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POLITICAL ANNOUNCE
MENTS.
The Independent is authoriz
ed to announce the following
persons as candidates for public
office, subject to the action of
the Democratic party:
For County Superintendent—
J. M. Balch.
Garland E. Land.
A. J. Garner.
Z. D. Barber
H. L. Thomas
For Congress —
Wm. A. Hodges.
W- D. Davenport.
W. A. Oldfield ,
For County Treasurer—
W. D. McLain.
Charles K. Coe.
For County J udge:
John A. Melville.
; R. F. Tyer. ^
W. M. Tima
W.Ar-Mink.
Efl? Sheriff and Collector—
-f"' TVjiry Guin.
' J. M. Ivy.
For Representative:
R. T. Simmons
For County Clerk:
J. F. Parish.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Feb. 4.— Secretary
Baker’s recent statement that the
tjnited States will have half a million
soldiers in France early this year and
that prospects are not unpromising
for ships to carry a million more will
be ready during the year, was char
acterized by Senator Hitchcock in an
Address before the senate today as
“absolutely preposterous” and “so ex
aggerated as to convey an entirely
false impression of what we can do,
\ and what we are doing.” He declared
\Baker was misled by a lack of infor
mation regarding the scarcity of
ships. Hitchcock spoke in support
of the bills for a war cabinet, and mu
nitions director. Administration
leaders will reply to Hitchcock, Sena
tors Williams and Kirby, being among
those questioning Hitchcock regard
ing the statements he made.
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
On account of the bad condition of
the weather the tax collector was un
able to reach the following points as
advertised, and will appear at the
places on these dates:
Cache township, Algoa, Tuesday,
February 8.
Cow Lake township, Eight Mile,
Wednesday, *February 20.
Cow Lake township, Proctor’s
School House, Thuisday, February
21.
Cow Lake township, Gourd Neck,
Friday, February 22.
Cache township, Burton’s Store,
Saturday, February 23.
Bateman township, Surrounded
Hill School House, Monday, Febru
ary 25.
J. M. IVY,
Sheriff and Collector Jackson Coun
ty, Arkansas.
MANY LIVES LOST
IN BIG EXPLOSION
Prague Scene of Disaster in Muni*
tions Plant in Which Many
Die.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, Feb. 4.—The Prague dis
patches forwarded by the Exchange
Telegraph reports an explosion in a
munitions depot resulting in the loss
of many lives.
newportInch
fIRSTTO START
Local Restaurant of the Van Noy In
terstate Company Takes Initia
tive With Food Order.
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The local restaurant of the Van
Noy Interstate Company, of which
W. S. Gordy is manager, was the first
one of great number of the restau
rants of the company to inaugurate
the' food saving order.
The president of the company has
issued a proclamation declaring one
meatless, two wheatless and one
porkless day each week and one
wheatless meal each day. It is com
pulsory on the part of each Van
Noy restaurant to obey the order.
The order also urges that the restau
rants be very conservative in the
use of sugar, and makes it impera
tive that all waste and unnecessary
consumption of food products be rig
idly eliminated. Conservation of
fats is also urged, asking that more
boiled and broiled articles be served
instead of fried.
DEATHS IN GERMANY.
Amsterdam, Jan. 20.—(Correspond
ence of The Associated Press.)—
“From the beginning of the war up to
the end of 1916 there were over a mil
lion more deaths ni Germany than is
normally the case”, says the Berlin
correspondent of the Maasbode in a
statement on the effects of the wax
on the vital and population statistics
of the German Empire.
“For the first three years”, con
tinues the writer, “the entire loss by
mortality is said to have been 3,700,
000. Thus instead of the normal in
crease of 2,400,000 there was on Au
gust 1, 1917, a decrease of 600,000
to which another 700,000 was added
as a result of the decline in birth
figures that still continues. The ab
solute decrease in the population af
ter three years therefore would have
befen two per cent of the number at
the beginning of the war.
“Other phenomena are to be ex
pected for the near future. Instead
of 14,000,000 the men between the
ages of 17 and 45 will only number
12,700,000; and instead of 800,000 as
now, the excess of women over men
will be 2,100,000. It is not yet
known how the war losses will be
spread over the various ages but it
looks as if there will be 1,100 women
to every 1,000 men of marriageable
age. For these reasons, and in view
of the fact that there will be a large
number of invalids among the men,
the marriage chances must be termed
greatly reduced, a fact which will in
its turn produce further shiftings on
the labor market, that on their part
will again react on the population
movement.
“The war is not regarded—at any
rate by experts—as harmful for in
fants. Natural feeding is far more
general than formerly in all classes
of the population, and the results are
good, as the food authorities appor
tion to the mother the food for the
child, as, for example, 1 litre of milk
per day. Infants have a right to one
litre of milk daily, 50 grammes of
sugar and 200 grammes of flour a
week and one pound of oatmeal a
month, and can do well on that.
“The food question becomes more
difficult in the child’s second year,
as vegetables and fruits are scarce,
at any rate in the large towns, so
that the potato has to take the place
of these. The counsel is now heard
more frequently to restrict gymnastic
j exercises and, following the example
of the marmots to substitute the food
that is lacking by sleep, and to see
that the children get long nights of
1 sleep.
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BAD NIGGER
RUNS AMUCK
“Chicken” Pitts Pulls Gunplay Pro
miscuously, But Is Finally
Brought to Bey by Officer.
Bad whiskey and a bad nigger
make a bad combination. The fact of
this was demonstrated Sunday after
noon when Bud Pitts, better and
notoriously known as “Chicken”, got
filled up on bootleg whiskey and ran
amuck. After a career which lasted
about two hours and which extended
over several blocks of the city, he was
overcome by Marshal Gus C. Martin
and placed in the city jail, behind the
bars of which he is now meditating.
Chicken began cutting his capers
at the Rock Island passenger station
about one o’clock in the afternoon,
Sunday. There he became engaged in
a physical encounter with a negro
named Will Jones, one of the porters
at the Columbia hotel. Chicken did
not have a gun then, so he used his
teeth, biting Will on the left hand.
Leaving the station he procured a
shotgun, and probably imbibed some
more poison. While returning to the
station Chicken met a small negro boy
named Nollie Tucker, in front of
Cooksey’s Cafe. Nollie was forced
to give up thirty cents. Following
this daylight robbery, Chicken reach
ed the station, where he told a crowd
of persons, black and white, who were
waiting for the train, to get inside
the station before he pulled the trig
ger of his leveled shotgun. His order
was obeyed on the part of all except
Tom Roseman, who argued the mat
ter with Chicken and finally reached
his side, taking the gun away from
him.
Chicken then started back home af
ter another gun and was overtaken on
Laurel street by Marshal Gus C. Mar
tin, who upon approaching the negro,
fired a pistol over his head. Grab
bing the negro, Mr. Martin took him
to jail. The negro found that the
marshal meant business when he
fired his pistol the second time as
the black refused to go farther than
Hazel street toward the jail.
Pitts probably will be indicted by
the grand jury for having taken the
money from the ngro boy at the point
of a gun. In the event of a failure
of this, he will be* given a trial this
week in the justice of the peace court.
CIRCUIT COURT BEGINS HERE.
(Continued from Page 1)
Ballew, Charles Balch, E. E. Bible, O.
J. Gould, M. C, Ennis, Grover Nance,
R. L. Hurley, J. H. Hitchcock, Joe
Thompson, Jno. Haynes and C. C.
Dean.
Panel No. Two—Luther Bowden,
R. J. Wise, J. D. Vaughn, Frank
Thompson, L. D. Daugherty, Joe Da
vis, J. H. Bailey, Dan Hogan, Mr.
Richardson, Jerome Runyan* Oscar
Roberts and Cromwell West.
Among the out of town lawyers in
attendance were Hon. Lyman Reeder
of Batesville and Judge Gould of
Pine Bluff.
The Quinine That Does Net Affect The Heat
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAX/
TIVE BROMO QUIWINE is better than ordinal
Quinine and does not cause nervousness m
ringing in head. Remember the full name an
took lor the signature of E. W. OKOViJ. ;
Did you ever draw two pieces of
cast iron together with bolts?
Did you get it tight?
No; the cast iron broke. Did
you ever bend a piece of enamel
ed iron? What happened? The
glass covering, the enameled,
cracked and peeled off.
Ranges—th e perfect
cooking machine—must
be tight as a steam boil
er. Nothing that can’t
stand riveting and draw
ing tight is worth work
ing up into a high grade
range like the Copper
Clad.
Get a malleable iron range because they
are tight and stay tight. While getting,
get the one malleable iron range with the
solid malleable back flue—the Copper
Clad—the range that can’t rust out:
Hayden-Holloway Furniture Company;
FIVE-COUNTY MEETING.
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There will be a meeting in Bates
ville, Tuesday, February 5th, of the
consuls, clerks, deputies and mem
bers of the M. W. A. of Jackson, In
dfpendence, Sharp, Stone and Izard
counties. During the afternoon and
night, there will be five reels of mov
ing pictures run, showing the great
work the M. W. of A “Life Saving
Station” is doing—fighting and cur
ing the White Plague. A motion pic
ture of facts—not fiction. Every
citizen should make an effort to see
these pictures. They are different
from the ordinary. 251d5t wit
Wanted—To buy on terms, or will
lease or rent for cash, thirty or for
ty acres tillable land in Jackson
county, some improvements, no over
flow. Address M. cr. Independent.
46w2t 251d6t.
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THE MERCHANT
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THE MERCHANT
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