NOTICE.
At the direction of the Jackson
county court notice is hereby given
that there has been filed in said court
the petition of T. J. Gregg, C. R. Hite,
C. G. Henry, R. B. Hooker and N. B.
Wishon, as Directors of Newport Le
vee District, representing that the
improvements contemplated by said
Newport Levee District will be of
material benefit to the real property
located within the following bounda
ries, to-wit:
Beginning at the intersection of the
left bank of White River with a line
parallel to and 200 feet distant,
measured in a Northerly direction at
right angles, from the South line of
Section 2, Township 11 North, Range
3 West, at a point on the b<*undary of
■ the Newport Levee District, said
boundary being described and set
forth in Section T of Act No. 249 of
the General Assembly of the State
of Arkansas for the year 1917.
Thence Northerly, along the left
bank of said White River, to an in
tersection with a line parallel to ana
1,000 feet distant, measured at right
angles in a Northwesterly direction,
from the center line of the North
bound main line track of the Missouri,
Pacific Railway, formerly the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway.
Thence Northeasterly, along a line
parallel to and 1,000 feet distant,
measured at right angles in a North
westerly direction, from the center
line of said Northbound main line
track of the said Missouri Pacific
Railway, formerly the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railway, to an
intersection with a line 1,320 feet
West of the North and South Quarter
Section line of Section 2. Townshin
11, North, Range 3 West.
Thence North, along a line 1,320
feet Wesi of the North and South
Quarter Section line of said Section 2,
to a point on the East and West Quar
ter Section line of said Section 2,
1,320 feet West of the Center of said
Section 2. *
Thence East, along the East and
West Quarter Section line of said
Section 2 to an intersection with a
line parallel to and 500 feet distant,
measured at right angles in a West
erly direction, from the center line of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific j
Railway track.
Thence Northerly, along a line par
allel to and 500 feet distant, measured
at right angles in a Westerly direc
tion, from the center line of said
Chicago, Rock Island agd Pacific |
a line parallel to and 1,100 feet North
of the East and West Quarter Section
line of Section 2, Township 11 North, i
Range 3 West.
1 hence Easterly, along a line pural- i
lei to and 1,100 feet'North of the East i
4f and West Quarter Section line of i
said Section 2 to an intersection with ;
a line parallel to and 200 feet dis-1
tant, measured at right angles in a
Northwesterly direction, from the
Northwesterly right of way line of
the Missouri Pacific Railway, for
merly the St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Railway, at a point on the
boundary of the Newport Levee Dis
trict, said boundary being described
and set forth in Section 1 of Act No.
249 of the General Assembly of *ie
State of Arkansas for the year 1917.
Thence in a generally Southwester
ly direction, following the said boun-1
dary of said Newport Levee District,
as described and set forth in Section
1 of said Act to the point of begin
ning.
And praying that the boundaries of
said Newport District be extended so
as to include the territory lyin'? with
in the boundaries above set forth.
All persons owning real property
located within the boundaries above
set forth are hereby notified to ap
pear in the Jackson County Court on
the 28th day of March. 1918, and show
cause why said petition should not
be granted and the boundaries of said
Newport Levee District should not be
extended as prayed for therein.
Given under my hand, as Clerk or
the Jackson Countv Court, ami at th<
di-ection of said Court, cn this the
23rd day of February 1918.
J. F PARISH.
273 dl2t. County Clerk.
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PIECES IN LAST
(OMAN DRIVE
Correspondent Sees Shell-Bat
tered City Just Before the
Italians Retreated.
PAINTS PICTURE UF RUIN
Newspaper Men Have Narrow Escape
as They Watch Artillery Battle
Outlines of City Still There,
but It Is a City Sieved by
Bombardment.
Headquarters of the Italian Army,
Northern Italy.—Goritz is a symbol.
“On to Goritz!” was the cry of the
duke of Aosta’s soldiers as they
pressed through the little town of Lu
cinico a few months ago, lighting their
way down to the Isonzo river, then
across the western bridge leading to
the city, when the cry changed to “Go
ritz at last!”
Then this was reversed when the
overwhelming invading force of Aus
tro-Germans took up this same cry,
“On to Goritz!” pressing down from
the north, across the northern bridge
to the city and ending with “Goritz at
last!”
Thus Goritz has become a symbol of
the huge change which has occurred.
It was one of the furthest points for
ward on the Italian line, the center of
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from Piozzo, far in the north, down to
the Adriatic at Montefalcone, and it
was the most populous and Important
city in the great crescent of territory
which the Italian army had sliced off
southwestern Austria—some six hun
dred square miles in all. And so Go
ritz was symbolic of that entire region
which has twice changed hands in this
war, and of the furthest advance in
the first Italian campaigns.
I went to Goritz and saw the city
on the eve of its agony. It was the
last trip made there by anyone outside
the military before the retreat began.
The roar of the great Austro-German
offensive already had commenced,
though for the moment it was taken
for a spasmodic renewal of the cannon
ade which had been going on for weeks.
Within twenty-four hours the enemy
had crossed the Isonzo 15 miles further
north, turned the Italian left wing,
beaten back the second army under
General Capello, threatened to envelop
the third army under the duke of Aos
ta, brother of the king of Italy, and put
in execution that gigantic hammer
stroke by which they hoped to finish
Italy and cripple the whole entente.
Roads Left Clear.
My trip was maue by invitation of
the supreme command, with staff edi
tor from headquarters as escort. As
we sped along the road in the big array
automobile I noted there weye no
troops along the road and bordering
fields as one sees approaching Verdun
or in the Somme or Flanders. This ab
sence of troops in the rear was part of
the system adopted, it was explained.
All the reprovisioning of the army was
done at night and the roads were left
clear by day most of the time.
Ten miles out we crossed the Ital
ian-Austrian frontier and entered Aus
tria.
At Cormons, an Austrian vllluge on
the rnn(L the signs above the shops
were all In Italian, showing the Ital
ians were right in the claim that all
this section was racially Italian.
The cannonade began to be heard
for the first time ten miles west of Go
ritz—a low rumble to the north and
east, with now and then .the muffled
boom of a great gun. Day by day the
fire was getting lieu tier, said our es
cort, who knew the ground by heart,
and he added that the enemy forces
hud been increased from 120 battalions
to 330 battalions.
As we passed through the town of
Lucinico, a far-out suburb of Goritz, it
was seen to be half destroyed. Along
the main street ran rows of battered
holdings, with waits half down and
shell holts making ugly gashes. But
business was going on, men were at
the cafes and women and girls 6trolled
the street unconcernedly. Now the au
tomobile turned up the steep side of
Padgera hill, one of the outer defenses
of Goritz where bloody hand-to-hand
fighting occurred. ' One could see the
old trench and wire system, now grass
grown. Ail this bill had been swept
hare by shell fire, but nature had kind
ly obliterated the scars und'the hillside
was again smiling with its verdure.
The sound of tiring had now increased
to an enormous roiy as we passed Pad
gera hill.
Turning the corner of a shattered
wall we saw the Isonzo river lying
ahead and on the further side Goritz
rising in terraces with the huge battle
ments of the citadel towering on the
right. The river looked about the
width of the Potomac at Washington,
but with swifter current from the
mountain feeders. Along the edge of
the river ran rows of shell-torn wails
with gaping windows. This whole wa
ter front had been torn to pieces, and
yet many of the demolished remnants
of the buildings were occupied and
work along ^he river wharves was pro
ceeding.
Old Bridges Replaced.
The Isonzo river was crossed by the
yooden bridge which Italian engineers
built after all the old bridges had been
blown up. On one side lay the wreck
of a big pontoon. It waa on pontoon
bridges that the Italians entered the
city and this wreck was one of the
remnants of that crossing. The big
railroad bridge was lying in a wreck
from artillery fire. Further on was
the massive stone bridge, with one of
its main arches blown to pieces. Near
these bridges lie several important pa
per mills, where paper is made for gov
ernment notes. All these mills were
masses of ruins, with a fewr tall chim
neys still standing among the debris.
Goritz itself \yas under the rain o{
terrific bombardment, for the full force
of the great offensive was now only a
few hours off.
And yet with the imminent danger
many persons still clung to their homes
and belongings with that same tenacity
which makes the Vesuvian peasants
cling to the mountainside when the vol
cano is raging and threatening to bury
them. But most of these people on
the streets are the poor who could not
get away and the small shopkeepers
who cannot afford to abandon their
goods. The big stores are all closed
and the place has an air of a deserted
city, with only a few stragglers bring
ing up the rear. Goritz hud 30,000
people, but only 5,000 are left, and
these make only a scattered showing
in the wide main street fringed on
either side with its shell-torn fronts. It
was raining hard and this added to the
lugubrious spectacle.
Entering the city we passed the ex
tensive Jesuit establishment where 600
seminarians are located. One corner
was knocked off, the cornices were
hanging and several big holes told
where the shells had found a mark.
The main contour of the street was
preserved and the buildings were in
tact as a whole, but every second or
third had been hit, some collapsing en
tirely, others with their front wall
gone and their unner rooms with house
hold goods showing from the street.
But there was no vast area of com
pletely leveled debris, as at Verdun or
Monastir. The outlines of a city were
still there, but it was a city sieved by
bombardment.
Trip to the Citadel.
The trip to the citadel was the event
of the day. This is a huge pile, with
old-time moat and battlements and a
great tower dominating the whole
country for miles around. Here we
were to view Mount Gabriel, Mount Mi
cael, the Biausizza plateau and the
whole range of ground which had
passed through this upheaval. It was
uphill to the citadel. Everything
showed the havoc of long continued
fire. In one great court there was a
pretty little chapel which had come
through the ordeal untouched, though
all around was a wreck.
Once upon the battlements a com
manding view was ahend. There was
one point of vantage where this view
was particularly good, known as tfie
observation post. We halted a moment,
about to enter the post, but others
wished to push on to the very front of
the wall, and this view prevailed. It
was a most fortunate decision, as we
soon after had reason to know.
On the battlements a splendid view
stretched out for miles over this bat
tleground of mountains, valleys and
plains, with the city houses clustered
below and the roads winding off
through the valleys and foothills. There
in front was Mount Gabriel, this side
held by the Italians, the other by the
Austrians.
“There runs the dividing line,” said
the escort, pointing to a line of trees
and depressions near the summit.
The Italian treaches con'd be plainly
seen, but there was no need of indi
cating a dividing line, for the bursts of
smoke along one side of the summit
and the answering bursts from the
other side told where the line was.
Off to the left was Mount Michael,
once swept clean by shell fire, but now
green again. Nestled in a hollow was
the convent of St. Catarina. The Bian
sizzn plateau was off to the left, and
through the mist were the dim out
UNCLE SAM’S PHOTOGRAPHER
Sergt. Leon H. Caverly, United
States marine corps, one of the
“movie” camera men of Uncle Sam’s
fighting forces in France, photograph
ing our participation in the great war
for the nation’s archives. These men
daily risk their lives recording the
world’s greatest drama for future gen
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powerful glasses and because they fear
his records, train their guns on him.
Tuckerman Locals
Dr. Z. L. Ford of Elgin, was in
town Monday afternoon en route
home after a several days’ visit to his
family at Searcy.
W. M. Padgett, of Cord, who re
sided in this community during the
past several years and who moved
to his present home about three
jmonths ago, was mixing and ming
ling among his many friends in this
section during the latter part of last
week.
Terry Guin, of Diaz, who is a can
didate for sheriff, was here last Sat
uiday asking the voters to consider
his claims for the office which he is
Bceking.
Mrs. 0. A. Jamison left the latter
part of last week for San Antonio,
Texas, to join her husband, who is in
the service of the United States army
at that place.
Rev. S. C. Vick looked after busi
ness matters at Little Rock during
the latter part of last week.
Henry Williamson of the Hickory
Grove neighborhood was a Tucker
?nan visitor last Sunday.
Mrs. G. L. Smith and children and
Miss Annie Jones of Newport visited
Among relatives and friends here last
Sunday.
Mrs. R. H. Hunter and little
daughter, Mary Wilma, left last Sun
day afternoon for Little Rock, where
they will visit relatives during the
next week or so.
Prof. A. J. Garner, principal of the
Swifton high school, was here last
Saturday looking after his interests
in the race for county superintendent
of schools.
James McCool, one of Tuckerman’s
boys, who volunteered his services to
assist in winning the world’s war for
the allies, came home one day of last
week for a few days’ visit among rel
atives and friends in this section. Ha
is in the navy and belongs to the
crew of the battleship South Dakota
and has traveled much since enlisting.
He has visited all of the east coast
of South America and has cruised as
far north as Halifax. His ship ex
pects to pass through the Panama
Canal within the next few weeks and
do service in Asiatic waters. Jim is
enthusiastic in the work he is doing
,and thinks the navy is the place for
young men. He left last Sund. y to
join his ship before it gets away for
.another long cruise.
The weather continues favorable
for farm work. Most of the cotton
has been gathered and farmers are
very busy just now making prepar
ations to plant another crop. Much
plowing has been done and most of
.the early crops have been planted.
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