ItHE INDfcPflfcDENT
I AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
* Editor and Publisher.
Entered at the postoffice, Newport
I Arkansas, as second class mail matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DAILY—Single copy, 6 cents; per
1 ireek, 15 cents; per month, 60 cents;
p; SU year, $6.50, in advance, by carrier
^ Ol city, by mail in country.
#EEKLY—41-50 per year, payable
-
£ Members of the Associated Press.
The Associated Press is exclusively
f, entitled to the use for republication of
H‘r' all news dispatches credited to it or
p? .dot otherwise credited in this paper
I MMl also the local news published!
j§ • herein.
f All rights or republication of spe
& Mel dispatches herein are also re*
COMMITTEE ISSUES
FAIR PRICE LIST.
At a recent meeting of the "Fair
Price Committee’, appointed by the
County Food Administrator, the fol
lowing were agreed upon as being
fair prices:
D-S Meat, per pound..32c
Hams, per pound-38c
Breakfast Bacon, per pound-60c
Smoked Bacon Bellies, per pound__38c
Pure Lard (bulk), per pound-35c
5-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
per bucket -$1.50
10-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
per bucket - $3.00
Compound Lard (bulk), per
pound ---
5-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
per bucket - $1.35
10-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
per bucket -$2.75
2-lb. Std. Corn, per can-20c
2- lb Std. Tomatoes, per can..15c
3- lb Std. Tomatoes, per can-25c
Rice, 2 pounds for.- 25c
Std. Meal, 25-lb sacks, per sack $1.40
Cream Meal 25-lb. sack, per sk._.$1.50
Cream Meal, 10-lb. sacks, per sk. 70c
Navy Beans, per pound-20c
Lima Beans, per pound...-20c
Pinto Beans, per pound-15c
Wheat Flour, 24-lb. sacks-$1.75
Corn Flour, per pound-10c
1 pound Loaves of tsreaa,
per loaf —-----10c
iy2 pound Loaves Bread, per loaf 15c
These prices will be changed from
time to time as condition warrant.
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
for Jackson Counuty.
-BUY W. S. S.
HOW’S THIS?
We . offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Medicine.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine has been
taken by catarrh sufferers for the
past thirty-five years, and has be
come known as the most reliable rem
edy for Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh
Medicine acts through the blood on
the mucous surfaces, expelling the
Poison from the Blood and healing
the diseased portions.
After you have taken Hall’s Ca
tarrh Medicine for a short time you
will see a great improvement in
your general health. Start taking
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine at once and
get rid of catarrh. Send for testimo
nicxls free
F. J.’ CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
—
A Good Farm
IS ONE OF THE BEST
investm ents you can
place your money in. We
have several that will net
investor 8 per cent.
m
•
| Products from farm
lands were never higher
gl-’yj * *$■•-'' •■ • 1
than now, although land
values are no higher than
|®v. Ksjie^y
they were two years ago.
Let us show you some of
these tracts.
i
'h
®^??!!!!?!?!?!^251!!222!m!*2S!!b2SS!!255222S22!!2S22222S22222!SSI
The Realty Co.
G. L. SMITH, Manager
i
DESTROYER HARD TO BEAT
Fierce Wasp of the Sea Is Slim Built,
Loose, Limber and De
structive.
The destroyer people have great
faith In the durability of their little
ships. They are slim built and not
much thicker in the plates than seven
pages of the Sunday paper, but maybe
that is their safety. There is no get
ting a fair wallop nt them. They
j evade the issue. One man compared
them to a hot-water bottle. Try to
swat a loaded hot-water bottle. What
happens? When you poke it in one
place doesn’t It come bulging out in
another to make up for it? Sure it
does, writes James P. Connolly in Col
lier’s.
How do you account for the de
stroyer which had her stern cut off so
tliut the men in the after compartment
leaned out and chinned themselves up
to the deck from the inside? And how
do you account for the way they come
bouncing along at better than twenty
knots in a gale of wind and a rough
sea and nothing happening to them?
Get shook up—yes, but they come
home, don’t they? They sure do. May
be it’s the way they’re thrown to
gether—loose and limber.
Whatever It is, they are dashing In
and out of here on their job of convoy
ing merchant ships and hunting 17
boats. They expect to get their bumps,
and they do; but so long as they get
an even break they are not kicking.
The charthouse gang on the 343 say
they are satisfied that they got an
even break. (The 343 was cut in
halves by a torpedo and made port.)
They are sticking a new stern on the
343. When they get it well glued on
she is going out again.
MayDe me same u-Doat—you can i
always tell, some people have luck—
maybe that same U-boat will come
drifting her way again. And if they
see her first—oh, boy!
BEST LOVED ENGLISH POET
Thomas Hood Made His Reputation as
Humorist—Wrote Clever
Verse.
Thomas Hood was probably one of
the best loved of the English poets and
humorists, though often classed among
the “minor English poets.” But every
one knows his “Song of the Shirt,”
which brought out forcibly, though
poetically, the wasted life and early
death of the overworked women, the
unfortunates of the poorer classes. His
“Bridge of Sighs” is equally effective.
These are named as his best works,
yet his reputation was made as a hu
morist. He was the son of a book
seller, born in London. His father died
when he was young and his mother
moved to Islington, where Thomas
studied under a delightful old vicar.
He tried to become a clerk, but such
work disagreed with him—so much so,
indeed, that he had to go to the coun
try to recuperate. While away he be
gan contributing light humorous
sketches to magazines and papers, and
after his return to his beloved London
he was made subeditor of the London
Magazine.
This position brought him in contact
with all the brilliant men of his time.
DeQuincy, Charles Lamb and others.
Later he started the Comic Annual, in
which he caricatured the people and
events of the day—satire done so deli
cately and cleverly that the events he
made fun of will live solely because he
made them of importance.
The last of his life was spent on a
sick bod, and it was during this period
that he wrote his two famous serious
poems above mentioned.
Garden Memories.
Our present joy in growing things
grows deeper, as color and fragrances
of our actual garden blend with colors
and fragrances from long ago. Wood
bine over the rafters takes on the
semblance of la petite chambre verte
in Normandy where we lunched one
September noon many years gone by.
. . . In April the clear crimson of
our tulips brings back those plucked
wild on hills near Florence in long
vanished spring sunshine; and the lit
tle pink-tipped daisies that border the
bed make one see again those in Al
pine grass, high on the great slopes
lake, and Savoy and Mont Blanc
.spread out before; those In English
meadows in sweel, chilly early sum
mer. What associations come on the
breath of lila§s. or lilies-of-the-valley,
or a few sprigs of blossoming helio
trope, recalling an almost tropical riot
of color in a great bed of heliotrope on
the shore of Lake Como, with every
soft shade of lavender, deepening to
richest purple and a cloud of many
tinted purple butterflies hovering
above.—Margaret Sherwood.
Respect for. Speed.
Human respect for speed depends
chiefly upon the method of locomotion
that is employed. Hyman legs are one
thing, a bicycle is another, an automo
bile is another, and a railroad train is
another, while an airplane is “still
something else again.” All these have
their measures of supremacy as estab
lished by the records, but in speaking
of speed in an abstract sense “a mile
a minute” will probably never lose its
rhetorical force. That rate is about as
fast as any rational human being
wants to move when he is on the level
of mundane things. For him ^t repre
sents the acme of speed and yi ways
will. Flying, of course, is another mat
ter. That gives a man a senseiof re
moteness which makes the speea seem
less terrific.
□
Dependable Goods
You may always depend upon this store
to be always ready and anxious to serve
you with the lowest prices and best quality of
—FURNITURE
-HARDWARE
—IMPLEMENTS
and anything else you may need in our
line.
Ours is the biggest furniture, hardware
and implement house between Little Rock
and St. Louis.
Don’t forget your duty to boost New
port and Jackson county, the best town and
county in the best state of the Union. f ®
J ohnson-Cloy es
Hardware Co.
rsi- . . ,v_ .'ijuii' ji-= ■ '■■■=1
ESTRAYED.
Yellow mare, pony built, black
mane and tail, shod, about 13 hands
high. Last seen near Weldon. $10
reward if returned to R. B. Brown,
Augusta, Ark. Ilw2t
-BUY W. S. S.
Wanted—to buy second hand left
handed saw mill rig. Write or tele
phone J. F. Howard Gin Co., Johns
town, Ark. Ilw2t.
Do not forget that War Savings
Stamps are not for children only.
Most of the squandering is done by
the grown-ups.
-BUY W. S. S.
FOR SALE.
One Half Section of cut-over bottom
land, located three miles from Mc
Crory, Arkansas, level, no overflow,
no rocks, good rich sandy loam soil,
all tilable, and will produce all crops,
located on public road, one house and
barn. Price $18.00 per acre.
W. H. Manville,
llw4t. Bankers Trust Co.
Little Rock, Ark.
-BUY W. S. S.
You command the immediate inter
est and attention of local customers
when you patronize the Independent’s
-BUY W. S. S.
NOTICE.
You are hereby notified to cut the
weeds on your premises and the front
and sides, and in the streets and al
leys adjoining your premises and to
clean up the premises and put them
in sanitary condition. This applies
to both tenants and occupants and to
owners of vacant property and lots.
Failure to comply will be a violation
of the city ordinances and subject the
party failing or refusing to comply
with prosecution and fine.
The shooting of air rifles in the
city limits is prohibited by ordinance.
A great number of electric light
globes are broken in this way espec
ially in East Newport. This ordin
ance will be strictly enforced and
parties guilty arrested and fined.
Parents are especially urged to see
that their children do not further
violate this ordinance.
E. L. WATSON,
Mayor of City of Newport.
-BUY W. S. S.
Don’t “let the other fellow do it.”
War Savings gives you 4 per cent on
your money and a chance to feel that
you have “taken a shot at the Hun.”
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii|iiiiiimiiiiiiMiriiiiiiiMiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimmiiiiiiiijif 9
| Mountain Home College J1
| The Most Highly Accredited Scliool | I
In North Central Arkansas
Offers _ |- “J
State Teachers’ Certificates
| To those completing the NORMAL TRAINING COURSE |jjn|
1 Standard High School Hj
| Completing the Twelfth Grade
1 Courses in Bible, Piano, Expression, Domestic j
| Science and on other branches
| SEND FOR CATALOUGE ff|
| Mountain Home College, Mountain Home, Ark. (1
TfimMiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimtiMiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiitiiiiMiiiiiiiiiir m
’V. f ■ * .
♦ SAXON SIX ♦■
♦ ♦ *
♦ IMMEDIATE DELIVERY \%
t DEALERS WANTED *j
♦ Jg
v J'H
X Your territory may be open. ♦ 1
♦ WRITE or WIRE, if you want
t cars to supply the demand. f |
: :|
i LITTLE BOCK MOtOR CAR CO. ♦ 1
♦ ;i
♦ C. E. Faulhaber, General Mgr. 4
♦ 4 1
4 614-622 Louisiana St. Phone Main 7C0 4
Little Rock, Ark. ^ /
T ♦v