TENT STAKES FOR
THE GOVERNMENT
Capt. Inman Telia About the Vast (
Undertaking of Henry Quellmalz I
Lumber Mfg. Co.
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Captain G. A. Inman, who is well |
known in Newport and Jackson coun- j
ty, spent Saturday in the city, hav
ing come to the city for a few days
from Brookings, Clay county, on
Black river, where he is employed
with the Henry Quellmalz Lumber
Mfg. Co. Captain Inman says his
A concern is busy turning out tent
^ stakes for the United States govern
ment, and has supplied a large num
ber of the products for European
points and Camps and cantonments in
the United States.
“We are under contract to furnish
the government with tent stakes,”
said Mr. Inman. “The Henry Quell
malz Lumber and Manufacturing!
Company, one of the biggest in the j
country, has already shipped ten mil
lion tent stakes to Euiopean points,
and is under contract to turn out
twenty million more. We ship di
rect to Europe, and also have sup
plied stakes for camps and canton
ments in this country.
“The mills at Brookings employ
600 men, but recently we have been
hampered to a brief extent by the
shortage of labor, and suspect that
the coming present draft will take
many more of our men. The company
has already furnished 125 men for the
army. In our employ we have forty i
women, who have taken the places of
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men, and who are doing splendid
work. The contract which we have
with the government has embodied in
it a provision by which we are to be
furnished workmen by the govern
ment if the shortage of labor at the
mills grows acute.
“The object of my visit here is to
buy boats and barges with which to
handle .the raw material from the
woods to the mills. One of our boats
is now tied up in eighteen inches of
ice, and perhaps it will be three
weeks before conditions can be re
stored to normal.”
Captain Inman will remain in this
section for a few days looking after
the interests of his company and
meeting his friends.
NEWS ODDITIES.
Curfew at 10 instead of 8:30 for
Alimony club in Ludlow street jail,
and members to have table knives,
new sheriff orders.
Barflies who are all sobered up
with no place to go since Montclair,
N. J., decided to be “dry,” are to
have recreation room for light re
freshments provided by Women’s
club.
Lock snapped when two Boston
children in play climbed into trunk
and pulled down the lid, and they
were suffocated.
Plugged half dollar was all West
Hoboken mayor received for marry
ing couple and furnishing music on
the phonograph.
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Conflagrations In Newark Bay, At
Patterson, 'N. J., and Buffalo,
N. Y., Entail Great Loss.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Newark, N. J., Jan. 2<^*—More than
a million dollars in property was de
stroyed by a fire, believed to be the
work of German spies, which today
burned oil barges and pier ware
houses in Newark Bay. Close to the
plant was a submarine boat corpora
tion and storehouses of the quarter
master’s department of the army.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Patterson, N. J., Jan. 26.—The Fi
delity Storage warehouse was de
stroyed by fire last night, with a loss
of $150,000. One man was killed.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 26.—The West
inghouse Electric Manufacturihg
Company repair plant burned today,
with a loss of $150,000.
TIME FOR AMERICANS.
With the American Army in France,
Jan. 2.—(Correspondence of the As
sociated Press)—Correct time soon
will be transmitted to the entire
American Expeditionary Force over
its own system of telegraph lines.
At present wireless stations each day
at a certain hour pick from the air
the figures flashed from Paris by
which the clocks of the army are
synchronized. This method does not
insure absolute accuracy. |
When the last links of the tele
graph system are connected, each
day at 11 o’clock a simultaneous sig
nal will be sent to every station so
that through the existing zone and,
later on, at the front as well, clocks
and watches will show the same time.
This synchronization is desirable un
der present conditions and it is an
absolute necessity with troops at the
front when, for instance, orders may
specify that some operation is to be
carried out at one point at a certain
time and another operation at an
other point at another time. The
success of both operations may de- (
pend upon them being launched vir
tually on the second.
Miles upon miles of telegraph lines
strung on poles labled “U. S. A.” now
stretch through France. They may
be found running to base ports, zig
zagging through the instruction zone'
over hills, through a valley, along a
roadside. On some of the poles there
are double cross-beams supporting in
many cases as many as ten wires.
There is a complete system of oper
ators and central exchanges as well
as a considerable force of linemen
and repairmen, quite a number of
whom worked for telephone and tele
graph companies in the United States
before the war. The “service” leaves
.little if anything to be desired.
For not ringing churcn Den 04
years ago when he was ill across the
street, Brooklyn man has left Con
necticut preacher $30o in will.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that, as
marshal of the city of Newport, I
have taken up the following live
stock, to-wit:
One dark, fawn colored Jersey cow,
about 12 years old; no marks or
brands.
The owner of said stock is hereby
notified to come forward and prove
to the undersigned and that in de
fault thereof I will on
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 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,
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FAIL TO REACH
AN AGREEMENT
Packers and Employes Unable to
Agree On Eight-Hour Day and
Raise of Pay.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 26—The sub
committee representing the packers
and their employes today were unable
to reach an agreement on the men’s
demands for a basic eight hour day
and a wage increase of a dollar a day
and equal pay for the women. The
questions were referred tp the presi
dent’s mediation commission.
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