VOLUME XVIII. NO. 221. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS
NEWPORT BANKS
Alt PROSPEROUS
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Past Year Has Been One of Prosper
ity for Newport and Community,
Shown by Bank Reports.
The fact that Newport and vicin
ity hare rounded out a most prosper
ous year is evidenced by substantial
dividends that were declared Tues
day by the three banking institutions
of Newport, which have started the
new year with flying colors and ev
<sry promise of increased earnings in
promoting various enterprises look
inga'to peace-time development and
progress.
The Arkansas Bank & Trust Com
pany at its stockholders’ meeting de
clared a dividend of ten per cent,
adding five per cent to the bank’s
surplus, which now is $25,000. The
bank enjoyed a creditable growth
during the past year, and addition to
the dividend and addition to surplus,
made a substantial reduction in its
building account. Judge E. L.
Boyce was elected as director and
attorney for the bank to succeed the
late S. D. Campbell. John E. Wil
liams, cashier of the institution,
•was added to the directorate.
The First National Bank declared a
■15 per cent dividend, the biggest in
the history of the institution, this
•dividend being made from the past
six month’s earnings, and the amount
©f $4,500 was also reserved for taxes,
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vidual profits, this also being from
the earnings of the past six months,
all of which indicates a splendid de
gree of prosperity. The First Na
tional elected the same directors and
officers.
The Farmers’ National Bank al
so rounded out a prosperous year, de
claring a dividend of eight per cent.
'-I change was made in the director
ate, except for the addition of As
sistant Cashier F. J. Harmon to the
board of directors. The same offi
cers were re-elected.
CONFEREES' AGREE
ON HIGHER TAXES.
Washington, Jan. 14.—Tax rates
on luxuries, semi-luxuries, amuse
ment admissions and cl 'b dues were
•agreed upon today7 by the senate and
house conferees on the war revenue
bill. Practically all the senaet’s rates
on luxuries and semi-luxuries were
accepted b ythe house conferees, ac
cording to Chairman Simmons of the
senate managers.
Rates in the house bill on amuse
ment admissions in excess of 30
cents were adopted by the conferees.
The senate managers accepted the
higher house rate, but reached a com
promise for retention of the senate
rate on admissions of 30 cents or
less. Under the agreements the
amusement admission tax will be one
cent on each 10 cents paid up to 30
cents and two cents on each dime
paid in excess of 30 cents.
The house rate of two cents on
each 10 cents paid for admissions to
roof gardens, cabarets and similar
establishments was adopted, as was
the house rate of 25 per cent, in
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cent, on theater boxes.
It is stimated that about $75,000,
V00 in revenue will be obtained an
tmder the agreement.
p. P. Herndon of Judsonia spent
last night in the city.
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A TOTAL OF THIRTY
STATES HAVE RATIFIED
FEDERAL AMENDMENT.
Chicago, Jan. 14.—Seven states to
day completed ratification of the
prohibition constitutional amendment
and brought the number that have
: ratified to 30. The number necessa
ry for ratification is 36.
Arkansas, California, Illinois, In
diana, Kansas, North Carolina and
Alabama were the states that com
pleted ratification today. In addi
tion the Nebraska senate and the
Utah house voted for ratification.
In California, attorneys for the
filed suit for an injunction to restrain
the governor from certifying the
ratification. In support of the suit
it was argued that acts of the Cali
fornia legislature must be submitted
to a referendum.
UNITED WAR WORK
PLEDGES WILL BE DUE
ON JANUARY FIFTEENTH
Everybody must remember that
United War Work Pledges are due
i on the 20th of the present month. It
j is important that the pledges be ta
I ken up on that date.
SERVES AS SPEAKER.
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| Hon. George A. Hillhouse, repre
i sentative in the legislature from
| Jackson county, who spent today at
| home attending chancery court, was
I called to the speaker’s chair in the
| house of the legislature yesterday,
j and spent most of the day as presid-'
ing officer, relieving Speaker New
ton who was busy preparing a list of
j committees. Ot'verai mtiiteis ui mi
portance came before Mr. Hillhouse,
who disposed of them in veteran
style.
DOES HE REGARD
’EM HORRORS OR
HONORS OF WAR?
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Chicago, Jan. 11.— Federal Judge
| Kenesaw Mountain Landis today is
sued orders that only lawyers who
had seen militai-y service could wear
wrist watches in his court room.
A young attorney, wearing a wrist
watch, appeared to argue a motion.
Judge Landis inquired:
“What particular military service
j have you performed for your coun
try and when were you discharged?”
The attorney blushed and admitted
that he had not served in either the j
I army or the navy.
“Hereafter( I don’t want lawyers I
who have not served in the army or ,
navy to wear wrist watches in my j
court room,” remarked Judge Landis.
THE PAST FORGIVEN.
Willie, the office boy, who is get
ting five a week and is convinced that
he is within the category of “em
ployes essential to the success of the
enterprise,” asked the boss last week
to raise his stipend to seven-fifty.
“Why, Willie,” the potentate some
what pompously replied, unblushing
ly using the old stuff once more, |
“when I was your age I worked for ,
half what you’re getting now.”
“Aw, come on, boss,” countered
Willie. “All I want is the raise, I
ain’t lookin’ for no lessons in early
American history.”—Judge.
ATTEND CAMP PIKE SALE.
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T. S. Stephens of this city, Earl j
McDonald of Weldon and A. J. Goetz
of Tuckerman have returned from j
Camp Pike, where they spent a day |
attending the government sale of
horses and’ mules. Mr. Stephens
calld at the Independent office today
and gave a very glowing account of
the sale, and was loud in praise of
the government representatives who
have the project in charge. Mr. Ste
phens bought five mules, Mr. Goetz
bought four horses and eight mules
and Mr. McDonald eight mules and
four horses. i
Mr. Stephens says the sale was
one of the fairest he had ever wit
nessed and that everyone was ac
corded the same good and impartial
treatment. Good animals can be
| bought for from $65 up, the animals
being guaranteed by the government.
He advises persons who wish to
purchase good stock to attend the
sale.
G. L. Smith, manager of The
Realty Company, spent today in Lit
tle Rock looking after business in
terests.
Arkansas Legislature is
Exhibiting Unusual Speed
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 15.—The house
and the senate got down to business
speedier than ever before in their
history, and before the second day
was over had begun grinding out
legislative, with twenty-six bills in
the house and fifteen in the senate,
and a bunch of proposed constitution
al amendments.
The indications are that this will
be a very aggressive and active body,
and that there will be a vast amount
of legislation put upon the statute
books.
A sensation was sprung in the
house yesterday when a special cre
dentials committed questioned the
authority of Gov. Brough to appoint
members to fill vacancies. He had
appointed S. P.. Meader of Clark
county and Peter Doisch of Phillips
county. The committee said that it
had made an investigation and could
find no constitutional sanction for
this method of filling vacancies. For
this reason they recommended that
the men be not seated.
Representative Sullinger of Mis
sissippi county, a number of the com
mittee, boldly declared that it was a
political scheme in which the gov
ernor was personally interested, and
asserted that the governor had been
sending for members to come to his
office and “get right,” and that his
private secretary had come unasked
to a meeting of the committee to in
sist upon a favorable report. He
further said that Joe Meyers, the
Phillips county representative who
serve, but that he wanted to be
elected so that he might dictate who
would be the representative from
Phillips county.
The equal suffrage proposition is
going through easily, and there have
been many members in both houses
anxious to have the honor of intro
'(Tucing the resolution. Senatoi
-Hastjo’s resolution passed the senate
and is ready for transmission to the
house. A copy of it was introducer
in the house Jjy Representative Car
ter of Franklin. The first resolutior
in the house was offered by Repre
sentative Riggs of Garland, father
cf primary suffrage, and was re
ferred to the committee on constitu
tional amendments. The house com
mittees will not be announced1 unti'
Thursday morning. Mr. Riggs en
deavored to call up his resolution tc
have it adopted yesterday afternoon,
but Representatives Thompson and
Carter, declaring themselves to be
ardent advocates of suffrage, said
they opposed the Riggs resolution
since it is not properly safeguarded
against the alien voter. Mr. Riggs
motion to recall from the commit
tee was withdrawn.
Constitutional amendments haVe
been proposed in the house to require
a vote on road tax in each township
at every general election, to provide
for a graduation land tax, and to
raise the state school levy from 3 tc
5 mills and reduce the district levy
from 12 to 10 mills.
Among the most important bills
.introduced in the house are those
for re-digesting the statutes, tor re
peal the act creating the Fish and
Gam Commission, to repeal the Gin
ners’ Act ,to provide for a Bank
Guaranty, and to appropriate $75,000
for the mileage and per diem of the
members.
A memorial by Judge Doyle of
Lawrence county asking congress to
enact the Federal Equal Suffrage
Amendment, was unanimously
adopted.
SOCIALISTS FAIL TO
GAIN CONTROL OF LA
BOR MEETING TUESDAY
Chicago, Jan. 14.—Socialists anc
members of the I. W. W. leaders
insisted upon being seated as dele
gates. Among the socialists was
Adolph Germer, national secretarj
of the party, and the Rev. Irwin St
John Tucker, recntly convicted foi
violating the espionage law, anc
George Koop of Chicago. Later Ger
mer was seated as a delegate from £
local of the United Mine Workers.
Although the radicals were deniec
seats, they refused to leave the hal
and attempted to participate in the
proceedings. Apparently they intern
to continue their fight at every ses
sion of the three-day convention. I’
is said they will work for the pas
sage of a resolution favoring a gen
eral labor strike.
The International Workers’ De
fense League in planning the con
gress invited only trade unions tc
send delegates and wanted the dis
cussion confined to the Mooney case
The radicals would have Bolshvisn
and many other subjects considered
| NEW OUTBREAK OF IN
FLUENZA IN STATE.
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! Little Rock, Jan. 15.—A recurrence
I of influenza probably dating from
November is prevalent in the state,
affecting scattered localities, Dr. C.
W. Garrison, state health officer,
said yesterday. A call was received
from Calico Rock, where a nurse is
needed to help with the situation, and
the health board has established
nurses in seven towns.
While most of the cases are new
contacts, several have been reported
as having incurred the disease a se
cond time. The spread of the dis
ease is not nearly so wide as the Oc
tober epidemic, but the severity is no
less in the affected districts.
! Local quarantine has been estab
lished, and Dr. Garrison said that
mayors and health officials are giv
ing good co-operation in reporting
illness, and in assisting to restrict
chances of contact, etc., through
quarantine.
Keep your dollars at nome. Trade
in Newport.
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’ MORE ARKANSAS MEN
ARE DUE TO LAND ON
JANUARY TWENTIETH.
Washington, Jan. 14.—The trans- '
port Manchuria has sailed from i
France for New Y'ork with more!
than 4,000 troops, and the transport j
Canada for Boston with about 1,200. I
Among the troops aboard the
’ Manchuria are the headquarters 87th !
Division (Louisiana, Arkansas and j
Mississippi) and the headquarters'
j troop and detachment. About 1,000 '
sick and wounded also are aboard. !
The vessel is due January 20.
Other troops include the 156fh am-,
bulance company of the 39th Divis- j
ion, (Louisiana, Arkansas and Mis
sissippi), assigned to Camp Pike;
Company B of the 114th Ammuni
tion Train, 39th Division- for Camp
Taylor, Ky.
The transport Canada, due Janu
ary J20, is bringing Eastern and Mid
I die Western troops.
The war department also an
nounced that the Second Battalion
j and Machine Gun Company, ,367th
I Infantry, about 1,000 strong, and the
J First and Third Battalions and Ma
j chine Gun Company 369th Infantry,
j and the First Battalion and Supply
i Company 370th Infantry, had been
assigned for early convoy.
Replacementts in the 35th Division
for the entire period between the
; date this unit landed in France, May
1 last, annd November 13, two days
after the signing of the armistice,
were under 10,000, war department
officials said today, in reply to the
| speech of Governor Allen of Kansas
j at Topeka yesterday, referring to
I heavy casualties in the division, and
I blaming lack of equipment, airplanes
and transportation. The total re
placements, it was pointed out, com
prised not only actual casualties, but
all detachments from the division,
separations for sickness and all other
causes.
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PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED.
Batesville, Jan. 15.— The passen
ger train on the Wlhite River branch
of the Missouri-Pacific railway was
wrecked Saturday night at Galena,
Mo., when the engine was turned
over and the baggage coach de
railed.
The accident occurred at a very
dangerous place on the road, where
a boulder had rolled down onto the
track. The baggage car jutted into
the hill on one side, when had it
turned in the opposite direction it is
believed the entire train of coaches
would have been dumped off an em
bankment.
No personal injuries were sustain
ed either by the train crew or pas
sengers, but the train passed
through this city about ten hours la
ter than its regular schedule.
EIGHT MILE.
Eight Mile is doomed soon to be a
city of the past.
W. N. Nance, after being in the mer
cantile business for about 30 years,
is retiring.
A. J. Mead has moved from Eight
to Beedeville.
| Cy Meade has moved into the res
idence vacated by A. J. Meade.
Harry Gilpin has moved into our
burg.
One day recently it was impossible
to see Lewis Curry’s face for his
nose. Why?
Sam Hodge of DeView, Woodruff
county, visited his daughter, Mis.
Nola Bigham, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Desha Owens, who
! have been working for W. N. Nance
l the past year, will soon move back
on the farm.
Our school is progressing nicely
under the management of Mrs. Wood. ,
Robert Owens, the nine-year-old j
son of Dr. M. B. Owns, knitted a
! sweater for the Red Cross. Can you ,
| beat it?
j “We” have gone out of the mercan
] tile business here, but we expect to ,
! use our brain in jyjgore profitable
;
way.
More business goes over the Wash-1 (
burn bridge here on Cache to New-1
! port than any other place so remote j
j from Newport and the bridge is | (
' ry dangerous. It should be con
demned. Why not give us a steel
bridge?
“Exit.”
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Mrs. H. Clay Sanders, Miss Kath
erine Morris and Miss Lockie Gra
ham went to Little Rock early this
morning to spend the day.
J. F. RICE ms “
IMM ESCAPE
Was Writing In White River Rail
Road Express Car Wrhen It
Jumps Track and Turns Over.
Possessed with the rare presence
of mind to grasp hold of an iron bar
in the baggage car of the White Riv
er passenger train, J. F. Rice of
Newport, White Riupr expressman,
probably saved lyc.'TOe when the car
left the track jusT north of the Ark
ansas boundary line last Saturday
and rolled over. Mr. Rice was sit
ting in his car writing, when he felt
the car jump the rails. Reaching up,
he grasped an iron bar, to which he
held desperately. The car turned
over and Mr. Rice came out without
serious injury, though his body was
jruiscd.
In the car with Mr. Rice was a
corpse in transit. The c- dcet was
thrown about the car by the crash,
but little damage resulted to the con
dition of the body by reason of the
fact that the casket was of metallic
design.
The engine left the track with the
car, but no damage was done.
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Jailor Chas. Hogan returned last
night from a several days’ trip over
the county, during which time he is
sued summons to witnesses and oth
srs who will attend circuit court next
month.
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Sheriff J. M, Ivy has not heard
from his son, Sim, since November
14, at which time the young man. - '
wrote his parents that he was in a
hospital in France receiving treat
ment for wound's received in action.
Sim was wounded twice. Mr. Ivy is
very anxious about his son and is
endeavoring to locate him through
:he Red Cross.
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Superintendent of Schools Garland
E. Land of Tuckerman spent yester
day and' today in his office at the
court house. Mr. Land is working
constantly on plans through which
he hopes to increase the efficiency of
the rural schools. He expects to visit
all the schools within a short time,
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F. L. Grady, deputy sheriff of
Prairie county, spent today in New
port. He is here to secure a witness
who is thought to have knowledge of
a murder case in his county. The
case is that of Jake Kirby, who is
charged with clubbing Harley Fran
ces to death with a sledge hammer
and then throwing the body in the
river, heavily weighted down,
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Deputy Sheriff Robert Ivy is
spending this week at towns on the
Rock Island collecting taxes.
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Two cases were filed today in the
■ircuit court as follows: Thos. Hale
vs. Wm. McAdoo, damage suit;
Plunkett-Jarrell Grocer Co. vs. Cot
on Plant Veneer CoJ Jordan & Co.
and II. B. Spencer, debt.
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Edgar Robinson, a well known ne
;ro character, was brought before
Ssquire Nuckolls yesterday charged
vith selling whiskey. He was placed
r. jail to wait the action of the
rrand jury, unable to fill $500 bond,
de is also charged with obstructing
law, it being alleged that he
minted a pistol at Constable Jake
dreen Saturday when the officer at
tempted to arrest him for selling
vhiskey.
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J. T. Henderson of Auvergne was a
visitor to the court house today.
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Albert Coe, brother of Treasurer
Zoe, is in Newport for a short time.
Mbert has just returned from Wash
ngton, where he was with a spruce ;
livision, having been honorably dis- j
;harged.
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Judge Lyman Reeder opened Jack
son chancery court this morning.
E. C. Bondurant, B. E. Brown and
r. H. Smith of Memphis were genial
traveling salesmen in our city today
md registered at the Hazel hotel.