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AUSTIN C. W1LKERS0N
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piper has enlisted
the government in the
erase of America for the !
Qpnod of the war.
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Yesterday the Independent pub
lished an article with reference to
-^ +b» White Way, quoting Manager
Moss of the Arkansas Light & Power
Company as saying that some pa
trons had not paid for the use of the
White Way. We were told today
that those who have not paid for
their share of the upkeep are those
whose business concerns are located
at points where the White Way posts
have been destroyed and not replaced.
They take the position that they
should not pay for service which they
do not receive.
WOMEN HAVE DRUGS
WORTH $12,000.
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Charged |vith violation of the Har
rison act and with having at the time
of their arrest 640 bottles of cocaine
and morphine in their possession pur
chased from a Little Rock drug firm
at some price between $1,200 and $1,
500 and valued at 12,000 to $15,000
at retail bootlegging rates, Mrs. Jes
sie Cannoy and Mrs. Pearl Hunt were
arraigned before W. S. Allen, Unit
ed States commissioner, yesterday
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‘ing the drug is withheld for the
present.
“I don’t think my clients would
»— be interested in making bond, but
what would a temporary bond until
tomorrow afternoon be” asked the
attorney for Mrs. Cannoy and Mrs.
Hunt,following their arraignment be
fore Mr. Allen.
“Five thousand dollars,” replied
Mr. Allen.
While Mrs. Cannoy and Mrs. Hunt
are charged with a serious offense,
it is difficult to put them in the class
of women bootleggers of cocaine and
morphine. They are frail young wom
en and are very quietly dressed. At
their arraignment they plead not
guilty to the purchase of the drugs
and their hearing was set for 2
o’clock this afternoon.—Gazette.
Red Cross Nurse Writes
of Experiences in Europe
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Austin, of 318
Laurel street, often receive letters
from Mr. Austin’s sister, who volun
teered her services a year ago for
overseas duty and the Independent
is glad to publish this one that is of
especial interest. The young lady is
Miss Irene Austin, who graduated at
St. Vincent’s Infirmary and was one
of the Arkansas Unit who accompan
ied Dr. Snodgrass of Little ltock and
has been in the base hospital at Liv
erpool for several months.
Dear Homefolks: I know you
have been anxious to hear from me,
for I have waited unusually long to
write this month. I had a little rest
and vacation and went to Ireland
Setember 20th, and returned in eight
days, having to go on duty before
my time was out on account of three
hundred soldier patients with influ
enza, and believe me for thirty-six
hours without sleep or eating, every
nurse and physician and enlisted
man served their country as never
before. We certainly answered our
country’s call, for never had we met
anything equal to the “flu.” We
were more like maniacs than any
thing else and for three weeks it was
like a horrible nightmare to us. My
brain has been taxed until 1 can’t
think, and 1 wonder when I get home
if I ever will want to nurse any more.
This is one time in my life I am do
ing a little fretting, for so much of
this diseaso is fatal, that it gets next
to me. One poor boy from the states
told me his name was John Smith.
1 have the “flu” ward and I have
seen my share of silent white faces.
One boy from Jackson county died
here, and there is a negro from there
here too. These boys are the finest
that ever lived and their mothers
should certainly be proud of them.
You said you would send me a
sweater, but don’t worry about that
for the army and Red Cross give us
sweaters and woolen underwear, even
to wool hose. We have everything
we need.
I have several boys in my ward
that helped to break the Hindenburg
line. They are a fine set of boys.
One among them was on his way
back to the states when he took the
“flu” and—it’s a long way back to
mother’s knee and he will never
reach it, but if ever I see her I will
tell her what a fine boy she had.
I started this letter the 25th of
t In+rtkov onrl liara if- its +VlO nf
November, so 1 will finish it and
send it off. There is a complete
change now. My patients with the
“flu” are better and my boys that
helped break the Hindenburg line
came in and are celebrating and tell
ing me how they are anticipating
peace. We are all terribly excited
and maybe we will eat Christmas
dinner with you. I can’t collect my
thoughts and my room is full. We
are congratulating I,each other and
our burdens are already getting
lighter at the thoughts of home and
we are going over our trials and trib
ulations, while the boys in the army
hospital arp laughing and then cry
ing and saying, “I told you so, it had
to come.”
Just six months ago we were roy
ally entertained by New York socie
ty and we were told to slip down to
breakfast early the next morning in
pairs and to catch cars arranged for
us to a certain pier. We were all ex
citement, our teeth began to chatter
and our knees to knock, for we won
dered if we would ever see home or
native land again. From France to
Arkansas seems a long ways. The
pendulum of time is swinging back
ward, and old Liberty Bell is not only
trying to ring again, but is ringing
its freedom, and to us over here the
whole universe is turning backward
to the starting point—even to the
submarines which I will tell you
about sometime. But we received
the word this morning that it’s all
over, and we are trying to picture
“you Americans” cutting up over
there. It’s all too good to be true,
but we are packing up our kit bag,
and “smile, smile, smile.”
Just think brother, when we start
home on the ship we can leave the
“port holes open” and have lights.
Doesn’t it all sound funny? We are
all excitement and we feel now that
we can all stand some more “flu.”
Your sister,
Irene Austin,
Liverpool, England.
American Army Hospital.
FROM A. J. RAMSEY.
The following letter has been re
ceived by A. J. Ramsey, one of .lack
son County’s honored soldiers:
Editor Independent, Newport, Ark.:
Dear Sir—As several of my
friends have asked me to tell them
(through your paper) something
about the training station here, I
suppose I’ll have to make good my
promise and send a short letter to
you.
“Balboa Park” is a beautiful place,
named after the discoverer of the Pa
cific, and is one of the finest places
for a training camp to be found any
where. This place is leased (free)
to the government for a training
camp for the duration of the war, and
as the necessary buildings were al
ready here, the government was
lucky to get a place already fixed up
for the recruits and officers.
In 1915-16, the Panama-Califomia
Exposition was held in this park.
NCw the exhibit buildings make
ideal quarters for the sailors.
We see the tide as it comes in and
goes out, and as the sun creeps over
the distant mountains, it presents a
very beautiful scenery. Flower gar
dens, artificial lakes, palm-paved
avenues and well-kept orange
groves furnish us with plenty of
pretty scenes. There are two plazas
in the park and they are fine places
to drill upon.
Until the recent spread of the
“flu” we had a dance on one of the
plazas every Saturday night. Now
the Y. M. C. A. gives a free show
there every night. Sometimes it is
a vaudeville, sometimes it is a box
ing or wrestling match. Either of
them are enjoyed by the “Jackies”
and the managers never have to wait
for an audience. Personal quarrels
are settled by boxing. No fighting
is allowed and when two fellows get
mad at each other, they are booked
for a fight on the stage.
The Y. M. C. A. is home to us. We
are suplied with every convenience
and comfort by the “Y” and we al
ways enjoy seeing a red Triangle
sign at the entrance to some build
ing.
We have a fine football team and
we are going to “show” the army up
Thanksgiving day.
I have one other friend here who
came from dear old Jackson county.
He is James G. Denton of Grubbs.
Jim is making a fine sailor and the
“folks at home” should be proud to
be reprepresented by a fellow like
l :_
As the war is over, I suppose we
sailors will get to help the boys
“over there” get home in time for the
Christmas dinner.
I guess I’d better let up on this
and “hit the mammick,” as I will
have to get up at 11:30 tonight and
stand watch on a 4 hours’ guard duty
We’ve whipped the Hun,
Our work is done;
No longer shall the war cry sever
Our hearts remain with boys that
were slain,
May they rest in peace forever.
A. J. Ramsey.
P. S. Good luck to Mr. Wilkerson
and- the Independent for I sure d'.'
enjoy the copy he sent, and I’ll sur
miss it after I go to the East coast
next month.
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TREES ALONG CiTY STREETS
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Work Done by Philadelphia Organiza
tion Might Be Copied to Advantage
in Other Places.
The Society of Little Gardens from
the time of its inauguration recognized
street tree planting as one of the city's
most vital needs and its interest in
the idea received a tremendous im
petus from the clever plan conceived
nnd carried out by Miss Editli Howe
in the early spring of 1915.
Instead of contenting herself with a
couple of trees in front of her own
door, Miss Howe determined to have
the whole block planted in an effective
manner. To obtain this end she con
suited the !■ unmount park commis
sioners, who have charge of the trees
In the'streets of Philadelphia. They
! were glad to assist her, and sent her an
! expert who drew up a ground plan of
! the block, with an estimate of the cost
I of planting; and armed with this she
Invited her neighbors to co-operate
with her.
Her success was remarkable. Enough
money was subscribed not only- to plant
the trees, but to have them carea for
for three years.
Some of the officers of Little Gar
dens, hearing of this well-thought-out
plan and its results, determined to try
the same methods of a larger scale wid
endeavor to have all Spruce and Lo
cust streets and others, transformed
into avenues. Accordingly letters were
written to a number of public-spirited
women inviting each to undertake the
planting of her own block; and, in re
ply, 11 agreed to make the experiment.
That the effort has not been invariably
successful goes without saying. Never
theless, much has been accomplished.
—October House Beautiful.
STAIRWAY AND FIRE ESCAPE
_ i
j Ingenious Scheme by Which Double
Object Was Achieved at a Com
paratively Small Cost.
At the rear of a frame building that
serves as a public meeting house for
citizens of a small New York town,
nn outside re-enforced concrete stair
way has been built ns a fire escape.
It consists of more than a score of
! By Constructing the Outside Stairway
of Concrete, a Dependable Fire Es
cape Was Provided at a Nominal
Cost,
steps and a landing of ample size, up
held by heavy supporting walls and
supplied with an iron pipe railing. The
structure was erected at moderate
cost and fills its purpose quite as
well as would conventional steel equip
ment of loss capacity and greater cost.
—Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Use Many Materials.
A larger private owneahip of homes
in this country than known in many
| years is predicted by H. O. Jones, con
! struction engineer, New York city, in
! an interview published by the Wash
ington Post.
“There is material for building hous
es in almost every community,” said
j Mr Jones, “and it is not a question
i of style of construction, but the most
i available. In one of the big plants
i in Ohio all sorts of houses have been
built—from brick, stone, wood, con
; crete and even iron—and all are not
| only commodious, but comfortable and
durable. Modern engineering has en
abled builders io construct houses more
j rapidly and better than they could a
i decode ago."
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Bird Bath Worth While.
A bird bath, in tlie center of the
! lawn, tempts feathered visitors, and
cardinals, robins, woodpeckers, song
sparrows, catbirds and mocking birds
frequent the garden. Last winter suet,
tied to a Chinese elm tree and strewn
about the ground, brought a flock of
hungry birds, Including coveys of quail,
19 being counted many times pacing
slowly about and making leisurely
breakfasts.—Exchange.
Dwarf Trees.
Dwarf trees are suited to small gar
dens, they occupy little space, are eas
ily cared for, bear sooner than stand
■ ard kinds, and they are easily shaped
i into bushes and pyramids, or can be
' used In espalier forms, trained on
j buildings, fences or trellises.
Big Enough Now.
“A fellow threatened to punch roe In
| the head.”
‘‘That would be too bad.”
j “Thank you.”
“It would have a tendency to in
' crease the swelling.”—Boston Tran
| script.
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TROY ADAMS IS DEAD
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS.
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Troy Adams, one of the best
known, most progressive and most
highly popular of the younger busi
ness men c-f Fort Smith, died just a
few minutes after 11 o’clock Tuesday
forenoon at St. John’s hospital, after
an illness of about ten days of pneu
monia.
Mrs. Adams is critically ill at
Sparks’ Memorial hospital and has
not been informed of the death of
her husband. A winsome girl baby,
two days’ old, named Troy after her
father, is with the mother.
To the family and intimate friends,
it has been known for several days
that Troy Adams was gradually sink
ing into the final sleep, but the news
of his death, momentarily expected,
came with its full shock of sorrow
and regret. Until the end, there had
been hope, growing fainter and
fainter, but continuing steadfast un
til the last pulse beat and the last
flickering breath was drawn.
Although he had! made Fort Smith
his home for only four years, there
were few men in the community so
generally known or so widely popu
lar. He was the typical young Amer
ican business man—he saw the bril
linnt fnfnrp lvintr hpfrtro Miinfrv
and especially before this .ection,
and he took active part in bringing
about the progress and the prosper
ity that he considered was justly due.
In every movement for the advance
I ment of the city and its adjacent ter
| ritory, he was aligned with the lead
ers, giving his time, his money, his
talents, unstintingly. Especially was
he a constant and consistent worker
for good roads, as a prime factor in
the rapid upbuilding of the country
and he was prominent in the councils
of the larger and more important1
good roads organizations. He was!
among the most prominent of the
automobile men of the state, and was !
particularly interested in xb ■> success :
the Service Rural Motor Lines,
which he organized as a means of
freight transportation between city
and country centers, and which al
ready has achieved much success.
William Troy Adams was bom
July 26, 1889, at Hardy, Ark. Most
of his life was spent at Newport,
Ark., where he received his educa
l - ~
tion. After leaving school he entered
the oil distributing business, where
he remained until he organized the ""
Adams-Cooper Sales Company here.
He married on April 12, 1917, Mias
Byrdie Cooper, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Cooper, and his home life
was considered ideal, by intimate
friends of the family. Besides his
widow and baby daughter, whom he
never saw, deceased is survived by
two sisters, Mrs. C. D. Robinson and
Mrs. Bert Snetser, both of Newport,
Mrs. Snetser was at the bedside
her brother when the end came.
Funeral services will be held Wed
nesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from
the family home, 800 North Eigh
teenth street, with services by Rev.
W. W. Harrison, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church. Interment will
be made in Forest Park cemetery,
where the ceremonies will be con
ducted by the local lodge of Elks.
Mr. Adams was a charter member of
the Rotary Club and an enthusiastic
member of the Elks, both of which
organizations will attend the funeral
in a body.
The following friends will serve as
pall-bearers:
Active—C. A. Darland, Dr. E. L.
Lindsey, H. K. Albers, Sam Gearhart,
Ray Gill, John F. D. Aue, Ralph
Brown and Fred Klein.
Honorary—M. T. Dyke, D. C.
Green, I. H. Nakdimen, Parke Wal
ker, Will V. (John, W. t5. WUmans,
Dr. J. C. Pray, Louis Weinstein,
David P. Bryan and R. S. Robertson.
—Fort Smith Southwest American.^
“MADE IN AMERICA.”
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Nove. 30.—American,
manufacturers are rapidly forming
export associations which plan to
carry the products of the United
States to every nation on earth, to
create and enlarge -demands for
goods “Made in America” and to fur
nish cargoes for the American mer'-:
chant marine to transport over the
seven seas. The trade invasion of
other countries will begin in earnest
when Europe has been supplied with
food and reconstruction materials
and the world gets back to a normal
peace basis.
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