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Sharp County record., 1915-08-20
WORK THE ROHDS

Topeka, Kansas, August 14-One hundred thousand
Kansans with from 10000 to 1000 teams will do mil
lion dollars worth of work the roads of this state
Wednesday and Thursday August 18th and 18th. These
dates we're fixed upon some time ago by Gov Capper as
Good Roads Days throughout the entire state The GOV
rnor asked every in the state to work the roads
these days donate the regular wages of man to
the road fund 1t is estimated by the governor and W. S.
Gearhart State Highway Engineer from the returns al
ready sent in, that not less than 100000 men will be
available for road work on Good Roads Days These Of
cias figure that this number of with the teams that
will be available will do at least an amount Of work that
would cost 81 000000
Sharp County record., 1915-08-20

4
Sunday mail service at Salem.
W. R. Lane of Walnut Ridge this
season grew sixty acres of broom
corn.
According to the clerks annual
statement Fulton county now owes
$S,54971.
The Salem Banner says some
fine zinc deposits have lately been
discovered at Viola.
j. F. Baker, a merchant of Frank
lin, filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy few days ago.
John Horn of Mammoth Spring
shipped out 1400 head of sheep
from that town during the month
of July.
Miss Vida Gibson, daughter of
Rev. W. W. Gibson of Salem, died
last week from lung trouble, aged IA
years.
Will Dye, a farmer near Noun
tain Home, lost a fine COW and calf
one day last week, the animals be-
ing killed by Lightning.
F. M. Fullineton, who lives near
Imboden, last week shipped a car
load of hickory timber to an auto
mobile factory at Detroit, Michigan.
The Holiness congregation will
begin their annual camp meeting
near Wild Cherry this week. Rev.
L, j. Miller of Nashville, Tenn, will
conduct the meeting.
Roy Turrentine of Oil Trough was
before the federal commissioner at
| Batesviile few days ago on the
charge of selling liquor. He was
held to the grand jury under bond
| of $500.
A hog, which was being chased
| by a dog, ran through the plate
glass window front of the Pastime
Theatre at Black Rock a few nights
ago. The breaking of the glass
. caused a loss of about $50,
7. l.. Hawkins, postmaster at
Maynard, had an eye removed last
week by a specialist in St. Louis.
Several years ago he suffered an in
jury to the eye, since which time
the member had continuously given
him trouble.
Miser Franks, an 18-year-old boy
of Union, lizard county, was serious
ly injured one day last week while
engaged in playing base ball. He
was struck in the head by a pitched
ball, and for time it was thought
he would die.
The lid" was cIamped down tight
at Batesville Sunday. The cold
drink dealers, restaurant keepers,
except at certain hours, news deal
ers, the Ice plant and automobile
GARAGE were not allowed to operate
during the day
Jesse Hambrey a young married
man of Salado, was fined $50 last
week for carrying a pistol aud $40
for trespassing The trespass
charge grew out of the fact that
Hambrey had entered a neishbor's
field and helped himself to several
ears of corn.
A destructive fire was prevented
: at Calico Rock few days ago by
Miss Flora Whitfield, a young girl
Sharp County record., 1915-08-20
NORTH ARKANSAS NEWS

of that town The Whitfield home
took fire, and while the bucket
brigade was forming Miss Whitfield
climbed to the roof of the building
and extinguished the flames alone.
G. N. Nelson, merchant at
Buford, Baxter county, last week
sold 1000 bushels of wheat at a
dollar per bushel. The grain was
sent to New Orleans for export, and
was the first wheat ever exported
from there, Baxter county having this
season raised a surplus for the first
time in its history.
Ben Chester of Birdell, Randolph
county, was shot and killed one
night last week by 7. j. Carr, a
neiehbor. Carr says he took Chesser
for a prowler and that when he
called to him in the dark he did
not answer, with the result that he
used his gun with deadly effect. At
a preliminary hearing Carr was
exonerated.
In the court of justice of the
peace at Batesville a few days ago
George Balcum, Arthur Earle and
Junius Howard we're tried on
larceny charge, it being alleged that
they had stolen harness from J. F.
Barnett, W, B. Knight and W. A.
Edwards. They we're bound over
to the grand jury, and were placed
in Jail in default of bond
Perry, the 16-year-old son of R. M.
Carter of Batesyille, was seriously
injured a few days ago when he
was kicked by horse. The boy
was driving a delivery wagon for a
grocer in that city and the horse he
was using became frightened, kick
ing away the front part of the
wagon and dealing young Carter
hard kick in the forehead
J. D. Sturdivant of Newark has
in his possession some receipts and
other documents that are probably
the Oldest papers of the kind in ex-
istence in this section Of the state.
He has a receipt bearing the date
of June 6, 1774, issued to a relative
of Mr.. Sturdivant, a tax receipt is
sued in 1922, and an order from the
court of Franklin county, Tennessee,
dated 1912.
Resolutions adopted by t he
Christian, Presbyterian, Baptist and
Methodist churches of Mammoth
Spring have been forwared to the
governor of Missouri, asking him to
take steps to stop the operation of
blind tigers near the line in Missouri.
The resolutions state that in June
ll8 barrels of beer and whiskey
were known to have been hauled
into Mammoth Spring from across
the line,
Dr. J, S, ket chem died near Mark
ed Tree one day last week It
seems that DR., Ketchem had been
thinking of securing some govern
ment land near Marked Tree and
had gone there to prospect some.
After having walked about seven
miles out into the country he be-
came exhausted and expired, accord
inc to the verdict of a coroner's Jury.
Dr. Ketchem was about 70 years Of
age, was valiant Confederate
soldier and one of the most esteem
ed citizens Of Imboden.
Sharp County record., 1915-08-20

Reports like the above are COM
Ing from every section of the coun-
Try. People everywhere are real
aizing more and more the value Of
Improved roads, and by uniting their
efforts in donation work are per-
forming wonders on the highways
al but little cost to any one indi-
vidual.
County Judge W. T. Horn has
called a meeting of the overseers
and other citizens interested in bet
Ter roads for Sharp county to be
held at Ash Flat Saturday. 1t is
the purpose of this meeting to form
ulate plans for two big road work
Ing days in this county, and it is to
be hoped that the meeting will be
well attended and that good results
to the roads will quickly follow.
Better roads mean a much better
country, and Judge Horn is to be
commended for his interest in this
enterprise which means much to
each and every citizen of the
county.
Every citizen ought to be anxious
to help good thing along. Now is
the time to begin to talk about i'm
proving the roads. Let everybody
work to the end that when Good
Roads Days roll around in Sharp
county there will be an enthusiasm
prevailing that will send every loyal
citizen to the roads to do his share
Of the labor.
i O.
All the alleged candidates for
Sharp County record., 1915-08-20

re COM governor say they favor new pri-
le coun- mary election law. All the candi-
IRE real dates for everything else say they
value OF favor new election law. But, in
ng their spite of the unanimous demand for
re per- a new act, it is never forthcoming.
ghways When it comes to showdown a
ne lndl- whole lot of politicians are found to
be excellent liars in their talk con-
'rn has cerning new law governing pri-
lerseers maries.
in bet -
~ " The papers say that j. Pierpont
~ 10 Morgan is constantly followed by
y a.. I detectives, so great is the fear that
= WIN some crank will take another shot
.':n ~ - y. " at him. We presume that is one
"Al .,.o w of the big pleasures of having few
io'1''' carloads of money.
)W.
! better
9 TO he Sharp county is behind the other
in this seVenty-f0ur counties OF the state
ucb TO in one particular at least No
# the Sharp county man is getting his
name in the papers as possible
anxious candidate for governor.
Now is %
Out ilil- The Newark Journal remarks
srvhodv , n :,
'fyoouy that those people who conine them
Good selves strictly to the truth usually
! Sharp do very little talking. That's cor
,usiasm rect. Not only that, but they're
y loyal ue'u
IS share y
OF course there will be somebody
who will not observe Good Roads
es for Days. Don't let it be you.
Sharp County record., 1915-08-20

OF course there will be somebody
who will not observe Good Roads
Days. Don't let it be you.
Sharp County record., 1915-08-20

Send us so cents and get free pattern,
and this extra fine paper for one year.
Sharp County record., 1915-08-20
Mccall

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went up in
being Of I'M
So these two
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nows who Is
!, Is keeping
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more desirable as an acquaintance
than a man of immoderate meanness.
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school teachers has been begun by the
State high school Inspector The meet
lngs are arranged largely according to
the convenience of railroad schedules.
The first meeting was held at Flor
ence on Friday night and Saturday,
October and 9. Ninety-five teachers,
county superintendent and trustees
were present. The second meeting was
held at Greenwood on Friday night
and Saturday, October Is and 16. More
than 0teachers, county superintend-
ents and trustees were present. The
teachers Of the Greenwood city
schools entertained the visiting teach
ers during the meeting.
At the conferences questions of mo-
ment to the whole school situation of
the State are freely discussed and i'm
provements suggested, for it is impos-
sible to divorce the high school work
from that of the other parts of the
educational system.
The next conference is called to
meet in Anderson Friday night and
Saturday, October % and %. The
teachers of Oconee, Pickens, Green
vile and Anderson counties are in
vited to be present.
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KELTON

Kelton, Oct. 1S.-We are having
warm and fair weather now. The
cotton fields are white but the laborers
are not sufficient to gather it but all
are very busy. was at Jonesville and
went to Duck Pond. Everything
looked green and fresh and our cotton,
ETC., all killed by the frost tn, other
morning except the ridges.
| attended the burial of my life -ior g
friend and brother comrade, Sam How
ell. He was a brave soldier and a
good citizen. He was in many hard
fought fredericksburg, Chic
amauga, Gettysburg and many others.
He was a Pea Ridger and ] hope that
some one will give full account Of
his life. He made the third one of
the Confederate soldiers to pass away
in Union county within the past three
weeks. We are answering to the last
roll call very fast and in few years
we will all be gone. My heart is made
sad when l think the last one of them
will soon be gone. The great question
for us to answer is, Are we as good
soldiers of Christ and we were to our
country's call?
The fourth quarterly meeting of the
kelton circuit will convene at Flat
Rock church Saturday and Sunday,
the 23rd and oath. G.. 7. G..
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WORKING FOR REUNION.
Washington Would Be Host to Con-
federates

Washington, Oct. 19.-Efforts to
have Virginia Confederate Veterans
go on record as favoring the hold
ing of the encampment of the United
Confederate Veterans in Washington
in 1857 will be made by Washington
delegates to the Oath annual meeting
of the grand camp of Confederate
Veterans of Virginia at Fredericks-
burg, Va, tomorrow. In many parts
of the South there is now a strong
sentiment for the holding of the 1917
reunion in this city. Recently wher
the Grand Army of the Republic held
it's encampment here, Col. Hilary A.
Herbert, former secretary of the navy
and we'll known Confederate Vet
eran, made strong plea for a closer
union among the wearers of the Blue
and the Gray. The last big gathering
of the Confederates was held at Jack
SonVllle
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LARGE HOTEL BURNED.
Hotel st. John at sHendersonvillc De-
strOyed by Fire.

Hendersonville, n. c., Oct. 49,
Shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday
morning the ST. John hotel and two
adjoining buildings were totally de-
stroyed by fire. The firemen fought
for nearly three hours the fercest
fight of their lives-and won. Had
they not it is probable that the
greater part of this little city's busi-
ness section. would now lie in ruins.
For a while things looked so serious
that Asheville was appealed to for
aid. The response was the sending of
a large automobile laden with hos.
and seven trained men. A truck was
also placed on board a train for i'm
mediate dispatch, but was not needed.
Excellent work by the combined fire
departments, thick fog and a dead
calm helped materially in checking
the flames. But the greater credit for
this must fall to the thick concrete
walls of the Peoples National bank
building. For three hours this build
ing was subjected to terrific heat,
and stood it so wei THAT no appar-
ent damage was done to it. The build
ings consumed were all of wood ana
have long been regarded as a menace
to that portion of the city. The Will
son cottage, to the rear, and the
splendid court house were afire and
were saved by heroic efforts.
The st. John was the property of R.
d. Waring, formerly of Orlando, Fla,
now resident of this city. 1t was in
sured for $25, ZOO.
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SANTUC

Santuc, Oct. 19.-Well! Well what {?
And to knock for admission, make
apologies, ask permission to come in,
to be introduced, to give account of
myself, or to be presumptuous and go
ahead. But it is "long, long way to
Tipperary," and feel as rusty as an
old last years meat axe, and feel like
a truant, and wonder, do they miss
me at home? No. Was l lazy?
went into a sort of physical bank
ruptcy, in way. l worked harder
than for sometime. l was trying to
climb a chill" Not having Ford
it was hard to go. am afraid l will
skid in sand bar, yet. And this
seemed to be an off year after the
depression of last season, leaving
things short. A cog was slipped.
The summer was hot, the people were
as sluggish as of the torrid zone. Pigs
refused to try to make hogs of them
selves. Hens went on a strike Pump
kin bugs ruined the cashams, stripped
beetles killed the watermelon vines.
English sparrows destroyed the figs.
Mosquitoes got rampant. Guano Wa,
H..
Big creeks damaged corn in August.
September was as hot as August, and
frost came too soon in October, and.
that is enough. | will Grub up'' some
more and try to redeem myself, or,
resume. | cannot go back to past
events-not even to comment much
on Moxy paying us visit way last
spring. | thank him for the kind
words he spoke and hope he will come
back again, for l enjoyed his company
then. He is very sociable at all times,
as you know. This may seem late,
but / wanted to mention this little bit
anyway. AS intimated, it was Just
so that | could not write this last
summer, on pain of neglecting some
thing else. why I have not written
to girl as l ought to, and I am
afraid she will think I am most indif-
ferent). But --, another girl
friend, asked ne what had got the
matter with me, anyway, and | will
have to bestr. Get busy! | will
not attempt to do much this time.
Only make start-a re-start.
/ enjoyed the articles from other
correspondents all along, and will keep
on if, at the next meeting, they re-
fuse to reinstate me, as | feel little
like | ought TO be accommodated for
non-attendance, | will feel bad.
In the night of the 9th and 10th we
had some frost here. Heavy enough
on the bottom to kill corn fodder. /
think | have near eight hundred bun
dies killed Only saved a few hun
dred. Rains held me back nearly two
weeks, and then frost came. There
are several farmers who had late
corn over on the river, too, and lost
much. Frost was rather early, but
it was not cold enough to freeze the
corn. Thirty-five degrees is the lat
est. AS for myself, | have a good
quantity of old fodder that | would
not sell, so am not entirely blank.
1 will look for substitute.
Work is pushing farmers. Bad
weather held them back at least two
weeks, and every hand who will work
has plenty to do, for they are scarce
now, so far as one is able to get extra
help. There is not enough to go
around, and all are needed to pick
cotton, peas and to plow in small
grain.
l had fine time one night when
frost was on the way, sitting by the
fire and eating watermelon. 1t was
very cooling to ones teeth.
J Hey Denver.
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We are making it worth
while ON
Good Flour

Flour for $50 barrel, guar
anteed as good as you can
buy for $500. Flour for
$500, guaranteed as good as
you can buy for $6.25. Flour
for $6.25 guaranteed as good
as you can buy for $3.50.
Our Famous Pansy Flour
for $3.50, worth more by the
car at wholesale than we are
asking you by the barrel at
retail. If it is Good to Eat
get it Fresh and at the Right
Price at
The Union Grocery Co.
Phone 100 and 80.
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SAYS HE WAS HURT IN HAZING.

Columbia, Oct. 19.-There was a
rumor on the streets today that a col
lege boy was laid up with broken
back at local hospital and was in a
precarious condition. Inquiry devel-
oped the fact that young man was
in the hospital for surgical treatment,
and he himself came to the phone.
He is Cadet Noble, from Branchville,
and his shoulder is broken from haz-
ing received at Clemson college, he
says.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-10-22

A wise married man never praises
the gown of another woman unless his
wife has one more stylish.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-10-22

Did you ever hear of a president of
this great and glorious country taking
a prize at baby show?
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-10-22

There's no help for a skinny man,
but the nice thing about a thin wo-
mans shape is she can make it show
up plump whenever she wants it to
be.
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1t is what woman doesn't know
that worries her.
Temptation never fails to come to
those who wait.
The man Of moderate means is
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HUMANE OFFICER
HAS PASSED AWAY.
George f. Hardy, Guard at Peniten>
tiary Since 1886, Died Yesterday
MOrnin0

Morning.
George Z. Hardy, for 28 years a
guard and corporal at the South Car
olina State penitentiary, died at 8
o'clock yesterday morning after long
illness. The funeral services and IN
terment will be at Shelton, Fair
field county, today.
Mr.. Hardy entered the guard SER
vice at the penitentiary in 1886. He
was faithful officer. He was hu-
name in his treatment of the prison
ers and was looked upon by prisoners
and fellow officers alike as a friend.
He was not married. His only near
relative surviving is w. d. Hardy of
Newberry, brother.-The State.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1915-01-06
AMONG MANS WORST FOES
Nebraska a Battlefield Where Enor-
NOUS Wealth 10 Annually
Destroyed.

One of the most fascinating exhib-
its in the University building at the
fair is the collection of glass cases
containing the more common and
destructive insect enemies of the Ne
braska farmer, exhibited in their his
toric development from the egg to
the worm and on to the moth or
beetle. This series, the Nebraska
State Journal says, is the work of
Prof. Myron Swenk of the agricul-
tural college. Looking at this piano.
rama of obscure life, costing the
people of Nebraska every year mil
lions of dollars which no statistician
dare compute, one realizes that
mans greatest enemies are the most
minute. The fight is no longer with
the tiger or wolf or serpent or pam
ther. The mites and midgets, the
slugs and cutworms, the aphids and
corn-root lice threaten mans food
supply, the bacilli threaten his very
life. Here is a battle field where the
question of mans existence upon
this planet must be fought. For this
militia service Nebraska needs every
man and woman, boy and girl, be-
tween the ages of five and ninety
five, and for the line, staff and Off
GERS the best and brightest intellects
our prairias can produce.
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EASY TO START A LIBRARY
Ten OF the Best Writings Of the
Worlds Most Noted Authors May
Be the Nucleus.

In the Woman's Home Compan-
ion Laura Spencer Porter writes a
practically helpful article showing
how the ordinary person can begin
founding a personal library. Fol-
lowing is her suggestion as to ten
good books to begin with:
For those who are beginning a
library and have little money to
spend [ would suggest that there be
bought, say, one book each of ten
great authors. 1t does not matter
who the authors are so long as they
stand high and their books are well
known and standard ones. Let us
take as an example the following
ten, chosen at random from a cata-
logue of standard writer's: Emerson,
Eliot, Bronte. Ruskin, CARLYLE,
Dickens, Thackeray, Lowell, Shake
speare, Keats, and as a selection of
ten books of these ten writer's let us
take in the same order Emerson's
Essays Eliot's Mill on the Floss,
Bronte's Jane Eyre Ruskin's SEES
anne and Lilies Carlyle's Heroes
and Hero Worship Dickens David
Copperfeld,' Thackeray's 'Penden-
MIS- LowelPs essays, Among. My
Books complete volume of Shake
speare or any one of the Shake
sPeare plays, preferably Lear or
Romeo and Juliet and Keats
Poems
"Here you have ten books by ten
master minds, books widely varied
in subject, style, treatment. Let
those ten suffice for time. Read
them"
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DON'T GET THOSE RATES
Corn Raisers Would Be Happy II Able
to Command Prices Charged
by Lobster Palaces.

of the farmers in this country
who raise corn" remarked spec
tacled business man from Warren
street, could open lobster palaces
in Broadway and supply their own
places with it there would be a new
set of millionaires around town be-
fore a great while. / judge so from
eating an ear of new corn in one of
those joints the other night that a
friend of mine was paying for.
'The price of it was 35 cents, and
| should say it weighed considerably
less than half pound, but call it
that. Now, there are Sc pounds of
corn to the bushel and we raise about
000,000,000 bushels annually. Cal
culating half a pound of corn to the
ear, we have 112 ears to the bushel,
which, multiplied by 3,OOO,OOO,OOO,
gives 336,0O0,OOO,OOO ears, which at
35 cents an ear amounts to Sly
600,000,00O for the farmers pockets
annually.
"Some money, amt it? Just the
same that's what they'd have out of
their corn crops if they got lobster
palace rates. "--Philadelphia Ledger.
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WOMEN IN CHURCH COUNCIL.

The high council of the Church of
England, sitting under the joint
presidency of the archbishops of
Canterbury and York, voted to give
women the suffrage in the election Of
church councils and also the right
to sit on parochial councils. In view
of the fact Of its former conserva-
tism, this is very significant in the
ruling of the church. Women have
always been the most loyal workers,
but have hitherto had no voice in
molding its policies.