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) SYSTEM LIKELY
hamber of Commerce Is Co-Operat
||9 ing With Other Towns In Effort
To Secure McKay Company.
;j&9 It was announced today that the
$&9 IVewport Chamber of Commerce is
Wf -operating with Augusta, Cotton Plant
and other towns of Arkansas in ef
’ , forts to secure the location of the
,/ .McKay-Bennett Cable Company sys
tem. The system is said to be a
greatly improved one and is operat
ing only irnthe larger towns of Ark
ansas. It is understood that the sys
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Press.)
Dec. 18.—A rudely
bomb in a pasteboard box
l to Dr. William C. Hasler,
officer, was turned over
. the police today. The doctor re
ceived thr-eatening letters because of
his insistence that the wearing of
gauze masks as' a precaution against
influenza be resipn
ATION-WIDtf
MUNITION
PEARS CERTAINTY.
"1 ' •
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 18.—The ratifi
of the prohibition amendment
_ the Federal constitution hv the up.
BUSINESS SCHOOL
WOULD COME HERE
James Business College Of Pine
Bluff Will Locate In Newport If
Building Is Secured.
G. E. Bynum, manager of the
James Business College of Pine
Bluff, has written the Newport
Chamber of Commerce a letter of in
quiry in which it is asked if suitable
quarters can be had here for the lo
cation of a school. C. E. Mariner,
manager of the Chamber, Is investi
gating the matter and believes he
will have no trouble in securing a lo
cation for the college.
Mr. Bynum writes that a branch of
the school will be located here if
Casualty List
The following casualties are report
ed by the commanding general of the
American Expeditionary Forces:
Wounded severely_731
Wounded (degree undetermined) 1,348
Wounded slightly_,__1,848
Total -—3,927
Died of wounds, Felix McLenden,
Atlanta; Alvin Tyler, Pocahontas.
Died of disease, Lieut. Jesse W.
Barr, Hope; Pete Alexander, Green
wood; William Q. Banks, Fair View;
John Ballion, Dardanelle.
Wounded severely, Albert Camp,
Newport; James Michael, Siloam
Springs; Dan H. Jolliff, Hoxie; Asa
Reddick, Harrisburg; Sergeant,
Ralph R. Rozier, Newai'k; Charles
R. Ratliff, Eureka Springs; John R.
Jarvis, Fayetteville, Levy A. Douth
itt, Lincoln; Albert N. Gilmore,
Rosebud; Albert I. James, Holland;
William Pinnell, Mena.
Wounded, degree undetermined,
Sergeant Edward D. Roberts, Little
Rock; Wayne N. Wiggons, De Queen;
Charles Leroy Binning, Koch Ridge;
Kooert Austin luiwnorn, Violet Hill;
Columbus Stell, Plummerville; Mell
Benson, Grandstoff; Egger Garland
Stanfield, Blytheville; Milton Estes
Walls, Ashdown; Grady Kelly, Wal
dron; Ralph Denton, Oakland; Ru
nie Wooley, Vandervoort; Ezra Bond,
Wesley; Arthur York, Datto; Mark
E. Bindley, Paris; Luther E. Coley,
Peach Orchard; Ira S. Taylor, Zent;
Hyacinthe P. Pianalto, Tontitown;
Benjaman Lewis Pitts, Casa; Sam
uel Peel Bunch, Perryville. •
Some idea of what Camp Pike
means to Arkansas, and particularly
t|«Li >ie Rock, in a business way is
^Bcated by the announcement of
ijB amount distributed among offi
■s and men between Dec. 1 and 10
PV November pay. The total was ap
proximately $1,300,000, officers re
ceiving $300,000 in treasury warrants
fid the men $950,000 in cash after
lllotments, an dinsurance premiums
ind payments on Liberty bonds had
iieen deducted. Many of the men who
freceive above the average pay of $32
■ ~'"^h sent portions of their pay to
homefolks, obtaining pnoney orders
through Y. M. C. A. secretaries.
Jackson County has never fallen
behind. Every individual will join
1111 S
RED C. DISTRIBUTING R FFR ERH M ENTC
mother and her brother, John Cadw._
lader Rowland, who gave her in mar
riage. e bride is a niece of John
Cadwalader.
Mr. Younger, son of John Lafay
ette Younger, a farmer of Arkansas,
went to France last April in the Sig
nal Corps. He was gassed, treated in
a French hospital, and later was sent
to the base hospital at Cape May.
After a convalescent period there
he was transferred to Camp Dix,
where he met Miss Rowland, who was
working in the Hostess House under
the direction of Mrs. J. Gardner Cas
satt. They agreed to marry as soon
as he was discharged from the army.
After a brief honeymoon, the cou
ple will take apartments in this city.
The bride, who is a descendant of
two prominent old Philadelphia fam
dies, is a member of the Philadelphia I
Country. Club the Sedgeley Club.1
Keep the home fires burning. Join
the Red Cross.
WILL YOU GIVE EM
PLOYMENT TO SOL
DIERS RETURNED?
►- William O. Burton of Algoa, who
Las a wife and child dependent upon
fcim, has returned from army camp
Ind filed application with the Cham
ber of Commerce for employment as
Kfarmer.
■ James E. Hopkins of Newport, also
^returned soldier, has filed his appli
cation, and also wants farm work.
I John W. Anderson, another re
Ejrhed' soldier, whose home is at
■hnstown, will accept any kind of
■ork.
■ Pnhert. Enter McAulev of Weldon,,
'ho gives his occupation as horse- (
fan, desires employment.
The HBM AjyfMWEXD- I 0
copy of The __ ^SgMENT 8
lished in Chicago,- f ’ I ?
tisement written arn2eeejf>t 0f a (j
Hayden-Holloway Furni7?a4 pub-ijJ
ny of Newport appearing reiver-«§
the Independent, was rep rode®!
The Journal compliments both
wording and printorial cop^metior
of the advertisement.
/
The funeral of Silas Davies Camp
bell was held at the home Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30, the service being
conducted by Rev. Lyman-Wheaton
and Rev. Bates of the local Kpisconnl
and' Methodist chuv
concourse of friends gi
a last sad tribute to
opftj'tnrd at the cemetery, w
local lodge of Odd Fellows
charge of the service, a further
ute was paid the deceased
of beautiful flowers laid
as tokens of love from
bar and individual
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MORE SULDIERS
lit \num
Additional Units Overseas Have Been
Designated For An Early ileturn
To The States.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 18.— Additional
units overseas, including about fif
teen hundred officers and men, have
been assigned for early return home,
the war department announces, and
include the 35th, 149th, 158th, 173rd
and 800th first aero squadrons com
panies, A. and B 26th Engineers,
102nd and 11th Trench Mortar Bat
tery and Headquarters 39th Brigade
Coast Artillery.
New York, Dec. 18.—The first de
tachment of negro soldiers to return
from the war zone, arrived aboard
the. steamship, Gelt$c, today. Tbo
negroes greeted the mayor’s commit
tee aboard a police boat with a yell
that carried across the bay. The Cel
tic’s passengers included the twvrd.
battalion of the 814th negro infantry,
mostly from Kentucky.
SWIFTON.
Vernon Vaughan was at home over
Sunday from» Camp Pike.
Claude McGinty, who was in the
August draft and was sent to Tulane
University, New Orleans, in the radio
Hif.ruirtm.ent of the army, has been
lischarged. He had the privilege of
:aking an extended course in the
same branch of the service if he
;hooses to do so.
Malva Jones returned Friday from
jj^port News, Va., where he was
^^■Lrged from the navy after six
«pras a volunteer.
ington,
stay of
j Mrs. W.
i from a visi
j Ridge.
I B. S. Bra:
'bookkeeper
| cantile Company, beg
1 New Year, succeeding
; becomes secretary
Mercantile Company.
Mr. and Mrs. J.
gone to Florida for a
months.
James N. Moon, r
Farmers’ Gin Compa;
build a modern gin
ready for the 1919
j gin will be of the
have a capacity of sixt
| day.
1 The rainfall of Thursd
day aggregated six inct
PR
Has Not
Of Any
Lean
(By The
PaTis, Dec.
President Wilson
himself in favor
ositions advanced
of Nations, says a
by the American
Pai
kept
excep
car.
progr
taux,
ter.
night
tion
Sharj
the widest difference off hfhmon ex- M
ists regarding the formation of a^H
League of Nations and on the defltnuMj
tion of freedom of the seas, Sena^BJJ
Knox, former secretary of stateJHg
an address before the senate today
urged the postponement of these ^
questions until after the peace con
ference. Before Knox spoke the for
eign relations committee decided to
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