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THE INDEPNEDENT
AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
Editor and Publisher.
Entered at the postoffice, Newport
Arkansas, as second class mail matter
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
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week, 15 cents; per month, 60 cents
rr year, $5.50, in advance, by carriei
city, by mail in country.
WEEKLY—$1.50 per year, payabl<
la advance.
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Members of the Associated Press.
-The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to it or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights or republication of spe
cial dispatches herein are also re
served.
paper has enlisted
government in the
cause of America for the
period of the war.
AS A MATTER OF NEWS.
There are a few people, some
mighty good busness men too, who
appear to be at a loss to understand
■why the printer must charge more
for what he has to sell now than he
•used to. But to the printer, who
foots the bills, there is no mystery
attached to the matter at all. Paper,
like everything else, has advanced in
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price, and added to that feature, the
paper is mighty hard to get. Ink,
materials and other supplies have al
so advanced just Ike everything else,
and since it costs more for one to
live these days, the employes of
printing offices are justly receiving
more pay for their services.
No printer can walk into a store
these days and buy his necessaries at
the same price he used to pay, and
he does not expect to. Many com
modities have doubled in price.
Printing has not done that.
The Independent does not expect
to make any further raise in its
prices unless conditions change, and
our prices, we find, are in line with
I those made by all other well ordered
j printing offices of the country, where
[ a legitimate profit is expected from
! the amount of money and labor spent
jin the output of quality service.
-BUY W. S. S.
NEW RULING
IS ANNOUNCED
In recognition of the great record
made by the people of Arkansas in
food conservation generally, and as
a reward for their wonderful sacri
fice several months ago, when they
returned to their government their
surplus of flour, the following spe
cial ruling for Arkansas, through the
courtesy of the United States Food
Administration, is hereby announced.
1. Effective July 15, flour may
be sold not to exceed 24 pounds in the
j city and 48 pounds in the country.
I 2. Where a consumer has sub
I stitutes equal to the amount of flour
purchased, said consumer will not be
required to buy additional substi
tutes. Merchants are required to get
from the consumer statement on
| one’s honor that consumer has sub
stitutes and will faithfully use sub
! stitutes 50-50 with flour purchased.
| 3. If puchaser does not have sub
i stitutes, no flour shall be sold until
i an equal amount of substitutes are
| secured.
4. The following are officially de
clared substitutes: Cornmeal, corn
I flour, corn starch, rice, rice flour and
1 barley flour. In Arkansas it is pos
sible for the consumer to get substi
1 tutes. All dealers are hereby order
ed to get substitutes in order to make
legal their sales of flour,
j 5. This ruling shall not include
| hotels, restaurants, boarding houses,
saw mill and logging camps, which
| places shall continue for the present
under previous regulations prescribed
j by the United States Food Adminis
tration. New regulations for such
A Good Farm
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IS ONE OF THE BEST
investm ents you can
place your money in. We
have several that will net
investor 8 per cent.
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Products from farm
lands were never higher
than now, although land
values are no higher than
they were two years ago.
Let us show you some of
these tracts.
The Realty Co.
G. L. SMITH, Manager
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feMTiTiSr L- '
establishments will be announced
later by this office and transmitted
to these interests by E. R. Wiles,
chairman of the hotel and restaurant
division of the Food Administration
in Arkansas.
6. In exceptional cases only, and
where it can be proven it is true,
that a miller can furnish wheat flour
and not the full 50 per cent substi
tutes, said miller may furnish the
buyer not less than 30 per cent sub
stitutes and flour up to, and not to
exceed, 70 per cent of the buyer’s
normal consumption.
7. In cases where the retail mer
chant has his own substitutes to the
amount of not less than 2o per cent
of his normal consumtion, and will
agree to keep in stock at all times
that amount, the jobber may sell
him 50 per cent of his normal con
sumption.
8. The suspension, for the time
being of the 6 pound per person rule
must NOT BE TAKEN by the people
to mean no further saving of flour is
necessary. Officials in Washington
inform us that rigid conservation is
vitally important.
9. The government has suuspend
ed the 6 pound per person rule as a
reward for past patriotic conserva
tion. The present increase will only
be permitted to continue by the strict
observance of the 50-50 rule. As a
most vital war measure, and in
grateful recognition of the govern
ment’s consideration in your behalf
at this time, I most seriously urge
the people of Arkansas to be faith
ful in this trust and comply with the
50-50 rule and eat substitutes with
flour.
10. Don’t tarnish Arkansas’ past
record—the most wonderfuul and
self-sacrificing of any state in the
Union.
Hamp Williams,
Federal Food Administrator
For Arkansas.
G. B. Irby, Food Administrator for
Jackson County.
-BUY W. S. S.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange
without a dissenting voice, yesterday
passed a resolution to expel any
member who for a period of 10 years
after peace has been declared en
gages in trade with enemies of the
United States after the present war.
It is in line with action taken by sev
eral organizations for which the Bri
tish Seaman’s Union blazed the way
by proclaiming a boycott against the
Germans after the war for their mis
deeds at sea.
-BUY W. S. S.
Additional Locals
Mrs. George H. Banks, canning
club agent, announces she will give
a canning demonstration at the Wal
nut street school Friday, afternoon at
2:30 o’clock. She is anxious for the
ladies of Newport and surrounding
community to attend the demonstra
tion and bring fruit jars with them.
Mrs. Florence ■ Richter has been
very sick for several days at her
room at the Columbia hotel.
Mrs. Lon L. Campbell and little
| daughter, Mary Barton, expect to
leave this week for lmt Springs to
spend several weeks.
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Mrs. George L. Green, of our city,
is in receipt of a short letter from
her brother, Stinson Verdell, of Jack
sonport, who is now in France. The
young man was a member of Com
pany E, and ha3 been in France a
few weeks. He says he rather en
invoH hie nvprcAns t.r in which was
without any apparent danger. He
thinks the country is a pretty one,
but so far has not seen enough of it
to write about, and they were so
strict in censoring, that it is hard to
write what you do.
-BUY W. S. S.
STOCK NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that, as
marshal of the city of Newport, I
have taken up the following livestock,
to-wit:
One Jersey heifer, crop and split in
right, swallow fork and underbit in
left ear, one year old.
One black Jersey heifer, crop and
split in right, shallow fork and un
drbit in left ear, one year old.
One yellow and white heifer, crop
and split in right, swallow fork and
underbit in left ear, two years old/
The owner of said stock is hereby
notified to come forward and prove
ownership to the undersigned, and
that in default thereof, I will on
THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918,
offer for sale at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, in front of
the city hall in the city of Newport,
Arkansas, between the hours of 10
o’clock a. m. and 3 o’clock in the af
ternoon of said date.
G. C. MARTIN.
69dl0t City Marshal.
-BUY W. S. S.
Make every day a thrift day and
' elp your government end the war
lays.
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Dependable Goods
You map alwaps depend upon this store
to be alwaps readp and anxious to serve
pou with the lowest prices andbestqualitpof
—FURNITURE ■
—HARDWARE 1
—IMPLEMENTS
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and anything else you may need in our
line.
Ours is the biggest furniture, hardware
and implement house between Little Rock
and St. Louis.
Don’t forget your duty to boost New
port and Jackson county, the best town and
county in the best state of the Union.
Johnson-Cloyes
Hardware Co.
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PRIVATE LESSONS.
Graham system of shorthand and (
touch system typewriting taught at |
home. Call at 828 Malcolm avenue, I
or phone 253. 66d6t.
-BUY W. S. S.
HOW’S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that J
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh j
Medicine.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine has been j
taken by catarrh sufferers for the j
past thirty-five years, and has be- j
come known as the most reliable rem- 1
edy for Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh j
Medicine acts through the blood on'
the mucous surfaces, expelling the |
Poison from the Blood and healing j
the diseased portions.
After you have taken Hall’s Ca-'
tarrh Medicine for a short time you |
will see a great improvement in j
your general health. Start taking;
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine at once and j
get rid of catarrh. Send for testimo- j
nials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio, i
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
-BUY W. S. S.
FROM A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, i
W. H. Hill, J. P., Detroit, Texas,
writes: “I used Foley Kidney Pills
and say unhesitatingly that of all I i
have used they are the best, and
have done the work where the rest
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sore muscles, stiff joints and too fre
quent bladder action are symptoms of
kidney trouble.—Walker’s Pharmacy.
-BUY W. S. S.
NOTICE.
You are hereby notified to cut the
weeds on your premises and the front
and sides, and in the streets and al
leys adjoining your premises and to
clean up the premises and put them
in sanitary condition. This applie®
to both tenants and occupants and to
owners of vacant property and lots.
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
city limits is prohibited by ordinance.
A great number of electric light
globes are broken in this way espec
ially in East Newport. This ordin
ance will be strictly enforced and
parties guilty arrested and fined.
Parents are especially urged to see
that their children do not further
violate this ordinance.
E. L. WATSON,
Mayor of City of Newport.
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