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Announces For Mayor
Elsewhere in this issue of the Inde
pendent will be found a statement
from Dr. E. L. Watson, who an
nounces he will make the race for
mayor of Newport. A few days ago
a petition bearing the names of more
than two hundred representative cit
izens of the town, was presented to
Dr. Watson urging his candidacy.
These many friends will be glad to
learn that Dr. Watson has consented
to make the race. He is a progres
sive business man, of sterling charac
ter, and doubtless would render the
people of Newport a great service in
the capacity of mayor.
FROM DR. E. L. WATSON.
To Messrs Lawrence Bailey and
Others:
In response to your call published
in the Independent, January 29, 1918,
requesting that I become a candidate
for the office of mayor, I wish first
to express to you my great apprecia
tion of the honor you have conferred
on me in suggesting that I run for the
office. Whether I am elected or not,
I feel that the request of so large a
number of representative citizens
that I announce for the office, is an
expression of their confidence and
good will toward me as a citizen.
Aside from the honor which the
petition itself confers, as a higher in
centive to aspire to the office, I feel
that every citizen owes something to
the community in which he lives, and
by reason of this obligation, should
sacrifice something of his own time
and private business interests to ren
der service to his fellowman.
I therefore accept the call and here
by announce myself a candidate for
the office of mayor of Newport, sub
ject to the primary election, and
earnestly bespeak the support of all
good citizens of the city, and should
I *be elected, will endeavor to the best
of my ability, to administer the af
fairs of the office honestly, fairly and
impartially.
Respectfully,
E. L. WATSON.
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FROM DUKE KELLEY.
The following letter will be inter
esting to Independent readers be
cause the writer of it is a former
Newport boy, who is right in the
midst of things, and is the oldest of
three brothers, who are all enlisted in
their country’s service:
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“Somewhere in Frante, Dec. 30, 1918.
Miss Clare Phillips,
Newport, Ark.
Dear Little Friend: I received
your box Christmas morning, and
cannot tell you how glad I was to
know that a little girl in far-off
America thought enough of me to
send such a nice present. It was nice
that you made some trench candles
and put in the box too, for we have
a dug-out right behind our hut, and
when old Fritz shells us sometimes,
we all run for the dug-out.
There are towns here larger than
Newport that haven’t a house stand
ing in them. All the houses are made
of brick, and they are just a mass of
ruins. There are troops here from
Canada, Australia, France, England
and India, and we also see some Ger
man prisoners. I am not allowed to
tell much of what I see here, but
when I get back home, I will come to
see you and tell you all about it. It
is nearly time for taps to blow, so I
must go to bed, and will close, with
kindest regards to your mother and
father, and lots of love for you, I re
main
Your sincere friend,
Duke R. Kelley.
FROM FRANK HUBERT.
Camp Beauregard, La., .
Jan. 26, 1918.
Dear Sister: I received your let
ter and was glad to hear from you.
This leaves us all well at present. Tell
Mrs. Kelley that Bill has been in the
mumps camp for 14 days, but came
back to the company today.
Glad to know you are all well. Has
mother ever got so she can walk
without crutches?
We have been having some bad
weather here for the last week. It
has been sleeting and snowing.
We sleep in tents and we left our
door flaps open the night it snowed,
and when we got up in the morning
and hit the floor we landed in
four inches of snow. One of the boys
wouldn’t get up so we gave him a
snow bath and he was not long in
getting his clothes on. He got up
the next morning also. I don’t guess
the snow hurt any of us, as we all
needed a foot bath. I don’t have any
trouble keeping warm for I sleep un
der 10 blankets and we have iron
cots and a good set of springs, so you
see I am fixed pretty well. I also
have a good pal. His name is Hoyt
Smith and he is a dandy too. The
company is divided into four platoons
Mid Smith and myself are command
ers of the second plattoon, which has
sixty men.
You need not worry about me tak
ing French .leave for I know too
Much about the army to do that.
Well, as'that is about all, will close.
With love,
Frank Hubert.
P. S Am sending yoju a picture oi
Hoyt and myself. Hoyt is in the
middle. Will have some made of my
self and send you one. Tell father I
got the tobacco O. K. and was sure
glad to get it. I also got the papers.
Tell mother that three pairs of socks
will be enough and also hurry up that
box you said you were going to sen
as I do not know when I will get to
come home; tell Jona to send me co
coanut pies.
My address is Co. B, 153 Inf., 39th
Division, Camp Beauregard, La.
Read the advertisements in the In
dependent.
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Balch Notes
W. N. Ball sledded to the county
seat yesterday.
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School continues up-to-(late, de
spite the inclement weather.
We are having an unusual period
)f bad weather. Snow is about 20
inches deep.
C. N. Dickey, a hustling farmer of
jur berg, has moved to the Jackson
farm, one mile north of town.
D. J. Johnston was smiling on our
streets Wednesday. D. J. has a
Ford in transit, or rather pretransit.
Mr. and Mrs. Lenza Ford lost their
only child on the night of the 22nd.
The body was interred in the John
ston cemetery on the 23d. The fam
ily have our sympathy.
John Jackson, an energetic young
farmer of this community has just
recovered from an attack of German
measles. They are just as unwel
come as the Germans, aren’t they,
John?
We notice that several of the cor
respondents over the county are giv
ing some of the candidates for the
office of superintendent of schools of
this county quite a “write up,” as to
ability, qualifications, running ca
capacity, etc. Now, as to our candi
date, Prof. J. M. Balch, we are not
going to say a word about his liter
ary attainments and fitness for the
place, for he is able to take care of
himself. But we are going to say,
regardless of how he runs, that J.
M. is one of the “out-walkingest”
candidates in the field. He lives in
East Newport, teaches at Jackson
port and makes his school daily, and
that on foot. One day last week in
the height of this snow, he walked
up to Jacksonport, conferred with
the board, suspended school on ac
count of inability of pupils getting
out to school, chatted 6ver the events
of the day, returned to East New
port, and in the afternoon walked
out to our little berg, a distance of
16 miles. Come ahead J. M., we hope
to see you walk in this time.
G. A. Tucker, the smiling muleteer,
has rented a parcel of the Stuckey
place, recently purchased by his
father-in-law* J. S. Balch, and will
break the sod for his crops just as
soon as this snow passes off and fair
weather prevails.
“Nest Egg.”
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