lHt INDEPENDENT
AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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CAMP PIKE NOTES.
Camp Pike continues to draw its
population from new sources in the
west and south. This month’s quota j
comes from four states: Arkansas,
1,700; Arizona, 300; New Mexico,
1,000; Oklahoma, 7,000. Last month
the bulk of the quota came from
Iowa; in June, from Missouri; in
May, from Tennessee. In addition,
Camp Pike has drawn heavily from
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama, while a large share of the
87th Division came from Camp Fun
ston, Kansas; Camp Dodge, Des
Moines, Iowa and Camp Sherman,
Ohio.
One of the boys who went back
home a few days ago on a furlough
had the following to say: “I would
not accept a discharge as a gift. The
old town isn’t the same any more. If
it were not for the chance to visit the
folks I wouldn’t care anything for a
furlough home. The streets seemed
deserted. There are none of the old
crowd about the cigar stand in the
cafe where we used to loaf and chaff
each other. The home town is a
lonesome hole. All the fellows with
anything to do are in the service.”
There has never been in Camp Pike
more men who seem responsive to the
call of Christianity that at the pres
ent time, and during the month of
July 4,677 men pledged themselves as
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whom they are not personally ac
quainted.”
Letters are received every few
days by members of the army “Y”
staff asking for a list of names of sol
diers who would like to correspond
with some woman or girl in various
parts of the country. As a rule they
ask for the names of men who have j
no relatives or who belong to a class |
they term “lonesomes.” From the I
above war department order it can be
seen that it would be in opposition to
the fixed policy of those in charge of
the armies, both at home and abroad,
to furnish any such list and it is use
less to write to the “Y” for them.
If you must write, write to gome boy
from your home town or county so
that you can give him some local
news that will be of real interest.
As one of the big supply trucks <
swung around a corner at a perilous
angle, a colored soldier leaped to the
ground and rolled in the dust. As the
driver slowed down, he yelled: “Git
back on this truck. Uncle Sam isn’t
paying you $30 a month to jump off
every time you turn a corner.” But
the colored brother only replied eas
ily, “Don’t you worry, boss, I ain’t
chargin’ nothin’ for this heah jumpin.’
I throws dat in free.”
Jared Trevathan, formerly one of
the editors of the Batesville Guard,
is now in the office of the chief clerk
at camp headquarters, having been
assigned to detached service in the
headquarters company.
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sewing machine and one davenport^
practically new. 618 Main street.
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Constipation is the starting point
for many serious diseases. To be
healthy, keep the bowels active and
rgular. Herbine will remove all ac
cumulations in the bowels and put the
system in prime condition. Price 60c.
Sold by W. E. Bevens.
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666 cures Headaches, Biliousness,
loss of Appetite, foul breath, or that
tired aching feeling due to Malaria
or Colds. It removes the cause.
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NOTICE.
Wanted—Ten good live-wire sales
men to sell one of the best automo- 'lj
biles stock propositions in the United
States today. We furnish good leads
and equip our salesmen with the
best of literature and recommenda
tions from leading banks, commer
cial clubs annd well known business
men. We want good, clean-cut men
throughout the entire state of Ark—
; ansas, to put our proposition before
the public; tell them just what we
got and you will have no trouble
selling our stock. This is a proposi
tion for the man that makes good to
build up with a million dollar corpo
ration to a high position in the near
future. Advance artist need not ap
France must import sugar today,
most of It from this side of the ocean,
because the largest portion of French
sugar beet land Is in German hands.
As a result, the French people have
been placed on a sugar ration of about
18 pounds a year for domestic use;
a pound and a half a month. This
photograph 'hows how the German
troops destroyed French sugar mills.
Thanks to the French rationing sys
tem the annual consumption has been
cut to 600,000 tons, according to re
ports reaching the United States Food
Administration, liefore the war France
had an average sugar crop of about
7f>0,000 tons of sugar and had some
left over for export.
PRIVATE GRAY WRITES
INTERESTING LETTER.
Private Jess A. Gray, who is sta
tioned at Paris Island, S. C., has
Written the following interesting let
ter to W. A. Billingsley:
. “Dear Mr. Billingsley: I am send
„ ing you a $50 bond for you to sell for
me. Send change to me at once,
keeping pay for trouble. Sell it as
soon as possible, as I will be leaving
Paris Island soon.
Ready money is very scarce with
me now. I don’t get but $30 per
month, and I send Mr3. Gray $15 of
tl^at. This leaves me $15 to pay for
$14,000 insurance, so you see I have
no money left to buy smokes and
drinks.
Now I am sure you would like to
know something about the marines.
I’ll say they are the best trained
troops I’ve ever seen. We drill before
daybreak until dark every day except
Saturday’and Sunday. vV’e have lots
of ^ats to strengthen our fighting
qualities, and also have Swedish drills
that develop every muscle. We have
swimming in the Atlantic and numer
ous games and boxing, moving pic
tures, open-air pictures—all good and
interesting. I’m the only Arkansas
hoy among 12,000 men. In fact, I’m
the only member of the U. S. marines
' from the mountain section of North
Arkansas. We walk 120 steps per
minute. We jumn. with rifle in hand
and 25 pound pack on back, over the
top of something like eight feet. We
swim sixty yards, we hit the bull’s
eye from 200 to 400 yards, averaging
201 hits out of 300 shots. We climb
a rope with our hands 20 feet high.
Boxing teaches us to dodge the Ger
man bayonets and thus get him first.
Our churches have their respective
representatives, and too, we have
one camp pastor for all.
“Now if you see anybody who
wants a career and desires to see the
■world send him to the marines:—He
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Glass of Hot Water I
: Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
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. Open sluices of the system each j
morning and wash away the
poisonous, stagnant matter.
Those of ns who are neenstomeil to
feel dull and heavy when we arise;
splitting headache, stuffy from a cold,
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid
stomach, lame back, can, Instead,
both look and feel as fresh as a daisy
always by washing the poisons and
toxins from the body with phosphated
hot water each morning.
We should drink, before breakfast,
a glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in
It to flush from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and ten yards of bowels the
previous day’s indigestible waste, sour
bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans
ing, sweetening and purifying the
entire alimentary tract before putting
more food into the stomach.
The action of limestone phosphate
and hot water on an empty stomach
Ib wonderfully invigorating. It cleans
out all the sour fermentations, gases,
waste and acidity and gives one a
splendid appetite for breakfast and
it is said to be but a little while until
the roses begin to appear in the
cheeks. A quarter pound of limestone
phosphate Will cost very little at the
drug store, but is sufficient to make
anyone who is bothered with bilious
ness, constipation, stomach trouble or
rheumatism a real enthusiast on the
subjee of internal sanitation. Try
it and you are assured that you will
look better and feel better in every
way shortly.
will have to obey orders, keep clean
and keep everything straight in quar
ters, live a life that prevents the
spread of disease.
“Please have this letter published
in the Independent and send me a
copy.
Your to oblige,
“Private Jess A. Gray,
“Co. 278 Y. Bat. U. S. M. C.
Paris Island, S. C.”
DIDN’T THINK SHE’D
EVER BE WELL AGAIN
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“Tanlac Has Made Me Well and
Strong,” Says Mrs. Miles—Suffer
ed 20 Years. Gained 29 Pounds.
“I am now twenty-nine pounds
heavier than I was when I began us
'ing Tanlac and I feel l'ike a new wo
man in every way,” said Mrs. Annie
Miles, residing at 1445 Evergreen
Avenue, Jacksonville, Fla., a short
time ago.
“For twenty-five long years I suf
fered with stomach trouble and indi
gestion and tried everything I ever
heard of for it, but kept getting
worse all the time,” she continued.
“I just had to force myself to eat
enough to keep myself alive, and what
little I did eat made me suffer hours
of agony, from gas that would rise
on my stomach. I had awful head
aches and dizzy spells constantly and
was so nervous I could hardiy sleep.
I fell off in weight and got so weak
and so no-account that I felt I could
never be well again.
“One of my neighbors told me what
Tanlac had done for her, and I start
ed taking it. I begun to pick up right
away. I kept on gaining until I
had increased in weight twenty-nine
pounds and my strength has come
back to me in full force. I can eat
anything I want and everything
tastes good. My nerves, are all right
again and I sleep like a child at night
and get up in the morning feeling
fine. Tanlac has made me strong
: and well again.”
i Tanlac is sold by al the leading
1 duggists of the county.
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PROMINENT ATTORNEY
DIED SATURDAY.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 19—Will M. Lew
| is, one of the best known members of
the Little Rock bar, died Saturday af
ternoon in a hospital at Baltimore,
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| for ten days.
He had been in failing health for a
year or more, and for some time it
had been feared that his recovery
could not be expected.
He had been engaged in the prac
tice of law in Little Rock about twen
ty years, having come here from Sa
line county, where his father, James
Lewis, and a large family of brothers
and sisters still live. He had at va
rious times been associated in the
practice of law, and was ecognized as
one of the most brilliant of the
younger atttorneys.
He was quite active in politics, and
took a prominent part in the cam
paigns of George W. Donaghey for
governor, and Charles E. Taylor for
mayor, but had never sought or held
any political office himself.
CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN’S
INSTITUTION PROGRESSING.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 19.—The cam
paign for the Girls’ Detention Home
and the Woman’s Reformatory is
unking gratifying progress. It is
the plan to raise $100,000. to which
‘he government will add $50,000, for
‘he pu-pose of erecting those two in
suiuuoris. iney win ue uuui on uie
cottage plan and will be maintained
by the state. The committee in
charge of the campaign announces
$20,000 already in sight, and the
campaign has only started. During
the present week, a party of Little
Rock women, including Mrs. Jennie
Erickson, Miss Marcella Arthur, Miss
Annie Griffey and Mrs. Clio Harper i
will make a tour of the state for the
purpose of perfecting local organi
zations for the systematic solicita
tion of funds. The promoters of the
institutions, the need of which has
long been recognized, are confident
that the full amount will be raised,
as it is a matter that appeals to ev
ery home in the state.
BABY KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Vance, living on
the old experimental farm, have the
sympathy of their friends in the death
of their little two-year-old daughter, j
who was killed by lightning Sun- !
day. During the thunderstorm, pre- j
ceding the rain, Sunday afternoon, :
the parents, with the baby *and sev
eral neighbors were sitting in the j
front yard under a tree. The baby j
was sitting in a swing under the tree, i
one of the- neighbors swinging it,
when a bolt of lightning struck the
tree and ran down the chains, killing
the baby instantly. The box arrang
-led for a seat, was tom to pieces and
those in the yard were more or less
shocked. The funeral will be held
sometime Tuesday, awaiting the ar
rival of members of the family.
NO FEE ATTACHED
TO REGISTRATION
OF COAL DEALERS.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 19.—All coal
dealers in the state are required to
register by September 1, but this
dees not mean that they will be re
quired to take out a license. There is
no fee attached to it, the purpose be
ing tn secure a complete list of the
retail dealers so that the distribution"
of coal can be more carefully direct
ed. They are required to apply tp the
county fuel administrator for the
certificate of registration, to be is
sued by the state administrator, and
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will be permitted to do business after
September 1 until he has registered.
MRS. OLIVER BLACKBURN.
Mrs. Oliver Blackburn, aged £8
years, died at her home at Heber
Springs Sunday morning at 4:30 af
ter an illness of several months. Her
death was not unexpected, her chil
dren in this city having been called to
her bedside a number of times. The
bodv was brought here Sunday night
and carried to the home of her daugh- :
ter, Mrs. Lon Paris, where the fun
eral was held this afternoon at four
o’clock, conducted by Rev. W. B. Hays
of the Methodist church, burial fol
lowing at Walnut Grove cemetery'.
The deceased was one of the county’s
splendid women, patient and kind,
bearing her suffering and trouble
with Christian fortitude. She has left
a family of splendid children to
mourn their loss, Mrs. Geo. Foushee,
Mrs. Lon Paris and Miss Lyda Black
burn," also one son, William Black
burn.
The pall bearers were Dr. L. T.
Hays. George Gochenour, Frank Ran
kin, R. C. Harder, J. R. Holden and
W. I. Hall. ;
Stamps ajte not for children only.
Most of jthe squandering is .done by
the grown-ups.
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promised to pray daily, 1,461 decis-1
ions for a Christian life, 716 stand- j
ing to request special prayers, and
846 renewals of pledges of Christian
purpose. With so many constant
changes in the location of the men,
the work is rather scattering but the
results show that-it has been unus
ually successful.
Although the army is urgent in its
effort to induce the men to write
home there ai'e certain limitations
that must be observed in the matter
of letter-writing. A recent war de
partment order says: All officers
and men are forbidden to insert ad
vertisements or letters in any publi
cation inviting strangers to com
municate with them, or to enter into
correspondence with strangers in re
sponse to advertisements of other in
vitations. Officers in command of
troops are directed not to furnish
names of men to any persons who at
tempt in any manner to enter into
correspondence with soldiers with
r=i_'
ply. (Jail on, wire or wine xvi ei
ther information.
CLIMBER MOTOR CORPORA
TION.
Rooms 409 Boyle Bldg.,
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WARNING ORDER.
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In the Chancery Court of Jackson
County, Arkansas.
E. M. Edgar, Plaintiff
vs. No. 3334.
Hattie Edgar, Defendant.
The Defendant, Hattie Edgar, is
hereby warned to appear in this
Court within thirty days and answer
the complaint of the Plaintiff, E. M~
1 Edgar.
Witness my hand and the seal of'
said Court this 13th day of August,.
1918.
(Seal) R- W. Bandy, Clerk.
By J. B. Parrott, D. C.
J. H. Johnston is hereby appointed
attorney for non-residen
Pitching horseshoes has become so
popular in the army that at a num
ber of places it has been found neces
sary to station guards to pr-event the
men from stealing the shoes off the
feet of the horses. But no one has
yet been found daring enough to steal
the shoes from a mule.
ERWIN FUNK,
Camp Publicity Director.
Estrayed— From Mrs. Kemp’s
place at Johnstown several days ago
one dark mare mule, fresh sheared,
grey streak on breast, animal is
about 8 years old, weighs about 800
pounds. Will pay $15 reward for in
formation leading to recovery of an
imal. Write or telephone John Sink,
Johnstown, Ark. wl82t.
The more you help the men at the
front the quicker the end will come.
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