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Sharp County record., 1916-05-12
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Interesting Items Found In
The Late News Boiled To
A Few Lines.

A. M. Callison Of Mertzon, Texas,
is exhibiting a calf that is said to
be the smallest in the world. 1t
was born March 26, weighing only
Is pounds at birth. The calf is live
ly enough, but grows very little.
After inquiry Of his mother as to
how his father ended his life four
years ago by taking poison, Howard
Zeleer, 10 years old, of Tacoma,
Washington, swallowed the same
kind Of poison with the same result.
Announcement has been made
that the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage is contemplating
the placing in the field this year of
woman candidate for president of
the United States, to be nominated
at convention to be held at Chi
cago June s.
Reports gathered from all portions
Of Texas indicate that the cotton
crop Of that state this year will
come close to the record production
of 1914, in spite Of the continuous
campaign that b a been waeed
against large cotton acreage and
for diversitication.
Mrs. Manora Johnston Of Garth
age, Missouri, celebrated her l02nd
birthday last week. She yet makes
her own living, and only last week
made SO by doing sewing for other
people. She weighs 2O7 pounds,
and is In splendid health. She says
her father lived to be i27 years
old.
Rev. Sherman Potts Of Loving.
ton, Illinois, jumped from the mid
DIE Of the Wabash railroad bridge
into the waters Of the Mississippi
river to show his faith, as he ex-
pressed It, He was rescued by fish
ermen. lie said he had unlimited
faith and believed he could walk
upon the water, as Christ did.
Information from the headquart-
ers Of Rev. W, A, Sunday, generally
known as Billy" Sunday, is to the
effect that II evanselistic campaigns
we're made IN all the cities where
his services have been asked for he
would be continually busy until
1923. The noted evangelist Is now
engaged In a meeting at Kansas
City, Mo.
Twelve years aeo Logan Wyrick,
then a l7-year-old boy, left his
home at Eldon, Missouri, for Kan.
sas City In search Of work. The
only place he could secure was a
job as porter at the Park National
Sharp County record., 1916-05-12
SOME HAPPENINGS
IN NORTH ARKANSAS
Some Things That Are Going
On In The Garden Spot Of
This Great State.

Young men of Swifton have Or
eanized a cornet band.
A large number of Newport lad
les have organized an equal suf-
frage league.
A citizen of HOxie estimates that
$25,O0O goes out of that town an
nually to mail order houses in Chi
cago alone,
Circuit court for Stone county
was in session at Mountain View
two days last week, the docket be.
ing very light.
While engaged in doing some
work on the road last week Clay
Walling of Portia received a broken
leg when a piece of timber fell upon
him.
Buster Haley, a young lad of
Lunenburg, was bitten on the face
by a dog one day last week, and
was quite sick for a time from the
wound.
A horse, valued at $500 and the
property of E. H. Hatley of Hoxie,
died last week from cuts received
when the animal ran into a barbed
wire fence.
VIM. Bengel of Newport has Sc.
cured the contract for the erection
of a new brick church building for
the Episcopal church at Batesville.
The contract price is $4,000.
Unknown parties entered the
smokehouse of Mrs. Mary Maeness
at Newark one night last week and
stole quantity of meat, including
a couple of large hams and four mid
dlingS.
In federal court at JonesbOro last
week Slim King, Red Dempsey and
Shorty Palmer were sentenced to a
year and day in prison at Atlanta,
Ga, on the charge of breaking into
freight cars at Walnut Ridge a few
weeks ago.
Clay Sloan and j. H. Townsend
have been chosen chairman and
secretary respectively Of the demo-
cratic central committee of Lawr.
ence county, These gentlemen have
held these positions continuously
since 1902.
More dwellings and business
houses have been erected at Tuck
erman during the past twelve
months than during any year in
the towns history, During that
time a mile of streets was graded
and a mile of concrete sidewalks
built.
A, A. Webber Of Batesville is the
owner Of a book that is 1l3 years
old, and Is still in an almost perfect
state of preservation. The volume
treats on wills and testaments. It
was was written by r. S. D. Roper
Esq, and printed in Philadelphia in
1903.
Government land along White
Sharp County record., 1916-05-12
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
Peter Radford
On Back to the Soil With Wall Street"

When Wall street wants good business men she
usually back to the soil to get them That financial
thoroughfare ia said to be honeyeombed with men who
have plowed baefooted who have drunk branch water
eaten conbread and molasses and slept on the floor In
their eary days man s more capable OF holding the
relns OF business who knows how TO drive team 81
mules shear q sheep or put ring In a shoas nose A
man Ia better equipped TO meet the problems OF life who
In his youth has walked the log the creek to ge
to school, courted the girls at husking bees and
nltnhed hnraa ahneA aAtnrdny nfernnnn man WIN hnn
Sharp County record., 1916-05-12
LODGES

LODGES
+. & A. M. EvennI
Lodge No. l43 meets
night before the third v
and Saturday night OO'
first Sunday In each mOla
G. L. Coger
j. Il, MeIcaN
X, A. M.--Rural CA'E
meets the third Saturd''
In each month,
+ s. p. Turn'F
j. II, MetcaII
|. O. o. Evc0l'I
Lodge No, 300 meets wI
MIG ht Of each week i
j. l., Atbinson
Il. L, DIokertON |
REBEKAHS-Grac'
No, 345 meets the ee'y|
fourth Friday nlgn" I
month. i
Mrs. Myrtle Baro'MJ
u. A, Mos'N1
W, o. W. Evening ]
Camp No. as7 meets %l M
and fourth Saturday w
each month. i
0. G, shav'' u
Ell. picter''''' I
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03

nue., from the Citizens National Bank
corner to the Kirwan corner, was also
tried out during the afternoon.
If, upon giving the system fair
trial, it is found that the arrangement
is less convenient than the old sys-
tenn Of parking along the curb line,
the council Will not attempt to put
into effect the new plan.
II, however, the center parking is
found to be more convenient, all
things considered. with no greater
obstacles to overcome tnan those
which characterized the cnrb-line
parking, the council contenplates
passing an ordinance for parking in
the center throughout the business
blocks.
So it is up to the people of Water
town to set the seal Of their approval
or disapproyal upon the proposed
plan. The council desires to have the
cooperation OF an citizens ID the
present experiment. The aldermen
feel that it Is only a matter Of de,
tail, anyway, and they want to be
governed By the question Of conyen-
ience and the desire Of the people
themselves, and especially the bust
ness interests which viii be most at
fected BY the new plan, as the most
Of the parking occurs almost exclus-
Ively ii the business district.
NJ The Saturday News has been in
clined to think well ot the new plan,
but actnal lication of the new
idea e the only manner Ii, which its
ness can be ascer IA med TO the
satisfaction Of me people Of TIE city.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03
Parking Automobiles
In Center Of Streets

The city council decided, at its last
meeting, to try an experiment in
parking automobiles in the center OF
the street, as suggested by various
j citizens.
Originally, SO far as WatertoWn is
concerned, Mr.. II. A. Babcock, who
had spent several winters at Miami,
Fla, was the started OF the agitation,
The Saturday News quoting him quite
freely along this line and showing a
rough sketch OF the appearance of the
streets with automobiles so palfed.
The city commission, which retired
from Office in May, considered pass
ing an ordinance requiring the park
ing of cars in the center Of the street,
but SO much protest was raised at
the time that the matter was dropped
for the time being.
1t has been found that the streets
along the curb line in the principal
business blocks have been blockaded
during the. greater portion Of the
busy season. It has been impossible
for drays to drive up to the curb line
to unload or load goods, until the
autos were moved, in many cases.
People coming in from the country
have frequently had to go a block by
the business place which they desired
to visit before finding spot at which
they could disembark from their car
riages. or else get out in the middle
OF the street,
So the city council conceived the
idea of testing the arrangement be-
tore formally putting II into effect.
Yesterday morning the experiment be-
gan ID front Of the city hall. Later
1t was extended to lie block between
the intersN Nticn of Broadway and
Kemp to the postotl Ice. Kemp ave
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03
PARCEL POST BLOCKADE;
PACKAGES COMING BACK

People who have mailed parcels tt
Holland in the last few months are
being surprised these days by getting
them back, with a refund OF the post
age they paid on them. 4.
1t appears that no parcel post mai
has been sent to the Netherlands
since last November.
The reason is that the ships refuse
to carry it.
And the reason for that is that the
British seize such matter when it is
sent, because they are afraid it might
ultimately reach their enemies and
thus violate the established blockade
The postoffice has finally given UP
hope Of getting the stuff through and
is returning tens of thousands OF
parcels.
It is expected that the prohibition
will last until the end Of the war. !.
Thus the last hope entertained by
Americans OF relieving the necessi.
sIiSo VI sIACA1 elllCA0o lSltI1tGS3 Ill
Germany snd Austria Hungary Is
shattered.
When 1t was proposed about a year
ago to send food and other neces-
saries to Europe by parcel post, tlt,u-
sands Of men and women entered upon
the project eagerly. 81
For a short time big business was
done in Chicago and other big cities
in putting up special combination
parcels for shipment to Germany. II
was supposed that BY this simple de-
vice the British blockade could be
evaded, ;ss s
The supper: soon learned that
their generosity was doomed fo TAIL.
ure, because parcel post matter fl
not inviolab pie like Arst class mail
matter.
The lilies pronptlJ begsn treating
these shipmen It's like sny other nerrs
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03
Allies Ammunition
Blows Up on Dock
Near New York City
sixty-Nine Carloads of Amnlunition
Explode, Killing Many and
Damaging Property.

New York, July -Thirty-three
Jersey City firemen are reported to
have been killed early today by an
explosion in the plant Of the National
Storage company on Black Tom is
land near Communipaw, N. J., where
they had gone to fight fire result
Ing from terrific explosion Just thir-
ty minutes earlier.
In the storage company plant are
said to have been enormous quanti-
ties of ammunition consigned to the
Entente allies. The entire plant is
reported to have been wrecked
The entire island appeared at a.30
a. m. To be covered with a sheet OF
fame. Access to it is gained from
the mainland by a bridge over which
runs tracks OF the Central railroad OF
New Jersey.
Sixty-nine carloads Of ammunition
are said to have been stored on the
railroad tracks on the island All
t of them are believed to have been
blown up.
The plant of the storage company
consists of about 25 warehouses and
three or four covered piers, one of
which is a powder pier. and its OH
GERS explained that there were nc
combnstibles in the warehouses.
Edmond Mckenzie, president of the
company, expressed the belief from
the meager information he had re-
ceired that the explosion must have
been in trains of munitions which had
been run to the powder docks, await
ing removal on lighters to ships an
chored in the bay.
He declared the plant was va1ued
at about s7ooo.ooo-
Big Windows Crash.
The sf-oe of the explosion was 40
great that thousands of heavy plate
glass windows in Office buildings il
lower Manhattan and Brooklyn were
shattered. Streets for many blocks
in the downtown sections were liter
ally streWn with broken glass
Thousands of persons swarmed into
the streets in all parts of the city
from buildings, subway exits and
railway stations. running about in a
panic.
Many women became hysterical.
Police whistles were blown FRANTIC
ally, but the police themselves did
not know what it was all about.
Second Blast Lighter.
The first explosion was followed by
a second at 2::39 q. M, slightly less
violent, but which again shook an
New York and shattered many more
buildings.
Nearly all the fire apparatus in
1 Brooklyn was called out in the belief
that somewhere in that part Of TIL
city there was great fire, but no
trace of one was to be found.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03
Unidentified Man Dead

| i Is
An unidentified man was found
dead this morning south OF the city.
by the roadside, about ten rods from
the NJ. Q. Poulson gate.
The body was taken to the st. Louis
undertaking apartments and prepared
for burial but all efforts thus far to-
discover the identity Of the stranger
have been futile.
Nothing was found about bis cloth-
ing that would give clue, and mona
of the many strangers in town has
been able to give information that
would lead to clue.
The man is thought to have been
about fifty years of age.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03
Great Russian Drive
Continues in Gilicia;
Teutons Falling Back
Austrians Prepare to Evacuate Lem.
berg and to Fall Back on
Stronger Defenses.
Lembera Near Fall.

Vienna, Aug. 1.-The Austro-Hun-
garians have made all preparations
for the evacuation Of Lemberg, the
Gaician capital, says a, dispatch
from Copenhagen. Large quantities
of goods have been removed from
the city. The Neue Freie Presse says
a large number of the inhabitants of
Lemberg already have departed.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03
Hughes PrQaounces
For Subnl,iiln the
Suffrage Amendment
Declaring for Equal Suffrage, Presi.
Dental Candidate Wins En-.
comiums From Women.

New York. Charles E. Hughes to-
day declared for an amendment to
the federal constitution providing
for woman suffrage. Mr. Hughes
views on the subject were made pub
lie in letter written to Senator Suth-
erland Of Utah.
Mr. Highs letter to Senator Suth-
erland was in reply to telegram re-
ceived from the senator asking the
nominee to define his personal posi-
tion with regard to the squal suffrage
federal amendment. Mr.. Hughes re,
piled as follows:
Your telegram has been received
In my answer to the notification /
did not refer to the proposed federal
amendment relating to woman suf,
frage as this was not mentioned in
Ilhe platform. I, have no objection
however, to stating my personal
views. AS / said il my speech, I
think it to be most desirable that the
question OF woman suffrage should be
settled promptly. The question is OF
such nature that it should be settled
for the entire country. My view is
that the proposed amendment should
be submitted and ratified and the
subject removed from peEtical dis.
cussion."
Suffs DELIGHTED.
Washington, D. C.--News of Mr.
Hughes announcement Wns received
with unbounded enthusiasm at the
headquarters OF the congressional IN
ion for woman suffrage.
Statements were issued by Miss
Maud Younger, Miss Lucy Burn and
Mrs. Addy Scott Baker. predicting
that the women of the west would
rally to the support OF Mr. Hughes
and contrasting his attitude WITH the
insistencs OF President Wilson that
suffrage is a state issue.
Another Contrast.
Colorado Springs, Colo. Contrast
ing the declaration of Justice Hughes
today for a constitutional amendment
to allow women to vote, with tkat Of
President Wilson, statement today
by President Anne MARITIME, of the
National Wamon's party, declared
Mr.. Hughes declaration tribute Ito
his sense Of Justice, his power .as a
party leader and his political insight .
It also showed the powerful insight
and sentiment for justice and political
freedom for the women OF America,
she said.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03

adobe dwelling is quite common In
the rural regions. I. ii.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03
Today,s War Summary.

The Russian drive on the eastern
front is attaining such momentum
that it is threatening to wreck the en-.
tire Teutonic defensive line south of
the Pinsk marshes, according to un.
official reports through Rome today.
Petrograd dispatche last night
credited the Russians under General
Kaledines with having crossed the
River Stokhod in their advance to-
ward Kovel, the key to the German
positions in Volhynia, along twenty
seven mile front between the Koyel.
Sarny and Kovel-Rovno railways.
Germans Quis kovel
Today's unofficial dispatches report
the removal by the Germans of their
heavy guns and supplies from Kovel
and the evacuation of Yladimir-Vo-
lynski, thirty miles To the southwest,
which also is threatened by the Rus
sian advance westward from Lutsk.
To the southwark. in GaIicia, the
SuCSSoS Vi. SICISI Sti koSihIlAIUll III Cdp-
turing Brody is declared in unofficial
! adyiees to have been followed up by
Cossack raid which destroyed rail-
ways behind the Austrian army, and
threatening it with development.
Enveioped by Russians.
General G. usst rson Bothmers army
is reported to be almost enveIoped by
the Russians in Galicia.
Berlin dispatches express confidence
that the Teutonic resistance in the
Kovel region will withstand the Rus
sian pressure, the new front to which
the Germans and Austrians have with
drawn west of the bend in the Stok-
hod being twenty-five miles shorter
than the old one and considered far
easier to defend.
Turkish troops ar arriving on the
aEstern front. presumably in readi-
ness to be thrown into the counter
strike against General Kaledines
which General Won Linsingen is plan
ming.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03

adobe dwelling is quite common In
the rural regions. Z. III.
Magnificent Distances. '<.
'Texay, you know continued Mr.
Lester, is q state of magnificent dis
tances Take two Of Watertown,s
former citizens Rem Spicer and my
self, now living there. I live in the
extreme southwestern part, and he
lives in the southern part, our homes
being several hundred miles apart. II
he lived in the extreme eastern part,
his home would be almost a thousand
miles from mine
Again, if you were able to tip
the state over, end for end, from
south 70 northS its extreme point
would reach almost to Canada after
you'd turned it over. It's extreme
length, from the southern extremity
to the northwestern corner is, think,
more than thousand miles. So, you
see, we have a young empire for
q state, whose climate and soil are
varied, the general level OF the land
running from close to sea level along
the gulf Line to d general altitude ,of
nearly mile III the western portion.
not taking the mountains into con.
.Aiderationa 81 this general average.
We have reSions of stnrie rainfall for
crops, other port ions & 81 81 GEM .aTid
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03
German Merchant
Submarine Get. Under
Way for + atherl land
German Diver outwits Observers asatEi
May Have Dodoed Walt.
inG Marshlps.

=
Fortress Monroe, Va, Aug. 81
o'clock the Deutschland had not been
sighted at the capes, During the ar
tarnoon q two.funneled warship came
near the three-mile limit for few
moments and then disappeared.
:s
8 Newport News, Va, Aug. The
German merchant submarine Deutsch-
land was sighted off Tangier sound
at s a. m. today. It was still heading
toward the lower bay at a high rate
of speed Tangies sound ii rs miles
above the capes,
Plans secret.
Baltimore, Aug The sailing
plans 81 the Deutschland were care
fully guarded secret, but when it left
Baltimore last night there was be-
lief that 1t would proceed direct to
Newport News.
On the other hand, there was an
expectation In some quarters that the
snhmersible would seek q quiet cove
or inlet In Lower Chesapeake bay and
there await q favorable opportunity
to make a dash through the allies
blockade of the capes. ~,
No News d Bremen. s'ss.
Nothing has been heard from the
Bremen, the Deutschland 's sister ship
since 1t left Bsemerhayen. according
Ito Paul G. u Hilken, a member Of
the Eastern Forwarding company,
American agents Of the Deutschland
Purely as guess, Mr. Hilken said,
1.-THE Bremen may arrive at Baltimore
amy time after tomorrow. He admit
ted preparations are being made It
the Locust Point pier just vacated by
| the Deutschland to receive ~ another
+ fsubrnarine. 'si ssss ! sas sss' sss
Mr.. Hilken also said his company
has cargo stored in every large port
on the Atlantic seabord. *
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-04-07

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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-03-03
SILVER DUE FOR A RISE
Metal Mining Journal.)

\Metal Mining JOurnal)
If silver will go to seventy-fve
cents an ounce the mine owner will be
making as much actual profit as he did
when silver was standardized" said a
well-known mining man the other day.
And the statement is correct. New
processes of handling the various ores
have been discovered. Methods of min
ing that do not involve SO great ex-
pense have been adopted. Mining
machinery that saves time and labor
has been invented.
Give the silver miners of Colorado
seventy-hve cents for their product
today and there will be a movement
such as this state has never before
known. And what is more, silver is
coming into its own. The depleted
treasures of Europe will demand
something more substantial than a
flat money when the war is ended
These nations may be able to do bust
ness with this character of currency
now, but in times of peace it will not
answer.
There is not enough gold in the
world to handle present securities. The
demand for silver is growing even
now. There is well-founded belief
that those who are in close touch
with conditions are investing in silver
at its present price, and boarding it
for the time when the demand will be
much better than today, and the price
correspondingly higher. The owners
of silver mines have a right to be OBJ
timistic, for the lining to their cloud
will soon be a reality rather than
mere hope.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-03-03
TARIFF PRINCIPLE PLAINLY
TOLD,

Congressman Martin B. Madden. of
1llinois.-To the extent of the in
crease of European shipments to this
country American manufactures de-
crease; American mills close to the
extent that European mills open;
American workmen are thrown out of
employment to the extent that Europ-
can workmen are engaged in manu-
featuring for this country's market,
and SO on. until every mill and every
man in Europe is at work, and every
mill and every man in this country IS
idle. Tariff for revenue only IS A
splendid theory. but a very bad prac-
tee. The Republican party believe,
that tariff which protects American
workmen is best for the American
people and when in power it passes
what is known as a protective tariff
law. That is. it compels Europeans 10
pay tax for goods landed in Amer,-
can ports equal to the difference be-
tween European and American wages
In this way the European is compell-
ed to deduct from his profit the
amount of the tariff on his goods and
thus he is prevented from selling then,
here in competition with American.
made goods. This enables us to keen
American mills and factories open
and American men employed.