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The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
NEWS OF CONWAY
Fifteen YEARS ago

(From the Log Cabin. Nov. 13, 1900
Berry Deal has gone to ST.
Louis to purchase more goods for w.
M. Harrell & Co."
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Court
ney, on Sunday night, Nov. II, fine
girl baby
lander Davidson, charged with
orse-stealing, was the only prisoner
in the county Jail.
George P. Balmat, our efficient
deputy postmaster, visited his wife
in Little Rock Sunday.
Petitions were being circulated to
form an improvement district for the
purpose of purchasing the electric
light plant.
"The Catholics of this community
have erected a beautiful monument to
Rev. Charles Laengst, who died here
some time ago. He was man well
known for his piety and goodness and
it is very fitting that his last resting
place should be marked in this way.
Henry Reeves, a respected citizen
of this county, living few miles from
this city, died Saturday afternoon
after a short illness of swamp fever
He was quite well known and all re-
gret to learn of his death. He was
buried in Oak Grove cemetery Sun
day afternoon"
State Superintendent of Public In
struction j. J. Doyne announced the
appointment of 0. l.. Dunaway Of
Martinville and J.. H. Jones of Enols
as members of the textbook board
under the newly adopted county uni
formity law. County Judge w. II
Duncan had already appointed G. W
Donaghey of Conway and w. }
Snow of Vilonia, and County Exami
nec j. Walter White was the fifth
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
SAM BELL IS LIKELY TO
ESCAPE ELECTRIC CHAIR
PENITENTIAY OFFICIALS BE
LIEVE SLAYER OF FOUR
WILL NOT BE TRIED.

Little Rock, Nov. 11.-Their belief
that Sam Bell may never be retired
for the murder of Mrs. card Bearden
has led penitentiary officials to decide
to send him to the state farm at Cum
minis. Officials of the institution said
Bell probably will be transferred to
the farm with the next consignment
of prisoners. After Staying four OF
his divorced wife's relatives in Con-
way county last April, Bell was tried
for the murder of card Bearden and
sentenced to life imprisonment. He
was later convicted of the murder of
Mrs. Bearden and sentenced to death.
This case the supreme court reversed
this week.
The fact that his prosecution al
ready has cost Conway county more
than $4,000; that the supreme court
has reversed one death sentence pass
ed upon him and that he now is under
life sentence, have caused the belief
that he may not be retired.
At any rate, he will not be retired
before March, when the next regular
term of the Conway circuit court con-
yenes, and he will be sent to the state
farm in the meantime.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
MORRILT0N TO HAVE
A CARNEGIE LIBRARY
SITE PURCHASED AND APPRO
PRIATION is MADE FOR
MAINTENANCE.

On Monday afternoon the library
board of the Pathfinder Club, met at
the library and completed the trans
action whereby they purchased from
Mrs. M. E. Blakely all property own
ed by her adjoining the present Ii
brary building. This purchase, with
what is already owned gives front
age of 100 feet on Division street,
and extends back to the alleys on two
Sides. Consideration was $500.
The above statement of simple
facts gives only hint of the impor-
lance of this transaction for the mere
purchase of the ground on which to
build is of less Importance than sub
seouent dealings will be. At last 1T
seems an assured fact that Morrilton
is to have a Carnegie library, and to
the faithful women who have been, as
clever one expressed it, "eternally,
externally and internally at it, all
the credit in the final contamination
of plans will belong. Third "behoov-
ING and unbehooving" they have
worked. and their discouragements
nave been many, but they have been
faithful to their self-imposed trust
and uccess seems on the way at last
| Plans have not been definitely made
as to work in the near future, but as
soon as the present building is sold
room will be rented and the tempo
rary library established there. The
council recently passed a resolution
endorsing the $1,000 to be given by
the city to maintain the Carnegie II
brary, and there is no doubt but what
work will be begun very soon. Before
long on the site of the old building
will be erected a modern $1,000
brick and stone building to which the
community may point with pride, an(
which will prove an incentive to bet
ter things for young and old, alike
-Morrilton Headlight.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
MAY Cash WARRANTS
AT SMALL DISCOUNT

Little Rock, Nov. IL. Il. H. Nakdi-
men of the City National Bank, Fort
Smith, has submitted to President Flu
trail of the University of Arkansas
which has been gratefully received by
the teachers. He offers to lend them
$40 900 or more on their personal
notes, with their warrants as collat-
eral, at six per cent. Since none of
the warrants must be carried full
year, the average loss to the teachers
will be about three per cent. The av-
erage loss last year was 10 to II per
cent. There has been no money in
the state treasury to pay these war
rants since last July. Mr. Nakdimen
says he does not regard it as a
money-making transaction, as the
profit to the bank will be almost moth
ing, but that he is only trying to help
the university meet an emergency for
which they are not responsible.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
SCHOOL F|CURFS|
SHOW GROWTH

Little Rock, Nov. Dissatisfied
tables just prepared in the depart
ment of education for the school year
ending June 80, 1915, show the fol-
lowing:
School population, white 46O, 145,
negro 1879, 544, total 649,6S9, which is
an increase of 14,227 over the previ-
Gus year.
Enrolment in the public schools,
white 322,914, negro 114,S12, total en-
rollment 447,726, an increase OF
STOP over previous year.
Acreage daily attendance, white
229 ,644, negro 74,757, total 3O4,4O1
being an increase of 1904 over the
previous year.
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member of the board.

biCiLbCI VI CilS DOdTu.
Russell Cole is now telegram
operator at TalIalIa, a small town in
the Indian Territory, near Coffev-
vile, Kan"
&c. W. Donaghey, the contractor.
has gone to Texas on business"
Cotton was selling at to 8 Is
cents; cottonseed at $12 per ton.
Appointments of deputies were an
nounced at the courthouse as follows:
W. X. Henry, deputy sheriff; A. M.
Ledbetter, deputy circuit clerk; j. H.
Hartje, deputy county clerk; G. M.
Easterwood, deputy constable of Cad
ron township.
"The sheriff sold wagon and team
of q. T. Newberry on Saturday,
levied upon for costs in the state of
Arkansas against Newberry, who was
convicted of killing John Bass and
then pardoned."
w. A. Ward, 10, son of Postmaster
Ward of Republican, who had been
bitten on the hand by rattlesnake,
accidentally allowed the bandages to
to catch fire, burning the hand so
severely that the fingers had to be
amputated.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
BELLS HEARING
SET FOR TUESDAY

From Saturdays Daily
The preliminary hearing of Enice
Bell, who shot and dangerously in
jured Arch Gault, another negro,
near Wooster on November 2, is set
for next Tuesday in the court of JUS
tice G. M Easterwood. Bell has been
confined in Jail since the shooting,
pending the result of Gault's injuries.
More than 100 shot entered Gault's
back, several of them penetrating the
lungs, and physicians believed he had
but one chance in 100 to recover, but
he is now able to sit up and it is
thought will have sufficiently recover
ed to attend the hearing here next
Tuesday.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
TRIP ARRANGED FOR
CLUB BOYS and GIRLS
SIX FROM FAULKNER COUNTY
TO SPEND WEEK AT CAPT
tai CITY.

The week of November 1927 vii
be enjoyed by six Faulkner county
boys and girls, winners of the cluf
contests in this county, in Little Rock
where they will be given instruction
by government experts, entertained
and given a thoroughll pleasant as
well as profitable week.
The four grand prize winners IN
| the recent show at Conway and the
two prize winners at the Faulkner
county fair of 1914, who failed to re-
ceive their awards, will be provided
with free passes to Little Rock by the
railroads and will be entertained
while in that city by the commercial
organizations and business interests.
The mornings will be devoted to
schools of instruction by University
of Arkansas and government teachers
and in the afternoon the boys and
girls will be given automobile drives,
sightseeing trips, visits to the shows,
etc. The school will continue five
days.
Those who will make the trip from
this county are the following:
Harley Jones, Holland, corn club;
Vera Scott, Vilonia, canning club;
Guss Taylor, Greenbrier, Faulkner
County Bank pig club; Fannie Will
son, Conway, Faulkner County Bank
poultry club; Ernest Phillips, corn
and cotton club 1914); Gertrude
Hess, canning club (1914).
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
49, Give your Child g.
~az4lF.r DR.. Kings New Discovery
SsJf for Coughs and Colds.

covery is antiseptic-kills the cold germs
raises the phlegm-loosens the cough
and soothes the irritation.
81 have used DIR. Kings New Discovery
for the past three years and use it con-
tinually in my family. My children are
very fond of it for it keeps them free from
cold. I can't say too much for it, and
take pleasure in recommending 1t to my
friends" Mrs. A S. Haines, Franconia, ~. II.
Don't put off treatment. Coughs and
colds often lead to chronic cough, pneu-
rnonia and other serious lung troubles.
It is also good for adults and the aged.
Get bottle to-day. All druggists.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
FORECLOSURE SUITS
FILED IN CHANCERY
From Saturdays Daily

From Saturdays Daily
Two foreclosure suits were filed in
the Faulkner chancery court today
E. E. Jones, Mt. Vernon merchant.
brought suit against w. J. and S. A
Starr, seeking judgment for $2,O53.24
and asking the foreclosure of mort
cages upon $50 acres of land and
some personal property, including a
list of livestock and a sawmill.
The Plunkett-J FARRELL Grocer Com
pany filed suit against A. w. Harrod
and J. H. Fretwell, trading as Har-
rod & Fretwell, and Mary A. Harrod
alleging an overdue Indebtedness OF
$35O55 and seeking the foreclosure
of mortgage upon 40 acres of land
in section IA, 6-12.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18

Irregular bowel movements lead to
chronic constipation and constipat-
ed habit fills the system with impurl-
ties. HERBINE is a great bowel
regulator. 1t purifies the system VI
talizes the blood and puts the diges-
tive organs in fine vigorous condition
Price soc. Sold by Gannaway Drug
Company-Adv.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18

Stop coughing! you rack the lungs
and worry the body. BILLIARDS.
HOREHOUND SYRUP checks irri-
tation, heals the lungs and restores
comfortable breathing. Price 25c, SOC
and S1OO per bottle. Sold by Gamma
way Drug Co.-Adv.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
NO RACE SUICIDE is
SHOWN IN ARKANSAS

Little Rock, Nov. 11.-Accurate
vital statistics are being kept by the
health authorities of Arkansas, show
ing that race suicide does not prevail
in this state, also that health condi-
tons are superior. For the first SIX
months of the present year there were
1929 births recorded, and 6,o1l
deaths. This is considered a most
excellent showing.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18

Neuralgia of the face, shoulder,
hands, or feet requires powerful
remedy that will penetrate the flesh.
BILLIARDS SNOW IMMINENT
possesses that power. Rubbed in
where the pain is felt is all that is
necessary to relieve suffering and re-
store normal conditions. Price 25c,
soc and S1.00 per bottle. Sold by
Gannaway Drug Co.-Adv.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
ESTRAY NOTICE.

From my place, 8 miles south of
Cabot, October 81, one yellow mare
wearing bell; one sorrel horse years
old; one black filly, roach main; S.
reward for information. ]. M. Brown,
Cabot, Route No. 1.-w2t*
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18

Regulate the bowels when they fail
to move properly. HERBINE is an
admirable bowel regulator. 1t helps
the liver and stomach and restores a
fine feeling of strength and buoy
ancy. Price Soc Sold by Gannaway
Drug Co.-Adv.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
DIVORCE SUIT FILED.

Ola Guarth has filed suit in the
Faulkner chancery court seeking di-
vorce from James Samuel Guarth, to
whom the plaintiff states she was
married in Jackson county, Missouri,
October 27, 1909. Desertion since
December, 1910, is alleged as a
ground.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
DR.. Kings New Discovery is {
Doctors Prescription used for
over As years. 1t is pleas
ant and children like it.

You cannot use anything better for
your child's cough and cold than DR..
Kings New Discovery. 1t is prepared
from Pine Tar mixed with healing and
soothing balsams. 1t does not contain
anything harmful aud is slightly laxa-
tive, just enough to expel the poisons
from the system. DIR. Kings New Dis
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18
SETTLER OFF FOR PRISON.

Joseph A. Settler, former assistant
postmaster of Conway, convicted IN
federal court of rifiing mails and SEN
fenced to one years Imprisonment,
was taken to the federal penitentiary
at Atlanta, Ga, yesterday, accompan-
led by deputy marshal and four 9TH
or prisoners. He has been confined IN
the Pulaski county jail since his SEN
tence was imposed.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-11-18

Mrs. ]. r. Donnell is attending the
grand chapter of the Order OF Eastern
Star in Little Rock.
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Il MeuuuQe
10 %zzze>z
Those OF Middle Age Especially.

When you have found remedy for the horrors that
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when your head aches constantly you nervous, de-
pressed and suffer from those dreadful bearing down palms,
don't forget that Lydia f. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound
is the safest and remedy and has carried hundreds
of safely through this critical period.
Read what these three say:
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we'll that the who knows about Alaska the week The first thing that most reaching book the white cood who live the those wise individuals who given scubbng the practical things of the world than lot of SQuawking kids
 One such gentleman be Professor" Martin of Wisconsin university quoted published this yesterday presumably during holidays and told he railroad commission Passage good for ships bay"
 think of ha The professor convinced the men who were appointed by President other those things themselves The members of the cOmmis sion are all engineers gained of the and profession noteworthy extent but took the professor looked the them selves.
 Martin has been misquOd? Was it he who his convincing the commission this anonymous Washington correspondent look like ass?
 people something by this They Bear of glacier tat might slip quarter the path of glacier hanging heads of will and shut on supply O canned and nosing professors
 professor paid compliment however when he said glaciers Portage bay variety dead In another place Martin says he At least he saving really believe that who got far enough university thrown could saving and wish him discovery that while he surveying Portage bay again glaciers life suddenly while he looking up at it. It would take glacier the of him and his kind.
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step down into the trench and file out silently into the night. Then all through the night half the men and officers are on guard, while half rest. By day there are only sent,ies here ana there along the line.
 A pathetic sight in the rear of all inc trenches is the occasional plain wooden crosses marking the grave of some victim of sniper or shrapnel bull lat. Many are ornamentei with ragimental badge and a simple in- saription laboriously printed in pencil: others are quite plan.
 1 bagged my first German yestel- lay, and curiously primitive feeling of elation it is to shoot one. He had
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ere end of our present battalion posi- ton to the other. Last week the trouble was mud wet, viseid, mud four or five inches deep, that squelched round ones boot tops and got plaster ed over everything up to ones hat. My boots weighed tons. This week the frost has laid the mud and the cold is our enemy.
 We spend few days in the trench es and then a few days in reserve in the villages in the rear. The reIiev- ing, of course, has to be done at night. It is an eena job. You march along as noiselessly as possible to within half mile of the rear, where you are met by a guide and taken in single file through an interminable winding communication trench, full of roots and mud, never more than three feet wide at the top and about eighteen inches at the bottom. Thel at a sort Of Piccadilly Circus in the rear of the fighting line, the companies branch to their various posts and are in until each man of the relieving force stands behind another of that to be relieved The waiting is a dreadful business. It seldoms takes less than three to five hours to effect the complete change. Everything is dead still ex- cept for an occasional bang-bang to sl.r " you the snipers are awake. No ore pays the slightest attention tC tstm.
 The men exchange pleasantriea in koarse whispers and the officers e&- change news and explain the special points of the position. FinaIy, when tba last man has been placed, the ord CT to change places is passed down, The new men step up to the little fir ing platforms and the reliaved men
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have to be thawed out. Water is a nuisance. It has to be fetched by night by fatigue parties from farms and villages in the rear a process which takes sometimes two or three hours.
 It is extraordinary how ingenious the men are in contriving things for their comfort. They cut little fire places in the side of the trench, line them with tin from ammunition boxes and top them neatly with chimneyi made of bully-beef tins. They build elaborate rifle racks and make them selves snug cubbyholes to sleep in, roofing them with material from near by ruined farmhouses, piled ovey with earth.
 The food is plentiful and good. The crying need is for milk and fruit. Plenty of tobacco and cigarettes are to be had. There is dearth of things to read, and it is considered rank treason to light fire with a piece of newspaper.
 The trenches stretch in a practical ly unbroken line from the sea tc the east frontier, not in groups Of isolated rifle pits, but in what are realy series O. small towns linked together by nar- TOW communicating trenches, each battalion occupying it's own little town, which may be anything from half a mile to two miles lcng and a hundred yards or so deep.
 From behind the firing trenches is 2 wild labyrinth of intersecting com municating trenches, support trenches, dug outs for staff and officers, kitchens and so forth, though of course some are more elaborate than others.
 lt takes about an hour to gc from
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SIWASHING IN
 THE TRENCHES
VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE MANNER OF EUROPEAN
 FIGHTING.
(By The Associated Press )


 LONDON, Jan. 6.--Miseries of life in the trenches are vividly pictured in Q story written by an English soldier who is on the Belgian frontier He enlisted as a private but later was raised to an officer. Thus he has had an opportunity to see the war from different angles. His story follows:
 It isn't the danger that affects one in the trenches but the hardships of cold and damp. Bullets from snjpers the Germans have lots of these cut night and day-whizz about your ears continually, and occasionally sharpnel makes one tuck ones head down, but one gets so used to the firing that although it may sound incredible-it soon becomes far less noticeable than city traffic. for instance.
 At night sometimes an Outburst of artillery or wild rattle of musketry at an imaginary night attack wakens one stiff, sore, frozen and full of strong language from fitful dreams, which mainly concern themselves with steak, pudding and huge fires at home.
 The cold is really horrible. One never cea. es shivering. At night the soles of ones boots freeze, and one is awakened by icy feet and forced to get up and stamp till the blood con sents to circulate once more. Day light brings some respite but the whole time one is forced to muffle to the eyes, and such things as Balaclava helmets, thick gloves, comfOrters, cardigans and woody waistcoats can not be too numerous. I can scarcely button my coat over my numerous raiment and still I perish.
 Washing and shaving are practical ly impossible. Officers and men leave the trenches like miners coming up from pit, but somehow that does not worry us. The idea of washing in such cold is too awful, for it is i'm possible to restore the circulation in a narrow crowded trench and in the dug-outs there is jusC room to lie down. They are now beginning to serve out coal and coke,-just in time. There would have been wholesale otherwise.
 The water in the machine guns freezes and they have to be nursed back to action in front of fires. Rifles get frost-bitten and sometimes are ruptured by the sudden shock cOnse- quent of being fired. This is rather welcome, however, for the wood from a derelict rife burns beautifully
 The water bottles freeze, too, and
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-08

A great many people outside and inside Alaska are now anxious to get any news they can of the place where the government railroad will be. To save writing letters you could send the Gateway, either your own read copy or get another.
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Harry Buhro, the Alaska prospect or who was last fall reported to have been drafted into the army while vjsi- ting his old home in Russia, is back in Seattle. He reports thay when the war started he offered ojmsels for service against the Germans, to please his father, but was refused by the army officers. He had trouble in se- curing a passage from Russia, but
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the hardihood to stand up working in a trench only 25O yards away, so that I could see him from the waist up. l spent this morning banging away at another working party but could not see with what result.
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-08

By subcribing for the Gateway you get all the real news of the world through a great press service. You may not get all the details but you get all of which a knowledge is necessary.
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ALASKA NOTES

It is said Dawson has taken alto getber 300 prisoners of war allowed to furnish their own sustenance if able, and are only required to report twice aady. If they are without funds they arc locked up.
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finally succeeded, and came put by the way of Vladivostok, via Japan and across the Pacific to San Francisco, and from there to Seattle,
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Colonel Skinner's Chutney estab lished 1841. Especially fine for meats. Brown & Hawkins. Quality first
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Yost water motor wash machines at Brown & Hawkins. Quality first. "
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Meet me at The Branch.