INDENPEDENT
AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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America for the
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OUR LIMIT CLUB.
Jackson county’s War Saving Lim
Club now has fifty-two members,
hich means that fifty-two patriotic
i .citizens of Jackson county own fifty
! two thousand dollars worth of War
Savings Stamps.
No other county of Arkansas, so
iar as the editor of this paper has
been able to learn through close watch
on exchanges from all secti ons, has
done so well.
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Master Hunter Smith, son of Coun
m ty Treasurer Grack L. Smith, of
I , Newport, visited his grandmother
II and other relatives at this place sev
eral days last week.
John Churchman, of Hope, spent
K*«feveral days during the past week
Kt>an|ong relatives at this place. He is
4Jpfa»r^ecovering from an injury re
■p C< ivedN^everal months ago when he
R; rfccfeived a> badly sprained ankle while
*]| alighting from a railroad engine.
W. A. Bowman, engineer for road
| district No. 4, which includes most of
Bird township, was here during the
| latter part of last week, looking after
g matters pertaining to said district.
IP; John W. C. Gardner, a very promi
1 nent Battle Axe citizen, was a Tuck
< erman visitor Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Huntei turned home
f the latter part of last week from
^ Newport, after having visited at the
I home of her daughter, Mrs. Grack
| Smith, several days.
Walter Beede, one of Cow Lake
f; ; township’s most prominent citizens,
|| | was mingling among Tuckerman
'? '/friends a short time last Sundav nf
temoon.
I # Prof. Garland Land, of Denmark,
a very prominent candidate for
county superintendent of schools,
was mixing among Bird township
voters here last Saturday. He closed
•' a very successful term of school near
last week and was here en j
to his home. He says he ex
shell the woods for votes
the primary comes.
Suits, of Newport, candidate
sentative, came up Sunday
and spent the day among
this place.
\rmstrong is having some
Bs in the way of concrete
> about his residence
he northern part of town,
te teachers of the public
led the state teachers’
it Little Rocq last week
home Saturday night.
Barber, of Beedeville,
r county superintendent
as here a short time last
rpoon, en route home
Axe, he preached
_gill
Jesse Pruitt and baby daugh
illar, Ark., spent last Sunday
home of J. A. Strider, They
where they
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•elatives of the former. Mrs. Pruitt
vas formerly Miss Carrie Strider.
She was born and reared in Jefferson
township and is well known to most
people in this part of the county.
The public, school has three more
weeks to continue until the present
term shall have ended. The end will
come somewhat earlier this year to
enable the new building to be erected
in time for next year’s school.
This section of the county was
visited by a hail and rain storm on
Thursday afternoon of last week.
The hail continued for more than an
hour but the stones were generally
very small and no material damage
was done by them. The heavy rain
which followed was very welcome in
deed. Several weeks had passed
since any rain had fallen and the
grain was very dry. All kinds of veg
etation was in need of moisture and
much land which had not been plowed
was too hard to be broken excepting
under difficulties too great for many
farmers, who awaited the coming of
rain. More rain fell Friday night
and Saturday morning and the earth
was fully saturated with it and the
slashes and ditches were filled brim
full. However, there was not a suffi
cient amount to flood the lowlands,
and as a result most of the lowland,
which had already been planted, will
yield abundant crops unless other
rains which fall later damages or de
stroys them.
The newly elected town officials
will probably be placed in charge of
the municipal affairs of town within
a very short time. We hope they
may have the undivided support of
the citizens of town in directing its
business. The ordinances which are
in force should be enforced. If they
are not in harmony with what is
right and for the best interests of
the town they should be repealed.
However, let them be enforced as
long as they are laws. We hope to
see the law which prohibits stock
from running at laige within the
corporate limits,, enforced, as it
should be as long as it is a law.
Much stock has been allowed to run
at large during the past week or so
and some at the knowledge of the
owner. The person who wilfully
permits stock to run at large on the
street is a law violator. Such things
should not occur. Some citizens of
the town are bitterly opposed to the
stock law, which is one of the ordin
ances which govern the municipality.
Those who oppose it have a right to
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their views. We acknowledge that <
right, but after this law was passed
it was submitted to the legal voters
of the town for adoption or rejection.
It was endorsed by a vote of more
than two to one. That should con
vince every citizen in town that it is
a democratic measure. t' Opposition
to it should not make any person a
law-violator. We hope the newly 1
elected officials will diligently en
force it or repeal it and thereby ren
der it useless.
STOCK NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that, as
marshal of the city of Newport, I
have taken up the following livestock,
to-wit:
One light sorrel horse colt, branded
with small “H” on right shoulder;
wears No. 2 bell; colt is about two
years old.
One dark bay mare mule colt with
scar on left shoulder as if caused by
barbed wire, no brands; animal
about 2 years old.
The owner of said stock is hereby
notified to come forward and prove
ownership to the undersigned, and
that in default thereof I will on
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1918,
offer for sale at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, in front
of the city hall in the city of New
port, Arkansas, between the hours of
lO o’clock a. m. and 3 o’clock in the
afternoon of said date.
G. C. MARTIN,
313dl0t City Marshal.
Use the columns of the Independ
ent. They will carry your business
talk into nearly every home in New
port.
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I have moved my office from the room
formerly occupied in the Wishon Building
on Hazel street to Room 10, Arkansas
Bank Building, Comer First and Walnut
where I will be glad to see my friends
and talk to them about Life Insurance.
Geo. M. Sink, Special Agent
NEW YORK LIFE
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Opening Tonight
OF THE
GRAND THEATRE
“Draft 258”
Seven Reels
Featuring Mabel Taliaferro
Metro’s Mammoth Production. I
IS . « . i it
A warning to every American to stand by tne
flag. Paid German Agents are cleverly spread
ing the seeds of disloyalty under the guise of
Pacifism. Sincere Pacifists are being made
the unconscious tools of the Kaiser and his
ambitions.
The Perils Are Exposed by
“DRAFT 258”
Doors Open at 7:30. Price 10 and 15c
TOMORROW NIGHT
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
In a Gripping Drama
“The Badge of Shame”
Also a big Sunshine Comedy entitled “Roaring Lions and Wedding
Bells.” Admission 10 and 15c.
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