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THE INDEPNEDENT
AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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cause of America for the
‘ period of the war.
NOW TO EXCHANGE
WHEAT FOR FLOUR.
jsjvjr A recent change in the rules of
K the National Food Administration
B^wiU greatly benefit the Arkansas far
mers who have raised wheat enough
to provide their own flour, accord
ing to a letter received yesterday by
the Arkansas Profitable Farming
Bureau of the Little Rock Board of
Commerce from W. N. Adams, gener
al manager of the Arkadclphia Mill
ing company.
The new ruling permits farmers
who have raised wheat to draw a
year’s supply of flour for his fam
ily at one time. The amount allowed
by the Food Administration is 144
pounds per person for a year. The
new ruling will permit the farmer to
exchange his wheat for a year’s
supply of flour for his household.
Mr. Adams announces that his
firm is paying $2.10 a bushel for
wheat on an exchange basis and only
$2.05 for cash.
“We cannot sell flour to consum
ers,” wrote Mr. Adams,” “but we
can furnish him with flour on ex
change, under the new government
ruling, at five and one-half cents
per pound bulk. This means $10.5(5
for the regular 192 pounds of flour
.that you would buy from any dealer.
„ This is a whole lot less than v:e could
It \
p^ossibly sell flour in straight car
lots.
“In other words, the government is
encouraging wheat raising in every
way possible and has made it possi
ble for us to pay the farmer more
for his wheat and at the same time
‘to sell him the flour on an exchange
basis for a whole lot less than he
could possibly sell to the jobber. In
this way the farmer can save more
than $1.50 per barrel on his flour by
raising the wheat at home.”
—fVOULD SUBMIT CONidTlTl/TION’.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 13.—Gov. Brough
is not in favor of postponing the sub- '
mission of the constitution until next
spring. He says that he will favor
its submission at the November elec-'
tion. Judge W. H. Arnold of Tex
arkana started a movement for de
ferring the submission until some-1
time next spring, so that the legisla
ture may be enabled to provide for
the printing and distribution of the
proposed law.
W. G. Johnson, reresenting King
Candy Company of Fort Worth, Tex
as, spent today in Newport, the guest
of his brother-in-law, A. C. Wilkcr
Bon.
Through the courtesy of its good
friend, S. M. Beattie, of the Beattie
Hardware Company, the Independ
ent is permitted to print the follow
ing article, which Mr. Beattie took
from a copy of the “Hardware Age.”
Owing to the length of the article it
will be necessary to extend its pub
lication over a period of probably
three days, but every true Ameri
can should read it, and preserve it,
can should read it ,and preserve it.
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MR. BUYER, IT’S UP TO YOU.
(By Roy F. Soule.)
The other night one of General
Pershing’s boys went out into No
Man’s-Land. He didn’t come back.
Three hours later a searching party ,
went out to find him. That boy had
been killed and his body hacked to
bits. His comrades gathered up the
remains and brought them back in
a sack. That brave young Ameri
can was chopped to pieces by Ger
man cutlery. Before the war we
•bought two million dollars’ worth
of German pocket cutlery each year. ,
In the past three years American
factories have vastly increased their
'output of pocket knives. Patterns
have been simplified; quality has
been improved; an American indus- j
try has been encouraged and devel- ^
oped; “Made in Germany” on a
knife blade carried in an American '
pocket ftas become but a distaste
ful memory.
Shall we be customers of these
blood-stained butchers after the
war? I hardly think so, but it is up !
to you, Mr. Buyer.
A captured British officer was j
recently found with his throat cut \
fiom ear to ear. This brutal job j
had been done with a very keen-j
edged instrument. It was not the j
work of a trench knife. The ghast- j
ly wound looked as though it had j
been made with a razor. It proba- |
bly was. Before the war we im-!
posted annually half a million dob '
lars’ worth of razors from Germany. !
Since the war began razor facto
ries in the United States have en
joyed a greatly increased business.
Their employees are well-paid, con
tented Americans. The industry
must be perpetuated. German com
petition in the days to come should
suffer a handicap in proportion to
German crimes of today.
When the dove of peace lights in
the pool of blood, shall we go on
buying German razors? It doesn’t
seem possible, Mr. Buyer, it’s up to
you.
Two Canadian Red Cross nurses
outraged. Their hands chopped off,
and their tongues cut out that they
might never tell the hideous story
of the frightfu lwrongs perpetuated
upon them. In America hundreds J
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t Market Opens
open a cash meat market \ugust 10 at
rmerly conducted at 702 First street by
&. Sons. While Mr. Fike and sons were
connected with them, and believe I
the public demands in the meal line,
and promise to meet my customers’ expectations.
IWill have fresh and cured meats at all times and
will sell only on days prescribed by government
regulations. The patronage of the public will be
Telephone 68.
. T. MASHBURN
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I MACHINE TO CUT WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS
The inventor’s model of n wire-cutting machine for use in No Man’s
Land being demonstrated on an entanglement erected on the Capitol grounds
In Washington. One man propels the machine while another operates
lever which cuts the wires.
Why We Should Boycott
Germany After the War
of thousands of Red Coss workers
are using shears and scissors to
make bandages. Before the war we
bought GOO,000 dozen scissors from
the Central Powers annually. Amer
ican factories making scissors and
shears are busy places now and
they are making very good scissors
and shears. After the war, Ger
many or America ? Mr. Buyer, it’s
up to you.
Belgium, poor, brave, outraged
little Belgium! When Germany
threw to the winds a treaty she term
ed a “scrap of paper,” she not only
shredded her honor, but tore to bits
business contracts that will never
be pasted together again. Ameri
ca has fed starving Belgium. We
fed and clothed and cared for her
suffering people long before we be
came her proud ally on the battle
fields. Thousands of orphaned Bel
gian and French children have been
adopted into American homes. In
the days to come are we going to
force these children to play with
German-made toys? God forbid.
American toy manufacturers have
stripped us of the last vestige of an
excuse for the purchase of toys
from the Huns. Our factories are
making more toys than we ever im
ported, and they are not the flimsey
jim-eracks we formerly bought from
abroad. They are largely exercise
toys which develops a child’s body,
or mechanical or structural toys
which train the mind. Before the
war we imported eight million dol
lars’ worth of toys from the Central
Powers. Who will make cur kid
dies’ toys in the days to come?
Once more, Mr. Buyer, it’s up to
you.
A few7 weeks ago the Llandovery
Castle, a Red Cross Vmsnirnl shin
was sunk by a German submarine.
That great ship was fully equipped
to care for wounded, suffering sol
diers. Its only passengers were
doctors and nurses. It was marked
•with—a—grefid red eroaa made of rod
electric lights. The sides of that
ship were illuminated, showing for
miles away the character of the ves
sel. There was no possible chance
of mistaking the Llandovery Castle
for anything but a hospital ship.
And damn them, they deliberately
torpedoed that ship and took Amer
ican doctors from open life boats
and abused them. The shock of
this distinctly brutish act was a
little softened by the fact that we j
have been pretty well trained to ex
pect such atrocities from the Aus
trians and Germans, who have de
liberately shot our doctors, out
raged our nurses, bombed orjr hos
pitals and destroyed other hos
pital ships. It is Kultur spelled with
a “K.”
Before the war we imported from
the Central Powers practically every
surgical instrument used in Ameri
ca, not because we couldn’t make
them, but because the volume of
such business was comparatively
small and the Germans made a spe
cialty of hand-made surgical tools,
rhe other day in Washington I saw
the set of surgical instruments
idopted by the medical chief of our
irmy. Practically every instrument
•ould be readily made by any of our
plier manufacturers and the orders
ire running into such quantities
that they will be stamped out as are
American-made pliers. In the days
to come will those American sur
geons who are seeing and caring*
'ot~ fhe thousands of victims of
;I atrocities ever perm't them
selves to forget sufficiently to pur
! chase a surgical instrument made in
Germany? Never! The memory of
| those doctors and nurses who lost
I their lives in the Llandovery Castle
| murder cry in protest even against
: the thought. The Germans may ship
j their instruments over here without
! identifying marks ? Not if true
i Americans are in the purchasing de
; partment. Is Germany’s surgical
instrument business dead in Ameri-<
ca? Mr. Buyer, it’s up to you.
Say loyal American, how would
you have liked to have you wife in
the town of Gembloux when it was
captured by the Germans? Sco;
of innocent people were butchered
there. The raping of women and
young girls was common and con- j
tinuous. One young woman was j
outraged by severall soldiers,
stripped naked and fastened to the
door of her own home by a cutlass
driven through her chest with suf
ficient force to hold the body to the
heavy panels. Her breasts were
brutally cut off, and with her head
hanging, and her hair flying in the
wind, the body of that poor young
martyr stiffened in death. Horri
ble, yes more hideous than the In
dian massacres that caused our
pioneers to shudder in the early
days of the West. Brutal and beast
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swallow the story that all the Ger
mans were forced into these atroc
ities with absolute proof that the;
Bavarians worked single-handed and
in apparent glee at many of these j
hellish outrages? It would seem
that a good American would starve
rather than foul his lips with food
from a German utensil. That’s the
way it looks, but after all it’s up to ,
one single class of Americans, over
whose doors are lettered the big.
word, BUYER.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
Did you read that America is the
leciding factor? Coming from Lord
Milner this statement is momntuous
and Amer' i "is not coming in—she
has come in—America is in.
Stamps are not for children only.
Most of the squandering is done by
the grown-ups.
Apply a cotton cloth wet with Bal
lard’s Snow Liniment to all wounds,
cuts, burns, sores or blisters, and
note its wonderful healing power. It
is prompt and very effective. Price
25c, 50c and $1.00 per bottle. Sold by
W. E. Bevens.
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WARNING ORDER.
In the Chancery Court of Jackson
County, Ark.
Ernest Adams, Plaintiff,
forty-acre tracts to the highest bid- v
der for cash.
J. M. IVY,
Sheriff aind Collector of Jackson
County, Arkansas.
This July 20th, 1918. 15w4t
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STRAYED OR STOLEN
$10.00 Reward. ^
From my farm 3 miles north of Me
Crory, on or about July 22, 1918, two
black horse mules, six years old past,
one has a round body and neat trim,
will weigh about 950 pounds; other
a more blockier or heavy set, will
weigh 1,000 pounds. Both work
mules, have heavy mane and tale and
are unshod. Will pay $10.00 reward
for return of each animal or infor
mation leading to their recovery.
A. COMER,
17w2t McCrory, Ark.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP.
Notice is hereby given that by mu
tual consent and agreement the
partnership of Huff and Isaacs, com
posed of A. W. Huff and J. V. Isaacs, j y,
has been dissolved, and neither of
said persons have any authority to>
contract or enter into obligations
under the said partnership name.
Witness our hands this the 1st day
of August, 1918.
A. W. Huff,
17w2t. J. V. Isaacs.
i * vu vu biiuun \jou Liiub
yonr loved ones were not in Gem
bloux.
Before the war we imported an
nually millions of dollars’ worth of
kitchen enameled ware from Ger
many and Austria. These utensils
were used in the kitchens of Ameri
can homes. There was probably
some of the same ware in the kitch
en back of that blood-stained door
in Gembloux.
Before the war American manu
facturers had made great strides in
the manufacture of enameled wares.
Their goods were favorably known
in every state in the Union, yet in al
most every American town there was
a line of heavy-coated colored wares
and of white enameled wares that
came from the Central Powers. The
blockade against their shipping
quickly broke these foreign stocks
and the odds and ends were cleared
up writh special sales. Complete
lines of enameled wares made in our
factories have replaced them. Will
German and Austrian enameled
wares go on to our shelves again
when the Kaiser and his Prussian
war maniacs are whipped? Will we
FOR SALE.
Two heating stoves (for wood), on»
sewing machine and one davenport,
practically new. 618 Main street.
Phone 409. 85d6t w3t
Rollen Bend pasture, rates $1.50
per head per month. I will not be
responsible for stock. For informa
tion apply to H. G. Mantooth. 54wtP »
666 cures Malaria, Chills and Fever,
or Bilious Fever, by killing the para
site causing the fever. Fine strength
ening tonic. 14wl0t
Corn for Sale at $2.00 per busheb
at crib five miles west of Newport.
Crib open only on Saturdays. See
Mack Bros. 48dtf lOwtf.
666 cures Headaches, Biliousness,
loss of Appetite, foul breath, or that
tired aching feeling due to Malaria,
or Colds. It removes the cause.
14wl0t.
Subscribe for the Independent.
vs. No. 3324.
Kinnie Adams, Defendant.
The Defendant, Kinnie Adams, is
warned to appear in this court within
thirty days and answer the complaint
of the Plaintiff, Ernest Adams.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said Court this 13th day of July, 1918.
(Seal) R. W. BANDY, Clerk.
G. A. Hillhouse is appointed attorney
for Non-Resident Defendant.
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NOTICE.
Sale of School Lands.
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Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, as Collector of Jackson
County, Arkansas, will on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7TH; 1918 !
between the hours of 12 o’clock M.;
and 3 o’clock P. M. sell at public out-1
cry, at the Court House door of sdid
county, the school lands lying in Sec
tion Sixteen (16), Township Thir-;
teen (13) North,. Range One (1) j
West. Said lands will be sold in ;
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