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4 tinue to operate the place,
4 Promising the public the
#4 same up-to-date service
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4 months. We will appreciate
4 the public patronage.
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4 per day.
4 Satisfaction guaranteed or
4 money refunded.
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BEECH AND THIRD STREETS
\ j PREPARE FOR THE HOT WAVE
The hot sun is doubly dangerous
if there is a mass of undigested food
in the stomach. Foley Cathartk
Tablets give prompt and sure relief
Jhey act gently but do their worl
thoroughly. They cleanse the bowels
sweeten the stomach and benefit
the liver. For indigestion, bilious
ness, bad breath, bloating, gas.—
Walker’s Pharmacy.
Subscribe fo^ the Independent.
► COMMITTEE ISSUES
► FAIR PRICE LIST.
At a recent meeting of the “Fair
► Price Committee’, appointed by the
► County Food Administrator, the fol
► lowing were agreed upon as being
► fair prices:
► D-S Meat, per pound _32c
► Hams, per pound _#-38c
i Breakfast Bacon, per pound-60c
► Smoked Bacon Bellies, per pound._38c
► Pure Lard (bulk), per pound-35c
► 5-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
► per bucket _$1.50
► 10-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
► per 'bucket _$3.00
► .Compound Lard (bulk), per
► ■pound ___30c
► 5-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
► per bucket _$1.35
. 10-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
, per bucket _$2.75
, 2-lb. Std. Corn, per can_20c
2-lb Std. Tomatoes, per can-15c
1 3-lb Std. Tomatoes, per can_25c
’ Rice, per pound_15c
Std. Meal, 25-lb. sacks, per sack $1.50
Cream Meal 25-lb sack, per sack $1.60
, Cream Meal, 10-lb. sacks, per sk. 70c
Navy Beans, per pound_20c
Lima Beans, per pound-20c
Pinto Beans, per pound_15c
’) Wheat Flour, 24-lb. sacks_$1.75
( Corn Flour, per pound_10c
>12 ounce loaf of Bread_10c
, 24 ounce loaf of bread_20c
I These prices will be changed from
time to time as condition warrant.
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
for Jackson Counuty.
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Mrs. Frank P. Wood, Box 18, R. F.
D. 2, Morrill, Me., writes: “Foley
Kidney Pills help me so much. My
husband also has received much ben
efit from them. He was so lame he
could not stoop over and now he feels
no pain.” Lame back, sore muscles,
stiff joints, rheumatic aches and
pains quickly conquered by Foley
Kidney Pills.—Walker’s Pharmacy.
CAUGHT COLD AT PALM BEACH.
Southern climate is no protection
against summer colds. Helen R.
banders, 620 2nd Av., W. Palm
Beach, Fla., writes: “My severe
cold on the chest was relieved by Fo
ley’s Honey and Compound.” This
fine old family remedy can be de
pended upon to relieve summer colds,
hay fever, asthma and croup.—Walk
er’s Pharnfacy.
NOTICE.
Sale of School Lands.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, as Collector of Jackson
County, Arkansas, will on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7TH, 1918
between the hours of 12 o’clock M.
and 3 o’clock P. M. sell at public out
cry, at the Court House door of said
county, the school lands lying in Sec
tion Sixteen (16), Township Thir
teen (13) North, Range One (1)
West. Said lands will be sold in
forty-acre tracts to the highest bid
der for cash.
J. M. IVY,
Sheriff and Collector of Jackson
County, Arkansas.
This July 20th, 1918. 15w4t
Do not forget that War Savings
Stamps are not for children only.
Most of the squandering is done by
the grown-ups.
The Independent works for you.
Use it as your salesman. It carries
news of the store into hundreds ol
homes.
Did you read that America is the
deciding factor? Coming from Lord
Milner this statement is momntuous
and America is not coming in—she
has come in—America is in.
Hot Springs, ArK.
The Wonder Spot of America.
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Waters were found to be highly Radio-active.
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I FROM PALACE OF PHARAOH
University of Pennsylvania to Have
Pillar That Once Adorned
Ruler's Throneroom.
The first word in a ion" time fnjjn
' the Eckley B. Coxe expedition to Egypt
has been received at the University
of Pennsylvania museum from Dr.
I Clarence S. Fisher, its lender. Doctor
Fisher reported excellent success dur
ing the winter explorations at Den
dereh, the ancient capital of Egypt, up
the Nile.
In April he returned to Memphis and
continued his work of uncovering the
palace of Merenpthah, who is identi
fied by many Biblical scholars as the
Pharaoh of the Oppression, whose
stubbornness brought on the plagues.
If this is correct, the great hall and
throneroom of the palace, which has
now been completely uncovered1, was
the scene of the appearance of Moses
and Aaron before Pharaoh, and where
the signs and wonders were performed.
The throne is said to be in good con
dition, but Egypt will not permit it to
come to this country.
Fortunately, Doctor Fisher has
worked over the pieces of the 12 colos
sal pillars which upheld the roof and
has recovered enough to make one
complete pillar, which will be brought
to the university museum and set up.
It will be the most notable specimen
of Egyptian architecture in this coun
try. The pillars were six feet in diam
eter, 80 feet high, covered with in
scriptions and pictures iiilsld with
gold. Much of the paneling of the
room and the lintels of the doors also
were inlaid with gold, and these will
be brought here.
The natives of Egypt, it is said, call
the palace “The Temple of Moses,” as
they have an idea that is where he was
reared.
ITALY HAD FIRST PAWNSHOP
From That Country the System Gradu
ally Spread Over the Rest of the
Civiiized World.
The French call them monts-de-plete,
but no satisfactory explanation for tliis
nomenclature is forthcoming. The es
tablishment of municipal pawnshops in
France was attended with more diffi
culty than was the case in other coun
Tries.
It is from Italy that the idea of mu
nicipal pawnshops spread over the rest
of Europe. A municipal pawnshop was
set up in Madrid in the year 1705,
when a priest with very little capital
opened up as an “uncle.” The system
was tried at Avignon in 1577, but it
was not until the year 1777 that Paris
itself was provided with a mont-de*
piete. The national assembly upset the
monopoly and the business passed into
private hands. The extortions of the
pawnbrokers in time led. however, to
a demand for the re-establishment of
the governmental institutions. In 180G
Napoleon re-established the monopoly,
regulating it by laws that are still in
force. . The interest charged amounts
to about 7 per cent.
In Paris the mont-de-piete is in effect
a department of the administration,
but in the provinces It is a municipal
monopoly.
Wrist Watches Afloat.
Wrist watches at sea, with their
luminous dials, are ut once a conveni
ence, a safeguard and a peril. You-can
tell the time without tearing your
clothes to pieces or going to a light.
When you walk along the deck at night
you can hold your forearm so that the
dial glows in the sight of all who are
passing along the deck and thus pre
vent collisions. If you don’t play up
your wrist watch, you are supposed to
whistle “sweet and low” in the dark as
you pass along. But if you are not
passing along the deck, only lingering
along the deck rail, and are fortunate
in having one of the few women who
are crossing as your companion in that
lingering, your luminous dial at rest
on the deck rail is apt to wreck the
wonderful sense of seclusion that dark
ened decks give these war times. One
heartless patrol a trip or two ago step
ped to the rail and asked a dismayed
subaltern not to have his wrist watch
“quite so far around,” whatever that
meant, because it might be detected by
a submarine.—Nelson Collins in the
Century- Magazine. ,
“The Fool Hath Said.”
This is a message from one who
knows—-Ooningsby' Dawson—to those
who do not realize. It is a message
direct from the trenches in France by
ijfcpoldler and writer to us behind the
Bes. lie says:
“Life has swung back to a primitive
decision since the war commenced.
The decision is the same for both
men and nations. They can choose the
world or achieve their own souls.
They can cast mercenary lots for the
raiment of a crucified righteousness or
take up their martyrdom as disciples.
Those men and nations who have been
disciples together can scarcely fail to
remain friends when the tragedy is
ended. What the fool says in his
heart at this present moment is not
of any lasting importance.”—Red
Cross Magazine.
Italy’s Greatest Harvest.
Italy’s soil, which has been cultivat
ed continuously for thousands of years,
promises this year to produce the
greatest harvest of wheat ever reaped
in that country. An Italian professor,
a member of a university delegation
^vhleh visited London recently as
guests of the ministry of information,
i announced that owing to the abundant
harvest expected in 191S, he had rea
son to believe that Italy would be for
the first time self-supporting in the
matter of grain.
SOLDIERS LIKED WAR BREAC
British Fighting Men Found Their
Health Improved Through Use of
Unbolted Wheat Meal.
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A little more than a century ago, j
| when Britain had been lighting for
years against Napoleon, food became
very scarce. Following is from a book
on bread-making, written by Sylvester
Graham, In 1837:
“In order to conserve wheat ns much
as possible, the British government or
I derod that the army should be supplied
with bread made from unbolted wheat
I meal, i. e., simply the wheat ground
without having the bran or middlings
removed. The soldiers were at first
displeased with the bread and refused
to eat it, even casting It from them In
great rage, but after two or three
weeks they began to be much pleased
with It and preferred It to the fine
flour bread.
“The result of this experiment was
that not only was the wheat made to
go further, but the health of the sol
diers Improved so much and so mani
festly in the course of a few months
that It became a matter .of common re
mark among themselves and of obser
vation and surprise among the officers
and physicians of the army. They ex
pressed themselves with confidence
and zeal on the subject. The public
declared that the soldiers were never
so healthy and robust. The public pa
•pers were for months filled with praise
of whole-wheat bread, and it was reg
ularly introduced Into families.
“Still, after this \ experiment with
such happy results and so general and
full a tesThtfCmy had been given in fa
or of the coarse-wheat bread, when
large supplies of s1IPerfine flour came
in from America, and the crops from
home became again abuh,dant an<l the
act of parliament regarding the food
of the army became extinct,' sinost °f
the people by degrees returned to
old habits of eating fine bread.” v
SURGEONS DO GREAT WORK
Rehabilitation of Wounded Soldier*
Seems Little Short of Miraculous
to a Civilian.
Foster Debevoise of South Orleans,
N. J., on a recent tour through France
and England, visited the armies at the
front, and speaks with enthusiasm of
their indomitable spirit ana umauuig
hopefulness.
In commenting he speaks on the
work clone for wounded soldiers:
“The men .in English cities, of whom
I saw hundreds, without legs or arms,
or with reconstructed faces, and those
in hospitals in process of being mend
ed, all had the same words: ‘If only
I could go back again!’ And this
brings me to another wonderful thing,
and thnt is the way the hospitals are
performing miracles. When finally,
sometimes after months and mopths of
treatment, the reconstructing process
is finished, the men are taught trades
and placed in positions so that they
are enabled to take up their lives
again with a large degree of happiness.
Straps operate as muscles on artificial
legs and arms; and I have seen such
men swing a hammer, play golf, knit,
or work at lathes. It is almost incred
ible what Is being done. Hats off to
the doctors, I say!”
The United States government will
apply the some methods of recon
struction to those of our boys that are
disabled or crippled.—Marion Couth
ouy Smith.
Saccharin Not Injurious.
Some quite unfounded statements
have been made to the effect that sac
charin disturbs the digestion, injures
the kidneys, or is even responsible for
gastric carcinoma. There is no evi
dence thnt saccharin or its allies has
any effect whatever on the economy
even when it is used in quantities
larger than are required to sweeten
foods and beverages to suit ordinary
tastes. And this, in spite of the fact that
saccharin has been in use for more
than a quarter of a century.
The mere fact that it is an artificial
substance remotely derived from coal
tar does not necessarily render it poi
sonous. as some seem to suspect. At
the same time it is. of course, value
less as a food in the sense in which
sugar is a food, and even as a flavor it
to most tastbs is inferior to the natural
substance.—British Medical Journal.
Rubber in Japan.
The rubber manufacturing industry
in Japan has developed greatly within
the past year in the scope and variety
of its products. In the export trade,
too, its importance is increasing. The
growth of the industry may he seen
from tiie steady increase in the im
port of crude rubber. The official trade
returns state tliat the import in 1917
totaled 9,689.(532 yen over the figure
for 1915. Formerly most of the auto
mobile tires used in Japan were im
ported in-o that country, but now the
greater part of Japan’s needs are sup
plied by domestic manufacturers. The
export of automobile tires has also
begun with the development of rubber
plants in Japan. x
Girls Herding Sheep.
Herding sheep—the loneliest job in
the world—is the latest industry to
attract women. Wyoming ranchers
have given so many men to the war
that sheepherders are very scarce.
Hence Misses Lulu Munson, Belle Pat
tison and Grace Keenan, Campbell
county lassies, have become shep
herdesses at a wage of $50 a month
and “found.” They have been era
! ployed by B. J. Reno, andi each girl
acts as guardian to 2,500 “woolies.”
! These girls are said to be the first
feminine sheepherders In the United
j States. _ j
avuvik |
Notice is hereby given that the as
sessment of benefits to be received
by the following several and partic
ular tracts of land, railroads, tram
roads, telephone and telegraph lines,
and other real property within Road
Improvement District Number Four
of Jackson County, Arkansas, to
gether with the damages accruing to
any owner of real property within
said District, has been filed in the
office of the County Clerk of Jack
son County, Arkansas, to-wit:
Northwest Quarter of Section Two
(2); the North Half of Section
Three (3), and all of Sections Four
(4), Five (5), Six (6), Seven (7),
Eight (8) and Eighteen (18), and
Lots Two (2) and Three (3) of the
Northwest Quarter and Lots Two (2)
and Three (3) of the Southwest
Quarter of Section Nineteen (19),
all in Township Twelve (12) North
of the Base Line and in Range Two
(2) West of the Fifth Principal
Meridian.
The East Half of Sections One (1)
and Twelve (12), and all of Sections
Thirteen (13) and Twenty-four (24)
and the Northwest Quarter and the
East Half of Section Twenty-five
(25), all in Township Twelve (12)
North of the Base Line and in
Range Three (3) West of the Fifth
Principal Meridian.
All of Township Thirteen (13)
North of the Base Line and in Range
Two (2) West of the Fifth Princip
Meridian, except Sections One (1),
Twelve (12), Thirteen (13), Twenty
four (24), Twenty-five (25) and
Thirty-six (36.)
All of Township Thirteen (13)
North of the Base Line and in Range
Three (3) West of the Fifth Princi
Meridian, East of Black River,
except Section Ten (10) thereof.
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All 01 ** ***«,**.***« |
Twenty (20), T^ty (30) and Thirty
one (31), East of J-Ttefllf^ver, and all
of Sections Twenty-one (21*17 Twen
ty-two (22), Twenty-seven (27),
Twenty-eight (28), Twenty-nine
(29), Thirty-two (32), Thirty-three
(33), thirty-four (34) and thirty-five
(35), all in Township Fourteen (14)
North of the Base Line and in Range
Two (2) West of the Fifth Principal
Meridian.
Section Thirty-six of Township
Fourteen (14) North of the Base
Line and in Range Three (3) West
of the Fifth Principal Meridian, East
of Black River and all lots and blocks
and parts of same situated in the
Town of Tuckerman, said County and
State, together with all railroads,
tramroads, telephone and telegraph
lines and all ether real property
within said District.
And all persons, firms and corpo
rations aggrieved by reason of any
assessment are called upon to ap
pear before the Jackson County
Court on the 16th day of August, 1918
for the purpose of having any errors
in said assessment adjusted or
wrongful or grievous assessment
corrected, and any person who is
damaged by reason of said improve
ment shall appear before said Court
at the same time, for the purpose of
uarillg me Muoveu***v»*» ~~
adjusted.
Given under my hand, as clerk of
the Jackson County Court and under
the seal of said Court on this the
29th day of July, 1918.
(Seal) J. F. PARISH,
16w2t. Clerk.
Newport, Arkansas.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
L. L. Johnson to Frank Eswine
NW!4 NE’4 Section 12-10-4 and part
of NE Vi NE’4 12-10-4,* 55 5-8 acres,
$10.
L. J. Dunkin and wife to Max
Meyer, lands in Section 29-11-1,
$2,800.
J. S. Davis and Bill Davis to S. F.
Davis Lots 4 and 5 in Block “A” J.
U. Ard sub-division to Tupelo, $700.
Elise Wolff to William Hooker,
Lots 11 and 12, Block 29, Hurley and
Williams Addition to Newport, $5,
000.
Annie McCrotty to J. R. Cox, Lot
9, Block K, Chastain’s Addition to
Newport, $250.
Luther Victory and wife to Ed
Sharp E*4s NE— and NW14 NE%
13-12-3, $7,200.
W. E. Baker and wife to Jno. F.
Gardner, Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11
and 12, Block 4 Alice Ard’s First Ad
dition to Tupelo, E% SE14 SWbi
15-9-2, 20 acres, also undivided' %
interest in E% SEki 15-9-2 and SE^4
SE!4 15-9-2, $2,'200.
Jno. F. Gardner and wife to J. A.
Wilson, EVs SEti 15-9-2 (20 acres)
and SE% SE% 15-9-2. 00n
J. A. Wilson and wife to Jno. F.
Gardner, part of NW!4 SWV4 20-9-2,
also Lots 5 and 21 of W& SW!4 20-9
2, $1,000.
Mildred A. Dorsey to Campbell &
Hedges, Lot No. 3, N% Section 6
10-3, 61 acres, $915.
E’er nor Robertson to T’
Breckenridge, NEki SW& and NW
H SE’/i 36-9-2, 86.18 acres, $100.
State of Arkansas to T. W. Breck
enhidge WU 36-9-2, $87.76
United States of America to Bos
ton Bullock, NW!4 15-13-1, Patent.
J. B. Graham and wife to W. S.
Armstrong NW14 15-13-1, 160 acres,
$1.00.
J. H. Puckett et al to W. S. Arm
strong, NW'4, 15-13-1, 160 acres,
$2,400.
NOTICE.
To Chairmen Local Committees,
To Arkansas Consumers of Coal:
1. The fuel situation confronting
the nation is serious. It is impera
tive that there be a co-operative dis
position on the part of steam-users
to equip their boilers for the use of
such grades of coal as may be avail
able, if the domestic consumers and
the essential industries are not to
have a shortage or prepared sixes
during the trying days of the com
ing winter.
2. Loss of coal production in
many of the western Btates, includ
ing Arkansas, is largely attributable )'A
to the fact that there is not now suf- /*
ficient means for the untilization of /
slack coal. The early ordering cam- ,
paign in this state has met with a , >
ready response on the part of con
sumers, and retail dealers report they
booked sufficient orders to keep them
busy 60 days, and those who have not
placed their orders should do so now.
3. Industrial plants and the con- i\
sumers of prepared sizes are expected
to do their full duty, and the steam
users are called upon to make pre
parations for the use of more slack,
or the whole system of production
and distribution will be badly crip
pled.
4. It is urged upon the owners of ^
steam plants in Arkansas, as a pa
triotic duty, that they proceed to
equip their boilers with special
grates and blowers to enable them
to burn and utilize approximately
one hundred and fifty thousand tons
-^Anthracite slack that for the p:
entT?te?gsi8 n0 market, and pi
their orders ^To'‘ ’the'*'°f
“I read about what Tanlac was do
ing everywhere, and though I was
skeptical about proprietary medi- s
cines, I gave it a trial. I hadn’t fin
ished the first bottle until I saw fav
orable results, and I have continued
to improve unt” my stomach
completely set in order and the oth
er conditions arising from it have
been entirely relieved. I am a weU
man now, and I can recommend Tan
lac in the highest terms,”
Tanlac is sold by all druggists irf
Jackson county.
HOW’S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Medicine.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine ' has been
taken by catarrh sufferers for the
past thirty-five years, and has be
come known as the most reliable rem
edy for catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Med
icine acts through the Blood on the
Mucous surfaces, expelling the Poi
son from the Blood annd healing the
diseasased portions.
After you have taken Hall’s Ca
tarrh Medicine for a short time you
will see a great improvement in your
general health. Start taking Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine at once annd get
rid of catarrh. Send for testimonials
free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
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