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THE INDEPENDENT
AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
Editor and Publisher.
Entered at the postoffice, Newport
Arkansas, as second class mail matter.
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of the war.
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way construction.
On account of the prevalence of
the Spanish “flu” in the eastern por
tion of Lawrence county, gin opera
tors have decided to close down un
til the committee on Public Safety
advises they can safely open. One
reason for their action is the difficul
ty of obtaining help just now.
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Six deaths are reported from the
; county of Franklin yesterday, the
' result of influenza. Ozark reports,
however, the situation is much im
proved, no new cases being reported
there for the past twenty-four hours.
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i At a meeting held yesterday in
! Fort Smith, Frank B. Bumgardner, a
i republican and former postmaster,
was chosen chairman, and John M.
Andrews was elected secretary of
the Sebastian county election com
missioners.
Arkadelphia reports the influenza
epidemic in that section of the state
subsiding and conditions rapidly re
suming a normal level.
Allen Gannaway, Herman Huie and
Forrest Waldrop, Arkansas boys in
attendance at the officers’ training
camp at Camp Gordon, Ga., have
passed successful examinations and
been commissioned second lieuten
j Cars For Sale
1917 Dodge Touring j
Car in good condition jj
j has only been run about jj
5,000 miles, a good bar- a
1 gain for $850.
1917 Dodge Touring jj
j Car in good condition,
i has never been abused, b
] well tired for $8.00.
1917 Dodge Touring (
Car, good condition me- j
1 chanically has had but jjj
! one owner, sale price s
$750.
1916 Overland Tcuring Car, >
c.vei hauled anti repainted, j
! new top, new battery and j!
j starter for $550. j
i 191 7 Ford Touring Car, in
good condition mechanically, j
top and upholstering fair, ij
$450.
ij 1917 Briscoe Touring Car, jj
large size, good condition, jj
used only 6 months and run ;
only 1500 miles, new tires !j
j $750. |
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Phone 72 Beech & Second Street jj
All retail grocers and jobbers oi
Newport and Jackson county are
hereby requested to meet at the Ha
zel hotel in Newport Monday after
noon at 2 o’clock.
This meeting is of supreme impor
tance to the grocery trade, and is
called at the urgent request both of
•—"MF Tloover and Hamp Williams.
They desire an expression from you
you on matters of great moment to
the trade, and the conservation of
food for our soldiers and allies. It
is earnestly desired that every job
ber and retail grocery man in the
county be present.
Geo. B. Irby,
Food Administrator for Jackson
County.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Miss Viola Ryker, night operator
of the Santa Fe Railroad at Pomona,
Kansas, was killed Wednesday night
by a passing freight train. Miss
Ryker was an Arkansas girl and her
home was at Ryker.
' Governor Brough is in Washing
ton trying to obtain priority order for
cement and steel, used in the con
templated Arkansas-Louisiana high
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Buy Liber y Bonds Buy Liberty Bonds S
Beat the Huns Beat the Huns
Economy Means Quality 1
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i Handsome, New Garmei ts [or Fall and
| Winter. Our Stock o: Ready-to-Wear
| for Women and Children are the most
complete in our history, |
| DjspUe tho unfavorable markets we
I have protected our pa'rons i i point of >
Style and Price.
Ladies’ Suits, Coots and Dresses in
Velours, Serges, Gabardines and all
other popular fabrics. ‘
$12.00 to §75.00 |
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT
Stylish Velvet Kati in great variety.
This popular fab'ic is incorporated in
cur displajs in every imagir able form.
Yoa will be delightfully phased with
our new hats, also the low prices at
Rushton Dry Goods Co.
Buy Liberty Bonds Euy Liberty Bonds
Beat ths Huns Be *t the Hurs
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S ants.
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Nineteen Arkansas boys left Pig
: gott last night for St. Louis, wher:
! fifteen of them will enter a school ir
, mechanical training, the other foui
i going to Jefferson Barracks to pre
pare for limited military service.
Judge R. H. Dudley has adjournec
j the term of the circuit court at Pig
j gott on account of the prevalence ol
I influenza in the vicinity.
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The gins of Earle dosed down yes
terday on account of an embarg<
that has been placed on cotton fron
that point.
Levi Austin of Bentonville has beer
discharged from the navy on accounl
of physical disabilities. Young Aus
tin volunteered about three months
ago and has been in training at Nor
folk.
Forty-nine Benton county men have
been sent by the local board to St,
Louis, where they will report to the
I St. Louis Board of Education for in
struction as airplane wood workers,
blacksmiths and machinists.
Postmaster Howell S. Herring of
Bodcaw has been selected as the nom
inee for county clerk by the Nevada
county democratic central commit
tee, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of R. D. Martin.
Emil Avis of Siloan Springs has
F l-i v» a i f i r\ n rvr lipnV
ier and will immediately enter theY.
M. C. A. secretaries training school
at San Antonio, Texas, preparatory
to doing ‘Y” work in France.
Troy Pace of Little Rock and Judge
Worthington of Harrison have form
ed a law partnership and will open
offices in the latter town as soon as
the judge retires from the bench
about January first next.
Mountain Home college girls have
formed themselves into a military
company 30 strong, and are drilling
regularly twice a week under the tu
torage of Fred H. Ward of Mountain
Home.
“Mountain Echos,” a Mountain
Home Baptist College publication
just organized, will make its appear
ance about the first of the coming
month according to information giv
en out bv the students interested.
Several business men of Batesville,
associated together for the purpose
of mining manganese, have installed
machinery and made an initial run.
The company owns 140 acres of min
i eral land that carries a large per
i centage of high grade ore, and their
j prospects of making a “killing” are
1 said to be very fine.
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A reunion of the Barrett family
; was held at Batesville Sunday for
1 the purpose of celebrating the ninety
1 third birthday of Mrs. Julia A. Bar
1 rett.
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j' Independence county is to the front
this year with 200 acres planted in
; Castor beans.
On account of the death of Cashier
Perry N. Clark the Farmers’ State
Bank of Rogers has been reorganized
with Morgan Mitchell as president,
and E. G. Sharp, cashier. J. L
Chapin remains chairman of the
boa id of directors.
The war department advised James
7’. Sandy, meat inspector at Camp
Pike, yesterday of the death o? his
son, Private G. Sandy. Private San
dy was killed in action on the west
ein tront sept. outn.
AdJitional Locals
Camp Dodge Iowa, where he is in
the quartermaster’s department, that
he has been helping out at the base
hospital, where thousands have been
ill with influenza. On the day he
wrote four thousand had been dis
missed and returned to their work.
He said that every time a case devel
oped into pneumonia death generally
followed.
Sergeant Lorenzo Beard of Camp
Pike stopped off here today, going to
Auvergne to visit his father and
other relatives. Sergeant Beard has
just returned from Chicago where he
accompanied the remains of a com
rade for burial. He is a brother of
Mrs. Harry Ellison, whose husband
was buried at Auvergne, having died
at Little Rock Tuesday.
Mrs. Claude M. Erwin, chairman
of the woman’s counsel of defense in
Jackson county, has received from
headquarters in Little Rock a re
quest for a list of the names of those
of our women in Newport and Jack
son county who registered in Febru
ary and more recently to become
I volunteer nurses. All registrants
who are willing to enter service are j
asked to send in their names to Mrs. ■
Erwin. They may do work either at
home, in Little Rock or any place ir j
■ Arkansas. Mrs. Erwin must make |
her report soon, and an early com- .
1 pliance on the part of registrants j
1 will be appreciated, and is necessary, j
Chief of Police Gus Martin yester- j
day consigned a large shipment of
whiskey to the proper authorities at
Camp Pike. Not that he is in the!
i business of shipping whiskey, but be- j
, cause quite a quantity of the stuff j
, came rightfully into his possession,!
! and that since whiskey is used to a
j great extent in the army for medici
j nal purposes, he found a useful loca
j tion for his stock at the military
j camp. The whiskey represented
many gallons of the contraband
which Mr. Martin secured from va
rious raids on blind tigers and
through the arrest of persons found
transporting the stuff into the city.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Corley of this
city have returned from Auvergne,
where they went yesterday to attend
the funeral of Mr. Corley’s half-bro
FEW FOLKS HAVE ,
Gif Hi; NOW
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Druggist Says Ladies are Using
Recipe of Sage Tea and
Sulphur.
Hair that loses its color and lustre,
or when it fades, turn-3 gray, dull and
lifeless, is caused by a lack of sulphur
in the hair. Our grandmother made
up a mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur
to keep her locks dark and beautiful, _
and thousands of women and men who
value that even color, that beautiful tl
dark shade of hair which is so at
tractive, use only this old-time recipe. w
Nowadays we get this famous mix- T
ture improved by the addition of other
ingredients by asking at any drug
store for a bottle of “Wyeth’s Sage st
and Sulphur Compound,” which dark- jy
ens the hair so naturally, so evenly,
that nobody can possibly tell it has ©1
been applied. You just dampen a s(
sponge or soft brush with it and draw
this through your hair, taking one
small strand at a time. By morning fi
the gray hair disappears; but what
delights the ladies with Wyeth’s Sage I(
and Sulphur Compound is that, be- y
sides beautifully darkening the hair ,
after a few applications, it also brings
back the gloss and lustre and gives it y
an appearance of abundance.
Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Com- !
pound is a delightful toilet requisite
to impart color and a youthful ap
pearance to the hair. It is not in- si
tended for the cure, mitigation or pre
vention of disease. t(
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Beautiful Rug's
maKe
COMFORTABLE HOMES
We have the Rugs in all the latest
colors and designs. t
Large room sizes in price from
$5.50 to $75.00
Small rugs in all sizes. Buy now
and be comfortable for the winter.
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ler, Harry Ellison, aged 24 years, | ’
ho died at his home in Little Rock j j
uesday night from influenza, which |'
iveloped into pneumonia. He is j
irvived by his wife and one child.1
r. Ellison was for three years a tel- 1
fraph operator at the Rock Island 1
ation in Newport, and was later '
ansferred to the Western LTnion of
ce at Little Rock, where he had been
ir some time. He was a splendid
)ung man and ihs friends regret to
arn of his death in the prime of his
Dung manhood.
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One of the most attractive and in- ,
ruetive means of keeping in minute
uch with the progress of the world
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var can be found in one of the dis
play windows of Walker’s Pharmacy.
large map has been placed in the
vindow by Rev. A. E. Lyman-Whea
;on. The map is complete with the
lames of towns in France, Belgium
ind Germany. All the battle lines
ire on the map, together with pins
vhich are used to pin cords along"
he line as it is advanced by our
’ighting allies. Small pieces of pa
ler attached to pins designate the
ocation of the principal towns cap
ured. The map is the best yet
irought to Newport, and should be
vatched from day to day by those
,vho would keep in touch with the
nilitary situation.
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latest styles and most popular ^
fabrics. Callfand inspect them.
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