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The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
A BRINKLEY MAYS EXPERIENCE
Results Tell The Tale

Can you doubt the evidence of this Brinkley citizen?
 You can verify Brinkley en- dorsement. Read this:
 kred Beyer, baker, Cross St, Brinkley, says: T had kidney disease for years At times, the pain in my back was intense and l could scarcely stoop or straight en. 1 often got so dizzy that I had to catch hold of something to keep from falling and my health was all run down. l could hardly get around. Doan's Kid ney Pills, procured at the New Drug Store, removed every symptom of kidney trouble, !"
 Price Soc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that MT. Beyer had. Foster -Milburn Co., Props, Buf- falo, N. Y.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05

A FLYLESS, dirtless, weedless town with lawns pretty, clean and we'll kept, pretty roses and flowers, makes everything in- viting to stranger and gives them a longing to live in such a town. Deploy your forces, Gen. Baumgartner, and extend the energy and effectiveness of The Brinkley High School Fly Batta- lion. The Fly Swatters are good soldiers and if you can just CO., operate with Mayor Greenlee and his Assistant Surgeon Gen. Mcknight of the Health Depart ment, Col. Chas. Duff of the Improvement Battery. and they with the Ladies of Brinkley, we can yet enjoy a victory in the fight for a 4 B City Brighter Better, Bigger, Brinkley. What say you, all?
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
Special Assessment


 The tax book for the collection of the special assessments upon the real property in District Number1, for the purpose of the collectioh>of taxes for said Sewer Dis trict No. of the city of Brnkley, Monroe County, Arkansas, has heen placed in my hands. \ T
 The owners of real property lying in the District are required to pay their assess ments to me within thirty days from this date. If such payment is not made, action will be commenced at the end of that time for the collection of said assessments and for legal penalties and costs.
 Given under my hand this the 18th day of April, l9l6.
 S BACHARACH, Collector.
 Office at residence on East Esh St.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
Flat Fork News of Wheatley

Carl Henley has been sick for the last- few days, but is up again.
 A. C. Bratcher, J. H. Folkerts and an Insurance Agent were through the country last Friday in an auto.
 J. M. Vaughan is planting rice this week. E. N. Harrod made a business trip to Hunter last Friday in his new Overland Car. Wheatley is growing some Young c. s. Throgmorten has started up moving picture show in town. Mrs. Jennie Owens visited her son. Ralph, Sunday. Mysa Rhea, of the P. & L.. Ranch, visited Virginia Riffey Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. c. l.. Lawson visited their son, Grover, Sunday. We understand that E. N. Harrod, the Supt. of the Sunday School at Posey's school house. is soon to organize a Sunday School down in the Whitfield neighborhood. Woodman of the World meets the first and third Tuesday night in each month at 8 p. m. All Soverigns are cordially invited to come. E. N. HARROD,
 Council Commander.
 s. P. BROwNLEE,
 Clerk.
 Prayer Meeting next Wednes- day night conducted by Johnnie Riffey. Let all come.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05

too much energy Tn the 18th. century for the passing luxuries of the day" But we will now leave that far distant page of history and come down to the present day.
 Mrs. R. A. Owen who has been in St. Joseph's Hospital at Mem phis is expected home this week. She has done nicely and Burdett will go to Memphis and accom- pany her home.
 J. s. Ward is moving his little mill quite distance on the other side of the Bayou. We will all miss that little mill, It has been avaluable asset to our community.
 Arthur Anderson and family have come to take charge of his fathers business. MT. and Mrs. P. R. Anderson will retire from the mercantile business and live in the nice cottage they are re- modelling just west of their pre- sent home which will be occupied by their son and family.
 Our school is to continue for sometime yet. We sometime question the advisibility of con- tinuing a school later than the early part of May as both teach CTS and pupils give down under the long strain and we think farmer boys and girls need to learn all about the spring plant ings, and have the actual expert ence which come to them in helping their fathers put out a crop, and what better agricultur- al teacher does a boy need than a father who keeps himself post ed on soil etc and puts this knowledge to the test and above all who has the boys future at heart.
 MT. Decker of Weiner, has charge of overhauling the big well on the Legg and Murphy rice farm. They are preparing about 800 acres on that place this year.
 w. W.Owens as usual is mak- ing rapid strides towards a successful rice crop.
 MT. Crockett, of the ''Davy Crockett Farm" is also putting out rice on his home farm and his artist wife is making great improvements in the grounds and interior of the home.
 A READER.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05

ABOUT the strongest endorse ment that has been written of the Wilson Administration by any newspaper editor was that of the New York World editor a few days ago when he pleaded with the Republican party to show its loyalty and greatness by endorsing Woodrow Wilson for President at their National Con- vention soon to be held. It is not at all an unreasonable thing thing to suggest at this the most critical period of the nations history. The Republicans could afford do this at this time and vet not sacrifice a single princl- ole. They could go ahead and nominate a Vice-President, their Conqressmen and Senators and keep up every other part of their party organization and by this patriotic act say to the world i've are one" for Wilson and America.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05

WATCH the subscription lists that are gotten up so frequently to guarantee new factory site, to pay for and maintain pro- fitable farming campaign, build good roads or any other kind of public improvements and you'll find certain Brinkley men always on the list and certain others always OFF of it. Comment is unnecessary. Where do you be- long?
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05

For the first time in it's history the Brinkley market has this week been receiving Monroe county raised strawberries. The berries were raised by WE. Gray at Keevil and were noticed by the ARGUS man at Blessings S Market. They were the finest that have been sold in Brinkley and MT. Blessing had no trouble in getting rid them much faster than the other berries.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
From Zent

Dear ARGUS:
 It has been quite awhile since we saw letter published from our Zent country.
 We are very busy out here but still have time to thank our Heavenly Father for our fine soil, beautiful trees, temperate climate, good water and abund- ance of wild grass.
 We heard that our neighbor, Albert Francis, who by the way, owns one of the most beautiful rice farms in the country sold his Illinois farm for S46, 400 cash. We presume that means that he has cast his lot permanently here in our beloved Sunny South' where the birds sing, the flowers bloom and vegetables grow almost the year round, and where the hustling Francis family are loved by all.
 Last week 1 had letter from Iowa and it informed me that people there had begun to make garden but they had a freeze. Now just think while we are en- toying our nice dry roads, even tho they are not rock roads, and eating all kinds of spring vege- tables our nothern cousins are Beginning to make garden. !"
 Speaking of rock roads-1 heard a so called progressive young woman say the other day that she had a dream of listening to the reading of a few pages of the far distant future history and one page of it read like this: Several hundred years ago there was a great movement which people in that day called true development but which rapidly lost favor as people developed in the highest and truest sense. The objection to this over civil ization was raised because people learned that there was too much over taxation of tired bodies and high strong nerves to earn the money to keep up this higher civilization. People have learned that the truest and best way of living is near to natures heart. The simple forms of dress and unpretentious homes of the present day together with the truth of nature, people now have time to study are much the truest ways of life and tend tc the real high development of humanity. Our ancestors spent
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
FIRST WEEK

Plant the watermelons, work the garden every week. Plant sweet potatoes, second planting of sweet corn. Plant the mid season cabbage, get in the late field corn and cowpeas, velvet beans, soy beans, pop corn.
 SECOND WEEK
 Get in all legumes, peas, beans of all kinds; keep the crop clean and worked with shallow tools, not disturbing the soil over two inches around the growing plant.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
business.

The visitors who have seen the improvements on the Brink ley Car Works & Lumber Go. Rice Ranch says that the open ing up of the ranch on out to the Midland Ky. has enhanced it's appearance 100 per cent. They are going to put in cotton, corn, oats, peas and other diversified tions in order to demonstrate just what can be done on the ranch.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
Among the Farmers

R. A. Owen, rice man of the Murphy & Legg ranch, was in in Brinkley Thursday. He has recently opened a small store on the M. & l.. ranch reports a nice business.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05

BRINKLEY with clean face and her curls all brushed up nicely is a sight this editor man will rejoice to see. We've been wearing a dirty, sloven appear long enough.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
FARMER'S WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR NAY
Chop cotton.
THIRD WEEK

Chop cotton.
 THIRD WEEK Chop the cotton, blow tho N shallow, work the garden ] piow the sweet potatoes
 FOURTH WEEK The entire crop must be ".
 ed after each rain and certajl every eight days, shallow ca| vation of the crops to fora slight dust mulch around I plants. Set out sweet potaso keep Irish potatoes well work, Chop cotton. Scatter manurp
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05

DUST is disagreeable, unclean and carries germs. Oil will stop all three. Why not a little oil?
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
TO Prevent Blood Poisoning

apply at once the wonderful old reliable DR PoRTER'S ANTISEpTIC HEALING OIL, a sur. 9ica, dressing that relieves pain aud heals at Inc same time Not llnimeut 25c. Soc. Si G
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
Names of Farms Around
 Brinkley

0IIuM1Cy Quite a number of our pro- gressive farm owners around Brinkley have already named their farms. The ARGUS would like to print under this head each and every one as it is named. Kindly send in the name of your farm and those of your friends that it may be added to this list
 Flair Haven Farm" owned by A. N. Gibbs.
 "The P. &. P. Ranch" owned by Penrod and Prouty and managed by Henry Loewer. , ''The Eden Plantation" own ed by Wm. Tait.
 "The Ilawade Farm. :" owned by w. D. Wade. 'The Oaks" owned by o. H. Cooper.
 "The Davy Crockett Farm, ' owned by J. $. Crockett.
 "Westview," owned by Gus Simpson.
 Sunny Slope Farm. ;" owned by Woodie Cooper.
 ''The Oaks,'' owned by Ed Briar.
 Flair View Farm" owned by Alex Oelschlager.
 "Chicheto Rice Farm" ]" owned by A. N. Gibbs, 1 mile east of Zent.
 "Glen Echo." formerly the Theilbar place, now owned by A. N. Gibbs.
 ''Elim Farm" owned by P. F Elledge. 'Gustavus Farm" owned by MT. and Mrs. w. T. Elledge and 1 managed by P. F. Elledge.
 ''The St, Clair Rice Farm, '' owned by Forth Bros. and op- erated by Henry Schaefer.
 ''The Cozy Corner Farm ' on Pea Ridge, owned and controlled by MT. and Mrs. Jack Gray.
 "The Rosedale Farm" owned ] by MT. and Mrs. Dan o. Camp bell, of Keevil.
 Lone Star Ranch" owned by Travis and Greeniee and managed by 0. o. Travis, Mon- roe, Ark.
 "Tippecanoe Farm, ' owned by Harshbarger and Staley and managed by J. M. Dickson. "Fairview Stock Farm" w. Hinton, Proprietor.
 Pleasant Ridge Rice Planta- tion, "3 E miles east of Zent, own ed by w. B. Decker, of Fair bury, H., and managed by w. w. Owens.
 "Edgewood," rice farm south. west of Hunter, owned by Albert Francis and family.
 40 Oaks" southwest ot Brinkley, owned by J. c. Cash.
 "Endwell stock and rice farm one mile east of Hunter owned by H. L. Baker, managed by D. Frederick. The Herbel Rice Ranch, ' TT. J. Herbel, Mgr, Brinkley.
 "Clark's Stock Farm" Jno G. Clark, Mgr, Brinkley.
 "Oak Lawn Farm" owned by Mrs. c. F. Greenlee, southeast of Brinkley.
 70. K. Farm" owned by Mrs. jJ. c. Moshier. "3 Oaks Farm" owned by Henry Cobb. Weatherby Ranch, 3 miles South of Wheatley, D. H. Smith, Manager.
 Ark. Rice Co.,, Ranch" w. J. Penrose, Mgr. Hunter, Ark. Prairie View R. & l.. Co.," ] W. P. Dawson and Jas. Engle Props, Hunter. Ark,
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05

rO Drive Out Malaria
 And Build Up The System Take the old Standard GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing 1t is Quinine and Iron in tasteless form. The Quinine drives out .malaria, the Iron builds mp the system. 50 cents Tell lem you saw It In the Aroua
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
High Grade Rabbi, Nd
 for Sale ata Bareain |

The ARGUS has a limi1 quantity of extra high m
 nickle alloy Rabbit which wiAl at 15 cts. perlb. to clean o| Phone, write or call for it. !
 THE ARGUS !
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05
FIsHIN' weather.

HAVE you made someone happy today?
The Brinkley argus., 1916-05-05

Dear ARGUS:
 It has been quite awhile since we saw a letter published from our Zent country.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
County Fair for Putnam.

Palatka and Putnam county is in
debted to NJ. P. Walsh of the Florida
Farms and Homes, Inc, for more
really valuable suggestions, we be-
lieve, than to any other one man, un-
less it be his chief, President Murphy.
These men represent the new spirit
of progress in Putnam-that is to
say, they are never known to rest.
Mr.. Walsh's latest suggestion is
for a Putnam County Fair in March
early in March. "That is a time"
said he, "when the bloom is on the
citrus tree and all nature is getting
ready to be glad; potato diggers are
digging and are rolling in wealth and
all nature cries with the JOY of liv-
ing in Florida Time, too, when the
northern tourists are getting ready
to move up from South Florida and
could stop over and ENJOY a real ag-
ricultural display"
Now we simply desired this week
to voice this Walsh suggestion. Put
nam county could give Fair such as
would be a revelation to thousands Of
people who in March will be journey
ing north. It is the one best time Of
the year, is March, for such an eX-
hibit; let US have it. Won't the board
of trade take it up?
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

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The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

Thanksgiving turkeys have been
plentiful in Palatka this week. At
least a dozen farmers have been in
with loads of them, and the price has
been lower than in several years.
One man, J. w. SQuires of Satsu-
ma Heights, who sold some twenty
or more here on orders a few weeks
ago at 25 cents per pound on "the
hoof," was wise. He delivered his
turkeys on Tuesday.
John A. Hinson of Yelvington
brought in a load of 80 on Monday
highland at an early hour on Tues
day morning he took up a position in
front of the Dixie Grocery on Lem
on street, where by noon he sold
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

idea that women would not make
good legislators or good con-
gressmen, or will it be congresswo-
men? he has a jar coming to him
if he ventures to look in on one of
these sessions.
The program of what is really a
great convention of brainy people,
is timed to the fraction of a minute,
speakers are limited to three minutes
on any one subject and no member
can occupy the floor indefinitely nor
too frequently, which is a violent
contrast to the way in which many
mems conventions are conducted.
Presiding over the convention is a
women, who, if she were a man, we
would say is strictly on the job.
parliamentary questions are settled
instantly and correctly and the work
of the convention is expedited with
out the loss of time and with min
imum of friction.
The longer we live the more we
learn, or we ought to learn, and
among the things that man is learn
ing is that he has no monopoly of
executive ability and that there are
no sex lines in parliamentary skill.
If a great convention can be car
ried on successfully without the aid
of men, there is no prop to the as
sertion that women can not also con-
duct other public affairs rs success
fully with the aid of men.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
Shipping Florida Cattle

Starke Telegraph: Almost every
week trainloads of cattle are shipped
from Florida to the west The COWS
are bought here for the sake of
stocking the ranches, but the ship
ments include also many steers which
are being bought for the purpose of
fattening, to be shipped back south
when fat. Much of the western
beef" which will be sold here next
winter at exorbitant prices will come
from Florida steers fattened in west
Why cannot Florida farmers them
selves enjoy the profit accruing from
fattening beef? The westerners can
afford to pay freight on cattle from
this state and back again and still
make a profit. We have the pas
lures, the hay and the grain as well
as a nearby market; why not make
the production of fat beef a part of
our farming operations?
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
Printing the Truth

Lakeland Telegram: Libel law or
no libel law, the rule of printing the
truth, and refraining from printing
lie, is mighty good one, and few
papers that follow it will get into
trouble. Of course, no conscien-
tious newspaper man will print all
the things he knows to be true, for
in his charity he will often shield
foibles and weaknesses from the
glare publicity, and spare the inno-
cent the humiliation which might
come to them because of exposure of
the acts of the guilty. as it true?
Is it necessary. Is it kind" These
are the conditions that should deter
mine the publications of any article
involving anyone's character or repu-
tation. And no punishment is too
severe for the reckless slanderer who
prostitutes a newspaper to the pur-
pose of wilfully blackening any mans
reputation.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
California to Florida

Miami Metropolis: Significant of
the recognition Florida is getting
from men who know a good thing
when they see it is the purchase this
week Of a tract of 5000 acres in the
vicinity of Haines City by big fruit
company which hitherto has been sat
isfed with its 27,00O acres in Cali
fornia. Florida is so much nearer
the big Eastern markets and is so
filled with undeveloped opportunities
that it is bound to attract a contin-
ually increasing number of big in
vestors.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

~ IN IL ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ II ~ II N T II IL II
Another Editor-MayOr-
Palm Beach Post: SO seldom is it
that newspaper man is forced to ac-
cept an office at the instigation of
his fellowmen-even against his will
that the Post hesitated as to
whether it should extend congratula-
tions to Stanley Lichty, of the Mel
bourne Times, upon his being hand
ed the badge of the mayoralty of his
city-or wait till he had passed
through the times that try mems
souls and then proffer him the sweet
ened chalice of coincidence. Howbeit,
Mr. Lichty, although averse to the
of the post-not the Post
has gracefully withdrawn his pu-
nitive expedition to route the enemy,
and has serenely accepted, blushing-
ly, the honor thrust upon him. And
the Post is assured that he will make
as good mayor as he has made
newspaper man.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

mally high prices. 1t seems that
millions of eggs purchased in India
ma last June at "a 1-2 cents dozen
are still being held in storage by
spectators. Besides the boycott
aimed at these spectators by the
mayors association, John ]. Dillon,
state commissioner of foods and mar
kets, with the advice and consent of
Gov. Whitman, is planning for ter
minal market in New York city by
which the consumer may be brought
in direct contact with the producers
of the country.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
DON'T "CUSS."

Conspicuous signs in Palatka pool
room read: Don't cuss; your mother
might be passing tie door"
No young man addicted to the use
of prof2ne language would care to
have mother hear him. He doesn't
use such language before mother.
These signs, therefore, ought to do
good by calling attention Of young
men to the fact that "cuss;ng' is a
bad, a wicked habit-the most sense
less, indefensible and wicked of all
bad habits.
Young men who congregate about
pool rooms are not always careful of
their language. This fact has placed
such rooms in bad odor with a large
class of mothers.
Palatka's new pool room manager
is a business man; he may be a
Christian business man. Anyway he
recognizes the utter uselesSness OF
profanity; and he knows that in order
to attain the largest measure of sue
cess he must remove mothers chief |
objection to his place as a rendezvous |
for her boy.
There is nothing wrong per Sc in a
game of pool; it is a game that af-
fords recreation and calls for an ac-
curate eye, a steady nerve, skillful
caroming and is a fascinating brain
exercise.
All that can be considered sinful
in. the game concerns its environ
ment; make that wholesome and you
remove the chief objection to its in
diligence. Young Mems Christian
Associations in all parts of the land
make the game a feature of their
club rooms. The surroundings are
clean.
The News is glad that Mr.. Rhoads,
Palatkas new downtown pool room
manager is striving for clean sur
roundings; that he doing all in his
power to make profanity taboo in his
place These signs, of which there
are several, will do much toward this.
They will set young men to thinking.
Some time ago we noticed illustra
tions in a Pittsburg paper of pro-
cession of more than 10000 men
marching through the streets of that
city. 1t was the annual review of
the Holy Name Society of Pittsburg,
a society the members of which
pledge themselves not to profane the
name of their Saviour.
And then we thought: What are
the churches of Palatka doing to
break up this specific sin of profani-
ty? They are against it of course.
They prohibit it and preach against
it and the members refrain from its
use. But have they organized
against it as they should?
The Holy Name Society OF Pitts
burg, so the daily secular papers tell
US, is doing great work in the way
of making profanity UNFASHION-
ABLE. 1t is a Roman Catholic So
ciety but its objects are not copy
righted,
Mr.. Rhoads, you have started 4
good work and we wish you success.
Those signs could be placed with
profit in other business establish
mcnts,