Opinion

Hello everyone. Thank you for all the prayers. I’m feeling better, not 100 percent yet , but getting back to my old self. My Dad made it through his third surgery and will be coming home soon. Ansley and Ebby had birthdays. May they have many more blessed years. Ansley celebrated her birthday at the Peach Orchard Community Center. Ebby celebrated hers at Nana’s and Pa’s house in Peach Orchard.

According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc., one in eight women will develop breast cancer. It is the most common form of cancer and the second leading cause of death among women.

LITTLE ROCK – In the fiscal session earlier this year the legislature appropriated a million dollars for pregnancy resource centers. The state has awarded grants totalling about $455,000 to 14 centers.

Evolution means to evolve, to go forward, to change where needed. Most folks seem to feel that ‘revolution’ is the better course, not understanding that the root word for revolution is to revolve, to keep going in a circle, to maintain what they think is a status quo.

This column will also be published in the Oct. 6 issue of the Arkansas Press Association’s publication, Publisher’s Weekly.

With school back in session, comes the concern about head lice and their control. I tell you for sure, you had better not let the little critters get a head start on you. This is once instance that preventative treatment before exposure may pay off. Head lice are harder to get rid of than anything else… even the itch! And I am not speaking from hear-say, I’ve been down both those old old roads. Itch was pretty common among school children back in the mid-30’s and most parents kept a sure cure on hand at all times. Our medicine was something that a local doctor mixed up and it look like raw egg yolks, smelled like rotten eggs and burned through the first layer of skin. (It was the nearest thing to torture that the law allowed). I mean it literally burned off the itch. I well remember the name but never did know how to spell it because medicine bottles back then weren’t even labeled. It was pronounced “sit-aside” and that is exactly what parents did… bought a bottle and “sat it aside” for use anytime they caught one of their children scratching.

by Pam Lowe Managing E ditor I have learned more about farming since I became an editor five years ago than I ever dreamed and I have lived in an agricultural community nearly my entire life. It’s one of the delightful aspects of working on a newspaper as you interview experts in a field; you learn about things.

An indebtedness of about $500 on the Baptist Church of this city, which had been standing against that institution for some time in the past, has virtually been paid, according to Rev. I.W. Russell, pastor. Unbleached muslin, 6c a yard; Ladies fine dress skirts; $1.89; Ladies fine taylor-made suits in all colors, $8.98; The Chicago Store, opposite the depot. B. Levit proprietor. As Thomas Lincoln was walking the railroad track to Moark Sunday morning to ring the bell for Sunday school, he found a dead man lying on the track about one half mile North of the town. A jury was empaneled, and the verdict was the death of the unknown man was caused by being struck by an engine on the Iron Mountain Railroad. He was buried on the railroad right-of-way Sunday afternoon.

Joe J ett House of Representatives State of Arkansas District 56 According to the Arkansas Department of Health, suicide is the leading cause of violent death in Arkansas. In 2020, 583 Arkansans died by suicide.