NO ROOM; -COURT AT
LONOKE ADJOURNED
Lonoke, Feb. 4.—.Lonoke circuit
court, which convened this morning,
was adjourned until next August by
Judge T. C. Trimble. Adjournment
was due to the fact that the city was
unable to care for the many jurors,
attorneys and witnesses. Every avail
able room in the hotels, rooming
houses and private ‘ homes has been
taken by men employed in the con
struction of Camp Eberts, the United
States aviation training school.
The population here has been in
creased several hundred during the
past few weeks as most of the em
ployes at Camp Eberts live in the
city. Merchants are enjoying a big
business and the restaurants have
been 'nearly swamped.
The proprietor of one restaurant
reported that he served for breakfast
today more than 1,700 griddle cakes.
“And that .isn’t the worst of it,” he
complained, “we could have served
more only we ran out of batter. Say,
I the men the government sent here to
i build the aviation camp have anything
in the world beaten when it comes to
eating hot cakes from the griddle for
breakfast.”
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Jacksonport
The weather at this place changes
very often.
Mr. W. B. Verdell is a member of
the grnad jury from this place.
E. S. Dyke, mayor of this place,
was in Newport Monday attending
to business.
Police court in this city is very
quiet.
The electric lights of this place
were turned on again after two weeks
of total darkness.
The citizens of this place failed to
feel any effects of the coal shortage,
but wood became scarce. Many per
sons built sleds and brought wood up
in logs to supply the town.
Talking about each other has been
the general order of the day during
the recent cool spell.
The ice gorges have broken at this
place and much damage was done.
Miss Alice Cathey was a Newport
visitor last Saturday.
Rev. E. A. Horn filled his regular
appointment last Sunday at the
Methodist church at this place.
Walter Martin, of the Plunkett
Jarrell Grocer Company of Newport,
and G. L. Smith, county treasurer,
were here a few minutes last Satur
day in the former’s Aero-Plane.
Two cases of smallpox have been
reported at the Jackson county hos
pital.
T. H. Walden had a load of wood
hauled Saturday.
Chas. Anderson, a former resident
of this place, but now of the Ander
son school house community, was a
pleasant called' in this city last Sun
day.
Dock Thompson hauled a load of
Cow feed for A. J. Grant last Satur
day.
•It is reported that another stave
mill is to be built in this city in the
spring.
Work is progressing nicely on the
removal of the railroad tracks lead
ing down to the river and the incline
at this place.
E. A. Massey, city marshal of this
place, visited in the country Sunday.
When we learn some more news
and when everybody gets through
talking about each other, we will
write seme more.
Billie Doolittle.
MEMORIES.
For oh! when the war is over,
And your loved one is one of the dead;
And he lies in the fields where the
clover,
Is proud of'its tinting of red:
He lived when the year, at its gayest,
Held joy for himself—and you
But he’s now where the earth is
greyest,
And kissed by the morning due.
And his cries are just "‘friends, I am
lonely”
A’weary the night and the day;
Longing for happiness only,
Longing and sighing away:
Come to me, do, but not sighing!
Hark! TIs the voice of his soul,
Calling with terror, undying;
Like a lamb that has strayed from
the fold.
Come with the hearts of you glowing,
And the sign of the Spring in your
• eyes;
Come when the sunshine is flowing,
The earth with the blue from the
skies:
Come when the thrush sings his ditty,
And the mocking-bird’s mellow re
frain—
Calls for no sorrow nor pity,
But bids you—be happy again!
Foe oh! when the war will be over,
And the dawn of a new life begun;
And maiden will look for her lover,
And mother will look for her son:
Let there be sorrow—sadness nor
woe
Smile, for he bids you to;
Laugh and rejoice and be happy to
'know! •
That he died for his country—and
YOU!
A. C. BURGDAHL,
Company Clerk, 1st La. Co., Marine
Barracks, New Orleans, La.
announcements.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of the follow
ing persons, subject to the action of
the voters at the city primary in
Newport, Wednesday, February 27,
1918.
For Marshal—
Abe Ballew.
G. C. Martin
For Recorder—
B. G. Graham.
For Mayor— ,
E. L. Watson.
For Treasurer
C. P. Bandy.
Head the advertisements in the In
dependent.
Amagon
• As I have not seen any items from
this place I will now try and give you
a full description of our little burg.
Amagon is located about 13 mile#
east of Newport and about 40 miles
south of Jonesboro on the B. & S. W.
Railroad. Some of the people call
this place “a wide place in the road,”
but we make out with it pretty well.
We have one store and postpffice, of
which Lee O. Balch is manager, also
a saw mill, cotton gin and blacksmith
shop, of which T. M. Johnson is full
owner. Several dwelling houses of
which all are occupied, making a good
showing. We have a school house,
with school going on. Mr. Alvis
Jackson, our 'teacher, is well liked by
all the scholars, and the best of all,
these people that live here, are all
law-abiding citizens. We have the
meatless days and the wheatless days.
And now we want a few snowless
and wctless days, so we can get ahead
on the wood question. We can’t eat
meat till we thaw it out first, and
fish, we can’t get at present; rabbits
are too poor, as is also quail. So we
are up against it on the meat propo
sition.
Uncle Mack Garland was on the
road to Balch last Tuesday, returning
home Saturday. He reported the
road very slick.
Howard Martin and John Garland
was in Amagon Sunday evening. We
are wondering what for.
The death angel visited our midst
Monday evening, the 28th, and took
for his toll, J. W. Claridy, who had
pneumonia with complications. He
was a good neighbor and citizen and
came here abtjut 2 years ago from
Missississippi.
Lenzie Ford, who carries the mail
from Amagon to Balch via Penning
ton, reports the roads very slick, as
he is walking these days.
Why can’t we have a depot and
agent at this place? There seems to
be plenty of freight and passengers
to justify it. Let’s get together on
this subject and see what we can do
for this cause.
WANTS 'PEACE IN TURKEY.
Berne, Switzerland, Feb. 6.—Kemal
Midhat Bey, grandson of the former
Turkish Grand Visier Midhat Pasha,
is in Switzerland organizing a socie
ty known as the “Turkish League of
Peace and Liberty,” the objects of
which are stated as follows:
“To persuade the Turkish govern
ment to make a separate peace; to
unite and reconcile the various na
tionalities which make up the Otto
man Empire; and to modernize
Turkey;”
In a statement tp the press, Kemal
says: “Turkey has reached the end
of its tether. The capture of Jerusa
lem has probably proved the finishing
blow. My latest reports from Con
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stantinople emphasize the tremendous
impression made by the capture of
Jerusalem. But the ‘stop the war’
movement in 'Constantinople derives
its principal impetus from the eco
nomic miseries of the people rather
than from any dismay at the dwind
ling of Turkish power and prestige.
The terrible conditions of thp poorer
classes cannot easily be exaggerated.
“The disorganization of the army
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is another factor. The
Turkish deserters in Asia
now over 200,000. The Turk
not because he is afraid, but'
his eyes have been opened to tike teal
origin of the war and the futility of
continuing it. The aim of our organ*
nation is not merely to get Turkey j
away from alliance with the Gar* ■
mans, but to get Turkey into the war, ^
on the side of the Entente.”
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Special Agent ' 1
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