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THE INOEPNEOENT!
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AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
Editor and Publisher.
Entered at the postoffice, Newport
Arkansas, as second class mail matter.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DAILY—Single copy, 5 cents; per
#««k, 15 cents; per month, 50 cents;
rt year, 16.50, in advance, by carrier
city, by mail in country.
WEEKLY—11.60 per year, payable
la advance.
Members of the Associated Press.
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for Tepublication of
all news dispatches credited to it or
aot otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights or republication of spe
cial dispatches herein are also re
aerved.
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* * » This paper has enlisted '
|%fith the government in the
cause of America fo:
period of the war -
HELP THE BOYS AT THE FRONT.
I The first Associated Press dispatch i
| flashed over the wire this morning
end received by the Independent told
of a heavy attack launched against
American positions. Today the fight- j
ing is of the most desperate nature,
with reports saying the Americans
are meeting the attack in character
! is tic manner and holding their posi
tions. I
This is the frst colossal thrust the
enemy has made against American
lines. And we who understand the
American spirit know our boys will
give a good account of themselves.
But we must also realize that the
casualty lists will be long if the pres
«nt battle continues. Boys we know
will probably fall. This is to be ex- j
pected, however touching.
All of which brings home to us to- :
day as never before the real contact
of war, and its meaning. Is there a
man or woman so hide-ound, so thor
oughly innoculated with the venom .
of indifference or disloyalty, who will |
now refuse to back up these brave
lads over there? Do you know of a |
man or a woman so traitorous to the ■
cause of humanity, who now will re- j
; fuse to hand over every cent that can j
be brought to bear against the cam- j
paign of utter destruction?
It is now time for people to wake j
up and help the boys who today are
over there giving their blood that we
over here may continue to have a de
cent place to live in. Those who re
fuse to do this merely are parties to
the monstrous hell machine America
is going to whip, and time will tell
who has done his share.
-BUY W. S. S.
TELLS OF LIFE IN THE ARMY.
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boy—19 years old, but I will fill a
grown man’s place in the trenches.
I am sure now that I’ll be captured, I
but not by the Germans. Oh, those j
French girls! they have some kind of
a whim or twist to their lips that the
American girl has not, that makes
the American boy sit up and take no
tice.
The Red Cross is doing all they
can for the soldiers in the trenches.
I have everything I want to eat—
better than I had in the United States.
I think the Christians of Jackson
county ought to have a special prayer
service every Thursday night, for her
boys in France.
I would give $5.00 for a copy of the
good old Independent paper.
Your loving son,
Private Edmund J. Brock,
Co. M. 28 Infantry 1st Division,
American E. F. in France.
-BUY W. S. S.
DAILY NEWSPAPERS TO
DISCONTINUE SENDING
COPIES TO EXCHANGES.
The Independent is in receipt of
notices from metropolitan papers to
the effect that the war board has or
dered a discontinuation of the ex
change plan followed by these papeis
for so many years, which means that
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place your money in. We
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investor 8 per cent. !
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lands were never higher
I than now, although land
11 values are no higher than
I they were two years ago.
I Let us show you some of
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The Realty Co.
U G. L. SMITH, Manager
the smaller papers will not receive
the metropolitan dailies unless they
pay for them just like other folks.
The war board has issued this or
der, it is said, to conserve print pa
per, as every metropolitan newspaper
has always maintained a lengthy
“free list.”
The print paper shortage, which
has caused so much difficulty in the
past year, is only a small taste of
what may be expected during the
next year or until the war is ended.
In Europe, governments have lim
ited the supply of news print to the
individual paper, with the result that
limitation of the size of the actual
newspaper has been necessary.
Such limiation very likely will be
made in the United States.
-BUY W. S. S.
NORTH ARKANSAS NEWS.
James Lackey, aged 87, a pioneer
of Izard county, died at his home at
Iuka last week.
“With an increasing number of au
tomobiles coming into the country
there is a corresponding improvement
in the roads leading from this place,”
says a news item from Calico Rock.
Lewis Johnston of Middlebrook,
Randolph county, accidentally shot
himself through the foot while out
hunt.intr one dav last week. Johnston
was at home on a short furlough from
Camp Pike.
During a heavy windstorm one
ngiht recently the residence of F. W.
Ellenwood, near Mountain Home,
was blown from its foundation and
considerably damaged. Mr. and Mrs.
Ellenwood were slightly injured.
John Posey, of Mountain Home,
who is in the bombing division of the
aviation corps, writes his relatives
that he has been over the German
lines six times, and that three of the
trips were very successful.
Constable Rice nabbed two suit
cases containing 14 quarts of whiskey
on a train at Hoxie a few days ago.
M. G. Robinson and A. L. Swain,
giving their homes as Lonoke county,
claimed the suitcases and were fined
$100.
Sheriff Lawrence Ruddell, of Bates
ville, a few days ago arrested an old j
peddler giving the name of Limes, as I
a suspicious character. There was no !
evidence produced upon which to hold j
the old man and he was released.
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Rev. H. F. Vermillion, who lately j
resigned the presidency of Mountain j
Home College, has gone to El Paso, j
Texas, where he will be superintend
ent of a tuberculosis sanitorium be
ing established there by the Southern j
Baptist church.
“Uncle John Kelly, of near Denton,
who is in his 89th year, says that his
thermometer, which has hung on a
nail in his residence for 44 years,
showed that last week’s weather was
the hottest since 1874, the year of the
hot winds.—Imboden Journal.
W. J. Woodruff, a civil war vet
eran, died at ihs home near Ragann
school house, Randolph county, last
week, aged 73 years. One of his last
acts was to contribute in a financial
way to the support of the present war.
One of his sons is in France as a vol- j
unteer.
For some time Moss Adams, who,
resides near Imboden, has been miss
ing meat from his smokehouse. The
other day he set a shotgun with a
string attached to the trigger and to I
the door of the smokehouse, intending
to trap the thief. The next morning i
A /Jr,mc V»o\rmr» fAveroffon aKonf hl'c
trap, went to the smokehouse and
pulled the door open. The gun fired,
and he received an ugly wound in the
left knee.
-BUY W. S. S.
NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE.
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Even the narrowest and smallest of
keys ca.n be made to wro-k as it should ,
in the dark by an Illinois inventor’s I
keyhole guide that can be attached to j
any door.
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German attempts to make a fatless
soap from kaolin and slaked lime have
resulted in clogging the city sewers
with the clay, which combines with
other waste matter.
Economy of material induced the
builders of a smelter stack in Arizona
to erect it on top of a hill and con- I
nect it with a tunnel at the ground
level.
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An Englishman is the inventor of
a demountab’e rim for automobile
whee's that is made in two parts,
which are locked together with fly- |
bolts and a nut.
-BUY W. S. S.
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help your government end the war
days. . j
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Don’t forget your duty to boost New
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Graham system of shorthand and
touch system typewriting taught at
home. Call at 828 Malcolm avenue,
or phone 253. 66d6t.
-BUY W. S. S.
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Hall’s Catarrh Medicine has been
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-BUY W. S. S.
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-BUY W. S. S.-—
* NOTICE.
You are hereby notified to cut the
weeds on your premises and the front j
and sides, and in the streets and al- J
leys adjoining your premises and to
clean up the premises and put them j
in sanitary condition. This applies j
to both tenants and occupants and to j
owners of vacant property and lots, j
Failure to comply will be a violation ;
of the city ordinances and subject the
party failing or refusing to comply ;
with prosecution and fine.
The shooting of air rifles in the ,
;ity limits is prohibited by ordinance.
A great number of electric light
irl-obes are broken in this way espec- j
ially in East Newport. This ordin- j
ince will be strictly enforced and
parties guilty arrested and fined.
Parents are especially urged to see
;hat their children do not further
violate this ordinance.
E. L. WATSON,
Mayor of City of Newport.
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