!: CAPITAL $50,00000 EARNED SURPLUS OVER $150000 00
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1 wenty-six Years’ i trength
Twenty-six Years’ Growth
11 Twenty-six Years’Success
This is the record of the First Na
Dug I tional Bank.
Whether your banking business is
of small or large volume you will al
« ways receive prompt and courteous : i
| | attention at this bank.
You will derive many advantages
from the service and prestige of this
old-established, successful institution.
P -■■ -..H.
THE WEATHER.
Tonight and Thurusday probably
fair; continued warm.
HERE AND THERE
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g Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fry, of Alicia,
are spending the day in town.
S. Switow returned this morning
i from a business trip to Jonesboro.
For a good home meal go to Mrs.
Dawson’s, 416 Hazel street. 77dlmo.
H. G. Brandenburg left last night
for St. Louis on business for a day or
'two.
: , Knox mends snoes cneap. Ill Wal
; nut street. dtf.
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Mrs. Ben F. Burton, of Auvergne,
is visiting Newport friends this
week.
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For Sale—Two good milch cows.—
B. G. Graham. 76d4t.
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Mrs. Foster Dowell and Mrs. Cash
of Tuckerman, were down shopping
Tuesday.
flMBftSafc- . 'A V>
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I;.-' For Rent—Two rooms for light
housekeeping, 419 Laurel street.
73d6t.
Mrs. R. M. Doty, of Little Rock, is
the guest of Mrs. J. K. Granger, of
this city.
HraPilfoii
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For Sale—Ford Touring car; has
only been used one week.—Frank
- Johnson. 72dGt.
Little Miss Leone Campbell is at
Batesville this week enjoying a visit
with Miss Beatrice Best.
Mrs. W. R. Whitten, of Little Rock,
is the guest this week of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Chester Wathen.
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Special — Half gallon Mason’s
Fruit Jars, 82c per dozen.—Jordon &
Co. Phone 51 75dGt 15wlt
W. W. Rushing left this morning
for his home at Cooper, Texas, after
' a week’s visit with Newport friends.
Drayage of all kinds handled
promptly. Phone No. 10. Chester
Robinson. 13-dtf
Ernest Henderson, of this city, and
Ploy Jones, of Swifton, have opened
a *f?ew garage in the old Collier Bot-1
tling Company’s office at 816 Front
/ street, where they will do all kinds
of repair work and buy and sell se
cond hand cars, exclusively.
Lon McCallister left this morning
for Little Rock to report for duty at
Camp Pike, after a several weeks’ ill
ness.
Special — Half gallon Mason’s
Fruit Jars, 82c per dozen.—Jordon &
Co. Phone 51 75d6t 15wlt
Miss Sallie Love Banks, of Mem
phis, is spending the week witth her
brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
H. Banks.
Special — Half gallon Mason’s
Fruit Jars, 82c per dozen.—Jordon &
Co. Phone 51 75d6t 15wlt
Pete Grammar, of Sulphur Rock,
was here last night, going to Little
Rock, where he has work in the Pic
ric Acid Plant.
For Rent—Two nice sleeping rooms
in private home, very close in, and
rates reasonable. Apply 123 Beech
Street, after 6 p. m. 58dtf
M. annd Ms. Ben White, N. B. and
Earl Wishon left Tuesday in the
Wishon car for Little Rock, going by
way of Lonoke.
For Rent—One or two large, cool
bedrooms, close to town, bath
and electric lights. Apply 123 Beech
St. or call at IndeDendent office, dtf
Mr. and Mrs. Will Massey, of
Chastain’s Addition have an eleven
pound girl at their home, born Tues
day afternoon.
Corn for Sale at $2.00 per bushel
at crib five miles west of Newport.
Crib open only on Saturday See
Mack Bros. 48dtf lOwtf.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Grubbs and Mr.
and Mrs. William Yost are spending
the day with Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Williams, above Jacksonport.
Mrs. Ora Burton and daughter,
Mrs. Claude Perrin, of Somerville,
Tenn., were here Monday, going to
Batesville to visit Mrs. Sam Casey.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. A.
B. Twyman at Sulphur Rock yester
day. Mrs. Twyman was fornferly
Miss Beatrice Ratton of that place.
Carlisle Heard came up from Lit
tle Rock yesterday, where he is with
the Missouri-Pacific, and spent the
day with his wife and little daughter.
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Among the convicts to be discharg
ed from the state penitentiary in au
gust, are two from Jackson county,
who have served their time. They
are Charles Kiser, one year for crim
inal assault, and Henry McDowell,
three years for burglary.
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Dr. L. T. Hays returned yesterday
from a business trip to Memphis.
Dr. Hays’ family, who are at Heber
Springs, will remain there until
September.
Charles Smith, who is home from
a naval training station on a furlough
of twenty-nine days, is spending the ,
week with his brother, G. L. Smith of
our city.
Charles Long was expected home
this afternoon, after a several days' j
stay at his home at St. Joe, Mo.,!
where he was called by the illness of;
his sister.
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Help Wanted—Girl to help do
housekeeping, pleasant location, con
genial family of four; white girl pre
ferred. Call or write 510 Main St.,
Newport, Ark. 77d3t wit
Miss Seago, a trained nurse of
Litttle Rock, was here last night go
ing home from Batesville, where she
has been nursing the baby daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George Terry, who
has been very ill, but improving.
A. M. Allen, of the Dclco Light Co.,
was here from Little Rock today, go
ing to Tupelo, where he is putting in
a lighting system for the Gardner
Mercantile Company.
Mrs. Evelyn Kinman returned last
evening from a few days’ visit at
Little Rock. Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Parish, with whom she made the trh
in the Parish car, went on to Hot
Springs.
Owing to circumstances which are
unavoidable the Christian Sunday
school picnic will be postponed until
some time next week. The time will
be announced at Sunday School Sun
day morning, so if you want to go be
sure and be there and you will learn
the date. 77d2t.
Mrs. A. M. Edgar had as her guests
Tuesday afternoon, her sister, Mrs.
Chas. Edwards, and her daughter,
Miss Hazel Edwards, of Newark, also
Miss Lucile Carter and Miss Hazel
Hall of Pocahontas, the party driving
up in their car and returning in the
late afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Beasley, of
Walnut Ridge, and Mrs. J. T. Big
gers, of Powhatan, are spending the
day in our city on their way to Little
Rock. They are making the trip in
their car and had a break down when
nearing Newport and were com
pelled to spend the day here for re
pairs.
Byron Parrott, the accommodating
deputy circuit clerk, will resign his
position this week and leave Monday
for Vancouver, Washington, where
he has enlisted in the Spruce
Forests army service. He will be
succeeded in the circuit clerk’s office
by Otis Armstrong, another fine
young man of Tuckerman, who has
recently finished a business course at
one of the business colleges at Little
Rock.
Miss Dove Erwin arrived home
yesterday afternoon from Lake Gen
eva, Wisconsin, where she has been
since the first of July, attending the
school for National Sunday School
Workers, which meets in Juuly of
each year, and is attended largely by
the leading Sunday school workers of
the nation. On her retuurn Miss Er
win enjoyed a week’s visit with Miss
Docia Dowdy, at the “Three Arts
Club” in Chicago, and also a day
with Mrs. Gillieus Hurcus, in St.
Louis.
A card from Mr. and Mrs. R. If.
Scruggs shows them to be at Eliza
beth City, North Carolina. Mr. and
Mrs. Scruggs left here the first of
July on a month’s vacation to be
taken in their car, and were to visit
their home in Virginia and North
Carolina. They stated they had gone
fifteen hdndred miles and had one
little prncture, which had been their
only trouble, annd had averaged
about two hundred miles a day, over
fine roads. They were to leave Eliz
abeth City on the afternoon the card
was written for Norfolk, Virginia,
and will arrive home the latter part
of next week.
The more extensively it is used
the better are the reseults obtained
from a Swedish system for stimulat
ing backward children by circulating
electric currents through the air of
the rooms through which they study.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Wm. N. Dunaway and wife to S.
G. Parker, part of Block “G” of the
original town of Newport, $600.
J. M. Hockenberry and wife to L.
C. Meyer, East half of Northeast
quarter of 10-13-1. 80 acres, $1,800.
Frank Snider and wife to L. C.
Meyer, WMt of E% of 14-13-1, 160
acres, $2,000.
J. Carvell and wife to J. T. Ma
lone, Lot 5 in Block 2 of Hirsch’s
Second Addition to Newport, $2,250.
J. T. Malone and wife to J. D.
Carvell, all of Lot 3 and East part of
Lot 2 in Block 10 of Barnwell’s Se
cond Addition to Grubbs, $2,250.
Dunaway Investment Company to
John A. Melville, Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
and 12 of Block 2 of Dills’ Addition
to Newport, $3,500.
E. B. Block and wife to F. M.
Block, SW& of the NE% of 15-12-2,
$300.
George A. Churchman and wife to
Luther Victory, W% of NW^i and
NMs of SW& of 36-13-3, 160 acres,
$11,200.
J. F. Parish, county clerk to S.
Heinemann, part of NW14 of NE‘/4
of 6-13-1, 25 acres, $5.76.
CAN’T KIDNAP HIS WIFE.
Van Buren, July 23.— A husband
cannot kidnap his wife, Judge -W. H.
McKinney ruled today in the trial of
Ray Sherry of this city arrested last
week on a charge of abducting Mae
Shamblin, aged 14, daughter of F.
M. Shamblin, a farmer living near
Muskogee, Okla. Sherry and the
girl were married at Muskogee last
Tuesday. Evidence was introduced
that Sherry gave his age as 21, when
he is but 19, and that the girl's age
was given as 18. Sherry was arrest
ed on complaint of the girl’s father,
who took his daughter home follow
ing her detention by the local police.
You can at least be in the second
line of defense—be a war saver.
| NOTICE.
Sale of School Lands.
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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
jcry, 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
ider for cash.
J. M. IVY,
’Sheriff and Collector of Jackson
County, Arkansas.
iThis July 20th, 1918. 15w4t
Rice Flour, Grits, Pearl Homi
ny, Cream Meal, Huberts Country
Style Corn Meal and
Branzos
to save flour and help win the war. J
Also a Full Line of Staple
and Fancy Groceries
See Our Line of Aluminum Ware ar*d
Get Our Premium Catalogue
R. i/. Wi^^Grocer Co. j
At A Sacrifice
All Our Spring and Summer Goods
No doubt merchandise will be higher next Spring but
as we are needing the space for fall goods and the
money more than anything else, we would rather sell
this at a sacrifice than to carry it over.
NOW IS YOUR CHANCE
To buy anything in the line of Men, Women and
children’s low quarter shoes; Men and Boy’s Suits and
Odd Pants; Women and Children’s Summer Dresses *
made of Ginghams, Percale, Silk, Crepe-de-Chine,
Georgette, Satin and Georgette combinations.
Women’s Summer Skirts and Waists, or anything in
the line of Women’s Summer Underwear. Every
thing in summer apparel must go before our Fall Stock
begins coming in.
The Memphis Store
Wjllf-Goldman Merc.|Wolff-Goldman Merc. Co.hm
Smart Stylish Mid-summer Blouses
At Prices Surprisingly Small.
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It is most unusual in these
days to get real good-looking,
distinctive blouses to sell at
modest prices, and still, just be- j
cause we delight in doing the
unusual—have we blouses of
just this kind at prices that are ;
astonishingly small. Why even
at $1.25—which ordinarily now
buys so much less than it used
to—can we sell pretty, pleasing, I
well-made Waists at
$2.50, 8:1.00, $4.00 and $5.00. j
Of course there are more charm
ing Blouses, but the point we
want to emphasize is that you |
do not have to spend a l°t of
money to have a lot of prettty
Waists—that is if you come to
Wolff-Goldman’s to satisfy |B
your every Blouse requirement. Ol \
I Voile Waists Organdie Waists Silk Waists
Silk Georgette Waists Silk Crepe-de-Chine Waists
White Wash Shirts
Are Much in Vogue Now and When Worn With Our
Waists Make a very Dressy Costume
Unusual values in Pique, Rep, Poplin, Gaberdines and priced at
1.75, 2-25, 2-50, 2-95, 3-50, 4 00, 500 and 6-50
White Goods
| We have on display
an unusual variety of
white voiles in checks,
stripes and splash fig
ures that are wonder
ful values and make
pretty waists and
dresses, both for wo
men and children, at
the special price of
Ri_
Fancy Voiles
That make the daint
iest summer dresses
imaginable in both
small and large all- |
over figures, shades of
delicate pinks, blues,
greys and combina
tions, all 40-inches
wide and splendid
quality. Special value
at
Wolff-Goldman Merc,
“The House of Satifaction**
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