HE INDEPENDENT
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
thorized to make the following
Announcements of candidates,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic Primary.
For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C- CASEY
H. U. WILLIAMSON
For County Judge—
W- D. McLAIN
JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
0. W. SCARBOROUGH
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW
For Representative—
J. M. MARDIS
W.M. SHAVER ' :rt
J.U.ARD si
R. T. SIMMONS
For Treasurer—
JOHN H- CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J. M. IVY
J. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J. M. BALCH
G. E. LAND ’; r
For Coroner— ^
HENRY GRANT '
J. T. CRAFT
W. H- NOLEN
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS.
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Justice of Peace—
L. B. HARRIS
H. C. NUCKOLLS
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
C. M. IVY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.
For Road Overseer—
CLARENCE PENIX
CLAY ROBERTS
J. B. THOMPSON
MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Mayor—
JOHN P. PAUL
A. T. HUBLY
For Recorder
B. G. GRAHAM
H. G. BRANDENBURG.
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For Marshal—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
GUS C. MARTIN
For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
For Aldermen First Ward—
T. P. UMSTED.
C. R. PATE.
JOHN R. LOFTIN, JR.
S. HEINEMANN
For Aldermen Second Ward—
W. B. GRANT.
W. H. SNETSER.
E. L. WATSON
O. I. HUBERT
Parental Authority Weakening.
Come down town any evening |
and you will see girls yet in their j
teens flirting about the streets ■
singly and in pairs. They have 1
come out for a “time”. Their
purpose is to flirt. If it isn’t
worse than that then there is
imminent danger that it will be
worse.
The fault is in the home. If
parental authority were as vir-1
ile as in the old days, if the home
w'ere generally the directing
force of the conduct and morals j
of the children, as it once was, j
there would not be so much of j
this night prowling by girls who
ought to be at the fireside.
In a pastoral letter on “The
Church and The Home,” Cardin
al Connell of Boston uses this
significant language:
“Parental authority has been
tVint is a.
U11MIIIVV4 VU vv --O
larming, until it may be said
that in a large percentage of
homes it is not the parents, but
the children, who rule.”
The accuracy of the cardinal’s
observation is not to be ques
tioned. Parental authority
seems to be in its last stages. We
agree with the Houston Post
when it says that every parent
in the country, Catholic or Prot
estant,ought to ponder the words
of Cardinal Connell, and every
church in the country, Catholic
or Px-otestant, ought to heed his
admonition. Parents will have
to be aroused to a sense of re
sponsibility for the moral de
velopment of their children, and
the church needs to be aroused
to a realization that the status
can afford but little aid in the
work of evangelizing the youth
of the country.
Next to the home, the church
ought to be the chief factor in
the child’s moral development,
but multiplied thousands of chil
dren no longer go to church or
Sunday School. The child that
is properly trained in the home
is very apt to remain upright
through life, and the child that
is not properly trained is very
apt to go astray, in spite of all
the safe-guards the law may e
rect for his protection.—St. Jos
eph News-Press.
We have just finished taking stock and find many
broken lines of good seasonable merchandise that we * •
must move in the next few days. Below we mention jP
a few of the many bargains we have for you. re£
$3.50 wool nap blankets Ip
only_$2.19 jjj|
Comforts from__90c up g|
12 yards good, heavy brown g]
domestic for__$1 |S
12 yards Amoskeag ginghams pP
for. $1 |
Ladies’ $18.50 and $19.00 IJ
coats, only_$10.00 ^
Ladies’ $13.50 and $12.00 coats ^
I only_$7.50 I j
Men’s extra heavy fleeced shirts I j
and drawers, each_39c I !
Men’s Ladies’ and Children’s I £
Munsing union suits at a big
saving. | g
Men’s and Boys’ Clothing at * g
one-third off. Bid reductions ■ g
on shoes. Come to the New * g
Store and save money. ■ g
J.'D. Carvell ® Ce 1
Front st. The New Store i! * huce |
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ESCAPES FROM j
STATE HOSPITAL
—
Herbert Coons "The Brass Kid”
Rivals Harry Tnaw In
Spectacular Escape.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 26.—The es- ■
“The Brass Kid” from the State !
cape of Herbert Coons, alias:
“The Brass Kid” fro mthe State
Hospital for the treatment of •
Nervous Diseases Saturday, re-,
sembles very much the escape i
of Harry K. Thaw from the asy- ■
lum at Mateawan, N. Y. In
the case of Coons, however those
who made his escape possible
are under arrest, and the city
officers expect soon to have him
back in prison.
Shortly after dusk Saturday j
evening county and city officers
in Little Rock were notified that
Coons was missing, and the on
ly trace that could be found was i
automobile tracks on a road
near the state asylum, where
Coons had been incarcerated. No
cne apparently saw the man es-!
cape, nor could account for his
absence.
On Sunday morning the Little
Rock police took into custody
two attendants at the hospital,
who admitted they had permit
ted Coons to escape, and had as
sisted him in covering his
tracks until he had a chance to
get away from the grounds. The
young men, who have served as
attendants in a number of other
state institutions, confessed
that they allowed Coons to go on
his promise to visit the home
of an attorney in Little Rock and
to send them an amount between
$300 and $400 which he had
there. The men declare they
never heard the name of the at
torney, but Coons offered to
take them along and pay them
as soon as the house was reach
■ ed, but declined in order to allay
(suspicion that they were impli
cated in the plot to escape.
It is thought by the officers
that Coons was met on the out
] side by confederates who spirit
Cd him away in an automobile.
I The men under arrest state that
they know nothing about out
side aid, as Coons had never
spoken of any.
Coons is one of the most dan
gerous criminals the Arkansas
| authorities have been forced to
| deal with for a number of years.
He was arrested in Hot Springs,
charged with being implicated
in the swindle by which Frank
P. Fox, a Terre Haute, Indiana,
millionaire, was relieved of
$20,000 by a crooked roulette
wheel. He admitted his guilt
and was sentenced to serve a
term in the Arkansas penitenti
ary. After serving several
months Coons appeared to be
come afflicted with a strange
malady which apparently affect
ed his mind. He would remain
motionless for days, refusing to
talk, and apparently hearing no
one. He was finally ordered re
moved to the state hospital in
Little Rock, where he has since
been incarcerated. On account
of his desperate character, he
was closely watched at the asy
lum, but he apparently was
watching every opportunity,
grasping it when it came Sat
urday.
It has been asserted that
Coons is a member of a daring
band of criminals which operate
in all pars of the country, and
he \vas no doubt assisted by
them in escaping after he scal
ed the fence of the institution.
Some officers believe that Coons
is in hiding in, or near Little
Rock, but those who have stud
ied the case are of the opinion
that he is already out of the
state. Coons was arrested in
Illinois for his crime, and had
to be kidnapped to get him back
to Arkansas to stand trial.
additional local.
Mr. and Mrs. Dutchman West
moved Saturday to then faim ^
on the Island. Mr. and Mrs. ^
Grover Smith will move into
the home vacated by Mr. and
Mrs. West.
Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Van Gass- j
beck of Little Rock who have
been visiting Mr. and Mrs. J rank
Hoofman for a week, have re
turned home.
Harrell, the magician, brings
birds and rabbits from the air
and they disappear “like magic.”
High School Auditorium even
ing, January 29. d4
Wanted at once—gang edg
erman and other men in mills,
also men on log loader and skid
der in woods. Apply to Muir
head Lumber Co., Weldon, New
port telephone 1608. 47btf.
Little Edgar Gibson is quite
sick, having pneumonia and Mrs.
Gibson has suspended her school
for a few days until the little
fellow gets better.
Murray Barber Shop, in rear
of McLain Building. Every
thing clean and sanitary. I
kindly ask the patronage of all.
Ed Murray, propr. 47dlm
The introduction of Swiss
bells, saxaphone and musical
• • i • i* 1_
glasses, torms a siriiung icatuic
of entertainment, magic and
music. Harrell, the magician,
Thursday, January 29th. d4t
J. B. Heard will leave tonight
for Jonesboro for a few days, af
ter which he will return to New
port with another car of banan
as.
Real Good Roads.
Massachusetts has the highest
percentage of improved roads of
any state in the union. Ewing
Galloway, in an article recently
published in Collier’s Weekly,
describes the road development
in Massachusetts as “a big chap
ter in the country’s vital pro
gress.”
The basis of Massachusetts’
success in highway improve
ment, as Mr. Galloway sees it, is
a thoroughly awakened public
opinion. He quotes the chair
man of the State Highway Com
mission as saying “the people
want good roads and are willing
to pay a reasonable price for
them!.” The legislative bodies
are responsive to public senti
ment and they have made liber
al appropriations and enacted
good road laws. Most important
of all, Mr. Galloway thinks, is
the fact that twenty years ago
the State established a highway
commission, thus providing “a
central authority to collect sta
tistics and other information
about roads, and to furnish gen
eral engineering advice to va
rious authorities in charge of
highway work.”
The highways of Massachu
setts are divided into three class
es—State roads, county roads
and city and town ways. City
governments provide money for
their street improvements and
repairs and the small places ap
propriate funds at town meet
ings. County commissioners
look after county roads and also
have authority to direct work on
highways in cities and towns.
The State Highway Commis
sion may lay out as a State road
any new or existing way in any
city or town upon petition of the
local government. When a road
is so laid out the commission as
sumes full jurisdiction over it.”
The State commission keeps
trained men on every job of
work. Under it there are four
division engineers, each having
a fixed territory to look after.
Under these are assistants and
resident engineers who are as
signed to particular pieces of
work. The commission regular
ly employs about fifty engineers,
and during the busy season it
has from seventy-five to a hun
dred. There is also a large staff
of men at the headquarters in
Boston engaged in office work.
button-Brandt We
Jonesboro, Jan, 21
,:"1‘ Sutton of Crowder,
Mrs. Eva H. Brandt of
Jr id, Mo., were quiet]]
in the clerk’s office in]
Arkansas, Thursday,
22, 1914. Mr. Sutton
third son of Mr. O.T.S
was raised by an unc
' I’age of Crowder, Mo,
well liked by all who!
j Mr. Sutton is engag
dredging business andi
did young man,
His bride, an only da
W. H. .Jefferson of Net
County, Missouri, for
of years before his d
fine young lady wit
friends who wish tl
couple a long life ofl
and prosperity.
New Idea for Savloj
Birmingham, England,
style of life-saving appan
j f.rr department. Entrapt
are rescued in a cage
j and lowered to the *lnd
burning bu'ldlng
“Every piece of work is sized up
before the contract is awarded.
Estimates of large jobs are
made at the main office, and it is
known just about what a con
tractor’s profits are going to be
before bids are advertised for.”
The division engineers inspect
all work under their jurisdiction,
or have it inspected by capable
assistants. In this way “the
people get a fair return for prac
tically every dollar that is
spent.”
The system is worth studying,
says the Louisville Courier-Jour
nal, for it has brought concrete
results. With the State in com
plete control all plans are care
fully worked out. There is no
hap-hazard road building. Such
a system is possible, however,
only in a state where “the people
want good roads and are willing
to pay a reasonable price for
them.” That statement fully
explains the splendid road pro
gress that is being made in Mas
sachusetts.
I firesaJ
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\ January J
1 Having purchased the entire St J
* ^eyemark-Heyman, over $20,000M
| aged goods a ter the big fite inS.|W
| we will put them on sale at 4,1
m own Pnce- Ladies Ready-tol
S garments composed of cloaks, suits 1
* es, shirt waists, middy blouses 1
■ and petticoats. ' ’ 1
IHeinemanJ
| Dry Goods Store!
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| Opera Housj
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I JANUARY 26-2721
1 Dolly Ketsler DramaticCj
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£§i come to the Box Ofn
W and get your money
^ back.
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as The play Monday night '
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