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lay school at 9:45 sharp.
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Former Newport Bop Writes
Letter From Stricken France
Leo Sellmeyer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Sellmeyer, of Knobel, has
written the following interesting let
ter from “Somewhere in France” to
his folks at home. He formerly re
sided in Newport, being employed
here with the Lesser-Goldman Cotton
Company:
Christmas Morning, 1917.
Somewher in France.
Dear Father, Mother, Sister and
Brothers:
I am writing this in my bunk
house with my suitcase on my knee,
and find that although it is Christ
mas I haven’t any feelings different
from any other day. I am very well
contented, however, as your letters
came in last night and in that way I
am supremely fortunate compared to
some less lucky brethren.
Last Sunday, that is, the 23rd, I
went to Mass in a wonderful cathe
dral that was built almost a thous
and years ago. The stone altar rail
ing was worn down thiee inches in
places where the communicants had
been placing their arms for nine cen
turies, and a painting in front of a
side altar was in that same spot
when Louis XIV was king.
The ceremony of mass, of course,
ic exactly the same, but there are no
benches in church. Only canc-bot
tom chairs, and everyone stands in
stead of kneeling, even at the eleva
tion. When the plate was passed for
the collection a dignified personage
with an immense scarlet sash and a
three-cornered hat, carrying an enor
mous baton in his hand, walked in
front of the collector and turned
round and faced back down the aisle
at every intersection. The one thing
that impressed me most in church
was the number of soldiers. Almost
half were in uniform, from the crip
ples back from the front, to the high
officers in all their panoply of gold
braid. And in every row there were
sure to Be a few women sobbing,
and sometimes a man also. There is
a mass being said continually in ev
ery church from 6 o’clock in the
morning until noon and every one is
crowded; mostly with persons who
are praying for some one who has
died in the war. Last night a mid
night Mass was celebrated on every
altar in France, but I was unable to
attend any one of them, as my liber
ty expired Sunday evening. In the
cathedral I referred to above, the
Grand Opera Company will sing
the midnight Mass. I would give
anything to hear it but the regula
tions of war-time are unchangeable.
I saw a woman in the city yester
day with both her hands chopped off
at the wrists. I don’t know how it
happened but it was certainly pitiful,
but there is so much of that in
France that it doesn’t attract much
attention.
I also went through a large de
partment store and saw the toys for
Christmastide. There were a throng
of kiddies around each booth but the
sales were few, and the buyers
seemed to think that everything they
bought was a sacrilege, if it caused
any mirth. If the people at home
spend only a day in France and see
what effect three years of war has
on a nation, especially a nation that
is naturally pleasure-loving, like the
French, they would realize that to be
an American is the greatest and most
fortunate thing on earth. If the war
should last another three years I
hope that the misery which is here
will be spared America. But even, as
bad as it is here, it is necessarily
vorse in Germany. I don’t think that
any one is suffering from hunger in
France, but in Germany there is no
doubt of it. My Christmas is as
pleasant as I have any right to ex
pect, and I know that yours at home
is also. In a few hours we will sit
down to a regular army dinner:
chicken, cold pork and all the regu
lar perquisites of the holiday. Last
night there were two Christmas
trees in the mess hall, and everyone
got two packages of Bull Durham, 5
apples, a sack of figs, and a bowl of
tnuts. So you see that our hardships
are mostly imaginary.
There is some wonderful statuary
in the museums here and as for
paintings—the churches are full of
them. Not copies, like we see in
America, but the originals, painted
hundreds of years ago. I saw “The
Crucifixion,” by Rubei.s, yesterday.
If II can manage I’m going to bring
home a bust of “Jeanne D’Arc.” She
is very popular here at present and
all the sculps are sculping her.
About the worst inconvenience we
are put to over here is the course
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then fish, then meat, then salad,
then cheese and nuts, and then coffee,
and a different plate for every course.
A person must be willing to spend at
least an lour over his dinner if he
enters a restaurant. The charges are
about 60 cents for a good dinner with
J a bottle of wine. The wine over here
is about as strong as strawberry
soda and that is all one has to drink
at rneab.
If you could know how much I ap
preciate your letters you’d write of
ten. Some of the boys have not re
ceived any letters since they landed
and no amount of Chiistmas cheer
can make up for that absence. I am
still getting the '“Gazette” forwarded
from Pensacola. It is about 6 weeks
old when it reaches me, but it bears
“Arkansas” on the front, therefore it
is doubly welcome.
It is raining outside, just a little
drizzle but enough to make things
vet. I’m going to warm my hands
now and fall in for chow.
With love to all, I am your son and
brother,
Leo Sellmeyer,
U. S. Naval Aero Service, 5-Place D
Jena, Paris, France.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, as collector of the rev
enues of Jackson county, Arkansas,
will meet the people of the different
townships at the following places and
on the dates named, for the purpose
of collecting the taxes of said county
for the year 1917.
Special attention is called to Section
10 of Act 279 of the acts of Arkansas,
1909: “If any collector shall fail to
collect the drainage tax along with
the other taxes, he shall be subject
to a penalty of $100 for each instance
in which he shall collect from an indi
vidual the other taxes and omit the
drainage tax, unless the drainage tax
has been enjoined by court of com
petent jurisdiction to be recovered
in a suit brought by the commission
ers to the use of the district.”
Taypayers are requested to bring
their deeds or last year’s tax receipts
to avoid mistakes.
Grubbs Township, Stegall Post
office, Monday, Feb. 4; Village Town
ship, Greenhaw schoolhouse, Tuesday,
Feb 5; Bird township, James’ Store,
Wednesday, Feb. 6; Bird Township,
Kenyon, Thursday, Feb. 7; Bird Town
ship, Tuckerman, Friday and Satur
day, Feb. £-9; Union Township, Mc
Lain’s office, E. Newport, Monday,
Feb. 11; Union Township, Diazt Tues
day, Feb. 12; Breckenridge Township,
Auvergne, Wednesday, Feb. 13; Breck
enridge Township, Weldon, Thursday,
Feb. 14; Breckenridge, Tupelo, Friday
and Saturday, 15-16; Union Township,
City Hall, Monday, Feb. 18; Union
Township, At court house, until April
10th, 1918.
J. M. IVY,
t Sheriff and Collector of Jackson
County, Arkansas,
i Newport, Ark., Dec. 1, 1917.
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VICTORY DREAD 1
Food Controllers Plan to Enforce New
“Victory Bread” Order Through
out State of Arkansas.
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(Gazette.)
Residents of Little Rock will be
eating “Victory Bread” for dinner
next Sunday if the plans of J. P.
Buchanan, chairman of the Bakers’
Co-operative Committee, which works
in conjunction with the Food Admin
istration, succeeds.
Mr. Buchanan last night said that
the order from Washington came like
a bombshell, and that alh'Arkansas
bakers were caught unprepared. How
ever, he said a carload of the substi
tute flour, which contains five per;
cent corn meal or other wheat substi- !
tute, has been ordered to supply Lit
tie Rock and North Little Rock, and
will arrive within four or five days.
The bakers will use the substitute in
making the bread to be used Sunday.
Bakers all over Arkansas are
pleased with the provision that the
per cent of substitute to be used is
to be increased gradually, and not
reach the maximum at once. The
Co-operative Committee has called a
meeting of all bakers of the state to
meet here Wednesday, February 6,
but this meeting was called off by
Mr. Buchanan last night. He had
planned to urge the adoption of a
loaf that would contain 25 per cent
of a wheat substitute. This meeting
will be replaced by one of local bak
ers only.
“Housewives should add six pounds
of the substitute to a 24-pound sack
of wheat flour to get good results,”
Mr. Buchanan said. “They must
makq up their minds to use this war
flour. It makes good bread and bis
cuits and will do nicely for use in
making pastry. Everyone should
strive to use one-third less wheat
products this year than in 1917.”
The prices of bread and pastry will
not be affected by the substitution o
other cereals for wheat, Mr. Buch
anan said.
A special meeting of- hotel and res
taurant men has been called by State
Hotel Inspector E. R. Wiles'at the
Hotel Marion for the discussion of
the new regulations. Hotel and res
taurant men have been complying
with all requests of the Food Admin
istration so far, and although the new
order means that many will have to
provide facilities for baking corn
bread, Mr Wiles expects they will all
obey.
“So far,” said Mr. Wiles yesterday,
“restaurants are observing a wheat
less meal and a meatless meal each
day, besides one such day each, Wed
nesdays and Tuesdays, and porkless
Saturday. The meatless meal will
continue to be breakfast but the
wheatless meal has been moved to
supper time. So that between 6 and
9 o’clock at night no hotel or restau
rant will sevre wheat or its products.”
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