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The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15
THE MAuMELLE HOME GUARD.
MaumeIIe Township Gives "The Pea
Ridge Pod Man" a Rousing
Endorsement.

The Wandering Fairy appears to
be very popular in Maumelle Town
ship, Pulaski County, as well as very
partial to the Pod man, think, from
the way she detained me in that town
ship until | could obtain enough men
for a Home Guard Company of the
maximum strength. | started out
from Wye Tuesday morning, Febru-
airy rs. with my Home Guard roster
barely started. | went to sixty-three
men, whom | deemed to be eligible
and every one signed up, not a single
one refused As it is my last contin-
uous work in Pulaski County (0f
course shall keep en- working in Pu-
laski County for the Pulaskian, but
will work Perry County in connection
Herewith from now on, for both it
and the Bigelow Citizens Press).
take this as an unanimous endorse
ment of my twelve months work In
Pulaski County. I am sure that the
people of the rest of the county will
join in the Home Guard work as en-
Enthusiastically when called on.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15
A SUGGESTION FOR A vAuoE-
VILE STUNT.

Mr.. B. w. Higgenbotham OF Route
1, Thornburg, who resides on the Big
Maumelle, in Pulaski county, has
small box about nine inches long, cut
out of solid cedar on which he can
initiate the voice turkey perfectly
in all its various calls for its puts
and yelps to its challenging gobbles.
The box was Whitfield out by an old
hunter about eighteen years ago. 1t
is one and one-quarter inches thick,
about two inches high, including the
lid. The latter is fastened to one end
of the box with an ordinary screw,
while the other end is fashioned for u
hand holt and protrudes beyond the
end. The lid is about one-half inch
thick, while the sides of the box are
about the thickness of paste board
that is less than one-eighth of an
inch thick. One end of the inside of
the box is whitfield Slanting, so that
one side is half to three-quarters of
an inch longer than the other. The
short side was intended for young
turkeys and the other side for the old
ones. First he rosined the lid of the
box as a fiddler would his bow, at one
point the manipulation of the lid pro-
duces the exact sound of a gobler as
he struts around the ring, another
place makes the yelps, another the
puts and another the gobble. The
limitations are perfect. Mr. Higgin-
botham also uses a quill, a bone or a
leaf to call them with, or that is he
did, because turkeys are about a
thing of the past. There was a man
named Roland who lived on the Lit
tie Maumelle who could call the tur-
kies to perfection with his mouth.
Once he was calling them for man.
He initiated all their calls to perfec-
ton winding up with two enraged
gobblers fighting and striking on the
ground with his hat to initiate the
noise of their wings. A gobbler ran up
to take a part in the fight, but the
man who was waiting with the gun
was shaking SO with laughter that he
could not shoot, so the gobbler got
away.
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The farmers are getting quite busy
in starting their 1918 crop.
Bob Cushing and family visited A.
E. Creglow and family Saturday night
and Sunday.
Miss Agnes Mcclure was tile guest
of Willie Lawhon last Saturday.
John and Dee Beall of Jacksonville
made flying trip to the Sand Hills
last Saturday
Our Sunday school is progressing
nicely with T. E. Bennett Superin-
tendent and Fl. B. Mize secretary.
L. II. Beall and family, John and
Dee Beall, and Miss Lena Beall Of
Jacksonville and C. E. Bennett and
family, C. P. Lowry and family, John
Lawhon and family were guests at J.
A. Lawhon's Sunday
Cullen Lawhon escorted Miss Lena
Beall to Sunday school Sunday after
noon.
Sam Mcclure called on Miss Mat
tie Williams last Sunday.
Mr. Flynn Springs. we are just
wondering what has become of you,
perhaps you have gone to war.
Cheer up, you writer of Mud Alley.
Your letters are fine.
Daddy's Baby.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Ives and Mr.. and
Mrs. Deveney were dinner guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Grimmett Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Weise and Miss Willie
King took dinner with Miss LYDIA
Couch Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chambers had as
guests Sunday Miss Emmaus and
Miss Fawbush of Pinnacle.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Nothwang and Will
lie Miller were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. C. Cook Sunday.
Mrs. NJ E. Vernia took dinner with
Mrs. B. Cowan Sunday.
Mrs. Harper and children of Little
Rock spent Saturday night and Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Couch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chambers had the
pleasure of entertaining four young
men of Camp Pike Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. G. Guenther and Miss Josie
Presley of Pinnacle attended church
at this place Sunday.
Miss Myrtle Brinkley was the din
ner guest of Miss Callie Grimmett
Sunday
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15

wish to step into the holy bonds of
matrimony, just put in your applica-
ton to teach the Pleasant Hill School
and it will be a sure thing.
Curtis Mann and J. P. Megogncy
attended quarterly meeting at Spring
Valley Church Saturday.
Marvin Griffin was on our streets
last Saturday evening.
Demar Parker and Harry Mann Wis
tied John Wray over on North Fork
last Friday night.
Here is a list of the births in our
community according to reports for
the last thirty days. You will see
that there will be no more war after
this is ended unless it is fought by
the girls.
Born.-To Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Muir
ray, a girl; Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Gil
bert, a girl; Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Mar
shall, girl; Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Goodwin. a girl; Mr.. and Mrs. John
Cochran, twin girls.
The Pleasant Hill School closed
Friday until some time in the late
hot summer.
Walter Starks of the Gray Hill
community fell off mule he was rid
ing out from Little Rock the other
day and was quite seriously hurt.
We saw Mrs. Bill Lindsay and
daughter hiking up Big Branch Ave
nue. last Friday morning to visit kin
folks.
Mesdames Fay Burress and Ben
Moody were at Shady Grove Park last
Monday evening.
Mrs. Will Ray and daughters were
business visitors at Congo Saturday.
1t is more than likely that Profess
sor B. L. Kanady will hold the rod
in the Avilla College this summer.
Capt. Fay Burress was a Benton
visitor last Monday.
Frank Cochrum is one of the boys
at Camp Pike now.
Big Jim Wray came down from
Bowman's Park last Sunday morning
for few hours visit in our town.
Pleasant Hill Critic.
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Well, it is very much like March
weather as to the wind at least, and
it seems that there will be no 1rurt
of any kind in this community this
summer. The indications point to
rather dry spring, and that is the
kind if we will take advantage of 1t
and get busy while it is dry weather
Sam Thompson and son, Teddy,
were Benton visitors Wednesday.
Ben PERUVIAN and son, Fred, were
Little Rock visitors Thursday in their
auto truck, and came around by Ben
ton on the home stretch.
Happy Herman was visiting in our
town Friday.
Curtis Mann and ]. H. Wray were
in the stock swapping business this
week.
Oscar Marshall was on our streets
last Monday.
George McFatridge was on our
streets one day last week.
Clifton Gilbert and boys passed up
Big Branch Avenue last Tuesday
morning.
J. A. Lindsay has moved into his
new hotel up on Big Branch Avenue.
Homer Holpain has moved back in
to our town again.
Marshall Coburn, Jr is going to
make a crop on the Ezekiel Simmons
place this summer.
Leonard Fuller and Call Lindsay
are going into the truck farming bus
mess as an incorporated company.
Here's hoping that they will make
success.
There was quiet wedding in our
town last Thursday evening. The
contracting parties were Fred o. Per
ryman and Miss Ermine Collatt of
Haskell. Miss Collatt was teaching the
Pleasant Hill School. 1t is a noted
fact that all unmarried teachers that
teach in the Pleasant Hill School get
married before they. teach the second
term. IL there are any unmarried
school teachers, man or woman, who
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Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Carmichael are
recovering from the measles. Miss
Maggie Gwin is staying with them.
Mr. Frank Talbert and wife Of
Cabot spent Saturday night at ]. f.
Abbott's.
Mrs. Eta Hammons and son, Gar
land, spent Friday and Saturday with
their son and brother, Wesley Ham
mons and wife of Little Rock, who
came home with them Sunday and
visited their parents, A. j. Boyd, T. E.
Hammons returning home Monday at
noon.
Our school will close March Is.
Eulon Hammons stood physical
examination Thursday.
Mrs. Alice Abbott and two children
and also Mrs. Caroline Abbott had a
runaway when returning home from
Lee Boyd's Saturday. The buggy
was considerably torn up and they re-
ceiyed some slight injuries, but none
serious.
Bill Brown of Little Rock spent
Monday night with his sister, Mrs.
Sallie Boyd and family
Mumps, mumps and more mumps.
Gladys Carmichael and Mrs. Myrtle
Boyd each has case.
Mrs Maggie Douglass spent Sun
day with her sister, Mrs. Ida Car
michael.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15
A FAMOUS SALT LICK.

On the farm of Mr.. Higginbotham
is a great and at one time famous
buffalo lick. 1t was never very fa-
nous with Americans, but probably
was with the old Mound Builders in
the long, long ago and undoubtedly
was with the buffalo. I stepped the
distances. 1t is a semi-circular space
eaten out of the hillside for fifteen
steps at the deepest part and thirty
steps across the open side. On the
upper side it has been eaten out to
the depth of about four feet. His
mules and stock enjoy licking in it as
much as ever did any buffalo. They
seem to prefer to lick under the
stumps, probably because it is dry
under them and the earth is saltier
Several stumps still standing have
the earth nearly all licked out from
beneath them.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15

In his fields are several Indian
mounds which he has cultivated I'M
til the ground is almost level. I
found on top of them several small
pieces of broken pottery, but nothing
complete enough to be of interest.
found what I took to be Stag, but Mr..
Higginbotham says it was part of a
clay oven in which they did their
cooking. Though he fertilizes on top
of them they do not produce well,
he thinks, because the life had been
burned out of the soil. His theory is
that these mounds were once adobe
houses, or houses made of poles and
brush covered with earth, which have
burned down, burning the life out of
the covering soil and leaving the mys-
FERROUS mounds. I am certain he is
correct because the Aztec histories
say they once lived in villages to
the north of Mexico.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15
SOME EGGS.

Oliver and Olin Higginbotham have
a collection of hen eggs picked up
during the last few days all guaran-
teed fresh. The smallest is ga of
an inch long, the next one inch and
the others gradually increase in size
until the largest is over two and one
half inches long, or larger than a
turkey egg.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15

Miss jamie Bland spent Thursday
night at T. E. Hammon's.
Jewel HammOns and Miss Ora
Douglass took dinner with Miss Sal
lie Carmichael Sunday.
Jewel Hammons spent Saturday af-
ternoon at w. E. Douglass's.
Barney Crump failed to stand ex-
animation. Jewel.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15
FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY.

CONTINUED from Pfge 81
copy l will review it for the Pu-
laskian.
Ferndale No. has got all miffed
up and says she's not going to write
any more. Now we think that's too
bad. Can't something be done about
it?
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15
READY TO DIE FOR THEIR
HOMES

headers OF this paper should pre-
serve it for it is possible that the
men below who here signed up for
the Home Guard may each and all be
come listed in the galaxy of immortal
American heroes, along with the gal.
liant bands at the battle of Lexington
and the Alamo. Below are their
names:
G. H Underwood.
G. T. G. Nelson.
L. D. Underwood.
L. J. C. Nelson.
Lambert ]. C. Nelson.
G. F. Stock.
James L. Roy.
Geo. A. Reding.
c. E. Park
Fred E. Daniel.
Chas. F. Eschback.
John Swanson.
]. E. Asnoe.
r. V. Chapman.
Charles Podenas.
Adam Volpert.
J. w McNeely
w. II. Pratt.
II +, Cato
w. w Holiday.
s r. Tollev
r II Holiday.
Geo IT Roshears
w. r. Kvler.
e. G. Buie.
b. d. Smith.
Neal Buie.
Alvin Smith.
Alonzo Smith.
]. R. Glaze.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15

Fred Brown.
]. w. Jackson.
I. F. Sutton.
N NJ. Miller.
R. B. Mathews.
H. c. Miller.
B. w. Higginbotham.
p &. Powers.
J. F. Hawkins.
J. Mcdonald
Alex Chamblin.
John W. Williams.
r. ]. Reynolds.
j. (. Howard.
d. j. Boyett.
A. 6. Bost
Deward Fftzhugh.
J. B. Showers.
There are a number of others who
would have signed could l have seen
them, but | got my list completed
and had to stop. Every man in Maui
nell township between the ages of Il
and "a is requested to watch The
Pulaskian for announcement of the
time and place for mastering in and
to meet with the company. 1t is
possible a few will fail to appear and
then others wishing to get in can
do so.
l allowed only one man to get in
who was over the age limit and one
boy under age signed. L. J. C. Nelson
looks to be eighteen or twenty, whila
J. H. Bost did not look to be over
fifty. The one has never been mar
ried and the other is a widower. l
would advise the girls to watch both
of them.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15
THE GREATEST THING IN THE
WORLD TO MAKE HENS LAY.

Now that the price Of eggs is go
ing down and no one will accuse me
of trying to bear the egg market
am going to tell you how to make
hens lay. 1t is very simple and JUST
now learned it from Dayie Boyett.
Feed EN- on hogs hair and bristles.
He says when he kills hogs his chick.
ems always eat every hair or bristle
and go to laying Immediately. Moth
ing else gets as quick result from the
hens. OF course they also eat the
blood and other waste from the hogs
which helps.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15
Watching at the Bedside
of the Sick
1--WE watched her breathing through the night,
Her breathing soft and low"

watched breathing through night
Her breathing and
Thomas
loved is sick. Anxious watchers remain
through the night 1t is winter and the temperature of
the must be maintained and the doctor orders qu
etude
In the old days it difficult to keep any room at an
temperature and although the patient was to be kept
undturbed it necessary intervals to put coal on to
poke the Goals to make draugh to rake out ashes and
clnkers-none of which things could be done noselessy
But how different with gas 1t is easy maintain ex
acy the same temperature there noise of pong and
putting on COAL and the slight hum of the gas in itself
in the nature of lullaby This only another illustration
of the advantages of natural gas over other fuels
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-03-15

Geo. and Jno. Williams, who live
on the Big Maumelle have the name
of raising the finest plums in Arkan-
sas. They are as big as apples and
as delicious to eat as they are large
in size. Everybody who sees them
want some of the same kind OF trees.
Some years their five trees produce
forty bushels.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-08-24
INv|TEMACNEYT TO
SPEAkLAB0R DAY,
Committee = Extends DuIuth's
Progressive Mayor Invitation
to Address Workingmen.

Mayor c.: r. Magney will be invited
to deliver a short address to working
men at Paramount park on Labor
day. He will proceed Mr.. Wolfe, the
chief speaker; This action was taken
at meeting. of the Labor day COM
mittee held Wednesday evening at
Owls hall. :
mittee members Miller, Richard, Ia
run, Hammond, Galeski, Schaeffer and
rim, Hammond, Galeski, Schaeffer and
butcher. Invitations were extended
to city o. .cials to participate in the
parade which will be headed by a
platoon Of police. City f1remen with
their fighting equipment will also join
in the great win the War for Free
DOM demonstration.
The metal trades were voted a spe-
cial division in the parade. The fol
lowing unions will comprise the d.
vision: Boilermakers and ,shipbuild-
ers, machinists, sheet metal workers
blacksmiths and foundry workers.
The sports feature has been re-
duced to seven events. A first and
second prize will be granted. the union
making the best showing in the pa.
rade. The complete program fol
Labor day will be published in the
official number of the Labor World
next week.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-08-24
CALLS ON YOUNG MEN
TO REGISTER 1t ONCE

The following notice has been sent
out by local draft boards calling upon
all young men who have reached their
majority since June 5, 1918, to regis
ter at once:
1.-THE President has ordered that
all men who have arrived at the age
of 21 years since June 5, 1913 and on,
or before Aug. "a, 1918, shall register
on Saturday, Aug. "a, 1918, with the
local board having jurisdiction over
the district in which they reside.
1T is the duty of every young man
whose 21st birthday falls within the
dates named to find out where his
board is located and be registered
there on Aug. "a.
If the registrant is to be out Of
town on registration day he must see
to it that his registration card is filled
out in time so that it can be mailed
to his own board and reach them on
or before registration day. This can
be done by going to the office of the
nearest local board, who will instruct
him how to proceed
The notice is signed by H. A. Hut
ter, secretary Northern Minnesota To-
cal board organization.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-08-24
T. \ IN i OUR: SISTER CITY
COMPLETE PLANS / !
FOR BIG PARADE

Each union in the Labor day pa
rade drew by lot its place in the pro-
cesion, at the meeting of the Superior
Trades and Labor: assembly commit
tee in charge Of the Labor day activi-
ties Monday evening. The following
were selected by the general com
mittee as marshals of the day: J. B.
Campbell, AL Brothers,, Thomas Roen
and A. J. Phillips.
The matter of selecting saddle
horses was left to the care of J. B.
Campbell. It j considered delicate
matter which must be attended to
carefully. to insure the safety of the
paraders and horsemen. Arrange
ments for music, automobi and a
dance to be given i'm the evening have
been made by the committee.
The first place was given to the
fire fighter, they having been the
latest ones to affiliate with the Trades
and Labor assembly and the next
place Of honor went to the retail
clerk for the reason that large
number of women are enrolled in that
organization.
First Division-Fire fighters, re-
tail clerks, garment workers, musi-
clans, bricklayers, transfers, ma
chinists, roofers,: marine and house
painters and decorators and bar
tenders.
Second Diviion - Longshoremen,
plasterers, blacksmiths and helpers,
cigar makers, tailors,: plumbers, ma
rine and pipefitters, brewery work
ers, switchmen and sheet metal
workers. -
Third Division - Hosting .engi-
neers stage employees, letter car
riers, =lather, typographical; meat
cutters and butchers, electrical
workers.. car men, BARRIERS, boiler
makers and iron shipbuilders and
carpenters;
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-08-24
COMMUNITY BOARD ASKS
LABOR TO STICK TO JOBS
Editor of the Labor. WorldI

Editor of the Labor. WorldT
1t has frequently been said, since
our entrance into the war, by those
who are inclined to overemphasize
the Importance Of some particular in
strumentality, as an aid or adjunct
in winning the war that Food will
win the war;; that ''Ships will win the
war;; that Munitions will win the
war;; that Money will win the war"
Every Intelligent person knows, of
course, that this war cannot be won
by any one person or any one thing:
but if it were permissible to indulge
in such an excess of exaggeration as
to say that this war can be won by any
one thing, it would be much nearer
the truth to say that labor will win
the war than to say that food, ships,
munitions or money will win the war,
for labor is prerequisite to the pro-
duction of all these thing.
1t is becoming increasingly appar-
emit and will become more so as time
goes on, that the most vital necessity
o fthis government in the prosecution
of the gigantic enterprise which it
has undertaken, is a sufficient upply
of labor to furnish the things that are
absolutely essential to make our army
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-08-24

in France an efficient fighting force.
Inside OF six months the government
is going to have greater need Of
men to fill the ranks of it's army Of
labor, for it j an essential part of the
army, than it is to fill the ranks of
the army<itself. !
With this prospect in view, I want
to send this message to the laboring
men,, both skilled and unskilled, in
this vicinity: Stick to your job until
some one in: authority notifies you
that you are needed more in some
other place. The men at Washing
ton know where you are needed most
If there is need for you in the trenches
they can be depended upon to call
you out. If they do not do so, you
are performing better and more pa
triotic service by remaining where
you are. So long as you are engaged
in increasing the production capacity
of the country, you are not slack
ers," but are q most vital and efficient
part of the army itelf, and if you are
real patriots you will not surrender to,
or be disturbed by, epithets, uttered by
unthinking overzealous sentimental
lists.
L. c.. HARRIS,
Chairman Local Community Board.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-08-24
!! ]; ACCEPTS /:
LABOR DAY. CALL
National Labor Speaker Wl||;Ad.
!: dress Duluth People on
! Il I ;;:;::>:* Labor Day.

. Frank p Wolfe: the Labor day
.spea kef for Duluth, is said to be one
of the best orators in the labor move
.ment::...~He Is a member of the execu
tive board Of the Commercial Teleg-
;;raphers Union ana a personal friend
of President Gompers.
Robert Maisel, director of the
American Alliance for Labor and De-
.mocracy, IN a letter to the Labor day
committee refers In glowing term to
!. Mr.. Wolfe and praises him:very high
ily. He states that Mr.. Wolfe IS: a
.ngtional speaker. and is qualified to
speak On labor and the war;
Mr.. Wolfe, in a letter to the Labor
World, states that he will arrive here
Sunday evening on the Twilight Linz
tied from st. Paul. His home Is in
Chicago and he is associated with
Clarence barrow in much of his labor
work: =.a'. ::
The speech will be delivered from
the speakers stand at Paramount
park early in the afternoon: If the
weather is favorable it is expected
that at least 10000 people will attend
the celebration.