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INCORRECT RUMORS.
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s On two or three occasions recently
false rumors have gained circulation
on the streets in Newport carrying
misstated information concerning
the events of the war. As an in
stance, yesterday it was reported the
II Germans had captured 250,000 Brit
ish soldiers, which proved false.
I: These rumors have a tendency to
| create an uncomfortable feeling, and
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AUVERGNE GOES OVER THE TOP
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(Contributed.)
Down in the little farming com
munity of Auvergne there are no
|: slackers. In fact, no one could be
| found who had seen <ne. To be sure
they had heard that there was such
H-an animal in existence but if one
I' ever gets into Auvergne he will come
I; in a circus cage for exhibition pur
i poses. And there isn’t any half pa
triots, mill-dewed patriots or frost-j
/ bitten patriots there either. They
| only specialize in one brand down !
I there and that is the simon pure,1
; eifefoseen carat, honest-to-God kind
g and every one bears the trade mark i
I “Made in America.” Those patriots |
| know what patriotism is, too, don’t
1 you forget it. It just comes out of
them like syrup out of sor< ’\yn cane,
| ai.d it is u brand of pat ^y ' that
C is just as sweet, good ane.JreiVesome,
; *tiic only difference being that you
I don't have to crush it out, it just
I oczes out from every pore.
J&f Well, novr you would expect that in
Nauch a immunity of patriots, they
I would do things up in brown style
with all the frills and trimmings.
| You are right, fiiend, if you leave
i; off the frills and trimmings. Those
|» Auvergners don’t have frills and
I fritters flurting around their pa-j
triotism and they don’t need any
band wagons, sob artists or old
j glory eloquence to smooth down the
ragged edges of their patriotism for
; there arn’t any ragged edges. They
i just go after the rreat in the cocoanut
f and leave the rest to the other fel
low. But I was going to tell you
what those Auvergne patriots did.
I They had heard in a round about
way, or some other way that Uncle
Sam needed some money to keep
t^s war going, so they sent him word
f let them know what he wanted
.iem to do and they would do it or
just. Uncle Sam said he would
like to scatter about ten thous- j
and dollars worth A bonds around
among their corn and cotton fields
provided they could furnish the
wherewith. Now this proposition,
on the face of it would seem to be a
stunner to a little spot no bigger
M- than Auvergne, but not to those Au
: vergnes, not on your life. They just
said, pshaw, or dum, or words to
that effect, we thought Uncle Sam
if wanted us to do something. Why we
. can do that little stunt with one hand
and never miss a step, and they did.
1 Bruce Burton and Marvin Hare hap
1 pened to meet out in front of the de
3 pot and got to talking about what
Pi Sam wanted them to do and
y soon Jim Davis came up and
tree put there heads together to
e ways and means. The means
were already at hand and the ways
were soon forthcoming. Jim in his
slow drawling way didn’t opine as it
would be necessary at all to raise any
hull-a-ba-loo since they didn’t have
any slackers around in their neck of
the woods and their patriots were the
kind that did their duty and didn’t
wait to see if the other fellow was
doing his. Marvin said he guessed
Jim was about right and they would
figure out what each one should do
and then call all the boy3 together
(and the girls too) for Saturday for
a little family reunion and tell Un
cle Sam to send his bonds on down
there. So on Saturday the white
folks met at the school house and the
colored folks at their church. It was
just like a family gathering. All the
white folks were there, the Mays,
the Bleakleys, Wilson, Davis, John
son, Carvell and lots of.others. Of
course all the colored folks were
present and were Johnnie-on-the-spot
to do whatever was to be done. Now
there wasn’t any fire works display
at this gathering. It was just as I
have said, like a big family meeting,
everybody friendly, good natured and
happy. But don’t think for a minute
they didn’t have any enthusiasm.
Bure they had it and patriotism too,
in large quantities but it was of the
solid kind. Well Marvin explained
what he and Jim and Bruce and some
of the others had figured out what
each should do. Lee May annd Will
Wilson said the figuring was about
right and called on the boys to back
it up. Right now everybody stood
up and said they would do their part
and there wasn’t any hesitating
waltzes either. How is that for red
blooded patriotism? In about five
minutes the white folks had sub
scribed $4,200 and in about twenty
minutes the colored folks put up an
other $9,000. It took a little longer
with the colored folks for there were
more of them. But right hcie let me
say that if you want to see and feel
true American patriotism attend one
of the patriotic gatherings of the
Auvergne colored folks. They have
got the pure stuff and got it right.
They didn’t try to see which one
would do the most but they did see
fco it that each did his part. You bet
your life the colored folks on the Gri
der farm weren’t going to let the
folks on the Davis farm say there
was a nigger on the Grider farm
what had laid down.
A one mule tenant had to come up
with his part just the same as a four
mule man, and they made a home run.
Parson Peter Irwin orated on the
duty of each nigger to raise some
thing to eat and make and save
money1 to loan Uncle Sam, and Uncle
Henry “ ’lowed that he had read tha*
dem Germens had already busted one
gun since dey had bought their sal
vation stamps, and that we niggers
was bound to keep on buying bonds
until dem Germens busted all their
guns.” And they will.
Inspired by loyalty that is rock
bottomed and patriotism that is all
wool and a yard wide, those Au
vergne folks with an allotment of on
ly $10,000 subscribed in less than
twenty minutes for over $13,000
worth of bonds, and when the writer
left they were still subscribing, for
everyone felt that it was an insult to
him if he was left out. Of course,
they want the honor flag, and a tel
cgram was lmmeauiuuy sent to »ir.
McAdoo for him to send it on by the
first mail. When it comes there is
going to be some doings in Auvergne
at the flag raising, and the writer
has been invited to be present and
see the thing well done, and by the
holy pink-toed prophet I am going
to be there, you bet.
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Little Rock, April 13.—Postmasters
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;o whom the question was propound
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3ate for office can serve as a mem
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committee, and Federal appointees
ire not excluded from the exemption.
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FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.
Preaching subject, “Continual
Life,” 11 a. m.
Junior Endeavor, 2:30 p. m.
Senior Endeavor, 7 p. m.
Preaching, 8 p. m.
The Lord’s Supper will be received
at the morning service and all fol
lowers of Christ are invited to join
with us. Prayer meeting at 8 o’clock
every Wednesday.
R. H. Flowers, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Third and Hazel Streets, The Rev. A.
E. Lyman-Wheaton, Rector.
Second Sunday after Easter.
Holy communkl at 7:30 a. m.
Morning prayer and sermon at 11.
Sunday school at 9:45 sharp.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Our five days’ institute b- gins at j
the Baptist church Sunday, and at the |
morning hour Mr. J. B. Moseley, our \
State Sunday school secretary, will ,
speak on some phase of the Sunday j
school work. He will also be with us
at the Sunday school hour, so let’s j
greet him with our best attendance.
The work for the week’s institute will I
be outlined at the morning service, j
It is not often that we have the op- j
portunity to spend five days with an i
expert in the study of Sunday school
problems, and we ought to make the
most of this opportunity. It is not J
merely the officers and teachers who j
need to take the work, but all.
At the evening hour, Dr. C. T. i
Coombs, of Memphis, will speak for
us. His subject will be “Treason.” j
This is a time when treason is being
practiced all over our land. Let us
hear Dr. Coombs discuss this timely
topic.
J. W. Gardner, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m., A. T.
Hubly, Stipt.
Preaching at 11 a. m. by C. T.
Coombs, D. D., of Memphis, Tenn.
Subject, “The Signs of the Times.”
—Revelation 6th chapter.
Epworth League at 7 p. m.
Preaching at 8 p. m. by the pastor,
subject “Danger Signals in America. .
Monday at 3:30 p. m. the woman’s
missionary society will meet.
Wednesday at 8 p. m., prayer meet
ing.
Since it is a fact that no nation has
ever fallen except where there was a
decline in the religious and moral
ideals of the people, let us consider
well our relation to and attitude to
ward God and those institutions used
by Him for the promulgation of His
truth. “God will honor those who
honor Him.”
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THIS IS WHAT THE
PEOPLE OF GRUBBS
THINK OF WILHELM
Editor Independent:
I wish to report to the kaiser
through your valuable paper that the
good people of Grubbs township
wish to dispose of “Kaiserism” on
“short order,” for within a few hours
they subscribed their quota for the
Third Liberty Bonds, and in less time
than half a day, went “over the top”
by about $1,500.
This was done through organized
efforts of our untiring salesmen: J.
R Ballew, I. W. Hankins, H. J. Hale,
Mike Denton, W. M. Johnson, J. L.
McElrath, S. W. Sullins, D. C. Tar
water, R. P. Williams, J. M. Waddill.
Respectfully,
W. A. Ford,
Sales Director for Grubbs Township.
Grubbs, Ark., April 10, 1918.
To advertise in the Independent is
to talk business to a great majority
of the propective buyers of Newport
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A dvertise and Go “Over the Top” WithYourjusiriess^
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R& Company’s 1918 Year Book
at Swift & Company sells the meat from a steer
noney than the live steer cost!
eds from the sale of the hide, fat, and other by-products
11 expense of dressing, refrigeration, freight, selling
md the profit of $1.29 per steer as shown by Swift &
’s 1917 figures as follows:
S Average price paid for live cattle per steer $84.45 igt
Average price received for meat . . 68.97 kb
Average price received for by-products 24.09 ®
Total received ......... 93.06 gSj
This leaves for expenses and profit 8.61 Sal
Of which the profit per steer was • 1.29
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