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^rtth the government in the
OBfe of America for the
period of the war.
To Our Customers
War Relief For Utilities Granted In
Other States—“The Price of Ser
vice Must Meet Its Cost”
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“The first and most direct relief to
the public utilities corporations can
be given by the State public utilities
commissions and municipal and local
authorities, with the broad-minded
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co-operation of the people generally,
understanding and necessities of war
and realizing that the more promptly
its burdens are accepted the sooner
they will be lifted. It is essential that
forbearance and consideration be ex
ercised by the State commissions and
municipal authorities, and the corpo
rations aloo be permitted to make
such additions to their charges for
service as will keep in them the
breath of solvency, protect their own
ers against unjust loss, and give them
a basis for credit on which they may
obtain funds with which to meet the
strain put on them by the govern
ment’s needs. T^e breaking down of
. these corporations would be a Na
tional calamity.”—Hon. John Skelton
'—Williams, Controller of Currency.
In 1917 there were over GOO appli
cations for increased rates filed by
utilities in the United States—gas,
light, water, telephone and street
railway.
Hundred of cases .are now pending
before, or are being heard by State
Commissions and City Councils.
Over thirty city-owned utilities in
creased rates in 1917.
Everyone of these increases was
based on these popositions:
“That the Price of Service Must
Meet Its Cost.”
Money honestly invested in the Pub
lic service is entitled to fair inerest
return.
Public utilities have been the great
est business sufferers from the extra
ordinary conditions due to the war.
Other enterprises have been pro
tected. The government has recog
nized the fundamental doctrine that
the price paid for a commodity must
meet its cost. Government contracts
are all on this basis. In taking over
the railroads this principle was recog
nized.
But public utilities have been forc
ed to face extraordinary increases in
iabor, fuel and materials without any
increase in the rates. rlhey have
been trying to operate with a nickle
now worth 2% cents.
Capital was shunning this field of
investment so important to the people.
Improvement had stopped. Service
was of necessity being reduced. So
State Commissions and City Coun
cils, after searching investigations,
have exercised their rate making
power to save for the people the pub
t ’ic services on which they depend.
Arkansas Light & Power Company,
By H. C. Couch, President.
Casualty List
The following casualties are report
ed by the commanding general of the
American Expeditionary Forces:
Killed in action-63
Died of accident and other causes 2
Died of disease --147
Wounded severely-99
Wounded (degree undetermined) 137
Wounded slighted -211
Missing in action-27
Prisoners -48
Total_-734
Among the Arkansans in the cas
ualty list today are Private William
E. Parmer of Clifty, killed in action;
Gilbert Handford of Paragould,
wounded in option, degree undeter
mined; Edgar Preston of Hoxie,
wounded in action, degree undeter
mined; Died of Disease—William
Thomas Hannah, Evansville; Oscar
R. Clayton, Paragould; William S.
Kilgore, Hackett City; Benjaman M.
Ireland, Spadra; Wash Jackson,
Foreman; Avera H. T. Qualls, Mount
Vernon.
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COMMITTEE WILL IN
VESTIGATE PURCHASE
OF WASHINGTON TIMES.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 19.— Investiga
tion by the enate judiciary committee
of the purchase of the Washington
Times by Arthur Brisbane with
money furnished by brewers and an
inquiry into other activities by "brew
ers was begun today.
Evidence was offered at the open
ing of the hearing to prove that funds
from the same source provided for
the purchase of the Montgomery,
Alabama, Advertiser.
THREE ARKANSAS BOYS
. CITED FOR BRAVERY.
The commander in chief of the
American Expeditionary Forces, in
. the name of the president, has award
ed the distinguished service cross to
the following named officers and sol
diers for the acts of extraordinary he
roism set forth after their names;
, Private Andy Keeton, Company G,
357th Infantry,—“For extraordinary
heroism in action near Fey-en-Hays,
France, September 9-12, 1918. Be
coming separated from his patrol, Pri
vate Keeton with another soldier at
tacked an enemy patrol and drove it
off, though the number of their op
ponents was estimated at 60. During
the advance of September 12, north
of Fey-en-Hays Private Keeton went
to the rescue of his battalion com
mander and another officer, who
were pocketed by the fire of a ma
chine gun. He stalked the gun posi
tion and drove off the gunners. * His
home is at Ozark.
Corporal Jesse W. Grisham, Com
pany L, 359th Infantry (deceased)—
“For extraordinary heroism in action
near Fey-en-Haye, France, Septem
ber 12, 1918. When the advance of
his company was halted by an impass
able barbed wire entanglement, Cor
poral Grisham voluntarily jumped out
of a trench in the face of heavy ma
chine gun fire and cut sufficient
paths through the wire to enable the
company to continue its advance. In
the performance of this self-sacrific
ing act this gallant soldier was kill
ed.” His mother lives at Holland,
Arkansas.
Sergeant Roy Weigel, Infantry E,
16th Infantry, (deceased).— “For
extraordinary heroism in action near
St. Mihiel, France, September 12,
1918. Sergeant Weigel showed en
tire disregard for his own safety in.
making several attempts to locate the
poition of machine guns whose heavy
fire was hindering the advance of his
battalion. He was killed while lead
ipg a rush upon one of the guns
nich he had located.” His home ad
.dress was Green Forest, Ark.
GREAT BRITAIN LOST
658,655 MEN KILLED
DURING FOUR YEARS.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Nov. 19.— Announcement
was pnade today in the House of Com
mons that the British losses in killed
on all fronts during the W'ar was 658,
665.
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FIRE SWEEPS BUSI
NESS DISTRICT OF
BRISTOL, TENNESSEE.
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(By The Associated Press.)
Bristol, Tenn., Nov. 19.—Fire origi
nating in the basement of Dosser
Brothers’ department store today
swept through the business district of
Bristol and caused a loss estimated
at !jwo0,000. Six men were injured.
QUARTER MILLION
TONS FOODSTUFF TO
BE SHIPPED TO AUSTRIA.
(Bv The Associated Press.)
New York, Nov. 19—It was learn
ed today that preparations are under
way to ship a quarter of a million j
tons of foodstuffs for the relief of the
civilian population to Austria.
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Charles O. Burkett is one of the .
Newport boys of whom it is the pleas- j
ure of his friends to feel proud. |
He is a? Camp Zachary Taylor at j
Louisville, Ky and is making quite a j
record, being sent 'from Fayetteville
to that camp several weeks ago, |
where he entered an artillery school, j
He had been there only a few days
when he was selected as a teacher of
mathematics in the school and tfrote
his mother here that he had 4:> pu
pils, many of them college graduates,
and some of them twice as old as he
was. Charles-is delighted with his
work and feels that he is making a
success of teaching as well as becom
ng an expert artilleryman.
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ORDINANCE NO. 267.
An Ordinance prescribing the duties,
powers, and authority of the City
Board of Health, of the City of New
port, Arkansas, and Rules and Reg
ulations regarding the same.
Be It Ordained By The City Council
of the City of Newport, Arkansas:
Section 1. The members of the City
Board of Health as now constituted
shall hold their offices during' the
pleasure of the City Council or until
„heir successors are appointed.
Section 2. The City Board of
Health shall elect one of their mem
bers as President of the Board and
one as Secretary of the Board, and
who shall hold their offices for a term
of one year from the date of their
election, or until their successors are
elected and qualified.
Section 3. The Cit Board of
Health shall keep a record of their
proceedings and may make such by
laws, rules and regulations for their
own "government and conduct of bus
iness before them as they may deem
necessary.
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Health is hereby invested with all the
jurisdiction and powers which by law
it is competent for the City Council
to confer on the City Board of
Health, in addition to the powers and
authority given by the general law.
Said Board may establish, declare and
maintain a quarantine whenever such
action in their opinion may be neces
sary to protect the City and its in
iphabitants from contagious, malig
nant or infectious diseases, and they
shall make all needful by-laws, or
ders, rules and regulations to make
the object and purposes of a quaran
tine effective. It is made their duty
to discover, declare and abate, or cause
to be abated, any and all nuisances
prejudicial to the health of tlie City.
And generally said Board of Health
is invested with full power and author
ity and it is made their duty at all
times to do or cause be done every
thing necessary to protect the city
and the inhabitants thereof from the
evils of contagious, malignant and
infectious diseases, and to preserve
the general healthfulness of the city
and its inhabitants. Said Board shall
have power and authority to declare
as a nuisance and order abated, dis
continued, or removed, any matter,
substance, thing, act, practice or car
rying on, which, in its nature, effect,
tendency, or continuance, is or may
become dangerous, injurious or detri
mental to the public health of said
City, or the health of its inhabitants.
Section 5. Any by-law, odinance,
regulation, rule, order or command
made in writing by order of said City
Board of Health, in execution or fur
therance of the jurisdiction, power
and duties conferred on said Board
by this Ordinance and by-law, shall
have all the force and effect of an
Ordinance of this City duly passed
jy its Council.
Section 6. Any person, nrm or
corporation, wha shall neglect or re
fuse to obey, or shall violate or shall
resist the execeution of any by-lays,
ordinances, regulation, rule, order or
command lawfully made in writing
by order of said Board, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction shall be fined in any
sum not less than five nor more than
twenty-five dollars, and may be
fined double the last named sum for
each repetition of such offense or
violation; and in all cases the person
so fined may, in addition to such fine,
be imprisoned for any term not ex
ceeding thirty days.
Section 7. Any person, firm or
corporation refusing to obey any such
by-law, ordinance, regulation, rule, or
der or command of said Board shall,
m addition to the fine imposed in the
preceding section, be liable to a civil
action in the name of the city for all
moneys expended or costs incurred
by the city in removing or abating
such nuisance, or in doing or causing
to be done that' which said person,
film or corporation under said order
or command of said Board should
have done.
Section 8. The public officers of
the city shall serve, execute and en
force all orders and commands made
in writing by said Board of Health
and signed and attested by the Pres
ident and Secretary, of said Board;
and when the Mayor of said City
shall, for any cause, deem it expedi
ent sb to do, he is empowered to ap
point special sanitaiy policemen, who
shall have alFthe power of the regu
lar police or marshal, and may serve,
ex cute ar.d enforce ail orders and
commands made in writing Ly said
Board in the same manner as the reg
ular officers of said city may do.
Section 9. All expenses incurred
by said Board in the discharge of
their duties under this Ordinance
shall be allowed ns other just claims
against the City Treasury, upon the
certificate of said Board that such
claims are just and were necessarily
incurred in carrying out the orders’of
the Board for the protection of the
kca’th of the city.
Section 10. That all ordinances and
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Lexington Minute Man Six
A Fine Automobile For Sale ^
At a Bargain
This car is fully equipped, has Red
Seal Continental motol, Timpkin
axel, spot light, motor meter, tire
pump, front and rear bumpers,
extra tire, cover and two inner tubes,
also chains. Car has been run 2,600 ;
miles over Memphis streets.
Price—$1,800. Would cost, I
new, $2,100. Inspection by ap
pointment. ~ 1
R. J. Huguleyj
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parts of ordinances in conflict here
with be and the same are hereby re
pealed, and that this Ordinance shall
take effect and be in force from and
after its publication.
Approved November 18th, 1918.
C. M. ERWIN, Mayor.
Attest:
B. G. Graham, Recorder.
November 18, 1918.
There wiy be the annual election of
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ter of Red Cross at the county eatirt
house Wednesday evening at 8 o’elaak.
FOR SALE.
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