OSE
LGIAN
REGION
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pletes Capture
?feated And
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ntwerp.
FIGHTING,
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BULLETIN.
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Dispatches this afternoon from
Belgian headquarters and Brit
ish headquarters announce the
occupation of Bruges by Belgian
forces. Thus all anger of Ger
man bombardment of London is
removed.
(Associated Press Summary.)
Germany apparently has lost the
whole Belgian coast which for four
years has been the base for subr a
rine and aerial attacks against Eng
land and English shipping. Ostend
has also been taken, Lille is occu-!
pied and Douai has fallen to the al- j
lies. Belgian patrols are said to
have arrived at Bruges. The German '
forces, defeated and demoralized,
are said to be in full retreat toward
Antwerp. The allied forces are
sweering forward with relentlessj
speed and are crushing the rear left'
behind to retard the pursuit. Fur-!
ther south the allied forces continue:
to move forward. Reports indicate;
two American contingents are oper-1
-nting with the British and French
east of Cambrai, where the allies are
fighting their way forward. Contin
ued rains are retarding the Ameri
can advance in the Argonne sector,
but Pershing's men have gained
ground east of Argonne forest not-;
withstanding.
Reports are current that the Ger- ,
man rejoinder to President Wilson’s ;
reply will be sent to Washington to
|, night.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 18.—Zeebrugge, the |
second important German submarine j
base on the Belgian coast, was occu- j
pied by the allied forces today.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 18—The war office an-;
flounces Haig’s forces yesterday eap
"T ’’tured 4,000 prisoners in their offen
sive in the Bosoin-Lecateau region, j
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Oct. US—The Germans have
begun a new retirement movement in
the area between the Oise and Serre
rivers between Laon and Cambiai,
says the war office announcement.
A French troops advancing from Ach
m ery and Choigny are in pursuit of
the German rear guards. Angiloutt
has been occupied by the French. In
Aj-ormnp the French have crossed
the Aisne river near Vouziers.
Fighting continues west of Grand
Pre.
Casualty List
The summary of the overseas cas
ualty for today, as reported by the
commanding general of the Ameri
can Expeditionary forces fighting in
' France, is as follows: ^
Jt Killed in action
Missing in action
Wounded severely .- ^
Died from wounds
Died from accident and other ^
causes-R
| Died from disease-:
Wounded, degree undetermined —
V Total - 178
b-T' The list today contains the names
of no Arkansas boys.
ire win
IUJED MINUS
And British Troops Have Advanced
Six Miles Northeast of Lille—Al
lies Continue Drive.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 18.— The Belgians
have occupied Bruges, according to
information received from Belgian
headquarters.
British troops have entered Turco
ing, six miles northeast of Lille, ac
cording to the Evening News.
Between the Sensee canal and the
Lys river the British are continuing
their addvanoe along the whole front.
North of Cambrai a number of vil
lages were captured, and the Douai
Manin road was crossed.
The evacuation of the Serbian, Al
banian and Montenegro territory has
begun by forces of the central pow
ers, according to a Vienna dispatch
forwrarded by the Amsterdam corres
pondent to the Central News.
British army headquarters an
nounce officially that Belgian infan
try entered Bruges today.
(By The Associated Press.)
SaioniKi, uct;. re.—vjreea iroups
day completed the reoccupation of
regions in Greek Macedonia, which
have been held by the Bulgarians and
Turks.
CHARLES ANDERSON DEAD.
For the second time this week the
detth angel has visited the home of
Mrs. R. W. Anderson of Jacksonport
and has taken the second son, Charles
Anderson, the end coming Thursday
afternoon at 6:30, from a week’s ill
ness of pneumonia. Monday evening
Frank, the youngest son of Mrs. An
derson, died from the same disease
and at that time Charles lay very ill.
The remains were laid to rest in Rob
inson cemetery this afternoon at 2:30,
the services being conducted by Rev.
W. B. Hays of the Methodist church.
This double sorrow is almost more
than the mother can bear, seeing the
last remaining two children taken
from the home circle. The family
has for years been one of the best
known and highly respected of this
county and have many friends who
are grieved over the death of these
two splendid boys. To the mother,
bowed in grief, is extended the sin
cere and heartfelt sympathy of the
community in the lineliness of her
home.
CHANCE FOR NEGRO WOMEN.
Negro women are not taking full
advantage of the United States Em
ployment Service local offices, ac
cording to some of the officials of
branch offices, who are anxious that
these women should be better in
formed regarding the aims and meth
ods of the Service’s work, says the
United States Department of Labor.
In Memphis and other southern cit
ies, although the local offices are
sought out by men, the negro women
do not appear often, and it is felt
.1 . i _ .1. linn lin An
LI 1 it U JIUO Ulg, II ubwiiwun ~
given to informing them of the pur
poses of these offices. The 'Service
is anxious to place women in posi
tions which pay well and' which they
can fill without injury to their health.
Among the jobs that have been open
ed to women are places in hotels,
factories, offices and private homes.
The Memphis records showed that
of the first 1,000 women and girls tc
seek the aid of the local office, bare
ly a dozen were negroes.
NEGRESSES EMPLOYED
AS JANITORS AT THE
CAPITOL BUILDING
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 18.—Negro wo
men are being employed as janitors
in the state capitol, and Secretarj
of Stats Terral reports that he finds
I their work very satisfactory.
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Officers at Camp Pike announce
! that the rumors being circulated tc
the effect that doctors and Red Cross
nurses at the base hospital there have
| been arrested for inocculating pa
tients with influenza germs are
false. v.
. Wire From Secretary
W, G. flflcAdoo.
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(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 18.—The Fourth
Liberty Loan campaign today neared
the home stretch, with $4,250,000,000
subscribed, and $1,750,000,000 to ba
raised during the two remaining
days. In the St. Louis federal re
serve district Mississippi has sub
scribed 85 per cent of its allotment
and Arkansas 83 per cent.
This morning the Independent re
ceived the following telegram from
Secretary W. G. McAdoo:
“Subscriptions reported and esti
' mated up to noon Thursday amounted
I to four billion dollars, leaving at
| least two billion dollars to complete
the Fourth Liberty Loan. Only two
days are left within which to raise
this vast sum. No country on earth
| but an American could raise so vast
a sum in so short a time. America
can do it and' must do it. The destin
ies of the world and the eyes of civil
ization are centered upon America.
We shall fail in everything we have
fought for and hope to gain in the
| war if the Fourth Liberty Loan is
defeated. Let every true American
citizen today examine himself under
the white light of patriotism and say
whether or not he has done his utmost
in this emergency. The hig'hest sense
of duty and patriotism command ev
ery true American to go immediately
to his bank or to his Liberty Loan
| committee and subscribe to the limit
I of his ability to the Fourth Liberty
I Bonds. Don’t wait to be urged. Be
as quick to do your part in this
! Fourth Loan battle as our heroes in
. France are quick to obey orders to
1 charge the enemy. Buy Liberty
Bonds on the installment plan if you
cannot buy them for cash. If every
! patriotic citizen will do his duty to
day victory for the Fourth Liberty
Loan is certain. The continued vic
tories of our armies in Europe, the
certain defeat of our enemies and
the glorious triumph of the cause of
liberty depends upon what the Amer
: ican people do in the remaining two
days of the Fourth Liberty Loan
campaign.
“W. G. McADOO.”
Enjoys the Big Show
“Over There.”
Nothing should serve more as an
incentive for one to buy Liberty
Bonds than the splendid letters
which the boys in France write home.
Here is a good letter from Curtis
Allen, formerly of this city, to his
brother, Frank Allen, who is em
ployed by the R. D. Brown Drug Co.:
France, 9-19-18.
My Dear Brother:
This is to thank you for the razor
blades contained in a letter received
from you a few days ago. I was very
glad to get both, dear boy, but think
you might have taken more time,
writing a longer letter, and giving
me more news from the land of all
my dreams. You evidently have no
conception of what a letter, “a real
newsy letter” means to us fellows
over here, or you would at least take
more time and relate the most im
portant happenings in Newport, and
vicinity. You must remember that
I I still have very tender thoughts of
I the good people there, and any news
regardless of its significance would
'be of extreme interest to me.
I note with discord your sugges
tion, or rather your request of my
permission to have one of my letters
presented for publication; this I vig
orously protest however, you may in
form any one that might inquire of
me that I am very happy, and enjoy
ing the sports of the big game that
we are playing over here. Be as
sured, dear brother, that it is a big
game too; not like the world's base
' ball series that was finished a few
days ago, but a game to make Chris
tian principles supreme in the affairs
of the nations, and the ideals of Jesus
Christ a glorious reality among men,
and until that end we are here to re
main. If I am among the ones chos
en to be laid beneath the cold green
sod of either France or Belgium, it
is an honor that I adore, for I have
already seen enough of Germany’s
cruelty to make the blood curdle in
'my veins, and I truly feel that a life
is the least that any one could give.
But if I am lucky, when the great
j battle is over, and the cry of war dies
' away in the distant hills, then I’m
j going to turn my face to the west
!'again and dream of the continent be
yond the deep waters, where the flag
will still be waving o’er the land of
the free, and the home of the brave.
And when in reality I awake back
among my loved ones I’m going to
rest for a while, and then commence
life over again.
Dear brother, I am anxious to write
you a long letter, but I simply have
not the itme. The mail from Ameri
j ca is reaching me regularly now, and
! you can bet I read each letter limber.
‘ Mother’s letters of course are of
' greater interest than any, she is so
sweet and courageous, but poor Dad,
he worries about us as usual.
I am in the best of health and spir
its, Frank, and by the way, send me
‘ some razor blades in each of your
letters, as I cannot purchase them
over here. Send them only in a let
ter as they will not utilize any unnec
I ARKANSAS
iBANK $
|TRUST
COMPANY
IS NEWPORT, ARK,.
|| WAKE UP
|i Newport and Jackson
1| County
! = We are behind with our quota of
| = the Fourth Issue of Liberty Bonds.
! = Our Soldier Boys at the front are
j jp fighting this very minute for YOU
I j == —take an invoice of yourself and see
I = if you are 100 per cent AMERICAN
} = —buy all the Bonds you can and then
! == buy more.
in
I = Our Bank will gladly assist you, in
| arranging a partial payment plan,
, j j = don’t hesitate. DO IT NOW.
! 15 Safety-Satisfactory Service
° IS 10INJIIE1 IIP
Exact Figures On Liberty Loan Sub
scriptions, However, Are Not
Yet Available.
Jackson county has fully subscrib
ed her quota of Fourth Liberty bonds,
according to announcement made
this morning by George A. Ilillhouse,
chairman of the county organization.
The last round of the ladder was
reached last night, after workers
from all over the county sent in
their reports. With two or three ex
ceptions, all the townships are over
the top.
The exact figures are not yet
available, but will be as soon as the
banks render their repoi'ts.
essary space that may aid materially
in helping us win this war, otherwise
they might, and too, it would be con
trary to regulations.
With lots of love, I am
Your devoted brother,
Private Curtis C. Allen,
O. & T. C.—T. A. No. 3, American
Expeditionary Forces—France,
A. P. O., No. 723.
COUNTY AGENT WORK
A WAR-TIME NECESSITY.
Arkansas must support the Uni
versity Extension work and make am
ple appropriation for county and
home demonstration work if the
'state is to continue to do its best in
helping to win the war, is the opin
ion of Lee Cazort, former secretary
of the House of Representatives. In
a letter to the Independent Mr. Ca
zort says:
“Before the war county agent work
in Arkansas had won as a business
proposition. During the last legis
lature, Hempstead and other counties
urged state appropriations to help
maintain county agent work on the
ground that the county agents had in
creased the county accounts at least
one hundred per cent. Every busi
ness man in Arkansas knows that the
Extension forces have been the
greatest factor in the agricultural
development in the state and since
the war with Germany began, the
value of the work has been greatly in
creased. To the county agents should
be given a great portion of the cred
it for Arkansas being able to go over
the top in every campaign which the
government has launched within the
state and the men and women agents
have been a mighty factor in the
work of the food administration, the
county councils of defense, in the
Red Cross, Y. W. and Y. M. C. A.
work, in the campaigns conducted
for the sale of War Savings Stamps
and the Liberty Loans.
In these activities the county agent
has acted as a leader and has assum
ed these additional duties, working
night and day without asking for ex
tra help or pay. This work has all
been carried on in addition to their
regular work of vaccinating animals
against diseases, terracing lands,
pruning orchards, introducing bettei
cattle, giving instruction as to land
preparation and cultivation, teaching
the value of seed selection, assisting
in buying seed and fertilizer, combat
ting plant diseases and in finding
markets for farm products.
The Quorum Court should make
i ..main
cUiipiv; ..
tenance of the county work and
should be impressed with these facts:
1. That the money appropriated
by the counties to pay a portion of
the county agent’s salary has been
the best business proposition the
county has ever made.
2. That the county agents have
benefited their counties in countless
ways and in a measure that cannot be
estimated in dollars.
3. That they are essential, espec
ially in war time, if our people are to
have a full service which is due them
and which the farmers in other states
are demanding.
| 4. That there is a sufficient ap
propriation available from the federal
| government to pay a large portion of
j the salary and overhead expenses of
these - ents, as has been done in the
past and that we cannot afford to
miss the opportunity to have an agent
i
RIOTOUS SCENES
TARE PEACE 1
HUNGARIAN DIET
STRONG DEMANDS FOR PEACE
ARE MADE.
Deputies Engage In Pastime Of Call
ing One Another Blackguard,
Liar, Traitor, Slave, Etc., and
Note to King Was Read.
MUST HAVE FULL AUTONOMY.
(By The Associated Press.)
Basel, Oct. 18.—Scenes of tumult
prevailed at a meeting of the Hun
garian diet yesterday, during which
demands for peace were made, and
it was announced that Austria is be
ing organized on a federal basis. The
uproar was so great that the presid
ing officer was obliged to adjourn the
sitting. The disorder continued,
however, the deputies calling each
other “blackeruard. liar, traitor, slave.
etc.” When the sitting was resumed
a draft of the address to the king
was read. It stated that Hungary
must have full autonomy.
(By The Associated Press.)
Berne, Oct. 18.—President Wilson’s
reply to the German note has created
a new state of affairs in diplomatic
discussions relative to peace, it is re
ported here from German houses, and
the German reply, it is said, will
make it clearly understood that the
tone employed by the president will
be open to objections.
in every county in the state.
The success of the county agent
work during the past year and the
aid which they have been able to give
Arkansas and the government is un
doubtedly largely due to the fact that
they are always on the job and have
worked consistently, which according
to the report of W. C. Lassetter, di
rector of the Agricultural Extension
Division, is shown by the fact that
the County Agents, during the last
twelve months traveled 216,813 miles,
made 57,857 visits to demonstrators,
co-operators and other farmers, as i
well as to the boys’ and girls’ club
members; that they held 3,997 far
mers’ meetings with a total attend
ance of 106,972 farmers.
In addition to the work of the men
the Home Demonstration Agents,
among a great many other things
helped to supervise the planting of
19,479 gardens and aided 26,216 farm
housewives to conserve farm products
for winter use. These and additional •,
figures which might be given show
conclusively that the county agents
are earning their money and that
they are on the job and we should
remember that the war work makes
the county agent more necessaty than -
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Frances, Oct. 18.—
man army will endeavor to 9||
next stand once the whole Hinden- 9|
burg line is definitely abandoned, is IB
now a big question in the minds of 9||
the intelligence officers of the Amer- 19
ican army. Information has reached! 8|1|
them showing that the Hindenburg »|B
line is but one element of multipleBB
system of defense work which theH
Germans have constructed acrossM
Northern France. The cities of InlleBjj
and Metz constitute the pillars ofB|gg
these great lines of resistance. The®
two cities 89
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