The Forrest City times., 1909-01-29
NEW CASTLE TIMES.

NEW OHSIIC LINED.
 The weather feels and looks like springtime again, and it is about time we red necks were cutting corn stalks and teaching old Beck gee and hawe again, and preparing our land to raise more 1c and Sc cotton for our dear be- loved spectators to feast upon, as they will soon begin To get hungry again. But they are not to blame. How many of us but who would do the same thing if we had the chance that they have.
 We fool farmers are the ones that need the life kicked out of us, for we all know by experience that it is the over production of cotton that fixes the price. If we would plant more corn and peas and raise more of what we need at home, and let so much cotton alone we would be much better off. 1 know of men in my community who raised as high as forty-fye bales of cotton last year, who are now buy ing corn to make crop on this year, and pay 75c bushel for 1t. But you had just as we'll try to organize lot of hyenas as we fool farmers. We will not stick to anything. We want it all or starve and go naked, like it was in 1907 when they were going to have 15c for their cotton or nothing, and there they flung the fat in the fire. And this night riding will not accomplish anything, only the peni- tentiary It's too bad to think of burning the peoples cotton and corn after it is made. Now is the time to accomplish such ends. Notify these big cotton men, and little ones too, that if they don't reduce their crop this year committee will be appoint ed to wait on them and blow it up for them. Let us not resort to Reel foot Lake methods, but be manly in all our doings with one another by all means.
 MT. Williams, our sheriff, spent the day here last Saturday, January 23rd, at w. O. Pirtle's collecting taxes. He surely made fine collection one has no regard for the truth-he never got cent. We think our legislators would do wise act if they would pass a law or repeal this one, for it is trouble to the sheriff for nothing. Say, Brother Sweet, you told us in your campaign that you would not do l like your predeceSsors-that you would not miss roll call Now it's been ru- mored that you have already missed one. If you want the proof we can give it. Now don't let us hear of this any more. We also want you to pass a law or amend the old one in regard to certoin stock running at large in this county.
 Since we began writing the above Mrs. Brumby has died of pneumonia MT. Brumby has just buried his only xEt !, hn
 Outside of these two persons, health is fine in this community, and Dr. Oliver says he is glad of it, for he has just married and moved into his nice cottage, and his little wife is afraid to stay by. herself.
 Brother Hood and his wife came up sunday as appointed, and he preached another one of his fine sermons. He needs a horse very much and it's time the official board was looking after l his wants. This circuit is too large | for him to walk.
 MT. Walter Allen was visiting New Castle Sunday.
 1 Miss A lma Pirtle is visiting friends at the county seat this week. She will also visit Wynne before she returns
 1 Messrs. T. 0. Doris and Len Shauyer attended the lodge at Colt one night last week.
 Bob Swan says he can lick the man that said he did not have his crop out But Bob is full of jokes.
 We hope our law making body will give us good road law. That would be more benefit to we farmers than any one law that could be put on the statute books. Give us law like Georgia. Give us all the convicts out oide of these that are required to work our state farm and we will have it.
 Also give us one of the agricultural schools. For if there is anything the farmers need. it. is education along that line. Farmers don't try to post themselves at all, but l have heard men say that they knew more in one minute about farming than all the farm papers put together. They are wrong There is lots to be learned from the experience of others. News paper education Is hard to beat. 1 re- member twenty-one years ago l start ed out to get few subscribers to the Commercial { Appeal 1t was then, and l found two men besides myself who were taking farm paper of any kind this was in community that you can see was we'll posted. Those were the times that we farmers began to organize the Wheel, and we would meet and curse the home merchants from beginning to end for hard times. We were to be pitied for we did not know any better. Now every home has from one to dozen good weeklies and many are reading dailies. This is an age that has never been lived be- fore. Subscribe for your county paper and all others that you can afford. There is no education that beats news. paper education.
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