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Newspaper
Dermott News
Location
Dermott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
8
The Dermott News announces R. A. Buckner of Dermott as a candidate for delegate to the Constitutional Convention. The notice invites support for Buckner’s candidacy.
On June 1 Herbert Hoover mailed letters to ministers nationwide urging sermons on Food Conservation for Sunday July 1 to launch a campaign to Save the Waste and Win the War. Hoover cites annual U S food waste around 400 million and appeals to American women to respond to the call.
President Wilson proclaims Red Cross Week June 15 to 22 to raise 100 million dollars for wartime relief. Arkansas is apportioned 1.5 million with a call for statewide citizen giving to support military and civilian aid at home and abroad during the war. The article notes the looming loss and sacrifice as 1,004,000 American boys will serve in Europe with 0,000 from Arkansas.
A wartime message cites that 10 percent monthly casualties on the firing line and over half of six months' service lead to incapacity. It urges Arkansans to fund Red Cross efforts to alleviate suffering, framing the drive as the Lord loves a cheerful giver and a duty to prepare for emergency needs.
An article in a new journal details Arkansas’s profitable farming campaign during wartime. It credits broad mobilization by banks, railroads, farm groups, schools, and clubs, plus statewide publicity, for boosting feed and food production and transforming agricultural habits.
A wartime horticulture piece urges families to plant summer gardens to bolster food supplies. It covers soil preparation, deeper planting for moisture, and savings on beans tomatoes and turnips. Advice includes sowing cabbage and collards, storing greens, and early Irish potatoes seed preparation and planting.
The piece praises Arkansas for a disciplined, practical leadership style in the war effort. It recalls the September 1914 collaboration between La Petite Rocher and The Rock of France, when Arkansas faced a $65,000,000 food and feed bill and cotton prices were low, yet a coalition of farmers, merchants, and bankers pursued profitable farming with hopeful resolve.
Persons desiring to borrow on improved farms from five to one hundred thousand dollars for ten years at 6 1 2 percent interest with privilege to pay principal or any part annually should write N. B. Scott Lake Village Arkansas
Chinese refugees displaced by the exclusion act are drilled daily by Major Parker in Columbus New Mexico. They practice armed movements with sticks, forming military companies under the Chinese relief society and Chinese tong influence, ready to answer a call to colors.
The Dermott News Dlive requests prompt, neat job completion and patrons’ continued support. The notice emphasizes reliable, timely service and appreciation for patronage.
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