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No items last week because of the
absence of your correspondent. We
thought we had arrangements made
for some news to be sent in but
none were sent. Hope it won’t oc
cur again.
Some real spring weather has been
making itself felt in these parts dur
ing the past week or so. Farmers
have been enabled to gather much of
the cotton which still remained in
the fields. Some days resembled au
tumn on the streets and about the
gins because so much cotton was seen
on Avagons.
Most of the people of Tuckerman
and vicinity have taken advantage of
the favorable weather during the past
week and have planted much garden
NOTICE.
At the direction of the Jackson
county court notice is hereby given
that there has been filed in said court'
the petition of T. J. Gregg, C. R. Hite,
C. G. Henry, R. B. Hooker and N. B.
Wishon, as Directors of Newport Le
vee District, representing that the
improvements contemplated by said
Newport Levee District Avill be of
material benefit to the real property
located within the following bounda
ries, to-wit:
Beginning at the intersection of the
left bank of White River Avith a line
parallel to and 200 feet distant,
measured in a Northerly direction at
right angles,'from the South line of
Section 2, Township 11 North, Range
3 West, at a point on the boundary of
the Newport Levee District, said
boundary being described and set
forth in Section 1 of Act No. 249 of
the General Assembly ot the State
of Arkansas for the year 1917.
Thence Northerly, along the left
bank of said White River, to an in
tersection with a line parallel to and
I, 000 feet distant, measured at right
angles in a Northwesterly direction,
from the center line of the North
bound main line track of the Missouri,
Pacific Railway, formerly the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway.
Thence Northeasterly, along a line
parallel to and 1,000 feet distant,
measured at right angles in a North
westerly direction, from the center
line of said Northbound main line
track of the said Missouri Pacific
Railway, formerly the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railway, to an
intersection with a line 1,320 fee:
West of the North and South Quarter
Section line of Section 2, Township
II, North, Range 3 West.
Thence North, along a line 1,320
feet West of the North and South
Quarter Section line of said Section 2.
to a point on the East and West Quar
ter Section line of said Section 2,
1,320 feet West of the Center of said
Section 2.
Thence East, along the East and
West Quarter Section line of said
Section 2 to an ' intersection with a
line parallel to and 500 feet distant,
measured at right angles in a West
erly direction, from the center line of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway ti*ack.
Thence Northerly, along a line par
allel to and 500 feet distant, measured
at right angles in a Westerly direc
tion, from the center line of said
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
a line parallel to and 1,100 feet North
t of the East and West Quarter Section
line of Section 2, Township 11 North,
Range 3 West.
Thence Easterly, along a line paral
lel to and 1,100 feet North of the East
and West Quarter Section line of
said Section 2 to an intersection with
a line parallel to and 200 feet dis
tant, measured at right angles in a
Northwesterly direction, from the
Northwesterly right of way line of
the Missouri Pacific Railway, for
merly the St. Louis. Iron Mountain &
Southern Railway, aT a point on the
boundary of the Newport Levee Dis
trict, said boundary being described
and set forth in Section 1 of Act No.
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State of Arkansas for the year 1917.
Thence in a generally Southwester
ly direction,- following the said boun
dary of said Newport Levee District,
as described and set forth in Section
1 of said Act to the point of begin
ning.
And praying that the boundaries of
said Newport District be extended so
as to include the territory lying with
in the boundaries above set forth.
All persons owning real property
located within the boundaries above
set forth are hereby notified to ap
pear in the Jackson County Court on
the 28th day of March, 1918, and show
eause why said petition should not
be granted and the boundaries of saic
Newport Levee District should not be
extended as prayed for therein.
Given under my hand, as Clerk oi
the Jackson County Court, and at the
6 direction of said Court, on this the
23rd day of February, 1918.
J. F. PARISH,
273 dl2t. County Clenk.
I seed. We hope conditions later will
j not destroy the seed which have been |
J planted and that the results of the j
labor done will not be in vain. Most ■
of the citizens in this locality have
been Hooverizing and early gardens
will aid them greatly in their patriot-,
ic saving of food supplies.
County Treasux-er Grack Smith and
j family of Nev/port were Tuckerman (
! visitors last Thursday and also Sun- j
' day afternoon
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Deputy Sheriff Chas. Hogan was j
here one day last week looking after
| official business and mixing among
his many kin and friends at this
place.
James Gx’aham returned home from ,
St. Louis last Saturday morning af- i
ter having transacted business at i
that place during the several days :
previous.
Lr. Z. L. Ford was a Tuckei-man
visitor last Saturday. He has just
recently leased his farm and sold off !
all of his stock, feed, and implements :
and will not engage in the agricultur- j
al business during this year. He will
visit his family at Searcy during the
next few weeks, after which he will
probably locate at Newport during
the remainder of the year.
Grover Nance of Eight Mile was a
Tuckerman visitor last Saturday. He
was mingling among the voters and
trying to convince them that he j
should be elected to the office of
county clerk. He attended school in
Tuckerman several years ago and
during that time made many friends
who are loyal in his support for the
office he seeks.
Miss Annie Jones, of Newport, vis-1
ited at the home of W. M. Shaver j
during the past week. She returned
home Tuesday.
H. M. Williamson and family of the j
Hickory Grove neighborhood motor- j
ed to Tuckerman last Sunday after-1
noon and spent a short time among
relatives.
W. M. Shaver returned home last
Thursday afternoon from Las Cruces,
New Mexico, where he looked after
business matters a few days.
E. A. Mauldin, a prosperous far- j
mer, whose home is near the Ray .
school house, was transacting busi- j
ness here last Saturday.
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the attention of the man or woman
who might otherwise never have
known it at all.
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DISCRETION OF THE
DESTRUCTION OF A
GERMAN U-BOAT.
“Got him,” signalled the seaplane.
“Thanks,” replied the destroyer.
“We’ll give him five minutes to
come up and breathe, but no longer.”
That time passed but still Fritz
made no further move.
At a flagged signal from the de
stroyer the port foremost trawler and
the starboard after one clipped a
small red tin of high explosive to
the bar-taut \vire, and allowed it to
slide down till it touched the U-boat’s
hull. It was the seaplane’s turn to
wave a flag, and immediately there
followed the crashing of two fists
upon two firing-keys; the uprising
of two grey mounds of water and a
rumbling, muffled explosion.
“The seaplane circled twice above
the patch of rising oil, ascertained
that Fritz had been destroyed, and
notified the destroyer of the fact.
Then, with her observer slipping a
drum of cartridges into his machine
gun, she sped on after those objects
bobbing down the tide. A burst of
rapid firing—and the first cf the
devil’s eggs, its buoyancy chamber
punctured, sank with a gurgle; the
second gave a better show for it ex
ploded grandly—and harmlessly—as
the bullets reached it.
INDIAN MARRIES.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Base American Flotilla in British
Waters, January 28—The only full
blooded American Indian in the
United States naval forces over here
has just been married. He is Frank
M. Puryear, seaman, gunner’s class,
and hails from Villanow, Georgia.
While his destroyer was visiting at
an English port he met Dorothy Hap
ton of Newport, England. Their
marriage was not long delayed.
Puryear is a Cherokee Indian and a
direct descendant from the tribe
which formerly roamed those south
ern plains east of the Mississippi.
As such he still has a claim to partic
ipate in the funds arising from pay
ments made by the United States
government to the Cherokees for
lands invaded by the white man. Pur
year holds a deed to certain property
rights as a member of the Cherokees.
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I wish to announce to the Indepned
ent a few news items from Craig
head county. I receive my paper
every week and it is like receiving a j
letter from home.
We are having some fine weather i
here now and everybody is preparing
to farm.
W. A. Myrick is now conducting a
store in Monette and expects to
make it his home later.
Bob West of Portia, Ark., is down
looking after a car load of cattle he
shipped in last fall.
We have a few cases of pneumonia
fever in this vicinity at this writing.
H. B. Cobb was called to his Heav
enly home on the 27th day of Febru
ary. He left a wife, father and broth
ers to mourn his death. Their many
friends sympathize with the bereaved
family. The remains were laid to
rest in the Lake City cemetery.
Subscriber.
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afternoon before the next day in or
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the day’s work is mapped out in the
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coming in on the day of publication
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jf the propective buyers of Newport.
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our support to the
Organization
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all our friends
to do
likewise.
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