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JACKSON COUNTY
MEI WILL DEPART
Next Contingent of Drafted Men, Fif
ty in Number, Will Leave New
port Saturday.
When Jackson County is called up
on she responds promptly, always
with her full quota. Saturday, May
25th, she will send fifty more of her
young men to Camp Pike to go in
training for the “Gi-eat American Na
tional Army.” Germany, the enemy
we are fighting, is not only the enemy
of the United States and her allies,
but the enemy of civilization, Chris
tianity, Democracy and Progress.
Our fight is not only to maintain
our own freedom and national honor,
but to free the world from autocratic
rule and militarism, which the kaiser
and his war lords would thrust upon
us.
Realizing fully the magnitude of
the undertaking and the cause of
their call to the colors, our boys go,
willingly, eagerly, ready and anxious
to go across, to tight m tne greatest
war in the world’s history under the
“stars and stripes” for the cause of
humanity and to make the world safe
for democracy.
I With hondreds of our boys already
' in the army and navy, some of them
already on the firing line and more
leaving every week, there are very
j few families in the county that are
I not directly or indirectly represented
in some branch of the service.
Below is a list of names of persons
who are in the next contingent for
| Camp Pike, Ark., from Newport, Ar
kansas, who are due to leave here on
the 2oth day of May, 1918:
Albert M. Buigess, Newport; Wm.
J Winn, Mrked Tree; Joseph Taylor
Shepherd, Kennett, Mo.; Elmer L.
Smith, Bradford; Henry Sampson
Miaunger, Addielow, Texas; Oliver
Lemons, Diaz; Eddie C. Simmons,
j Elmo; Samuel, Col. George, Alicia;
Chas. H. Fielder, Boy; Thomas J.
Darrell. Newport; Chas. Wallace
Ball, Balch; William H. Barnes,
Georgetown; Ray Dawson, Beede
! ville; Albert A. Downy, Balch; Jas.
Elmer Hopkins, Shoffner; Herman
J. Cochran, Grand Glaize; Algott
.Myrick, Newport; Harry Arthur Mc
| Bride, Batesville; James Pruett,
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Pennington; Elmer Collins, Monette, ;
Mo.; Jacob Nelson Winfrey, Grubbs; |
Joseph Russell, Belknap, 111.; Willie |
Malden West, Twin Creek; Amos Ru- j
fus Miller, Fair Oaks; Robert Ack
lin, Bald Knob; Wm. Daniel Wood,
Newport; Andrew Osborne, Edge
mont; James E. Holdbrook, Beede
ville; .Thos. Duncan McClaran,
Grubbs; Olaf Grover Gossett, Ar
genta; John Albert Phillips, Tucker
man; Elder Mex Cole, Grubbs; Zep
pha Mimms, Georgetown; Jimmie
Griffin, Blytheville; Cecil Clyde'
Nickens, North Little Rock; Clar- ;
ence E. Hays, Clarksburg, Mo.; Jno.
C. Mays, Paragould; Frank Johnson, j
Little Rock; Noel E. Farmer, Tuck-{
erman; Robt. Roy Robinson, Cum
mins; Thos. E. Whitlow, Bradford;
Elder R. Howell, Grubbs; Robert J.
Stout, Plummerville ; Jesse Lee
Slaughter, Tuckerman; Lonzo Ther
man Holdbrook, Blytheville; William
Wilkerson, Jr., Bradford; Seth Ed- ;
ward Parnell, Newport; Walter J.
Scoggins, Bradford; Otto Preston
Fortune, Newport; Bryan Stites,
Newport.
STATE COUNCIL OF DE
FENSE APPROVES PLAN
TO BUILD UP SCHOOLS.!
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Following is the Special Resolution
adopted by the State Council of De
fense at its meeting, Monday, April
| 29, 1918.
Whereas, it is imperative and vital
to the school work of the state that 1
the needs of the schools be kept be-i
fore the people of the state to the end
that the schools be kept up to the
highest standards of efficiency, and,
Whereas, the government has con
| sistently urged that the schools be
: maintained in these stirring war times
do a maximum of efficiency, of work,
| and,
| Whereas, the government has had
frequent occasions to use the schools
| in carrying on many of its war ac
! tivities, and,
Whereas, the President and the
, Cabinet members have at different
times urged the needs of the schools
be well looked after at this time,
therefore,
j Be It Resolved, That the State
Council of Defense heartily approves
and endorses the idea and plan of
keeping before the people of the state
the needs of the schools and the im
portance of maintaining them at their
I usual standards of efficiency.
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Political Announcements
The Independent is authorized to an
nounce the following persons as can
didates for public office, subject to
the action of the democratic primar
ry, May 28, 1918.
FOR CONGRESSMAN
Wm. A. Hodges
W. A. Oldfield
W. D. Davenport
FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE.
Dene H. Coleman
FOR CHANCELLOR
(Eighth District.)
Lyman F. Reeder
George T. Humphreys.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
R. T. Simmons
Fred R. Suits
FOR COUNTY JUDGE.
John A. Melville
R. F. Tyer
W. M. Tims
W. A. Mink
FOR SHERIFF AND COLLECTOR.
Terry Guin 1
J. M. Ivy |
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
J. M. Balch
Garland E. Land
A. J Garner
Z. D. Barber
Lehman Thomas
COUNTY TREASURER.
W. D. McLain
Charles K. Coe
Geo. W. Grant
FOR COUNTY CLERK
J. F. Parish
Grover C. Nance
FOR ASSESSOR
D. J. Nance
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK.
R. W. Bandy
FOR SURVEYOR
E. H. Bowman
FOR CORONER
T. J. Mooney
FOR CONSTABLE
(Union Township)
C. M. Ivy
Ben Sandmon
FOR ROAD OVERSEER
(Richwoods Township)
Mark Cole
(Bird Township, Eastern District)
R. A. Wilson
(Western District, Bird Township.)
Wralter Cole
(Jefferson Township.)
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J. ti: Wyatt
Clay Rttjerts
(Union Township)
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