Irvlne L- Lenroot finds in the Ten*” " There are three boys in the Gear? Carroll County, , Is the fint of hls former In- [ mrZTfr, rmher farm is near Henderson, county in the Eighth Federal Res err* friends. Gronna of family whose I kot« North Da. i in Baxter The are Riley, WEEK District to raise Its full quota on th* °f Nebmska- Polndexte, county. boys NEWS OF W.2S Charles and Clifford. Riley is now in Liberty Loan, and has received th* shlngton and Townsend of Mich- j ar- of were all a the aviation corps, Charles in the I flag honor. ;fean part of that body of tillery and Clifford is in the infantry. Tabloid OUR CIVIL WOES Wh0 oohorsed Told Herewith in UnolTTLncle Joe oePl,bliCanS When the left the farm the work WAR BREVITIES. Cannon In the Sixty-first NOT 10 boys OPEN Li was In there not stop, for it taken Form will begin fact. Norris was the lead- %did Conscription In Ireland of the — rural -r^ongress. of the their sisters, Misses Lillian and DEPOPULATION insurgents. Since then Town- up by this week and much trouble is antic- is a problem 3end has Blanche, school teachers, who are districts become more or less regular ; ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT DE- ipated. attention. a member of now plowing, cultivating and planting. Condensed Items of Interest THAT needs the house and he CIDES JEFFERSON COUNTY’ of was^e and do the Highland Park, 111., has a family considered one of the They handle the teams Republican CHANCERY CASE. for Member of four brothers all in the and an* other work as well as the boys could Every army, the management of tTalerSmvnder Jim of these has five sons in the servlcn fann. The do it. the Household BY CHAMP CLARK Republicans have no doubt f his Plans are under consideration to DISCUSSED regularity when he takes hls >eat raise the draft to 40 so am In the senate. SETTLES BOND Shooting, poisoning and trapping age years, QUESTION to have in the MISCELLANEOUS. plenty of men. Farm to the Not has proven inadequate ridding From the City Germans claim to Drift It takes more than the J. T. Jones of rats, so be hopeful that Word comes to Washington thatonr Race or Lo- mere state Judge place to Any Color, the are Confined *ent, “It will win ! Farmer he George Bullin, Indemnity they to get from the boys are holding the line at the hot- Loan Cam- help the war.” nc Operating Gin For Share employed young Liberty natter how allies will pay the national debt. test of contact on the western ca|jty_Starting often made or how loud It i Croppers and Renters Is Not Public who owns the best rat dog around point s in Washington. shouted, to away. Disgusted with Milwaukee's lack of front. paign convince an old stagei Ginner Within Meaning of the Cotter, to drive the pests ke Uacle Joe took watch and are taken A son of Revenue Commto Cannon that a propo Statute the Court Holds. George and his dog loyalty, steps being by po- young ARTHUR W. DUNN. Jtlon Is lice in BY worthy. Younger members after a battle of one hour they had some cities to halt the importa- sioner Roper of New York, klled seven course the big Job nay fed reluctant rats. tion of Milwaukee beer. Germans in a combat before the Hans Washington.—Of about opposing a killed 57 nil if the now has on its proponents howl Holland has been asked Ger- were able to put him out. which “war ne Little Rock.— by but there loud is winning the war, ’essity”. enough, but the to allow her men to are hand ex-speak- Cotton who Following a call from the county many go through Pershing’s men falling back on solve ;r wants to planters operate gins several big problems to be shown. He food A. R. in order to get around the end of the the sawed-off double-barreled shot- are recently only for their own benefit and for administrator, Goodnight, expressed his to be engaging the at- opinion in this to of coun- allied lines. and are the Germans the which ought respect the cotton of their tenants and share- the farmers Independence gun, giving not md there is no of those who are devoting doubt that Uncle Joe’s to sell their wheat there were 500 Small towns In much surprise of their lives. tention croppers do not come within the pro- ty Germany are war work. In a ’pinions get more energies to way respectful and at- bushels brought to Batesville. All the disturbed over casualties their rlsions of the state law which pro the recent Marine corps officials are out in an of men have been tentive consideration to a number try- the square men who the wheat back said on the western war quite vides for the of cotton brought front, as the Is for more volunteers. of ull nch than those of licensing gins appeal 40,000 to solve the greatest prob- any other legisla- that if jt was necessary they would that no can its ing or according to a ruling of the Arkansas showing family escape this country, which at the capitol. It came at lems that confront the end eat cornbread until the next crop. ueciuiy tun. 1 >f Supreme Court. The licensing law PERSONAL. of the furms and one member’s passionate Is the depopulation appeal ia went into Gov. -vhich the effect August 1 last. It re- Germany claims to think that Amer- Gardner of Missouri has offer- of rural to the cities. Stars and were the influx people Stripes to A number of farmers in the vicinity ica stands in mortal of air ed vaved and quires ginners furnish bond of not dread raids, the United States senatorship to Clark has a clear the eagle screamed, and Champ less than nor more than of Big Flat, Baxter county, have just and says the entire coast line of the Speaker he burden of his 5300 $2,60C Champ Clark, and Clark has refused. what is 6n and can scream was, “Pass Idea about going and to place metal tags on all baler finished picking their cotton crop. It nation is guarded by airplanes. :his bill for the boys ‘over Russell Keren of the causes, but as yet has not there.’ is said that bolls which failed to Smith, 20, Denver,, give “Of guinea ana 10 preserve two samples 01 open H. G. Stevenson, of a the course,” remarked Uncle president has Invented the able to offer a solution of Joe the after the first frost of last and navy depart- been cotton ginned. Violations of the just heavy Memphis bank, lost a package contain- his own unphatically, “everything that comes ment has The speaker takes law fall in the warm sun shine adopted a submarine trap. problem. low renders the ginner liable to a opened ing $15,000 from his automobile. comes in the name of ‘the in district ns an example boys fine of last week. congressional he trenches.’ $1,000. Girls at have or- John D. Ryan, copper magnate, hat* that little towns Certainly they are to b< Hammond, Ind., and he points out Several of Jefferson been ;ared for and cared large planters ganized an anti-slacker and will appointed as chief of the air his district do not grow for well. Some club, throughout county got together and protested tc The State Highway Commission craft construction program. imes I think that if we could be a lit- accept attentions from no one who because small manufacturing plants Commissioner that their for 43 miles of :ie more and Page private completed plans grac- should be in the William J. name on a Chau- in the smaller cities and practical find out what army. Bryan’s cannot thrive gins should not come under the pro ed earth roads to be constructed in he bills we consider A is on German tauqua program to be held in Luding- One reason is Decause mey mean, maybe the mutiny reported towns. visions of the new state ginning act, the southern of coun- )oys in the trenches would part Mississippi but the crews were al- Mich., next August has resulted sufficient railroad accom- get along U-boats, not ton, cannot get as they said it would be impossible ty at an estimated cost of letter than if we should $104,720. lowed to as in a row. and if located on one line merely be land the infantry was modations i to operate the small gins if it were in ising language; it is action, not words, called out and the men are prisoneds Prof. Thomas, the discredited soci- of road they have been squeezed necessary to secure state licenses foi ve desire.” The Second District Agricultural on their own ologist of matter of freights. But the main craft. university, plead* the them. It was arranged that a test School at Russellville has its proven not guilty to a charge of viol tttHflrfttti trouble is that manufacturing plants should be made. An With the August 17 Mr. patriotism on a war a statement of Majority by going strictly moral code. In small places cannot maintain drews and other COURT PROCEEDINGS. lender Kitchln in Jefferson countj bread diet. No more wheat will be skilled labor. ringing its ears, to Judge Walter Guion has been named scale of wages or hold secured in the Jefferson Twenty-nine men were convicted in he effect that congress would be able planters used until the summer harvest. Their best men gravitate to the cities San United States senator from Louisiana 0 adjourn 1 if it Chancery Court a temporary injunc Francisco, charged with conspir- kind by July attends strict- to succeed the late where they meet their own of tion Commissioner ing to start a revolution in India. Senator Broussard y to business from now the restraining Pagt Because of lack of young men due seem better on, house Andrew and where they from as J. prominent farm- people •emoved its fists from its enforcing the law so far theii to the war, two of the oldest literary Walter Gibbins and his common law Depier, an eyes and er of satisfied. “There is scarcely agri- were concerned. October wife Chillicothe, Mo., is dead from 'f stopped bawling about politics and in- private gins societies at the University of Arkan- are under the sentence of death cultural county in the United States.” 6 the Jefferson at injuries received in rescuing a child in. competence long enough to 11 mll- county chancellor sas, the Garland and the Lee, have London for starvving GlbbinB’ 7- lost pass a said the Speaker, “which has not made the anil burning building. ( tary bills in one day recently. Most of injunction permanent been compelled to consolidate. year old daughter. population in the last ten years." General Arbuckle then Douglas Fairbanks, the movie star,, hese bills were rather unimportant, Attorney ap Nick Cuhtz, a deserting soldier, was the case to the state spoke at the coliseum at St. Louis on >ut two or three involved good-sized pealed Supremo A movement is on foot among the given a sentence of 20 years by the last Speaker Clark cannot see that the i ippropriations or changes in policy. Court. graduates of the class of 1917 of federal court at Little Rock. Saturday boosting Liberty Bond*. war is going to make any difference Nevertheless the house seemed to be T^e Supreme Court, in its decision Ouachita College at Arkadelphia to does said a for the benefit ol GENERAL. with the pr< rnt condition, nor i nore or less fascinated by the idea of gin operated purchase a Liberty bond to apply on LABOR. St. he believe that the men who come i 1 midsummer adjournment, with a land owner for himself and tenants the college endowment fund. Louis, among other cities in the* pros- The street car strike in has back from the war will want to go to ] >ects of four months’ political “skull- and share croppers does not come United States, is making an attempt:, about ended and service resumed. the country and live on farms. He I >usting" before the November elec- within the general definition of a “pub Gordon Huffmaster, inheritance tax to banish German language papers. thinks that there is a tend- < and the usual flow of lie gin,’’ and the act as written ap British efficiency has the general ions, useful lan- attorney, paid into the state treasury inspired Mexicans crossed the river near" on the of the in the i guage was not in evidence. But plies only to public gins. The do on account of inheritance tax American labor delegates to London ency part people $68.08 Marfa, Tex., fired on an 1 with a American, country districts to move to the cities, whether the effort will last or not is cree of tbe lower court was affirmed. collected from the estate of Littleton much higher respect for the patrol, hit one man in the eye and: and although he recognizes it is a very t mother story. T. Harris of Monroe county. English artisan, according to James Wilson, head of the were driven back. serious question, he has not figured ST AT K K \ GS. delegation. Two out a remedy. Never an issue of the Congres- Dr. E. F. Hodges of Branch has women in the same ward In Ik f New York He of a interesting ional Record these days but there are purchased an 18-month-old hospital gave birth to girl* spoke very A farmer who lives near Dardauclle, registered ACCIDENTS. on the of the colored situation in a 1 emarks which “deplore partisan Shorthorn heifer for $275. He has same day, and one of the wom- phase Yell county, went into one ol the Three persons were killed in Bir- number of states and in < riticism,” and also assertions to also bought two brood en now claims the babies have been particularly banks recently and told the cashier Duroc-Jersey mingham, Ala., when a street car * he effect switched. Missouri. He said that the negroes that “this is not time for ; sotvs for $115. he wanted 1o know about turned over a curve something i rounding too river towns. “It must I lartisan discussion.” At the same __ Three soldiers from gravitate to the Liberty bonds. The cashier explained swiftly. Camp Logaq, be that there is some affinity between t lme, as the election gets nearer and ! The Cotton Plant Red Cross rooms Tex., are held as highway robbers at the reason for the bonds and strong The great American 1 learer there is an increase of liner St. Paul a nigger and a catfish,” said the partisan ! are too small for the increasing work Houston. ly recommended them. The farmci was sunk at her dock in New York “for have left ( llscussion. Naturally the attacks come of the chapter at that place and ef- Three speaker, they good said: “Put me down for $5,000 'worth | on bankers of a peculiar re- 1 rom to Thursday, April 26. No loss of life. to towns the rlv- the Republicans. They belong ; forts will be made to secure ligious belief places tq go along now and if I like them I will call tn larger are under arrest at Kan- 1 are the ers. I know of where they he opposition party. They i quarters soon. sas places before long and buy some more of City, charged with seeking to bribe for mem- 'outs." They must find enough faults CRIMINAL. could find employment every them.’’ The farmer is Albert Keller. army officers for the release of oth- vith the “ins” to convince the ber of the family, have a cabin and an people i Liberty bonds are being sold rapid- Mrs. Mary Moore and her daughter ers of their beliefs. * hat there should be a when acre of land where could run a change ly in Clay county. The quota for the Alice of both died An they Lamoine, Wash., increase of 100,000,000 « ' to the next November. A specimen of wheat-grown on tin pound* little farm of their own, and yet they hey go polls j Eastern District is $105,000. Already suddenly under circumstances which year is Herbert farm near Jamestown expected in the production of As u consequence the “deploring" Snupp has been pull up stakes and go to the river i $170,000 sold and interest is indicate poisoning. fish by the food was exhibited in Batesville administrators in five ! come from the Demo- recently. ■ towns.” peeehes largely still keen. Helmuth of gulf states. The wheat was almost matured and Schmidt, Detroit, lured drift ■rntic side in both senate and house. It would thus appear that the a housemaid to his and after The is observed that will be ready for harvest about the home, National Editorial association I* from the farms is to Vt the same time it The Junior knitting class of Ash- not confined any making a proposition, which she re- to meet in Hot he Democrats do not hesitate to at- first of May. This Is about 30 days Springs, Ark., the first color or race. down presented a musical comedy, fused, killed her and burned earlier than usual for this section. the body. week in June. I ack the Republicans whenever an op- “The Belles of Folderol,” at Foreman Mrs. Kate Count portunity nffords. The Republicans for Red Cross benefit. The Findley Skaags, 40, of Ishil, Japanese diplomat at proceeds St. The third Loan , excuse Louis, crazed the San the Liberty campaign ■lnim they have an excellent Or. account of the growing interest were $50. by continual bat- Francisco, says difference ilk. on tle with food and started in Washington with a bang f or exhibiting partisanship on account in the annual May singing in Clarfc poverty, slew her three chil- climate makes it impossible the of our declaration of President dren and to send Oriental anniversary , if the strong support which county two places have been selected The orchestra of Henderson-Brown attempted suicide. troops to France. war against Germany. The celebra- 1 Vilson and the entire Democratic ad- for ihe convention this One is yedr. i College at Arkadelphia, gave an en- George Baker, 66, farmer, of Whlte- tion commenced when officially Mary , ulnlstration gave to Joseph Davies, Hollywood, 12 miles west of Arkadel tertainment at the Citizens’ Theater FIRES. hall. 111., was killed by a bull on hi* Charlie candidate for sen- Five men farm Piekford, Chuplln, “Doug” vho was Democratic phia, the other is Copeland Ridge, 15 at Camden for the benefit of the Red lost their lives in fire at Sunday. Fairbanks and Marie Dressier up- Wisconsin. With an election the ior in miles south of Arkadelphia. Cross. Blewett bakery, Brookline, Mass. Former Senator J. L. Bristow at peered on the at the east front , it is to keep steps :oming on, impossible Kansas, was denied the privilege oC of the capitol, on the spot where pres- out of congressional de- Rov 14 convicted j partisanship Sclnig, years old, Major Webb of Lamar organized a DOMESTIC. making a speech at Ellsworth, in that ldents of the United States stand ] lates. in White in the fall of 1917 o) It has state. county home guard at Coal Hill -ecently with been decided by the proper when they take the oath of office at and sentenced to foui grand larceny 50 members. Capt. Charles Kenneda ,;jH»nrities to place all the air craft their inaugurations. A goodly number inert? tirt? n iui ui ^vrvT« in the and after- years penitentiary and Lieut. Claud Sams will drill the construction in FOREIGN. of program charge of senators and congressmen, together , ■onnected with the administration, ward transferred to the reform school Belgium was men. one man. again a borrower front soon with several thousand ] leaders of history know that ns a Governoi Washingtonians, was granted pardon by the U. S. strong box, this time askr ■ for ^nUTlOrn h.jva were there to see what their movie bodies or ministries MaiginS Of Droflts is parliamentary Brough. Employes of Central Mine No. 6, at ing and getting $3,250,000. favorites and to some extent for been fixed the looked like in the flesh, l lecame responsible Huntington, the largest coal mine in by federal trade board. The Geramn kaiser has it was to see the of , on the affairs of a govern- ordered amusing chagrin •arrylng The adjustment for insurance ol the state, bought more than $9,000 Federal officials have begun to the mon- inen in the trenches some of the legislators at being forced ] nent, and even before, when Wnrren School has to grow the High building I worth of war savings stamps in a prepare a wage program sal- beardsp. to for whereby play second fiddle, so far as pop- , irch was responsible made. As soon as saying they would act as a primarily been arrangements day. aries will with germ-filter.. never at- keep pace the cost of ular interest was concerned. “Little ( the opponents and secured froir The everything, can be made permit living. kaiser, convinc'd ©f the ulti- herself to be a better the head of the administration new Mary’ proved \ ncked the government a $50,000 build The Hermesian Literary Society of mate success of the central the Income and are pcrr/erst bond salesman than mere con- < but severely castigated outgo widely apart any lireetly ing will be erected. Ouachita College at Arkadelphia was warns all nations that at as oppose feint gressman, however, by taking in over ‘king’s advisers.” a Washington, the war’s ex- presented with service flag with daily that they ure the of the ad- pense now totls digging their own. $1,600,000 in the one day. Rarely do opponents Charles H. Brissenden of Piggott 40 stars by Willy Robbins, president. $40,000,000. in criticism di- graves. nlnistratlon say much one-time commander of L. The Company long standing con- but they do controversy claims the of the president, First Arkansas of the Na- a recent raid am wuen rectly Regiment Lutherville, striotly German set- cerning the cost of coal tne country Is at war more of the to the rail- It out” on one or a Zeebrugge and Ostend was a and ‘take tional Guard, has opened hoop fac tlement. in the eastern part of John- roads complete* the interests of the whole peo- It has at last been left to the pres- failure. boys.” A few years ago at for the ol ple are of •whipping tory Piggott making son county, has gone “over the top” dent. bound up In the success of the navy de- Baron Burlan vns Josephus Daniels for fish nets. with their of the has been appointed! fhe nation In seem hoops part Liberty loan. that war, It may was the “whlp- The premier of the ni rtment who prime government is out with a call Austrian empire at be- is strange that such drastic legislation Wilson admlnistra- ior men hest of Kaiser dng boy” of the The Temple Mining Company, ope- experienced in waterway Wilhelm. necessary as that which has been Many cases of smallpox have de- pro- Since the war began Secretary work. are lon. rating the Anna May mine on Buff.dc They needed for French Chancellor von Hertling is n posed and so strongly advocated in veloped at Coal Hill and the disease suing 3aker has been the principal “whlp- has a canals. Berlin paper because of both river, near Buffalo, completed seems to be The school recent critt- houses of congress. Looking back at various intervals spreading. ilng boy” and concentraeing plant. This 1? Maryland’s governor has cisms of the moral ideas of through the vista of it Is large has not been closed yet. signed a German years easy Hoover, the food ndininlstra- bill ieaders. to Herbert the only plants of its kind operating which legalizes betting on horse explain existed the fuel admfn- why “copperheads” Doctor Garfield, races. Austrians hi the or; in* the county. Clyde Martin, editor of the El Do- are complaining against northern states during the Civil and George Creel, the chief strator, 'the government the misdemeanors of the ''nr. Those men not had Each In fadan of El Dorado, has bought the has taken over all house ot only preju- if the bureau of information. (‘‘‘os The women of Cuslimen have or interest of Ernest C. Rauert in the the wool output of the for Bourbon—the queen’s family-—and against war, but they believed his place ns “whipping country sol- jis turn takes unit of the Inde diers’ particularly criticise states had a when ganized a sewing Union, County Tribune. uniforms. Prince Sixtua. right to secede. But and very severe things are said ‘hero my" Red Cross A is no of pendence county chapter. plan 10 introduce in All Austrian question of the right's these men, not only bv Republi- sheep raising archdukes have wsfe ,1,'nut the south atates, and further, there Is no ques- to the admin- Strawberries are ripening around on an extensive scale is un- called to Vienna for an cs opposed politically urgent tion as to the college and public schoo der consideration ference with the great disaster defeat for but by many Democrats. Both Fordyce and everything points to a by boards of tra«»- the emperor and mia- ho istration, ui American arms would be to the at Mountain Home are making pre good season. They are bringing 25 three states. isters. nntlon, it is the Tales. for commencement. cents a basket. certainly amazing that Traveler's parations A Km new department of serv- Irkutsk, the inland eminent is to farther amenable military capital of Si- obliged go are peculiarly ice has been nn it Elephants created. It is to be known beria, has fallen into ihe hands of the ever did before in order to put and ’tis a stupid pachy- At a box supper given recently at The foundation for the new canning Uowu -o kindness, I as the motor transptflrattion Germans. treason and sedition. that doesn’t know his Grove for the benefit of the at Everton is division, lerm indeed, Prairie factory being built. and a higu official will have couimanu. German But this fact stands out boldly: When the keeper is away Red Cross the proceeds amounted tc More than 150 a^-es of tomatoes have authorities agree that prico- ra n mahout. of in fever eat, but sorrows mile? Fifty Pershing's men—wounded iixing in mat has legislation is necessary to he elephant won’t $130. Blaine, a village eight been pledged country been *, a are back in the 11 tain is a Rec united States work- tail ure. the government in the pros- ind starves. Crocodile hunting good east of Prairie Grove, gave ing tor the loan. 0‘ution of of Annum are eroco- which netted Liberty Guatemala nas the war will be enacted even .port The people Cross box supper $140. ■The Boyce-Kansler of taken steps to sup- ‘t Company goes the reptiles out livery of the preos an war to the extent of clothing the Hie charmers, calling Tongin Spur, Lee county, noticed the employe St. Louis pi'opaHuucia, no umiai). killed. Fried croco- the ol street whom ‘resident with still greater power than )f ,he rivers to be The lunch given by ladies secretary of state of the surrender of railway company has bougnt a oy CiiCuiatea, m an eiuieavoxi u now to tempt the U-Derty Dond. to maiu>.ain has. The people throughout tile tall Is a delicacy the Red Cross in Beebe netted them its charter. neutrality. e fond country who are of foment- of anyone. We are very foT the cause. guilty palate $25 aiichigan s dry law will go into ef- -‘■‘-•w ia uuw u.ciu^ Lue untied ‘reason and boa constrictor, sliced sedition are responsl- jt. Young A baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. fect on May 1, and no (States to use ner tun endeavor ed0 Chi- person may pos- in uiw r°r the is a favorite dish of the have drastic legislation which md fried, Merchants of Magnolia agreec George Vollman a few days ago and sess more than eight ounces of viuudij) ojl I ■'* culti- waisa, uuiuuiii6 pianea tnc. been Slam, but I could never it enacted and which will be aese in to refuse to deliver purchases was christened Pershing Haig Voll- ior any purpose. on me nustnan ixont- '“‘acted in for It.—Exchange. the future. vate a taste value under $1. maou M-. MmM■