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Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Low Price On Farm Products

According to reports issued by the
Department OF Agriculture, the OK
change value Of farm commodities was
lower in October Of this year than at
any time since May, 1924. This con-
dition was due mainly to the decline
in the index of farm prices from 134
in September to 100 in October. The
sharpest drops takin place in the index
Of cotton prices from 1876 to 94 and
cottonseed from 124 to 81. The prices
Of fiaxseed, corn, potatoes and apples
ais odeclined slightly while wheat, oats
and barley showed moderate increases
over September. Eggs and butter prices
showed the usual seasonable increase,
but were slightly lower than last year.
In fact, the price index Of all farm
commodities In October this year was
10 points lower than year ago.
While the general index Of farm
prices was declining, the price of non
agricultural products remained practi-
cally the same as or slightly higher
than September. The sharp advance in
the bituminous coal price, due to the
increased demand in both this country
and England, raised the general level
Of prices. Business activity, however,
continued at level through the month
of October and from al lpresent indi-
cations will be maintained for the bal
ance of the year.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
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Santa Claus Letters
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Tonkawa, Okla.
Dear Santa Everything is coVereu
wit hice this morning and l know you
viii soon start on your journey SO
gness l had better get busy. ! am q
little girl twelve years Old. l 80 Ger ~
school every day. | am in the ot Ilo1
"a" grade. l want to tell you Wna' VIA,
I want for Christmas. l want sew,
ing basket. an embroidery book auu
lots of thread, candy oranges ana nuts
I have two little sisters, Ruth ana Der
nice. Ruth wants a sewing basket IN
art book, water eolors, paint brush anu .
candy. oranges and nuts. Bernice wants
two dollies in a basket with a snau
blanket. some candy, oranges ana mus;
Ruth and / want a mama doll. we "ll
want a box of handkerchiefs ana d
pair of gloves. And Dear Santa re,
member my two big brothers ana mama una
and daddy. / am a member OF tne
Band of Love. You know l am soou
or the captain would turn me ut 90
hoping haven't worried you beg 10
remain. your little friend,
Agnes Lee Hughes.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Maynard. Ark.

Dear Santa Claus II thought l
would write and tell you what l want
for Christmas. Please bring me oair
of little scissors, toy trunk like the
ones they have at Mr.. Weavers stoIe
and lots of good things to eat. got
big doll some time ago, so you can
bring me something else if you have
one for me. My brother, Rhea, wants
big ball and a knife. Please don't
forget my big sister, daddy and mother
and | have lots of uncles, aunts ana
cousins and two dear old grandpas
and grandmas. l hope you won't for
get. SO please remember us all. WIN
love to you, your little girl,
Pauline Hatley.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
BIGGERs

Our little burg seems to be rather
quiet right now, and there is not much
news to report this week.
J. T. Lane, who was our depot agent
for the past three or four years, has
been transferred to Crystal City, Mo-,
and Mr.. d. Asher of Girder, Ark, has
taken his place as agent here.
]. NJ. Stevens has sold his stock of
merchandise to w. M. Bennett. W. Il.
Stubblefeld will run the store for Mr..
Bennett until the close Of his school.
Rev. j. F. Glover, president of Sloan
Hendrix Academy, filled the Methodist
pulpit here last Sunday and Sunday
night. We was the guest of DIR. and
Mrs. Poindexter while here.
]. s. Riley who recently returacd
from New Mexico, where he had zone
for his health and who was reported
last week to be much improved is sick
again. Mrs. Laura Goodman is aiso
reported to be sick but not seriously.
mTh. lud DlSStI ~ NAoitAhb hCi
daughter, Mrs. s. f. Harrison, md
Mrs. II. Stephens is visiting friends in
town.
School Notes
Miss Jessie Upton was sick and ab-
sent from school last week but we are
glad to have her with us again.
We are sorry that Miss Attic Brown
is absent from high school this week.
We hope she will soon return.
The pupils Of the school are working
on the program to be rendered on We'd
nesday night before Christmas.
The high school pupils had their
usual twice-a-month program last Fri
day afternoon.
The school win dismiss on Dec. %,
for the Christmas holidays and will
not assemble again until Jan. 3.
Our last report to the county super
intendent showed as follows: Enroll
ment, boys 90, girls 81, total no. AYR
age daily attendance, boys 45, girls 81,
total90; per cent of attendance, boys
SO, girls 80, average 81.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Walnut Ridge. Ark

Dear Old Santa IL am little boy
4 years old and try to be a good boy
and go to Sunday school ] want
wagon, bugle, fiddle and a story book
of Jack and the Giant, fruits and nuts.
Now Santa, don't forget my little cou-
sins in Flint, Mich, and little friend,
Max, in Gary, Ind, and don't forget
have moved since last Christmas
away down south. have some little
cousins here expecting you too. l am
your little boy, Fred Lacy, Jr.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Flint, Mich.

Dear Santa Claus Il have been a
good little girl for a long time and
please, Santa, don't forget me. want
n bye-low baby and buggy and any
thing else you want to bring me. But
don't forget my mother and daddy,
also all my little cousins in Arkansas
and Missouri, and friend in Alabama.
l know that's lot of a people to take
something to but try not to forget a
one Of them and l will try to be a
good little girl all the time. Your
little girl Of the north,
Dorotha Dorcas Lacy.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Christmas Services

The Christmas service for the Meth
odist church win be held Sunday morn
ing, Dec. 10, at IL O'Clock. There will
be special music and the pastor will
preach a sermon appropriate to the
occasion. The public is cordially in
yitQd
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
ResoIutIons Of Respect

whereas, the Supreme Ruler of the
universe on Nov. 1, 1926. removed from
among us by death, Neighbor Charley
shannon, worthy member of our good
order, the Modern woodman of Ameri-
ca, and
whereas, we know the society has
lost one of its very best members, the
good wife a kind and affectionate hus-
band. and after having done all we
could for our neighbor during mis-
last illness and after having laid his
body In its last resting place,
Therefore, be 1t resolved, that Poca'
hontas Camp No. 13690, Modern Wood
man of America, extends its sympathy
to the family of the deceased neighbor
and offers its help when the boisterous
storms of life overtakes them, and,
Be it further resolved that copy
of these resolutions be spread upon
our minutes, copy be sent to the fam
lily of the deceased and copy be sent
to the Star Herald for publication.
Roland Morris, Con,
win S. White, Clerk.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
CORN WANTED

/ will buy few hundred bushels Of
corn at fifty cents delivered at E. Dal-
toms barn. Pocahoutas, Ark o. G.
Mock, at Randolph County Bank, viii
pay for corn. Paul Sloan
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
MAYNARD, Ark.

Dear Santa II am n little boy 8
years old. l can help my daddy hltch
up the horses and can bring In stove
wood for mother, so I'm sure you Will
come to see me. Won't you? | want
knife and chain, story book and lots
and lots Of candy and other things to
eat. Atlas Jr., wants gun and ball.
Please don't forget my baby brother,
who is seven months old, and bring
him something too. know you have
to visit so many will not ask for much
this time. Your little boy,
James WaymOnd Hatley.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Pocahontas, Ark.

POcahOntaS, Ark.
Dear Santa II am a small girl 13
years old. | wash dishes, sweep floors,
make up beds and help to cook.
want for Christmas stationery, house
slippers and fountain pen, all kinds
Of nuts. fruits and candies. | will not
ask for too much and maybe you will
not forget me next Christmas. Please
do not forget my father and mother,
two brothers and one sister. Your
girl, Roxie Carter.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16

Rock Road, Ark.
Dear Santa II will write you a let
ter telling you what / want for Christ
mas. | am a little girl II years old.
My school started Monday. picked
cotton all fall. l want a doll. dishes
and some apples, oranges and nuts.
! am going to school and am in the
fourth grade. will close.
Hazel Henderson.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Raise Funds For Church

We, the members Of Lone Oak church
take the pleasure of thanking the peo-
pie through the Old Reliable for their
help they gave us in raising funds for
small payment on the Lone Oak
church house as follows:
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Biggers. Ark

Biggers, Ark.
Dear Santa Claus Il am a little
girl years old and l have curly hair
and brown eyes, Now / am going to
tell you what l want. l want a bic
sleepy doll with curly hair, some caady
nuts, apples, oranges and cocoanut.
Don't forget papa, mama and my other
sister. Well l guess that is all. so
good bye, Eller Meridith.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Walnut Ridge. r

Walnut Ridge, RI, Ark.
Dear Santa Claus Il am a little
girl II years old. l want a big doll
for Christmas. My little sister, age
8 years, wants a big doll too. My little
brother, age years, wants a car that
he can ride in. Please bring lots of
candy, nuts and fruit. Thanking you
will close until next Christmas. Your
little friends,
Ina, Faye and Warren Brown.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16

~. O. Cane Hill, Ark.
bear santa II am a little boy 6
years old l have been good hoy,
l am going to school. want you TO
bring me French harp, ball, candy.
nuts, ranges and need knife. Now
Dear Santa, please remember me and
! VIII be good boy. Curtis Reed.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16

Portia, Ark.
Dear Santa Claus - am a little
girl the age Of eight. l am writing
10 tell you what I want for Christmas
| want a little cupboard, a DOH bed. a
stove and a doll and | hope am NOT
asking for too much Yours sincerely
Christine Wooley.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Tree AT Stony Point

There will be a program and Christ
mas tree at Stony Point school house
Wednesday night, Dec. 22. We invite
your cooperation. Teacher
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Walnut Ridge. Ark.

Walnut Ridge, Ark.
Dear Santa II am a little girl .
years old and am good little girl.
Now Santa l am not going to ask too
much Of you this time. just want a
big mama doll, doll buggy, story book
or Red Riding Hood and fruits. nuts
and candy. I'll go to bed early and
close my eyes tight. l am your little
GIRL Mary Wanda Lacy.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16

Those who donated chickens were as
follows: Mrs. Ora Tharp, Mrs. Jennie
Byers, Mrs. Leona Abbott, Mrs. Mollie
Sifford, Mrs. z. B. Eskridge, Aunt Mat
Dilport, Mrs. Lutte Russell, Mrs. Lily
Collins, Mrs. Cherry, Mrs. Ethel Woody,
Mrs. Minnie Lane, Mrs. Della Archie,
Mrs. Il. L. Mondy, Mrs. George Tyler,
Mrs. NJ. e. Prince, Mrs. George Friar,
Mrs. John Fraily, Mrs. Hull Webb,
Mrs. Ed Cook, Gladys Cook, Mrs. Char
ley Polston, Mrs. Belle Brown and
Mrs. Lavra Stacy.
The chickens were sold and the
money turned over to our treasurer, Ed
Cook, who is to see that the pay
ment is made. From the sale of chick
ems we realized $1499 which, with
$1S03 in cash, gave us total Of $33 OF.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16

Ladies' Home Journal and Saturday
Evening Post at Johnston's
Christmas Seal your mail and seal
the fate Of tuberculosis in Arkansas.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
piles Cured In 6 to Dnvs

Druggists refund money II PkZO OINTMENT fails
TO cure Itching. Bind Bleeding or Protrudins
Piles. Instantly relieves Itching Piles. and you
can set restful sleep after hcst application 60c
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-03
AGRICULTURAL NOTES

Profits Increased by Proper Feed
ing-Cull out the poorer cows, give
the better ones a liberal supply of
the proper feeds and watch the cream
check hold it's own, even gaining in
instances, advises o. G. Schaefer of
the dairy division of the University
of Minnesota.
Dairy division men have been ex-
perimenting with four mature cows
which were purchased from a mem
Der of cow testing association. Two
were grade Holsteins, one a grade
Guernsey, and the fourth a common
red cow of no particular breeding.
Records of feed consumed and milk
and fat produced for two years for
each cow were available. At Uni
versity Farm the cows were given a
ration suited to their individual
needs.
''Under strict test for two years or
more these cows" says Mr.. Schaef-
er, receiving a ration limited to
those feeds that can be grown on
most Minnesota farms, produced SO
pounds or SO per cent more butterfat
than they did for their former owner.
The additional butterfat, valued at
$35. 80, was produced at an added
cost of 1884, giving the university a
profit of $30.46 or 100 per cent
greater than was received by the or
iginal owner"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-03
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Regular Meeting

Regular monthly meeting of the
Common Council of the City of Sank
Centre held Wednesday, May 9TH,
1926 at o'clock P. M. with all the
members in attendance.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
The Manager of the City Band ap-
peared before the Council and asked
for the sum of $4,000 per week for
weekly concerts on the streets, same
to be given every Saturday night,
weather permitting. The Council
voted to pay the band such amount
per week until further notified, de-
pending upon the funds available for
such purpose.
The Clerk reported on hand in the
Water Works Bond & Sinking Fund
the sum of $4402.23 and in the Street
Light Bond & Sinking Fund the sum
of $573.50. He was directed to draw
orders on these funds for the respec-
tive amounts and place such amounts
in interest bearing certificates.
The President of the Council was
directed to let the contract for the
building of the street machinery
house to A. M. Anderson for the sum
of $50. 90.
The Clerk was directed to order
two 'tNo Parking signs.
The Clerk reported having drawn
orders No. 3440 to No. 3448 inclu-
sive in payment of the regular month
ly pay roll and fixed charges.
The following bills were audited,
allowed and ordered paid in full, viz:
Farmers Shipping Association,
street material .........$ 10
Sank Centre Plumbing & Heat
G ing Co., labor on drink
ing fountain, at Fire Hall
and sewer cleaning 800. 81 40
Tony Klein, sewer cleaning :. 1 20
Asa M Wallace, printing -. 44.40
Service Livery, police livery. 1850
blanks and files ......... 6.17
Steiner Lumber Co., fuel for
City Hall ................ 1915
M. A. Cole, police supplies and
labor on election booths. $40
Merchants National Bank, ms,
for Firemen ..... "a
Sigurd J. Holme, mdse for poor 6.25
Theo. Hannsmann. rent and
Adam NC Ortiz tn WOO wood for poor !. 100. 90
B. o. Vogel, fuel for poor 49,. BAL
poor ............... 3S.I1
M. J. Hanauer. mdse. for poor 1885
Corner Meat Market, mdse. for
poor ................. al
Chas. Houghton, wood-fo poor 1900
Kate Gray cleaning for poor. 200
u. J. Coons,. labor for poor =. 1.25
Geo. Dickinson, labor for poor $50
poor ................... 200
mdse. for poor ............ s2.11
The meeting adjourned to Tues
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-03

/ / feel that owe the readers of the
Herald an apology. certainly have
not been on the job when it came to
writing the poultry columns, but I
have been right on the job tending to
little chicks, incubator and turkeys.
I am sure we all have been busy, and
I certainly hope all of our hard labor
has been for a good and profitable
poultry year. Some of the women I
have talked with of late are almost
discouraged because they had no set
ting hens; others were in favor of
the incubator and still others wanted
both. Whatever our equipment to
work with we all work hard and /
am sure our efforts will be reward
ed.
hope all of the hens and incubat-
ors have been set on eggs from hens
of good production, and when those
little chicks are your flock of hens
you will want to add a male of best
kind you can afford. Some of us feel
we cannot afford a high priced bird
to head our flock, but there remains
this much very sure, we cannot afford
to put just any kind of bird at the
head of that fine flock of pullets.
Perhaps some of us are saying it
does not pay to keep fine birds if
you cannot have proper equipment.
We do not need expensive equipment
to make a success Of poultry. All
biddy asks is to be comfortable. It
is in the hen house where the eggs
are laid. If the birds sheltered in that
hen house and if biddy is comfortable
you will be too. In other words, if you
have flock Of good laying hens, you
will almost always have money. Many
a flock of hens have put the herd of
cows to shame when it came to fgur-
ing the profit.
Next week hope to have an inter-
esting column.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-03
line of said Pine Street.
AND WHEREAS. Notice

AND WHEREAS, Notice has been
given to all persons or parties in
terested in said matter, by publica-
ton as provided in resolution of
the City Council passed and adopted
on April 23rd 1926, and whereas the
City Council has heard all persons
appearing in said matter and has ex-
amlned the reports of the cost of
such Improvement and the benefits to
the property affected thereby, and
WHEREAS, It appears that the
total cost of said improvement exclu-
sive Of labor is six hundred ninety
eight and twenty hundredths
($698.20) which amounts to cents
per lineal foot of the property abut-
ting on said Improvement and where
as the amount of the benefit to each
and every parcel affected by said i'm
provement and abutting thereon has
been determined and has been set
forth in an assessment roll which has
been filed in the office of the City
Clerk.
NOW, THEREFORE, The City
Council does hereby determine that
the benefit to the property AUDITING
upon said Improvement is cents per
lineal foot and that the amount as
sessible to each and every parcel of
land abutting upon said improve
p1ent is the amount set forth in said
assessment roll, and there is hereby
assessed to each of said parcels of
land described in said assessment roll
the amount of such benefit.
Further, it is ordered and deter
mined that such assessment shall be
paid to the City Treasurer of the City
of Sank Centre on or before August
1st, 1926 and if not so paid penal
ty of ten per cent (10%) shall at
tach to each and every assessment
and the same shall be certified to the
County Auditor of Stearns County,
Minnesota, to be collected with the
State and County taxes against the
property affected.
The motion to adopt such resolu-
tion was duly seconded and unani-
mously carried.
The meeting adjourned.
J. F. Cooper, City Clerk.
r.
Special Meeting
Special meeting of the common
council held May 18th, 1926 at 1880
p. M. with all the members in at
tendance.
The call of the Mayor was read
which stated the object of the meet
ing to be for the purpose of consid-
ering the proposition to purchase the
Mill dam.
A number of the Citizens were
present and stated that a proposition
had been made by the Milling Co.
to sell the dam to the City and stated
that there was considerable senti-
ment among the citizens that the City
should own the dam and fowage
| rights, but that before anything was
| decided upon it would be wise to
have an expert Hydraulic Engineer
examine and report on the condition
of the dam, and recommended that
the Council secure such an engineer
for that purpose.
The Clerk was instructed to ask the
Pillsbury Engineering Co. to send up
an engineer, make thorough exam
ination and report to the Council.
Aldermen ohall and Salmond
were appointed special committee
to meet the Engineer and render him
any assistance they could.
The meeting adjourned.
J. F. Cooper, Citl Clerk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-03

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, 1926-11-01

COtOUl0J COU1tcLt Dtt NO. ~.
Sixth CouncI, Second Session,
122G-1927.
RESOLUTION
Be 1t re8oIued By the Colonial
Council for the MuHJcjpdJlty Of ST.
CY0iH jD session assembled:
WHEREAS the population of St.
CroiX, Virgin Island, has decreased
continually since the transfer so
that the population is now approx
mateIy only tWO-thirds of what it
was at the time of the transfer,
and,
WHEREAS A state Of emergency
now exists so that the planters of
ST. Croix find themselves very short
of agricultural Iab0rers, and
WHEREAS All attempts to bring
in agricultural laborers from st,
Thomas, Virgin Islands and from
Porto Rico have hitherto failed, st.
Thomas lab0rerS on account Of I'M
suitability for agricultural work,
FOrtO Ricans on account Of difficult
ties with the language, difference
in psychology, and the asking Of
wages which the St. ,roiX planters
with the present prices on sugar ana
cattle can not afford and,
WHEREAS The situation is now
SO serious, that unless the neces~
sary laborers are secured, it Will
not be long before it viii be utterly
impossible to continue the cuItiVa-
ton OF the land, and
WHEREAS One OF the most i'm
portant factors for improving the
economic situation is increased pro-
duction through more extensive
cultivation of the otherwise fertile
soil of st. CroiX, and
, 1926-11-01

remarked: Mr. Chairman, AS this is mere
ly a pension for an old employee / move
that the Rules be suspended and that
End discussion on the Money Bill come
on today.
The Chairman put the members pro-
posal to the vote.
IA members voted for; none against.
The Chairman remarked: End discus
sion will come on after recess
Item 6,
Colonial Council Bill No. 10.
Introduction of and 1st discussion
on Colonial Council Bill No. 10, Re-
solution proposed by Bird Member
for Frederiksted Country District
(Andersen), providing for the i'm
portation of agricultural iabOrers to
St. CrOix.
The bill reads as follows:
Colonial Council Bill No. 10.
Sixth Council. Second Session,
-122G-1927.
PHCOT TTYY0M
, 1926-11-01

WHEREAS st. Cr0iX is a small
island with a population of only
about 10, 0 and the conditions ir
the island as set forth above are
SO fundamentally different from
those in the continental United
States that restrictions Of immigra-
ton is at present not needed, and
WHEREAS The bringing in Of a
few hundred agricultural Iaborers
yearly will be sufficient to fill the
requirement and too insignificant a
number to effect a situation as re.
CARDS the interest Of the Continent
tai United States.
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED.
To request the Governor Of the
Virgin Islands to forward this re
solution to the President of the
United States with the request that
the proper Department in Wash
ingt0n authorize the Governor of
the Virgin Islands until further to
issue entering permits Tor aliens to
the number which in his discretion
is from time to time required.
F. ANDERSEN.
Third Member for Frederiksted
Country District.
Ocrober Is; 1926.
Bird Member for Frederjksted Country
District (AnderSea) in introducing the
resolution said, Mir, Chairman. In intro
ducing this resolution to the Council
only want to make a few remarks to say
in reality such a resolution was deemed
necessary for quite a while. but it Is
more urgeatly required today than it
was last year at this time. Having
charge of a large concern employing
quite a number Of laborers. skilled and
uuskiIled. | can say that the number Of
Iaborers on this island is decreasing to
such an extent that it has become very
difficult to carry on. We had ON our pay
books 10 years ago about fourteen hum
dred Iab0rers and today only rIDe hun
dred. Ii the scarcity Of agricultural la
borers continues tie day will not be far
off when all operation must cease.
think we all agree that to improve the
economic situation in St. CroiX we must
increase our cultivation, and make the
isiauo produce more. to do that we must
have Iab0rers. Cultivation on The is
land about ten years ago was fifty per
cent more than what it is today. We
have imported machiueries but there is
much that must be done by the human