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THE INDEPENDEN!
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
i*.ut St., NEWPORT, ARK.
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Clyde N- Clark of Jonesboro
was here today, calling on trade
and mingling with friends.
The Christian Workers will
meet Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
with Mrs. George K. Stephens
Miss Nina Salee of Pocahontas
is enjoying a visit with her aunt,
Mrs.' W. B. Grant, of our city.
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Ballew of
Weldon have moved back to
< our city and are living on lower
Pine street.
Rossman C., the eight-months’
old son of Mr. and Mrs. S. R.
Davis, living on the Holden
farm, died Sunday from con
gestion and was buried this af
lomnnn
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Drummond
and little son, Robert of Little
* Rock will arrive this week to
spend a few days with Newport
friends.
Old Aunt Mary Adams, color
ed, who had lived past the hun
dred year mark, died in this
city Saturday at the home of
her daughter, Ann Pitts, and
was buried near Jacksonport
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. C. L. Watkins and little
son. Owen, who have been guests
of Dr. and Mrs. H- O. Walker
for two days, on her return from
Washington City, left this
morning for Little Rock.
Cotton Plunger Died Millionaire.
United Press Dispatch.
New Orleans, Oct. 5.—W. P. j
Brown, who was indicted here a J
few years ago, in connection with j
alleged crookedness in an at- j
tempt to corner the cotton mar
ket, died this morning.
Brown was very successful in
his speculations, extending over
a period of several years, and ,
he is said to have left an es
tate valued at about $20,000,
000.
Jack Johnson Was Not Present.
United Press Dispatch.
Chicago, Oct. 5.—The cases a
gainst Jack Johnson for white
slavery was called in United
States court here today, and for
feiture taken'on his bond, on
failure of defendant to put in
his appearance.
® HEINEMANN'S DRY GOODS STORE S
j" * WILL HAVE A jgj
| SCHOOL DAYS8 SALE |
g Of special interest to the College Miss and the ^
||j young man who are going to school. lani
^ Misses new Fall Suits-$16.50 to $22.50 jjp
Sini Young Men’s new Fall Suits_$12.50 to $22.50
g Misses and Young Men’s Rain Coats at the lowest g
ye prices. jug
§g All of our Fall Hosiery, Iron Clad, every pair guaran- g
m teed_25c up to $1.25 ^
$8.00 Plaid Blanket now-$3:50
laFii We have 300 pieces of ginghams and percales for you to 2nJ
^ pick from. ^
|jg 25 and 15c values will go for-15 and 12 l-2c up?
gj|=, 100 pieces 12 l-2c values now-9c g
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Convict Makes Money In Pen.
Special fa Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 5.—Even a
penitentiary is no bar to pros
perity if the convict possesses
the temperament required to
grasp the opportunities which
are offered the worthy prisoners.1
The case of Reedy Vance, one of
the most desperate men the Ar
kansas penitentiary ever har-!
bored, being cited by members
of the Arkansas Penitentiary
Commission as to what a con
vict can do if he will. Entering
the penitentiary in 1899, Vance
will leave the state institution
on Washington’s birthday, Feb
ruary 22, 1915, the possessor of
several thousand dollars, all of
which he has earned in prison.
Vance after having escaped
lengthy sentences for other mur
ders, killed Lee Ying, proprietor
of a Chinese restaurant in Lit
tle Rock. The crime was a de
liberate murder, Vance being
very intoxicated at the time. He
received a sentence of 2 years.
After serving several years,
Vance was paroled, but appear
ing in a Little Rock restaurant
one night under the influence of
liquor, and making a display of
firearms, he was arrested and
his parole revoked. The old
penitentiary board was often pe
titioned for another parole after
that, but declined to grant it.
Vance enjoyed two years of lib
erty, which was allowed him in
computing his “good time”, for
Vance will receive seven and one
half years from his sentence for
good behavior in prison
For several years Vance has
been a clerk in the commissary
at the State Farm. With a few
dollars he purchased a supply of
smoking tobacco and canned
goods. These luxuries he sold
to the convicts who received a
little money from home, and
soon built up a thriving trade.
He now has a considerable sum
in cash, has a stock of mer
chandise that will invoice $1,000,
and is not bothered about the E
uropean war or the low price of
cotton.
Vance says he is through with
liquor and that he will never
carry arms again. When re
leased he expects to move to New
I Mexico, there to enter business
land live his remaining days in
I peace.
Father Malloy Says War Is A
Holocaust.
United Press Service.
New York, Sept 20.—“It’s not
a war. It’s a holocaust. The
greatest slaughter in the world’s
| history is now going on behind
the curtain of Europe’s curtain
of censorship. When the world
learns of the price it has paid it
will be staggered and sick at
heart.’’
I That was how the Rev. Father
James Malloy who returned on
the Mauretania from the Euro
pean war summed up the fight
iHe knows far more about it
| than any one else who has
reached these shores. For two
; weeks and five days Father Mal
loy was on the fighting line, act
lug ao vnaj^iuiii tv vjviivjh**
| French’s personal headquarters
and he recited a story of con
flict of men slain by hundreds
that thrilled even the skeptical
ship news reporters.
! Father Malloy is a native of
i Trenton, N. J. He was in Lon
don when the war began and on
! August 17, was invited to ac
company the British expedition
as Catholic Chaplain.
“We sailed on August 18,”
said the priest. “I was assigned
to the transport that carried Sir
John French, the commander of
the British expedition. There
were 72 transports in the expe
dition. We landed at Bolougne,
where we were held up for three
days. Then we were sent to
Mons. We became the left wing
of the great allied army and then
mo/cd north in an eft n’t to re
lieve and aid the Belgians and
prevent the taking of Namur
and Brussels. The British expe
dition composed three army
corps with Sir John French in
supreme command and actively
in command of the center.
“We went into action on Au
gust 22. The men had been
chafing for action and they cer
tainly were glad when the order
came to cut loose. The British
left wing was made up of the
crack regiments of the British
service. They numbered proba
bly 150,000 men.
“It was a terrible experience
to me- For the next two days
were fighting continuously night
and day. There seemed an ab
solutely unaccountable host of
Germans. As they swept down
on the British positions thev
were like a moving forest—all
grey-green and hardly discern
able until well within rifle:
range.
“Imagine if you can the entire
I ANNOUNCEMENT
I We take this method of announcing the arrival of our
I new fall stock of ladies’, children's and misses’ cloaks,
I* coats, skirts, woolen dress goods, silks, ginghams, under
i wear, comfort materials, men’s, ladies’ and children’s
V I shoes and boots, hats, caps, men’s and boys’ pants and
\ I suits and in fact everything you will need for the winter
\ I and just to think they were BOUGHT EARLY last spring
\ I BEFORE the BIG ADVANCES, which have been put on
*|l all lines and we are going to sell you goods of this kind
■ just like there had not been any War Scare or advances.
I Our prices will be at least 25 per cent below the mar
I ket and we kindly ask you to remember this before you
I buy and come and se us.
I We Are Agents for “Walton’s Solid
| I Leather” Shoes
1 In the grocery line we are especialy strong and can
I give you more for your money than you could expect.
1 6 pounds of good Rio Coffee for .-••—$1.00
1 17 pounds of Navy Beans for--1.00
§ Garrett's Snuff-••-20c
I 8 Bars Laundry Soap-25c
I We carry com chops, bran, oats, com, molasses, feed,
1 shorty, hay and wheat chops.
I We Want Your Country Produce.
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1 I CASH STORE
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horizon tilled with a swiftly:
moving mass that at a distance
bore no resemblance to human
beings. As the mass moved for
ward the shells from the great
German field artillery rainea
over our heads exploding with ;
a concussion that tore great
holes in the air, rendering
breathing almost impossible.
Then with their bands playing
them into action and singing
the “Wacht Rhine” and other
stirring martial airs the Ger
mans would charge at top speed.
Poor fellows, they never had a
chance against our lines. The
British were strongly entrench
ed all alo r the front. The Ger
mans would advance in solid
masses, every company holding
300 men, in files five deep. As
our rifles are the best in the
world and our shots wonderfully
expert the Germans were doom
ed from the outset. Steadying
their rifles on the top of the
trenches the British fired at
will. They could not miss and
as the Germans were in mass
forrhation every bullet found no
less than two marks and often
three or four. The poor fellows
would go down like chaff before
a great fire. Whole companies
would fall together. The wound
ed would squirm out of the mass
es of dead and try to .go on and
it would then become necessary
to shoot them again. The sights
that I saw there proved conclu
sively to me that this was not
war but a terrible holocaust and
that the cost in human lives
would be almost impossible of
comprehension. Slaughter with
the rifles was varied with organ
zed killing with cold steel. t The
Germans persisted in their at
tacks and the British command
[ers rushed their men forward
with fixed bayonets. It was
j hand-to-hand fighting with a
[vengeance but invariably the
longer knife of the British
troops prevailed and the enemy
would be compelled to retreat in
great disorder.
“While the British were gain
ing a series of great successes
the French were defeated on our
right. They were unable to hold
! the Germans and their riflfe fire
[was almost as base as that of
the Germans. And finally the
[British were ordered to fall
[back in order that they might
not be enveloped. When the or
ders came the soldiers were al
most in open rebellion. Stal
wart members of the Irish and
Scotch regiments wept. At sev
eral points along the line the
British actually jumped from
the trenches and charged the
Germans to emphasize the fact
that the British ought not to re
treat. But finally the officers
went among the men and ex
plained that it had been arrang
ed beforehand for the men to
fall back so as to lure the Ger
mans into a trap. The explana
tion repeated hundreds of times
I-iillir nil fl-J
uviiiivvui
“Where the British had an
advantage was in their wonder
ful rifle fire, something the
Germans seemed unable to mas
ter. The German hill fire is
tremendous. It is hard to de
scribe. There is a small hill with
a company of soldiers entrench
ed on it. A German aviator
flies over their heads. He sig
nals the range- A dozen shells
are dropped. They explode. The
hill has disappeared and in its
place is a great hole filled with
dead men. Their trenches have
been their graves. One notable
thing of the modern war is the
large proportion of wounded
over the dead. The modern ri
fles are humane. I have seen
many men wounded in what
have ordinarily been considered
vital spots, taken to hospitals
and returned to the firing line in
a week. After we had reached
the line of the Marne we began
to advance. And we moved so
fast the Germans were unable to
cover their tracks. As a result
we were able to get a line on
the terrible slaughter. The
ground was covered with dead,
British, French and Germans.
There had been no time to bury
them and in all the houses that
had escaped wrecking during
the shell fire we found hundreds
of wounded. Now I want to em
phatically deny the stories of
German atrocities. They took
better care of our wounded than
they did of their own. We found
the British wounded on cots of
great piles of soft goods, their
wounds bandaged carefully and
cleanly cared for. Yet a*t these
same places many of the Ger
man wounded were forced to l e
on straw arranged for them
outbuildings. No wounded had ,
been mutilated as had been
charged- The peasants admit
ted that the German command
ers while terribly strict were
kindly. Of course where tnere
was suspicion that the peasants
were aiding the enemy. there
was immediate execution with
out trial. But you must remem
ber this was war and not peace
and that many things must be
expected in war.
“There has been much night
fighting and strange as it may
seem the aeroplanes have played
almost as important a part at
night as they have by day. They
are the eyes of the enemy. They
carry colored lights and when
they locate a masked battery
they drop colored lights. Our
gunners watched the lights fall
and then had the range. The
Germans have lost most of
their aeroplanes. Their zeppelin
fleet is intact. On the march to
ward Paris ending at the Marne
the Germans were absolutely
able at all times to keep track
of our positions through their
airmen. When one was killed
there was always another to
take his place. They lost sc
many of the aeroplanes however
and are having so much trouble
building new ones, that they arc
hampered. Without doubt the
aeroplane is the greatest single
factor in the war.
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| Rotterdam, Oct. 5.—“It is rig
orously forbidden for any woman 1
j to cast amorous glances at Brit
ish and French prisoners/*-®;
the text of a proclamation is
sued by the military governor $
I of Stuttgart.
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London, Oct. 5.—A man at ^Jpl
Newport, Monmouthshire charg
ed with being an unregistered
alien pleaded that he was a
British subject born in Helgo- £
land before the Island was ced
i! ed to Germany. The military au
thorities are handling the prob
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91 W e are one of a few in Arkansas that belong to the As- aft
sociation and are the only ones that thought enough of US
our customers to have one of our firm attend the same this 2
anl year. Our Mr- Barker was there and looked well through a™
the different machinery and chemicals which were there US
jB- in operation to prove to the attendants that they were 2
2 g0?d or bad- We have been figuring on the different “
an things that we should have to give you the work you de- S5
gg serve; we have already been using some of the things ftg
that we found there and they have proven themselves to 2
be great. We are now in touch with the largest and best SI
5nl firms in the U. S- and can give you what you should have US
^ We are always striving to give our customers the best 2
that can be obtained—we want quality and not cheapprice
arS Why should our prices get lower and everything else go
Si ing UP all the time? It can’t be done. Our prices will re* |g v
jjej mam the same as for the past nine years, and they are 2 Jf
2 the same that you will pay at any first class place, no Si
Snl matter where you go. Just remember and notiee if twe
we are wearing the sign ot protection or if it is only a shop Zl
Tjl that is getting by and does not ever think of giving you a»
anl better service. We have the same protection as any other 25 *
1^ union shop and our motto is to get the very best for our mb -
we customers. If you are not a customer why not? Think
aj it over and get on the right side. If you believe in a card
protection, and carry one, we are with you for business
we All work called for and delivered. Below we give a few ^
“I Prices 5 others in proportion. We clean or dye anv M5 4
5ni kihd of goods. * u> JP
we Gents Suits Cleaned__ g^ ® J
Trousers Cleaned_ ~
K Pressed-- . V;
* Ladies Coat Suits Cleaned-__--Sl.OoTo $3.00 “f
| w* 1. SS ys
* PreSS6d-50c to $1.00 £
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Shazel street “SSS 190
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