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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
thorized to make the following
announcements of candidates,
aubiect to the action of the Dem
ocratic Primary.
For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Railroad Commissioner:
T. J. RANEY
T. E. WOOD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C- CASEY
H. U. WILLIAMSON
JOHN S. GIBSON.
For County Judge—
W. D. McLAIN
JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
O. W. SCARBOROUGH
For Sheriff— i * y
J. F. McCUISTION ~ v.
ABE BALLEW
For Representative— >
J. M. MABDIS H.^r
W. M. SHAVER k
J- U. ARD
R. T. SIMMONS
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For Treasurer—
JOHN H. CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD 1
J. M. IVY
J. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J.M. BALCH ' «i m
G. E. LAND
For Coroner— ;v ^
HENRY GRANT
J.T. CRAFT . ~
W. H- NOLEN
«r,r ‘ A.’
For Surveyor— "'V *
J. H. AITKENS. '"v!“
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Justice of Peace—
L. B. HARRIS
H. C. NUCKOLLS
J. M. BELL i
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
C. M. IVY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.
For Road Overseer—
CLARENCE PENIX
CLAY ROBERTS
J. B. THOMPSON
BIRD TOWNSHIP
For Road Overseer, Western D.
R. L. HURLEY
G. A. CHURCHMAN.
For Road Overseer—East. Dist.
L. G. PEMBERTON.
JOHN F. DUNN
For Constable:
R. L. BANDY.
BRECKENRIDGE TOWNSHIP.
For Road Overseer, No. 11 South
MILLARD F. HARDIN.
MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Mayor—
JOHN P. PAUL
A. T. HUBLY
For Recorder
B. G. GRAHAM
H. G. BRANDENBURG.
For Marshal—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
GUS C. MARTIN
For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
For Aldermen First Ward—
T. P. UMSTED.
C. R. PATE.
JOHN R. LOFTIN, JR.
S. HEINEMANN
For Aldermen Second Ward—
W. B. GRANT.
W. H. SNETSER.
E. L. WATSON
O. I. HUBERT
Want Gore To Lecture.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 25.—Efforts
will be made by the Little Rock
Press Club to bring Senator
Thomas P. Gore to Little Rock
in the near future ,to lecture.
Oklahoma courts make him the
man of the hour in this section.
Prosecuting Attorney Robert L.
Rogers, who assisted in the de
fense of Senator Gore, will as
sist the local press club in get
ting the blind orator to Arkan
sas. It was the intention of
Senator Gore, at the close of
his trial, to come to Little Rock,
and then visit Hot Springs. He
had purchased his ticket when he
received a message from Presi
dent Wilson asking his immedi
ate return to Washington, and
he hastened to the capitol city.
Prosecutor Rogers states that
every day of the trial Senator
Gore received consoling mes
sages from thousands of people
over the United States, and af
ter his victory had been an
nounced, Six messenger boys
were assigned to the sole occu
pation of delivering messages
to the statesman. He says that
the envelopes which were dis
carded covered the floor to a
depth of over a foot.
.
In Due 8eaeon.
“Is love of country strong In jrour
breast?" asked the patriot “Only In
warm weather.” Bald the man with the
comfortable home in town
•BnesducuE3muaucueu3ueiJE9ueuE3mc9ueiueRjescxBUCicuEUE
I First showing of Spring |
II DRESS GOODS 1
I j We have just received a full line of gl
j I new and up-to-date Dress Goods, voiles, 5g
S crepes, rice cloth, ratine, madras and Eg
J ginghams. A complete line of laces and ||
£ embroideries. No matter if you are not g
H ready to buy we will gladly show you. S
I Our spring line of Superior made to
measure clothing now on display. Have ||
|| your measure for that Easter Suit. |g
ij J. D.Carvell S Co. 1
| j Frost st. The New Store ^d'pwce 1
TO INITIATE
THREE ACTS
German Societies Will Ask \ ote
On Three Acts Relative To
Liquor License.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 25.—Three
acts are to be initiated by the
federation of German societies
of Arkansas. One is to change
the word “may” in all acts re
ferring to county judges, to
‘shall”; another seeks the re
peal of the Going bill; and the
third will do away with the e
mergency clause which has be
come so popular with legisla
tive acts.
The first act is designed to
take from the county judge ar
bitrary power which he now pos
sesses, and make him the serv
ant instead of the master of the
people. The reason for this act
is that in a number of cases
county judges have declined to
grant charters to incorporated
towns, or to make changes in
school districts after a majori
ty residing in the district had
voted for the change. The coun
ty judge has taken advantage in
these cases of the wording of
the statute, in construing the
word “may”, not to make it im
perative for him to act in ac
cordance with the petition.
The Going bill is attacked as
a failure, and as being undemo
cratic. A majority of the peo
ple of the state voted for local
option, and by making use of
the “emergency clause”, the
state legislature passed the Go
ing bill and prevented its sub
mission to the people. This
furnished a reason for the third
petition. The recent ruling of
the supreme court gives the leg
islature absolute power, once it
is in session, to adopt laws, and
the people have no voice in
them. By striking out the emer
gency clause, which makes a
bill effective immediately after
being signed, the people may
petition for reference, and vote
themselves on the measure.
A distinctive feature of the
last petition is that it will per
mit any portion of a bill to be
singled out for reference. This
is intended as a vehicle to carry
attacks upon appropriation
measures. The appropriation
which especially offends the
German voter is the appropria
tion for the agricultural colleges
relating to the teaching of La
tin, Greek, elocution and music.
Petitions have been printed
for these acts, and will soon be
circulated.
Professor Recited Badly.
One day a college professor, going
to his olass, came across one of his
students who had just fallen down.
Asking him how he fell, the student
replied, “Notwithstanding.” Telling
the anecdote a short time later the
professor said: ”1 met Mr. Junior the i
other day, and he made a very bright
remark. He had just fallen down, yon
know; and, when I naked him how It
happened, he said, 'Nevertheless.'
Budget
Good for Honing Hoard.
People who hone their own resort
will be Interested In fhs statement tn
one of the magaiines that what Is
known as “cuttlefish paper* makes
an Ideal material for the rapid homing
of razors, surgical Instruments, etc.
This paper Is made for use by dentist*
for polishing gold fillings, and Is
coated with an abrasive substanoe of
remarkably fine grain.
gafety Ip Friendship.
An Intimate friendship Is at once
a safeguard In recreation and social
enjoyment, for a man thinks twice be
fore he plunges Into surroundings
which he knows his best friend would
condemn. It Is a stimulus, because
In work or business, or even play, a
man does not willingly lag behind
while the friend is forging ahead. In
common endeavors fbr good causes,
religious or social or political, friend
ship is a powerful inducement to self
forgetting activity.
Muddled.
The lecturer arose and said ln>
pressively "Every time I see a young
man coming out of a saloon, 1 want
to go right up to that young man and
say, ‘Turn right around, young man;
you're going the wrong way.’"—New
York MalL
TYPICAL DINNER IN FRANCE j
Princess Hassan Tells of a Meal and j
Its Service in the Land of
True Epicures.
_
\ typical French dinner—not an j
exceptional one, mark you, but such
a dinner as a small tradesman's fam
ily would have—is incomparably su
perior to the plain roast dinner.
There would be, first of all, a few
relishes, according to the season of
the year. Radishes, ice cold, sardines,
olives, eaviar. Just a little of each
with which to awaken the appetite,
then the soup to excite gently the
liquids of the throat and stomach,
then a little entree—usually a bit of
fish with its appropriate vegetable,
or a handful of vegetables flavored
with meat sauce. Then, and not till
then, does the chief course appear.
It may be a roast, or game, or
chicken, or chops, but In no case win
It be anything which Is not in har
mony with the previous courses and It
will be eaten In moderation, for the
edge of the diner’s appetite will have
been dulled by the lighter foods which
have preceded it. With it comes the
salad—varied throughout the year by
all the possible changes of the sea»
son, and never, never by any possi
bility will It be such a dreadful green
hybrid as the romalne, strawberry
and green pepper thing. After the
salad there will be fruit or mellow
cheese, and then coffee. It will take
two hours to eat such a dinner, but It
will take only half what the typical
American dinner costs to pay for It,
and there will be no Indigestion aft- J
erward, no matter of what the din-1
ner is composed.—Princess Hassan in
an Interview by Louise Rice In the
Delineator.
GIVE THIS A LITTLE THOUGHT
There Is a Point to This Imports*
Joke, But Perhaps You Will Have
To Look for IL
This Is not an American joke. The
reader is solemnly warned that It
Is of German extraction. Germans,
as everybody knows, like their Jests
broad and brutal. The victim of this
one was Cousin Hugo.
It seems Cousin Hugo made a night
of it and got home as the small hours
began to cease to be so small. As
he climbed the stairs he stumbled (in
spite of the most elaborate care) and
rolled down into the hall below. The
consequence, for Cousin Hugo Is not
so young as he used to be, was a brok
en collarbone and a strained back.
Ahead even of the milkman, then,
came the family doctor, an estimable
old gentleman, and administered
soothing words while he encased the
patient in plaster.
‘1 know, my dear sir," he said, “that
It hurts like the deuce, but It Is not
a bit dangerous. All the same you’ll
have to stay in bed for a while. You
got a nasty fall. How did It happen!
Was it dark?"
"It was not, doctor," replied Cousin
Hugo with some asperity, “It was
light,’’
But perhaps you are not a beer
drinker.—New York Evening Post
Curing Wood.
Wood has contagious diseases! A
stick of wood in a lumber yard may be
sick and infect other timbers, which
later may develop the disease when
they are supporting weights In a new
building. Some of the diseases are so
contagious that in a building they will
Jump several feet across masonry or
brick to some stick of healthy wood.
Cures were recently discussed by the
American Society of Mechanical En
gineers.
Most of the diseases are varieties of
dry rot caused by a fongua, and most
of the varieties of dry rot fongus can
not stand heat much over 100 degrees;
so the most likely cure Is to close a
building up tight. If any huamn are in*
fected, and heat it up to ISO or 140 de
grees. Even this is not always suo
cessful, for ends of beams are burled
la the outer brick walls and the heat
may sot reach them.—Saturday Eve
ning Post
•ays Ants Do Hot Co-Operate,
M. Cornets, a practised observer at
taseet life, asserts that ants knew
aothlag of cooperation la their sorts)
Ufa. In proof ho ottos aa experiment
which any one can repeat Offer aa
aat a piece of choose shaped like a
abtittle; it seizes the tip, turns it
about ana starts dragging it In the dl
faction of Its nest Other ants arrive
and seise the cheese by its sides. It
continues to advance, but more slowly.
There is no united effort; each aat
Is trying to turn the crumb of cheese
around. If we chase off the os
the right the cheese will turn to the
right, for the other ants are pnshing
it Chase off those on the left and It
turns to the left for the same reason.
Chase off the one that is pulling it and
it stands still, for the ants on each side
counteract each other.
M. Cornetz holds this a proof that
each ant is acting for himself alone.
China “Called” Livingstone.
It Is not generally known that Llw
ingstone originally had the Intention
of devoting himself to the work of “a
pioneer of Christianity in China.” It
was as such that he offered himsell
to the London Missionary society in
1837, but when he had received hie
diploma from the faculty of physicians
and surgeons in 1840, ho found Chins
dosed to him, as G' t Britain was
then at war with the vjuntry. It was
his meeting with Moffat, who had re
cently returned from South Africa,
that led his steps to the Dark Conti
ueot
| and Dress Goods
is_
ftjfjj 50 house dresses worth $1.50
jjcj and $1.00.69c
tU2 50 Misses dresses worth $2.50
3T0 and $2.00.79e
ys
100 misses dresses 12 to 14
yrs., linen, $2.00 and
H ?l-50.50c
(ifp 100 children’s linen dresses,
« to 12.50c
2000 yds. new ginghams,
toile de norde.12 l-2c
af| 2000 yds. Regent ginghams,
12 l-2c value.9c
m -
are now showing,
rwspW*
neh’S"63- br»o*dS
w’L.y striped h
weights in wool L ,
dress goods. “'
Embroideries in all ,
newest designs and J
terns. Linen laces an?
ings to match.
Hope Domestic.,,
100 pairs of Queen
shoes composed 0f *
jnetal, tan, and vid
and buttons, 1 to 3 h
55-00 and $3.50, will J,
them out for.
iHeinemann
| Dry Goods Store
•anting Thoroughly Tested
hi Terr truth s modem btttlurtjj
does, In modem phrasing, carry soms
bunting. About $150,000 Is spent by
the United States navy tor flags each
year. Every ease of bunting oosts the
government $500; every roll ooetl
$11.85. The bunting comes from Mae
aachusetU- Every piece la subjected
to the most severe test. It must
weigh five pounds to every forty yards
and stand the weight test of seventy
pounds to two square Inches, it la
steeped in salt water tor six hours
and then exposed to the sun tor th#
mu period of time. If after this
treatment It continues to he buntlni
«f a distinguishable oolor It Is ps»
HU m ii fit for wrtct.
United States Ranks Tenth.
In the production of rice and coffee
the United States ranks tenth, com
pared with other countries of the
world.
Duties That Enrich
No matter how stirrings
'■t will be a failure If you h
been awakened to the gin
usual. There are no dutlc
en-ich as dull duties.—C. E
IDEAL LAIN
C. H. WALTON
Proprietor
Washing called for and i
to all parts of the
PHONE 150
Agents Wanted In Era
Yes, that home you think of buying when ^
need not be a dream for long if you open a _
a dollar will atart that. Economize on you ^
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NEWPORT. ARKANSAS ,
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Oil Stove
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