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Battle-Axe
Basket ball galore out our way last
week. Battle Axe school defeated the
Bandy’s Chapel school Friday after
noon; while on Saturday afternoon
Battle Axe boys defeated the boys of
Elgin school, and Elgin girls defeated
Battle Axe girls. Presume that may
be considered a draw as to those two
schools.
J. M. Fortenberry and A. J. Hes
ter has each purchased and put on
exhibition a new Reo car. A few
other cases of auto fever in the com
munity and likely to terminate fatal
ly at “any old time.”
Sermon Sunday at 11:00 a. m. by
Rev. W. M. Lane to a good congrega
tion, and an appointment left for
Rev. Louis Doyle Sunday, the 24th.
Our “marrying justice,” R. F. Tyer,
said a ceremony for Mr. Shipley and
Miss Pearl McLain one day last week.
Particulars (if any) not reported;
simply caught this news on the wing.
J. W. Lindley, T. H. Brown and R.
F. Tyer spent Monday in Newport;
while Rev. J. W. Gardner and family
came out from that city to rusticate
among us “rubicund Rusticuses,”
leaving Mrs. Gardner and Baby Ruth
with us while he spends a few days
traveling in connection with his
church work.
• - - This paper has enlisted
with the government in the
cause of America for the
period of the war.
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PUSH
(Contributed.)
We frequently see at the entrance
of a building the word “push” on the
door. It means if you want to enter
you must push the door 9yen. You
%re not to ring a bell and wait for
some one to come and let you in.
You must push your way in. That is
the word which is on the door of the
house of success. If you would have
success in anything you must push;
your way to it. Look at the success
• ful business man. We all admire
him. He is of importance in the
Vx world. He has something to do and j
he does it. If things get in his way
he pushes them out; if the market
is dull and his business comes to a
standstill he pushes it along. He
doesn’t wait for luck to come along
and give him a lift. She doesn't us
ually give lifts to those who stand
bach waiting for her. She helps
those who help themselves.
Boys if you have a hard lesson to
learn, don’t sit back and wait for
some one to come along and help you,
if you do you’ll find the next one just |
as hard, but push your way through j
it. Every push you give makes you
stronger to push again. If you want
to occupy an honorable place in the i
world you must push your way to it.'
Then you can look back over your life
with a feeling of satisfaction.
To place an advertisement in the \
Independent is to carry your message j
tT the attention of the wise house- ;
wife who needs your wares and de- !
pends upon the Independent to keep
her posted.
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Frank Stoner, who had gone to
Newark to make a crop, failed to find
a satisfactory place there, and has
returned to this neihborhood, locating
for the year on the Harvey farm.
Less cotton moving than last week,
Eind many more plows running; mak
ing us thirik Jess about fall and more
about spring.
C. E. Maxie how owns a new Reo,
having ordered it .over the phone ear
ly Monday morning for fear supply
might be exhausted before he could
get it by a slower process. Who’s
next?
R. F. Tyer spent a part of one day
last week among his Battle Axe ac
quaintances, coming also for Sunday
—to get a clean shirt, we suppose.
Bill Manning and family over from
Catheytown to spend two days with
Mrs. Manning’s mother, Mrs. J. A.
Thompson.
New drummer out our way last
week—Alf James, interviewing our
merchants for Pate Grocer Co. Look
ed as he might have been an old hand
at the trade, by turns as merry as a
cricket or as solemn as an owl.
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Of course he would use convenh nces that would
save his time and energies—just as he uses filing
systems, telephones and other efficiency devices
at his office.
GET A McDOUGAL
The Steinway of the Kitchen
Hayden - Holloway Furniture Co.
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Diaz
It has been quite a while since our
city has been represented on the cor
respond page, so will endeavor to
furnish a few items.
Mrs. Ivan Rogers has returned
from a visit to her parents at Gamer.
Ben F. Roberts, of the 154th Infan
try, Camp Beauregard, La., spent
Sunday here, the guest of relatives.
Mrs. Little McNew, of Argenta, is
visiting relatives here this week.
Ashley Redd received a very pain
ful injury Friday while driving a
pump in the engine room of one of
the gins. A heavy hammer fell on
his hand while he was removing a
driving cap fiom the pipe which
mashed two of his fingers badly. He
was taken to Newport where he re
ceived medical attention.
Thurman West has purchased a
new car and can be seen out with it
most any time of day or night.
Evangelist Erwin, of Newark,
preached at the Presbyterian church
Sunday and Sunday night to a fair
sized congregation.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Armstrong of
East Newport, were visitors to our
city Sunday.
Mrs. Thurman West has returned
fiom a visit to Oil Trough relatives.
Coroner W. H. Nolen has moved to
Johnstown, where he will engage in
the mercantile business.
We understand that J. T. Craft,
formerly with Armstrong & Co. in
East Newport, has purchased a build
ing site here and will move to Diaz in
the near future and embark in the
mercantile business.
“USE THE WATERWAYS ;;
AND WIN THE WAR” ::
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1 ; Washington.—“Use the water- < ,
' ‘ ways and win the war!” is the J J
!! slogan of the National Rivers «»
| | and Harbors! congress, which ' J
■ « opened its fourteenth annual ,,
J J convention here. The auditorium J |
«> of the New National museum ,,
J J welcomes governors of states ' ’
' ■ and territories, mayors of cities, «.
\ ’ towns and villages and many J J
• > prominent representatives of < •
\ I commerce and business. The \ \
• • fundamental purpose of the con- ■ ■
\ I clave, it is announced, is not to \ \
' • urge appropriations for new pro- • >
!! jects, but to plan how the vari- | J
; ■ ous branches of government may «>
!! most effectively co-operate to |
; | use the waterways at this time • •
.. of railroad crisis and congestion. ! I
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CIRCUS PEOPLE WILL HELP
Routing Experts to Assist in Railroad
Problems, and Kitchen Experts
Will Give Advice.
New York.—Experts in the booking
and routing of circuses will come to
the aid of the government in its prob
lem of transportation for the country,
it was learned here, and the efficient
methods of the show business will be
applied directly to the work of mov
ing supplies for the United States.
Nor will the circus methods to be
placed on the military roster be con
fined to the booking of transporta
tion. The kitchen system of the big
tops will also be transferred to the
artny cantonments, and men who have
long traveled with the circuses and es
tablished the kitchens of th'e outdoor
organizations will shortly be enlist
ed into the service of the country for
the purpose of standardizing the kitch
ens at the various army cantonments.
365 POTATO DAYS 1918 GOAL
United States Food Administration
Seeks to Obtain Constant Use
in America.
Washington.—The Irish potato on
©very table in America every day in
the year is the object of a campaign
begun by the United States food ad
ministration. Grocers will he asked to
Inaugurate a “potato day” each week,
selecting whatever day Is slack in de
liveries, and making a special price.
Fairly regular purchases are to he
urged on the public, so that distribu
tion will be equal everywhere for the
next five or six months, relieving rail
road congestion and encouraging pro
duction of a larger crop next spring.
Improvements in potato growing
methods are being svudied by the de
partment of ngricu ture. Germany
plans twice as many potatoes as the
United States a id gets more than
twice as many bushels per acre.
Use the columns of the Independ
t They will carry your business
•ilk into nearly every home in New
sort.
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Political Announcements
The Independent is authorized to an
nounce the following persons as can
didates for public office, subject to
the action of the democratic party:
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
J. M. Balch
Garland E. Land
A. J. Garner
Z. D. Barber
Lehman Thomas
COUNTY TREASURER '
W. D. McLain
Charles K. Coe
FOR CONGRESSMAN
Wm. A. Hodges
W. D. Davenport
W. A. Oldfield
FOR COUNTY JUDGE
John A. Melville
R.*F. Tyer
W. M. Tims
W. A. Mink
FOR CHANCELLOR
TO MAGAZINE SUB
SCRIBERS OF JACKSON
COUNTY RED CROSS
In last week’s issue of the Inde
pendent, we mentioned the confus
ion and delay of magazines because
of wrong addresses, and we neg
lected to call your attention to
another magazine item of equal im
portance. In the Christmas member
ship drive, a very great many of our
'subscribers renewed their subscrip
tions, making it “from Xmas to
Xmas.” Throughout the country,
others did the same. For a time there
was a constant question from new
subscribers of “When would the mag
azine come?” and now we have it.
We are getting too many. Natural
ly, with the thousands of new ones j
and in the anxiety of the Red Cross ]
to see that every person entitled to a
magazine should get one, and with
the urgent demands of new subscrip
tions, it has been impossible to re
spond to the one without doubling up
on others. Will you do the Red
Cross a simple favor and so help
save money for the country ? In the
back of every magazine is a printed
slip. Please tear it out and send it
in where requested, stating how many
magazines you wish discontinued.
Most familes want but one but have
subscribed for every member of the
family. You do not want the most
of your subscription to go wasted in
magazines that you could never read.
Help the Red Cross get your sub
scription straightened out by stat
ing exactly what you want. If you
have given $2.00 and want a maga
zine and are not getting it notify
either of us and we will see that you
do get one. «
J. L. Bevens, Chairman,
W. A. Billingsley, Sec’y
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(Dignth District.)
Lyman F. Reeder
FOR SHERIFF AND COLLECTOR.
Terry Guin
J. M. Ivy
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
R. T. Simmons
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Fred R. Suits
FOR COUNTY CLERK
J. F. Parish
Grover C. Nance
FOR ASSESSOR
D. J. Nance
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK
R. W. Bandy
FOR CONSTABLE
(Union Township)
C. M. Ivy
Ben Sandmon
FOR ROAD OVERSEER
(Richwoods Township)
.Mark Cole
FOR ROAD OVERSEER
(Bird Township, Eastern District)
R. A. Wilson
FOR ROAD OVERSEER
(Western District, Bird Township)
Walter Cole
FOR CORONER
T. J. Mooney
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bank.
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inspect our colossal stock of
Ready-to-Wear
Mrs. H. Clay Sanders
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