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Sharp County record., 1912-12-13
ARKANSAS AND EDUCATION

or attempting to conceal them.
The newspapers are guilty of that
too.
Why conceal the truth? Why
not face the facts as they are and
then remedy conditions?
Our politicians are making big
issues of the state house, the peni-
tentiary question, the convict ques-
ton and other matters of some i'm
portance, but the question of edu-
eating the children of the state has
been getting but passing notice.
Little do those in authority seem
to think that the spread of educa-
ton will 60 far toward a proper
settlement of the question of peni-
tentiary and convicts.
They tell us that the new cap
itol is a credit to the state and to
the people.
We doubt that.
The proportion is entirely out of
gear.
The balance is not even or just.
The capitol is too imposing for
state which furnishes its youth SO
school days in the year.
Its elegance, created through neg
lect of the young minds Of this
state, mocks the patriotic senti-
ment of those who love their state
better than they love the sham of
false appearance.
Where is the man in authority
who has told the people plain facts
about this great question of edu-
cation and pitched his campaign
for official honors upon the high
plane that something must be done
for a cause that has been too long
sadly neglected?
Where is the member Of the
next legislature who will say that
the boys and girls of Arkansas
must have the opportunity Ct Sc.
curing an education in their own
communities; that the boys and
girls of the rural communities of
Arkansas must have an equal op-
portunity with the boys and girls
of other states; that they must
have a fair start and a fair race
with the boys and girls Of other
states in the years to come; that
foolishness must cease entirely and
that minor matters must wait un-
til something is done for our boys
and our girls-the whole hope Of
the stateY
He will be the greatest in the
coming legislature
900
So long as those who care to
criticise the newspaper can find
nothing worse to say about it than
that it tells the truth, the newspaper
should be eminently satisfied. That
is a criticism that has no sting
whatever and is really a desirable
asset for the newspaper.
900
The Record stands for the best
interests Of Evening Shade and
Sharp county. If you don't believe
it, try us on.
900
No man is as much thought Of
ribht now as Santa Clans.
Sharp County record., 1912-12-13

In matters pertaining to educa-
Ion Arkansas is a bad laggard. 1t
a very far down the list in every
Eay.
For instance: In the matter OF
pneth of school term in the var
bins states Arkansas stands 45th
the list of forty-eight states. The
verase length of school term in
lis state is 98 days in the year.
Only three states in the entire
Inion have a worse record than
Lis. They are North Carolina,
buth Carolina and New Mexico.
Forty-four states of this Union
Ffer their boys and girls better ed
s s';.cational advantages than does Ar
kansas.
The average length of school
lerm among our immediate neigh
ors is as follows: Missouri 1873
Tvs; Mississippi 131 days; Okla
4 INA 1923 days; Louisiana 124
us; Tennessee 122 days; Texas
b days.
When we consider that the state
Arkansas is furnishing her boys
d girls an average school term of
days in the year, we must also
member that there are any num-
II of cities and towns in the state
hich support a school term of
Ifht and nine months in the year.
herefore, it is very evident that
here are many children out in the
6untry districts who are getting
Is than the average term of SO
|dhys.
This is a miserable record for
Arkansas.
average length of school
tim in Rhode Island is 1870 days;
N Connecticut 181 days; in Mary
u nd 1870 days; in New York 179
days; in New Jersey TT days.
'N&& people sometimes wonder at
0hkee thrift and prosperity. The
"a in the states named above
s what the average Arkansas
I|zen would call worn out" be-
{1e the state Of Arkansas was
kly settled.
Arkansas has been here a
ong time. The state was admitted
q the Union in 1885, What prog
roDs we HAVEN'T made in educa-
"a in the seventy-six years of our
n as a statel
There are, of course, reasons why
Kansas is behind forty-four other
(ates in educational affairs. The
nte is spending lots of money.
ae tax rate is high. The state
N gotten into bad financial hole
Mmld hasn't made any reputation to
eak Of either in education. We
He spent several million dollars
exact amount will probably
X yer be known to the people who
ID the bills-on a new and mag
cent capitol to house our poll
|ans, while the state is holding
Wn position No, As in the matter
Educating the youth.
"A Dur politicians and offlce-holders
ve been paying but little atten-
to education, If they know
real facts about Arkansas and
pcation they are concealine them,
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Sharp County record., 1912-12-13
Did Jonah Really Swallow That WhaIeY

Rev. M. W. Manville preached
good sermon at the Methodist
church Sunday. His explanation
of the event Of Jonah and the
whale was acceptable, Sheridan
Headlight.
Sharp County record., 1912-12-13
NEWS OF NORTH ARKANSAS

Jacksonport has the prospect Of a
tight barrel and veneering plant.
R. B. Tegarden at Yellville raised
1000 bushels of apples this year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Foushee, a highly
respected lady of Newport, died re-
Gently.
Gut of the 28 applications for
divorce at Batesville lately 26 were
granted.
An adjourned term of circuit
court convened at Mountain Home
last week.
Six divorce cases were disposed of
in the recent term of chancery court
at Newport.
Up to Wednesday of last week
$3.50 bales of cotton had been re-
ceived at Batesville.
The Farmers Bank is new in
stitution at Mountain View. 1t is
capitalized at $4,000.
q, The ladies of the M. E. Church of
Portia recently gave an entertain
ment and collected $45.
Dave Upshaw, a Randolph coun-
ty citizen, realized $26 dollars late
ly from the sale of a fine hound dog
A court of the tribe of Ben Hur
was organized at Pocahontas last
week with a membership of thirty
five
G. C. Walden and Miss Clara
Bulla, a couple of Sulphur Rock,
were recently married at Bates
vile.
Representation Of Gene Stratton's
masterpiece, "Freckles," will be pre-
duced by a good theatrical troupe
at Batesville Dec. IA.
Sam Wilkerson, we'll known in
Randolph county, is in Jail at Poca-
hontas, serving out fine of $500
for illegal co-habitation.
Batesville citizens last week con-
tributed more than half a hundred
volumes to the library of the new
U. S. battleship Arkansas.
The students of the Newark high
school last week presented a play
that netted $34L20, to be used to
augment the school library fund.
The Ineleside public school in
Jackson county is believed to be
the only rural school in the state
having a ten-months school term.
B. F. Bieeers of BigeerS, Randolph
county, was honored last week by
being appointed a delegate to the
National Deep Waterways Conven-
ton.
Rev. M. P. Johnson, one of the
leading Freewill Baptist ministers
of Randolph county, died at his
home in Sharum one day last
week.
Clarence Hight of Fayetteville
and Miss Eula Berry of Yellville, a
prominent young couple, were mar
ried at the brides home one day
lately,
The large barn of Joe Maeness
near Newark was destroyed in
flames one day last week with a
loss of $780, with no insurance
The origin of the fire is mystery
The Neely Stave Mill Company
Is a new enterprise of Smithville
The mill Is the property OF a man
from Truman, who owns large
tracts of timbered land in Lawrence
county.
Aunt Fannie" Mayhan, aged n
a pioneer of Newark, died at her
home there a few days ago, Mrs
Mayhan had lived So years Of mar
Sharp County record., 1912-12-13

Gently. Dodson had just stepped
out of the way of a freight train in
time to be struck by the passen-
ger.
Seven Pocahontas citizens were
arrested a few days since by Mayor
Sallee and Marshal Haynes. The
citizens were caught redhanded;
four are charged with gambling and
three we're arrested for drunken
ness.
The work of dredging White river
between Batesville and Newport Is
about completed and the river Is
navigable. However, the towns
have not yet made arrangements
for a boat to ply between the
places
One day last week at Walnut
Ridge Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Crays
found a strange baby placed in a
basket on their back porch. There
is no clew as to its parentage and
the Crays have decided to keep the
yOungster. 20
Arthur Wolf, assistant principal
of the Mt. Olive public school,
was recently fined in a justice court
for severely whipping an eieht-year-
old daughter of Henry. Lawrence.
The teacher took an appeal to cir
cult court. M y >.
One day last week two courts
were in session at Batesville-an
adjourned session of Judge ]. W.
Scott's court and a session Of chan-
cery court, in which twenty-eieht
divorce cases were to be disposed
of. This was an unusally large num-
Der.
w. j. Jernigan, whose home. ia r.,
Sulphur Rock, has been appointed
head of the boys and girls demon
stration club work in Arkansas. Mr..
Jerniean is at present employed In
the state extension work Of the
State Agricultural School under
Prof. j. M. Wilson.
At Black Rock recently the one
hundred employees Of the button
factory went on a strike. The
trouble arose from the refusal Of
the company to allow a small, Or
phan boy to sell tamales at the
building. When the boy was
elected the men also walked out.
They declare they will not return
until the company relents.
S. C, Dowell, a wealthy land own
er of Walnut Ridge, recently COM
pleted threshing his 120 acre crop
of Honduras rice. Although this
was an unreasonable year for rice,
more than 5000 bushels were har-
vested. Mr.. Dowell estimates that
a clear profit of $50 per acre was
made. The permanency Of the rice
industry in the lowlands Of Arkan-
sas is assured,
A German boy, Joe Gaulocker, 10
years old, died at his home near
Mountain Home recently from knife
wounds inflicted by a younger
brother, aged ten years. The broth.
ers had engaged in a fight over the
division Of some hickorynuts, when
the younger boy cut his brother in
the arm, severing an artery. The
blood was checked, but soon after
the boy retired to bed bleeding be-
gan anew and he bled to death be-
fore It was discovered.
Harrison and Houston Haynes,
brothers, Of YellvilJe were last week
captured by the Springfield, (Mo.,)
police and returned to Yellvillc,
where they were wanted for arson
and burglary. Three weeks ago the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-01-17
Why Toll the Church Bell

What more doleful, dolorous, depres-
sing, sad, gloomy, lugubrious and funer-
al than the solemn tolling of the church
bells on Sunday morning, as though
appealing to the shades of the somber-
visaged Puritans of a century and half
ago to bear witness to the melancholy
sanity of the Sabbath and it's services
Surely, this is one of the "immemoria'
customs that well may be given up in
this day-unless there is nothing in the
claim that there is joy and hope and in
spiration in religion and in our religious
exercises. Perhaps, its continuance is
one of the reasons for the small church
attendance in some communities That
dirge-like toiling, assuredly, is enough to
drive people away from church, rather
than attract them to it. On the other
hand, there is something very pleasing
and inspiring in the sane and sensible
pealing out of the Sabbath BELLS
Springfield Reporter.
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JOHNSON

A. f. Partlow is convalescing from a
serious illness.
DR.. Holcombs little son, Harold, is i'll
with pneumonia.
Mrs. E. M. Green has been recent
visitor in Burlington.
The High School gave promenade a.
the building Friday evening
Miss Gladys Chappell is assisting the
new station agent, Chas. Bishop.
The American Mineral Co. shipped
during the month of December 425 tons
of tale.
G. l.. Bishop, the new station agent,
moved his family here from Hardwick
last week.
o. b. Landon is spending a few days at
South Hero with his son, w. A. Landon,
and family.
Miss Helen Fullington has been i'll
and out of school for week. She is
now improving.
Miss Doris DEMO of Hyde Park was in
town last Saturday and arranged for a
class in instrumental music.
Mason Stone, State Superintendent of
Education, and w. Fl. Crockett of Mont
pelier visited the Normal school last
week.
Rev. c. D. Pierce of Swanton oficiated
at the funeral of little Norma Elwood,
the youngest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Elwood, last Thursday.
Miss Mary Tracy, former Normal in
structor, who has been taking much
needed rest at her home in Shelburue,
has gone to Tuck-a-hoe, N. Y, where she
has position in the high school of that
place.
Last Thursday seemed to be day of
accidents in johnson. Bert Fuller on
French Hill had the misfortune, while
working in the woods, to have his leg
broken by log rolling on to it. W. F.
Waters fell from a car at the station,
while he was loading butter, and dislo.
Gated his shoulder. Miss Anna L. Cakes
fell down stairs at her home and struck
on her head, cutting severe cash on the
side of the head and face and sustaining
several bruises. Mrs. Rosa Kelley fell
from chair, while working for Miss
Mabel Austin, and injured her wrist. Fri
day morning Mrs. Kelley went to the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Darius
Fletcher, in Hyde Park.
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AIcsholized ETtions

Scandinavia is g. dua ly beginning
to recover the political prestige which
the forefathers of the modern Swedes
claimed for nearly 900 years. culmi.
mating during the Thirty Years war,
when the victories OF Gustavus Adolf.
plus decided the fate of northern Eu.
rope. A century after the battle of
Lutzsn, Sweden was still a match for
any conner, but nom that time the
star of her glory began to decline. and
it is a remarkable fact that the era
of the most complete eclipse comm.
cides with the period when the maxi
mum of intemperance was represented
by the monstrous total of $4,000 dis
tilleries to a population of less 1000.
900. The Gutenberg system is at
best a compromise but its union with
numerous active temperance societies
has, after al, tegIn to regenerate a
nation which, like the Indian of Hud.
son Bay territory, was for a time ex.
posed to the peril of actually perish.
ing In a deluge of alcohol.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-01-17
Submission Essential to Prayer

If you have any trial which seems
intolerable, pray-pray that it be re.
lieved or changed. There is no harm
in that. We may pray for anything,
not wroIsg in itself with perfect free.
dom, if we do not pray selfishly. One
disabled fEpm duty by sickness may
pray for health, that he may do his
work; or one hemmed in by internal
impediments may pray for utterance,
that he may serve better the truth
and the right.
But the answer to the prayer may
be, as it was to Paul, not the removal
of the thorn, but, instead, growing
insight into its meaning and value.
The voice of God in our soul may
show us, as we look up to him, that
his strength is enough to enable us
to bear RI. F. Clarke.
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G00DBY TO CaThRRH
Use Men,hoIatum and See How Quickly
You are Cured

No other disease is as disagreeable and
offensive as catarrh and yet it is easily
and quickly cured by the right treat
ment. Mentholatum, an antiseptic and
healing preparation that kills catarrhal
germs and soothes and heals the irritated
mucous membrane.
No vaporizor nor inhaler is needed
with this simple treatment. Apply a
little at night in the nasal passages and
it cures while you sleep. 1t is made
from healing herbs, combined with an
tiseptics that kill the catarrhal germ,
gives quick relief and prevents further
spread of the disease.
Get 25 cent jar of Mentholatum from
your druggist and see how quickly it will
give relief in catarrhal troubles. Money
back if it does not give perfect satisfac-
ton. Unequaled for all aches, pains,
and Inflammation of any kind.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-01-17

ing degree. Vast tracts of the country
lave been visited by drought and fam
me, and the greed of the Chinese mer-
chants has, as usual, made these Gala
mites preteXt for an enormous rise
in the price of provisions. This ex-
cited the starving populace to fury,
and caused disturbances in many
parts of the empire. Riots broke out
in HUMAN at the capital, Chang-sha
and in Yuan-chow and other towns of
that province, where popular feeling
is hostile to foreigners, and much mis-
sion property was destroyed Happily,
no lives We're sacrificed, at least among
the Protestant Christians. With the
help of a fotilla of English, German,
japanese and other foreign gunboats
the government quickly succeeded in
quelling the disturbances.
Good Work of Missionaries.
In the province OF Nan-Su, where
there was also great distress, the mis-
s1onaries gained the confidence of the
people by distributing quantities of
food and seed.
Some foreign houses of business to
thelr shame be it said, place difficult
Ties In the way of the Chinese in the
c.oslng OF the opium dens and others
nave introduced cigarettes to take the
place of opium. One English firm &C.
tually succeeded, with the help of the
British consul, in securing the reopen
Ing OF already closed orium shops.
The under secretary Of state for India
assured the British parliament that
the Anglo-lndian government could
not shorten the period of ten years
agreed upon between India and China
Tor the gradual cessation of the i'm
portation of opium, because such a
measure would put too heavy a strain
on Indian finances, would cause dis
turbances among the taxpayers and
opium growers, and would be a source
OF trouble between the Indian govern
ment and the tributary states" In
spite of this, however, England, as we'll
as all the other civilized countries and
China, agreed to the proposal of Presi-
dent Taft to hold another information
al opium conference.-the Re
view of the World.
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Estate of Franklin Cary


State OF Vermont, District If Lamoi'le. SIS In
Probate Court held at Hyde Park, in said Dis
trct on the 3rd day of January, A. ID. 1912.
Adophus NJ. Wheeler, A"mr. If the estate
of Franklin Cary late of Eden, in said dis
trict, ceased present his admins tration ac-
count for examination and allowance, and makes
application for decree OF di> tribution and par
tition of the estate of said deceased. Where
upon it is ordered by said Court, that SaiO &C.
count and said app cation be referred TO a SEES
sion thereof to b. ed at the Probate Office in said
Hyde Park, on the Doth day OF JAN. A. ID. 1912, Tor
hearing and decision thereon And, 1t is iur-
Their ordered, that mott hereof he given to all
persons interested, by publication of the same
three weeks successfully IN the News and Citizen.
a newspaper published at Morrsvile and hyde
Park previous to said tine appointed for Fear
ing, that they may appear at sao time and
place, aud show use, ii any they rave, why
said account should not he allowed and such
decree ma e. BY the Court. Attest,
II EDWIN e. WHITE, Judge.
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He Redeemed Us for Himself.

1t was not enough that Christ should
deliver us from the condemnation and
penalty of sin; he has also redeemed
us to himself, to be a people for his
own possession, so that we should be-
come his bond-servants and slaves.
All, what a claim is this, that he
should be able to put his hand on
each OF our members and say, This is
mine; purchased it for myself and to
use it at any prompting but mine is
sacrilege. Fl b. Meyer.
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Estate of Subrina w. Hill

The undersigned having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District OF
Lamolle, Commissioners, to receive, examine,
and adjust the claims and enands of all persons
against the estate of Subrina w. HILL late of
johnson, in said district, deceased and all claims
exhibited IN Offset thereto, hereby give notice
that we will meet for the purposes aforesa at
the furniture store of II. n. MaXfIed, in JChD-
son, in said District on the 9th day of February
and 2lst day of June next, from l o'clock D.
M, until O'Clock p, m, each of said days, and
thai Fix months from thu 21st day OF Dec, A. d.
1911, is the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present then claims to us for ex.
animation and allowance
Dated at johnson, Vermont, this 10Th day of
Decemb 3r A. ID 1911. II. NJ. MAXFIELD,
ii. A. BARROWS,
10 Commissioners.
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Estate of Lucia Ellen Brigham
WILL PRESENTED

State of Vermont District of Lamoile ss-in
prOhatA Court held at III de Park, within and
for aid District. on thu Sth Gay of January,
~. ID. 1912
An Instrument purporting to be the last WIN
and IL at, ment of Lu, ia Ellen Brigham, late of
Hyde ParS, in sal district. deceased being
presented by Henry NJ. McFa, land, the Ex-
ecutOr, for probate, it is ordered by said
Court, that III persons concerned therein be
notified to appear at a session thereof to be
held at the Probate flee in Hyde Park, in
said district, on the 2ath day of January. A. d.
cause, if any they have, against the Probate
OF said will; for which purpose it is further
ordered, that this order he published three
weeks successfully in The News and Citizen en- a
Park, this State. previous to said time of hear
ing. By the Court-AtteSt.
IA EDWIN C. WHITE. Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-01-17

COMMISSIONERS NOTICE,

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District of
Lamoille, Commissioners, to receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands of all per-
sons against the Estate of A. N. Boynton, late of
Morristown, sin said District, deceased, al all
notice that we will meet for the purpose atore.
said at the home of Mrs. A. N. BOyntOn, in the
town ofMorristown, in said dist. on the 18th day
OF January and goth day of June next, from
each of said days and that Six Months from
the 10th day of December A. D. 1911, is the time
limited by said Count for SAID creditors to pre-
sent their CLAIMS to US for Examination ami al
lowanCe
Dated at Morrstown, this 9th day of January.
A. ID. 1872 OR~ON W,CHAFFEE,
JOEL II. PARKER,
IA Commissioner
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The Dead Past.

No church can be better than its
leaders who control it. The theolog-
ian's error repeats itself in his creed.
The bigots narrowness is revealed in
his intolerance. The time has come
when every church has many things
in its history that it would gladly for.
get. But let the dead past bury its
dead. The life of the church is in
the future.-Rev. N. d. Hills, Con.
gregationalist, Brooklyn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-01-17

For mild, easy action of the bowels a
single dose of Doan's Regulets is enough
Treatment cures habitual constipation
rs cents box. Ask your druggist for
them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-01-17
Supreme Test.

There is real love and confidence in
full flower when neighbors accept an
invitation to mushroom dinner, know.
ing that the mushrooms have been
gathered by the host-Galliopolis Trib.
une.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-01-17
Ones Real Country,

Country is not a mere zone OF ter
ritory The true country is the ideal
to which it gives birth; it Is the
thought of love. the sense of com
munion, which unites in one all sons
of the territory Mazzini
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-01-17
Please Read These Two Letters.
HERE is HER OWN STATEMENT

Paw Paw Mich.-"IWo years ago I suffered
very severely with displacement i could not
be on my feet for a long time: My physician
treated me for several months without much re-
Grafton | was there four weeks and came home
suffering worse than before. My mother advised
me to try Lydia E: Pnkhams Vegetable Com
pound, and did. To-day am we'll and strong
and do all my own homework. l owe my health
to Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and
advise every woman who is afflicted with any
female complaint to try it."-Mrs. ORvILLE Rock,
r. r. No s. Paw Paw Mich.