|THE INDEPENDENT
AUSTIN C. WILKERSON j
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Following is a good letter from a
former Company E lad, Thomas J.
Tims, of Tuckerman ,to his brother
in-law, Dee Kennedy:
“Well, I would enjoy being at
home now, just to see all the cotton
coming in. Gee, I wonder what cot
ton will bj-eworth before the season is
over. I
Dee, there isn’t much that we can
write about over here. We don’t know
any war news, and I wouldn't care to
write about it if I did. We are bil
leted in a dry place in a very pretty
section of France; at least they say
it’s pretty; I’ve never been out to
see.
I will miss my Christmas dinner
for the first time in life, but I hope
1 won’t have to miss another. Some
times I get homesick, but I try to
forget it, because that homesickness
stuff don’t go over here.
When we get settled I’m going to
soldiering, for soldiers are the only
fellows that will go back, and I ,for
one, must go home.
I haven’t received any mail from
the states yet, and I sure would love
to hear from home. You must write
me a long letter just as soon as you
get this, for a letter over here is
just like a wedding at home—and
for one copy of the Newport Inde
pendent I would give two francs.
Dee, I can’t think of anything in
teresting to write, so I “spec ' I bet
ter try to get this through. Better
have some red ham ready when I get
there next winter.
Love to all,
Thos. J. Tims,
Hds. 114 Fiel Signal Battalion,
American Exp. Forces.”
A letter from Wm. H. Davidson of
Grubbs to his brother, Cary David
son and his mother of Grubbs is as
follows:
“Dear Mother and Brother:—Will
write you a letter to let you know
that I am well and getting along fine.
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l nave wmi/cu y --
but have not received any from you,
and if I’m a!ll right over here, you
ought to be over there.
Cary, I see in the paper where you
registered* from IB to 45. That
caught you, but you will not get to
come to France. I cannot tell you
much about the war. I wish I could.
I have been to the front several
times, and we gave them h-every
time, but we are not there now,
Writ me a long letter and tell me all
the news you can. Write me often
and tell me as much as you wish, foi
they don’t censor the mail coming
over, but I know they get tired ol
reading all we write.
Wm. H. Davidson,
Co. K 38th Inf., A. E. F.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Sneed of Swif
ton have received the following let
ter from their son, W|m. A. Sneed
who by mistake was reported severe
ly wounded recently:
“Dear Parents:—I am well and en
joying life. How are all the folks
Tell them I will be back home before
so awfully lonw and go hunting anc
fishing with them.
You cannot guess where I got m?
stationery and ink and pen. It is a1
German junk. I found it during oni
of our recent drives. I suppose sonv
Sammy was getting too close t<
I Fritz and he did not have time to
I pack up and move, so he left all his i
possessions, and among them I found
lin. Therefore I took charge of said
possessions, an damong them 1 found
several useful articles. We have the
hun pretty well on the run now.
Tell the girls to look out for me,
for I will be back some day soon and
we will have some grand old times
like we once had when I wa3 a boy—
but I am almost the same fellow yet.
I I am almost 23, but I would enjoy
singing annd playing with the chil
! dren just the same as I used to be-;
fore the war.
How are ail the boys? I would
like to see all -of them, but I am busy
now showing the hun “who’s who.” I
suppose the children are going to
school, are they not? Tell them I
said study hard and be good, and
j they will soon grow' up to be men and
' women and then they will ap
preciate the value of an education.
I can see where I made my mistake
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Take a glass of Salts before breakfast
If your Back hurts or Bladder
is troubling you.
No man or woman who eats meat re TU
larly can malce a mistake by flushing the
kidneys occasionally, say3 a well-known
authority. Meat forms uric acid which
| excites the kidneys, they become over
worked from the strain, get cluggish and
■ fail to filter the waste and poisons from
i the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all
j rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble,
nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in tha
kidneys or your back hurts or if the
urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sedi
ment, irregular of passage or attended by
a sensation of scalding,"Btop eating meat
and get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any pharmacy; take a
tablespoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast and in a few days your kidneys
will act fine. This famous salts is made
! from the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
! combined with lithia, and has been used
J for generations to flush and stimulate
1 the kidneys, also to neutralize the acids
J in urine so it no longer causes irritation,
i thus ending bladder weakness.
I Jad Salts i3 inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes a delightful effervescent
| lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
1 kidneys clean and active and the blood
' pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
i complications.
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Cash Basis November 1,1918 j
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Dealers and GarageOwners have een
asked bp the War Industries Board to j
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t put their business on war basis to con
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j serve man power and practice every I
| available economy. With sales of new I
cars reduced to a minimum and in the I
face of increased operating costs, the I
garages of Newport, in order to maintain I
| the old schedule of labor charges and to I
comply with the national spirit of con
servation will, commencing November 1,
1918enter upon a cash basis for all labor,
parts, gasoline, oils, tires and accessories.
T. E. BARKER AUTO CO.
HUTSON-LADD MOTOR CAR CO.
L. 0. UMSTED AUTO CO.
P. H. VANDYKE
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>y not going to school. I had the j J
;hance to go, and I may attend some j
nore after the war is over. I have \
earned a great deal over here that I j
would not have learned elsewhere. I :
am glad that I had the opportunity j
to come to France and help in this j
great war. I have learned my trade, j
Well, I guess I had better close
and put out my candle before Fritz
sees it and drops a pineapple on my
bunk.
Love to all,
Wm. A. Sneed,
G 2 Fourth Army Corps Headqrs.
A. E. F.
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NOTES FROM CAMP PIKE.
Homefolks in Arkansas will be
proud to know how generously the
soldier lads from their state are sub
scribing to the Fourth Liberty Loan
at Camp Pike. The fact that some
of them thought the war was over
and tried to turn their accoutrements
last Sunday got the other Arkan
sawyers on their mettle, dhey start
ed in to redeem themselves by sign
ing up for Liberty Bonds, and the
waji they filed into the battalion
headquarters voluntarily was a sur
prise to the old heads. They didn’t
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took two and even three bonds and
wrote back from Y buildings advis
ing friends to do likewise.
An Arkansas darkey was shying
around the back of the officers train
ing school parade ground last week
when the depot brigade staff officers
riding school was having its first
lesson. One of the stunts the in
structor was putting the shoulder
straps through, >vas to lean back on
the saddle placing the head on the
horse’s flank. Some of the officers
were having trouble in keeping their
balance and the negro cried out:
“Lawsy, massy, Oh’s feahed dem ossi
fehs am gwine teh fall outen dey
saddles baekwahds.” He stood
transfixed for a time until another
private explained to him that the of
ficers were merely exercising. The
.v gro scratched lus nead meditative.
“Ef d'at aip d truf, dey is sholy act
in’ mouty cuhiouscme.”
Six of the most experienced Y
secretaries at Camp Pike have been
selected by Camp Secretary R. C.
Pifer for the United War Work Drive
lo begin early in November, and '.heir
I objective will be towns in Arkansas
[and probably North Texas. Tlmy are
C. E. Cooke, building secretary Bel
mont area; T. E. McSpadden, build
ing secretary Y 38; George W. Reed,
building secretary Y 39; A. L. Lang
ston, educational secretary Y 39; W,
S. Gregson, building secretary, Y
141; W. W. Wilcox, building secre
tary, Y 37 and two others are yet to
be selected. They will co-operate
with the Arkansas staste committee
and report to W. C. Ribenack at Lit
tle Rock.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
The attorney general at Washing
ton has ordered J. S. Holt, assistant
United States district prosecuting at
torney at Fort Smith, to hold Call H.
Scibt, recently arrested there as an
enemy alien. Scitt is a German and
a member of the I. W. W. it is
stated.
Tht G. E. H. .club, a prominent wo-'
man’s organization of Clarksville,
has abandoned all social functions
during the continuance of the war,
; and taken up Red Cross work instead,
^ as being more useful and patriotic.
The building of the Arkansas and
| Louisiana highway will have to be
■ postponed until after the war on ac
! count of the war department refusing
to release bridge material for same.
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The BarbersUnion of Pine Bluff
has been notified that barbers are
not included in the work-or-fight or
der.
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Rush reports interest in zinc min
ing in that section reviving consider
ably on account of the recent big de
mand for zinc carbonate ores pro
duced in that vicinity.
Our Sentiments:
“The sweetness of low prices
never equalsthe bitterness fggj 1
poor
Of 29'Competing Tractors
The Rumely Oil-Pull
Plowed at Lowest Cost
Per Acre
What follows is not what the Rumely makers have to say ;
of their own machines, but what unbiased judges at State and ;
National Tractor Demonstrations have officially found on ex
haustive tests. 1
NORTH DAKOTA STATE DEMONSTRATION AT MINOT
JUNE 19, 1918.
(29 Tractors Competing.) j * j)
Synopsis of Official Findings
AT STATE DEMONSTRATION.
Average of 3 Average of 23 Rurnelg ,
Tractors Burn- Trato rBurn- I'll
ing Gasoline ing Kerosene "
Exclusively or Gasoline and Burnirt
Kerosene. Kero sen
Number of acres plowed- 2.02 1.84 d.2*
Fuel per acre (gallon)— 3.26 3.77 2.97
Fuel cost per acre (cts.)38.2 66.27 45.
Note that the Rumely Oil Pull using kerosene
—used less fuel per acre than any competing tractor us
ing kerosene gasoline or both.
—plowed at the lowest cost per acre of all competing trac
tors. 1 1 ■ !
Note the number of plows and depth of plowing, fen so-called
3-plow tractors pulled on y two plows—eight tractors rated
14-27 to 24-36 h. p. pulled only three plows each. ,
—the Rumely Oil Pull pulled four plows—the number it is
advertised to pull. [
—it plowed 4V2 inches deep—the maximum depth—equaled
by two competitors only. • |
—it was theonly tractor burning kerosene that plowed
4% inches deep. _ f lidJf. \M lIMlSJ i.fe’&J J ■'
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AT NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
At the National Tractor Demonstration at Salina, Kansas,
July 29th to August 3d, the Oil Pull was entered in all offi
cial tests. No comparisons with other tractors can be made as
results of tests wrere not made public by the officials. All
tests were under the sup >rvision of agricultural authorities.
Following are the official figures for the 14-28 Oil Pull:
Drawbar Fuel Test.
Soil—moist gumbo, stubble ground.
Number of plows—4.
Depth of plowing—6 inches.
Fuel used per acre (kerosene) 2.92 gallons.
Note that fuel consumption per acre is almost identical with
that of the Oil Pull at Minot.
I Drawbar Fuel Test.
Soil—stubble loose on top.
Average drawbar pull—15.7 H. P. \
i Maximum drawbar pull—17.3 H. P.
j* Showing a reserve power of 23 '/z per cent over advertised
d rating . * ’**' 'r' - L*
. Belt H. P. Test !
Average belt H. P. 35.01.
Showing a reserve pow'er of 25 per cent over advertised rating.
Special attention is called to the latest size uu-ruu
THE “BABY" RUMELY TRACTOR.
This is the smallest Tractor made by Rumely, and while
only recently introduced, it made an immediate hit. It weighs
only 5,000 pounds, pulls three plows and can be turned in a
space of 20 feet. . ■ f t.
There are five sizes, the others being as follows:
; 14-28 Rumely Oil Pull Tractor, of which over 200 are in
use in Arkansas alone.
! 18-35 Rumely Oil Pull. t
20-40 Rumely Oil Puli.
, 30-60 Rumely Oil Pul;.
All of these tractors operate on kerosene and are guaran
’ „ teed in writing to burn kerosene during the life of the ma
chine. |r
We will demonstrate the above Tractors at Newport all I
next week, at the foot of Walnut street, known as the show
grounds. -At ... 1 a 'i i liilljchiSS
Safemen [
H. M. MUNDY [
j. M. GIBSON
jce Lyor.s Machinery Co. I
SUCCESSORS TO |
Southwestern Supply Company 1
Jce Lyons, President
All Kinds of Farm Machinery :i
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112-120 North Louisiana Street Little Rock
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