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We have everything that it takes to make your
home comfortable. Our stock is large and coiii
* plete, prices moderate, quality the best for the
money. A visit to our store will convince you.
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IF WE CAN BE OF SERVICE TO
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More Than a Local Insurance Agency
A Newport Business Institution
Is it any wonder that this is one of the
largest insurance agencies in Arkansas?
If you have ever considered by what
means we attained this position >011
will at once conclude that we are giv
ing our patrons a service that they value.
We consider the good will of our pa
trons one of our most valued assets.
Consult us about your insurance
problems.
Phillips $ Ferguson Agency
HICKORY GROVE SCHOOL.
The pupils of Hickory Grove School
have contributed $10 toward the Ar
menian and Syrian Relief, and are
proud to know they can help relieve
suffering humanity. Below is a list
of those who contributed Monday:
Paul Sherrell_.25
Mamie Sherrell_.25
Bessie Sherrell _ .25
James Smith _.25
Zackie Dunahay _.50
Charles Penix_.10
Love Thompson_.25
Buddie Thompson_.25
Roy Thompson _.30
Edith Thompson _.50
Henry Williamson _ .15
Fred Johnson_.05
Fletcher Hunter_.15
Finis Smith _.25
Mabel Hunter _.25
Anna Hunter_.25
Aden Williamson _.10
Gladys Smith _.25
Jennie Neal _.25
Hattie Byrd_.10
Lily Lynn_.25
Ernest Byrd_.05
Vaughn Byrd_05
Charles Skirmes- .25
Lois Jones _.05
Nellie Houchins -.05
Aretta Houchins_.05
tis Skirmes _.25
Chester Jones -.05
Opal Parsley _.05
Jewel Parsley -.10
Charles Hunter_.10
Alta Lynn _.25
WARNING AGAINT
PERISHABLE CROPS.
“DANGER!
“Do not raise to sell vegetables,
Irish or sweet potatoes or melons un
less you know before you plant the
ground where you can market them at
a profit, what varieties, in what con
dition and at what time buyers want
these products and will pay highest
prices for them.”
This warning, printed on a glaring
yellow poster, decorated at the top
with a skull and crossbones, is being
mailed out over the state by H. M.
Cottrell, agriculturalist of the Arkan
sas Profitable Farming Bureau of the
Little Rock Board of Commerce.
The warning is in line with the pol
icy that the Profitable Farming Bu
reau always has maintained but at
this time as the result of the agitation
for a reduction of the cotton acreage,
Mr. Cottrell feared that some farmers
might be beguiled into attempting to
raise perishable produce for which
they would have no market. Many
Arkansas farmers have had this dis
astrous experience in the past.
Continuing, the poster says:
“Do not raise these crops unless
your neighbors and yourself can make
frequent carload shipments through
the season each product is wanted by
consumers. There is money in raising
truck potatoes and melons when rais
ed and marketed by experts. The av
erage farmer loses every time he tries
to raise these crops to sell.
“Raise an abundance of these crops
for family use.
“Cotton and hogs should be the
chief money producers on most Ark
sas farms. The groceries, clothing
and shoes should be paid for from the
sale of eggs and poultry. Many
farms find hay, Spanish peanuts,
wheat, rice, dairy cattle and beef cat
tle pay”
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GERMANY BUILDS
A GIANT AIRPLANE.
Berlin, Sunday, Feb. 16.—If the
war had lasted a few months longer
Germany would have surprised the
world with an enormous airplane.
The new giant of the air, which was
planned by Harold Wolff, an engineer,
will have its first trial at Doberite,
within a few days.
The new machine is nearly 165 feet
from wing tip to wing tip, and stands
more than 23 feet high. It has six
motors with a total of 1,800 horse
power and is driven by four propel
lers, two of which are forward and
two aft. Each of the propellers has
f ur blades. Two of the motors, it
is said, can stop simultaneously with
out effecting any of the propellers or
having any result except to reduce
the speed of the airplane.
Apart from it dimensions and pow
er, the new airplane is not only
equipped with devices enabling the
pilots to know at all times their alti
tude and angle of elevation, but also
with devices to tell the absolute as
well as relative directions which, it
is believed, will make flying possible
on the darkest night and in the thick
est fog. The device for determining
the absolute direction consists of an
instrument adapted to receiving mes
sages from wireless stations and cap
able of such adjustment that a mes
sage from any particular station can
be heard only when the device is
turned in that direction.
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IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of Jackon Lodge No. 91, Free
Accepted Masons Newport, Ark
ansas, December 27, 1918.
The relentless scythe of the Grim
Reaper has, in the last few months
fallen with unrelenting force among
our Brotherhood and caused to be
gathered in the final harvest many
worthy Masons.
Among those of our brethren who
have answered the call of the Great
Creator of the Universe, our friend
and brother, Frederick R. Suits.
Brother Suits was raised to the
Sublime Degree of a Master Mason
June 12, 1901, and was called to his
final rest October 28th, 1918, having
walked Seventeen Years, Four Months
and Sixteen Days, as he stood that
night in the Northeast corner (an up
right Mason before God and man);
he was a living example of what Ma
sonry stands for, ready to fly to the
aid of Brother though he go barefoot
and bareheaded, should necessity re
quire and should there be a greater
probability of saving the brother’s
life than of losing his own; his Idea
of Life, was that the world should be
better for our having lived in it; a
generous self-sacrificing spirit; ap
plying that rule that “Tis more
Blessed to give than receive” he gave
to his country and the community in
which he lived, his .time, his talent
(which was by no means small) and
his life; always foremost in the
fight for right and justice as
against vice and wrong, his efforts
were untiring; his high courage and j
ability always winning him a place I
Qmnrur flip lpflflPTS.
He was a generous, kind-hearted
and affectionate husband and father,
devoted to his good wife and only
son who adored and clung to him as
the tendrils of the vine entwine them
selves about and cling to the body of
the sturdy oak. His death is mourned
by all who knew him and no words of
dfhlogy by us can add to his noble and m
manly life.
“The good die not; this heritage
they leave—
The record of a life well spent.
We know, at parting though we
grieve,
A noble life is man’s best monu
ment.”
J. F. PARISH.
Resolved, That a copy of this mem
orial be spread at length upon the
pages of and made a part of the re
cords of this Lodge and
Resolver Further, That a copy
hereof be mailed to the widow of our
deceased Brother.
J. F. PARISH,
Win. N. DUNAWAY,
W. C WISHON.
WARNS AGAINST SPEED.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 22.— Senator
Brown of Cleveland county sounded a
warning in the senate yesterday
day against too speedy handling of
legislation during the closing days of r
the General Assembly. His warning j
was incidental to a demand that Sen
ator Caldwell’s bill adding ttvo ap
pointive members to the advisory
board of the State Highway Comthis
sion be sent to a committee before
final action on the floor of the senate.
“This may be a good bill,” he said,
“but I myself, do not know what its
provisions are and a little time spent
on legislation now may save a great
deal of embarrassment later on. And
the closing hours of a session are the
very ones in which special interests
may try to slip something over.” The
bill was sent to the Committee on
Roads and Highways.
FIGHT ENDS.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 22.—The fight
against the Arkansas Actuarial Bu
reau came to a conclusion in the leg
islature for this session yesterday,
with the passage of the bill by Sena
tor Utley providing for the supervis
ion of fire insurance rating bureaus
by the State Insurance Commissioner.
The Beard bill, passed by the house
was indefinitely postponed in the
senate, and thereupon many of the
supporters of the Beard bill, to abolish
the bureau, went over to the support,
of the Utley bill, declaring that in
their estimation it offers some relief
from what they termed “the insur
ance trust.” The bill passed with
only 14 negative votes.
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your name and address clearly. Ttou
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containing Foley’s Honey and Tar
Compound, for coughs, colds and
croup. Foley Kidney Pills and Fo
ley’s Cathartic Tablets.—Walker’s
Pharmacy.
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Little Rock and St. Louis. Best Goods,
Lowest Price, Quality considered in state
Come in and let’s talk it over and get
acquainted.
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