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mil lii ill miLn Mcwa Published Wednesday usd Saturday 6BAVKS & GitAVfctT, Editors and Publishers. Entered at the postoffice at Ash lown, Arkansas, as second-class mail Subscription P/ke Per Year, $1.50 Cash in Advance PREPARE NOW FOR FALL ANI) WINTER FEEDS Next fall thousands of questions will be asked and thousands of letters written to agricultural papers, U> the department of agriculture and the experiment stations, asking what are the cheapest feeds to be used in fat tening hogs. Next fall, however,, is About six months too late to ask ques tions of this kind. Such questions should be asked now. They should be asked now, simply because the cheapest feeds next fall and winter will be the ones planted this spring and early summer. And if feeds are not planted this spring and early summer there will be no cheap feeds , next fall and winter. The crops to be used for fattening pigs in the fall and early winter de pend upon many factors, but in the coastal section, peanuts, soy beans, and velvet beans grow luxuriantly, while in the Piedmont and mountain sections soy beans will probably be used as a substitute for peanuts. Many other crops are valuable, as cowpeas, chufas and sweet potatoes; but infor mation secured at the experiment sta tions indicates that peanuts, soy beans and velvet beans are the most valuable fall and early winter grazing crops. Cowpeas afford about one half as much grazing per acre as soy beans.—The Progressive Farmer. We are told that there are a half million Germans in the big pocket from which they are trying to extri cate themselves. Possibly more than that arc at the pocket openings en deavoring to hold back the tide until the army escapes. When you realize the magnitude of the operation you will understand why the armies of Foch do not close the bag in a day. We must not lose sight of the fact that the victory is already one of the great est of the war and that success grows from day to day. Neither are we to conclude that this victory will end the war, although it likely renders the German hope of ultimate victory im possible. Gettysburg is said to have decided the Civil War, though the war lasted a long time after that. We know now that we are going to win the war and that the tide has definitely turned in our favor. Again another German peace pro posal has been launched, and again it is unreasonable and impossible. The Allies no longer care to hear peace terms, for there is nothing to discuss. Before peace can come the military au tocracy must go ar.d the Hohenzolleru dynasty must be thrown from power. Otherwise America will continue to raise and send over armies until Hun power is smashed into dust. Presi dent Wilson lia3 said we will meet force with force to the uttermost. Ger man Kulture has forfeited all right to a discussion of anything Ground a round table.—They who declare that treaties are but scraps of paper and that might makes right. The part of good Americans is to keep cheerful and busy. Of course we can't keep our thoughts from ling ering toward French battlefields where our boys are, and we know that big battles bring proportionate casualties. They are smiling and fighting for a .great cause and would have us smile and work for the same great cause. A French officer pointed to the hill of Verdun and said, “'One hundred and ten thousand Frenchmen died there.” To the reply that was a great many many, he replied, “Yes, but not too many.” Whatever the price it will be worth it. It will not have been in vain. - The work of the constitutional con vention would be the big news of the -day if it wasn’t overshadowed and ov erwhelmed by the news from the West ern front. fThe press now reposts Hindenburg as a sick man. They might report with equal truth other sick Germans such as Kaiser Bill, the cro-rn prince, Leud -endorff, et al. I -w.s.s. A NEW BRICK The Ashdown Hardware Company 1 j ’ having work started on a new brick eecond story to their building on >.J:un atraet. The part to be built is on the Tear to bring that part of the building to the same height as {he frprjf fc.nd tc R'iW Pt9f3f§ rp<?n?, .__ ♦ ALLENENEWS * ♦♦♦♦♦ Allene, July 25.—(Special.)—Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Scarborough last Thursday., a boy. Mother and son both doing nicely. Quite a week here for marriages, i There were only three. Mr. Carter land Mollie Walker. Mr. Wingfield and Miss Lillian Hollengshead. Mr. J. W. Groves and Miss Annie Miller were the •contracting parties. Uncle Bob Hughes returned Sunday night from a visit to Briken Bow, Ida bel and Hugo, Oklahoma. He reports a nice time, and plenty to eat. | John Grant of DeQueen was here Tuesday. | Mrs. T. W. Grammer returned from Dr. Dales sanitarium Wednesday. She is real sick. Mrs. J. D. Freeman of Ashdown was here Sunday . Bro. Youngblood filled his regular appointment here Saturday night and Sunday. Paul Smith has been real sick but is improving now. Walker Bowman was in Ashdown Tuesday. Dr. McCrary was in Ashdown Satur day. C. D. Smith was home Sunday. Uncle Johnnie Coleman was here Sunday. Mrs. J. C. Ward was called to the bedside of her sick grandson, Elbert Thompson at Brovvnsiown. Mr. Burt is shipping a few cante lopes from here. Dr. Bishop of Ashdown was here Wednesday. Mrs. Edda Cannon is visiting her aunt, Mrs. C. W. Wright this week. BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK After a 2i-Hour Fight With Suhmar inas—Had Just Landed Americans. > __ An Irish Port, July 22.—Delayed by Censor.—The giant White Star Liner, Justica, has been torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast. It is believes small loss of life occurred. The sink ing occurred Saturday, last. The Justica was formerly the Duccn steamer, Statendam, which was taken stocks at Beltast when she W£.s necv over by the British government on the ing completion. She was a ve33el of 22 234 gross tons. The Justica carried a crew of be tween 600 and 700. T'ioven members of the crew are dead. The news of the sinking of cl e Justica was announced by the Bel ast Evening Ten.graph. The liner was torpedoed. ;he newsnipei states. One of Tie crew of the Justica is tiuoted by the newspaper as asserting flat ten torpedoes wire discharged at the Jus'ict. Four of the approueh ii g missels, he adied, were explod d by gunfire from the sh!,. Had 24-Hoi r 4 ight. An Irish Port, July 24.—Four hun dred of the crew of the torpedoed lin er, Justica, nave been landed here. They report that the liner wan sunk after a 24-hour fight with submarines. Had Just Lauded Americans, New York, July 24.—The Justica, re ported sunk, apparently somewhat off the coast of Ireland, was returning to an American port after delivering a large contingent of American troops it was learned today. Only Ten of Crew Lost. An Irish Port, July 24.—No passen gers were lost and only ten of the crew were lost. The first torpedo struck the engine room and the ship then stopped. Sev eral other torpedoed were fired but only two of the missels were effective. -w.s.s. MRS. J. «. DYER PASSES AWAY Took Carbolic Acid by Mistake Witli Fatal Results. From DeQueen Bee: Mrs. Dyer, wife of Capt. J. B. Dyer, on Wednesday evening, just about dusk drank some carbolic acid, mistaking it for medicine, and lived but a brief time after making the fatal error. Dr. Owens who was in the neighbor hood, was hastily summoned, as were also Drs. ^rcher and Hopkins, but they were unable to render assistance to the unfortunate woman. Mrs. Dyer had been an invalid for a long period and for some time had been in unusually feeble health. On Wednesday her son, Will, and her daughter, Mrs, Emil Stebler, came to DeQueen from Shreveport for the pur pose of taking their mother to Hot Springs for recuperation. Her other children are Frank, who resides at Dierks, end Mrs. Sandefur of Ashdown who came to DeQueen today, Thursday The funeral service! are to be held this afternoon at 5 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer were pioneer residents of DeQueen and for many years have been held in the highest esteem by all. The sympathy of the i entire community will go out to thie sorrowing family in the hour v! their (Jeep bweg.'vjjraont. liKIK OF PINCERS TIOIITEN (Continued from page 1.) with a feeling of expectancy as of great events impending. Rumors of 'decisive victory ran through official jcircles like wild fire. Untraceabie re ports were current that the army of the German crown prince had been trapped and even that ithe crown prince himself had been captured. Official reports gave no foundation j on which the feeling of suppressed excitement could be based, i Earlier in the day a press dispatch told of rumors In London that the i British west of Rheims had scored a decided success and advanced toward iFismes, the German rail base midway between Soissons and Rheims. Later reports confirmed this to the extent of j a stride forward by British and French forces on a three-mile front i just west of Rheims, throwing the enemy back a mile and a half. Prob ably it was this which started wild reports of a sweeping victory. Still later came news of decided gains by Fi-anco-American troops around Fere-en-Tardenois and north of Dormans on the Marne. It wa3 evident that the southern and south western 'angles of the German posi tion were yielding to the pressure against them. News came also of important advances along the Ourcq front. Enemy Forced Buck. The outstanding (act tonight is that the enemy’s front is being forced back all along the battle line. Of the gains recorded the Franco-British drive probably has the greatest pos sibilities, for it means that the east ern jaw of General Foch's gigantic trap is closing in. Other reports show that the German high command had massed reserves and concentrated artillery to prevent movement at this point or at its counterpart, near fco:s sons, where the western jaw had al ready been driven ahead in a weak's fighting and now faces German re serves assembled from the whole bat tle line’. Should the Franco-British forces be able to enlarge their advance mate rially, the great trap might finally bo sprung by final overwhelming blows on both sides. In that event, all of the victories pictured in tonight's rumors might be realized. Heavy Enemy Loss. With the American Army on the Aisne-Marne Front, July 25.—With the sides of the Soissons-Riieims sack coming steadily closer together, the German crown prince's generals are driving their men mercilessly in an effort to hold them off long enough to extricate the armies threatened at the bottom, north of the Marne. 'The American and French troops are never far behind the retreating forces, and the vicious rear guard ac tions are not sufficiently resistant to enable the Germans to proceed in the orderly manner planned. At Dor mans, north o! the Marne, and east of Chateau Thierry, the Germans counter-attacked, taking the position but were promptly driven out. Enemy Loses 200,000 Men. Nearer Soissons, the Germans fail ed to hold all their positions, notwith standing reinforcements and their desperate need. It is estimated unofficially tonight that the enemy losses a,re more than 200,050, of which 50,000 were inflict ed by the Americans. The prisoners alone number over 20,000 and the losses In dead and wounded are ap palling. Tiie French used more armored cars than usual and cavalry or mounted patrols were effectively employed in clearing the forests and maintaining contact. Toward Soissons, there has been In creased artillery work and bitterer and steadier fighting. The French and Americ:n soldiers disregarded caution almost entirely yesterday, ad vancing their lines in open order and taking what came without bothering to hunt down machine gun nests. This brought them into closer contact with the main body of the retreating forces. -W.S.S ENEMY PLANES GOWNED 87 brought Down by Allied Airmen in One Dav. Paris, July 23.—Thirty-seven Ger man airplanes were brought down or put. out of action by French and Pritisli airmen yesterday, four cap I tive balloons were burned and many ton3-of bombs were dropped on Ger man concentration points. This an nouncement is made in the official communication issued by the War Of fice tonight. -:-W.S.S, Same Text Books. We are instructed by County Exam iner D. P. Holmes to state that the old text book contract of this county does not expire until December 11, and therefore the new uniformity law will not apply here thl3 year, and the same books will be used in the common schools. B, _ GERMANS CONTROL BUT ONE RAILROAD (Continued from page 1.) his huge army. Should the final rail connection * northward come under direct gun fire, lit is'regarded possible by many offi cers that a .rout would result, as all the massed forces of he enemy could not be gotten away. 1 Appraised at its lowest probable i value, officers say, the counter-stroke already has drawn in the enemy's 1 most vital necessity, his reserves. His | whole plan of campaign has been over turned in less than a week and it is regarded as more than probable that the initiative seized by General Foch will remain in his hands permanently to he amplified into blows at other parts of the line. -w.s.s. A BOY WRITER The following is the production of Master Maxie Bishop the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bishop, who is not yet 9 years old and was only in the 4th grade In our public school the last term. The composition as Maxie call ed it, is just as he composed it, spell ing and all. We learned that he wa3 aroused to do this by an argument with his two sisters, Misses Willie and Reva, and' when it ended he went to his grandfather’s, Dr. A. B. Bishop, went into the room to the typewriter and started this about Paul Jones. What amused his grandparents was he put all this down from memory with out even a note, book or any datta whatever: Complsition On Paul Jones, Paul Jones was a brave hero of the revolutrevolutionary war. Paul Jones was one of the bravest sailors he fougfit^ against the English. He had the honor of raising the first flag on an America^ man)-of-war. The Arneri cans had no good snips or trained sol diers like the British. They had only rotten pieces of ships. The Americans made Paul Jones Commander o. a ship which was not much of a ship hut a lot of logs. One day he was sailing airound and he saw afleet of British men-of-war a short distance off ho made up his mind that he would cap ture the largest one of them, which he thought to be a fine merchant vessel, when he came close he found his mis take. It was a big British War ship. The Commander turned and ran he got away. Another time he saw a lot of merchant vessels with two big bat tle ships guarding them. Paul Jones decided he had had enough oi fighting merchant ships so he dashed away for the ba-ttleship. Two of his be3t guns burst at the first shot. The bat tleship was big enough to make mince meat of Pauls shin. Soon the big guns of the British ship were playing havoc .with the sides fo the little ship. Some or the cannon balls went clear through her and splashed In‘o -W.S.S.-T m I Kang ear die V - Hqos* I'. S. Food Admin.siration. | Ol’ Bquiro ’Tater Tow he goin’ to be mighty nigh king er de roos’ 'mong garden sass folks. We alls kin eat him as a ’tater boiled, baked, fried, stewed, cooked wid cheese en dey gettln’ so dey make im Inter flour: so’s we kin “substi-tuce” him fo’ wheat flour. He’s de •‘sub=titu tenest” of all de vdttles, he sea. • De udder garden sass folks lak inguns, tomatues, cabbage en turnlpd en squash don’t need to git peeved, ’cause dev's goin’ to be room in de pot fo’ de whole tribe. Ev’y las’ one on ’em can he’p save wheat, en meat fer de boys dat’s doin’ de fight in’ over yander. *-w.s.s. RECORD CASH CONGRESS Total Appropriations This Session To tal Nearly $S0,GJ0,i000,000. Washington, July 23.—With total appropriations only a little short o£ $30,000,000,000 and more to be authorized later, the seconl session of the 65th Congress wil: stand as a record session in point of cash authorizations. Succeeding congresses, leaders believe, will be called on for even greater expenditures so long as America maintains its vast military establishment in Europe. -W.S.S. Warning Order. In the Little ytiver Chancery Court, I Little River County, Arkansas. Mrs. I May Wallace plaintiff, Vs. Ed Wallace defendant. The defendant, Ed Wallace Is hereby warned to appear in this Court within thirty (30) d&y3 and j answer the <y> .pi int of the plaintiff herein, Mrs.» May Wallace. Witness my hand and the seal of sail court • this 17!’i day of July. 1918.—Chos. II. . Park, Clerk. W. J. Denson,-1). C. Du Laney & Steel Attys for Pltff. A. P. Steel, AUy atl litem. _ S g^Hgj c \ i ajHiimuHiiinmmi^f^ " m iv/ w^\ LOANING FARMERS IS OUR SHARE IN SPEEDING UP PRODUCTION pARMERS who have increased their acreage in answer to the government's call for more food will naturally about this time, be finding then, selves in need of financial assistance to see them over the harvest season. To meet your needs, is cur share in speeding up production—we are here with money fo all re sponsible farmers. You don't even have to come after it—if you bank here. 'Phone us the amount yc-u need and we'll send you a note which you can sign and mr.il bark and we'll credit you up with the proceeds ARKANSAS STATE BANK Ashdown, Arkaansas p ■■ mmm — ■■ JL— —...—— — - — - CENTRAL COLLEGE ARKANSAS’ SELECT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS I Its Reputation and Success Are Built on Merit and Results Standard curriculum leading to regular degrees. Music, Art, Expression and HouscHold Economics under great ipecialists. More boarders than any other town in the State. 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