WILSON COLONY
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Against Strong Protests the British
Imperial War Cabinet Approves
Theory of Internationalization.
London, Jan. 30.—The British Im
perial War Cabinet has accepted
President Wilson’s theory of Interna
tionalization as applied to the cap
tured German colonies, despite ener
getic protests from the representa
tives of the dominions, says the Daily
Mail’s Paris correspondent.
FROM ROY DAWSON.
The following long and interesting
letter was sent to us for publication
by Miss Margaret Francis Beede, and
will be greatly enjoyed by the friends
•f the writer in Jackson county, es
pecially those residing in the neigh
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France, Dec. 25, 1918.
Miss Marguerite Beede,
Beedeville, Arkansas.
Dear Friend:
This morning I take the greatest of
pleasure in writing you- a few lines,
in answer to your letter received a
few hours ago. I was indeed glad to
hear from you, but sorry to know you
had all been sick. I hope that when
this reaches you that they will find
you in good health and enjoying
many pleasures. Your letter was a
Christmas present xo me, coming as
it did, being a surprise, and it was
highly appreciated. It found me well.
I do not know what a day’s sickness
is, not having swallowed a dose of
medicine since I entered the service,
and am as fat as a pig. You would
hardly know me now.
I suppose you all know that I am
in Germany, located at Bendorf, Ger
many on the Rhine. I am only sev
en miles from Coblenz and there are
street car lines running to Coblenz
and back every four hours, both day
and night. This is a beautiful place
_one of the prettiest cities you ever
saw. But, oh my! It is so hilly and
rocky here. I have seen mountains
of one solid rock, 600 feet high, and
as straight up as wall. It is healthy
here too—much prettier than France
because that country was all shot to
pieces and torn up by the big guns.
* I saw city after city with walls all
shot down to the ground. The whole
country is completely devastated.
I attended one dance since leaving
the dear old U. S. A.—it was in Bel
gium. We went from France into
Belgium and from there to this place.
Believe me, when I say I saw some of
the prettiest country I ever saw or
ever expect to see again, and also
many interesting things, but it would
take too much time to write, be
sides they were too numerous to
mention. I was in a large castle near
Engers, Germany the other night
and friend, believe me, it was a most
beautiful place. There were orna
ments of every description in there,
these square-headed Dutchmen beat
the world for pretty things. You can
aee all kinds of big marble-finished
monuments ana oriiawwuB
the public roads. We Americans
frjf have been treated fine by the Ger
*£ mans ever since we came here. They
treat us very respectfully, and they
tell us we are welcome to anything
they have.
Well, I have to go to dinner now—
I hear them blowing the chow. I
want to go up to Aty this afternoon
and will finish this letter tonight
when I come back.
I imagine you people in the states
are having a white Christmas. We
are here. It snowed here last night
and we also had snow about three
weeks ago. Sure has been cold.
You people are feeling good over
the results of the war. Believe me,
we soldier boys do for the weather is
so disagreeable here and we are all
go homesick to come back to America.
We are waiting patiently and wishing
many, many times for the day to
hasten when we can start on our
homeward journey. What a glorious
march that will be.
“Wherever the captain leads us we
will follow,
We’re coming a million strong:
By the stars and stripes we’ll stand
and fight,
Till right shall conquer wrong.
I will send the picture I promised
you in a few days. I would have sent
you one sooner but haven’t had the
chance to have arty made, as I have
spent the most of my time on the
firing line since I’ve been over here.
There were no towns near and all one
could see and hear were troops and
big guns. But at last I had the
chance and had some taken last Sun
day, so you will get yours the first
of January or thereabouts. I hope
you will all enjoy a 'happy Christmas.
As for myself I have spent a very
happy Christmas season. Had a nice
tree here last night at the big church
in this city and had two fine bands
to play good music. We had the 9th
infantry band and 17th field artillery
band and believe me they made some
music. It was grand. There were
lots of German civilians present and
they said the music was as good as
any they ever heard. We had a vau
deville show at the Bendorf opera
house, with lots of good music by the
bands, so you see we have had a fine
Christmas. The best of all was a fine
dinner today, with lots of cake and
pie and sweet chocolate and lemon
drops etc. We all cheered the mess
sergeant, so that one could have
heard us for a half mile away. I am
sending you the program of the en
tertainment we had today at the the
atre.
I was sorry to hear of Fred’s death.
I was surprised and had just written
him a letter and sent him some pic
tures of this place. I feel so sorry
for Grade. I also wrote Velma Ab
ney a letter yesterday. As for your
letter I certainly appreciated it and
you may continue to write me all the
news from home, even if it takes a
whole tablet, because the letters I re
ceive are not censored. They only
censor the mail we send off. I will
have to close for this time as my pa
per is about to play out. Tell the
kids they will not have to practice
with their new rifles-very hard to get
a hun now, as there are very few
left, and the few remaining tell us
they do not want to fight the Ameri
cans any more. They say American:
have j>o sense about their fighting,
that they will just close their eyes
and walk right into a machine gun
barage and you can’t stop them at all.
As I said before I enjoyed my
Christmas fine, but I know I would
have had a much better time in the
states. There is no place like Ameri
ca for me. I like soldiering in the
states fine, but don’t like it so well
here. We would like it better if we
could understand this language. I
think we will be back home by the
first of May. I don’t know yet
whether I will come home or not. I
am thinking of enlisting in the U. S.
Navy when I get back to New York,
but don’t know for sure. A man
there makes good money, has advan
tages and sees lots of the world. I
have seen many things and learned
much, so I will never regret my ex
perience. I would send you a Christ
mas present but there is nothing
much here to buy, so I will wait till
I get back to the states. Will either
^ n-pino- vim something. When
you see Shirley’s folks tell them I am
well.
Our camp is right on the hanks of a
large river and we see boat after boat
which makes us wish we were going
to set sail for home. I wish I was
there tonight. I could tell you more
about a soldier’s life in France and
Germany than I can write in a week,
but tell all the folks that I would like
to see each one I know, but my de
sires are all in vain, but maybe there
is a day in the future when my hopes
will be realized. I hope so any way.
You have my best wishes just the
same. I will send you some pictures
of the Rhine also a few sceneries
from here.
I will now close wishing you a hap
py new year and asking you to ex
cuse this soldier letter as my lights
are dim and I know there are many
mistakes. Write me another long
letter soon telling all the home news.
From your friend,
Roy Dawson,
Battery E, 17th F. A. A., E. F.,
France.
LOST.
One black mare mule, holds left
ear down and one bay mare mule
with gray hair on face weigh about
800 or 900 pounds each and about 12
or 14 years old $10.00 reward for re
turn or information leading to recov
ery.
J. T. Taylor,
42w4t Newport, Ark., R. 1, Bx 144.
Directors of Local Levee \
Board Favor Improvements
counties of the state.”
The bill was referred to the Com
mittee on Ways afld Means.
The house yesterday passed two
deficiency appropriation bills, one
for the State Hospital for $70,000.
There was opposition, especially to
the hospital bill, on the ground that
it should have been itmeized, but
Speaker Newton and others cqntend
ed that this was impossible in the
very nature of things, and that it
had to be handled as a lump sum.
There were seven votes against it,
cast by Messrs. Atkinson, Campbell
of Faulkner, Carter of Pike, Harrel
3on, Hold, Holloway and Jameson.
E. H. Duval, who has been ill at
bis home in Grant county, has made
his appearance in the house again.
Representatives Holloway, Knott,
Hohlinger, Hillhouse and Sullinger
have been appointed as a special com
mittee of the house to draft a bill for
the game and fish commission that
will, if possible, meet the wishes of
the various factions.
Representatives Holloway and An
drews yesterday introduced a bill in
the house to provide that all life in
surance companies operating in
Arkansas shall be required to invest
not less than 70 per cent of their net
warnings in Arkansas securities. The
bill will be vigorously fought by in
surance companies and those who are
in favor of letting the companies
work out their own salvation in the
present crisis. They had paid many
policies during influenza epidemic
ind are doing their best to meet all
sbligations, but insist that they must
lot be handicapped by legislation of
;he character that has been proposed
n some of the pending bills.
We have several young barred
Rock Cockerels from prize winners,
P2.00 and $3.00. Also will have eggs
'or $1.50 per setting of 15.—Mrs. J.
VI. Koettel, Remmel, Ark. 42d4t
Subscribe for tne Independent.
At a meeting of the Board of Di
rectors of the Village Creek and
White River levee district in Newport
today the board unanimously adopted
a resolution endorsing the proposed
Departee Creek drainage project and
pledging their full support to it, and
also favored the project of the Dixie
Power Company proposing to build a
dam across White river near Cotter,
Ark., for the purpose of conserving
power for industrial purposes. While
not fully endorsing the improvements
as now contemplated by the Village
Creek drainage district, the board
! passed a resolution declaring that in
case such project is carried through
as planned that the Village Creek
j drainage district would be benefited
by the levee system belonging to the
; Village Creek and White River levee
district and that the board will seek,
to add the lands of said Village Creek j
drainage district to the Village Creek j
and White River levee district—after,
said drainage district is established.
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Insurance Business Being
Considered in Legislature'
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Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 30, (1:34 p.
m.)—The house has passed the
Hillhouse bill for an equitable
division of road improvement
district taxes.
Little Rock, Jan 30.—The governor I
yesterday approved the following
bills: j
Act 16 S. B. No. 67 (Whittaker)—
To appropriate $480,000 for the
maintenance of the four agricultural,
schools.
Act 17, S. B. No. 94 (Wilson)—To j
regulate the salaries of the road over- j
seers in Calhoun county.
Act. 18, S. B. No. 113 (Rhodes)—1
To create Hulbert Special School Dis
trict in Crittenden county.
Act 19, H. B. No. 1 (Joiner)—
To change the date of state primaries
to the second Tuesday in August.
A bill introduced Wednesday by,
Representatives Yates of Sharp
county vitally affects every holder
of life insurance in the state. The
bill provides for the assessment and
taxation of the life insurance policies
at their cashsurrender value, as a
part of the personal property of the
holders of the policies. The bill pro
vides that “said cash-surrender values 1
of all such life insurance policies
shall be assessed at the same per j
centage basis as other property in
said respective counties shall from :
year to year be assessed to the end
that this species of property may be :
assessed and taxed uniformly with all
other taxable property in the various
The Old Adage
“That a Thing is Cheap or Dear by What
You Get Rather Than What You Pay”
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Was Never So True As Now
Our’s is a Specialty Shop for Men where Quality more
so than Quantity is THE AIM.
Below is a list of a few of the representative lines
in Men’s Wear we take Pride in showing:
Kuppenheimer Clothes
Knox, Stetson and Hawes’ Hats
Clapp, Reynolds and Regal Shoes
Manhattan Shirts
Faultless Night Robes and Pajamas
Vassar, Cooper and Wilson Bros. Unions
Knothe Belts and Suspenders
Onyx Hosiery, Superba Cravats
THE STAR CLOTHING COMPANY
"THE APPAREL STORE FOR MEN.”
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ALLIS AMIS LOSE j
TO Mil
American and Allied Forces, South t
of Archangel Evacuated Position V'jn
and Retired 10 Miles.
Archangel, Jan. 28.—The American
and allied forces operating south of ;•
Archangel evacuated Shegovai*sk
yesterday and retired 10 miles to the a
northward. The Bolsheviki continue L
to shell the American and allied po
positions at Tarasevo and Tulgae.- - ^
The forces which retired from She
govarsk, which is about 65 mile* :J|
north of Ust Padenga (the allied po
sition furthest south a week ago), ‘S
today halted their march northward
and established new positions at the .‘£1
villages of Vistarka and Ust SaMai ’VM
on opposite banks of the Vaga rivet, }
at a strategic bend in the stream ]*||
about ten miles north of Shegovarsk.
The new positions are protected by
forests through which there ere no '
winter trails in the immediate vicin
General Miller has presented to the
allied representatives in Archang||lM
for transmission to Paris, a statement^-fj
outlining the physical and morel ini-' %
possibility of holding any conference '-,.i
with the Bolsheviki, as it would be ]
physically impossible to reach the
Princess Islands by February 16th^ ,M
without passing through Bolshevik
territory which they consider impoe*
OFFICERS CAPTURE' .. ,4'S1
BOOZE AND MEN. J
Officers John and Lon Massey,.. Jl
who are getting to be experts in. ^
;he art of whiskey raiding, being so jj
hey can scent a3 far as Diaz, took 1
nto custody last night soon after
lark forty-eight quarts of booze, Jgj
which they consigned to the sewer. |
rhe officers suspected a consignment |g|
,i, No. 33, which they thought would
ie put off at Diaz and brought oyet*,:^
and to Newport, which proved a cor- S|
•ect theory. A negro, Bud Jordan, A
vas known to have hired a horse and/.t|||
juggy from the Harper livery
Vbout eight o’clock-the officers
•ealed themselves near the Is
n idge and waited for the return i<U»;
he party. They did not have longt|||
:o wait, as pretty soon the buggy .
with Bud Jordan annd C. M. Ivy )
iccupants, came over the bridge and
were taken in charge by the officers., '-j|
There were four suit cases contain- ■
mg twelve quarts of whiskey each, ^
making a total of forty-eight qoar«|||
The tvo have a hearing before th#S
The two will be given a hearing be-*
fore the mayor Friday morning. -
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. I
F. R. Dowell and wife to F. P. Rin^ ■
EVo SEVi 12-13-2.
W. P. R. Cole and wife to O. Ell
Hardin, SE% NW% and NW% SW14‘ |
29-9-2, $f,000.
G. A. Causey and wife to W. H. Ro- '
mine, N% NW14 4-13-1, $4,250.
L. M. Martin and wife to C. M. Er
_ _j A unUimiso lnt.it lift;