WEATHER FORECAST
Tonight and Friday fair, continued
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7a.I Bradley, of Weldon, is spending
a few days in Newport on business.
Boys’ rubber boots only $1.98.
Buy 'em. —Bowen’s Cash Store. 37d3
W. R. Harvey and J. T. Ward, of
Swi Aon, were down today on business.
Arctics, rubbers and gum boots.—
I' . rn’s Cash Store. 237d3t.
lor Rent—Two furnished rooms,
Eft 9 Walnut Street.—Mrs. L. B.
Harris. 226dlmo
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Mr. and Mrs. Perry Hooper of Au-1
vergne are spending a day or two in;
our city.
Save your canned goods, get apples j
while they last at 522 Front street,
Newport. 234d2wk
Drayage of all kinds handled i
promptly. Phone No. 10. Ches
ter Robinson. 13-dtf. j
Knox mends shoes cheap. Ill
Walnut street. dtf.
For Rent—Two partly furnished
rooms.—123 Beech Street. 28d3
Little Dorothy Rushton has been
on the sick list for a day or two.
W. L. Simmons and B. D. Baker
were in from Tupelo Wednesday.
Alfalfa hay, oats, bran, cotton seed
Imeal at Bowen’s Cash Store. 237d6t
Turkeys, chickens, eggs, country
butter, country dried apples.—Bow
en’s Cash Store. 237d6t.
Alfalfa hay, bran, oats, shorts and
molasses feed.—Bowen’s Cash Store.
2&0d6t.
A. B. .Jackson, of Balch, was in our
city yesterday afternoon on business
for a few hours.
F. S. Gullctte has been kept at
home for the past two or three days
because of sickness.
For Rent—A model farm 30 acres
in timothy, 40 acres high state of cul
tivation; known as the Humphrey or
Little Place, lVs miles from Grand
Glaise. Write us.—Berg Jackson Co.,
Camden, Ark. 234d6t 43w3t
W. L. May and Rod Cox, of Au- '
vergne, were county seat visitors to- i
day and report everything frozen up
in their section of the county.
Anyone who has old sheets or old
table cloths they do not want please
call Miss Elise Hooker and she will
send for them. They are needed in
the Red Cross Surgical Dressing
Room. 42d3t.
WANTED—Twenty button cutters
Good pay. Experienced men making
! five dollars per day. Steady work
and comfortable quarters. Newport
Pearl Button Company.
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According to a dispatch from Bates
vlleville, extra special freight train
running south, in charge of Conduc
tor S. W. Weaver, was derailed Tues
day night at Ruddells. Two cars
were thrown from the track, one
empty and a car of hay. The track
was cleared this morning about (5:30
o’clock. A broken center pin under
one of the cars caused the derailment.
SWIFTON
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bush have re
turned from a month’s stay at Lake
land, Florida.
J. W. Nicholson has moved to his
farm and Grover C. Coleman has
rented the Nicholson home.
Mrs. Frank Weddle returned to
Little Rock Tuesday ofter a few days
visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Johnson.
The public schools were closed this
week because of the heavy snow fall
and the severe weather.
Sheriff J. M. Ivy was here on court
matter Tuesday.
;he Jones-Harvy Mercantile Company
raffered damage to their stock. On
Monday a drop of thirty degrees
froze (the melting snow and water and
Tuesday the ground is covered with
nearly ten inches of snow and ice.
Heavy losses of hogs and cattle are
expected.
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Are you observing meatless Tues
day and wheatless Wednesday.
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How many pounds of sugar can
you buy at one time? Write and tell
Hamp Williams, federal food admin
istrator for Arkansas.
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Now is the time for every good
eater to come to the aid of his coun
try.
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Remember that being a slave to
your eating habits is one way of help
ing the kaiser.
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The proper study of mankind (just
now) is the food question.
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Meatless days and wheatless days
are sure steps towards fightless days.
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In the matter of food, do not mis
take substitution for starvation. The
United States Food Administration
asks you for the former in order to
guard against the latter.
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Practice food conservation for the
sake of your stomach, for the sake
of your pocketbook, for the sake of
your country or for any other reason
under the sun, but—BE SURE YOU
DO IT.
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Harry Grimes returned yesterday
from Batesville, where he has been
on business since Sunday, and the
stay at his former home was undoubt
edly pleasant ( ?) because he couldn’t
get away.
Chas. Meyer was mingling with
his old friends in our city today. Mr.
Meyer says he has three married
children living in Arkansas in his
territory, which makes it very pleas
ant for him.
Circle No. 4 of the Methodist
Church will meet at the Red Cross
sewing room over the First National
Bank Friday afternoon at 1 o’clock
to sew. Every member please be
present and help make these hospit
al garments.
Searcy suffered a disastrous fire
early Wednesday morning when the
Merchants’ Grocer Company’s ware
house was destroyed. Four fine
mules used for the heavy hauling
were burned. The loss was about
'$5,000 with no insurance.
Mr. and Mrs. Rube Robinson are in
Rochester, Minn., for the purpose of
having a surgical operation on their
three-year-old son, Fred, Mrs. Rob
inson writes her mother, which has
just been received, saying the Mayo
Brothers had examined their baby,
but that they would not say what
they could do for him until they
looked further into the case.—Searcy
Citizen.
Rev. W. B. Ricks a former popular
pastor of the Newport Methodist
church, is at the head of the Army Y.
M. C. A. work at Fort Oglethrope,
Georgia.
The road to Grubbs is said to be in
one of the worst conditions imagin
able. Telephone poles and trees are
said to be across the road all along
the way, making travel impossible.
George R. Hays and Fred R. Suits
were called to Hot Springs Tuesday
to attend the bedside of Judge Stuck
ey, who was not doing so well. A
letter this morning, however, stated
he was better and they probably
would return here this evening.
A shipment of Red Cross hospital
garments is to be made Monday of
next week. This is the fiist shipment
from our local work rooms and it is
hoped that it will be a creditable one.
The management is very anxious for
every woman in Newport to give
some of her time in sewing for the
soldiers. Few can knit, but all can
sew, find if a little time and patience
is given they can be able to turn out
excellent work. The sewing rooms
are over the First National Bank, and
if you can drop in for an hour, if no
more, your work will be appreciated.
vou do not have to belong to any
certain church or Circle—just come
in any time and sew.
ristmas
BANKING
CLUB
and
have
MONEY
It costs nothing to join and is the one sure way to
have money. You can begin witn 10 cents, 5 cents,
2 cents or 1 cent, and increase your deposit the
same amount each week.
IN 50 WEEKS
10-CENT CLUB PAYS $127.50
6-CENT CLUB PAYS 63.75
2-CENT CLUB PAYS 25.50
1-CENT CLUB PAYS 12.75
Or you can begin with the larger amount and de
crease your payments each week.
You can deposit 50 cents, $1.00 or $5.00 or
more each week.
The First National Bank
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
"The Bank With the Big Surplus”
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F. M. Parsons has moved to his
farm and Dr. G. W. Montell and fam
ily will occupy the Parson home.
Rev. M. A. Fry, pastor of the'Meth
odist church, has had a bad attack of
neuralgia for a week.
E. W. Hulen, Sr., J. L. Johnson
and J. W. Winemiller have each pur
chased a tract of land in the New
Home neighborhoo from Ferdinand
Tonney.
Tax collector will be at the Swifton
Mercantile Company Friday and Sat
urday, January 25 and 26, to collect
taxes for Glass Township.
The so-called snowball prayer is j
again in circulation in Jackson county
and a number of the letters have
been received by residents of Swifton.
These letters are a waste in postage
and a burden to the mails. The time
and money spent by the writers of
these letters could be devoted to a
better cause—the Red Cross or Y. M.
C. A. for instance.
Ernest J. Powell gave a splendid
lecture at the Methodist church Fri
day evening. His was the foui’th
number of the Lyceum Course. Ow
ing to the bad weather only a small
but appreciative audience was pres
ent. Many of those present declared
Mr. Powell’s lecture to have been the
best number of the course.
C. C. Hawley, of Cape Girardeau,
Mo., a dredge contractor, who is work
ing on the Little River drainage dis
trict has taken over the digging of
the main Maple Slough ditch. Stan
ley Dees, who had the contract was
unable to begin the work immediately
owing to delays incident to war con
ditions. Several miles of the right
of-way for the big ditch have beeen
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for the dredge boat. Henry J. Cox
who has the contract for the lateral,
is making such progress as is possible
under the trying conditions as have
existed for some time. Between four
and five miles of the lateral ditches
have been cut in the upper end of the
district. Mr. Hawley advises the
commissioners that he will ship his
dredging machine as soon as the rail
road company will furnish a car.
A committee consisting of J. W.
Sallee, W. T. Altman, C. W. Price and
N. J. Moon, Jr., have taken up the
matter of the Lyceum Course for next
winter and are working on a plan
heretofore not in practice. These
public spirited young men believe that
much would come to the community
if the general public could be induced
to attend these lectures and entertain
ments and to that end they propose
to raise a fund by subscription suf
ficient to pay for the entire course
and charge no admission. The suc
cess which has attended their efforts
in this direction has been gratifying
and it is to be hoped that it will be
possible to have such high class en
tertainments within the reach of
every man, woman and child in Glass
township.
A temperature of fourteen degrees
below zero Saturday morning made
a new record not only for this winter
but for twenty years according to
many old residents. Black river was
frozen from bank to bank for the first
time since i899. The heavy snow of
Friday was followed by a downpour
of rain and sleet Sunday night The
melting snow caused the roofs of
nearly every business taou^e'in Swif
ton to leak. The Svpifton Mercantile
Company, W. D. Moon and Sons, and
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Corn this year will serve two main
purposes. It will help to feed us sc
that we can reduce our consumptior
of wheat and send more to Europe
and it it will feed hogs for both our
selves and our associates in the war
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The food supply of the world is
short and getting shorter. You car
not take eighteen million men out oJ
production and put them into de
struction of human products and ex
pect things to go on as before.—U. S
Food Administrator.
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Do you know those little shops ii
the country towns and villages tha
are called Emporiums? That is ;
kind of fancy name for departmen
stores where you can buy almost ev
erythingyouwant. Well, a cow is i
kind of emporium animal. Jus
think what we get from it! Meal
leather, milk, butter, cheese, glue
bone, buttons, fertilizer. Be good t
your cow.
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Has this war taken the sugar ou
of your coffee? Well, if you kne\
that one teaspoonful less each tim<
you use sugar would mean just tha
much more for the American soldier;
and others fighting our battles, wha
Avould you do?
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An Arkansas mayor wrote to Hamj
Williams and asked for a special pro
clamation for his people to observe
meatless Tuesday and wheatles;
Wednesday. That’s the right spirit
and he got it, too.
SOWING SPRING WHEAT
Auvergne, Ark.,
January 15, 1918.
Newport Weekly Independent,
Gentlemen:
I would like to plant some spring
wheat. What do you think about it
and where can I get seed wheat?
understand I will have to use sof
wheat. Also what time would be th<
best to plant spring wheat?
Please answer through the Week
ly Independent.
Yours very truly,
S. W. Christy.
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The best time to sow spring wrhea'
is from the first of February to tht
fifteenth of March, depending on th<
season and the time the land can b(
put into condition. Spring whea
can be cultivated much the same a:
spring oats. Some of our farmers ir
Jackson county have been successfu
in raising spring wheat and may hav(
sufficient surplus to furnish yot
some seed; if not you should be abb
to secure seed from your local dealei
or some of the seed dealers in New
port. For further information writ*
direct to Mr. G. H. Banks, count}
farm demonstrator.
CONGRESS EXPECTS
TO ADJOURN JUNE 1
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 17.—Plans foi
speeding appropriations by avoiding
all unnecessary hearings with a iew
to adjournment of congress on Jun(
first had been agreed upon in a con
ference of democratic leaders.
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