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Sharp County record., 1916-06-02

A Glance over the newspapers ol
tbe state shows that much progress
Il road building is being made al'
most everywhere. Much OF this
eood roads interest is being display
ed in the North Arkansas country
and Sharp county ought to share
in this enthusiasm for better public
highways. Good roads mean SO
verv much to all the people that
the wonder is that the people allow
shad roads to exist. Let everybody
get together for an assault on our :
had roads when the busiest part OF
the crop season is over.
~
Gov. Geo. W. Hays is the most
brilliant governor this state has had
in the past two or three years, and
certainly no sane person could
muster up the courage to say any
more than that for him. He is a
small-bored politician, whose ad-
ministration has been a failure
since it began. Nothing else could
have been expected, since crooked
ness at the ballot box is RESPONSE
BILE for his administration.
o.
Robert Newlin of St. Clairsville,
Ohio, had his whiskers shaved off
last week for the first time in thirty
wears. An observant exchange
figures that, including interest, New
lin is more than $1,000 better off
than if he had been shaved twice a
week. But surely it is worth more
than that amount for man to
keep his countenance hidden in a
thicket for thirty long years.
o
One of the leading life insurance
companies gives out the informa'
ton that the most dangerous period
of a mans life, so far as health is
concerned, is between the ages OF
35 and As. In these days of in
Vulnerable germs and microbes it
would probably be safer to say that
the most dangerous period of life
is between the ages of one day and
one hundred years.
o
Preparedness days are being OBJ
served in many parts of the coun-
try and preparedness parades are
becoming common talk in the met
ropolitan papers. We just judge,
however, that the preparedness pa
Sharp County record., 1916-06-02
NeWGOOdS
For Everybody

We takesthis means of
asking the public to come
in and inspect our line of
general merchandise. We
are now showing some es-
pecially attractive spring
dress goods and hats for
our lady friends. In fact,
we have a complete, up
to-date stock OF goods,
which we are selling at a
small margin of profit.
Sharp County record., 1916-06-02

rade and the line of real battle
would be made up of entirely diff
ferent people.
-
John Hall of the Salem Sun is
authority for this: When a Fulton
county boy gets enough practical
education to hit cats eye at a
distance of three PAGES with a DEL
uee of hillside navy juice he begins
running for office and never quits
until he goes to the grave, the peni-
tentiary or the Arkansas legisla-
ture."
%
W.. Bryan will receive $1,000
for his services as a newspaper cor
respondent at the democratic ma
tional convention at St. Louis. Of
course his critics, who could not
command salary of ten cents for
a similar service, will blame him
for taking the money.
%
Billy" Sunday, h e country'S
most noted evangelist, makes this
point, and it might not be a bad
idea for all public men to give the
thought some consideration: When
| started preaching was afraid I'd
make somebody sore; now I'm
afraid won't"
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In its odd News" the Arkansas
Gazette prints this item: While a
hen, a rooster and a guinea fowl
we're fighting over a crippled rat at
Brookdale, N. j., a jaybird picked
up the rat aud flew away with it.
There is fine moral for humans
in that story.
o.
VIM. Damn of Tahoka, Stone
county, now IA, expresses conf
dence that he will live to be more
than 100 years old. The whole
Damn family is in the habit OF
living long time.
o.
The price of sugar has gone al
most out of sight lately, which
fact causes an exchange to remark
that it requires lots Of sugar to
carry on the European war.
o.
The Arkansas Gazette urges all
the people to diversity, and espec-
tally to SOW less wild oats.
Sharp County record., 1916-06-02

IlSn netS.
j. H. Tonney of SwiftOn gathered
200 gallons of strawberries from
twelfth of an acre of ground this
season, and he estimates that the
yield was cut short One-third by
dry weather.
William Pierce of Water Valley,
Randolph county, caught five young
foxes in log three months ago and
tanned the animals. Last week he
sold and shipped three of them to
Frank Derr of Bonneville, Ind.
In federal court at Batesville last
week Jeff Lane, former postmaster
at Swifton, plead guilty to the
charge of embezzling postal funds
and was sentenced to serve two
years in prison at Atlanta, Ga.
Frank Carey of Mountain Home,
who was released from the state
hospital for nervous diseases a few
weeks ago, was returned to that
institution last week. his condition
having again grown much worse.
Jackson county will soon have
good roads. A movement is uni
versal to secure good roads, and
the time is not far distant. Not
to be good road booster is to be
behind the times Newport Demo-
Crat.
Vim. Damn of Tahoka, Stone
county, is said to be one of the fin
est specimens of physical manhood
in this section of the state, despite
the fact that he is IA years old.
His father attained the ripe old age
of 102 years.
C. E. Kay of Fulton county, who
has had position in Washington
for some years, will return home
and locate at Mammoth Spring,
where he will practice law. He has
formed partnership with his brother,
L. P. Kay of Salem.
Lawrence Melvin, Batesville
negro, caught turtle weighing 65
pounds at the mouth of Miller's
creek last week. The turtles shell
, was as large as wash tub, and it
, could crawl with a 15O-pound man
standing on its back.
The Lesser-Goldman Cotton Co.
of Newport made its first annual
report on cotton last week. The re.
port says that the acreage has in
creased s per cent in the territory
that hauls to Newport BY wagon,
and estimates an increased acre
age Of IS per cent for this section Of
the state.
Bud Stone was arrested near Cot
ter one day last week by the sheriff
of lizard county and was lodged In
jail at Melbourne. A year ago
Stone was indicted for seduction,
but made his escape from the coun-
try. Since his capture Stone has
expressed his desire to marry the
prosecuting witness.
Mrs W, 7, MONTGOMERY, who lives
near Calico Rock, had an exciting
and dangerous experience a few
days ago. While gathering up eeg,
at the barn she reached into a nest
and took hold of large copper
head snake Her husband killed
the reptile, which measured three
feet and seven inches In length,
An ordinance has been introduo.
ed In the city counci ut Batesville
which would place a Ia Of so cent
on every shipment OF whiskty that
reaches that city. The ordinance
provides for city inspector, who
would make daily visits to the eX-
press and freight Offices to receivs
the names of persons having liquor
there, and to collect the tax,
Sharp County record., 1916-06-02
NORTH ARKANSAS
NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Some OF The Latest Happen
ings In The Counties That
Surround Sharp.

~ "a " oAAN
The mayor of Walnut Ridge has
designated June 5th as clean up day
in that town.
A movement has been started at
Swifton to build good road from
that place to Kenyon.
The Salem Banner says the wheat
crop in the Salem section is not as
good this year as usual
A windstorm one night lately
wrecked silo on the farm of L. T.
Andrews near Imboden.
The mayor of the town Of GuiOn
is advertising for a marshal to serve
the remainder of the year.
Five children of W. D. Winston
of Desha made $125 in two weeks
lately picking strawberries.
The large stock of goods of j. W.
Kesterson of Cotter is being sold
by a receiver to satisfy creditors.
More automobiles have been sold
in Walnut Ridge and Hoxie this
year than were sold there during the
whole of last year.
Ben Carter of Mammoth Spring
was lodged in Jail at Salem last
week. He is charged with stealing
chickens.
The list Of delinquent lands ir
Fulton county contains $50 tracts
and is the largest list in this par
of the state.
Aunt Betty" Treat, who had livet
at Big Flat, Baxter county, from
childhood, died last week. She wa'
80 years old.
A model highway is to be bull
from Ravenden Springs to Poca
hontas, a distance of 80 miles, un
! der the Alexander law.
! The Newport button factory re
sumed operations last week. Tit
factory is running half its machines
and now employs so people
: Forty-five carloads of strawber
ries were shipped from Batesvill'
this season. The crop was GU
down greatly because Of drouth.
Circuit Judge j. B. Baker of Mel
bourne went to Hot Springs last
week to take the baths. He is suf'
fering from an attack of rheumatism
Sixteen divorces were granted In
chancery court at Newport last
week Five suits for divorce were
dismissed, and seven were contin'
ued.
The annual reunion of the lzard
County Confederate Veterans Asso'
citation will be held at Rotten spring
six miles east Of Melbourne, July
4-5-8.
Uncle jim" Finley Of Mountain
Home was stricken with paralysis
one day last week while at worl
about his premises, and is In a seri
GUS condition
A fine mare belonging to Irving
, Frisbee of Imboden was found deaf
, In a pasture one morning lately /
is supposed the animal was strucl
by lightning the night before
Hardy Warren, q negro ministe
; Of Newport, while attending bas'
ball game last week, was hit In tn
eye by a batted ball, the sight o
the eye being destroyed,
A large tent being used by the
Holiness people for a meeting q
Walnut Ridge was blown down one
night lately, but was put up aeoir
LA lima fop tho sppvippa of neXI
Sharp County record., 1916-06-02

rade and the line of real battle
would be made up of entirely diff
ferent people.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21
PRESIDENT NAMES
ADVISORY BOARD
Will Be Part of the Council
of National Defense
Sam GomperS Is Member and Will
Advise With Six Other Prominent
Men; Scope Of the Work

President Wilson has announced the
appointment of members of the advis-
ory commission TO be associated with
the council of national defense created
by congress at the last session. AT the
same time he gave out statement say
ing he hoped the council will become
a rallying point for civic bodies working
for the national defense"
The seven members of the new advis-
ory commission are: Daniel Willard,
president of the Baltimore Ohio rail
road; Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor; DIR.
Franklin ii. Martin of Chicago; Howard
+. Coffin of Detroit; Bernard Baruch
of New York; DR.. Hollis Godfrey of
Philadelphia, and julius Rosenwald OF
Chicago.
The presidents statement follows:
THE council of national defense has
been created because the congress has
realized that the country is best pre-
pared for war when thoroly prepared for
peace. From an economic point OF view
there is now very little difference be-
tween the machinery required for com
mercial efficiency and that required for
military purposes. In both cases the
whole industrial mechanism must be or
ganized in the most effective way Up
on this conception Of the national well
fare the council is organized in the
words of the act for the creation OF
relations which will render possible in
time of need the immediate concentra-
ton and utilization of the resources of
the nation.
"The organization OF the council like
wise opens up new and direct channel
of communication and cooperation be.
tween business and scientific men, and
all departments of the government, and
it is hoped that it will in addition be.
come a rallying point for civic bodies
working for the national defense.
"The councils chief functions are:
81. The coordination of all forms of
transportation and the development of
means of transportation TO meet the
military, industrial and commercial needs
of the nation.
"2. The extension of the industrial
mobilization work of the committee on
industrial preparedness of the naval con-
sulting board Complete information AZ
to our present manufacturing and pro-
ducing facilities adaptable to many sided
uses of modern warfare will be procured,
analysed and made use of.
"One of the objects of the council viii
be to inform American manufacturers as
TO the part they can and must play In
national emergency. 1t is empowered to
establish at once and maintain thru sub
ordinate bodies of specially qualified
persons an auxiliary organization com
posed of men Of the best creative and ad-
ministrative ability capable of mobiliz-
ing to the utmost the resources OF the
country.
"The personnel of the councils advis-
ory members appointed without regard
to party, marks the entrance OF the
non partisan professional man into
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21
Amos Plnchot says Teddy Has
Joined the Wall Street BeLlhobs
Special Interests WM Spend lDo Million Dollars Garry
Neuu York State for Hughes; Wlson Is True
10 the Multudes OF People

Wilson chose the latter. By those de-
spised notes" he avoided war, won a
great diplomatic victory and gave the
United States right to hold up her
head and say that she was still a civ
ilized nation.
Wall Street as "Protector."
YES, but in all this, says Wall street,
he has been un-American. 1t was un-
American of him to bait the trusts,
especially the steel corporation; un-
American to stand for the Clayton bill;
un-American to protect the rights OF la
Dor, and particularly un-Ameriean to put
the peoples greatest lawyer on the su-
preme court bench.
There is something perfectly delight
full about Wall street suddenly appear
ing al the protector of Americanism. 1t
ought to be set to tune and sung in
music halls. Having a good deal of
confidence in the sense of humor of the
public, I don't think it is necessary to
point out the highlights of the situation.
expect that on election day majority
OF the farmers, wage earners, small bus
mess men and other ordinary citizens.
HON Wall street suddenly discovers as
considerable in years divisible by four.
will go to the polls with broad grin
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21
Breuery Workers
(By William Koch.)

Twenty reasons why union men should
vote for the beer amendment:
/. II is home industry proposition.
2. 1t would give several thousand un-
ion men and Colorado citizens work at
fair wages.
8. 1t would make market for more
than 100000 bushels of Colorado barley
annually.
/. 1t would prevent millions of dol
lars worth OF brewery property from
going to waste.
5. 1t would reduce drunkenness and
make for real temperance.
6. 1t would help put an end to boot.
Logging which is now so openly and
shamefully carried on.
Z. Saloons cannot be re-opened any
more than now.
s. II does not repeal the prohibition
law. 1t simply amends it so that beer
can be made in Colorado.
8. Beer could not be opened under
the beer amendment any more than
now.
10. Beer could not be peddled from
house to house as stated by the drys.
IL. Beer could not be sold to children
any more than now.
~. Beer is healthful, wholesome
and nutrient beverage.
l3. 1t is no more harmful to have a
case of Colorado made beer in your
collar than to have case or barrel OF
Eastern beer in your cellar
IA. The moderate beer drinker is
healthier and lives longer than the total
abstainer.
Is. In Belgium, where children are
given beer to drink as freely as children
are given milk in this country, more
people can be found over 80 years of
age than any country on the globe.
l6. Every home should have case
OF Colorado made beer in it.
II. The bootleggers are the strongest
supporters of prohibition.
Is. The ex-saloon keeper says that if
he cannot sell beer over the bar no one
shall be allowed to have any.
10. The prohibitionist says that he
does not drink beer and no one else
shall have a right to.
90. The statements OF the drys that
saloons could be reopened, or that beer
gardens could be opened, or that beer
could be peddled from wagons, or that
beer could be sold to children or given
away any more than now are abso.
lutely false.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21
The Open Forum
NV Vote and Whyi

Editor Denver Labor Bulletin;
am frequently asked OF late how, in
1916, am going to vote.
Four years ago | was a Progressive.
Today ! am one, plus. Thru the treach-
cry of Perkins, Roosevelt and other sin.
dyed, capitalistic leaders, | am without
a party.
The Republican party, once the party
of freedom and humanity, for the last
forty years has gradually been falling
into the hands of adventurers, ghouls
of greed and Napoleons OF inhumanity.
do not doubt that the great majority
OF the Republican party today is. In
dividually. clean, noble citizens. But the
clean. noble citizens are mere ciphers
The Barnes. Penrose and Wall street
sharks are in the saddle, and they don't
care a damn for the masses, except for
election day purposes.
Their rule since 1880, thru capital
made laws, capital provided privileges,
and capital guarded conditions, has made
millionaires at cost of over a thousand
precious human lives, for each created
millionaire. Surely this is not healthy
social condition. The American masses
are no longer composed OF ignoramuses.
Some of the most intelligent and con
sciencious men and women are to be
found among the toilers. the oppressed,
the half-clad, half starving. Is it any
wonder that these masses in this land
of plenty and unbounded wealth largely
theirs bv right of creators, should de-
mand Justice. or anarchy Is it any
wonder that these masses, conscious OF
their legitimate rights, should demand
that the unjust laws, unjust privileges,
uniust constitutions, capital made,
should be either thoroly disinfected or
burned?
The Democratic party today has per-
haps no greater per cent of honest. noble
citizens than the Republican party; but
to the Progressive it has the nll-im-
portant attraction: the better element
is in power. Under the mastery guild
ance of President Wilson this better ele-
ment has legislatcd into laws more pro-
gressive measures in the past three and
one-half years than the Republican par
ty did in forty years.
Hence, as n Progressive, common hon
estv demands that I cast my vote for
Wilson electors and Wilson supporters
in congress.
JAMES HUTCHINSON KERR.
Colorado Springs, October 8, 1916.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21

NEW YORK, Oct. l7.-Replying to a
request from representatives of the Ia
Dor press for statement of his views on
the issue of the campaign, Amos Pin
chot, formerly one OF the closest friends
and enthusiastic supporters OF Colonel
Roosevelt, today Issued the following
statement:
wall street and Fifth avenue have
marked Woodrow Wilson for slaughter.
Whether he gets slaughtered or not is
fortunately question for the public to
decide.
In New York, my state, the Repuo-
lican organization is owned, as it gen
orally has been, by highly respectable
representatives of Wall street and Fifth
avenue. They hold the check books, and
the machine does the rest. Today there
is no such thing in this state as a Re.
publican party in the sense of group
of people organized to carry out definite
principles-that is unless protecting op-
portunities to make money at the pub
lies expense and politically killing of
anybody who gets in the way is a set
OF definite principles.
Teddy Joins the Bellhops.
In this state alone, the bellhops of
privilege, to whom Colonel Roosevelt
now adds himself as patriotic recruit,
II ask his pardon for the word bellhop),
will probably spend about two million
dollars to beat Wilson. If they succeed,
they will call it cheap at the price.
Il am not a Democrat, nor a personal
friend of the president, but l am going
to work for him, because, as I look at
it. he has been the attorney for the
average American citizen in the strug
gle that everlastingly goes on between
him and the privileged class, between
the person who earns dollar and the
one who gets it.
Stoning Wilson With Money
wall street is not only stoning VII
son with money, it is shrewdly using an
appeal to patriotism to get votes for
its own candidate. It charges that the
president acted unpatriotically in pre-
venting the United States from estab-
fishing American rule in Mexico. From
Wall streets point OF view. this is prob
ably a perfectly sound argument for
Wall street has about three hundred mil
lion dollars more money invested in
Mexico than the MeXicans have. From
this it follows that we should intervene
or grab Mexico. There is no use arguing
this proposition with Wall street.
American investments would be safer if
the president would send the army down
there to look after them.
Gives Mexicans Chance.
"The president, however, does not see
it in that light. He takes the ground
that the chances are that the Mexicans
will work ont their own salvation bet |
ter than Wall street will do it for them. |
He has given that struggling neighbor
of ours a chance to escape the absentee |
of foreign wealth that has
brought its people to revolution and
As a western congressman
wrote me. all the Mexicans need from
the United States is little time and
little humanity. If Americans are to
shoot Mexicans at all it ought to be in
the stomach with corn and beans.
GAS to Germany, there were just two
ways for the United States to settle
the submarine question. One was war,
the other was diplomatic negotiations.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21

American governmental affairs on a
wider scale than ever before. II is re-
sponsive to the increased demand for
and need OF business organization In
public matters and Tor the presence
there of the best specialists in Their
respective fields. In the present instance
the time OF some OF the members OF the
advisory board could not be purchased.
They serve the government without re-
muneratiou, efficiency being their sole
object and Americanism their only mo
tive"
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21
MORE PROFIT AND LESS WAGES

The Remington Arms company OF
Philadelphia has begun wedding out
process among the thousands OF work
men who rushed to the new plant at
Eddystone when the firm began the
manufacture of army rifles for the al
lies.
More than 1000 workmen have been
discharged during the last few days. The
company does not contemplate reducing
its force The present action is in the
nature of a "housecleaning' to reduce
expenses and increase efficiency OF the
working force. More men will be hired
until the force is brought ultimately to
10000 men
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21

Beats them all La Relle &c cigar;
union made in Denver.-Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21

Try Il Principe de Lees cignr for ar
after dinner smoke. Union made.-Adv
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21

CHOICE CtTT1CUTIUS.
The men we are looking for must have
sufficient capital from $4,000 to
SO, ,OOO.00) to carry themselves while get
ting established and to cover a small
stock from which TO fill immediate Or
ders. They must be men who are ambi-
tious, wide-awake and anxious to es-
tablish a business of their own that has
an unexcelled opportunity for large and
continuous profits.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21
WELL-WHAT THE

They were seated on the viaduct
watching the trains go under. For the
sake of saying something, she mur
INJURED:
what makes the engines run so
fasti"
well" said the fresh young fellow.
"The trains after it ard it has tender
behind"
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21
THE GIRVIN FURNITURE
AND AUCTION co.

1441-1455 WELTON STREET
Heating stoves; coal and gas ranges |;
kitchen cabinets; new and slightly used
velvet and Administer rugs; clean, up
to-date, second hand and new furniture
for home or office retailed at most rea-
sonable prices in Denver. Cash or credit.
Your old furniture bought for cash or
taken in exchange. Bargains in uprigh'
pianos.
AUCTION SALES DAILY, 2 p. M.
PHONE MAIN 3667.