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BATESVILLE DAILY GUARD. vo' ■ MJ ix. RKANSANS PAY THE INCOME TAX tf] cf 1.562 Arkansans Pay Income Tax —One Pays on Inc< me of Hundred Thousand. During the year 1,562 Arkansans id personal incomes taxes, accord p to the annual report of Commis- Ler of Internal Revenue Osborne. | this number 191 were single men. I single women. 16 married women, H 1,294 married men. One lone Humsan paid a tax on an income [between $75,000 and $100,000; four incomes of between $50,000 and 6000; four each on incomes be- Len $40,000 and $50,000. and $30,. D and $40,000; ten on incomes be- Ln $25,000 and $30,000; 16 on be ben $20,000 and $25,000; 42 be- Len $15,000 and $20,000; 109 be- Ln SIO,OOO and $15,00; 556 be- Ln $5,000 and SIO,OOO ; 350 be ben $4,000 and $5,000; 466 on in- Le* ranging from $3,000 to SI,OOO. the aggregate internal revenue coi tions of the Arkansas collection krict during the year were $394.- 1.43. Corporation income tax col pons totaled $94,140.52 and indi- Bal income tax collections $38,- 1.09. During the year 1,929 bush- of grain were used in Arkansas in Muction of 76,590 gallons of spirits, pre were 3.750 persons authorized dispense or administer narcotics der the terms of the Harrison law, nlr 21 violations of the law were ported. During the year 2,558,914 prs were manufactured in the ite. Spirits and distilleries seized by rernment agents in Arkansas up to L 30 last totaled $20,279. tom the Everybody Happy Club. It is only eleven days until Christ- Il and the United Chnrities Assoc ion needs your help, there are so many of whom we Mr, whose Christinas will be a ■rless one, unless others will help ■dd brightness and comfort. There ■ about fifty families we would like Iprovide for. Your hearts would My be touched if you could look * the homes of some of our friends, I -ee how barren of all comforts, k gray and cheerless, in some in faces, used as we are to seeing Ik things, it hurts us through and ■ugh, the pitifulness of them, and ■ can do so little, so little. ■ one home there is a young moth- Mying of that dread disease, con ■ption, deserted by the man who kised “to love, cherish, honor and DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING at This Store ♦ OUR UNE OF Ladies t Gents Furnishings IS COMPLETE. EDWARDS keep her, until death do us part." Their toddling baby boy, half clothed and poorly nourished, the hands of | the grandmother, the breadwinner of j the family, tied with the double bur den. She had no gowns to make the ' sick girl comfortable, and not enough i cover to keep her warm, and what in : valid’s failing strength could be coaxed back into life, when only offer ed such tempting food as fat meat, beans, cornbread, biscuit without but ter, and once in a while a cheap cut of beef made into a stew? Isn’t it pitiful ? Suppose that were you ? What we do for her we must do quick- I ly, for this will be her last Christmas, and our last chance. We could fill this issue of the Guard with the pathetic life stories of some of cur friends that we visit week af ter week. Don’t you want to have a part in the great task of bringing comfort nnd happiness to desolate hearts and j cheerless homes? Then help us, not only at Christ- I mas time when the spirit of the Christ child warms our hearts, but all ■ through the year by your gifts, sym- I pathy, co-operation. Lula G. Parse, Sec. HODGES OPENS CAMPAIGN Candidate for Governor Add reuses Large Crown at Forrest City This Afternoon. Special to the Daily Guard. Forrest City, Dec. 14.—Earle W. Hodges, secretary of state, this after noon formally opened his campaign for governor, addressing a large crowd of voters. ALUMNI PROGRAM. Graduates of High School Prepare In teresting Program for Next Friday Evening. The following program will be ren dered by the Batesville high school Alumni Association on Friday even ing, December 17: Song, America. Scripture lesson and prayer, Rev. Guy Jenkins. Piano duet. Misses Cora and Faye ' Kennard. Christmas story. Miss Ix>is Wig gins. Oration, Duane Swift. Quartette, Morris Evans, Lawrence Butler. Frank Rohrscheib and Joe Wright. Alumni notes and otherwise. Miss Jean McCaleb. Humorous reading, Robert J. Web ber. Music. Miss Blanche Kennard. Oration, Shelby M. Kennard. Address. Dr. W. F. Ball. Song. High School Glee Club. BATESVILLE. ARKANSAS. H ESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 11. 1915. | “Be Prepared” j x Is the word, not only with President Wilson in his last mes- J Y sage to Congress, but it is the slogan being adopted by more ♦ a people than ever in the matter of laying by some amount of- - their earnings for the “Rainy Days." <» Y This bank has not only kept in mind this slogan from its <> ♦ beginning, but continues to prepare to better serve its patrons. J X On account of the demand we have again placed an addi- X tional order for an entire section of Steel Safety Deposit Boxes <> Y for instal'ation in our customers' vault. These will be ready <> ♦ soon after the first of the new year. This order was specially o X designed to include safety deposit boxes of four different sizes J J J to meet the various demands and needs of our friends. Ask < > J to have one reserved for you. <> x . < X We might also state that we have an order out for an ad- J J ditional shipment of our handsome Nickel Home Savings Banks < ♦ to come in the attractive Holly Boxes, being specially suited at ’ * this season for presentation to the boy or girl at Christmas J J time. We have a large demand for these banks each Christ- < * mas, there being no more suitable or more valuable present ( ♦ than one of these banks. ’ » — . » . J REMEMBER THE SAVINGS BANK WITH THE SI.OO DE- ; POSIT TO BEGIN WITH IN MAKING UP YOUR ’ ♦ CHRISTMAS LIST OF PRESENTS. ' » i » » » Union Bank & Trust Company “Where Your Savings Are Sufe With 4 Per Cent Intereat." ] State News Briefs The Methodist congregation at Walnut Ridge have a new $15,000 church building. Wright Livesay, aged 12, of Van Buren, recently picked 422 pounds of cotton in one day. W. S. Purcell, a citizen of Searcy, killed himself by tiring a bullet in his brain Sunday afternoon. A fine hog belonging to a farmer near Grape. Saline county, came home badly torn a few days ago. It is believed the hog was attacked by wolves. Grape is a few miles from Little Rock. Lovick Waldrip. aged 16, and Helen Ballard. 15, have disappeared from their homes in Pine Bluff and it is be lieved they have eloped to marry. The young couple are members of prominent Pine Bluff families. Several eagles have been killed re cently in Baxter county. It is said that in Ozark county. Mo., which ad joins Baxter county, the eagles are causing a severe loss to farmers, hav ing killed pigs, lambs, some calves and many fowls. Heretofore eagles have been rare in that country. John C. Farris Jr. of Bentonville, a sophomore at the University of Mis souri, is the youngest student in the university this year. He had that dis tinction last year also, when he was a freshman. He was 16 years of age NEWS LETTER FROM LITTLE ROCK Little Rock, Dec. 14—Clarence De wein and Joe Strong are playing hide and seek with death. Six times has the law fixed the date upon which they should pay the extreme penalty for the murder of L. H. Thompson, the aged Benton merchant, two years ago, and five times has the governor intervened and granted them an ex tension of life. The governor granted the fifth respite Monday until Jan uary 15. Juat what further sups will be Uken by counsel have not been levealed. The fight is being made for Dewein. son of a citizen of Belleville. 111., but whaUver action is taken in his behalf will alao apply U Strong, who has no known friends or relatives anywhere. The oldest employe or edfeial of es the state government has just re- last July and was graduated from the Bentonville high school in 1914. Many Arkansas newspapers are publishing very creditable special Christmas editions at this season. The , largest published thus far is that of ; the Blytheville Courier. It contains 34 pages, is well illustrated and is a splendid advertisement for Plytheville j and Mississippi county. The edition . was gotten out by the Courier’s regu lar force. Mr. and Mrs. Spurlock of Elgin, I Jackson county, and their 18 months old baby were riding in a wagon load ed with household goods when one wheel of the wagon ran into a deep hole in the road. A stove and bed stead were thrown against the spring seat on which the Spurlocks were rul ing and they were knocked from the wagon. The baby was killed by the fall. James Graham of Rogers has asked officers of Arkansas and Oklahoma to search for his wife. He says his wife deserted him and fled from the state with another man, taking with her a two year old baby. He says he traced the couple to Welling, Okla., and went there to bring back his wife, who had promised to return. But he reached the Oklahoma town an hour too laU. He says his wife and her companion had just left, leaving the baby behind. Graham brought it back to Rogers and set officers on the trail of the couple. Graham has three small chil dren. signed, effective January 1. For thirty-four years the lawyers of the state have been accustomed to seeing Peyton D. English in the office of the clerk of the supreme court. Failing health induced him to give up the of fice. Col. English, a son of the late Elbert H. English, who was chief jus tice in 1854. and again in 1874, dying in 1884, entered the clerk’s office dur ing his father’s administration, in 1881, as a deputy, and has held the office continuously since that time. Nineteen years ago he was promoted to the chief clerkship, succeeding W. P. Campbell. He was also a clerk in the office for a short time during the days of the civil war, when the capita! waa remeved for a short time to Washington, Hempstead tseaty. . The Rev. Frank Barratt, fe—iriy at the head of the Anti-Saloon League in Arkansas, has been given the regular appointment as pastor of St. Luke's M. E. Church South in Oklahoma City. It is probably the largest Methodist church in the state, and considered therefore the most de sirable charge that can be given a Methodist minister in Oklahoma. He was assigned to the church last fall as a supply pastor, and at the recent conference he was continued perman ently. Senator T. C. White of Pine Bluff has been elected to the superin tendency of the Anti-Saloon League work in his place. 0000000 O O O O O C O O O LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS. O O O O O OOOOOOO4iOOOOOOO My Dear Santa Claus: . I write you what 1 would like to have for Christmas. A large doll, one small baby doll, a doll bed. a suit case, piano, purse, beauty pins, fur set. set of doll dishes. Now, Dear Santa, please don’t for get Bernice Beauchamp. 439 Broad street. AN EXCITING RUNAWAY Motor Car Geta Boost and Runa Light For Several Miles With a Clear Right of Way. Some say it was hitting a clip around sixty per. while others say it was moseying along at a much tamer gait—anyway, there was some con consternation along the main line of the White River railroad Sunday when a passengerless motor car was seen to travel over the line, having embarked I from a point about twelve miles west of Batesville and reaching a stand still near the Pfeiffer switch, just east of Batesville. Nobel Smiley, a .negro, having made a wild leap and lit astride the thing, cutting off the motors and gas supply. We have not learned to whom the motor belonged, nor just how it re ceived its start. It is said it started on its wild run from the McSpadden place west of town, gathering speed 'as it went. It was seen to pass Bates I ville in the afternoon, and spectators I say it bid fair to pass other stations |as well. But as the thing mounted a I grade just east of the city the motors i became tired, and the Smiley negro ! with a good run, jumped on the ma- I chine and brought it to a stop. It was brought to Batesville unin ; jured, and owing to the time of day ' when no trains were scheduled for running in this vicinity, the machine had a clearance and no harm was done any of the company's property. [special i | SLOSE OUT j 1 PRISES * I =ON= i i I Ladies and Miss- es Goats & Goat g Suits from NOW f I till GHRISTMAS | I WE WILL SAVE YOU FROM 25 I I TO 50 PER CENT ON COATS | | AND SUITS I Nt II I Weaver Dowdy Co. | E “The Home That WB Teach Your Dollars Io M Have More CeaAs** HH NUMBER 292. GREEKS QUIT BATTLE ZONE British Forces in Serbia Recross the Greek Frontier and Have Open Pathway Back to Base. Outnumbered ten ti^one by the Bul garians, the British forces in Serbia have reerossed the Greek frontier and have an open pathway back to their base at Saloniki. Advices from Ath ens are that the Greek troops in the region which the allies must use have been withdrawing and that the zone between Saloniki and Doiran is free from their movement. Along the Albanian frontier and in Montenegro, the Bulgarians and Aus tro-Hungarians continue, although slowly, their gains against the Ser bixns and Montenegrins. On the other fronts there have been no battles of great magnitude Artillery bombardments have prevail ed almost exclusively on the French, Russian and Austro-Italian lines. The Turkish attack on Kurtel Amara, where the British retreated from the Bagdad region, has been re pulsed with heavy losses and British reinforcements are being pushed for ward. A Community Celebration of Chriataaa. Just where the idea of a Commun ity Christmas Tree firs originated it is difficult to discover. It is generally supposed that New York was the | leader among the large cities. Dur ! ing the last year or two an increasing ! number of communities have adopted the idea, and community celebrations i of the Christmas festival were held in a large number of places last year. There are indications that the com munity tree will hereafter be a na . tion-wide custom. The church that is ; really a force in its community will desire to have a large part in a great common effort of this kind. R. C. Davidson, director of the farm demonstration work at Little Rock, and D. Thibault of Newport, farm demonstrator of Jackson county, were pleasant callers at the Guard of fice this morning. They in company with Demonstrator McKell of this county, left today for different points of the county and will spend two days establishing demonstration farms. Mrs. Charles Clenegan of Sulphur Rock arrived in the city this morning to spend a few days, the guest of her brother. H. C. Wade.