WRIST WATCHES
$15
to
$75
These watches contain lever move
ments. We carry no watches with
cylinder movements.
Buy from us—do not send
your money out of town—we can
save you money.
Newport Jewelry Co.
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THE INDEPENDENT!
AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
Editor and Publisher.
Entered at the postoffice, Newport,
Arkansas, as second-class mail matter
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About the most cheering bit of
news we have perused since the ar
mistice was signed, brings the infor
mation that Jack Jackson is broke in
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Madrid. We hope he never gets to
smear his face with another pork
chop as long as he lives. No we did
not stake a cent on the bout, brother,
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To say the least, the comment of
republican senators and congress
men and a handful of shameless dem
ocrats upon the action of President
Wilson and the proposed constitution
of the League of Nations will hardly
increase their influence in this coun
try. Within a short time President
Wilson will stand acquitted before all
the people, and his own country will
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BlAids To Nature
The competent physican, when treating
the sick, relies for a cure on two great
agencies--nature and medicine.
! Nature, unaided, will sometimes work
a cure. But nature frequently is unequal
J to the task and must have assistance.
Then arises the imperative need for
PURE DRUGS
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These you will find at this store to meet
every demand. Bring your prescriptions
to us and have them filled correctly and
I * with materials of one hundred *per^ cent
purity and strength.
Walker’s Pharmacy
Phone 39
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receive him as the biggest man in the
world, just as he has been received in
other nations.
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WHY NOT PUT NEWPORT ON
THE CHURCH MAP?
The Independent is anxious to
extend every aid within its power to
ward the upbuilding of the churches
of Newport. Perhaps the paper may
be able to do little, perhaps much. It
depends altogether upon the manner
in which the pastors and other work
ers take advantage of the paper’s
willingness to contribute its share.
The Independent should like each
day to have a column devoted to the
churches and Sunday schools and aux
iliary organizations of every church.
Of course the paper could not be ex
pected to furnish reporters to secure
all this news, but surely each organ
ization would give some member the
responsibility of filling, a part of the
column.
Newport is fortunate at this time in
having pastors who are above the av
erage. They are mentally capable,
possess appealing personalities, and
are religiously engaged in their work.
With these pastors bending their ef
forts toward a common cause in per
fect harmony, the churches will grow
and Drosuer.
No town can rise above its churches.
Unless there is spiritual prosperity
there can hardly be anything else in a
community worth while, and progress
will lag. We have good churches
but not one of them is attended as
it should be. Every church should
be filled at each service, and we
should like to see concert of action on
the part of our ministers and mem
bers of the organizations directed to
ward a movement to put Newport on
the map as a church-going town, and
towrard that end this paper stands
ready to answer every call that is
made upon it.
BIG CONTRACT FOR
DRAINAGE DISTRICT
JUST BEEN AWARDED
Of interest to the people of Jack
son county is the news that the com
missioners of the Cache River Drain
age District have just closed the con
tract for the digging of the drainage
ditch of this district, which will be
twenty miles in length, commencing
at Sedgwick, in Lawrence county,
and extending into Craighead county,
thence into the eastern section of
Jackson county. The successful bid
der was A. V. Wills of St. Louis, the
contract being awarded at Jonesboro.
The work is to be completed with
in three and a half years from the
time the work begins, which will be in
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half million yards of excavating to be
done in the digging of this ditch, and
when completed will open up for cul
tivation a large area of fine fanning
lands in the three counties where the
ditch is cut.
There is being circulated already in
Jackson county, a petition to fqrm an
other district in the county, to con
nect with the terminal of the Cache
River ditch, in order to carry off the
water.
FROM F. A. GRIZZLE.
In a letter to his parents and sister
at Grubbs, F. G. Grizzell writes inter
estingly of his work over there. He
was drafted from Jackson county in
July and has been in France since a
short while after answering the call.
He says he’s willing to serve his
country in war, but after it’s all over
he wants to come home. The letter
follows.
My Dear Father, Mother and Sister:
Have just received your letter and
am going to answer it now. Have
had several letters since I have been
in France. I am in a little town now
called Hames, about four miles from
Langres. We were at an army school
at Fort Plesney, for about eight
weeks, and where we were taught all
the tricks of war. We are leaving
here soon, however, but don’t know
where we are to go. only I hope it
1 is for home, sweet home and the good
; old U. S. A. Mother and Dad, please
' don’t worry about me. My health is
j the best in the world and I have plen
! ty of good eats. I will have big tales
to tell yob when I get home. They
never can change the old town of
Grubbs so that I won’t know it, but
there are lots of the boys from there
that will never see home or the old
town, and that is what makes me sad,
but they gave their lives for a noble
cause. One never knows what home
is until he gets this far away, then
there is but one place for him and that
1 is home and his mother. If I ever get
j there it will be a long time before I
will leave again—even for war. The
weather here ia miserable, rains most
all the time, but we have had no snow
or hard freezes, and I hope we will
not.
There are plenty of boys from Ark
ansas in my company, but none from
my home county. We are all in the
mess hall this afternoon, some are
writing letters home, some are play
ing cards, while others are reading.
On Christmas day we had a big din
ner and the Y. M. C. A. gave each
boy a Christmas box, which had ci
gars, nuts, candy and otner eatables
in it and believe me we were tickeled
to death. President Wilson came to
see us and reviewed the 77th Division
and we all saw him. There certainly
was some crowd there and believe me,
dear old Woodrow did look good to
me. I only wish he would say: “Send
every one of those boys right home
this month.”
all goodbye.
F. A. GRIZZLE.
Company B. Demonstration Bn., A. P.
O., 714 Army School.
FROM JASPER MILLIGAN.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Milligan and Fam
ily, Tuckerman, Ark.
Dear Homefolks:
I will, this Christmas eve day write
you a few lines, which leaves me in
very go'od health and having a good
time. I am in St. Aginau, France, and
now attached to headquarters com
pany in the Fourth Division. Well, I
hope this small letter will find you all
in the best of health, and I also hope
you will have a happy Christmas.
Thiis makes the second Christmas I
have snent awav from home and I
sure would like to be there with you.
I don’t know what old Santa Claus
will bring me, but I understand most
all the boys are going to get a;
Christmas package.
Well, mother, I have enjoyed most
of the time I have spent in England
and France. I have had the pleasure
of seeing the biggest part of England
and also a good part of France, al
though I have never yet seen the
front. Don’t know whether I’ll ever
get to view a battlefield or not, but I
hope I will.
Say mother, I want to know if Al
fred is back home or not. I noticed in
the paper where there had been a
big bunch mustered out from Camp
Taylor. Well, I would like to know
whether you have moved or not. Do
you know I haven’t heardjfrom home
since I left the states? I have been
moving from place to place and sup
pose that accounts for it.
I will never regret my trip to Eu
rope (if I can return home safe, and
I think I will.) I am all right as long
as I can keep my-health.
I will close with the best regards
and a wish for a happy Christmas to
a]l Your son,
Jasper Milligan.
American Expeditionary Forces via
New York, A. P. 0. No. 727,
Miss Jamie Milligan, Tuckerman, Ark.
My Dear Sis:
I know you will be surprised to get
this letter as it has been so long
since you have heard from me, but I
like to surprise people once in a
anvwaV.
Well, I am getting along fine, but
0h! this country. It has been raining
almost every day, and believe me if
this is what they call sunny France,
they ought to change its name.
Sis, how are father and mother and
the rest of the folks getting along.
Is Johnnie, Norine, Orphus and his
wife all right. It seems like ages
since i 8aw any of you. Have you
moved? If so I would like to see
your new home. I am afraid it wont
seem like home when I get back, f
I am sure I can never forget the
pleasures I have enjoyed around old
Tuckerman.
I suppose you had a splendid time
Christmas. Here I was over here
wading mud shoe-mouth deem You
can’t imagine what a wonderful time
I had. Had a swell dinner—bean,
and slum—that is one Christmas din
ner I shall never forget. I wish you
all a happy New Year with the best
of health and enjoyment.
gis, I want you to write me all the
news and tell all the folks to write. I
am stationed now and I will get your
letters, so do not fail to wn e.
I don’t know when I will be home,
but I will let you know before I get
there so you can begin to put on the
pots and prepare me one more big
feed I will dose. Answer real soon
and give all the folks my best re
s,rd, Yourlovi,*^
Mv address is: Hdq. Co. Classifi
Comn A P O. No. 727, Amer.
cation Camp, a. r. v- *
Exp. Forces, France.
Keep your aonars at nome. Trade
in Newport.
Mrs Mary Austin, home demon
stration agent, met with a number of
of the ladies Friday afternoon to
make arrangement for holding a
| cooking demonstration school here for
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A moderate priced
Powder of greatest
onestly made,
sold. Economical in
. Every particle is full
leavening value. A full
worth.
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You save time when you
use it. Calumet is all baking
powder. It begins to raise bak
ings the instant they are put into
the oven. You don’t have to keep i
to see if bakings are all
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one week in March, the school to be
conducted by Miss Conant, a govern
ment demonstrator, who has her
headquarters at Little Rock. It is not
known where a suitable room can be
secured in which to hold the demon
stration, but it is hoped that one can
be found. All the larger cities have
made arrangements for such a school,
which is provided by the government
free of charge to the ladies, and New
port should feel honored in this dem
onstrator’s visit here. Classes will lie
held every day, and it is thought her
program will consist of bread-mak
ing, salads, soups and desSers. !
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THE RAISER
IS DOWN
So Are Our Prices
SHOES
Ladies and Gents
$7.50 $6.50 $6.00
VALUES VALUES VALUES
NOW NOW NOW
$6.25 $5.25 . $4.75
Misses’ Shoes
BLACK $4.00 $3.00
English Values Values
WALKING
$5.50 Values NOW NOW
Now S3.95 I S3.25 $2.25
We carry a complete line of
Buster Brown Hosiery
M. Gorman’s Dry GoodsStore
506 Front St. Front St.
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