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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
thorized to make the following
announcements of candidates,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic Primary.
For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Railroad Commissioner:
T. J. RANEY
T. E. WOOD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C- CASEY
H. U. WILLIAMSON
JOHN S. GIBSON.
For County Judge—
W. D. McLAIN
JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
O. W. SCARBOROUGH
For Sheriff— i
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW j
For Representative—
J. M. MAFDIS i
W. M. SHAVER
J.U.ARD i m
R. T. SIMMONS 1
For Treasurer—
JOHN H. CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J.M.IVY
J. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J.M. BALCH <
G. E. LAND
For Coroner— : k
HENRY GRANT
J. T. CRAFT < '
W. H. NOLEN
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS.
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Justice of Peace—
L. B. HARRIS
H. C. NUCKOLLS
J.M. BELL
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN v* -
CLYDE WOOD
C. M. IVY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.
For Road Overseer—
CLARENCE PENIX
CLAY ROBERTS
J. B. THOMPSON
BIRD TOWNSHIP
For Road Overseer, Western D.
R. L. HURLEY
G. A. CHURCHMAN.
BRECKENRIDGE TOWNSHIP.
Ftr Road Overseer, No. 11 South
MILLARD F. HARDIN.
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MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Mayor—
JOHN P. PAUL
A. T. HUBLY
For Recorder
B. G. GRAHAM
H. G. BRANDENBURG.
For Marshal—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
GUS C. MARTIN
For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
For Aldermen First Ward—
T. P. UMSTED.
C. R. PATE.
JOHN R. LOFTIN, JR.
S. HEINEMANN
For Aldermen Second Ward—
W. B. GRANT.
W. H. SNETSER.
E. L. WATSON
O. I. HUBERT_
Time For Good Roads Action.
As indicated by the success
ful and enthusiastic Good Roads
meeting held last night, P^ort
Smith and other towns along
the Western border of Arkan
sas mean to be in line waiting
for that government appropria
tion as soon as it shall have been
made available.
These towns are scheduled on
one of the best organized routes
for national highways to be
found in the country and there
should be no trouble in getting
quick action. It is expected that
first attention, other things be
ing equal, will be given to
through routes. The Canada-to
the-Gulf route is such a one. It
is the main north and south line
in the tentative scheme of the
national highways association.
It will carry the traffic to the
gulf of all that country north of
Kansas City extending west to
the Pacific and as far east as
Chicago. It is the making of
a grand highway beside which
the famous Appian way of the
Roman empire will be insignif
icant except in the matter of ex
cellence and permanence of con
struction. We might as well
admit that we Have not learned
how to build roads that are bet
ter than those the Romans built,
at least in the item of perman
ence.
The meeting of last night o
pened the way for the western
portion of Arkansas to get on
the highway map of the na
tion. Let us hope that every
town and county represented
(and that means everything be
tween Texarkana and the
northern state line) will get
energetically busy with organi
zation.—Fort Smith Times-Re
icord.
A Propitious Time For Muncip
al Improvements of all Kinds.
The recent strong improve
ment in the market for munici
| First showing of Spring |
] | DRESS GOODS |
We have just received a full line of m
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p new and up-to-date Dress Goods, voiles, ^
£ crepes, rice cloth, ratine, madras and €
j| ginghams. A complete line of laces and ||
" embroideries. No matter if you are not gj
I ready to buy we will gladly show you. 9
Our spring line of Superior made to 9
I® measure clothing now on display. Have gj
your measure for that Easter Suit.
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50 house dresses worth $1.50
and $1.00.69c
nig 50 Misses dresses worth $2.50
3nl and $2.00.79c
3,11 100 misses dresses 12 to 14
yS yrs., linen, $2.00 and
Uj »l-50.50c
Mg 100 children’s linen dresses,
aril 6 to 12.50c
^ 2000 yds. new ginghams,
toile de norde.12 l-2c
2000 yds. Regent ginghams,
gjjjj* 12 l-2c value.9c
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We are now showing all of ™
our new spring dress goods in ^
silks, ratines, brocaded flan- yg
nels, fancy striped fh light ant
weights in wool and cotton UE
dress goods. ^
Embroidertes in all of the
newest designs and baby pat
terns. Linen laces and bead- g_
ings to match. SB
Hope Domestic.8 l-3c
100 pairs of Queen Quality US
shoes composed of patent,
gun metal, tan, and vici, lace HE
and buttons, 1 to 3 1-2, were
$5.00 and $3.50, will close
them out for.$2.98
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pal securities should be taken
advantage of promptly by Sou- j
them comunities which are |
contemplating the issuing of
bonds for public work. A vast
amount of county, city and mun
icipal improvements of every
kind is needed in the South, for
which bonds mjust be issued. At
the present time there is a bet
ter market for such securities, j
and coincident with this abili-!
ty to get money there is a sur
plus of labor available, and man
ufacturers of machinery and e
quipmient are in a position to fill
orders to better advantage than
would be possible if all business
interests were active. The con
dition, therefore, is exception
ally favorable for the prosecu
tion of public work.
Throughout all parts of the
South and Southwest roads are
to be built, new streets made and
old streets improved, sewerage
systems and waterworks are to
be constructed or enlarged, and
public buildings erected. While
it is desirable, and often import
ant, that public buildings should
be ornate and in keeping with
the life of the community, it is
especially important that they
should be absolutely fireproof.
Every court house and every
city hall ought to be so well !
constructed as to make thor
oughly safe public records of
all kinds. These things are im
portant. But the construction
of the most modem sewerage
systems, and of waterworks to
guarantee an ample supply ofj
pure water, and the building of
good roads and the paving of
streets and alleys are even more
important. These all take hold
of the essential things— th*
health of the community. There
is no greater economic waste
fulness than that which by rea
son of false economy prevents
municipalities from providing
pure water, the most sanitary
sewerage systerp and well-pav
ed streets and alleys, which
make possible city cleanliness.
Every illness and every death
brought about by failure to do
j these things is an economic loss
due to the blundering of incom
petent officials, and this with
out considering the sorrow and
suffering brought by the ill
ness and the deaths which bet
j ter sanitary conditions would
j have prevented. The men in
j any community who. from a
j narrow and miserly point o*
j view, delay the improvements
| of this kind, which are essential
to the health of a community
as well as to its progress are
responsible for sickness which
ether action on their part might
have prevented.
Every growing town and city
in the South needs to improve
and keep on improving every
day and every year its provis
ions for sanitation and health.
These include all such things
as waterworks, sewerage sys
tems and well paved streets.
The field is almost limitless. No
wiser investment can be made
by people than the money spent,
when it is honestly expended,
for public works of this kind.
These improvements mean ma
terial progress, they mean bet
ter conditions of living, better
environment for young and old,
and better health and longer
lives for the people. It is es
pecially important, therefore,
that the authorities of every
community in the South should
study the situation in the light
of present conditions when mon
ey for such work is becoming
more abundant and when the la
bor available for it is in great
supply. Moreover, the very do
ing of these things and the em
ployment of labor in works of
this kind would stimulate all
business interests and largely
help in bringing about that gen
eral prosperity for which all are
looking and hoping. This is the
South’s day of opportunity for
work of this kind. If the au
thorities of Southern communi
ties are not alive to the situation
the people whose interests are
at stake ought to see that they
are awakened promptly.—Manu
facturer’s Record.
Fighting The Floods In China.
I In California the calculated
; loss of $2,000,000 from recent
| floods is more than offset by the
prospective gain from the in
creased products of the inun
dated land; but when the Yel
low river, “China’s sorrow”,
rises in its might and sweeps
away 300 villages and makes a
million persons homeless, in a
densely populated region, no ag
ricultural advantage can coun
tervail the loss of life and prop
erty. Pestilence and famine are
the inevitable sequel.
During the floods of three
years ago, the worst for four
decades, the Yangtze, 250 miles
from the sea, was forty miles in
width. In Ngan-hwei and Ki
! ang-su provinces the crops were
destroyed for the third time in
five years. In seven provinces
some 600,000 families were ac
tually perishing as the result of
the flood and the famine.
Such appalling catastrophes
explain the eagerness of the
present Chinese government to
devise means of preventing the
repetition of inundations, be
sides which the disasters of
Johnstown or Dayton or in the
Mississippi valley are relatively
insignificant in the toll of lives
taken and property destroyed.
China looks to American en
gineers for enlightenment, and
to our state department for an
expression of confidence in the
project, and our official approv
al and technical resourcefulness
will doubtless give countenance
and practical aid to any feasible
scheme of flood prevention.—
Memphis News-Scimitar.
ALL WRONG.
—
The Mistake Is Made by Many
Newport Citizens.
I
Look for the cause of back
ache.
To be cured you must know
the cause.
If it’s weak kidneys
You must set the kidneys
working right.
A resident of this vicinity
shows you how.
Mrs. E. M. Baker, W. Pleas
ant street, Searcy, Arkansas,
says: “Kidney trouble fasten
ed itself upon me in a mysteri
ous way and I ran down so rapid
ly that I was in bad shape be
fore I realized it. I had back
ache and dizzy spells. The kid
ney secretions were also in bad
shape and my .joints swelled. I
used Doan’s Kidney Pills and
they soon gave me relief. I will
ingly confirm my former en
dorsement of this remedy.”
Price, 50c at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy
—get Doan’s Kidney Pills— the!
same that Mrs. Baker had. Fos
ter-Milbum Co., props., Buffa
lo, New York. (Adv.)
What Kern Says About Clarke.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 15.—A tele
gram just received from Sena
tor John W. Kern, Democratic
leader and former running-mate
of William, Jennings Bryan, for
'lce
ind authoritative 3
>" Aranas cari?
,rhifh '* >*»«»!
J!J,Jf1:'ln an effort,,,
ator Jarne, p pi ®
did->'f»rree!«t;
senate, 10
, [he telegram fronil
‘Hduma statesman
lutely Senator Clarke’s
asa democrat and as a
Democrats, thus punc
bubble blown bv his m
emies who charge Ta,
C arke has voted with
Publicans, doubtless bad
canard upon a com*
by Ex-President R00,
Senator Clarke giving
ansas senator credit j
ium for the building of
ama canal.
r k’ne telegram in full
Washington, D. C., Fel
Hon. R. P. Allen,’ Lit
Arkansas.
Senator Clarke took
and active part in the
and enactment of the
bill and all other adm
bil and al other admi
measures. He is a
bred Democrat and ha
fidence and good will
democratic associates,
John W,
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Proprietor
Washing called for an
to all parts of til
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Agents Wanted In E
There is a structure which every institution b
itself. It is called character, and every act
this stucture. ,
An institution, in order to have a good chara^
think honestly, act honestty, br®£theJ* ne i
people soon determine between e ^
counterfeit. They know the nng of*»
and the base.
ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST
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