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| THE INOEPNEDENT
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AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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Will Guinn was severely cut on the
Sarm and a man named Watts receiv
ed a knife wound in the left side
above the heart Wednesday night at
the hands of G. W. Roberts, aged
about 66 years, at the latter’s home,
five miles east of this city,
following a difficulty between the
three men. Guinn’s wound was the
, more painful, the arm being slashed
ii-T.- /ai* ooiraaol innlioo nanoirur tl OTOut
loss of blood, while Watts’ injury
■was less serious, the knife blade
striking a bone.
According to information received
from local officers Roberts came
home in an intoxicated condition,
‘“^v. Guinn and Watts being called in to
i quiet him, with the above results.
Roberts came to Newport, but upon
his arrival officers declared he was
justifiable and that no case could be
launched against him.
Thursday on Denton Island Pony
and Bob Rutherford became engaged
p in a difficulty, growing out of trouble
of long standing, it is said, with Law
rence Duncan, with the result that
v Duncan was shot with a shotgun by
Pony Rutherford. The charge en
tered the left side, and Duncan was
taken to Little Rock where an oper
ation will be performed for the re
moval of shot. His condition is said
to be serious. Pony Rutherford was
placed in jail here and Bob Ruther
ford was released on bond.
Yesterday afternoon Chas. Hogan,
deputy sheriff And jailor, cant"
Ivy How'ard. aged 18. who says he
resides at Fisher, and Jas. H. Hart
wiek, aged 34, who says he lives in
Oklahoma, a few miles east of town.
I - They are changed with having stolen
bicycles frori Leo Snenger, Babe
Washam am( Ralph White from their
homes \r/ Newport Thursday night.
When ^ie parties were captured the
bicyclpfc of Saenger and Washam
Howard and Hart
county jail.
Arthur Johnson, the negro who
shot and killed John Bradford, an
other black, at Bowen’s Ridge, has
not yet been captured, though Sher
iff Ivy and his deputies have been
diligently on his trail. Johnson is
thought to have gone to Oklahoma.
“Dash, determination and daring—
| also efficiency”—That’s what our
I boys at the front are doing, Keep ’em
| going! War Savings is a message to
the kaiser that will “get over.”
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Meat Market Opens
I will open a cash meat market \ugust 10 at
the place formerly conducted at 702 First street by
W. A. Fike &. Sons. While Mr. Fike and sons were
here I was connected with them, an 1 believe I
know what the public demands in the meal lire,
and promise to meet my customers’ expectations.
Will have fresh and cured meats at all times and
will sell only on days prescribed by government
regulations. THo natronn^e of the public will be
appreciated. Telephone 68.
J. T. MASHBURN
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Writes Interestingly of \
Camp Beauregard Life
On getting home Wednesday night
from Camp Beauregard. I felt that I
would like to call up every woman in
our county who is interested in the
boys there (and where is one among
us that is not), and tell her some
thing of all I saw and felt while
there. Since to do this is impossible,
am asking the Independent to give
me space for a little talk with the mo
thers, wives, sisters and sweethearts,
whose thoughts are all with mine, try
ing to follow our boys who are to
day somewhere on the road to a point
of embarkation for “over there.”
First of all let me say I wish we
might every one of us catch their fine
spirit, their high courage, their read
iness to face whatever is before them,
their loyalty, their endurance, their
willing helpfulness, their constant
cheerfulness, for we shall need these
things no less than they, in the days
that are ahead of us.
As I watched them making their
preparations to leave, getting every
thing in readiness to start on the
shortest notice—as I saw the precis
ion with which they performed every
duty; as I noticed their soldiery
bearing, their animated counten
ances, their easy manner, the
pleasant voice, the nameless little
something that made one know they
had taken their own measure and
weight—that they realized their own
value as men, their worth to their
country, to the world, to humanity
and that they would demand from
valor no discount. As I took this m
I could but think of the company that
came here not quite a year ago from
the fields, the mills, the shops, the
stores and offices, and I said, “truly,
Uncle Sam has worked wonders.
And indeed it has been nothing less
than a miracle that has been accom
plished in this twelve months, not on
ly in the transformation of the men,
but in the completion of the equip
ment, the perfection of the military
organization. Of course all this is
expressed in the record of the soldier
and further reflected in the record
our boys are making “over there.”
Verily there is nothing that so regen
erates the individual and the nation,
as working—maintaining a great
ideal. How can I tell you of
all I saw at Camp Beauregard ? Of
the cleanliness, the perfect sanitation
—in spite of such heat and dust as I
never before experienced. We took
three meals in the mess hall of Com
pany C, guests of Sergeant Kirk
Vaughn, whom you all know and
love. And let me tell you they were
meals that none of us need be asham
ed to offer a guest—good food, well
prepared, and plenty of it, and we
ate just about as heartily as our
boys. Kirk is simply fine and we can
kitvi s-%. nnur + Vin Kmro
file int the mess halls and file out
again, and wash their kits (I think
that is what they call it)—wash
them, scald them and put them away.
Our girls thought that was a dandy
kind of dishwashing.
We saw them drilling with their
rolls on their backs—everything they
were to take on a trip—saw the cor
porals showing the new men how to
make up their “roll” in correct form;
saw the K. P’s (Kitchen Police) hard
at work scrubbing pots and pans and
buckets (and they got all the black
off too); saw them cleaning the
company streets, putting everything
in ship shape for moving, for when
Uncle Sam vacates he leaves the
premises in order. Then we saw the
boys with grips and suitcases packed
and marked, marching to the Y. M.
C. A., where they would be left until
sent home. We saw the little trunks
and rolls of bedding in front of the
tents marked and ready for shipment.
We saw gray-haired mothers, young
bi-ides, young wives with bakes in
their arms there to spend the last
hours with them, and only once or
twice did we catch a glimpse of tears.
Of the old members of Co. E not
very many are left. As Captain
Hurt said, wherever they had been
placed they added strength and main
tained the credit of the old company.
Not yet have they gotten over the
breaking up of th old Third Arkan
sas. I askd about the Flag and they
told me it was about worn out.
I saw Edmund Taylor, Owen Pet
tet, James Wallace, Ray Brown, who
had just been made sergeant, Byron
Bursott, Will Childers and a few oth
ers whose names I do not now re
call. Others for whom I inquired
were on duty, or away from camp at
the time, so I failed to see them. The
time for visitors in camp was limited.
We went all over and through the
base hospital, which was in many re
spects the most wonderful feature of
the whole ctmp. Ward after ward we
visited—every bed spotless, every pa
tient seeming to have all possible
care. It extends over a great area
and is built something like an irreg
ular Wall of Troy, having on one
side of the buildings an open gallery
which is, of course, enclosed with
wire screen. One can traverse the
entire building without stepping on
the ground or going from undef cov
er. A complete X-Ray department
and laboratory and a supply building
in which we were informed that the
drugs, surgical instruments and va
rious appliances represented a cost
of three millions of dollars.
Then in the culinary department
we were very much surprised by the
vastness of the scale on which Uncle
Sam does things. A new steam
range with all connecting boilers had
just been installed at a cost of thir
ty thousand dollars—Great boilers in
which five bushels of potatoes at
one time, could be cooked in twenty
minutes; similar boilers divided in
to compartments for the cooking of
meats and the different kinds of
vegetables; great copper tanks for
coffee—all the cooking being done
by steam.
Then in the cold storage we saw
the men cutting up meat—a thousand
pounds of veal!— and more beauti
ful meat I never saw. In an adjoin
irijr room where the temperature was
even lower was kept great cans of
milk, cream, butter, eggs, fresh
fruit and vegetables. Then in the
pantry we were shown the stores of
other things, soup, cereals, jello, the
coffee, sugar, etc., looking like a
wholesale grocery.
We were much interested also in
visiting the convalescent camp, and
talking with the men, in seeing the
new Red Cross hotel in course of
building near the nurse’s home. Here
it is intended that friends of our sol
diers may be entertained at much
less expense 'than at the hotels in
town. While speaking of hotels let
me express my appreciation of the
Hotel Bentley where we spent four
days, and where we found the utmost
consideration and attention. The
manager, the clerks, the attractive,
polite, patient and long-suffering
young lady at the telephone, and all
the employes seemed anxious to do
everything for the comfort of their
guests, though it was hard, for the
hotel was crowded.
Since I began writing several
mothers have called up to ask about
my trip and I am so glad to be able
to tell you even a little. Some of you
may say I have told nothing but the
pleasant side. Really and truly I am
telling you only what I saw. Of
course though we know there have
been long, long hours of hard work,
there have been weary drills and
hikes. I saw them shooting on the
rifle range, lying in the dust, with the
I hot sun beaming on them—but the
results being what I have t lu you.
Isn’t it worth the cost?
And now let . me give you my last
impression: On Monday and Tuesr
day visitors, except they have special
passes, were not admitted to the
camp until o’clock in the evening.
Soon after we got there Tuesday ev
ening quite a little storm came up,
and a good shower. Just after it
ceased, the bugle sounded “retreat.”
Captain Hurt and one other officer
were in the tent with us. and as we
stood saluting the invisible flag, down
every company street I saw the men
standing in close formation in perfect
silence, each right hand raised—and
so they stood while the band played
“The Star Spangled Banner,” and I
thought, “This is the Soldiers’ An
gelus,” and I felt that in every heart
there was a prayer uttered or unex
! pressed. Somehow I felt that wheth
. er they came back to us or not, they
will have had their part in the great
adventure—they will know that their
lives have been worth while. So dear
women, at the close of the day let us
: think of ou r boys standing at re
treat, facing the unseen, the unknown
and yet thrilled into the thought of
the invisible—so let us nray for them,
j Remember that it is the things un
I peon when alone that are eternal.
Mrs. M. A. Dorsey. \
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