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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
thorized to make the following
announcements of candidates,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic Primary.
For Congress—
GEORGE T. HUMPHRIES
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C- CASEY
For County Judge—
W- D. McLAIN
JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
O. W. SCARBOROUGH
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW
For Representative—
J. M. MARDIS
W. M. SHAVER
J. U. ARD
For Treasurer—
JOHN H- CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J. M. IVY
J. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
TT L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J. M. BALCH
For Coroner—
HENRY GRANT
J. T. CRAFT
W. H. NOLEN
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Constable—
W. T. GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Mayor—
JOHN P. PAUL
For Recorder
B. G. GRAHAM
For Marshal—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
<GUS C. MARTIN
For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
As The Old Year Ends.
The present year is dying.
Soon 1913 will be recorded a
mong the dead years. It will
leave a wonderful history of a
chievement and disaster behind.
All eyes are focussed on the
coming year. The days of the
old, to the vast majority, will
be forgotten.
In some homes, where a dear
face will be missing when the
New Year is born, hearts will
turn back to that fateful day
when the death angel claimed an
other victim. This one day,
at least, will be remembered.
There are other anniversaries
of the departing year which will
be recalled. But the sweep of
the world is always onward. It
is characteristic of men and
women alike to look expectantly
to the future. Each coming mile
stone is greeted with confidence
and, while all respect 1913, it
will be the new year which will
be greeted with merry hearts,
with whistles and bells.
“Ring out the old; ring in the
new.”
Perhaps, after all, it is a good
(old custom, for it hails the New
Year as an evangel and revives
in us hospitable sentiments that
vent themselves in those warm
expresions of friendship and
mutual good will which tradi
tion and instinct alike proclaim ■
appropriate to the occasion.
Just why the year is new it is,
at first sight, not easy to say.
The same dawn will open its
hours and the same ancient stars
will vigil its departure. Our An
glo Saxon fathers in their lan
guage have preserved a preced
ent, a singular and significant
hint that it is worth while to
notice. They rejoiced in the j
; fact that the old sun had start
J ed on a fresh round. This fact
to inem PUL ligiib in tne pmv;c ux
darkness, set the seasons on an
ascending scale and in the turn
of the sun they read the promise ,
and potency which should con
quer the roughest winter weath
er, inviting the seeds to germi
nate, grow and bloom and the
soils to shelter the coming har
vest.
The average man is an optim
ist when he says to another, “A
Happy New Year.” It is utter
ed before the daylight peeps out
of the east.
City bells scarcely stop their
clamor and whistles are distant
ly echoed when the expression
passes many lips. We do not
know whether the year just
born has a stroke of good for
tune in it for us or not. At the
same time it is good to hope.
We are already beginning to
think what good resolutions
shall be made and whether it
will be worth while to make
them.
The year is rapidly ending.
Soon gray-bearded time will
claim 1913 and we will all con
fidently hope it will be shaped
for the best.—Memphis Com
mercial Appeal.
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A Merry Christmas 1
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If Price $1.00 per Bottle.
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What Newport Needs.
That Newport needs some
thing that has been and is now ]
lacking is a generally accepted
fact. Perhaps wre need many
things and just what they are
and how they are to be acquired
is a subject that evey citizen ]
is deeply interested in, for 1
no matter how much we 1
neglect to evidence our public 1
spirit, we all possess the embers 1
that may be fanned into flames ]
that will bring results and fire
our zeal to positive action and 1
work. s
Talk is reputed idle and cheap, ]
but it comes first in every great j
manifestation of public enter
prise. Let’s unite in talking the
subject until something is done
to realize upon many half defined j
ideas. Let’s build a unity of
spirit that has for its common
basis, the growth of Newport. ^
We have been rocking along
for years, taking what came our
way in a matter of fact spirit ]
and making little or no effort to
attract those enterprises, invest
ments and immigration which go
to build a city.
For a New Year resolve, let’s
manifest ourselves as one people ‘
with a united purpose and when '
1914 shall have been gathered
with its forefathers, we will be
able to say that Newport has
taken hold of her advantages
and opportunities and made the
most of them.
There will be material results
to show for the campaign begun
and we will only wonder that
self-interest and public zeal did
not long ago assert itself, throw
off petty jealousies and faction
alism and do for Newport what ;
we would Tiave done for our
selves and our business.
The Independent offers its
columns and publicity to those
who have suggestions to offer
along the line of what Newport
needs. The business and profes
sional men of Newport have indi
vidual ideas upon this matter,
and we not only invite but urge
upon them that each contribute
a short article upon this line.
By interchange of thought and
suggestion, good will result.
Let’s start something in 1914
and commence it with the New
Year which we hope will be a
prosperous and happy one to
each and for a bigger, better
city.
Yeggs Get $4,000.
Stuttgart, Dec. 30.—Burglars
blew open the vault of the Bank
of Gillett and secured about $4,
000 in cash early this morning,
j Gillett is about 35 miles south of
; Stuttgart. The burglars had
protected their escape by cut
; ting all telephone and telegraph
wires about a half mile north of
town. There is no clue to their
identity.
The vault was torn to pieces
and a part of the building was
blown out by the explosion. That f
mdre than one man did the work
is evidenced by the number of
horses’ tracks where the wires
weire cut.
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NEWPORT’S REPLY
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Newport Accepts the Evidence
and Many Newport Readers
Will Profit By It.
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Which is the more weighty
iroof—a few words from a
Newport resident, whom we
enow and respect, or volumes
rom strangers in distant
;owns ? There can be only one
•eply.
W. L. Hall, farmer, R. F. D.
Nro. 2, Box 97, Newport, Ark.,
lays: “I have never lost an op
>ortunity during the past six
rears to praise Doan’s Kidney
3ills, for what they have done
'or me as well as others of my
'amily. They have made such
:omplete cures of Kidney trou
>le that it has not been necessa
ry for us to take them or any
>ther kidney medicine during
he past few years. One of the
’amily took Doan’s Kidney Pills,
irocured at Dutton’s Drug
Store, (now Walker’s Pharma
:y), for trouble with the kid
ley secretions, together with a
veak and painful back. They
:ured her and later I used them
’or a similar complaint. Their
iction in my case was just as
satisfactory and I was quickly
:ured.”
Price 50c, at all dealers.
Don’t simply ask for a kidney
remedy—get Doan’s Kidney
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in the old fashioned way with
wooden washtubs?
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and you look forward to each wash
day with delight. Well, hardly I
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trays would mean an orderly laun*
dry, one of more inviting appear,
ance and easier laundering and youi
satisfaction would not be lessened
by ^ the high class e workmanship
which characterizes the work we do.
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