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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-06-01

PATENTSP icure of ratent Office and 3ye.r calendar
Free. Ftz Gerald Co.. Patent Attorneys s55 Street
Washington. d. c. Established 1880.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-06-01
ARE THEY PATRIOTS?

Pending the proposed increase in
tax upon booze, news item from
Washington carries the information
that rush to withdraw liquors
from bond is on" What for? TIC
escape the increased tax? Far be il
from US to insinuate that the liquor
dealers Of the country who are even
now posing as the underwriters OF
the government would even consider
taking such an unfair and unpatriotic
advantage of the country.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-06-01

officers TO take the rum ration at the
front.
Now that American soldiers are
coming as our comrades in arms, can
we not enter into a compact with
them to ban indulgence in both ar
mics during the war? l should like
to hear what Americans have to say
on this matter.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-06-01

The Presbyterian General Assem-
bly,, U. S. A., in session at Dallas,
Texas, PASSED resolution urging ma
tional Prohibition.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-06-01

Ladies Splendid face wash, removes shiny
Drugless, no poison. Few cents prepares at
home enough daily use last three months.
Secret, sample and full directions, 2sc post
paid. Westport Mdse. Co. Westpoft, Conn.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-06-01

$1,000 PER MAN PER coUNTY-stranss
invention startes world--agents amazed Ten
ineA perienced men divide $4,000. korstad.
farmer. did $4,000 in Il days. Sehlecher,
minister. sl95 first IL hours. $1,000 cold
cash. made. paid. banked by Stoneman in 80
days. $4,000 to date. A hot or cold running
water bath equipment for any home at only
$3.50. Selfheating No plumbing or water
works required. Investigate Exclusive sale.
Credit given. Send no money. Write letter
or postal today. ALLEN MFG. CO., $50
Allen Bldg. Toledo. Ohio.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
ADOPT INSURANCE
FOR ARMY And May
MEASURE TO PROTECT OUR
FIGHTING MEN PASSED BY
HOUSE-VOTE 319 TO o.

Washington.=Th administration S
soldiers and sailors insurance bill.
amended so as to equalize the allow
anee of the dependents of enlisted
| men and officers. passed the House.
The vote was 319 to 0.
As the bill went to the Senate, pri-
Yates and officers and their depend
ents stand on exactly the same basis.
1t is the main purpose of the bill
to provide a substitute for the pres
ent pension law as 1t would apply 10
men engaged in this war. new sys-
TEN of allotments and corporations
which will provide for dependents of
the soldier and rehabilitate men upon
their return from the war.
Upon enlistment under the provi
sions of the bill soldier or sailor
! would be entitled TO take out from
81 900 to $4,000 worth of optional in
surance at approximately So per
| thousand.
Death or total disability resulting.
the dependents of any person in the
military or naval service. including
women members of the nurse corps,
would be entitled to compensation
ranging from $40 to $40 per month.
and the insurance.
In case of total disability the in
! jured persons would be paid $40 TO
500 per month
A widows compensation would
cease upon her remarriage and de-
pendent's child would cease at IS
years of age.
Monthly benefits TO a soldier or
sailor in case of total disability would
be as follows:
If he has neither wife or children
living, $40: wife, SIS; wife and one
child, SOS; two or more children. s75:
no wife, but one child. $50 and $40
additional for each child up to two
| dependent widowed mother, so add.
tional
Injured men requiring nurse care
would receive an additional $40
monthly. Men losing both feet, hands
or eyes would be entitled automatical-
ly to 800 per month.
Amendments adopted would give
claimants 10 years instead of one in
which to file their claims for compen-
sation: prevent divorced wives who
have remarked from sharing in de-
pendent's allowance and eliminate
proposed salary increases for present
employees of the government who are
to administer certain provisions of the
measure.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
STRIKE STOPS WORK
ON MERCHANT SHIPS
TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND MEN
WALK OUT ON PACIFIC COAST
is PERSONS IN HOSPITAL.
REPORTED TO WASHINGTON
Employers Have Placed the Issue
Squarely Up To Federal Authorities,
Closing Down Their Plants and
Do Not Try To Operate.

San Charlottesville riots ard
disorders, in which Is persons receiv-
ed injuries necessitating hospital
treatment and 80 rioters were arrest
ed, continued throughout the day fol-
lowing the walkout of $4,000 iron
workers and shipbuilders, which
brought work to standstill on more
than S150.000,000 of naval and mer-
chant vessel construction for the gov
eminent. The strike is characterized
as the most extensive in the history
of the Pacific coast.
Full details of the strike and the
demands of the % unions involved for
higher wages have been reported to
Washington. The employers have
placed the issue squarely up to the
federal officials, closing down their
plants and making no attempt to ope-
rate while they await government ac-
ton.
The strikers. most of them skilled
mechanics. started the walkout when
the 10000 iron workers in the Oakland
and San Francisco plants of the Union
Iron Works laid down their tools The
strike spread rapidly until every ship
yard in the bay district was closed
down and more than 100 factories,
machine shops, automobile concerns
and other plants were affected.
No demonstrations took place in
connection with the iron workers
walkout against their employers, but
as the thousands of strikers left their
work and spread throughout the city
the worst rioting and disorders took
place in connection with the strike OF
street car men since the employees of
the United Railways walked out five
weeks ago.
Employers in the iron trades and
shipbuilding industry charged that
the strike of their men was largely
prompted by sympathy for the strik-
ing street car men.
In a statement issued by the Iron
Trades Council from union headquar-
tiers this charge was emphatically de-
MED and the mems side of the case
laid before the public. The statement
claims that the employers are get
ting all the war profits, while all the
men ask is wage sufficient to main
tain their families in decent COM
fort"
At final conference of both sides,
the unions offered to reduce their
original demands of increases aver
aging 80 per cent to increases of 20
per cent for the men who are now
getting as low as 1925 a day and 10
per cent increase for others.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Ruling On School Books.

Textbooks for use in the Junior
High School OF Little Rock, or any
other junior high school that may be
established in Arkansas. must be those
Of the uniform series adopted by the
State Textbook Commission. accord.
ing to ruling by Attorney General
John ID Arbuck1e, at the request of 7.
L. Bond, state superintendent of pub.
lie instruction. Some misunderstanding
had arisen among teachers and book
men as to the status of the Junior high
schools. Some contended that 1t was
a high school to which the uniform
system of textbooks did not apply.
Others held that because the school
was composed of pupils of the seventh
and eighth grades, and was not in fact
high school, the books used in these
grades in other schools, not organized
as junior high schools, should also be
used in the Junior high schools. At
torney General Arbuckle, in his opin-
ion, says: The junior high schools
are to use the uniform series of books
adopted by the State Text Book Com
mission, as provided under the act,
with the exception that in the junior
high schools. in addition to the text
books selected for use in the seventh
and eighth grades, such other
branches of study may be introduced
and taught as may be selected by the
teachers subject to the authority of
the Board of Directors of the school
district" Attorney General Arbuekle
says any other construction of the
law would throw down the bars and
serve to entirely defeat state uniform
ity in the public schools of the state
SO far as the seventh and eighth
grades are concerned
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
MILITARY SPIRIT
PROVING POPULAR
WILLIAM ALLSoPP HAS BEEN
CHOSEN TO BE AT THE HEAD
OF NEW DEPARTMENT.
DRILL WILL BE HELD DAILY
Girls Will Also Take Regular Gales
thenic Drill and Will Wear Reeu-
Iation Uniform Dress Throughout
the Entire School Year
eshorn.

JOHtSbpi bs--
The second week of the State Agri-
cultural School opened at Jonesboro
with an increased attendance of new
students, many of them being teach
ers in the rural schools and some of
them being busy in their crops and
other work.
The student body on the whole is
a better class than has ever before
represented the institution, according
to the information given out by Presi-
dent V. c. Rays and Registrar d. r.
Rogers. The new feature of military
training is proving quite popular with
the boys, under the leadership of
Commandant William Allsopp. who
has been chosen to be at the head of
this department He has organized a
company which will be known as the
Dormitory Company, with George Ben
son as captain: George Bufford. first
lieutenant: Elliott Rolf. sergeant, and
Clifton Keller, Charles Lane, John
Fletcher. Charles Whitaker and Frank
Campbell. corpora1s. Another COM
pany will be organized at once from
the day students. The drill hour is
from II to II o'clock each day and
the strietest regulations are being
carried ont by the commandant. The
cadets will be uniformed as soon as
the suits can be received.
The girls will also take regular cal
esthenic drills and will wear regula
ton uniform dress throughout the en-
tire school year. The girls are max
ing the dresses now under the direc-
ton of Miss Mary Rogers. the in
structor in the sewing department.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
$4,000 WANTED
FOR WAR LIBRARY
STATE LIBRARY WAR COUNCIL
HOLDS MEETING IN GOVERN
oR'S RE option ROOM.
SEPT. $3.50 Is DESIGNATED
Committee viii Endeavor To Raise
Arkansas Quota of the 100000 Ii
brary Fund For the American
Soldiers and Sailors.
Little Rock


The State Library War Council, at
"a meeting in the governors reception
room at the state capitol organized for
the collection of Arkansas quota of
$4,000 of the $1,000,000 library fund
for the American soldiers and sailors
Governor Brough issued proclaina-
ton setting apart the week of Septem-
Der 24-30 for closing the campaign for
raising the fund. Meanwhile, men,
bers of the council will begin at once
the collections of subscriptions for the
fund
= Whereas, Secretary of War New
ton D. Baker, and Secretary of Navy
Josephus Daniels, have appointed a
National Library War Council, COM
posed of Frank A. Vanderlip. chair
man, Theodore N Vail, John II. Fin
ley. Asa c. Gambler. P. P Claxton, ].
Randolph Coolidge Jr., Mrs. Josiah f,
Cowles, James B. Flaherty N. T.
Stotesbury and Harry A. Wheeler, to
raise million dollar fund throughout
the United States for libraries for sol
diers and sailors, wherever assembled,
either in environments. forts, military
posts or on battleships, and
Whereas, acting under directions
from this National Library War Coun-
Gil, the governor has appointed a State
Library War Council, composed of Is
members, of which Hon. Lynn Hem
ingway of Little Rock, is chairman,
u -
Rock, is secretary. for the purpose of
raising Arkansas quota of $4,000 as
library fund for our soldiers and
sailors, and
Whereas, there is. nothing more
conducive to the pleasure and profit
of camp and sailor life than the read
ing of wholesome literature. which
embalms the master spirits of all the
ages for the present and future gem
erations; reciting stirring incidents or
heroism and patriotism in all lines of
endeavor; stimulating, by reference to
heroic examples. the practices or the
noblest virtues, answering loyalty to
God, to home. and native land; setting
before. the youth the Nighest ideals
of civic righteousnes5. and national
greatness; and serving as inexhaust-
ible storehouses of knowledge, patriot
ism, and idealism;
Therefore. l, Charles Hillman
Brough, governor OF the state Of Ark
ansas, under the authority vested in
me by the Constitution and laws of
said State, do hereby proclaim and
set apart the week from September
"a to September so, inclusive, as War
Library week in Arkansas, and call
upon every city and community in our
state to organize for patriotic library
service and generous giving to the
War Library fund, urging all self-sac-
rificing citizens to send their contri-
buttons to Miss Dorothy d. Lyon, sec
rotary of Arkansas Library War Coun-
Gil, Little Rock, Ark
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
County School Fairs.

]. l.. Bond. superintendent of pub
lie instruction, has just received an
nouncement and programs for county
school fairs to be held in Baxter
and Yell counties. The last day of
the county fair in Yell county is school
day and large numbers of county
schools will be represented on that
occasion. The Baxter county school
is expected that all rural schools in
the county will be represented.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Fort Smith Strike Ends.

Ben ID. Briekhouse. state labor com.
missioner, returned from Fort Smith,
where he went to adjust the differ,
ences between the Holland-American
Canning Company and their so wom-
en- employees Mr.. Brickhouse said
the trouble had been adjusted to the
satisfaction of both the canning COM
pany and the employees. An increase
in wages was agreed to and no OBJ
lection was interposed to the women
becoming members of the union.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Motors For Russia.

Washington.-A gift of 125 motor
ambnlances and automobiles to Rus
STA is announced by the American
Red Cross. The shipment will go for.
ward Immediately. Already nearly
half a million dollars worth of medi-
cines and surgical supplies have been
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
EMBARGO On Cotton.

Washington.-An embargo on cot
ton was endorsed by Senators Smith
of Georgia and Williams of Mississip-
would have no effect on the market
and that the supply this year will fall
100000 bales below last years con-
sumption. including shipments to neu-
trails
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
CIeburne County Judge.

Governor Brough appointed j. R.
Baker of Heber Springs county judge
of Cleburne county to succeed j. l..
Biddle, who resigned to engage in the
banking business. Mr. Baker was
born in Cleburne county and served
two terms as clerk of the county and
several terms as justice of the peace
at Heber Springs.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
AN ARKANSAS EPITOME.

Instead of using cotton seed meal
as a fertilizer Arkansas farmers
should feed it to their cattle and then
use the manure. according TO De f.
Hunderford. assistance professor of
agronomy. College of Agriculture, Uni
versity of Arkansas. Professor Hun
gerford asserts that by doing this the
value of the meal would be increased
from SO to 85 per cent.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Picketinq is Blamed.

Washington.-White House picket
ing helped defeat suffrage in Maine,
Representative Hersey of that state
declared in the House. He declared
75. Zoo men in Maine who favored wo-
man suffrage remained away from the
polls because of picketing of the
White House by women bearing ban
ners Insulting to President Wilson.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Should Receive Books.

Governor Brough and Superintendent
Bond, on behalf OF the State Text
Book Commission, request that the
central state depository and all coun-
ty repositories should receive all u.s.
able books presented by students or
by their parents. and should give them
the benefit of the so per cent ex-
change provided by law
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Assessments Increased.

Reports received from Perry county
by the state tax commission show an
increase of $415.71S in the county's
assessment over that of last year,
This years returns show assessments
totaling s3,257,13S as against $2,S41,-
APO last year.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Littlejohn. aged
So and SIS, respectively, are receiving
the congratulations of hundreds of
friends over the arrival of a little
daughter at their home at Harrison.
They have three children under eight
years older.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
incorporation Matters.

Busey Warehouse Company, of Blu
sey, Columbia, county, capital $1,000,
Kilgore Mining Company, of Ponca,
capital $4,000, of which $4,000 is sub
scribed; Isaac Kilgore, president; e.
A. Minicus, vice president; H. r.
Southland. secretary; Thomas Baker,
treasurer.
G.. G. Colquitt & Co., Magnolia,
dealers in produce. $4,000; G. G. Col
quit, president; Henry Leigh, vice
president; G. B. Cunningham, secre-
1Ary-treasurer.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
w. w. Spend Freely.

Chicago.-Seareh of the records of
the I w. W., seized here in the red
eral raids, has revealed that the Chi
cago Office of the organization dis
persed. between January 1 and August
!. of this year. 100000.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Wood Huts For Troops,

Berne. - The American military au.
thorities in France have placed
through the Swiss Contracting Asso-
citation an order for 100000 francs
worth Of wooden huts TO house
troops.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Is Denied New Trial,

San Franciseo..-T ]. Mooney.
under sentence of death for murder.
growing out of bomb explosion here
last year, was denied new trial by
the State Supreme Court.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
viii Build Roads.

Plans for the Rogers-Huntersville
road were completed by the State
Highway Commission. The estimated
cost of the 20 miles of road in Benton
county is $4,000 and for six miles in
Washington county $4,000. The road
will be built of macadam.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

Raymond Reese of the Department
or Animal Husbandry of the Jones
boro Agricultural School, has receiv-
ed request from the management Of
the district fair at Helena to send a
carload of stock from the herds of the
institution for exhibition.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
STATE HAPPENINGS.

In reply to a telegram from the adj
jutant general at Little Rock to send
all available men to Camp Pike, the
Jonesboro exemption board advised
that this county could furnish 125 for
immediate service.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

San Edward NJ Walsh Jr.,
and Theodore B. LYMAN, student avia-
tors at the North Island Military Avia-
ton School, were killed when their
pIans eollided about 1900 feet above
ground. Both men were Californians.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Aid Asked For Prisoners

Washington.-Fo relief OF Aneri-
can citizens in Germany or German
occupied territory and American pris-
oners of war who may be taken by
German forces, Secretary Lansing ask
ed Congress to appropriate $4,000
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

Ralph Graham and E. s. Skidler.
bankers and ranchmen of Kaw City.
Okla, purchased of the Neimeyer
Lumber Company of Little Rock 90
600 acres of cutover land in Pulaski
county for $4,000. The owners I'll
stock the place at once with 1000 cat
tie. Future plans of the purchasers
call for 1000 cows and so bulls for
breeding purposes.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Treasures Officials.

Governor Brough announced that IL
Will be his policy to allow any state
official, who has been elected from his
county or congressional district to the
constitutional convention to serve
without danger of forfeiting any Off
cial position he may hold.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

The Perry County Council of Agr:-
culture will hold countrywide meet
ing at Perryville to discuss the pro-
position OF increasing the acreage OF
wheat in this county. J. B. Dunn is
chairman and ]. T. Chain secretary
of the council.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

The Bald Knob Fruit Growers AS
sociation met at Bald Knob and held
a very enthusiastic meeting. Raising
of wheat was the main theme of dis
eussion. A large number of the far
mers said they would raise wheat the
coming year. Arrangements were
made to get prices on seed.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Care About Seed.

John II. Page, Arkansas commits
sIoner of agriculture, in his weekly
letter to the farmers of Arkansas
urges that more attention should be
given to the selection of corn seed If
the yield is to be increased.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

The Jonesboro school board has
planned for an educational rally in
that city on the evening of September
%, to celebrate the opening of the
elegant new high school building now
nearing completion.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Drv 1856. Wet 1864.

Dallas. Tex.-Complete figures in
local option election in Dallas county
show that the prohibitionists polled
1856 votes and the anti-prohibition-
lists 1854, a dry majority Of 1852.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

Several Benton county fruit men
are selling their apples direct to the
consumer. Some are only Offering
especially choice boxed fruit. sent to
the consumer by express. while others
are accompanying cars of fruit to the
amount desired.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
To Organize 300 RuraIs.

Mexico City-A corps of rural po-
ice known as rurales, which will con
sist of about 500 men. now is being
formed under direction of General
Ignacio Flores, to patrol and keep or
der in the federal district.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

The interior work on the new $780,
900 postoffice building at Arkadelphia
is now occupying the contractors.
Practically all of the exterior work
and stone work has been completed.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

The motor fire truck recently pur-
chased by popular subscription was
placed in service and is the property
of the Prescott Volunteer Fire De-
partment.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

Mrs. Nancy Blanton, aged 80, the
oldest person in Miller county, and
perhaps the oldest in southwest Ark.
ansas. called at the courthouse at
Texarkana, in person, as is her Gus
tom. to get her pension warrant.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

J. G. Eberly of Sulphur Springs has
been shipping from SIS to 500 worth
of cantaloupes per day for the past
two weeks. He reports that Ozark
cantaloupes bring more OH the Kan
sas City market than the Rocky Ford
melons.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21
Socialist Sees Peace.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lon
don of New York, Socialist, spoke on
peace in the House. He said hope for
the end of the war is becoming
Erighte
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

The. first popcorn crop ever harvest
ed in North Arkansas is being har-
vested now by the farmers around
Mountain Home.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-21

Byron Shaw of Conway has been
notified that he has been accepted on
the administrative staff of Leuten-
ant Friedman OF the Arkansas Ma
tional Guard.