<iE. INDEPENDENT
- PERCY H. VAN DYKE
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
thorized to make the following
announcements of candidates,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic Primary.
For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C. CASEY
H. U. WILLIAMSON
For County Judge—
W- D. McLAIN
JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
0. W. SCARBOROUGH
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW
For Representative—
J. M. MARDIS
W. M. SHAVER
J. U. ARD
R. T. SIMMONS
For Treasurer—
JOHN H- CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J.M.IVY
J. I. HASTING
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H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J. M. BALCH
G. E- LAND
For Coroner—
HENRY GRANT
J. T. CRAFT
W. H. NOLEN
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS.
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Justice of Peace—
L. B. HARRIS
H. C. NUCKOLLS
For Constable—
W. T. GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
C. M. IVY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.
For Road Overseer—
CLARENCE PENIX
CLAY ROBERTS
MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Mayor—
JOHN P. PAUL
A. T. HUBLY
For Recorder
B. G. GRAHAM
H. G. BRANDENBURG.
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For Marshal—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
GUS C. MARTIN
For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
For Aldermen First Ward—
T. P. UMSTED.
C. R. PATE.
JOHN R. LOFTIN, JR.
S. HEINEMANN
For Aldermen Second Ward—
W. B. GRANT.
W. H. SNETSER.
E. L. WATSON
Q. I. HUBERT_
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Taft And The Supreme Bench.
Mr. Taft, when president,
made over, to all practical pur
poses, the supreme court of the
United States. And be it said
to his credit, he selected good
men, men notably fit, and he
showed no narrow partisanship
in his selections. Now comes a
rumor that started in President
Wilwson’s recent winter retreat
at Pass Christian, that a vacan
cy is expected to occur in the
chief justiceship and that Pres
ident Wilson seriously is con
sidering the advisability of ap
pointing Mr- Taft, nowr a pro
fessor in the Yale school of law,
to that position. Mr. Taft is an
honest man, a fair man and a
man distinctly of the judicial
temperament. He was pressed
into the Philippine service, lat
er into the cabinet and then the
presidency against his inclina
tions and .against his natural
bent—he had been a judge and
he liked it and he was compelled
to forego an opportunity to take
a seat on the supreme court
bench to answer the call of du
ty as it was represented to
him. He was never a politician
in the limited sense of that
term; he did not succeed as a
partisan leader because his ju
dicial temperament clashed with
the demands of party interests.
There is not much doubt that
his record as president would
have been far more creditable
than it proved had he been al
lowed to follow his natural in
stinct for justice and fair play.
As it proved, he was overruled
by the machine managers of
his party. As a member of the
supreme court bench we believe
that he would be an honor and a
credit to that body and demo
cratic recognition of his ab
sence of partisanship in such
appointments could not be more
signally and appropriately
shown than to himself. And
this is not saying that there are
not many good democrats capa
ble and worthy of the appoint
ment when it becomes necessary
to make one.—Fort Smith Times
Record.
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Government Experiment Hoads.
Washington, D. C., -Jan. 18.
Over four hundred and eighty
thousand square yards of dill- j
erent types of roads for experi- ^
mental and object lesson pur
poses were constructed during
the fiscal year 1912-1913 under
the supervision of the office of ^
Public Roads U. S. Department
of Agriculture, according to
Bulletin 52 of the Department,
making a total of over four mil
lion square yards of road con
structed under the supervision
of this office since 1905.
The types of roads built were
brick, concrete, oil-cement, con
crete, bituminous macadam, sui
face treatment, macadam, ash
phalt-slag, oil-asphalt-gravel, oil
gravel, oil-coraline, gravel-mac
adam, gravel, slag, sand-clay,
sand-gumbo, burnt-clay, shell
and earth. The object lesson
and experimental work during
the past year was done at a cost
to the local communities of |
$139,841.89- This does not in-1
elude the salaries and expenses
of the Department engineers.
The road work during the year
was done in Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland,
Mississippi, Nebraska, North
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennes
see, Texas, Virgina, Wisconsin
and the District of Columbia.
DOUBLY PROVEN
Newport Readers Can No Long
er Doubt the Evidence.
This grateful citizen testified
i long ago.
Told of quick relief—of un
doubted benefit.
The facts are now confirmed.
Such testimony is complete—
the evidence conclusive
It forms convincing proof of
merit.
W. M. Shelby, Batesville, Ark.,
says: “1 believe that my work
j brought on my kidney trouble.
I had a constant backache and
[dizzy spells. The passages of
jthe kidney secretions were too
frequent and I knew that my
j kidneys were at fault. Doan’s
I Kidney Pills went to the root of
, the trouble as soon as I used
'them and made a permanent
cure. My former endorsement
still holds good.”
j Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy
!—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the
| same that Mr. Shelby had- Fos
ter-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo,
[ N. Y.
Why the South Should Be a
Livestock Country.
The South ought to be a live
stock country, becouse:
(1) A crop of cowpeas, soy
beans, peanuts, or lespedeza (all
legumes) may be grown the
same season after an oat crop is
harvested. There is no better
feed than oats, and cowpeas and
lespedeza are the equal of red
clover as hay producers; while
peanuts and soy beans will pro
duce as miuch feed (concen
trates) as any crop grown here
or elsewhere.
(2) A soil made rich by the
growing of legumes and live
stock farming will make as much
corn or silage per acre as in the
Corn Belt, and the same season
produce a crop of crimson clover
equal in feeding value to a crop
of red clover
(3) Our climatic conditions
make us a cotton-producing
country. One of the by-pro
ducts of the cotton crop is cot
tonseed meal, the cheapest pro
tein feed known. The South pro
duces 450,000,000 bushels of cot
tonseed annually, which pound
for pound is superior to corn in
feeding value. If the couth
could not have grown cotton,
she would have grown livestock
just as other sections have turn
ed to livestock, where one-crop
syatciiio -
forced them to do so.
The South must grow live
stock, because while it is possi
ble to build up soil fertility with
out feeding livestock, it is not
generally done, and cannot be
done as economically as by feed
ing the legumes, which must be j
grown to build up the teitilitj,
to good livestock.
The need of the South is for
men who w’ill study livestock
raising as a part of their general
farming system, for there is no
reason why the South cannot or
does not grow livestock more
profitably than any other sec
tion, except that we have not the
men with either the inclination
or information to do so. The
Progressive Farmer.
Mrs. C. M. Ivy Dead.
Mrs. C. M. Ivy of this city,
aged 20 years, died Sunday
morning at 4 o’clock at her
home on Third street, from a
lingering illness of tuberculosis.
Mrs. Ivy was carried to the
Booneville Sanitarium six
weeks ago for treatment, which
came too late in the stage of
the disease to be beneficial to
the patient, who was brought
home by her husband Saturday
night, and passed away a few
hours after reaching home.
The funeral was held at the
Baptist church Monday after
noon at 2 o’clock, conducted by
the pastor, S. D. Grumbles, bu
rial at Walnut Grove.
The deceased, before marriage,
was Miss Vina Loftin, oldest
child of Dr. W. Pv. Loftin of
Grubbs. The husband has the
sympathy of friends in his sor
row.
Claims Find Is Gold.
Malvern, Jan. 18.A man in Mal
vern, last week, who was ped
dling county rights on a patent
for catching hogs and cattle,
showed what he claimed was a
report of the state assay office
that a samjple of sand he has
sent in ran $200 to the ton in
gold. He said the sand around
Malvern was full of gold, and as
serte dthat he had obtained a
spoonful from three pounds of
sand. He said he wah working
his way to Foreman, near where
he had a valuable mining claim.
Mrs. E. B. Wilmans and chil
dren returned yesterday from a
[Visit to Memphis.
To The Public.
I desire to state that the signa
ture of Eva Graham to the peti
tion for license is not that of
Miss Eva Graham, the milliner
on Hazel street
(Adv.lt) Miss Eva Graham.
Mrs. A. D. Bailey, Misses Lou
Minor, Bessie Watson, Hortense
Hite and Lucy Bailey will go
down to Little Rock tomorrow
morning to see “Every Woman”
at Kempner’s theatre
The friends of Mrs. Harry E.
Grant will be pleased to learn
that she has sufficiently recover
ed from an illness at St. Vin
cent’s Hospital, Little Rock, to
be able to return to her home.
Mrs- R. J. Wise, who was not
so well Sunday, was a little bet
ter this morning.
Man'* Allotment of Blood.
The average man has twenty pounds
it blood.
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We have just finished taking stock and find many
broken lines of good seasonable merchandise that we
must move in the next few days. Below we mention
a few of the many bargains we have for you.
$3.50 wool nap blankets
only_$2.19
Comforts from__90c up
12 yards good, heavy brown
domestic for__$1
12 yards Amoskeag ginghams
for___$1
Ladies’ $18.50 and $19.00
coats, only_$10.00
Ladies’ $13.50 and $12.00 coats
only. $7.50
Men’s extra heavy fleeced shirts
and drawers, each_39c
Men’s Ladies' and Children’s
Munsing union suits at a big
saving.
Men’s and Boys’ Clothing at
one-third off. Bid reductions
on shoes. Come to the New
Store and save money.
J. D. Carvell ® Co.
Fr..i st The New Store id* price
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I FIRE SAi
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I January #
1 Having purchased the entirel
oteyemark-Heyman, over $20 QqJI
| aged goods after the big fire in’*®
| we will put them on sale at -1-1
m own Pnce- Ladies’ Ready*®
S5 garments composed of cloaks, suits'!
S es, shirt waists, middy blouses ,9
ffi and petticoats. ' V
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f® Dry Goods Stonl
Duties That En|
Mo matter how etlrr
It will be a failure 1
been awakened to1
usual. There are no 1
enrich as dull duties.
Start the Year
With a firm resolve to better your financial co
Connect with the starting point of increased])®
increasing income—a growing bank account
bank. A bank account will create better confi
better standing and an increased prestige m tl
munity for you. ■ : s *’
Our service is yours to command.
The Farmers Ban
a! NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
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I Opera House SES»-1
Eg " EVENINGS at 7:30 —TUESDAY MATINEE at^l
I THOMAS A. EDISON will offer his genuine perfsj
I Talking Pictures
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gy Having a wonderful Success In The First-Class Theaters Every* B
ffi TWO HOURS OF WONDERMENT IN THE WIZARD’S LATEST MARVfld®!
fig TO THE WORLD _J
Ig Comedies, Dramas, Operas, Minstrel and Vaudeville Selections—So Life-l*® J
Almost Weird and Uncanny in Their Realism.
§| Special Added Feature—JOHN J. McGRAW in a Two-Part Baseball
^ pyperts.
ag Presentation made By Mr. Edison’s Own Traveling Company^ oi j
1 PriPpC' Evenings, 25, 35 and 50c PT0§r&ni
Eg 1 1 'vvO. Tue. Matinee, 15 and 25c j
RESERVED SEATS ON SALE AT WALKER’S PHARMACY
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