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The Pulaskian., 1917-07-06
BUYING FROM TIE
 FARM FOR ARMY
oUARTERMAsTER SAYS THEY WILL BE GLAD TO BUY EVERYTHING POSSIBLE
 FROM PRODUCER.

Capt. Kennth Williams, quartermas- ter at Fort Logan H. Roots, says they will be glad to buy army sup plies from the farmer whenever pos- sible
 We would be very glad to buy fresh vegetables, fruits, melons and eggs from the farmers" he said: But they should understand that we have to have a dependable source of sup ply If we were to depend on the farmers for our supplies and they shouldn't show up some day. am afraid that loud howls would be heard coming from the camps.
 Wouldn't it greatly facilitate your work if the farmers and truck grow CTS had an organization with q re- sponsible man at the head with whom you could deal?@ he was asked.
 Decidedly so," he replied. "It would save us vast amount of work. As it is now, we buy vegetables from wagons that come up here, from gro cery stores, in fact, from nearly any place that we can get satisfactory stuff. suppose that write 150 checks a day Ii would save d great deal of work if We could buy every thing that we need from one man. Personally, 1 should be very glad to see such an organization formed"
 As to potatoes and onions, two im- portant staples of soldier fare. Can. tain Williams says that he makes contracts for these 90 days in ad- vance in order to make certain that the supply will be on hand His con tract with a Little Rock commission firm for these staples has nearly 90 days to run. He is paying S4.75 a bushel for potatoes, but these are old potatoes which the commission firm has shipped in from California.
The Pulaskian., 1917-07-06
ORGANIZATION OF
 TRUCK GARDENERS
Nj. A. WEST, RESIDING WEST OF THE CITY, COMPLAINS OF THE PRESENT POOR SYSTEM MoF
 MARKETING.

That the truck gardeners of the county need an organization, and that the present system of marketing is most unsatisfactory, is the conclu- sion that has been reached by M A. West, who owns truck farm on the West Twelfth street pike.
 Here is the condition,' said MT West. Perhaps today, large num- Der of farmers will bring beans to the market The market is glutted. The merchant will buy more beans than he can sell in day because he knows that it may be several days before he can get any more. But at the same time, he must figure on the waste and so he reduces the price lie pays the farmer and puts up the price that he charges the consumer. Then, perhaps, he sells half the beans, while the remainder wither and dry up and become worthless, and are thrown fairs and is the fault of no one in par ticular It is due to the haphazard system of marketing.
 Now, if we had marketing asso- citation and cold storage plant, these beans could be put on the market as they were demanded. The farmer would receive better prices, the con- sumer would pay less the merchant would avoid waste and would be able always to supply the demands of his customers. If more product were put on the market than is needed, the as sociation would have quantities large enough to make it profitable to ship it away Of course, it wouldn't pay the small farmer to do this by him. self I have seen farmers selling po- $1.50 bushel, when the price quoted was $2.75 on the track at Little Rock But, of course, the farmers who were selling for $1.50 didn't have enough potatoes to make it worth while to ship them and the reason for the low price here was that the market was glutted with potatoes.
 Under present conditions, raising truck and selling it in Little Rock isn't profitable business. I will do all right on my place, because have a canning outfit and when I can't make a profit on my truck by selling it, will can it. But most of my neigh bars are not so fortunate and I don't like the canning business myself I have gone into it simply because I had to. The price of tin cans has gone so high as to put them out of the reach of many of the small farm CTS.
 Tt may be difficult to get started but sooner or later the truck farmers will have to organize with one or two good men in charge. There should be no opposition from the merchants, because such an association will work to their advantage. It will en- able them to buy what they want in the quantities that they need and to sell it at lower prices. Such an as sociation would enable the farmers to get cheaper seed by buying in large quantities. Such associations have been formed at Judsonia and other fruit-growing centers in the state.
The Pulaskian., 1917-07-06

It always rains when 1 go to the dountry, and as it was getting hot and dry I concluded last Thursday that it was time for me to go again and I went.
 I got offthe train at Ledwidge. Go ing to the top of the mountains took an old left hand road which carried me to an abandoned home stead The plum trees were full of ripening plums, the pear trees of pears, the apple trees of apples, the peach trees of peaches, the briars of blackberries; there were huckleber- ries too, and the weeds were full of stick tights, which covered my pants to above my knees and it took me fifteen minutes to get them off. Walk ing beyond the old house saw fields and houses. I thought I would go over and inquire where l was, but a few steps further showed me the Ark ansas river just under the hill 1 was on. I did not know it was so near my favorite mountain lands. Return ing to the road I left I soon came to the home of MT Dale. He had a cou- pie of the Himalaya or Wonder blackberry briars in his yard. I tasted them and found them of a finer flaw or than the dewberry even. One of these vines if allowed to grow will produce twenty gallons of berries. A, great many people are afraid to plant these berries for fear they Spread and become a nuisance. They grow like grape vines and one vine will grow hundred feet long. Every place the end of vine touches the ground it takes root and starts to growing. You can gather gallon of these berries, they are so large and plentiful, before you can get to wild berry patch.
 The next place I came to was Prof. Hills. He is sure farming properly during his vacation It is not very long, however, as they have a ten months school and it will commence in August. Prof. Hill is doing a great work in making American citizens of the little Italians, French, Swedes and others who are moving in here.
 The next place was MT. Wester- fields. His sons, of the Pulaski Heights Fire Department, with their families were visiting them and had just returned from fishing with twen- ty-two fish. Mir. Westerfield will have 800 or more bushels of peaches
 Next went to w c. Kryar's. It does one good to see his fine farm. MT. Kryar is very much dissatisfied
The Pulaskian., 1917-07-06
BLOOMING COTTON PATCH ON STATE CAPITOL GROUND

An experimental plat of cotton, growing on the State Capitol grounds, is attracting the attention of visitors and several large planters who have seen it pronounce it the best piece of cotton in Pulaski county. This cot ton,- known as the John Fl. Page va riety, was planted on April 26 by A. J. French, one of the attaches Of the State Department of Agriculture, who has given the crop constant attention. The cool nights and heavy rains of early May gave the plants bad start and the outlook for good stand was poor. On May 29 the cotton was hood and thinned to two stalks to hill and marked improvement was no ticeable. On June 12 it was hood second time and thinned to one stalk to the hill. The weather was very growth On June IS the first squares appeared. Hot, dry weather continued and the squares multiplied rapidly. MT French predicted that he would have blooms by the Fourth of July and was much elated when two big blossoms appeared a day early-on July 3. The 250 stalks in this little cotton field are now filled with blos- soms and there is promise of big crop. No boil weevii are in evidence, nor is the crop bothered with any other pest. The plat is located at the northeast corner of the capitol.
The Pulaskian., 1917-07-06

with his place. He raises more fruit than he can sell. He is now feeding the finest of plums and peaches to his hogs. People, until the present time, have been insisting on my eat ing peaches, plums and apples, while between the farms the road sides and woods are full of huckle and black berries.
 c. E. Park came here with nothing and went to farming with hoes and spades His little farm is a revela- tion of what man can do here. Next is N c. Howell, who has the greatest variety of plums 1 have ever seen. They are simply fine. He also has good fiocks of pure bred Plymouth Rocks and Leghorn chickens. He had 250 Plymouth Rocks, but sold them off on account of the high price of feed
 MT. Ballentine also has a fine fam fly orchard This mountain top on the line of Pulaski and Perry coun- ties is undoubtedly the best orchard and vegetable section of the county. The soil is light sand and rock are not as numerous as in some farm ing sections.
 Sunday 1 spent with Lee Folly, near a Neimeyer lumber camp. The camp has just moved and the railroad is being moved now The Sunday be- fore at the camp was a town, store, barber shop, etc. Today not soul was left in it and all the houses but two were moved away. It was a mile and half from MT. Tally'ss and the Tally's sold them this past win ter and spring as much produce as the total of their annual farm crop. Sunday just after I left it commenced to rain and rained a real good rain.
 Sunday night I spent with Jno. Mcr Nicely, one of the county committed men. He has four girls and two coons. The coons are not the town variety, but the ring-tailed kind. About a week ago he was coming with his wife from his oat field. Just ahead of him a couple of his neigh bors had surprised a family of coons playing in the road He climbed a sapling and caught three of them and his wife caught one. They are af- fording his and the neighboring chil- dren a world of amusement Monday morning it rained a nice shower, but to the north there appeared to be a big rain
 Schools have commenced in the
 (Continued on Page S.)
The Pulaskian., 1917-07-06

in MT. Cottrell's article that will be needed. It is now up to the farmers to get busy. What are you going to do about it2
The Pulaskian., 1917-07-06
DEATHS
Edward j. Owen

Edward J. Owen.
 Edward J Owen, aged S1, merchant tailor, died at his home in Little Rock June 2S. He was the ther of Mrs. Eugene Jabine of Jacksonville.
The Pulaskian., 1917-07-06
MILITARY AFFAIRS
 IN PULASKI COUNTY

The following are among those who have recently enlisted. in the various branches of the service:
 Company B, Third Regiment John Sheridan, James Carroll, Benja- min F. Scott, Grant Rodney, William A. Harrell, Ernest L. Moody, Monroe Kent, Lawrence Underwood, Luther Cloud, John Craven, Neal Billingsley, Jesse E Jordan, Herman D. Prince, Jack Clements and Dallas Norton, all of Bauxite.
 Ammunition rain-Edward L.. Meyer of Keo.
 U. s. Navy-Alfred Jackson Wells. Mabelvale; Claude w. Debaise and Harvie Wicket, of Cato.
 Company H, First Arkansas-La- banB. Shepard, Bryant.
 National Guard = Wayne Hooks, James M. Dubose, Claude P. Clem- ents, Edward E. Clements of Cato.
 o. D. Longstreth has been elected colonel of the Pulaski County Guards. The Sweet Home organization is Company M of the Third Battalion, and the Little Maumelle is Company H, of the Second Battalion.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07
is WELL WORTHY OF HONOR
Southern journal Puts Forward the
Claims of the sunfower as the
National Emblem.

There Is nowhere such yellow as
In the petals of the biggest and most
cheerfully nodding of all the black
eyed susans we have, there is nowhere
such a richness as in the brown Of
its seeded heart. Nothing that grows
is so friendly, so gracefully compan-
i0nable whether through an open win
dow or brushing idly and happily up
against ones person. 1t Is no weak
ling, the strong and lusty sunflower.
1t is largely masculine, with its
straightness, disdain of pampering and
love of the air 1t breathes and soil
from which 1t springs. Adversely but
builds it stronger, and extremes of
weather affects it little. If our national
flower, which we believe is the golden
rod, isn't quite satisfactory, let's
adopt the fine, outstanding yellow sun
flower, the king, onarch, complacent
ruler of every flower that waves. Ev-
erything about King Sunfiower is
typically American and he's demo
crat to the fiber and root of his be-
ing. Which is just what we want In
America at this time.-MacOn Tele-
graph.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07

In all weathers the skin and com.
plexion can be kept wonderfully clear,
soft and white by the use Of this mex.
pensive lemon lotion which any girl OF
woman can easily prepare.
The Juice of two fresh lemons strain.
ed into a bottle containing three
ounces of orchard white makes whole
quarter pint of the most remarkable
lemon skin beautifier at about the
cost one must pay for small jar of
the ordinary cold creams. Care should
be taken to strain the lemon juice
through fine cloth so no lemon pulp
gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh
for months. Every woman knows that
lemon juice Is used to bleach and re-
move such blemishes as freckles, sal
lowness and tan, and is the ideal skin
softener. smoothener and beautifier.
Just try 1t! Get three ounces Of
orchard white at any pharmacy and
two lemons from the grocer and make
up q quarter pint Of this sweetly fra
grant lemon lotion. 1t naturally
should help to soften, freshen, bleach
and bring out the roses and hidden
beauty of any skin. Those who will
make 1t habit to gently massage this
lotion into the face, neck, arms and
hands once or twice daily may be re-
paid with skin that is flexible and
young looking and a peach-like COM
plexion. Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07
SPENT ALL HE HAD
SEEKING HEALTH
Proceeds From Sale Of His Home
Went for Treatment-Noth-
\ ing Relieved Him.
GOT Big SURPRISE
Troubles Disappeared and He Can
Now Work Ten Hours q Day
Tanlac Did More Good Than
Everything Else.

After / had spent every cent real
lzed from the sale Of my home, and
several hundred dollars besides, in
trying to recover my health, two bot.
ties of Tanlac did me more good than
everything else put together" said
Robert A. Land, motorman on the
lei Paso Electric line, who lives at
lob San Antonio street, Ell Paso.
MY health gave way five years ago."
he continued. "and for four years l
wasn't able to do lick of work. Even
the raw eggs and milk ] lived on
soured In my stomach and almost
choked me with gas and my heart act
ed strangely. / have been a railroad
man and used to exposure to all kinds
of weather, and my system had been
so weakened by five spells Of pneu-
monia during the last four years, that
If l got wet 1t laid me up several
days.
well, sir, 1t was the greatest sur
prise / ever had the way this Tanlac
began to straighten me out right from
the start. I can enjoy my meals for
the first time in years. Nothing hurts
me any more, / sleep like log and
get up in the morning ready for my
job. ! work ten hours day without
getting tired and am stronger and
more vigorous and have gained in
weight. Although got soaked to the
skin several times during the past
two weeks 1t didn't hurt me bit. L
am so grateful for what Tanlac Is do
ing for me that I want everybody to
know It,"
There is Tanlac dealer in your
town.--Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07
YES! LIFT A CORN
OFF WITHOUT PAIN!
Cincinnati man tells how to dry
up corn or calIus 80 It lifts
off with fingers.

You corn-pestered men and women
need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
that nearly killed you before, says this
Cincinnati authority, because few
drops of freezone applied directly on a
tender, aching corn or callus, stops
soreness at once and soon the corn or
hardened callus loosens so it can be
lifted off, root and all. without pain.
A small bottle of freezone costs very
little at any drug store, but will posi-
lively take off every hard or soft corn
or callus. This should be tried, as it
is inexpensive and is said not to irri-
tate the surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
tell him to get small bottle for you
from his Wholesale drug house.-adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07

Mamma" exclaimed the little girl
next door as she ran into the kitchen
of her own home, mamma, Mrs. Jones
has an Illustrated tooth!"
Her mother laughed.
"A what?" she asked.
IAN illustrated tooth; one that
makes your face swell up real big"
Her mother laughed again, and hard
er. "You mean an liberated TOOTH"
she corrected.
Her father heard of the incident and
thought he would question her. too.
did you say Mrs. Jones had the
mumps?" he queried.
"No,' began the little girl again.
"She has an illustrated tooth"
Her father laughed, AMI corrected
her.
Daddy" she demonstrated solemnly,
II don't see why you laugh when Mrs.
Jones has an ulcer-I mean-illustrat-
ed tooth !''-Indianapoli News.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07
WANTED REGGIE STIRRED UP
Incident Sheds Light on Modern Meth.
,ds Of Bringing Laggard Lover
to the Scratch.

"Jack," said pretty girl to her
brother the other day. II want you to
do something for me---there's a dear
fellowl"
"Well. what is it?' growled Jack,
who Is the brother Of the period
why, you know that wig and nous
taehe you used in the theatricals?"
: "WeliY"
wont you put them on and so 20
the concert tonight? Reginald and I
will be there. and want you to stare
at me the whole evening through yonr
glasses"
you want me to do that?"
Eyes, and as we come out you must
stand az the door and try to slip a note
into my hand. Take care that Reggie
sees you, too
swell, / declared"
Because, you see. Jack, Reggie likes
me. Iknow, but then he's so awfully
show, and as he is well off and lots of
other girls are after him. he's got to
be hurried up, as 1t were."
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07
TAKES The PLACE OF
DANGEROUS CALOMEL
New Discovery Dodons Liver Tone Acts Like CaomeI But Doesn't GRIPPE
SaNae or Make You S-Dont Lose Days ok-Hamess Liver
Medicine for Men, Women Chiden-Read Guarantee!

Ugh! Calofnel makes you sick. It's horribe
Take "a dose of the dangerous drug tonight and
tomorrow you may lose days work
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes
necrosis of the bones Calonel, when it comes in
to contact with sour bile crashes into it, breaking
it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea
and cramping. If you are sluggish and "al
knocked out" if your liver is torpid and bowels
constpated you have headache, dizziness, coated
tongue if breath is bad stomach sour, just try
spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone tonight
Here's my guarantee-Go to any drug store
and get SO cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone,
Take a spoonful and if it doesn't straighten YOU
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07
FOOTSTEPS OF FATHER.

The story is told of saloonkeeper
who went home one afternoon and
found his wife away from home and
his three boys in the back yard, where
they had a bench, some bottles and
tumblers and were playing saloon"
The youngest, who was behind the
bar, had a towel tied around his waist
and appeared to be setting up the
drinks pretty freely. The father was
dismayed at the nature Of the chill
dren's play, a feeling that turned to
the deepest alarm as he realized that
actual beer was being dispensed over
the make-believe bar, and that his boys
were staggering, while neighbor lad
lay drunk under tree. When the
mother returned she found the boys
in bed and her husband sobbing like a
child. That night the saloon was
closed, and its former keeper entered
another line of business.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07

right up and make you feel fine and vigorous
want you to go back to the store and get your
money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the
sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine;
entirely vegetable. therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick
guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver
Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and
clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated
waste which is clogging your system and making
you feel miserable I guarantee that bottle of
Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family
feeling fine for months Give it to your children.
1t is harmless; doesn't grippe and they like its pleas
ant taSte.=Ady.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07

Under the above caption recent
number of The Outlook IN a special
correspondence" article directs atten-
ton to the coal situation. With new
factories springing up everywhere to
meet war demands, says the author,
Lewis T. Thesis, nothing but huge
ly increased output of coal can prevent
prices from reaching q ruinous figure"
Among the things which stand in the
way Of increasing the output are, he
points OUT, the draft, the impossibility
of employing greater number of coal
miners because of the falling off In i'm
migration, and obvious difficulties In
speeding up" the organized mine
workers. 'Under these conditions"
continues Mr. Thesis, ut is interesting
to note the effect of prohibition on the
output of coal in regions that have
gone dry He reminds us that when,
at the time of the trouble between the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company and
Its employees, the saloons were closed,
the average production of coal per man
per day was greatly increased.
A comparison made by the White
Oak Coal company of West Virginia,
covering the three months prior to
June 30, 1914, the date the dry law
went into effect, and the three months
following, shows an increase during
July, September and October of 81
1885 tons. These figures are fur
nished by Mr.. w. B. Reed, chief &C
countant, who adds: ut Is safe to
assume that the same rate of increase
would be carried out throughout the
entire year, and II that be the case, the
result would show an increased produc-
ton per annum, due to the absence of
liquor In the field, of 12S,793 TONS"
And this is the increase of single
company.
Mr.. J. d. A. Morrow of the Pitts
burg Coal Producers association Is
quoted as stating to the interstate COM
merce commission that the production
of coal in the Pittsburgh district alone
would be increased 100000 tons If
strong drink were eliminated.
SIN fact" says Mr.. Thesis in conclu-
sion, "all testimony on the subject,
from factory, mine and shop, tells the
same story-take away drink and the
efficiency of the workingman increases
amazingly. The simplest, the surest.
the only certain way Of increasing coal
production at this time is by prohibit
Ing drink. II we want cheaper
coal during the war We must take, az
war measure, the one and only step
that will surely increase coal produc-
ton"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07
No Wonder Ne Asked ExemptionI

Rodgers L. Mccall of 624 Locust
avenue, handsome and strapping, up.
peared at the Sixteenth district. He
passed the test with flying colors and
appeared for exemt1on.
Got father depending on your he
was asked.
NO"
Got a mother, or a sister. or a
brother. or a wife?"
mo"
Then what do you want exemption
forT'
Because ! belong to the naval coast
defense service" he replied, "and ]
just got letter telling ME 10 report
at once for foreign service. "-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07
WAR BEER-lNsPIREp9

Speaking of the use of beer by the
students of Germany, Professor SIM Of
the University Of Bonn says: "The
flooding of the stomach and brain with
beer, so prevalent among our students,
/ regard as a national evil, whether
considered from the hygienic, Geo.
nomic or intellectual point Of view"
Speaking of Its moral effects, DIR. A.
Forel Of the University of Zurich says !:
Among the academic youth Of Ger
many the drinking Of beer has truly
killed the ideals and the ethics, and
has produced an incredible vulgarity."
And DR.. Edward Hartman: Although
of all nations Germany has the great
est capacity for culture, the general
culture of its higher classes is under
going frightful retrogressi0n, because
Of the beer consumption Of its stu
DENTS"