COMMITTEE WILL
' Meeting At City Hall Last Nighl
Serves to Enliven Movement
for Chamber of Commerce.
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That Newport will have a working
[ Chamber of Commerce within a few
• weeks was indicated by the spirit of
| progressiveness and unity which pre
vailed throughout a meeting of about
twenty business men at the city hall
last night. The meeting was presided
over by Mayor A. T. Hubly, who
drew expressions from every person
present, Etnd there" was not a voiee of
disapproval concerning the move
ment for the organization here.
Following the discussion of differ
ent plans for promoting a Chamber
of Commerce, Mr. Hubly appointed
an executive committee wnicn will
meet soon and formulate plans on
which the organization will be based
and work out the details incident to
raising funds and employing a secre
tary. This committee is composed of
Chas, G. Henry, N. H. Landers, W.
T. Parish, Joe L. Bevens and Tom W.
Johnson. Mr. Hubly, as chairman of
the meeting, will sit with the com
mittee.
When the body completes its work
another meeting will be called at the
city hall.
Here’s the Wag
One School Bog
Spends Recess
There may be a whole lot of women
in this country who ought to be knit
ting but are not. If there are any
failing to aid their country in this
way, they have failed to become
thoroughly convicted as to what this
war is about and for. Well, just for
their information and inspiration, we
should like to cite them to a little ^8
year-old boy. His name is Elmer
Sutton, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
Sutton. He knits, and never drops a
stitch without picking it right up.
He was seen at noon today sitting on
the sidewalk in front of the high
school building on Walnut street. He
was industriously manipulating his
needles and weaving his yarn into not
at all badly shaped wash rag.
“What are you doing, son?” he
was asked.
“Knitting,” was his enthusiastic
reply.
“What for?”
“The soldiers,” he informed the in
terested person.
We are told that many children in
the high school ouiiamg are casing
taught this work. Some of the little
folks exhibit rare ability and aptness,
and very few of the articles are dis
carded as useless.
Mrs. Charles Walton was called to
Camp Beauregard yesterday by the
illness of her brother, a member of
1 the Lawrence cpunty company of vol
unteers. The young man has appen
dicitis and was to be operated on to
day.
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!hospital ship
VICTIM OF SUB’
Sent Down In Bristol Channel, and
Survivors Were Landed By
American Torpedo Boat.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, Feb. 27.—It is officially
announced that the British hospital
ship, Glenart Castle, has been sunk
in the Bristol Channel. No patients
were aboard. The survivors were
landed by an American torpedo boat.
Eight boats are still adrift.
REPORT CAPTURE
OF ISipiES
Berlin Says Planes and Balloons Were
Brought Down On the Western
Front
Associated Press Dispatch.
Berlin, Feb. 27.—The war office
announces fifteen entente airplanes
and three captive balloons were
brought down on the western front
Tuesday after yjolent air duels.
ASK CANNERS TO
HOLD CERTAIN GOODS
FOR WAR PURPOSES
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Feb. 27.—The food ad
ministration has advised canners to
hold for war purposes until further
advised all canned corn, peas, toma
toes, string beans and salmon on
hand.
MANY HEAR
MRS. COTNAM
Vice State Chairman of War Savings
Stamps Campaign Delivers Ad
dress At High School.
Mrs. T. T. Cotnam of Little Rock,
vice state chairman of the War Sav-)
ings Stamps campaign, addressed a j
large audience at the school audit
orium Tuesday afternoon, her topic
of discussion having to do with the
campaign which she is promoting.
Mrs. Cotnam is one of the foremost
women of, the state in all departments
of women’s work, and her visit here
was greatly appreciated. She urged
the women to do their duty in carry
ing on to a successful conclusion the
I work given them in order that victo
ry may be attained.
“If the people at home refuse to do
their part, how are the men to be
kept in action on the firing line?”
she said, and urged the women to
save in every way and practice the
most rigid economy. Especially did
she appeal to the high school girl to
earn and to save.
The schools of Newport are unus
ually progressive and patriotic and
the teachers and others connected
with the institutions are certainly to
be commended. The pupils have as
sisted in the promotion of every fea
ture of war work.
Mrs. R. J. Wise who is very ill
with pneumonia, is thought to be a
little better this morning, which is
gratifying news to her many friends.
respitTm
FORJOLOIERS
associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Feb. 27.—An indef
inite respite was granted five negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fourth Infan
try, who were sentenced by court
martial to be hanged for participa
tion in the Houston, Texas, riots. A
number of character appeals reaching
the president from clergymen and
i others caused the respite.
Censor Withholds News of
Food Situation in Germany
i Associated Press Dispatch.
I New York, Feb. 27.—German news
i
papers of the first half of January
recently received here have suspic
iously little to say on the food situa
tion, which for two years before was
an important topic for discussion in
practically all the Berlin papers.
The coming political strike, evoked
by food difficulties and the prospect
of an indefinite prolongation of the
war through the attitutde of the:
German delegates at Brest-Litovsk, I
was perhaps, casting its shadow be-1
fore and causing the censor to dis-1
courage publication of news caleulat-!
ed to augment the dissatisfaction of j
the working people.
A decree of the Prussian commis
sion on Food Administration mention
ed, however, that mortality during
recent months had been as high as
fifty per cent above that of 1913 and,
for that reason, prescribed increased
rations for tubercular patients, upon
whom the effects of undernutrition
are felt with particular severity.
Food Director Waldow launched a
fulmination against various offend
ing municipalities, which were pay
ing above the maximum prices for
various kinds of food in order to as
sure a supply for their inhabitants
and were thereby, he declared, con
tributing largely to the steady driv
ing' up of prices and to the disregard
of the food laws.
The newspapers, none of which is
a friend of the food director, retort
ed very sharply that it was impossi
ble for the municipalities to secure
enopgh food to feed their populations
without disregarding the maxima,
which is a general practice through
out Germany, and declared that Min
ister Waldow could find, if he sought
them, lawbreakers enough among the
Prussian state offices and war food
bureaus
Vorwaerts, for example remarked j
that the central administration of the
Province of Brandenburg distributed i
flour among its employes for Christ- I
t 1
mas at a price equivalent to eighty
cents a pound; that the Berlin po
lice prefecture sold butter to officials
at the equivalent of $2.12 per pound;
that a state factory gladdened its
employes with marmalade at 75 cents
and beef for $1.18 a pound and that
one of the food distribution bureaus
under Minister Waldow secured for
its employes as a Christmas favor a
very poor quality of pork, which it
sold to them at $1.75 per pound.
The principal rations of the Berlin
population were still on the same 1
meager scale as for months—namely, j
a pound of potatoes per day, four |
pounds of bread, one-half pound of j
meat and about an ounce of butter |
per week.
A slight improvement in the milk
situation had been noted, permitting
the restoration of the earlier rations
of milk for children, one quart for
those up to two years, three quarters
of a quart for those below the age of
four and a pint for children between
four and six years. Expectant moth
srs also receive a ration of un
skimmed milk. Skimmed milk could
be obtained by other privileged ones,
not by the general population.
MANY In AND
CHILDREN KILLED
Collapse of Stands At Race Track At 1
Hong Kong Causes Deaths of
One Hundred.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
London, Feb. 27.—One hundred
vomen and children were trampled
;o death in the collapse of Chinese
public stands at the Hong Kong
ockey club races Tuesday, according
;o a Reuter dispatch. Fire caused
;he death of several hundred others. :
TUG FLOUNDERS
FOUR ARE DEAD
Cherokee Becomes Stranded South of
the Deleware Capes—Ten Men
Landed.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Feb. 27.—The naval
tug, Cherokee, was foundered yester
day twenty-two miles south of the
Deleware Capes, according to a navy
department announcement, which
3tated at last accounts that ten of
the forty men aboard were known to
have been landed and four of the dca
were picked up.
EMTHPUS
FATAL IN CHINA
0
Between Two and Three Hundred
Are Dead and Two Hundred
Injured.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Shanghai, Feb. 27.—Between two
lundred and three hundred were kill
ed by an earthquake in Swatow and
nore than two hundred injured.
:all for white registrants >
Little Rock, Feb. 27.—Adjt. Gen.
Lloyd England announces that the
following volunteer calls are still
jpen in Arkansas, for white regis
;rants only:
Medical officers training camp, Ft.
Riley, Kansas.
Infantry, Camp Greene, Charlotte,
M. C.
Spruce Production Division, Avia
don section, Signal Corps, Vancou
ver Barracks, Washington.
Bricklayers, Camp Sevier, Green
ville, S. C.
Coast Artillery, Jefferson Bar
racks, Mo.
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First Showing of New Hat
Styles for Spring of 1918
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Hats
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$4.50
$5
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In face of the most stringent scarcity >et known in hatters materials, we
have the largest and most complete variety of styles we have ever shown.
The mirror can tell the story of these new hats better than we can. Some
where in our stock is the new one that you would like to wear right now.
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You Are Welcome. It’s a Pleasure
to Show Them, Bug or No Bug.
Star Clothing Company
ADAM LOCKARD, Manager. “THE APPAREL STORE FOR MEN”
WOMEN WORKING
IT TUCKERMAN
Mrs. T. T. Cotnam Addresses Red
Cross Workers In That Busy City
Yesterday Afternoon.
No town of similar size in Arkansas
is contributing a greater share of
real active patriotism than our little
neighbor city of Tuckerman. Among
the splendid organizations there is ^ ' •
the Red Cross, of which many enerr
getic and enthusiastic women arevMfft
members. They have splendid work
rooms fitted up, and are busy turn
ing out a fine quality of work. >:||
Mrs. T. T. Cotnam addressed the .1
women there yesterday afternoon at
3 o’clock, being accompanied ,by Mrs. ~
W. A. Billingsley, Mrs. S. R. Phillips,' ;
Mrs. G. A. Hillhouse, Mrs. R. B. '
Hooker and Mrs. R. W. Bandy. . <Jj
Mrs. Cotnam, who is vice-president ’
of the war saving campaign of Ark- **
ansns wna ncrropnhlv imnnoa
the general work being so patriot!- ' 'A
cally done at Tuckerman.
The ladies are preparing to oigan^:
Ize a surgical dressing department!
with Mrs. J. B. Graham as chairmatt»;^J
In the Red Cross rooms as many as J<%
thirty workers are said to be at work’ /|j
The work is being taught in the ' .
schools also; and a junior Red Cross
organization in Tuckerman is
ing enthusiastically.
Tuckerman is due a great
of credit for the manner in which ftrvjfl
ias entered into every undertaking imk
ncident to the war. S
SUMMARY OF
WAR ACTIVITY |
Germans Continue Their Ont«uife||B
March Into Russia, With Bolshf $J||
vike Resisting Meekly.
Associated Press Dispatch. ^ '3 %
New York, Feb- 27.—AlthdiM ^
chancellor Von Hertling has dceml|s||3
id that Germany’s intentions »n
last, are not for aggression and JBIjtf ::;3
jrandizement, German military Mp .4-j
horities decline to grant an armleCfijh> <|Sg
»n the Russian front. DespitegJB.'jj
act of the Bolsheviki offer to 21
oeaee, German troops continue th|jj| |||
inward march, with the Bolshedpp 'Wm
ndeavoring to save the revoltttlc|R WM
mil Petrograd from the hands of Wm
nvaders. It is rumored the Ctakfi|j||M9|
lave leached Luga, midway betwVMRK >sjjj
Psqov, and Petrograd. Street JHpHa'39
ng at Pskov continues. The
’hanging hands alternately W*|jp&lf|l