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AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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GENERAL NEWS TOLD IN A FEW
LINES.
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Arkansas made a good record on
men selected for military service.
Only six per cent of those examined
were found unfit. 1
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leased at Camp Pike this week.
Eleven American submarine chas
ers took part in the attack on the
Austrian naval base at Lurazzo Oc
tober 2, it has been announced.
Alex Jackson, who killed Hender
son Johnson, another negro, in John- .
son county, pleaded guilty to first de
gree murder and was sentenced to 25
years in the penitentiary.
The New York harbor strike ended
today and 16,000 workers returned
to their duties, thereby releasing ship- :
ping and stemming the threatened |
shortage of coal and food in New
York City.
Harry Thaw, famous for many es
capades in which he figured, may be
taken from a Philadelphia sanitorium, |
where he is confined, to New \ ork to i
answer the charge of assault and kid- i
napping. Frank Grump is the alleg- j
ed victim.
Fred W. Neal, convicted and sen
tenced five years in th penitentiary
at Texarkana for forgery, made a vic
ious attack on Prosecutor C. A.
Wheeler in jail at Texarkana Friday
afternoon. He sent for the prose
cutor and then grabbed him by the
J. W. Barron of Blytheville has
sold 1,200 acres of land near Blythe
ville to Garner Bros, of Osceola for
$146,000.
Three hundred Arkansas veterans
of the European war were guests
Sunday at a show given at the Majes
tic theatre in Little Rock.
The boys of the 114th ammunition
train, formerly the third batallion of
the old Third Arkansas, will be re
Rice
Turnips
New Mackrels
New Kraut
5 Green Beans
$ Sweet Pickles $
^ School Girl Pickles |
Tablets and Pencils at
P. S. White, (r ocer I
BEECH AND THIRD STREETS
Newport, Ark. Phone 1C7 |
throat. The jailor pulled the pris
oner away.
Justice J. M. Baker was brought
before Justice G. M. Easterwood of
Faulconer county on a charge of sell
ing a pistol in violation of law. Jus
tice Baker held that he could not 'be
charged with selling firearms because
the pistol he disposed of was of an
ancient make and of no value. Jus
tice Easterwood held that a pistol is
a pistol and fined his fellow-justice
$50.
Charles C. Newman is dead, James
T. Hart is in a hospital at the point
of death, John Hart is seriously
wounded and Ed Donaldson was shot
through the arm as a result of a
pitched battle five miles southwest
of Dermott Sunday between Newman
and James Hart, who disagreed over
land matters. John Hart and Ed
Donaldson entered the fight and many
shots were exchanged.
Detectives Moore and Prewitt, the
latter of whom was born and reared
in Newport, raided a Little Lock
hotel Sunday night and found 25
young men “shooting craps.” How
ever all but five of the gamblers es
caped through windows before the
d tectives could trap them in the
room. Bed sheets were knotted to
gether into an improvised rope, the
gambleers going down the rope to the
ground.
Keep your dollars at nome. Trade
in Newport.
Subscribe for ttie Independent.
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We are going to start the year 1919 |
right bv having a house cleaning, |
that is all odd lots of goods are go j
ing to he slaughtered, that these
broken sizes and lots will not be |
here many days. i i
|| We wih price only ten of these i
in this add but many more will be
offered. :
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> Lot 1—25c Calicoes-- ll’^c ^
Lot 2—30c Gingham effects - - Jt>°
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j Lot 3—30c Ginghams- l,c j
Lot 4—35c yard-wide bleached domestic
Lot 5—Men’s $G.OO Lace boots..-S3.9S
Lot 6—Ladies $25.00 Suits_$15.95
| Lot 7—33 pairs men’s Gun Met al Shoes, worth $6.50-$ 1 2 »
i Lot 8—75 Mens $1.50 Negligee Shirts-89c
Lot 9—Mens 25c black half hose now---1 lc
Lot 10—5 doz sweaters for men and women at 50c on the dollar.
GROCERIES WSSsS?'®'
Colorado potatoes, extra fine per bushel---SI.55
California Canned fruits and vegetables and everything to eat
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Circuit Clerk R. W. Bandy spent
today at Swifton on business.
Sheriff J. M. Ivy went to Little
Rock Sunday, where he spent today
on business.
Deputy Sheriff Robert Ivy and
Jailor Charlie Hogan left this morn
ing for points over the county to col
lect taxes.
Probate court was in session today.
The business was of a routine natur",
mostly settlements of guardians and
administrators.
Will C. Wishon, the efficient de
puty county clerk, will leave tomor
row night for St. Louis, where he
will spend a few days on business.
J. F. Phillips, W. L. Heard andF.
L. Bleakley, commissioners for the
Mayberry Drainage District, met at
the court house this morning and filed
their report for the year.
Miss Fannie Hinkle looked after
the business in the office of the sher
iff and collector today while the chief
and his deputies were out of the city
on business for the county.
Treasurer Charlie Coe is fast fam
iliarizing himself with his new duties,
and his capable manner of caring for
the affairs trusted to him will make
him one of the most popular officials
in the court house.
Judge John Melville came in this
morning from his home at Remmoli
and said the roads out that way are
in bad condition. The Judge expects
to move- his family to East Newport
this week and occupy the property
which he recently purchased from
Wm. Dunaway. The property is
known as the old Joe Walker place.
J. B. Parrott, the capable and much
liked deputy circuit clerk, is again
at home in his office, to the delight
if his many friends. Byron tried his
best to get into military service, first
as a volunteer, later being turned
down by the draft board. Not satis
fied with not helping his country in
some manner, he then volunteered as
a Red Cross worker and got as far
as New York on his way to Europe,
when the armistice was signed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Spitzer, the county
nurse, who has an office in the court
house, has just returned from Grand
Glaize, to which place' she was called
Saturday on account of the serious
outbreak of influenza in the com
munity. She reports she found fam
ilies where the disease was preval
ent. but says the patients are being
well cared for and that she does not
iook foe a spread of the malady. The
family of A. C. Tucker, one of the
j county's best known men, is stricken
I with the disease. The worst feature
| of the disease at Grand Gkdze. Mrs
| Spitzer says, is an accompanying sore
J throet among the patients. One of
Mrs. Spitzer’s patients, Ed. Dav;s
who resides across the river, died
Sunday from tuberculosis. He leaves
several motherless children. The
County r.urse says there is a grea!
n*- i of a county hospital or some in
:■-'tut'en where tubercular patients
should le cared for. Miss Spitzer.
v-ho has exerted her efforts to care
for the sick and exposed herseU'
greatly to all sorts of weather con
'i‘?ou3. is suffering from a cold. She
will, however, return to Grand Gkxize
i this afternoon.
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Will Jones, an employe of the Iron
Mountain, appeared before Mayor
Erwin on a charge of disturbing the
peace and was fined $r> and the costs,
Fred Schelley was also fined $10 in
i the same court for disturbing tnc
| peace.
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T. S. Holloway was called to Cot
ton Plant this morning by the death
of Mike Meehan, one of that city’s
1 ire T prominent merchants and auto
j mobile dealers, who died from ap
j peniiicitis following a recent acta.k
i ox pneumonia. The body win be cm
, ried tomorrow to Brinkley tor burial
[_ e. S. McDonald o* Little Rock
! spent this afternoon here w.ti
friends on his return home from a
visit with his son and wife, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest McDonald, at Weldon.
Miss Sophia Glenn of Batesvillc
was here between trains Sunday ev
ening on her return to school at Har
din College at Mexico, Mo.
Mrs. Sam Bennett of Los Angeles
California, arrived this afternoon tc
visit her father, Charles Bateman anc
to be with her sister, Miss Emms
Bateman, who has not been well foi
some time. Mrs. Bennett wsxs caller
when her sister, Mrs. Leon Mack, diet
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but was unable to get here for the
funeral.
Ed Davis, living on the Marion
Dickens’ farm at Elmo, died Sunday
night from a long illness of tubercu
losis and was buried this afternoon
at Surrounded Hill. The deceased
lost his wife and only child about two
months ago from influenza and his
death from tuberculosis last night
takes the last of the family.
Orphie Benson of Swifton went
down to Little Rock Saturday morn
ing and accompanied his wife home
from St. Vincent’s Infirmary, where
she had undergone a very serious op
eration, but was able to be removed to
her home Sunday evening. Mr. Ben- j
son’s sister, Mrs. Frank Johnsonr
kept their little son while they were
gone.
A. S. Madding and Wm. Bowman
have formed a partership and occupy
Rooms No. 17 and 18 in the Arkansas
Bank & Trust Company building on
Walnut street. Both these young men
are w’ell know'n and capable civil
engineers, and they have already de
veloped an extensive clientele, which
will grow in the future.
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ATTENTION CAR OWNERS—
| We have taken over the Collier build
j ing on Front street, which will ac
j commodate fifteen or twenty cars.
In this building we will engage in the
business of painting cars. Our paint
er is one of the'best, and our work is
fully guaranteed. Let us make your
car look newr. Snetser Paint Shop.
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Victor Cullins and his brother, Riss
Cullins, received injuries Saturday
afternoon wtjiile driving their new
Buick car on Laurel street, running
i into a telephone pole. Joe Cullins,
| another brother, was in the car but
j escaped injury. Victor was injured
about the shoulder and is confined
to a room in Newport. Ross recover
ed sufficiently last night to return
to his home at Campbell’s station,
where the three men live.
The American Red Cross Head
quarters has shipped to the Jackson
County Chapter a large quantity of
cut-out garments to be made and re
turned by the 25th of January, and it ^
is urged that every woman come to
| the sewing rooms on Mondays and
! Fridays and assist in every way pos
sible in getting this shipment out.
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Gold Leaf Flour
which was discontinued twelve months ago in
compliance with the Government’s orders forbid
ding the milling of that grade of goods in order to
conserve wheat is j
Again on the Market
and is as fine in quality, and as white as it ever
was. It has always been in a class to itself, and
known here as elsewhere.
The Best that Wheat Will Make
and you will find in it now the same old quality ?
that made it famous in the past.
Ask your grocer for Gold Leaf Flour and s
see the difference. ■
| Pate Grocer Co.
1 Distributors |
The garments to be made are refugee
garments consisting of boys’ suits,
bedsocks and other garments needed
by the Belgians.
Charles E. Hipolite has been con
fined to. his bed for the past two or
three days with an attack of influen
za, but his friends are glad to know
he is getting along nicely. Mrs. Hip
olite is in receipt of a message this
morning from her sister, Mrs. Ross
Mathis, of Cotton Plant, in which she
said she had just received a cable
gram from her husband, Lieut. Ross
Mathis, who has been a prisoner in
j Germany for several months, and the
: news that he was well and hoped to be
home soon was received with delight
not only by his wife but many friends
all over the state. Lieut. Mathis
graduated from the first officers’
training camp at Fort Roots, and was
sent in ten days afterward to France,
I where he was later wounded and cap
turd by the Germans.
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