WEATHER FORECAST
Tdnight snow and colder; Sunday
probably fair and colder. Fresh
northerly winds tonight, with tem
perature six to eighteen. Notify
stock interests.
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Knox mends shoes cheap. Ill
Walnut street. dtf.
Alfalfa hay, oats, bran, cotton seed ,
meal at Bowen’s Cash Store. 237d6t
Alfalfa hay, bran, oats, shorts and
rtolasses feed.—Bowen’s Cash Store.
230d6t.
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For Rent—Two furnished rooms,1
519 Walnut Street.—Mrs. L. B. j
Harris. 226dlmo
Drayage of all kinds handled
promptly. Phone No. 10. Ches
ter Robinson. 13-dtf.
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P. L. Long, the Kay Packing Com
pany meat man, is here today call
ing on his trade.
Mr. A. Crutcher, who is teaching
school at Litchfield, braved the storm
and came to town this morning on
business.
G. W. Holloway, who lives near
Grubbs, braved the storm and came
to town today to meet his daughter
fiom Little Rock.
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A. A. Lamar, of St. Louis, repre
senting the Baldwin Piano Company,
and the popular local representative,
Z. B. Reid, made this office a pleas
ant call this morning.
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Anyone who has old sheets or old 1
table cloths they do not want please
oall Miss Elise Hooker and she will
send for them. They are needed in
Idle Red Cross Surgical Dressing
Boon. 42d3t.
J, K. Granger, propsletor of the
popular Bridge-Be ceh Cafe, has re
turned from a business .trip to Joplin,
Missouri. Although he returned1
safely and not much the worse for
wear, Mr. Granger says it is no fun
to travel this kind of weather.
Walter L. Brooks, of Jonesboro, C.
_Hens lee, of Dallas, Texas, and M.
H. Dague, of Newport, are here to
day to meet H. A. Sfeour, of Detroit,
Michigan. These gentlemen repre
sent the Detroit Automatic Scale Co.
and are here for a conference to
map out a campaign for the year’s
bus ness. They report a splendid
business for last year and say the
prospects are good for even a better
business in 1919.
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A. A. Cole, of Tupelo, was trans
acting business in the county seat to
day, and paid this office a pleasant
call.
Mrs. Gillius Hercus, of St. Louis,
is spending a few weeks here visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. D.
Price.
Save your canned goods, get apples
while they last at 522 Front street,
Newport. 234d2wk |
Mr. Louis Graber, who has been on j
a visit to his uncle, M. Gorman of |
our city, has returned to his home at;
Corning.
Turkeys, chickens, eggs, country
butter, country dried apples.—Bow
en’s Cash Store. 237dGt.
Mr. J. E. Newman, of Bradford,
who has recently purchased the
“Bradford Idea,” was in town yes
terday and paid the Independent of
fice a call.
WANTED—Twenty button cutters
Good pay. Experienced men making
five dollars per day. Steady work
and comfortable quarters. Newport
Pearl Button Company.
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Mrs. M. Gorman is in Corning' on a
visit to her sister, Mrs. Graber. From
Corning she will go to ParagouUl for
a visit to Mr and Mrs. Solomon.
John Carr, of Auvergne, was trans
acting business in town today, and
dropped in to see us and says that
they were having some winter in his
neighborhood.
EXTRA SPECIALS: $1.75 ladies’
and children’s middies $1.25 and 98c;
Boys’ and girls’ Whit Leather Hose
(guaranteed), 17%c; Ladies’ 85c silk
hose only 59c; 25c dress ginghams
only 17%c. Extra values in towels.
242d3t BOWEN’S CASH STORE.
“Do you know any news?” “Yes,
it’s snowing.” That’s the way Inde
pendent reporters were greeted ev
erywhere today. So if these col
umns are woefully shy of local items,
blame the weather.
R. J. Anderson, who gets his mail
on Route 1, was in today for his pa
per. He says their carrier had not
been able to make delivery at his
place yet on account of the snow and
ice.
NOTICE.
We will be glad to hear from our
subscribers in different parts of the
county in regard to the proposed
stock law and hog law. Express your
opinion.
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RISTMAS
CLUB '
and
riave
MONEY
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It costs notiiing to join and is the one sure wag to
have moneg. You can begin with 10 cents, 5 cents,
2 cents or 1 cent, and increase gour deposit the
same amount each week.
IN 50 WEEKS
10-CENT CLUB PAYS $127.50
, 5-CENT CLUB PAYS 63.75
2-CENT CLUB PAYS 26.60
1-CEMT CLUB PAYS 12.75
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Or gou can begin with the larger amount and de
crease gour pagments each week.
You can deposit 50 cents, $1.00 or $5.00 or
more each week.
The First National Bank
• NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
“The Bank With the Big Surplus”
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J. S. Parnell of Hickory Grove was
in town today in spite of the bad
weather. He says he is getting used
Jim Coe, of Anderson School House
neighborhood, was in today after his
copy of the Weekly Independent. He
says he sure does miss his paper when
the carriers fail to make their
rounds.
Today was a state holiday, as it is
the anniversary of Robert E. Lee.
On account of Lee’s birthday falling
on Saturday this year there was not
the general celebration in the schools,
as has been customary.
SUGGESTS THAT CHURCH
SERVICES BE DISCONTINUED
Prominent citizens have suggested
to the Independent that the churches
discontinue all services tomorrow and
other Sundays until the coal situation
is relieved throughout the country.
Families could hold services in their
homes and the pastors of the various
churches could go from house to
house among the members of their
flock and hold prayer services. The
Independent is persuaded to believe
the suggestion is a good one.
IT’S A CERTAINTY SHE’LL
BE FOUND IN ARKANSAS
Washington, Jan. 19.—A hunt for
the prettiest girl in America, whose
pictures will be borne by posters ad
vertising the government insurance
for soldiers, was announced yesterday
by the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Campaign
Council, a body of insurance men and
army officers in charge of a special
drive to solicit insurance before Feb
ruary 12. Only the pictures of young
women having close friends or rela
atives in the military or naval ser
vice will be accepted, and all photo
graphs must be submitted before Jan
uary 22 to the campaign council at
Washington.
SCATTER SMALL GRAIN
FOR BIRDS IN THE FIELD
Little Rock, Jan. 19.—At the office
of the Game and Fish Commission it
is said that the game wardens over
the state are now being kept almost
constantly in the woods to enforce
the game laws.
Secretary Little Reported that the
recent heavy snows have made it
difficult for quail to find enough to
eat, and if the snow continues for any
length of time many of them are apt
to suffer from starvation. He sug
gested that the farmers who know
where quail feed in their fields and
woods near-by scatter small grain for
the birds to feed on.
JAPANESE CRUISER LANDS
TROOPS AT VLADIVOSTOCK
Petrograd, Jan. 19.—The Naschivek
says that a Japanese cruiser at Vlad
ivostock has put troops ashore and
that the Japanese consul there has is
cued a proclamation declaring that
the Japanese soldiers are to keep or
der, owing to the danger threatening
Japanese citizens and that they have
no desire to interfere in Russian af
fairs.
16-YEAR-OLD GIRL
CARRIES DYNAMITE.
Chicago, Jan. 19.—Carrying enough
dynamite in two small handbags to
wreck the union passenger station, a
slim, dark-haired girl was arrested
yesterday as she stepped from a Penn
sylvania train from Youngstown,O.
When taken before the federal au
thorities the girl gave her name as
Linda Jose, 16 years old. She said
she was given the 36 sticks of ex
plosive at Steubenville, Ohio, and had
carried it across three states in pas
senger trains to deliver it to an un
de in Chicago. Defying the secret
service officers, she refused to give
them the name of either the sender or
her uncle.
AMERICAN WOMEN DRIVE
MOTOR CARS IN FRANCE
With the American Army in France,
January 19.—American women motor
car drivers have made their appear
ance in the zone of the army. A few
of them are driving big motor trucks
for the Y. M. C. A. and are proving
their efficiency.
NOTICE.
I will resume my class Monday de
spite the weather.
Mrs. John Stay ton.
FOR SALE.
One 200 Account System.
One Iron Safe.
One Loose Leaf ledger file.
143d6t. Bowen’s Ca'Jn Store.
Subscribe for The Independent.
COMMEND FRENCH.
French Front, Dec. 14.—(Corres
pondence)—General Ludendorff re
garded *by the Entente Allies as the
master-mind of the German army,
pays an unintential compliment to the
accuracy of French artillerymen in a
memorandum issued to the troops on
October 4th, which has just been
made available to the correspondent
of the Associated Press.
In this document he admits that
the French gunners by their counter
battery fire destroyed in one German
army alone in the course of a month
eighty-three German field guns and
seventy-two heavy cannon, while they
seriously damaged and put out of ac
I tion also 282 field-guns and 213 heavy
I cannon, as well as ninety-one field
guns and fifty-nine heavy cannon
slightly injured but capable of being
lepaired and used again in a short
time.
To these imposing figures of artil
lery losses caused by the French gun
ners the same German army in the
same period of time had the mortifi
cation of adding an almost equally
large number of losses brought about
by the wearing out or bursting of
guns. In this way seventy-three
field-guns and twenty-one heavy can
non were destroyed; 164 field-guns
and 129 heavy guns seriously dam
aged and 177 field-guns and ninety
one heavy guns slightly disabled.
The memorandum was issued to the
German army by General Ludendorff
because his artillery officers had ar
gued repeatedly in favor of making
counter-battery work secondary to
attacks on infantry and communica
tions. They asserted the French ar
tillery directed their guns more gen
erally against the German infantry
than against the artillery batteries.
The figures collated by the Ger
man general demonstrate the falsity
of this argument and show the French
determination to prevent the German
guns, as far as possible, from being
used against the French infantry and
lines of communication and supply,
and that they do this successfully.
General Ludendorff in concluding
his memorandum points out that by
counter-battery work not only is the
enemy’s artillery destroyed or put out
of action, but the opponent is forced
to a considerable extent to turn his
attention away from the doings of
the enemy’s infantry which is thus
able to manoeuvre with greater case.
GOES TO KANSAS CITY.
Special to Independent
Little Rock, Jan. 19.—H. C. Couch,
Federal Fuel Administrator, has been
very active in his efforts to alleviate
the fuel shortage. He will go to
Kansas City next Monday to meet
the administrators from the South
western states to discuss the situa
tion.
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NOTICE.
The water will be shut off Sunday
business. They report a splendid
some repairs to the filter and to con
nect new electric pumping machin
sry.
Newport Water Co.
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Ladies’ Specials
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We Have Just Received the
First Spring Shipment of
the Noted Line of
Mitche
Dresses *
In the Following Materials:
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Charmeuse
Crepe Meteor
Taffeta Silk
Georgette
All Sizes and Colors.
Also a Complete Line of SPRING SKIRTS in all
the Latest Fabrics and Styles.
We invite all our friends to see these lines,
which are the best in the city.
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Rushton Dry Goods Co.
Stamp out the war with Thrift Stamps—Buy one today
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