers on Island 37, in
•he Mississippi river, July 31, have
been placed in the state penitentiary.
Maggie Townsend, the negress, was
living on Island 37 with Bert Spring,
the negro who shot Sheriff Mauldin
and who died from wounds received in
the fight with officers. Others cap
tured in the raid and following it
were given fines for bootlegging that
amounted to thousands of dollars and
are serving sentences in the Missis
sippi county jail. Some of these must
serve 38 years unless they pay their
fines or are pardoned. Others are yet
to be tried in connection with the kill
with the killing of Sheriff Mauldin.
Hearne was the pal of Andy Crum.
I leader of the island gang. who. while
:in the Osceola jail, was killed by
| lynchers. Hearne was convicted
j largely as the result of statements
’ made by Spring just before the negro
[ died in the Osceola jail. Spring said
I that while Hearne and Crum slept, he
remained on guard with a shotgun
and that both the white men instruct
ed him to shoot to kill if the officers
appeared.
Mrs S. W. Weaver, neice of Judge
W L. Moose, received a telephone
■ message shortly after noon today
from Little Rock, stating that Judge
Moose is very low and that his death
is a question of a few hours. Judge
Moose went to Waukesha, Wis., a few
weeks ago for the benefit of his
health, and grew worse there. His
family went to his liedside yesterday.
SEVERAL WILL GO TO DESHA
Good Roads Meeting at That Point
Will Have Representation From
Batesville.
Several of Batesville's business men
have signified their intention of ac
cepting the invitation given them by
the Desha Fruit Growers' Association
to attend the meeting tomorrow night
at Desha.
It is understood one of the prin
cipal subjects for discussion at the
meeting will be the matter of good
roads. The members of the associa
tion having made suffiicent headway
with their movement to plant and |
grow fruit, are taking hold of other ।
questions of advancement, and they
realize the need of better roads.
It is believed the meeting will have
a large attendance from different sec
tions of the county.
TEI TONS STORM FORTRESS.
Several Other Fort* Evacuated By
Muscovites—British Receive
Cheerful News.
Berlin. Sept. 2. —German forces at
tacking the Russian fortress of Gord
no have taken the outer forts of the
stronghold, it is announced by Ger
man army headquarters, and it is
claimed many prisoners have been
captured the past two days by the
German forces.
WATCH
THIS SPACE!
Till we announce the
arrival of our
Fa// Suits, Gloaks,
Waists and Skirts
We will have something interest
ing to tell you.
Weaver-Dowdy Co.
NUMBER 238.
bESOLATIOH Ilf
BOTTOH COUNTRY
’ Water Recedes From Farming Lands
and Leaves Sickening Spectacle
of Wreck and Ruin.
>
I
i Immense fields of the finest farm
ing lands in the famous Big Bottom
; and Oil Trough valleys, on which only
a few days ago were growing the
most magnificent crops of cotton,
corn and alfalfa that were ever
grown in Independence county, today
present a sickening spectacle as a re
sult of the recent flood.
Fine fields of cotton that promised
yields of a bale per acre are now
blackened and dead, every vestige of
foliage, bolls and squares having
fallen from the stalks.
Corn that would have produced 50
to 65 bushels per acre now Ties a
twisted and tangled mass, and the im
mense ears of corn souring, are
throwing off an odor that is sicken
ing.
Only a few small fields of alfalfa
here and there show any signs of life.
Immense areas of the finest alfalfa
meadows are now blackened and dead
and farmers say it will have to be
turned under.
The water has receded until all the
farming lands are now dry, and it
makes one heartsick to drive over
this fertile valley and view the deso
late spectacle of wreck and ruin
wrought by the flood.
In addition to the damage to crops,
some of the land is badly damaged as
the result of washes and sand-drifts
from the river. One of the peculiar
freaks of the flood is shown on the
Stowman farm on Padgett Island.
Near the upper end of this farm,
which is one of the most productive
in this section, the current of the
| high water cut a hole about 150 feet
wide and 100 feet long to a depth of
about 20 feet. Many other farms are
badly washed and on some farms the
overflow left drifts of sand two to
four feet deep covering an area of
several acres.—Newark Journal.
A steam shovel has been put to
work at the old gravel pit just west
of town taking out gravel to be used
in repairing the washout which oc
curred on the main line of the Iron
Mountain just north of Newport.
About 200 feet of the high dump was
entirely washed out and a temporary
trestle had to be build across the
break.—Newark Journal.