lhE INDEPENDENT
, AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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THE INLUENZA SITUATION.
The Board of Health has issued
explicit orders that should be obeyed.
It is the bounden duty of those with
authority to enforce these orders to
do their duty. If they are not obey
ed and enforced, it then will become
necessary for the board of health to
issue complete quarantine regula
tions.
No one must believe that the New
port Board of Health is without au
thority to issue regulations that are
law in themselves, because the stat
utes give the board such authority.
Health is the most important thing
in life. Every man, woman and child
should everywhere realize this. First
they ought to take sane and adequate
measures to safeguard their own
health, and next the health of every
one else should be considered, w nen
one has influenza the place for that
person is at home, and not upon the
streets or in public places where
others might become endangered.
-One sure way to distribute influ
enza germs is to join crowds. An
other certain manner is through ex
pectorating on the sidewalk. In the
first place personal decency should
keep one from spitting upon side
walks or upon floors, and in the next
place proper regard for the law
should forestall this practice, for it
is both against the law of decency
and state law to spit upon sidewalks
or in public places.
Let every citizen co-operate in pre
venting a further spread of influenza.
Realize the dreadfulness of the dis
ease, think of your own safety and
to their own health and that of
others.
The board of health has issued a
regulation prohibiting the gathering
of crowds in Newport next Satur
day. This order will be difficult to
enforce unless the people through
out the county who come to Newport
on Saturdays are carefully and sys
tematically notified beforehand why
the order is issued and the impor
lance of their staying away from the
crowds on that day because of danger
to their own health and others.
Circular letters, printed on the
mimograph at the Chamber of Com
merce, could be addressed to every
locality adjacent to Newport and the
desired result accomplished much
more satisfactorily" than if it were
left to telephone messages, from
which all sorts of rumors could gain
circulation.
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STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE.
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Notice that Revised Circular No.
21, November 12th, permits the fol
lowing buildings to be erected with
out further delay: Farm buildings,
repairs and alterations not exceeding
$10,000, and other buildings and im
provements embraced in the said* re
visied circular. The State Commit
tee wants to extend its sincere thanks
for the patriotic action of so many in
Jackson county who deferred the con
struction of buildings and other im
provements, in deference to the pub
lic good, that they may now proceed
with improvements under certain
conditions.
C. R. HITE, Chairman.
Report Of The Condition Of
bank of tuckerman
Tuckerman, Jackson County, Arkan
sas, At the Close of Business
November 1, 1918.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts-$119,047.07
Loans on real estate- 20,530.00
U. S. Bonds and War Savings
Stamps - 10,537.59
Otner Bonds and Securities, In
cluding State Warrants, Coun
ty and City Scrip- 5,224.59
Furniture ^md Fixtures- 3,100.00
Banking House - 5,400.00
Hue from Banks not Reserve
Agents - 4,095.83
Cash and due from Reserve
Bank _112,196.58
Total _$280,131.66
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LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock, Paid Up-$15,000.00
Surplus Fund, Certified- 3,700.00
Undivided Profits, Net- 3,836.58
Bills Payable - 2,500.00
individual Deposits including
Public Funds $212,880.65
Time Certif
icates of De
posit _ 41,722.36
Cashier’s
Checks - 492.07
Total Amount of >
All Classes De
posits as above
Shown _$255,095.08
Net Deposits (after deducting
amount on which more than 4
per cent is paid as shown
above) _ 255,095,08
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Total_$280,131.66
STATE OF ARKANSAS,
I County of Jackson, ss. »
We, J. W. Lindley, president and
E. V. Holt, cashier, of the above nam
ed Bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of
our knowledge and belief.
J. W. LINDLEY, President,
E. V. HOLT, Cashier
Attest:
| L. T. SLAYDEN,
W. S. ARMSTRONG,
j A. J. GOETZ,
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 13th day of November, 1918.
My commission expires January 24,
j 1921.
(Seal) F. B. DOWELL,
Notary Public.
If Its Good To Eat
We Have If
Call and inspect our stock, it will
attract your attention as to quality
and freshness both. We have in stock
RICE FLOUR CREAM MEAL
GRITS HUBERT’S COUNTRY
PEARL HOMINY STYLE CORN MEAL
BRAN&OS
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Country produce on hand at all times
R. J. Wise Grocer Co.
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BUILDING
GOOD WORK OF A ROAD DRAG
Implement Should Be Used Properly at j
Right Time—Repair All Ruts and -j
Depressions.
After two days of rain, says a writer
In Hoard’s Dairyman, we took an
eight-mile drive out into the country
to buy some pigs. One piece of road
was like a city boulevard, only better.
Despite its being only a gravel road
there was little mud or water, and one
would have thought that there had
been only rain enough to settle tin
dust instead of the big rainstorm. We
inquired and found that two neighbors
had made it a practice to alternate in
going over this road with a road drag
: after every rain. Just beyond, we came
I 'o a piece of road muddy, slippery and
I full of chuck holes that sent us up a
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The only difference between these
two pieces of road was a road drag
and an hour’s time spent when field
work could not be done. We estimate
that it took twice as much gasoline to
cover the undragged road. Multiply
our experience by the dozens of teams
and autos going over this muddy road,
and then compute the expense of fail
ure to use the road drag that was
doubtless rotting away in some fence
corner.
We do not now have in mind the do
mands of the good-roads extremist, hut
are considering what may l;e done and
what should he done with*the common j
dirt road. K does more harm than
goo'd, as a general rule, to plow up the
sod on the sides of the traveled track
and pile it up 1n big lumps in the cen
ter of the track, leaving them there to
1 be broken up by passing vehicles, and
| the loosened dirt washed away by the i
rfiin or blown away by the wind. Keep
all the sod, grass roots and other
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Perspective View of Split-Log Drag.
trash out of the road bed. It merely
decays and makes ready for a splendid
hole to form.
Whatever is worth doing at all Is
worth doing well. No part of a re-1
paired highway should be left until its
surface has been thoroughly and even
ly compacted and 'shaped to let all the
water run off. And when, as will most
always happen, ruts and depressions
make tlielr appearance, they should be
smoothed down, filled, and well com
pacted so that water may not remain
in them to soften the ground and per
mit further damage by the traffic.
When using the road drag, use it
properly at the right time. Don't go
out when the road is toqs wet or too
dry. Take it when iho mfid will make
a good mortar and will puddle down
like Hie little girl’s mud cakes or the
mason’s mortar.
MACADAM ROAD FROVED BEST|
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There Are Several Varieties, Changed
to Suit Localities and Circum
stances Everywhere.
For over a century now the macadam
road has been in use and has proved
iLself to he the best all-round road
that can l.e built. In fact, so good is it
that all military roads in the war area
in France are of this type. There are
several varieties of it, changed to suit
localities and circumstances. The regu
lar water-bound macadam is, with
out doubt, the best and safest for
horses. But we cannot build for horses
alone, it is necessary to preserve the
broken stone road against tlie auto
mobile tires, otherwise the road sur
face would soon go to pieces.
Inadequate Roads Costly.
Both town and country lose money
because of our very inadequate roads.
Rape Good Hog Pasture.
Rape is a profitable crop for pro
viding fall pasture for hogs where
farmers harvest corn by hogging It
down.
Break Land Before Freezes.
j It will pay generally to break the
I land before freezes so the weeds and
; other vegetation may be turned while
| green.
TAXES RAISED '
BY HARD TIMES
Burden Is Lightest in Communi
ties Boasting Live and Thriv
ing Towns.
FARMER FEELS THE EFFECT
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Is Inclined to Forget., at Times, Thai
He Is Most Vitally Interested in
Prosperity of Near-by
Cities.
(Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
Taxes are always heavy—to the mar
who hrts to pay them—but taxes in
some communities are much higher
than in others. If you have ever
stopped to investigate the matter you
have discovered that the lowest taxes
are found in the most prosperous com
munities. yV.nd there’s a reason.
The prosperous community has the
lowest taxes because ttyere is a large
amount of wealth in the communitj
against which the taxes may be as
sessed. There are prosperous mer j
chants with large stocks of goods up-!
on which taxes are levied. Property
values are high and there are thriving
industries which pay a large propor
tion of the taxes.
The higher the property values anc
the greater the wealth of the commu
nity the lower- are the tax levies, for o
lower tax on each hundred dollars oi
valuation is required to produce the
necessary revenue for the administra
tion of the city and county govern
ments.
Other Taxes Are Raised.
On the other hand, take a dead town
Property values are low. Merchants
stocks are 3mall and they have little
money in the bank. Industries which
ordinarily pay a large part of the taxes
of a community have closed down
There are vacant store buildings which
were formerly idled with stocks oi
merchandise upon which the owners
paid heavy taxes. Who pays the taxes
that were once paid by the mechants
the manufacturers, the-bankers anc
the men who had large holdings oi
high-priced property! The taxes tc
conduct the city and county govern
ments, to maintain the schools, to bulk
and repair the roads must be collect
ed from someone. Who pays them'
The man who owns his little home oi
the vacant lot or two upon which lit
lias been planning'to build his home
must pay double or triple the amount |
which he paid in the times when the !
town was prosperous, to make up foi!
the taxes which are not paid now by
the merchants, the bankers, the manu
facturers and the big property owners
wlio bore the heaviest burdens of tax
ation when times were good.
The farmers in the country sur
rounding the town are also among the
heaviest sufferers from the ebbing pi
the town’s prosperity. A Certair
amount of money must be raised by
taxation to provide for the expense.
of the county. Roads must be built
and kept in repair. Bridges must be
built and maintained. Salaries oi
county officers must be paid. County
institutions for the care of the sick
and the poor must be maintained, lr
counties which contain one or more
thriving- towns, a large proportion oi
the taxes for (he county are paid by
the towns. The greater the wealth
of the towns and the higher the prop
erty valuations, the lower the tax levy
for the entire county. When the tas
levy is low the burden placed upon tin
farmer is light.
Burden Falls on Farmer.
When the county contains no pros
perous and wealthy towns, the greater
part of the burden of taxation for the
county falls upon the farmer. The
value of the farmer’s property does not
fall proportion to the value of tiie
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tax levy tlmt results from the lower
property values in the towns makes
Ills taxes higher.
The farmer forgets at times that he
is vitally interested in the prosperity
of "his town.” lie thinks that it is up
to the towu to take care of itself and
that it is up to him to take care of
himself and lie overlooks that fact that
the prosperity of the town means as
much to him as it does to those who
live in it. The farmer who is inclined
to overlook this fact has only to think
of the matter of taxes and he is likely
to change his point of view for taxes
are one thing that neither he_nor any
one else can escape, and they are one
thing in which the farmer ordinarily
takes a very lively interest.
How Farmer Can Help.
There is just one way in which the
fgrmer can best promote prosperity in
the town near which he lives and that
is by spending his money in that town
instead of sending it away to the far
distant city. Every time the farmer
sends an order to n mall order house
he helps to destroy the prosperity of
ids own community and to boost his
own taxes. When he sends a dollar
away from home he gets none of. it
back. When he spends a dollar at
home, a part of that dollar comes back
to him in some way. It helps the town
where it is spent to provide a profit
able market for his products and it
helps the towu pay a large part of his
taxes.
The farmer is the one man in the
community, above all others, who
should have no love for the mall order
houses for they are doing more to add
to his troubles thun any other one
agency.
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Lexington Minute Man Six
A Fine Automobile For Sale N ^
At a Bargain ||g
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This car is fully equipped, lias Red
Seal Continental motor, Timpkin
axel, spot light, motor meter, tire
pump, front and rear bumpers,
extra tire, cover and two inner tubes,
also chains. Car has been run 2,600
miles over Memphis streets.
Price—$1,800. Would cost,
new, $2,100. Inspection by ap
1 pointment.
j . J. Huguley
NEED FOR SWEATERS
IS STILL AS GREAT
AS BEFORE IN ARMY.
In accordance with orders from the
National Red Cross all Surgical
Dressings Stations of Red Cross
Chapters are closed. The Jackson
County Chapter announces compli
ance with this order and takes this
opportunity of expressing apprecia
tion of the faithful workers in that
branch of the Red Cross war service.
This closing order does not affect
other branches of Chapter work.
Mrs. Scarborough has material for
18 sweaters which she has reserved
for town knitters. She has no appli
cations for it. As this is to fill a
quota, failure to fill it puts this
Chapter, and with it the Southwest
Division on the Black List, as all
orders are considered commands and
must be obeyed.
The work room will remain closed
till further orders from headquar
ters. Those seeking Christmas
packages please call at the Chamber
of Commerce on Hazel street, Mr.
Mariner, Chairman. For any other
information regarding women’s
work, phone Mrs. W. A. Billingsley,
No. 87.
One thouasand employes of Sav
age Arms Corporation at Utica, N.
Y., have filed a complaint with the
war labor board asking for increase
in wages.
It is conceded by military critics
that it was the American army that
cut out the Germans’ “life artery,”
and brought about the defeat of the
enemy.
Subscribe for the Independent.
TWENTY CHILDREN
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ARE TRAMPLED TO
DEATH IN THEATRB.
(Rv The Associated Press.)
Castellon, Spain, Nov. 18.—Twenty
children were trampled to death and.
thirty-seven injured in a motion pic
ture theatre here last night when a*
unidentified person cried fire. One
soldier was also killed.
The British government is arrang
ing for the departure to the United
States of a number of German ves
sels for the purpose of bringing t*
Germany foodstuffs which the allies
will permit Germany to receive.
A German newspaper at Bremea
has circulated the false report that
General Foeh has been murdered,
that King George had abdicated and
that relations between Japan and th«
United States are strained.
A Baxter county farmer is th*
owner of a five-footed hog.
There appears to be opportunity
for the establishment of aerial mail
service from Chicago to Oklahoma
City, via Memphis, Little Rock, Fort
Smith, Muskogee and Tulsa.
Eight hundred Porto Ricans em
ployed at the Picric Acid plant near- "
Little Rock have asked to be sent
home, saying they cannot stand the
climate here.
The fuel administration is empha
sizing in every way possible the ne
> cessity for continued economy in the
; use of coal, saying that large quan
' tities of fuel will still be needed for*
1 overseas traffic.
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