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* * - This paper has enlisted
With the government in the
cause of America for the
period of the war * ..
Everything is ready for the big
rally at the court house tomorrow
night, when a meeting of business
men and citizens will be held for the
purpose of"perfecting a Chamber of
Commerce for Newport. It is the
duty of every man to be interested
in his home town, and prove this
interest he must manifest it at this
important meeting. Come to the
court house tomorrow night and urge
others to come with you.
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You will soon have opportunity to
invest in another issue of Liberty
Loan Bonds. Such an investment
shows good business sense and a wil
lingness to aid in the fight for dem
ocracy.
The rain which was looked for and
hoped for did not materialize. Prob
ably because the weather man pre
dicted it would.
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You cannot buy too many war
savings stamps. It’s just like put
ting your money in a bank.
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Make your plans to attend the ral
ly at the court house tomorrow night.
‘ BOOTLEGGER IN THE TOILS.
Bootlegging in Newport miggt be
« profitable vocation but for the vig
ilance of the officers.
Charlie Doward, a well known ne
gro, was arrested this morning by
Chief of Police Gus Martin, in the
v “gin row” on Plum street.
Charlie had about 100 quarts of
whiskey, which was also taken into
custody. He had more than $40o in
money when arrested, pretty good
evidence of a rushing business.
He will be tried for bootlegging in
Esq. Foushee’s court Saturday after
noon.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
F. M. Thornton and wife to Conway
Gardner and Mrs. J. N. Gardner, lot
4 in Block 8 in Tupelo, $500.
Charles S. Oliver and wife to Louis
B. Morgan, S% of Lot 9 in Block 8
.of Town of Tupelo, $1.00.
H. T. Graham and wife to B. R. Mc
Dearmon, NMj, SE1^ of 34-10-2,
$171_50.
Lewis Butler and wife to H. T. Wit
wer, SW!4 of 20-10-5, $2,000.
Wm. N. Dunaway and wife to Gus
tave Jones, part of the NW!4 of 12
11-3, $1.00.
J. B. Hester and wife to E. E. Da
vis and wife, part ofSE!4 ofSW!4 of
35-12-3 and part of NE'4 of NWV4
of 2-11-3, 28 acres, $2,000.
Gustave Jones and wife to John
Greenhaw, Lots 9, 10, 11 and 12, in
Block B of Gustave Jones’ Lakeview
Addition to Newport, $300.
Gustave Jones and wife to W. K.
Coe, Lots 1 and 24 inclusive of Block
C of Gustave Jones’ Lakeview Addi
tion to Newport, $1,800.
Gustave Jones and wife to Edgai
Williams, Lots 3 to 6 inclusive and IS
to 22 inclusive of Block D of Gustav*
Jones’ Lakeview Addition to Newport
$560.
Gustave Jones, and wife to J. E
Henderson, Lots 1, 2, 23 and 24 ol
Blk. D. of Gustave Jones’ Lakeviev
Addition to Newport, $320.
Gustave Jones and wife to W. A
Hawthorne Tract 7 of Blk. A of Gus
tave Jones’ Lakeview Addition t*
Newport, $400.
Gustave Jones and wife to D. H
McCartney Lots 1 to 6 inclusive anc
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13 to 24 inclusive of Blk. B of Gus
tave Jones’ Lakeview Addition to
Newport, $810.
Gustave Jones and wife to W. E.
Nanny, Lots or tracts 7 and 8 of Blk.
B of Gustave Jones’ Addition to New
port, $110.
Gustave Jones and wife to J. W.
McCartney Tracts 10, 11 and 12 of
I Blk. A and Tracts 7 to 18 inclusive of
| Blk. D of Gustave Jones’ Lakeview
i Addition to Newport, $4,717.15.
Ethel Clark, to C. F. Dean, Frl.
Lots 1 and 2 of ^Blk. 1, Goldman’s’Ad
dition to Newport, $3,200.
Joshua Mosier and wife to Poter
Chesnut and wife S!4 of SE!4 of 36
10- 5, 80 acres, $2,600.
C. R. Marquand and wife to Lenzy
I Howard W% of SW>/4 of 1-10-1;
NE% of SE’/i of 2-10-1; Frl. part
of SE!4 of SEtt of 2-10-1, 122 acres,
$1,800.
James A. Watkins and wife to J.
W. Jones part of the North half of 34
11- 3, $300.
Arthur Bowie and wife to J. P. Pi
ker NW14 of NE!4 of 26-10-5,40
acres, $100.
P. A. Bradley and wife to W. J.
Moore, part of Blk. 13 of Town of
Grubbs, $350.
Joseph Weisburg and wife to Ethel
Dean Clark Lot 9 in Blk. 1 of Hirsch’s
Second Addition to Newport, $2,650.
* OAK GROVE.
We are having some beautiful
spring weather. At present most ev
erybodyy is very busy farming. Ear
ly gardens are looking fine.
G. P. Green, who has been very ill,
is improving nicely.
W. E. Jones 'has been busy fencing
the past week.
Mrs. Emma Collier and family were
visitors at Oak Grove Saturday morn
ing.
Miss Minnie Belle Collier, Myrtle
Geisi and Messrs. Lawrence Wilson
and Red overe were Oak Grove visi
tors Friday morning.
Brother Paro will preach at the
school nouse sunuay a. m. aim ou»
day night. Everybody should come
out and hear him.
Mrs. J. H. Solida, who has been
sick at her brothers, was carried to
her father’s Sunday, and will remain
there until she gets able to return to
her home at Bengel.
Edward Green has the measles.
There will be an egg hunt at the
school house Easter Sunday, after
Sunday school.
Brother Williams and wife attended
preaching at Snapp’s Saturday night.
Teddy.
SPECIAL.
Fine potatoes, per peck-35c
Peas, per can_15c
Corn, per can-15c
Kraut, per can-—-10c
Cocoa, per can-TV2C
Asperagus, per can-20c
Palm Olive soap, 3 for-25c
For Cash Only.
290d3t. Snetser’s Grocery.
'DINING’ TRADE NOT ‘INCOME
Internal Revenue Commissioner Rulet
Money Spent on Customers May
^ be Deducted.
Washington.—“Dining” out-of-town
buyers Is a proper business expense
for commercial houses and may be de
ducted legitimately from earnings In
figuring incomes and excess profits
taxes, Internal Revenue Commisslonei
Roper ruled. Many New York and Chi
cago jobbers of clothing, millinery, and
other merchandise had asked anxious
ly for such an interpretation, urging
that the cost of meals and entertain
ment for prospective customers was
no small item. So long as the dinners
have a business aspect, they may b*
charged^ agaiqst earnings, the commis
sioner decided.
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Alaskans Do Their Bit.
Seattle, Wash^—Alaskans are mak
lng a vigorous effort to conserve al'
soi'ts.of food as an aid to the govern
ment in the prosecution of the war, ac
cording to otllcers of steamships ar
giving here from Alaskan ports.
Red Cross Is Backing Italy.
That the American Red Cross War
Council will assist in re-equipping
field hospitals in Italy, many of which
were lost or damaged In the retreat
of t.he Italian army, is the information
contained id a telegram to the head
quarters of the Southwestern Divi
sion, American Red Cross, at St.
Louis, from Henry P. Davison, chair
man of the Red Cross Council.
In asking the people to invest in
War Savings and Thrift Stamps, the
government is not asking them to
contribute money.
Better to sacrifice luxuries than
sacrifice lives. Sacrifice the luxur
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ies—Buy War Savings Stamps.
The Independent works for you.
Use it as your salesman. It carries
, news of the store into hundreds of
homes.
Don't be a dead one. Advertise.
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ALLIES SUFFER ;
FROM SERIOUS 7
FOOD SHORTAGE
Success in War Imperiled if
American Homes Do Not
Come to Rescue.
HUN PROPAGANDA AT WORK
Stories Alleging Plentitude of Food
in Allied Countries Jeopardize
Cause of Allies—Correspon
dent Tells of'Xonditiona
in France. \
Washington. — Irresponsible state
ments from unknown sources, purport
ing to show that there is no food short
age in France and other allied Euro
pean countries, are creating a wrong
impression in the public mind and se
riously hampering the government’s
food conservation program, declares
the United States food administration.
The administration can only repeat
what it has said all along on the basis
of official government statistics:
There is a serious food shortage in
France, and in other allied European
lands,—shortage which, if not made
up by conservation in American homes
and shipments from American ports,
will imperil allied success in the war.
Any statement, innocent or mali
cious, which alleges a plentitude of
food, over there is German propaganda,
pure and simple.
Get Wrong Impression.
Persons returning from Paris have
unintentionally jeopardized the cause
of the allies by giving American news
papers their flash impressions of food
conditions in France. Explaining how
this happens, Fred B. Pitney, Ameri
nnn TPPPn tl V rPtlimcd
from France, said:
“I have kept house in Paris during
the war and I can speak from experi
ence. One learns a great deal when
keeping house of which one gets no
inkling when living in a hotel and eat
ing in restaurants. One can always go
to a restaurant and get a meal.
“I have heard many visiting Ameri
cans, who lived in France in that way,
pooh-pooh the idea that there was a
food shortage in the cpuntry. If those
same persons had had to search the
market before they had their meals,
they would have gained a very differ
ent idea of the food situation.
“We paid last winter in Paris 11
cents apiece for eggs and $2 a pound
for butter and there was frequently
neither butter, nor eggs nor milk to
be had. Private families were allow
ed to buy one-eighth of a pound of
flour at a time. The grocers could not
sell flour, only the bakers.”
The Meat Situation.
Scoffing at the idea that there is a
shortage in France, one article re
cently published in the United States
declared that a certain Paris meat
market advertised “beef a la mode"
and other real meat items as “meat
less day specials.”
This, according to Pitney may eas
ily have occurred without at all indi
cating that there was no meat shortage
in France. With regard to the meat
situation Pitney said:
“The French government is very bu
reaucratic, but the French people do
not like to be overgoverned. They ob
ject seriously to anything that savors
of meddling in a man’s private affairs.
“Saying how much or what a man
shall eat is getting pretty close to pri
vate affairs and therefore the French
government knowing intimately the
people it hns to deal with, is slow—
s-l-o-w—in coming to such measures
even in face of the only too evident
food shortage in the country.
“So far, meat has withstood all ef
forts to control its consumption—there
has been no attempt to control its
price, and yet it is vitally necessary to
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France or to increase the supply.”
Herds Are Disappearing.
With regard to the published state
ment in this country that France’s
herds are sleek, fat and plentiful, Pit
ney said:
“France’s herds are disappearing
rapidly. They are today fur below the
danger point. Soon they will have to
be reconstituted entirely. To what ex
tent the herds have disappeared is
shown by the cutting of the meat ra
tion of the soldiers at the front. At
the beginning of the war they were
allowed one pound of meat a day.
Twenty per cent has now been cut
fronurthat ration. Only dire necessity
will countenance reducing the food
allowance of soldiers at the front.
“At the beginning of 1914 France’s
cattle herds comprised 14,787,710 head ;
sheep 16,131,390 and hogs 7,035,850.
By the end of 1914, after five months
of war, her cattle were reduced to
12.668,243. her sheep to 14,038,361 and
hogs to 5,925,291. Toduy her cattle
herds are down more than 20 per cent,
while her sheep nur ber no more than
10,000,000 and her hogs 4,000,000.
“Cattle feed is short in France and
the cattle are poor and underweight.”
National Price Fixing.
Concerning the statement that there
are plenty of beans and potatoes in
France, Pitney said:
“A scheme of national price fixing is
to be tried now with beans and pota
toes. Both of these crops are far be
low the requirements of the country. 1
have seen many days when potatoes
could net be bought in Paris.”
MAGIC MESSAGE SENT
81 RED CROSS HOOKER
BRINES SOLDIER CHEER
A striking example of the mingled
pathos and service of the American
Red Cross for soldiers in the camps is
related in a letter from T. T. Flagler,
field director of the Southern Divi
sion, Atlanta, Ga., to Henry S. Thomp
son, director of the Bureau of Camp
Service, Washington.
An extract from Flagler’s letter fol
lows:
“I was alone in the office one after
noon, trying to burn anthracite coal
in a wood stove, when there was a
knock on the door and out of the rain,
sleet and snow came one of the best
looking types of American manhood 1
have seen in some time. He was of
striking appearance and a bad cough
which he had and the paleness of his
face showed that he was convalescent.
He brought a note from his command
ing officer stating that the bearer was
a motorcycle rider and was just get
ting over the grip and was very much
in need of knitted articles.
‘‘I took the man down to the ware- j
house, and on the way down he men- !
tioned that several sweaters he had
seen had cards on them giving the
name of the woman who had knitted
them, and asked me if I couldn’t get
him a sweater with such a card on it,
as he wanted to write a letter of
thanks.
“On entering the warehouse it
chanced that the first sweater 1
picked up had stitched to it a little
black-bordered card bearing the name
and address of the woman and in a
little, thin, shaky hand the following
words:
" ‘I am 71 years old, and God bless
you, boy.’
“When the soldier saw the little
card he gathered up his helmet, wrist
lets, muffler and sweater, and his
eyes were actually filled with' tears
as he turned to me and said, ‘Isn’t
that splendid? That is just what I
wanted?’"
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A Place for Everything
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If the Man Worked in the Kitchen
Of course he would use convenk rices that would
save his time and energies—just as he uses filing
systems, telephones and other efficiency devices
at his office.
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THJ] War'Savings Stamps
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The Test of True
AMERICANISM
The Germans say—America is not a Nation—it is a hodgepodge j
of people—that wefhave no National spirit—no National soul.
The 25c thrift stamp is the test of Americanism—the test of HOW
MANY AMERICANS THERE ACTUALLY ARE!
The thrift^stamp was issued so that EVERY American could
help his country. ||And unavoidably the number of owners of thrift ■
stamps will be to the enemy the actual number of real Americans. 1
“Every American'man, woman and child must come forward and I
(enroll as Americans.1^ We must answer this German libel by proving I
ourselves ALL Americans. f
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UALLY YOU—MUST—Buy K
Thrift Stamps and War 1
Saving Stamps I
It is your inescapable duty to buy today your thrift stamp or war I
savings stamp. B
16 Thrift Stamps and 14c can be exchanged for a War Savings I
Stamp ""and iPwill beworth $5.00 in danuary, 1923. I
Your Post Office, any bank or any authorized agent will be glad I
to sell you thrift stamps or War Savings Stamps—or answer any |
questions regarding them. 1
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