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THE INDENPEDENT
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as, as second class mail matter,
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
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ireek, 15 cents; per month, 50 cents;
par year, $5.50, in advance, by carrier
a city, by mail in country.
WEEKLY—$1.50 per year, payable
in advance.
Members of the Associated Press.
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to it or
not otherwise credited in this paper
ind also the local news published
herein.
All rights or republication of spe
cial dispatches herein are also re
served.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE
NEWPORT CAN DO
What Jonesboro, Paragould, Little
Rock, Fort Smith and hundreds of
other cities have accomplished
through organization and concen
trated effort, such as is represented
in a live business men’s organization,
Newport can most assuredly do as
well. In individual attention, each
to his own business, we have lost
sight of the importance of the city’s
growth to be promoted by new indus
tries, more capital and people. And
failing to thus co-operate, we made
the limits of our own trade narrow
for a few days. No one can blame
the legislators for this. They should
not be asked to serve for nothing, and
it ill becomes a state so great as
Arkansas to ask them to do so. Ar
kansas is not that poor. The ob
vious, thing now to do is for the pio
hibitioc forces of the state to create
a funa to be used to defray the ex
pense of a special session, but still this
would be inconsistent and savor of
“peanut” politics. Since the voice
of the people has spoken and assured
the governor that Arkansas wants a
bone dry law, his duty is made plain.
At a meeting here yesterday seventy
five bankers of thirteen counties of
Northeast Arkansas went on roll
asking the governor to call a special
session. These aie bankers and
bankers are business men who have a
; keener insight to moral and financial
j conditions than anyone, and their
; plea carries a great significance.
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' If it were not for the advertising
I which appeals in this newspaper ev
j ery issue would cost the subscriber
j about 25 cents each, and many of the
j interesting features would be miss
ing.
Every paper that goes out of this
office costs six to eight times what
you pay for it. The paper, ink, ma
i chinery, type, building, salaries and
; other operating expenses, the feat
TALK ON WAR SERVICE.
Special to Independent
Little Rock, March 6.—Tom J.
Terral, secretary of state, is making
a number of speeches in Arkansas
for the campaign of the War Camp
Community Service. He spoke Tues
day at Perryville, Perry and Bigelow
and on Thursday speaks at Heber
Springs and Cotton Plant.
Secretary of War Baker has in
structed W. A. Kling, who is con
ducting the national campaign in the
interest of this service, to remain in
Arkansas until he has secured the
state’s quota. The war department
is insistent that Arkansas show its
patriotism in backing the depart
ment in its method of training the
soldiers.
Gov. C. H. Brough will probably
visit Texarkana and Marianna in the
interest of this campaign, and Lieut.
William Hughes, of the 335 Field
Artillery, will speak at Paris, Poca
hontas and other towns. Lieut.
Hughes is a chaplain, and is known
at Camp Pike as the “Fighting Par
son” for he has declared there will
be no peace for him until he has
j preached in the streets of Berlin.
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To advertise it in the Independent
is to sell it—if it is something for
which live people find a need.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCE
MENTS.
The Independent is authoriz
ed to announce the following
persons as candidates for public
ifice, subject to the action of
he Democratic party:
or County Superintendent—
J. M. Balch.
Garland E. Land.
DON’T SAVE YOUR STAMPS.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 6.—Don’t save
three-cent postage stamps or any
other stamps, so the dye may be ex
tracted. The government does not
want them, and has never asked for
them. Councils of Defense have
been misled into adopting resolu
tions recommending it. It has been
branded as the silliest of all the ene
my lies. Postmaster Floyd of Little
Rock says it is all a foolish piece of
German propaganda.
HOLD INSTITUTE.
Little Rock, March 6.—There is
now being held in Little Rock a state
institute for Red Cross. This is be
ing conducted under the leadership
of experts sent from St. Louis for
the purpose.
LAW ON DELIVERIES.
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Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 6.—Neither
the state nor National council of de
fense has power by law to enforce
the curtainlment of merchandise de
liveries to one or more daily, even as
a measure of necessary economy.
But an official of the National coun
cil says, “It may be regarded almost
as a law or rule made by : the govern
ment, distinguishable only from or
dinary laws or regulations in that
there is no basis of voluntary com
pliance of all merchants. If a few
merchants threaten to block the plan,
local councils of defense can bring
strongly to their attention the se
riousness of crippling the program
which has been inaugurated by gov
ernmental agencies to meet war de
! mands.”
LOST.
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Holloway Fu~. Co. 73d6t 51wlt
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T !$ IS
THE NIGHT
If you are for a BIGGER AND
BETTER Newport and want
to “Go Over the Top,” do not (
ure correspondent and telegraph
news, all represent an enormous out
lay of money. These costs would be
borne entirely by the reader were it
not for the advertising revenue.
Therefore, the newspapers must have
advertisers, the advertisers must
hav oust mers, and you who read
mak: th. 'e economic scheme
■ po. de.
| In the oluen days, before the ad
j vent of advertising, the all-news
| journal was indeed a sorry specimen
I compared with the metropolitan daily
! of today. The “telegraph” matter
came more often by mail, because the
telegi-aph was too expensive.
“News” commonly means informa
i tion. The word is derived from the
initial letters of the four words indi
cating the points of the compass,
North, East, West South—N. E. W.
S. We still get information from the
four points of the compass, but the
word “News” has taken on a bigger
meaning with the advent of news
j paper advertising. Now the reader
is given the news of the stores, the
factory, the bank, the church. Ad
vertisements give you prices, styles,
the new inventions and tell you where
to buy.
Read the advertisements, patronize
the advertisers, thereby enabling the
merchant to give you better service
and the editor to give you a better
newspaper.
Use the columns of the Independ
ent. They will carry your business
talk into nearly every home in New
port.
and small, because we either did not
have the right vision or did not sup
port the bigger idea.
What we must all come to realize
more fully is, that we can only grow
as our trade territory grows, that
more industries moan more people,
more wealth, more business and
more opportunities. We have tried
the old plan of looking after one’s
own business, but contributing little
or nothing to the promotion of the
city’s interests as a whole. We have
had no organization to do the very
I things we wanted and realized should
be done.
Now under an awakened public sen
timent, we have the opportunity to
j do something for Newport in the or
ganization of a Chamber of Com
merce, Come to the meeting tonight
and pledge your interest, fealty and
sapport. You have never had a
chance to make a better businees in
vestment. Build Newport and you
build your o*vn trade possibilities.
Help the city grow and you help
yourself to grow. If yo» are going
to stand for your own interests, you
will stand squarely for a Chambei
of Commerce and if you want such
an organization, come and take a
hand.
THE SPECIAL SESSION.
Governor Brough will not call a
session of the legislature to consider
prohibition legislation for the reason
|that many members will not forego
per diem to ait in the assembly
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A. J. darner.
Z. I). Barber
II. L. Thomas
•t-r County Treasurer—
\V. 1). McLain.
Charles Iv. Coe.
For Congress —
V. i i. /\ Hodges
W. D. Davenport.
W. A. Oldfield \ .
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For County Judge;
John A. Melville.
TL F. Tver.
W. M. Tims.
W. A. Mink.
For Chancellor (Eighth District)—
Lyman F. Reeder.
For Sheriff and Collector—
Terry Guin.
J. M. Ivy.
For Representative:
R. T. Simmons
For Representative—
! Fred R. Suits.
For County Clerk: v
J. F. Parish. :
C/over O. Nance.
For Assessor—
D. J. Nance.
For Circuit Clerk—
R. W. Bandy.
For Constable—(Union Townsh p)
C. M. Ivy.
Ben Sandmon.
For Road Overseer (Richwoods Twp.)
Mark Cole
For Road Overseer (Bird Twp., East
ern District.)—
R. A. Wilson.
For Road Overseer (Western Dist.
Bird Township)
Walter Cole.
For Coroner—
T. J. Mooney. *.'•
fail to be at the Court House
at 7:30 tonight and help to
organize a 300-membership
Chamber of Commerce.
There will be Good Speeches, Good
, Cigars and Good Cheer. Don’t fail 1
to come and BE A BOOSTER.
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Johnsorv-Cloyes
Hardware Co.
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