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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— 4
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW
For Representative—
J. M. MAPDIS j
W.M. SHAVER % : '
J.U. ARD ! P '
R. T. SIMMONS
For Treasurer—
JOHN H- CAMP j
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J.M. IVY
J. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J. M. BALCH
G. E. LAND i ■
" or Coroner— r)
HENRY GRANT 1 ,
J. T. CRAFT
W. H NOLEN ~V:''
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS.
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Justice of Peace—
L. B. HARRIS
H. C. NUCKOLLS
J. M. BELL
"'nr Constable—
TERRY GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
C. M. IVY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.
For Road Overseer—
CLARENCE PENIX
CLAY ROBERTS
J. B. THOMPSON
BIRD TOWNSHIP
For Road Overseer, Western D.1
R. L. HURLEY
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BRECKENRIDGE TOWNSHIP.
For Road Overseer, No. II South
MILLARD F. HARDIN.
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
0. I. HUBERT
Fines By Installments.
Jim Jones, mechanic, and W.
Brown Smith, man about town,
face a magistrate. Both have
drunk too much and been disor
derly the night before. Both
are fined $10 and costs. Smith,
who drinks too much, altogether
too much, .fishes out a wad of
bills that would choke a horse
and nonchalantly pays his
fine. Jones, who has fallen
off the water wagon for the
first time in a year, hasn’t a
cent. Therefore, he gets ten
days \n jail.
Smith’s long-suffering folks
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Jiliglll 11IVC IlULUlllg ucuu uiau
to see the family sot put away
for a month or two to get the al
cohol out of his system. Jones
has a wife and three children
dependent upon him. Just the
same, unless he is able to get the
magistrate to believe his story
and sympathize with him he will
go “up the river.” Doesn’t
seem quite fair, does it?
In Maryland they are trying
to pass a law to meet just this
situation. The act provides that
a man who is fined for a petty
offense, and has not the money
to pay, may settle his indebted
ness to the state in installments.
Old offenders and men guilty of
serious crimes would not benefit
by the provision. But the man
who has made a misstep and is
sorry, who is genuinely anxious
to do everything in his power to
make it right again, is to get his
chance. The law is going to stop
discriminating against him be
cause he lacks ready cash.
How about enacting such a
law in every state.—Memphis
News-Scimitar.
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. Vital Statistics Started.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. It.—The
Bureau of Vital Statistics of
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v SehSal1_j'_jSntL_SRaraSTfinaiEananen
i First showing of Spring |
| DRESS GOODS |
| We have just received a full line of g|
3 new and up-to-date Dress Goods, voiles, pi
j crepes, rice cloth, ratine, madras and f§!
j ginghams. A complete line of laces and gl1
i embroideries. No matter if you are not ||
j ready to buy we will gladly show you. ffl
Our spring line of Superior made to Sp
j measure clothing now on display, lave
1 your measure for that Easter Suit. jfe
1 J. D. Car veil ® to. |
jFr0”'s' The New StoreE pwce |
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I Bargains In Dresses |
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OS 50 house dresses worth $1.50
|j!! and $1.00.69c
up 50Misses dresses worth $2.50
an! and $2.00.79c
100 misses dresses 12 to 14
IS vrs., linen, $2.00 and
^3 $1.50.50c
.pa 100 children’s linen dresses,
!sn! 6 to 12.50c
<2^ 2000 yds. new ginghams,
^ toile de norde.12 l-2c
^ 2000 yds. Regent ginghams,
rug, 12 l-2c value.0c
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We are now showing all of
our new spring dress goods in ^
silks, ratines, brocaded flan- g—
nels, fancy striped in light 31
weights in wool and cotton me
dress goods.
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Embroideries in all of the
newest designs and baby pat
terns. Linen laces and bead- ^
ings to match. 91
Hope Domestic.8 l-3c g*
100 pairs of Queen Quality MS
shoes composed of patent,
gun metal, tan, and vici, lace «■
and buttons, 1 to 3 1-2, were »»
$5.00 and $3.50, will close
them out for.
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Heinemann si
g Dry Goods Store |
the State Board of Health is get
ting its work started all over the
state, but the first reports
from the county registrars are
not due until next month. The
Board has no trouble anywhere
except in Sebastian and Craw
ford counties, where the county
judges have held that the pro
visions of the act for the ap
pointment of registrars and the
payment of their fees from the
county fund are unconstitution
al. In the meantime, however,
Dr. M. S. • Dibrell of Crawford,
and Dr. C. E. Myers of Sebas
tian, are performing the duties
of the office under the direction
of the Board.
Call For Democratic Central
Committee Meeting.
A meeting of the Democratic
County Central Committee, of
Jackson County, Arkansas, is
called to meet at the city hall
in the City of Newport, Arkan
sas at 2 o’clock p. m. on Febru
ary 1G, 1914.
The object of the meeting is
for calling a Democratic primary
election, and to transact any
other business that may come
before the committee. As this
will be a very important meet
ing it is hoped that every mem-,
her will be present.
Very respectfully,
W. N. NANCE,
Chairman Democratic County
Central Committee of Jack
son County, Arkansas.
Attest:
L. L. Mack, Secretary.
Mr. Robert O. Bowman.
The fourth attraction in the
Lyceum course under the aus
pices of the School Improvement
Association, will be presented
Thursday evening at the High
School auditorium, when Mr.
Robert 0. Bowman will appear
in his splendid “character por
trayals.” With the aid of
grease, paint, wigs, bears and
costumes he makes each charac
ter appeal to the eye as well as
the ear. These transformations
nre made in the presence of the
audience. Mr. Bowman enter
taining his hearers the while,
with brief and witty talks about
the characters introduced.
Remember the time and the
place—Thursday evening, at 8
o’clock, High School auditorium.
Admission 50 cents. Special
prices to school children. G7d2
Mrs. Arthur Bowie, who has ;
typhoid fever, continues very
ill. Miss Proctor of Little Rock
is nursing her.
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Blooded Hogs Sold.
Fayettevile, Feb. 10.—Nine
blooded Duroc Jersey gills and
one Duroc Jersey boar was ship
ped yesterday from the animal
husbandry department of the
University of Arkansas to W.
L. Harn of Hiwasse, Arkansas.
The pigs, , which are nine
months old, averaged more than
200 pounds and brought $28.50
a head. Mr. Harn recently mov
ed to Arkansas from Chicago
and bought the pigs as a founda
tion herd for his stock farm.
Bunting Thoroughly Tested.
In very truth a moderu battlvSMl
doss, In modern phrasing, carry some
bunting. About $160,000 is spent bj
Che United States navy for flags each
year. Every case of bunting ooeta Mm
government $660; every roll coeti
$11.28. The bunting comes from Mae
anehneetts- Every piece Is subjectee
to the most severe test. It must
welsh five pounds to every forty yards
and stand the weight test of Beventy
pounds to two square Inches. It 1b
steeped in salt water for six hours
and then exposed to the sun for ta«
same period of time. If after this
treatment It continues to be hunting
of a distlnguisnable color It 1b pro
nounced 5* to*' Service.
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Snakes (n Plaster.
In a email part of a South Caroling
Kwamp represented on the second
floor of the American Museum of Nab
ural History is Included a snake
group among the loga, vines and w»■
ter hyacinths. The group shows side
by side poisonous snakes, th« water
moccasin, and the non-polsonous, the
brown water snake.
An example of the dead? | moccasin
water snake of the south Is made
from a wax cast by James C. Bell,
with color work fcy Frederick H. Stott.
It 1b extremely lifelike and realistic,
quite enough to give the visitor an
acquaintance with the specisa.
Calling Down the Nurse.
Little Frank's nurae, when finding
him in mischief was In tltt habit of
exclaiming: "What in the name of
commnn sense are yon dofng?" One
morning, while she was bathing him,
he asked: “What In the name of cop
per cents do you mean bjr getting soap
in my axes?"
Not What She Meant
The other evening at a simple
social function, opened with a game of
ce’-'is, the host cs,”sed Tnite a stir
among the ladies present by announo
mg after the guests had seated them
elves at the tables: "If everybody's
made up, we’ll start ” Self consciously
hey looked at one another and In
••oluntarily their hands .vent to their
'noes
Probably.
The man who spends hi3 life pursu
es fame probably does so because he
uever gets a chance to turn off on a
by-path that appears to lead straight
o wealth.
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Stick to Right. Principles.
The man whose principles are right
will suffer his setbacks, lose his
friends and r,ave doubts, but in the
long run hs will win, and the victory,
which is th.e result of principle, la a
permanent one.
In Due Season.
“Is love of country strong in youi
treast?” asked the patriot. “Only in
warm weather." said the man with the
:omfortable home in town.
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clogs the vital organs with impurities ”5t
on a general break-down of health nn
PRICKLY ASH B1T|[R
Is . bowel regulator of the greatest aw,
relieves the bowels mildly yet tho '
extends its cleansing and strengthening i„n “
to every part of the body. en
Sold by Druggists. Ptta
There is a structure which every institution bui
itself. It is called character, and every act is as
this stucture.
An institution, in order to have a good charade
think honestly, act honestty, breathe honesty,
people soon determine between the genuine i
counterfeit. They know the ring ofthetrui
and the base.
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