The Little River news., August 21, 1915, Image 1

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GRAVES & GRAVES Editors. $ DOWN, LITTLE R IVER COUNTY, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, M15 VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 71.
j $ 1.0 0 per year—Cash in Advance—Stops When Out
COMAnAAJ^<m,Afotvit&
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1 ALL THE RICHEST MEN IN TOWN IKNEW WHEN YOUNK 1
V THAT by saving a little each pay day it would some I
f DAY BE A BIG SUM. |
f THE MAN WHO IS SAVING GAINS THE ADMIRATION AND I
I THE INTEREST OF HIS EMPLOYER. HIS EMPLOYER WANTS M
HIM FOR A PARTNER AND WILL HELP HIM TO BUY AN IN- K
TEREST IN THE BUSINESS. |
PUT YOUR MONEY IN THE BANK AND BE READY FOR X
SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY. U
w BANK WIT»> US |
11 WE PAY H PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS. |
| THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ASHDOWN I
i R. E. HUDDLESTON, NOTARY PUBLIC H
ANOTHER LINER WAS SUNK
One of White Star Company’s Float
ing Palaces Sunk by Submarine
Washington, D. C., Aug. 19.—The
sinking of the White Star line*-, the
steamship Arabic, probably by a Ger
man submarine was rep-rted unol'i
daily late this afternoon, and the be
| lief if that many pasengern aboard the
steamer were lost.
Tne State Department i t a late hour
this afternoon had bin unable to
it urn wheather or not the le were an
Americans aboard the A baric.
Tie great pasenger ves-i’l left Li>
erpool yesterday and a i - bound !■>
New York.
A series of reports came thick u iJ
fast tr Washington shot- ay after noon
today, but It was Impossible to verify
them until a very late hour, when It
became known that at least the vessel
had gone down.
The Abaric was not as large as the
Lusitania, but she was gnown as one
of the “floating palaces of the Atlan
tic.”
Late reports say the vessel way
sunk near Fastnet.
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A pair
of horses, buggy and harness. They
work single, double or under saddle.
Mayo Robertson, Ashdown. 73-8t
HAYS PARDONS BUSBEE
Pardoned for the Killing of His
Nephew of Texarkana.
Little Rock, Aug. 18.—(Special.)—
Gov. Hays has pardoned R. A. Busbee,
of Miller county, indicted for murder
in the first degre for killing his nep
hew, Bob IVcstmcreland, and senten
ced (o lour years in prison. West
moreland was an escape at the time
from a convict camp where he had
, been serving a term for carrying a
pistol and bootlogging. There was
evidence hat he had made threats to
kill his ..ntle, and that he fired first
when they met. Sheriff Sanderson,
Itepresen.atne Josephs and W. H.
Arnold recommended the pardon.
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TORNADO HITS ETNA
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Ozark, Aug. 18.—Acres of corn and
sorghum were mowed down, barbed
wire fences were rolled up, a barn
was destroyed and the logs which it
was built of split into splinters when
an eggshaped cyclone, 50 yards wide,
struck Etna. 10 miles south of Ozark,
at 10:20 o’clock this morning. No in
juries were reported. The roof of the
log barn owned by Mrs. M. J. Al
ston was carried 100 yards and the
barn wrecked. The storm moved
northwest. %
Can You Beat these Prices? I
Chops, .$1.65
Bran .. 1,25...
Oats per bushel .48c
Mixed Feed . 1.58
Bob White lard, the best on
the market, every pound
guaranteed:
50 pound can .$44)0
10 pound bucket .85c
5 pound bucket .45c
Hams per pound.18c
English bacon lb.17c
Dried salt belly bacon
torperpoiil. „..18c
not over 25 lbs. in weight
per pound.13c.
AND EVERYTHING IN PROPORTION. YOU CAN BUY
THESE GOODS AT THESE PRICES AT THE
New England Bakery |
Phone 124, and 1
Pure Food Grocery
Phone 48
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RIVERS AGAIN
AREFL09DED
Red River, Little River and Cossatot
Reported Yery High—Damage
Will Be Great.
Swollen by the heavy rains this
week Red River Is high and rising
rapidly. It is reported to be approach
ing a stage of 28 feet at Fulton. It is
assumed the damage on this part of
the river will be heavy. Farmers
| near 'uglfBL "je. uneasy as it will not
require a great rise to flood all thali
country with the levies down. This
will make the fourth rise on the river
this year.
Little River is reported to be alt
over the bottoms and no doubt the
damage to growing crops will be Im
mense. The Cossatot, in Sevier coun
ty is reported to be on a rampage ana
the splendid crops along that stream
will be damaged untold thousands of
dollars. It was reported from De
Queen that the DeQueen and Eastern
railway was unable to run trains. The
Cossatot is said to be the highest that
it has been for ten years.
The Kansas City Southern trains are
running several hours late on account
of washouts near DeQueen on Beai
creek and also washouts near Marble
City.
The rainfall in this section this
week was 12 inches or more.
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DEMONSTRATION MEETING HERE
Frisco Agriculturist Will Hold Meet-'
i»(! on Jim DutIs Farm In Sept.
We are in reoe.it of a letter from
N T. McAtlester, the Frisco Farm
Demonstrator, which explains itself:
‘ Wo shall have a, demonstration
meeting on the farm of Jim Davis,
or.-* mile east of Ashdown at 3 o’clock
Ft tar afternoon, September 3rd. We
shell give instructions In th:> selec
tion and grading of seed corn, cotton,
peanuts, etc., besides giving other val
uable information. Ait interested
farmers and business men are urged
to be present and on time.-'-N. T. Me-'
Allister, Frisco Farm Demonstrator. ’
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LESS SICKNESS SINCE WAR
Sickness Has Been Decreased 50 Per
Cent Since Opening of War.
Little Rock, Aug. 19.—(Special.)—
When eggs advanced in the past win
ter, it was charged to the European
war and its effect on the hens. The
excessive rains of spring and early
summer were also charged to the
war, but now we have another—one ot
which deserves the medal.
“Sickness has decreased at least 50
per cent this year” states a prominent
Little Rock physician, “and we can
J blame the war for it. We have dis
cussed the decrease in sickness in our ;
meetings and all physicians agree 1
that this is about the proper estimate,
shown from their books. Where the
war comes in is that it has causeG J
the people to live less luxuriantly.
They eat plain food and it agrees with j
them. Even though it cuts into our
receipts , we cannot say that we are
not glad to see the general improve
ment in health.”
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ASK STATE TO All) ON RIVER
Want State to Spend $3»,000 on tiie
Arkansas Rlrer Banks.
Little Reek, Aug. 19.—(Special.)—
Supt. E. Richards of the Cotton Belt
at Pine Bluff, accompanied by Buck 1
Bloom, secretary of the Pine Bluff '.
Chamber of Commerce, motored to1
Little Rock Tuesday and conterred 1,
with Major Markham, in charge of the 1 ]
Arkansas river work for the govern-1
ment relative to the work to prevent'
further caving of the bank of the Ar- 1
kansas river at Pine Bluff. At the
conclusion of the conference Major
Markham wired to Washington recom-'
mending that he be authorised to ex
pend $S5,000 in addition to the unex
pended |7,000 of the government ap- ■
propriatton of this Mad. 1
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FLOODS ON THE
TEXAS COAST
12 Soldiers, 40 Citizens Perished at
Texas City; GalTeston Sntier
ing Much Damage.
Missing List Reduced.
Houston, Aug. 19.—The list of miss
ing in the hurricane was reduced late
tonight by 106 men from the dredges
Sam Houston and San Jacinto, carry
ing respectively 56 and 50 men, re
ported that all hands were safe.
Known dead outside of Galveston
froth Monday night’s Inflian Tturri
; ^Aliasing ov.t
e.me were tonight 101. lv..
side of Galveston were 264. Of the
missing list it was feared more than
half were dead. Communication with
Galveston and Texas City, a dist
ance of sixty miles from here, con
tinued to be a matter of many hours.
It was known that Galveston’s loss
of life was comparatively slight and
it was evident that the island city
was not rushing out any appeals for
aid.
Gulf Normal Again.
Galveston, Aug. 19.—The sea had
returned normal here this afternoon
and the last rainstorm following the
hurricane stopped this forenoon. Tiie
number of dead here was not known
exactly but was estimated at less than :
twenty. Eighty bodies were seen
floating today in the bay but it was >
not kncwn whether they came from j
Galveston or were washed out from |
the mainland.
The city is under martial law with '
soldiers patrolling the streets and on
uard in hotels. Galveston appears'
to have suffered outwardly much
more from wind than from water. The
hurricane let loose all manner of de- (
bris, titering it everywhere. The city’s |
mcist serious losses were the partial .
destruction of the $2,000,000 cause- j
way, four miles long, connecting the j
city with the mainland, and the in- ,
teruption of the water supply. The t
causeway was the only regular mean3 .
of communication by rail or vehicle. I
The dead and missing lists outside
of Galveston tonight were:
Morgan Po int . 6
Walaceville ..._. 3
Lynchburg.sj
Port Arthur .3
Anhuac .5
Texas City .32 i
Surfside .„...19 -
, Houston . 4 !
Jennings Island.3 j
Seabrooke ...2-,
Cedar Bayou.*.2
Preport ...,..1
Sour Lake .1 I
Orange'.1 ,
Alvin .1 (
San Jacinto . 1
Dickinson .1J
On Beaches .i 1
Total .101 '
Total missing .264
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Dallas, Tex., Aug. 18.—“Only four
teen dead in Galveston,” was the mes- j
sage brought tonight from the storm
city and flashed all over Texas to
night to thousands of anxious per- (
sons who had relatives in that part of 1
sorrows Galveston has undergone,
one of the severest storms within the j
known annals of the Gulf of Mexico ]
end has emerged battered and sorely
burdened with financial loss but saved , ’
as far as death are concerned by its ,1
gigantic sea wall. j*
Without Drinking Water. i1
Water everywhere and not a drop
to drink is the complaint in Galves- |
ton tonight, for the mains leading to ,f
;he city’s supply wells at Alto Loma, J
sighteen miles over the mainland, *
lave been broken in two and the av-:*
lilable supply is fast diminishing. j*
Causeway is Broken, I
The first messenger from the strlck- 1
in island to the mainland reached (T
Houston today bringing a summary of |6
he results of the storm which began , *
Monday afternoon and raged with un- 1
ibated fiercenes until dawn Tuesday. c
Besides the loss of life the city is cov- 4
ired with the debris of about five (8
lundred houses which were hurled a- |1
ong and crushed by the asault of 8
wind and tidal wave. A thousand
'eet of the sea wall which skirts the
louthern side of the city has been torn ,(
iway and the causeway which con-1r
lects Galveston with the outside t1
world has been cut in two at the draw 1
bridge. 1
Damage Eqaals UM,
Three tree hare done greet damage
Copyright 1909, by C. T. Zimmerman C0.--N0. 49
It S n0r*ngi'to.-‘,et-a.fo?thold in bus'
: V . , ^ , ,Vwas a gen
mess ot\ to own real estate as u
eration or two ago* The easiest ana _
way to be prepared for the winter of life is to put money in th
bank. Money in the bank goes a long way toward insuring 11
happy Christmas and it always enables Santa Claus to visit your
home. You can see examples every year at this time of unhappy
families1 who have no bank account. Start your bank account at
once and you wi 1 always be prepared for this event in the future.
®K®SASSSS2C0MM V
Ashdowh;Ark.
ind the city is without adequate water
supply. Net attempt to estfrnate the
!inancial loss the city has undergone
save that it will equal that of the 1900
storm, which was estimaed tat $15.
)00,000. For more than forty-eight
hours Galveston was wholly out of
touch with the world except for a few
feeble wireless mesages which told
but scraps of news. ' " - -
fteawaU is .Saltation.
Belated reports today say that the
storm reached its zenith at 3 o’clock
ruesday morning with a wind velocity
sf ninety-three miles an hour before
which the frail wood cottages which
>rnament the Boulevard along the sea
wall crumpled and scattered into fly
ng timbers. The waters of the gulf
whipped into fury tore away bits oi
:he sea wall until an opening had been
lug into one of the toughest pieces of
sement work in the United States and
then the battle between water and
concrete was on. Despite the fact
that a thousand feet of the wall was
started away, Galveston attributes its
salvation as a city to the big dyke
which was built a few years after the
storm in 1900. One break twenty-five
’eet wide, in front of the Galvez hotel
Set in most cf the water that damaged
:he residential section.
Population Sought Refuge.
The mayor on Tuesday proclaimed
:he city uuder martial law and after a
survey of the losses announced that
3alveston would not call on other
^immunities for aid. The surprising
o\v loss of life is due probably to the
esson of 1900 for the population
donday night sought refuge in the
tronger buildings of the city, whereas
n the disastrous storm of fifteen years
igo found the residents at their homes
eeling secure against the gale and
ook the.lives of eight thousand.
Engine «t*ng Problems.
To the west .and to the ehaJ. *jf this
ection were pretty summer cottages,
11 of which are said to have been a
otal loss. How Galveston can men(1
ts water mains and re-establlM, tra.
1c across the causeway in time v.
revent more acute suffering are pro
lems for her engineers. The rail
oad running Into the city hav^ mov
d all available men and machinery
rom North Texas into the storm zoS»
enetrating It as fast as human toil\
an advance the wrecking trains, but
his progress is slow and for the next
everal days Galveston probably will
ave to depend largely on its own re
ources.
Trying far Haven.
Of the fourteen who lost their lives
Ither late Monday night or early
Tuesday, four were soldiers and tea
vere civilians. All were trying to
each the Tremont hotel, the refuge of
leveral thousand persons. The ex
Continual on pagu 2
ARTILLERY BATTERY ON BORDER
United States Army Patrol on a More
Solid Footing in Mexico
Brownsville, Texas,, Aug. 19.—With
the arrival here this morning of the
two batteries of artillery from For*
Sill, Oklahoma, the United States
.patrol along the Mexican border
now is ton . -sjyore -ioliV Awtixg--£han
at any time since the Mexican trcuf- *
ble began.
Preparations are going ahead for a
long stay on the border by these af- .
tillerymen, and no step toward the. b
completion of the defenses, including • •>.
trenches, is overlooked by the army
engineers.
The Carranza commander at Mata
moras is credited with the statement
that his troops will try to drive away
the bandits which have been haras
sing the American patrol by firing "V
from the Mexican side, but it is stated
that he pleads inability to do much on
account of his very small garrison
here and the absence of Department
Commander Nafarrette.
Social life along the border now is
at a lull because of the frequency of
alarms meet of which prove false.
News from the various communities
around Brownsville continue to be re
ceived here and much of it is of a‘
somewhat sensational nature, but no
word of additional fighting between
Americans and Mexicans has been re
ceived today .
Alien? News.
Allene, Aug. 20.— (Special.)—Miss
Lillie Scarbourgh and Fred Wright,
both of this city were married here
the first of the week. Both are well
known in this county.
Henry Chancey, who has been vlsit
I has Ants t’ is snenmer, left Sun
• , *•■»! t*. - -vuioerns that heretofore
for Shreveport, wfhere •-ay^ium^nt
position. * has “ '
Paul McQuinn of Texarkal
ed his parents Sunday afte>
.d'l'ro Ar“' »' IdJulaUna hJ ,rrlv.
aa aalaaiS:1"*"* »“ » 1, isltlon
Mrs. Rich Pa£ T- Slk®8
Maude, of Bloomberg? au* fr'ttgkter.
In the citfpthi* week. Malting
Mr., and Mrs, Dock Autrey o^\
Tex., afe vlalting (here this week
Mrs. Harriet Pindergast or
koma is visiting her sister, »utara range*
v rs, or betwee*
son this week. \ imr second, fa*
jout thirty kilora*
•or “old” ones mr
TO PROPERTY 10118 occur. At Mount;
the money tr observatory of the Ctur
and waterlUtion some stars have beo*
mov* with velocities of UL
rijLMJt-’ 233, 316 and even 325
v>«nw«| per second, the highest spc-.|
known.