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The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

A quantity of shark skins shipped from Cuba landed in New York a few days ago. Experiments have shown that satisfactory shoes can be made from these skins and man. ufacturers have begun using them to eke out the supply of leather, which is said to become alarmingly short.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19
Complicated Calculations.

Has your husband quit workf'
 Yes. He has figured it out that he can save more ny staying home and running the furnace economically than he can earn by going down. town"
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Our war department has ordered the third verse of The Star Span gled Banner cut out. The words of that verse are really insulting to the British. We were at war with
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

pr. R. A. Barrow attended the reception given the graduating class of the Farmerville high school by MT. and Mrs. J. w. Stancil Tuesday night.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Mrs. J. E. Dickerson' and chil- dren visited with her parents near Marion this week.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

A son was born to Mir and Mrs. N. S. Warmaek last Sunday night.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Mrs. W. c. Thompson and ehil- dren left Sunday for a visit with relatives at Wesson.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Mrs. R. W. Cargill visited with friends at Pine Bluff this week.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Mrs. w. P. Reasons visited with relatives in Fl Dorado this week.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Mrs. John Bershen of Monroe was here this week visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. J. E. Goats.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Percy Cobb is here visiting his father, J. N. Cobb.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Will Maroney and family of Oak land, La, were guests of his sister, Mrs. H. P. Heard and family, last Sunday.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Miss Minnie Ham and Mir. Moses Walker were united in marriage at l2:5O o'clock last Saturday night at the home of the brides parents, MT. and Mrs. H. R. Ham, of Sadie, La, Rev. E. F. Cole, of the Huttg Baptist church, officiating. We join in wishing them a happy and prosperous life.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

We will buy Mutton, Pork and all kinds of Cattle, Hides, Furs, Beeswax, etc. UNION SAW MILL Go. MEAT MARKET.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19
We print ladies calling oards.

w. P. Reasons, Notary Public. First National Bank.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Miss Mary Bell Collett is joy dispencer in the postoffice this week.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19
Forgotten English Author.

Mary Berry was the well-rhymed name of an English author. She and her sister were devoted friends of Horace Walpole, who remembered them in his will. and whose literary works were collected and edited by the author in 179S.
The Huttig news., 1917-05-19

Tell us the news for the News
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

tato. But it is a highly technical list.
However, now comes a volume OF over
800 pages, THE Potato" published by
Macmillan, which gives the full story
of the tuber, its romantic rise from a
wild root the size of walnut, devourcd
by hungry savages, to the greatest OF
human foods. The authorship is at
tributed primarily to Professor A. w.
Gilbert, of Cornell University, but sew
eral learned gentlemen and many
learned authorities have contributed to
the volume. In fact, the book is sort
of potato vaudeville, which has the
merit of being highly entertaining as
well as instructive.
According to the professors, the po-
tato. like the submarine and the prac-
teal flying machine, had its origin III
America The early Spanish explorers
first came upon it in the highlands OF
Chill and Peru, where it is still found
growing wild. By the middle of the
sixteenth century the cultivation OF the
edible root had been introduced into
Spain. Later Sir Walter Raleigh
brought the tuber to England, along
with its cousin, the tobacco plant. On
his estate, near Cork, he raised the first
Irish potatoes.
But apparently at first the potato was
considered only curiosity and more OF
food for beasts than for men. AS late
as 1867 when the failure of the grain
crops in France threatened nationa!
famine, Partisan chemist named Par
menter recommended the cultivation of
potatoes as substitute, but his suggeS-
ton was received with ridicule. To-day
nearly 80 per cent of the worlds potato
crop is grown in Europe, with Germany,
producing over third of the total, FAR
in the lead among the nations.
In the matter of environment the pO-
tato is harder to satisfy than most hui
man beings Heat and drouth are its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
BOOKS, COMMON AND PREFERRED

render it unfit for food In spite of
such handicaps it grows annually
smoother and thinner of skin and
richer in meat in all its scores of varie-
ties, from the Algonquin and Arcadia
to the White Triumph and Woltman.
Not the least curious thing about the
potato is the extreme fluctuation in
price 'In 1885," says the book, 'the
farm price was as low as % cents a
bushel in Iowa and as high as $1.10 in
Arizona, with an average price the
country over of SO cents" Alas, alas,
those were the happy days!
Even the potato has its aristocratic
families or varieties. Like human aris-
tocrats. these do not hold their prestige
through many generations. They tend
to degenerate and decline. In Sweden
there is great potato stock called the
Dala, which has held its own in the
tuber aristOcracy for $50 years. This
is a veritable Hapsburg of potato.
Generally family of potato aristocrats
disappears after a few years. Half
century is long time for the stock to
continue. Forty years ago the Peach
blow variety was the great aristocrat
among American potatoes. To-day it
has vanished, save in few localities in
the West.
The wise farmer keeps score card
record for his potatoes in order to i'm
prove the breed. The ideal potato is
boyle, and the object of the game is to
get as close to boyle as possible. The
prosaic business of potato growing is
thus transformed into fascinating
sport. The player and the fan are one,
and they get all the gate receipts.
1t is up to us, even as a mere matter
of gratitude, to be more respectful
toward the potato. 1t does not wave
the flag and it is unable to sing even
the first line of "The Star-Spangled
Banner" where so many of US begin
and end. But its patriotism is solid
and sacrificial, and it gives its life for
its country.
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enemies. 1t demands. in the main,
cool. moist climate and not too heavy
soil. But the ten principal potato grow
ing districts in the United States are
widely scattered. AroOstook County
Me-. leads all the rest. The Norfolk and
Eastern shore trucking districts Of Viz
ginia and Maryland comprise great
potato country, and prolific patches OF
territory appear in Minnesota. North
Dakota, Kansas, Colorado and Cali
fornia.
New York is first in total production,
with Michigan, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa close behind The Maine farmer
averages more bushels to the acre lover
2OO) than the grower of any other state
The average for the nation is only
ninety-six bushels, less than half the
figure for Great Britain or Germany.
The highest recorded yield in the United
States was produced by woman farm
er, Mrs. Selinda f. Jones, of Chautauqua
County, n. Y. In the woman's national
potato contest in 1888 her plot showed
a rate of LOCI bushels to the acre. NO
farming male has ever surpassed that
record
If Chill and Peru get the credit ior
originating the potato, at least the we'll
known potato bug is resident of these
United States. He first appeared in
1856, in Colorado, and proceeded to
move in an easterly direction at Fate
of about fifty miles year. He crossed
the Mississippi River into Illinois in
1864. By 1870 he had reached Penn
sylvania, and thence moved rapidly to
the coast and northward into Canada.
He still thrives nightly, though hun
dreds of thousands of farmers lombard
him annually with tons of arsenate OF
lead. He is only one of dozen varie-
ties of insects that prey on the potato
plant. and in addition the tuber itself
is subject to a score of diseases that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

To the eye the potato is homely,
unromantic looking lump of root. But
in the end a world war
THE HEROIC may be won by a few
POTATO bushels of potatoes.
This war of ours, IN
deed. is primarily contest OF big guns
and potatoes-and without the potatoes
all the guns in the world are not OF
much use. Because of the partial fail
ure of last years potato crop the Ger
mans have had a narrow squeak OF 1t
to keep going through the winter and
spring. More power remarks my
friend the Socialist poet, ito their po-
tato bugs, which, like the international
Socialists. nibble at the vitals of the
War God" To-day all the belligerent
nations are cultivating the tuber at a
furious rate. That way victory lies.
In song and story the potato has sui
fered curious neglect. AS literary
subject it is merely the butt OF usually
contemptuous humor, making its brie1
appearances in print as clown among
the vegetables. Even in the present
crisis its heroic role is almost wholly
lost sight of. The columnist and the
cartoonist poke fun at its rising price
and have their joke about the amateur
grower. and thus with derisive gest-
ure our writer's dismiss this honest
vegetable from their minds.
The late Frank Norris wrote an epic
triology in fiction about wheat. Our
poets treat the cereal with honor and
one generation of men after another
halls it as the staff of life. In all fair
ness. however, this title should belong
to the potato. AS compared with wheat
its ratio of production in bushels Is as
five to four. In weight it surpasses the
worlds wheat crop by nearly one-half.
In Europe and America it forms % per
cent of our food. Only the Oriental
peoples exist without it, poor dears
In the New York Public Library half
a drawer in the card catalogue system
is devoted to the literature of the po-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

Mandy PANTY, easy-going receptions,
where the guest has too much time to
stop and think. Something dong
every minute" that's our motto, and
we'd like to see any one else go us one
better. If man likes one dinner, 1t
stands to reason that he will like eight
dinners eight times as much. SO 1t is
decided to fill his cup of gratitude to
Overlooking and give him nine dinners.
The idea is to have him cover as much
ground in a given length Of time as it is
physically possible to cover and then to
finish the rest of the programme laid
out for him on his nerve. If he wants
sleep, he can get it when he gets home.
He is going to enjoy himself while he
is here, or we'll know the reason why.
During the recent tour Of the visit
ing missions, how many times was it
publicly noted that General Jotfre
seemed tired" and that NJ. Vivlanl
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looked "haggard"? 1t was almost with
savage gloating that the accounts stat
ed these facts, running Immediately
into the programme for the next day, as
if to say, "If they are tired now, lust
wait till tomorrow night. They won't
be able to walk
We read Of how, at the affair at the
Metropolitan Opera House, crowded IN
at the end of feverish day, NJ. Vivianl
begged to be excused from attend
ing. and although the sturdy Jollre
managed to drag himself to box for a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
IN THE WAKE OF MIX. SANE
Continued from Page >"

rome about far enough? Really, ] '"'"s
firm is going to lose money on TINS oO''. 80
You have done nearly everything IN ''' r. .
to me; don't you think I'm about is
server =, N
But | didn't say it. My remark a0,I, n.
nose hadn't gone very big with him. anu ID
a bunch that it was best to keep III! ~
shut. particularly while he was emp''" q,
ties over me. SO kept still, and ne W..
got a hot towel. was glad OF that' W.
had been feeling lonesome for one. Id
escaped shortly after that and wen vi
the street again. | felt good deal i'A' &
of lettuce, but would have been TOO su, ~
:rost tastes. | was good deal worf's' S
the legality of it all, too. ! wasn't ~ q
that ought TO report the baroe' n
practising medicine without license 8, "A,
cided, finally, to say nothing. but ! ~. ~
think that any shop ought to serve ..,es,
massage TO customer unless he mas
prescription. .-----"'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
The Houoyed Visitor, in a 1r1umbh0l
Tour of american Cities, Is Sholvn, to
the Point of Depletion, Just Hoa' Hos
bitable We Can Be When Ne Try

few minutes, he was at last forced to
leave before the thing was over, eX-
hausted. And finally, in Boston, he, too,
had to plead for half an hour between
kisses and receptions to snatch a wink
of rest. But the American people are
indomitable hosts. The guest must en-
Joy himself every minute, even If it
makes him i'll.
The progressive reception, from enc
city to another is the cruelest form OF
all punishment by entertainment. For
in this the American lavishness and
tenacious generosity are placed on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

stone or unwilling a tablet. Well SHOW
those New Workers yet
The visitors are said. in our pretty
jdiom. to have "the freedom of The city
This is probably the last thing that thy
really do have. They have about As
much freedom of the city as a man in a
police wagon. They go with the driver
and according to a schedule worked cut
weeks in advance. If, for instance, with
all his supposed latitude, Mr.. Balfow
should have the perfectly normal cray.
ing to stop en- route up Fifth Ayenu.
and get a chocolate nut sundae, such |,
request would stop a procession two
miles long, throw thousands Of people
into confusion and break the Mayors
heart. Mr.. Balfour might even be pub
lcly accused Of being pro-German .cr
interfering in the scheduled process Of
cementing the historical friendship be.
tween Great Britain and America.
If General Joffre had really had the
freedom of the city, which would he
have chosen for Thursday night at 10
o'clock, to go to the Metropolitan Open
House and hear Nine. Homer sing The
Star-Spangled Banner" or to get into
his marshaPs pajamas and let NJ
Tricks org anist play him to sleep! lou
don't have to be a student Of milltsy
tactics to answer that.
The imam who stopped them at The
Marine" will go home as tired as il he
had gone through a military campaign
M. Viviani will take up his compara'
lively lethargic talk of War Minister
again with sigh of relief. 1t is proc
able, also, that Mr.. Balfour, altnoug
he had to kiss fewer school children, VIII
stretch out in his chair on the retun
trip and tell his deck steward that D
is out to any one that asks for him. j
is wearing work, this being welcomed '
America.
And is there not perhaps a sugges'N'
here for our Board of Strategy! WEE
could be more strategic, in view OF vs.
effect of two weeks of American en!a1
tainment on Frances most doughty wei
rior, than to give up all these iron1I|
attacks on General Hindenburgs En'1
induce the German General Stan y
come over here, and then entensp
them? 1t would be question Oh "'
q few weeks then. We enter'A''
Prince Henry of Prussia once. ~
what has he been good for In TINS W.
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competitive basis. If the guest is first
entertained in Chicago, New York must
outdo Chicago or suffer terrific dis
grace. And while the New York enter
tainment is going on. the entertainment
committee in Boston is getting together
and saying:
"They imagine they're doing big
thing in New York. Well show them
that Boston isn't so slow as they think.
They've got the guests doing something
every hour of the day. Well extend the
time here until o'clock in the morning.
That will give us at least three more
hours to work with, and we can get
them up at $50 and start them in on
the next days programme. II things
begin to drag we can get the little
daughter Of the President of the Com
mon Council to present them with some
thing on the steps Of the City Hall.
That will be good for an hour or two.
Then. Of course, there is always some
little odd job about town that the
guests can do, such as laying corner
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- GENE: A mountain retreat seventy
y miles from the railroad. A long
sanatorium veranda. vacant except for
a figure wrapped in a military cloak
huddled in one corner.
A bird perches on the railing and
starts to twitter. The figure in a mill
tary cloak jumps nervously and then
throws copy of "L'1lluStration' at the
offending feathered friend.
A page comes down the veranda call
ing. "Mr Joffre, please Mr.. Jof,Te!
Call for Mr.. Joffre,'
The soldierly person sinks deeper into
his cloak, so that his face is covered, and
shudders with French accent. The
bow passes by and continues down the
long veranda, calling for Mr.. Joffre.
AS soon as he is out of sight the
hunted man energies from his cloak and
wipes his brow.
Enter a scholarly looking person.
dragging one foot after the other. tie
ats down beside the first man and be-
gins to rock YEARLY.
The soldier turns and snaps out, with
considerable irritation Cn French;
For Heavens sake. Rene, cut out
that rocking back and forth What do
YOU think you're doing-working
loom?'
"Say, look "a here, Joe, you needn't
be so snappy. I'm just as low as you
are. Didn't / have to go everywhere
YOU did, and make speeches into the
bargain
"You certainly did not Rene Where
were you at that late evening affair at
the Metropolitan Opera House? At
home and in bed, that's where you were.
Where were you in Boston when the
Woman's Relief Corps of Dorchester
presented us with the gutta-percha bas-
relief showing the North and the South
shaking hands? On the small of your
back in an arm chair at the Somerset
Club, that's where you were. Did you
have to kiss the entire grammar school
delegation in every city east of Chicago?
Non, Did you have to pose in a martial
attitude for every news service photog-
rapher that had badge? Non, non!
Where do you get this tired stuff? Go
on out and play some golf, and let me
rest"
This is a rather free translation of
what has probably been happening in
the ranks of the French visiting mis-
sion during the last week. Dispatches
from Washington would have it that our
distinguished guests have been return
ing to the Capital after their tour of the
Middle West and the upper Atlantic Sea-
board. Personally, have suspicion
that they could be found scattered about
among the isolated health resorts OF the
Arizona sentinel., 1917-11-15
SUM MONS.

In the Superior Court of Yuma County, State of Arizona.
 F. & E. Hodges, co-partners, Plain tiff. vs. Walter Mackowiak, Defend ant.
 ant.-Action brought in the Superior Court of Yuma County, State of Ari- zona, and the complaint filed in said County of Yuma, in the office Of the Clerk of the Superior Court.
 In the name of State of Arizona, to Walter Mackowiak, defendant Greeting:
 You are hereby summoned and re- quired to appear in an action brought against you by the above named plain tiffs in the Superior Court of Yuma County, State of Arizona, and ans wer the Complaint therein filed with the Clerk of this said Court, at Yuma, in said County, within twenty days af- ter the service upon you of this sum- mons, if served in this said County, or in all other cases within thirty days
Arizona sentinel., 1917-11-15
Yours very truly,
 E. F. SANGUINETTI.

The November number of the esteemed Reclamation Record has for it's cut representing shield divided parts, the upper containing Thanksgiving offer ing from Director and Chief Engineer Davis while the low CT half shows threshing outfit harvesting an immense crop of grain. Here is Director DaVSs greeting
 THE HARVEST OF 1917 HAS BEEN GARNERED
 The granares filled with cereals. Huge stacks of forage are clustered about the feed lots Live stock of all knds good condition and the storage cellars filled with vegetables Approaching winter finds the project far er satisfied with the result of his aborS and the of good demand and prices for all crops.
 The reclamation service closes the season with reports of good progress in all lines of construction Of satisfactory delivery of water to greatly increased acreage and con- tnuance of cordial relations between the farmers and the operation forces.
 Notwithstanding the stress and worry incident to the crisis through which passing, the service and the people have much to be thankful for this year.
 ARTHUR P DAVIS.
Arizona sentinel., 1917-11-15
O. c. JOHNSON,
 Funeral Director. Best Equipped Shop in the City Yuma Drug Company McCutcheon and Baily YUMA ARIZONA
YUMA : ARIZONA
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE.

WHEREAS, on the 1st day of Nov ember 1917, A. Armenia, plaintiff, re- covered judgment in the superior court of Yuma County, State of Ari zona, against J. w. DORRINGTON IN VESTMENT COMPANY and CAR MEN NORTON, defendants, foreclos- ing a lien of the plaintiff in the amount of $50O.42 and S24.9O costs, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum until paid, upon the property hereinafter described; and
 WHEREAS, on the 18th day of No vember 1917, a special execution is sued out of said Superior Court in said action, directed and delivered to me as Sheriff of Yuma County, State of Arizona, commanding me to make said sum due on said judgment with inter- ests as aforesaid and costs out of the property of said defendants, J. w. Dor rington Investment Company and Car men Norton, in said special execution set forth and described as follows, to- wit:
 All of the right, title, claim and in- terest of the said defendants in and to the following described lode mining claims, situated in the Mowhawk Min ing District in Yuma County, State of Arizona, to-wit: Red Cross No. 1; Red Cross No. 2; Red Cross No. 3; Red Cross No. 4; Red Cross No. 5; and Red Cross No. 6, Ca fraction), the location notices of which are re- corded in the office of the County Re corder of Yuma County, State of Ari- zona, in Book of mines at pages 39S, 399, 400, 4O1, 4O2 and 403 respectively; and Silver No. 1; ;> Silver No. 2; Silver No. 8; Silver No 4; Silver No. 5; Sil- yer No. 6; Silver No. r. and Silver No. 8; the location notices of which are recorded in the office of the Coun- ty Recorder of said Yuma County, in Book of Mines at pages Ill, 112, 113, 116 IF, 11S, 119, and 12O respectively.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on MONDAY, the 10th day of Decem- Der 1917, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon of said day, at the front door of the Court House of Yuma County, Arizona in the City of Yuma in said County, l will, in obedience to said special ex- ecution, sell the above described prop erty at public auction, to the highest and best bidder for cash, or so much of said property as may be necessary to satisfy the said judgment, with in terest, costs and accruing costs.
 Dated at Yuma, Arizona, this 18th day of November 1917.
 MEL GREENLEAF,
 Sheriff of Yuma County, State of Ari- zona.
 By H. H. BAKER, Deputy Sheriff
 Arizona Sentinel. First Pub. Nov 15, 1917. Last Pub. Dec. 6, 1917.
Arizona sentinel., 1917-11-15

thereafter, the times above mentioned being exclusive of the day of service, or judgment by default will be taken against you.
 Given under my hand and the seal of the Superior Court of Yuma Coun- ty, State of Arizona, this 18th day of October, 1917
 (SeaD H. B. FARMER,
 Clerk of said Superior Court.
 Sentinel-4 w. First Pub Oct. 25 Last Pub Nov. 15.