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AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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COMPLIMENTS SWIFTON
AND TUCKERMAN SCHOOLS.
Garland H. Land, county superin
tendent of schools, has just made a
visit to the Tuckerman and Swifton
schools. Both of these enterprising
towns have just completed new
school buildings, which are a credit
to JackBon county.
Mr. Land spoke in very compli
mentary terms of the teachers and
U the schools. He found the attend
After all, the vitality
of the car depends on
| the batteiy
TF the ignition is not ab
JL solutely right, no part
of the car can function
properly.
Many a car stays in the old
age class while in reality its
life is barely half spent—be
cause its nerves are paralyzed
by a failing battery.
The Eveready Storage Battery
ha£ proved a veritable fountain
of youth for thousands of such
■ cars. v
The guarantee is excep
tional—but the perform
once of the Eveready
makes it easy for us to
make good. Yes, a year
and a half.
P# H. VanDyke, Dealer.
2nd. & Beech St„ Newport, Ark.
Official Eveready Service Station FreeTesting
—Ceetrteou* Service and Guaranteed Repair.
•a «il standard make* of Storage Batteries.
esssessstssss ——
ance good and the discipline excellent.
Beginning next week the Independ
ent will run a county school depart
ment under the direction of the county
superintendent. Any communica
tions intended for this department
should be addressed to him at Tuck
erman.
STRIKE SITUATION IS
CRITICAL IN LONDON.
London, Feb. 3.—The parliament
ary committee of the Trades Union
Congress decided today to summon a
special meeting to consider the whole
question of industrial unrest.
The corporation of the city of Bel
fast today asked the lord mayor to in
tervene in the strike. It was an
nounced this evening that Lord Pir
rie, controller of merchant shipbuild
ing, had cancelled all his official en
gagements to go to Belfast in con
nection with the strike.
The seriousness of the strike situa
tion in London was further increased
today when the hotel workers at a
meeting decided to go on a strike.
About 8,000 men and women are in
volved.
PRESIDENT MAKES
SPEECH IN CHAMBER OF
DEPUTIES IN PARIS.
Paris, Feb. 3.— President Wilson
this evening delivered an address in
the Chamber of Deputies, having as
auditors President Poincare, the pres
idents of the Chamber and Senate and
large numbers of members of both
houses of parliament and the person
nel <vf the Prpnch cabinet.
The president went accompanied to
the Palais Bourbon by President Poin
care, who called for him at the Mu
rat mansion. Premier Clemenceau
and M. Dubost, speaker of the senate,
also were in the party, which reached
the Palias Bourbon at 5 o’clock.
Military honors were rendered by
the Republican Guard, resplendent
in new uniforms and full regalia. The
presidential party entered the Cham
ber amid a fanfare of bugles and the
rolling of drums. The band of the
republican guard played the Ameri
can national anthem and ‘ The Mar
seillaise,” those inside in the Cham
ber meanwhile rising and cheering.
The Chamber was tasefully decor
ated with French and American flags.
The spacious room was packed.
M. Deschanal opened the sitting
with a short and eloquent speech of
welcome, to which President Wilson
replied in English, an interpreter
translating it into French.
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A WOMAN’S RECOMMENDATION.
Mrs. D. T. Tryor, R. F. D. 1, Frank
lin Avenue, Otsego, O., writes: I
realized so great a benefit from the
use of one box that I feel safe in re
commending Foley Kidney Pills to
any kidney sufferers.” They relieve
backache, sore muscles, stiff joints,
rheumatic pains and bladder ailments.
—Walker’s Pharmacy.
Heinemann’s
To The Fore With A n Unusual
SALE OF SILKS
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All wanted shades of Messalines
and Taffetas including many beau
Itiful and striking patterns of fancies
To $2,85 values $1.98
To $2.50 Fancies $1.50
75c Silk Poplins, all shades 49c
THE NEW ARRIVALS
New Skirts
Smart tailored models of Men’s
wear, Serge—Chic Styles, Fancy
Plaids made with box pleats.
New Suits
Of Silvertone, Serge, etc. in the
season’s newest shades made in
smart jaunty styles.
New Coats
In the new colors very effective
models with belts, buttons, and
self trimmings also the
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“THE LUCKY BOY.” j
We are publishing below a letter
from Crawford Allen, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Allen of Tuckerman, Ark.
He is one of the first American sol
diers to land in France:
Sinzig, Germany,
December 17th, 1918.
Dear Mother:
Received your letter of November
18th and sure was glad to hear from
home. I am now where we have
been trying to go for a long time,
but Kaiser Bill didn’t approve of that
but we showed him who was Bess.
I have been so down-hearted that
I didn’t feel much like writing. I
have been under shell fire so long be
fore getting relief that I gave up all
hopes of ever making it through the
war; I have been so close to my
comrades when they were killed or
wounded that you will call it a war
story when I tell you about it.
I went to the Chatteau-Thierry
front on the 1st day of June when the
Germans were driving and French
were retreating. We stayed in one
place for about four days and nights,
and they took B Company up to the
line as reinforcements for the ma
rines. We marched along the front
line nearly all night with a Boche
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tillery as to the location of the rein
forcements for the line troops. They
were shelling us every step we made
-—sometimes direct hits in our col
umns inflicting loss upon us. Just
before daybreak we reached the hill
where we were to take up our posi
tion on the front line. I do not re
member the number of the hill, but it
was called Marine woods. We dug
our holes to stay in through the day,
which turned out to be graves of
some of the boys. On the night of the
sixth I was detailed by my platoon
leader to go on post guard in No
Man’s-Land. About twelve o’clock
the Germans sent over a terrific
trench mortar and machine gun bar
age, which took some more of our
comrades from us. This lasted an
hour and ten minutes, but it seemed
like a day and a half. About an
hour later the Sergeant came out to
my post and informed me that I was
relieved from post duty and to report
to my platoon at once, which I did,
they being ready to move down the
line a few hundred yards and go into
attack when daybreak came. Every
thing was ready and the ball began
to roll. The marines were directly
in front of the Germans and the en
gineers on the right and left flank.
We went forward letting out the War
Whoop which frightened the Ger
mans very much. They turned their
machine guns on us and yelled for
help. We succeeded in capturing
three or four machine guns, but the
call for help aroused the first line
support and about fifty machine
guns were brought over the hill and
turned loose on us, but we were too
few for the number of machine guns,
and after six hours battling we were
forced to fall back to our old posi
tion, weak and nervous from the ef
fect of the battle and the six days
without food and one canteen of wa
ter, which holds about one quart.
Since then the marines have been
warm friends of the engineers.
Whenever you read about the marines
you can also say the marines. The
5th and the 6th marines and the 9th
and 23rd Infantry and 2 Engineers
are the line troops of the Second di
vision, the one which has borne the
blunt of the U. S. share of the war.
It has done more fighting than any
other outfit in France.
The Civil War veterans have noth
ing on us because they did not have
the big cannons to deal with as we
have had.
On the last night of the war the
Second Engineers put a bridge across
the Meuse river. It was the hottest
time that ! ever saw. the uermans
shot up flares and made it light as
day on the spot where we were con
structing the bridge and they had
nothing to do except sit on the oppo
site bank and work their machine
guns, but that task was like all oth
ers for the Second Engineers—to ac
complish all we undertake or lose the
last man. That is the motto of the
whole regiment, but we have paid
pretty dear for some of these heroic
deeds done by the regiment. Our
regimental flag has on it a Croix de
gerre.
Well there is no use of trying to
write you all about this war for it
would take weeks to tell you. I
know you were glad to hear of the
armistice but nothing like the boys.
I did not know it until 8 o’clock on
the 11th. I was so happy I had to
throw my helmet against an old stone
building; but engineers did not cele
brate. September was the last
month’s pay we have gotten. I have
not a cent and do not get enough
smoking tobacco. I do not have the
least idea when I will get home. I
have decided to rest easy. The sure
enough soldiers are the first on the
battlefield and the last to leave. The
Second Division is not represented
but when it goes down in history you
will see that this division has borne
the blunt of this war.
I received the card stating that I
had $25o in the bank. I sent $85
since then. I suppose it was on the
Champagne front sometime in Octo
ber—$50 in one and $35 in another.
I guess you will get them later. Well
I don’t know much to write. I will
write again soon. Tell Madge and
Florence hello for me.
Your son,
Corporal Major C. Allen,
Co. B Second U. S. Engineer?, Ameri
can E. F., A. P. O. 710.
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Additional Locals
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Representative George A. Hill
house is home from Little Rock for a
few days attending to business in
1 court. The various committees in the
! legislature appointed to visit the dif
ferent state institutions on a trip of
inspection, are out for the most of the
week and little work can be done
while they are gone.
Wanted—Good live salesman, who
can stand prosperity. Must furnish
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ICICICIIUC. t kiaiaijr auu tumuuooiuu.
—W. H. Graham, Tuckerman, Ark.
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The Southern Cattlemen’s Associa
tion will have their annual meeting
at New Orleans next week, the 11th.
Some of our stock growers of Jack
son county expect to attend and also
a large number from all over the
state. A big excursion on the Gulf
of Mexico is to be one of the delight
ful features of entertainment given
I the guests.
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A meeting of presiding elders of
the North Arkansas Methodist Con
ference is being held at Little Rock
today, presiding over by Bishop Mou
zon. Rev. W. L. Oliver was through
here last night, going to the
meeting, where plans are to be laid
for the missionary Centenary, the
drive to begin soon throughout
Southern Methodism.
Red Cross workers over the county,
whether branches doing work in their
rooms or individuals who have gar
ments out, please “speed up.” We
need your work to send in. If you
can help further, either at home by
taking garments or button holes do
it now. This chapter yet has 40 suits,
20 layettes, 20 aprons, 33 girls’ petti
coats to make and only till the 15th
of February in which to do it. Other
chapters are getting their work done.
Help us uphold the good record of
Jackson county’s chapter. Finish the
work you have—and take more if you
238d3t wit.
Judge F. D. Fulkerson and his esr
timable wife, who are most pleasant
ly remembered by their many New
port and Jackson county friends, are
on their way from their home in St.
Joe, Mo., to Hot Springs that the
Judge may take advantage of the
baths there. They will stop off at
Newport this evening and remain un
til tomorrow afternoon at the Hazel
hotel, where they will be very glad
to see their friends. The health of
Judge Fulkerson is such that he can
not get about with his heretofore
alacrity.
NOTICE ELKS.
There is to be a special meeting
of the lodge Wednesday evening, Feb.
5th, for the purpose of balloting and
report of committees. Members are
urged to be present. •
J. M. Gibson, E. R.,
J. H. Johnston, Sec’y.
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muscles may laugh and say these
symptoms of kidney trouble “don’t
amount to anything.” It is folly to
ignore Nature’s warnings. Foley
Kidhey Pills give quick relief in kid
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Pharmacy.
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Walker’s Pharmacy.
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Foley’s Honey and Tar stands at th(
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TIME CARD
North Bound
No. 2 Fast Pass, (no stop)Ar. 3:55an
No. 34 Local passenger, Ar. 10:35am
No. 4 Fast passenger, Ar. 11:59 am
No. 92 Local freight, Lv. 11:00 am
No. 30 Local passenger, Ar. 8:25 pm.
No. 6 Fast Passenger, Ar. 9:30 pm.
No. 18 Fast Pass. (Hot Sgs.
Spl.) Ar. 10:05 pm.
South Bound.
i No. 1 Fast Pas. (no stop)Ar. 1:52 am.
No. 17 Fast Pas. (Hot Spgs.
Spl.) Ar. 4:55 am.
No. 5 Fast passenger, Ar. 5:55 am.
No. 7 Mail train (no passen- \
gers) Ar. 9:10 am. 1
No. 93 Local freight, Lv. 8:00 am.
No. 3 Fast passenger, Ar. 5:43 pm.
No. 33 Local Pas. Ar. 7:20 pm.
Leaves 7:45 pm.
White River Division.
No 210 Passenger, Lv. 6:10 am.
No. 254 Mixed Pas. and freight
Leaves 12:10 pm.
I No 251 Mixed Pas. and freight
Arrives 11:00 am.
! No. 205 Passenger, Ar. 7:30 pm.
THE UNIVERSAL CA» |
“The Policy’’
of the Ford Motor Company to sell its cars for the si
lowest possible price, consistent with dependable
Quality, is toj well known to reQuire comment.
Therefore, because of present conditions, there can; ! i
be no change in the prices of Ford cars
Runabout- $500.00 I
Touring car--__ $525.00 |
Coupelet-- $650.00
Sedan —.$775.00
Truck Chassis .. $550.00 \
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“These prices F. O. B. Detroit.”
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