The curtain of fire was so effective Assessment Reduced. that the Germans were unable to send The Supreme Court ordered the as- iiiiiimimiiii ALLIES food to the front line. Men in these PETITIONS FILED sessments on 5,471 acres of land ,in GENERAL AIM trenches were starving for days. Cleveland county belonging; to the REVENUE LookForThis Name The raids on German Drew Timber cut nightly County Company 9f trenches accounted for many of the from 55 an acre to $3 an acre. The BEING MADE ON 3 defenders of these positions, and also timber company had asked the reduc- BILL INTRODUCED enabled the British to observe the ef- tion from the lower courts, but in each fect of the artillery fire during the instance it was denied. The Supreme preceding day, and thus returned with Court reversed the decision, with in- CONTAINS 14,045 NAMES—TIME MEASURE DESIGNED TO PRO- Olives much valuable information. structions to make the reduction PBINCIPALFRONTS LIMIT FOR FILING IS DUCE $210,000,000 IN SUR-TAXES The number of prisoners taken in prayed for. There was no merit in JULY 7. ON INCOMES. and these raids has not been disclosed, the company’s contention that the cir- Pickles but the have been erred in it correspondents cuit court refusing to give — Offensive On Western Front Be- it's a quality mark for exception- permitted to say that men were cap- a trial by jury, however, the court ally good table dainties. the Ger- gan By British And French tured from every battalion in TO FILE ADDITIONAL NAMES held. MUNITION PLANTS ARE TAXED Out Manzanilla and Queen Olives, man line opposite the British forces. plain ot stuffed, ate from the famous On River Somme olive in Will Affect German Morale. Governor Pardons. groves Spain, The information thus obtained Substitute For Bill Killed 1915 On the request of Dr S. W. Colquitt, By It Carries a Non-Parti6an Tariff Com- shows that not a German regi- Lib^y’’ Sweet, Sour and Dill single Introduced physician at the state farm at Cum- Hsattna'I Legislature—Measure By mission and an Pickles are and firm. ment has been removed from this Anti-Dumping piquant Senator John I. Moore Passed mins, Governor Hays pardoned three Clause—Proposes to Abolish Your summer meals and front. The number of Germans op- negroes, Tom Nelson, Will Thomas SMASH GERMAN LINES Senate—Killed in House. picnic baskets are not com- front and in re- Stamp Taxes. posite the British and R. L. Johnson, who were affected plete without them. serve behind the lines was estimated with acute tuberculosis. The negroes Insist on Libby's at your a month ago at 800,000 were said by Dr. Colquitt to be a UNPRECEDENTED BOMBARDMENT Little Rock.— grocer’s. The sector of the German front on source of for tne other Washington.—A general revenue OF SEVEN DAYS PRECEDED danger prison- the The petition for the initiation of the M'Neill & which the British have assumed ers, as there are no separate tubercu- bill designed to produce about $210,- Libby, Libby THE ATTACK. proposed primary election law to be offensive forms a considerable bulge lar wards on the farm. 100,000 from increases in sur-taxes on Chicago submitted to the voters of Arkansas in the British line. The southern end Mrs. W. E. Smith of Hot Springs, incomes and special taxes on inher- at the general election to be held in rests on the Somme, which is a for- wife of an alleged auto bandit, who itances and war munition plants was November, has been tiled with the sec- lllllllll midable river in military operations, was convicted of grand larceny and introduced in the House by Demo- BATTLEGROWSMORE INTENSE retary of state by Joseph W. House because it breaks into many channels sentenced to one year in the peniten- cratic Leader Kitchin. It carries a for Rising Concern. a broad Jr. Stephen Brundidge. flowing thorugh marsh, espe- tiary, was pardoned. provision creating a non-partisan com- The petition contained 14,045 names, “So you’ve invested your money in a cially at places where it has not been John Grice of Pulaski county, who mission and an anti-dumping clause, Russians Continue Their new Drive South coun- a greater number than the eight per airship company?” surveyed. It is a broad, rolling was convicted in 1914. and and proposes abolishing stamp taxes of Dniester for in September, “Yes. If our airship goes up, the Having Captured 217,- over are cent of the vote cast governor j :ry which the British push- sentenced to three years for robbery, by eliminating schedules A and B of OOO Austrians Since time stock will go up.” June—Ital- different from the flat, 1914, which was 135,517. The ing. although was also pardoned. the Underwood tariff law. ians Continue Advance. limit for the petition is July 7. “But suppose it doesn’t?” marshy and bleak aspect of Flan- filing The measure will be taken up in is a substitute for “Then tire company will go up.” Its rounded chalk hills are The proposed law lers. New Roads Planned. the house by a special rule. iensely wooded. the bill which the 1915 Legislature Forty miles of the Jefferson High- BABIES AND GROWING CHILDREN At many points on this sector of failed to pass. The measure which London.—The grana offensive on way through Scott county is being sur- Defense Act in Force. need a tonic to tone up the system and the :he British front it is to see failed of passage was proposed by a western front began by the Brit- possible veyed under the direction of the State Chicago.—Recruiting for the regu- regulate the liver. Mothers are con- ish and he trenches of the Germans committee appointed by the Demo- wonderful success, French on both sides of the winding Highway Commission. Plans were lar army was stimulated by the re- stantly using with cratic state convention two years ago. and Fever Ton- River Somme, 60 miles north of Paris, ibout t'ue opposite slopes. A military filed by the State Highway Commis- ceipt by Captain Franklin R. Kenney, our “Plantation” Chill of the It was introduced in the Senate by ic. Pleasant to take—contains no Cal- has already resulted in a great wedge expert, writing offensive, says: sion for the first road to be built in in charge of recruiting in the Chicago “It is safe to the Germans nev- Senator John I. Moore and passed that omel. Price 50c.—Adv. being driven into the German lines say Crawford county under the new Alex- district, of advices from the War De- in house. a 16-mile er expected a great attack in this body, but was killed the along front, with Its sharp ander road law. The road will run partment that the national defense act Reticence and Discretion. ■ point five miles. !.. ttry. We may hope, therefore, for to Locke. in from is penetrating nearly from Mountainberg Surveys is force and that recruits “1 suppose you know the answer to Case Advanced. At 6 o'clock the British had i reduction of the German salient for a pushed were completed last week road to 21 years of age may be accepted about any question an interviewer here and the of better The Court advanced on from a short distance east of Albert securing Supreme from Conway to Cato in Faulkner without parental consent. could ask?” in- as far as strategic positions. Far more impor- the docket two cases of statewide Montauban, more than five county. “Possibly,” replied Senator Sorghum. miles ant than that, it is certain that this terest. One was that of State Auditor away, and had repulsed a Ger Throw Up Breast Works. “The fact that I know the real answer a man it t ack will be very' destructive to the Dickinson against Wash Clibourne, counter-attack on that village. Favrot to Leave State. Naco, Ariz.—United States soldiers so thoroughly Is sometimes what morale of the German troops. But state game warden. The suit ! Both to the north and to the south deputy Leo M. Favrot, associate supervisor are erecting a line of breastworks makes me a trifle diffident about ex- what must be borne in mind now is to determine whether a number of other villages, including! was brought of rural schools, tendered to George near the United States immigration pressing myself.” :he much greater length of front the could be drawn from the state Hebetrun, Serre, La Boisselle and Ma- money B. Cook, superintendent of public in- office. This action followed reports British hold. We attacked on about fund for of the game metz, had been swept out of German ! game prosecution struction, his resignation, to take ef- that 1,500 Mexican troops are within LIVER PILLS one-quarter of the length of our and fish laws. The lower court held BOND’S hands, some of them only after de- fect August 1. Mr. Favrot will accept a few miles of Naco, Sonora. Naco ront.” it could, and the state appealed. termined resistance by their de-’ that a similar position with the superin- residents are organizing a company of ARE THE BEST fenders. tendent of public instruction In home guards. They are made especially for Head- About the Duck. Fricourt. three miles east of Albert, | Mr. Cook to New York. Louisiana, his home state, and will aches, Biliousness, Constipation, Diz A little schoolgirl in Michigan has was still in German possession in thej State Superintendent of Public In-j move to Baton Rouge about August Consulate Destroyed. ziness, Indigestion, Torpid Liver and vritten the following essay on the early evening, but with the capture of struction George B. Cook left for New j 1. Mr. Favrot took his present posi- Eagle Pass, Tex.—The United States all ailments due to an inactive Liver luck: The duck is a low, Montauban and Mametz. to the east heavy-set 1913. at Torreon, Mex.. was de- or Bowels. One is the dose. Adv. York to attend the annual meeting of ! tion in February, consulate pill >ird. He is a hav- and of mighty poor singer a of civilians southeast it, and La Boisselle National Education Association. molished by mob 3,000 1 ng a coarse voice caused the to the by getting a Lost. northeast, the place was nearly Cook is a member of $7,500 Judgment Affirmed. led by the mayor and Carranza army o many in his neck and he likes Superintendent surrounded and frogs The late Gilman Marston of New its speedy surrender executive committee, and goes in The Supreme Court affirmed tne band, according to American refugees. he water and carries a toy balloon the J seemed inevitable. said the were Hampshire was arguing a complicated advance of other educators in Arkan- ; $7,500 judgment awarded F. S. How. The refugees people a his stomach to keep from sinking and looked authorities back Further south the French are fireman, a bull when Carranza case, up co-op- sas in order to be in New York on Sat- ard, a former Iron Mountain attending fight he duck has only two legs and they j end of an with the them to an anti- re .Julius Caesar. At the erating British and have to attend the meeting of the against the Iron Mountain. Howard troops forced join .re set so far back on his running urday a in the most intricate taken the of Curlu and scored demonstration. hour and half, village committee. was injured in a collision, the acci- American ;ears by nature that they come pretty part of his plea, he was pained to see other notable advances. dent occurring in October, 1914. The car missing his body some ducks what looked like inattention. It was The entente allies’ drive was begun Taft On on tails Suit Advanced. suit came from Lonoke county. Preparedness. I'hei: they get big curls their Game Fund as had feared. The was un- against. German trenches leveled at New York.—The United States won he judge test j ,re called drakes and don’t have to Submission of the suit to pay- able to the nice of ter a In! war with because its adver- appreciate points seven-day bombardment. Pro- Its Spain et or hatch but just loaf and go swim- ment of money out of the Game Continue Capitol Hearing. his which more than 1.000,000 shots daily sary “was the only nation of the earth argument. and eat in if I from which on appro- of evidence in the Caldwell 1 ring everything sight tection Fund, Hearing “Your honor,” he said, “I beg yotir had been fired. j less prepared than we were," accord- ^ sere to be a duck I would rather be a priation was made by the last legisla- & Drake state capitol contract con- but do follow me?” * More Intense. to William H. who delivered | pardon; you Battle Grows ( Iralce have a wide bill ing Taft, they they ture. was the only proceeding of gen- ! troversy was stopped temporarily “I have so far,” answered the judge, The progress of the battle has been an address here. He declared pre- £ ,se it for a spade they walk like a eral interest in the Supreme Court i when attorneys for the contractors about in his chair, marked inten- is a moral obligation upon shifting wearily by steadily increasing ( runk man bounce and paredness they bump session. The suit involves several and the state capitol commissioners “but I'll that if I of the North of say frankly thought sity fighting. the £ bout from side to side if you scare the country. other funds in the stale treasury. agreed to delay taking of more testi- I could find my way back, I'd quit River Ancre it has been particularly ^ hem will their and they flap wings mony until July 11. here.”—Christian Register. severe. The in several vil- of Uniforms. right enemy t ry to make a pass at singing.—Detroit Stripped To Succeed Ray Gill. lages offered a strenuous resistance ournal. El Paso, Texas.—Mexicans belong- 0. P. Finley was appointed deputy Attend Road Human Nature. but the gallantry of the British troops Meeeting. ing to the crew of the train that car- of instruc- B. state com- him !—can stay resulted in their state superintendent public Guy Tucker, highway 17 American prisoners from “Nobody—hod-durn gradually working; Natural Born : ried the Spender. State George and H. R. Carter left for ! in hotel and sneer at our progres- around various tion by Superintendent missioner. Chiuhuahua City arrived my strong points. When a long-forgotten cousin in Carrizal to B. Cook, to succeed Ray Gill, -who has Vilonia. near Conway, where they will their sive little city!” snarled the landlord With Fricourt now nearly surround left Miss Mitfield in Juarez and say that after cap- ( Colorado died, and he had resigned to secretary of the attend a good roads meeeting. the pur- of of die Petunia tavern after 6d the British further north are or. round hundred thousand, the entire ^ecome ture the prisoners were stripped j a out and hurled his Business Men’s Club of Fort Smith. pose of which is to establish an im- to travel in kicked guest grip- both sides of the Gommecourt salient. illage. after having recovered from their uniforms and forced district in Faulkner sack after him—“He said that about and the village of Mametz now is com- | he shock, fell to wondering w'hether provement their underclothes. Governor Pardons. all of the energy displayed by our pletely in their hands. A German he faded little spinster, after having county. Robert Threat and Charley Mitch- citizens was in running for oflit'e l” on Montauban was sue- i or years and Six Sons in Army. counter-attack sixty-three pinched 1 “we have often ell, negroes, convicted in the Faulkner Names “But.” we objected, cessfully repulsed. The number of i craped and plain-sewed just to kaep Surveyor. Baltimore, Md.—Mrs. Mary Wolfe on heard you declare that this town was County Circuit Court in June, 1914, J. P. Breckenridge of Chicot county are prisoners so far taken in this region ; oul and body together, would, after of this city has 14 sons, and six the of a and sentenced for the habitat of more crooks, deadbeats, The record i much comfort from her charge felony, was appointed county surveyor States soldiers. Two are with is about 1,500. naturally ill, get United the each to 21 years in the penitentiary, j The hypocrites, fools and gossips to is and other prisoners are ( ileventh-hour opulence. The state of Chicot county. appointment, the Twelfth Cavalry in Mexico, one incomplete, inch than any other hamlet on was revealed were by Governor Hays. made Governor George W. Hays, square being brought in. The operations are ! diss Mitfield's mind pardoned by is with the Twelfth Artillery in Ver- The former the face of the earth.” fine waGier. vhen her next-door neighbor inquired was to fill a vacancy. and three are members of the being favored by mont, and it’s too!” he returned. with her Matters. had resigned. “Yes, so, The battle is characterized by the vhat she would do money— Incorporation county surveyor Fourth Maryland National Regiment, “But, I live here and am save it? "Save it!’ Maxwell Park Athletic Associ- by gosh, privi- British effort to surround villages lid she mean to The Guard. leged to find as much fault as I like have made a ier eyes flashed with new-found ation of Texarkana filed a certificate which the Germans STATE HAPPENINGS. in hut no all its with everything town, of resistance. scorn. "Listen to me, Betsy; my announcing its desire to surrender Circulars Declare War. strong point Lon ( ook, five years of age, fell a to criticize any- ife I’ve wanted a of side- of cor- stranger-has right the British were around long pair charter, all the liabilities the Brownsville, Tex.—Circulars were At 6 o’clock an in the floor of !”—Kansas Star. lombs with yellow glass beads onto been for. through opening thing City Gommecourt and Beaumont-Hamel, poration having provided j distributed in Matamoras, opposite I’m to bev em; the steel bridge at War Eagle and time was con- em, and now goin' the latest cross- and fighting at this below. here, declaring that, ma’am—even if I hev to go as landed in shallow water 25 feet the first stage, res, Incorporation Matters. into Mexico of American troops tinuing determinedly, The lad was bruised ing as cents!” 1. & Co. of Jonesboro filed only slightly by to be a long action ligh fifty Goldstein near has been construed as a of what promised the fall. here j certificate of dissolution with Earle developing. declaration of war against Mexico on For of state. The the opposite the Brit- of W. Hodges, secretary the of the United States. Among troops Odd Way Moving. j A big of magnesium has part of the company were I. Gold-1 outcropping has been found, were the Prus- \ its stock to another officers ish, it “On moving been discovered on the farm of John and Abe Nossek, sec- Pure Goodness reserve division which a wholesale dry goods com- stein, president, j Shackleton Pails. sian guard building Gustafson in Stone county, six miles Again at Loos and Neuve Chappelle. pany, at Wheeling, W. Va., recently retary. Montevideo, Uruguay.—Lieut. Fir fought south of Calico Rock. flavor Are Taken. unusual scheme in order and delicious, snappy Many Prisoners pursued an Ernest Shackelton, in a dispatch to the of Risen filed articles of incor- The British are fighting gallantly to expedite the work,” says Popu- pany British minister his no other food-drink equals N. B. Burrow of Altus was elected the here, reported in tne "The struc- poration. The capital stock is $10,- and have taken many prisoners lar Mechanics Magazine. return to Port after having the chairman of the Republican Central Stanley, ture which it abandoned is situated im- 000, fully paid, and corporators front lines. failed because of heavy ice conditions, ; C. K. H. N. Committee to succeed the late L. H, advancing on tnc mediately across the street from the are: Elliott, Robertson, The French, to rescue the main body of his Ant- W. H. N. A. Moore. with great new location. This convenient circum- E. A. McMurtrey, Glover, British right., are moving arctic expedition, left on Elephant a A. B. Robertson, J. N. Rob- After the assault they stance prompted the construction of McKinney, POSTUM steadiness. A test oil well Is sunk on the Island. of two bridge, to connect the®jec- ertson, .T. W. Carter, J. S. Watwood, being very quickly covered a distance temporary ,T. S. Richardson, E. B. Alwood and Williamson farm near Mineral the German fron ond-story windows of both buildings, Made of wheat and a bit kilometers beyond Miss Armour a Nurse. A. Jones. well i over which the goods could be carried g. Springs. line. Thus far the day has gone Chicago.—Miss Lolita Armour, of wholesome molasses, it has on trucks. The plan proved success- The Osceola Realty and Improve- for France and England. daughter of J. Ogden Armour, has the and of ful, for it saved the time and labor ment Company surrendered its charter A good roads meeting at Williford rich snap tang high- The British offensive was preceded forwarded to Washington her applica- would have been con- to Secretary of State Earle W. named B. N. con- of a com- which otherwise Hodges. Yates, George Gray, Jeff grade Java coffee, yet by a bombardment week, tion to be one of the first hundred sumed in loading and unloading wag- Index Sanders and Lee the bombardment of 21 The Publishing Company of Davis, Andy Higgin- tains no harmful pared with Red Cross nurses to go to the border elements. ons and to the first as to a advance at Loos las' lowering goods Marianna surrendered its charter. S. bottom delegates meeting to days before thVtWe in case of war. She was trained in a floor in one structure and elevating be held at The shorter duration of F. Lyle was president and Hugh Mix- Poughkeepsie to discuss September. other local This hot table drink is ideal them to the second story in the secretary. plans for building a road from Willi- hospital. the artillery preparation, however, on, for children and one.” ford through Poughkeepsie to Cave particularly was more than made up for by its, Articles of incorporation were filed Will Represent U. S. to with the secretary of state City. satisfying all with whom intensity. The Angelus. by the London.—-American affairs in Mexl. effect of the British Marwell Electric Light and Power | coffee The terrible The Angelus, a prayer to the Holy co will be taken over by British offi- disagrees. from to Company of Marmaduke. The The Columbia Cooperage Company fire was described day day j Virgin, was instituted by Urban the corpo- cials in case of war. Arrangements A. S. of McGehee has an aband- by correspondents, all of whom | Second. It has three verses, and each i rators are: Bertig, Bertig, J. purchased ! have been made for the taking over Postum comes in two forms; it had ! R. Bertig and B. G. Brinkman. The oned hoop mill at Tallulah, La. This agreed that nothing to equal j verse ends with the salutation “Ave j of Mexican interests at Washington The Postum Cereal the fourth the has original before on the British front, j i capital stock is $15,000, which is ful- is plant company French occurred Maria.” ! by the embassy. requires boiling; Instant J ly paid. bought in this vicinity. ---- The Gurdon Electric Postum is made in the Company of Feed cup Scientific Explanation. sensitive photographic plate with very Will 30,000 Troops. Gurdon filed articles of incorporation. The Yellville Traction Company, will fol- E. Barnard called- attention long exposures. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Pittsburgh instantly, by adding boiling Prof. E. are F. L. The corporators Stut, R. which has closed a lease for the use low the established of many dark objects precedent during water. to the discovery Swartz and G. P. Be- railroad i Whittington. of the Yellville-Rush track, the 'Civil war and feed the soldiers on the photographs taken with the Honey Vinegar. m sides furnishing electricity, the com- has engines and has a force or observ- has an bought who will pass through this city, esti- Bruce telescope of the Yerkes I Vinegar made from honey For a time at table pany will also conduct an ice workmen passenger cars. E. good ex plant. building mated at 30,000. atory, often in regions of the sky ! exceptionally fine flavor and is not The Watson Commission Company P. Hill, general manager says he ex- and better health all ’round, M'v where there is no ordinary nebulosity ! A small amount of honey pensive. service be- of of Mena filed articles of incorporation. pects to have passenger Postum tells its own story. and where the stars are too few to I furnishes a large amount vinegar Take Charge of Arms. Dissolve The corporators are L. S. Watson. H. tween Yellville and Yellville junction form a luminous background for their I follow these directions. Laredo, Tex.—All arms and ammu- of warm M Frederick and E. B Daniels. by July 4. relief. The appearance of these ob- I thoroughly In two gallons nition in pawnshops and hardware “There’s a Reason” of extracted The Concordia Fire Insurance Com- jects in black relief on the plates can ; soft water one quart jar stores were seized by United States It in a of Milwaukee filed notice ol carnival and other at- on the assump- honey. Give it air and keep pany With a street authorities here and placed in safe- ■“.'rhaps be explained Sold Grocers a fee- warm where it will ferment and withdrawal from the state. tractions Siloam Springs is celebrat- by everywhere. yti\n that space itself possesses I place keeping in the United States customs ble’ .ninosity sufficient to affect the ! make excellent vinegar. The Model Drug Company of Ash ng the 34th anniversary of the found- house. down surrendered its charter. ing of the town.