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AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
Editor and Publisher.
Entered at the postoffice, Newport,
Arkansas, as second-class mail matter
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HERE AND THERE IN ARKANSAS
A family was wiped out by influ
enza last week at Corning. Perry
Dawson, his wife and his baby died
with an hour of one another and were
buried at the same time. Later Jas.
D. Burns, a stepbrother of Mr. Daw
son, died of the same disease.
The Rogers Post claims a carload
of eggs is a rarity in January and
then calls attention to the fact that
one was shipped from Rogers this
week.
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' : • The Berryville Star says 5,000
Acres of land lying in one body in
Carroll and Madison counties has been
•old by George Do$k of Berryville to
a Denver (Colo.), syndicate for $75,
1 Baxter county shipped $80,000
Worth of hogs in 1918.
An epidemic of blackleg is reported
from Richwoods township, in Stone
county.
The eight-year-old grandson of Rev.
C. R. Bingham, a Baptist minister of
Black Fork, Scott county, disappeared
from his home a short time ago.
| Three days later the dead body of the
little boy was found in the woods. He
had lost his way and had fallen into a
ditch. It is supposed he died of ex
posure.
MISSIONARY MEETING.
Tho Christian Missionary Society
will meet with Mr. L. A. Threlkeld
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 with the
following program:
Women Wage Workers 'of the
Orient.
Song.
Bible Quotations.
Prayer.
Song.
Business Period.
Answer Roll Call by Giving a Fact
for the Busy Woman.
Bible Study—Review of the. Book
of Hagai—Mrs. G. K. Stephens
Talk, “Hamila’s Mother, a Coolie
Woman of India”—Mrs. W. H. Dyer.
“Where Human Labor Is So Cheap”
—Mrs. Earl Folk.
Talk, “Women Workers of Japan”
—Mrs. Guy Maris.
Few Minutes’ General Discussion.
Hidden Answers.
Benediction.
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I Dependability
■ We sell clothing that is
■ backed by a guarantee.
i| Our clothing is depend
I able. Every week we are
I adding to our stock of
I gent’s furnishings, and
W< that we are pleasing the
I* public'is attested that our
I line of customers is grow
§ ing. |
I Jacobstein Bros. |
I Tailors
Big" Business I
Our January business was the biggest in
the history of this store and there must be
a reason for it. We know. Because we
advertise the right prices on the right
I merchandise at the right time and got the
|; business and now expect to do the same
thing in February.
i No fake advertising but clean mer
chandise at the right price.
Good Calico at lie. Can you beat it?
Good Brown Domestic at lie
Good Bleached Domestic at 12 l-2c 1
I Good Hose for Ladies in tan and black only 13c
Men's Heavy Work Sox 13c
Good Dress Ginghams only 15c
Ladies' House and Bungalow Aprons from 75c & up
Men's regular $2.00 Kahki Shirts only $1.19
Mens $150 Dress Shirts only 98c
I We give you the best values in Shoes in town.
EXrR.\ SPECf \L: We have Just received
a big lot of Spring Silks bought at the right price
and for this week will give you a 25percent discount
If you want Seed Potatoes, Onion Sets,
Garden Seed or Alfalfa Seed, Seed Oats,
why we have that too.
OUR MOTTO IS: “More Good Groceries For \
| Less Money"
Bowen's Cash Store
TOURNAMENT IN HEALTH
KNIGHTHOOD.
The Knights of old, in the days
when Crusades were conducted in the
Holy Land, held contests to show
which of them had the greatest
strength and skill in battle Where a
number of combatants took part the
contests were called tournaments.
With armor on both man and horse
the Knights charged on each other
with blunted spears, and the one who
knocked the other off his horse won.
The winners in tournaments were
presented with trophies of victory,
wreaths or flags.
Tournaments are now held under
the modern Health Crusade, in which |
school children meet in combat for
the honors of health chivalry. A mod- |
Health Crusade is a tournament in J
winning Knightly rank, in becoming
Page, Squire, Knight and Knight
Banneret in the minimum time re- j
quired. It will help keep children
strong and skilled for warfare against
the diseases that attack them and
their fellow countrymen.
A National Tournament in Health
Knighthood will be conducted for the
school children of America beginning
February 9, 1919. It will cover fif
teen weeks. The victors are the in
dividuals or classes that earn the
most credits in health Knighthood
within that time. The trophies for
me victors are pennants or oanners. j
They will be presented jointly by the j
National Tuberculosis Association
and the National Bureau of the Ju-!
nior Red Cross, which will also pub-'
lish the names o fthe winners, giving
them national publicity. i
Every class in every school is eli-!
gible to the National Tournament,'
subject to the official rules and condi
tions. The equipment required will
be two of the folders, “Record of
Health Chores,” for each child; a j
wall chart, “Roll of Health Knight-1
hood,” and a Question Sheet for
health chores in each class. This ma
terial may be secured at extremely
moderate price. All details and par
ticulars will be attended to in a wide
ly inclusive health pamphlet soon to
be in the teachers’ hands.
The winners in each tournament di
vision will be the class which earns
the highest toll credit or score_ in the
fifteen weeks between February 9
and May 24. The score is determined i
by adding the total credits of the in
dividual pupils and dividing the sum
by the number of pupils enrolled in
the week of February.
The credits of the individual pupils
are: For Page 2; for Squire, 3; to- j
taling 5; for Knight, 5, totaling 10;
for Knight Banneret, totaling 15. The
weeks of performance of health
chores required to earn a title and
credits need not be consecutive, but
no credits will be allowed for titles
earned wholly or partially in weeks
before or after the fifteen weeks. A
child who has acquired a title before
February 9th must begin again to
earn the title of Page and the succes
sive titles Within the fifteep weeks
no credit is given for weeks of chore
performances not sufficient to earn
the next highest title for the child.
Thus a Knight who has done 54
chores per week for only three weeks
toward becoming a Knight Banneret,
when the fifteen weeks terminates,
receives no credit beyond that of a
Knight in the tournament, even
though two more weeks of chores
might give him the higher title.
The following example illustrates
the method of computing the score of
a class:
If at the end of fifteen weeks a
class of twenty children has 2o Pages,
15 Squires, 15 Knights and 10
Knights Banneret, the total individu
al credits are: Pages (20 x2) equal
40; Squires (15x3) equals 45;
Knights (15x5) equals 75; Knights
Banneret (10x5) equals 50; or 1919
in all. The class credit is 219 divided
by 20, or 10.950. Fifteen is a perfect
score for a class, as also for an indi
vidual.
The class report duly made out is
to be delivered or mailed before mid
night of Saturday, June 7, 1919 (two
iwoks after the close of the touma
ment), to tthe executive secretary of
the health association for the state in
which the class is located—the record
folders upon which the report is
based being sent with it. The state
health association will determine the
classes in the state making the high
est scores and transfit them to the
National Tuberculosis Association.
There will be twenty-seven prize
winners in each state. If two or
more classes make the same identical
score, a penant will be awarded to
each of them. Announcements of the
penant winners will be mailed as
sQon as possible to the teacher of
each winning class and the pennant:
will be sent. It will be the property
of the class and will be kept at the
school in the custody of the succes
sive teachers of the class.
This is only a bare outline of the
fascinating tournament in Health
Knighthood. Don’t you want to
tourney with the Health Knight?
LETTER FROM CECIL MELVILLE.
The following letter to his aunt at
Grubbs, is written by the son of the
county judge, John A. Melville, who
is another of our boys deserving
great credit for his share in the great
war:
Somewhere in France,
December 25, 1918.
Mrs. Ollye Barrett,
Grubbs, Arkansas.
Dear Auntie:
I will now try to answer your let
ter of the 22nd, and you can never
one Lime imagine how glad I was to
hear from you. How is everybody at
home now?
I am feeling all right. Have just
finished dinner and it was a fine one
too—much better than we expected.
How did you enjoy this Christmas?
£ wo Id hive been glad to be at home \
at this season of the year, but may be
m iih you soon
I have moved since I wrote you last.
We were in the advance sector, but
n.oved back about three hundred kil
ometers. I hope that the next move
we make will enable us to shake
hands with the statute of Liberty, but
I fear we will be attached to the Oc
cupation Army. I have seen a large
portion of France, but have never
been able to see sunny France yet. It
rains almost every day.
Lawrence Wilson, the boy from Tu- i
nelo. is in the hospital, but I think he i
will be able to get back to the com
pany in a short time.
You spoke of the French people.
Yes, they seemed queer when I first
came over here, but I have gotten
used to them now. I have learned to
speak some French. You wanted to
know if I was sea sick coming across.
I didn't get very sick, but some of the
boys had six meals a day—three go
ing down and three coming up. I do
not want to make but one more trip
across that pond and that is one back
home.
Have any of the boys I know been
mustered out of the army yet? If
you know the address of any ef the
Jackson county boys over here I
would be glad if you would tell me in
your next letter.
Have you had any severe winter a
yet? It hasn’t been very cold over
here yet. But believe me, it’s doing
some snowing now. Looks like we
might have some winter before it is
over There is going to be a minstrel
show at the Y. M. C. A. ionight.
There are lots of negro soldiers in this
camp and they are more than enjoy
ing Christmas. I saw a negro soldier
at noon who had had a little too
much wine. It was certainly a funny
sight to watch that negro eat. He
was the happiest looking fellow I ever
saw. The Red Cross gave each of us
a package today, which contained to
bacco, cigars, cigarettes and chocolate
candy, which we all appreciated very
much. The Y. M. C. A. gave the lit
tle French children a Christmas tree.
I never saw #ny one appreciate any
thing as much as those poor little
French children did. The expression
on their faces when they received
their presents was enough to pay
any man back who had donated to the
tree. Take it from me the Red Cross
and Y. M. C. A. are doing great
work over here. A soldiers ILe
would be one of torture if it were not
for them.
I had a letter from home yesterday. :
I was sure sorry to hear of so many
of my friends and neighbors being
dead. That “flu” has killed many
people. Two boys from my squadron
died with it.
How is grandmother now? Well,
it is about supper time. Guess I had
better close. Give my love and best
wishes to all.
I am your nephew.
Private Cecil Melville,
F. R. S.. No. 331, A. E. F., France.
GOVERNOR BROUGH
GETS BACK PART OF
HIS AUTOMOBILE.
Little Rock, Feb. 4.— Stripped of
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various parts auu ~
tered, the automobile of Governor C.
H. Brough, which was stolen Monday
night from in front of his residence,
1404 Scott street, was found yester
day on a hillside along the Twenty
first street pike, several miles from
the city. The machine was about 100
yards from the road. One tire and |
rim, the electric starter, batteries and
other parts were missing. The car
was reported to J. T. Burkett, secre
tary of the Penitentiary Commission
by employes of Snyder’s garage. Mr.
Burkett drove his own automobile
out and towed in the governor’s.
A WOMAN’S RECOMMENDATION.
Mrs. D. T. Tryor, R. F. D. 1, Frank
lin Avenue, Otsego, O., writes: “I
realized so great a benefit from the
use of one box that I feel safe in re
commending Foley Kidney Pills to
any kidney sufferers.” They relieve
backache, sore muscles, stiff joints,
rheumatic pains and bladder ailments.
—Walker’s Pharmacy.
LOOK HERE
2 3-4” Cresent Wagons $117.00
3” Cresent Wagons 120.00
Complete with Bed and Seat
$2 00 extra if set up.
1 Moline Check Row Corn Planter
at $39.50
Steel Ranges at $33.00
These are some goods I reserved
when I sold mn Hardware busi
ness at Beebe. I only want cost
out of these. Prices are for cash
Avera Furniture Store
IT PAYS YOU
TO TRADE AT THIS STORE
For The Simple Reason You
Get Better Quality
For Less Money
HOPE
DOMESTIC
22c per yard
DELHI
and
AMOSKEAG
Gingham
25c per yard
Wide Fold
CHEVIOT
25c per yard
APRON
GINGHAM
15c per yard f
BATH TOWELS
18 inches wide
35c per yard
Pepperell
.SHEETING
lo<4
65c per yard
M. Gorman’s Dr y Goods Store
506 Front St. Front St.
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