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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—
GEORGE T. HUMPHRIES
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C- CASEY
Tor County Judge—
W- D. McLAIN
JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
0. W. SCARBOROUGH
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW
For Representative—
J. M. MARDIS
W. M. SHAVER
J. U. ARD
For Treasurer—
JOHN II. CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J. M. IVY
J. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J. M BALCH
For Coroner—
HENRY GRANT
J. T. CRAFT
W- H. NOLEN
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Constable—
W. T. GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Marshal—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
“Old Cotton Top,” as Senator
Clarke is familiarly known by
his constituency is recognized as
•ne of the big men of Congress,
•ne of the bulwarks of his party
and particularly of this adminis
tration in his support of the tar
iff and currency laws, the two
first promises of the Democratic
platform and achievements of
the Wilson administration. The
national senate was closely di
vided upon many vital issues
involved in both these laws.
Senator Clarke put his Demo
cratic loyalty and duty as a ser
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vant of his people and state
above mere office getting and re
mained in Washington, where
he could render that service his
party needed and his oath pledg
ed. If Senator Clarke has any
vulnerable public record, let it
be laid bare. liut don’t listen to
small politics in the absence of
a public official, who has the
proper and right conception of
his duty and is willing to give
real service, even at the cost of
personal ambition or advantage.
The Independent every two
years receives a great many an
nouncements for road * overseer
in the respective townships, but
we hope the time is not far dis
tant when a newspaper will be
deprived of this revenue, because
public interest demands the abol
ition of this office. The l-oad
money will never be spent by an
elective road overseer except at
his own convenience. It is only
human nature and the overseer
when elected to office expects
to do his road work between the
laying-by and harvesting of
crops. The overseer should eith
er be appointed by the county
judge and thus directly under
his authority or better still the
road money should be spent in
each township or county by a
board of three commissioners of
public spirited men, serving
without pay, who would be re
quired to expend the revenue by
contract to the best bidder for
road work, all of which work
must have the approval of an
engineer before contract is ac
cepted and paid for. The candi
dates for the legislature should
make known to the people just
what can be expected from them
upon this most important issue
before the people. The bad
road tax is costing the city and
country hundreds of dollars ev
ery day. It’s the heaviest tax
the people of Jackson county
pay and they ought to be and
are vitally interested in how to
get better roads.
Emerging Into Light.
The administration’s currency
bill passes the senate not only
by an emphatic majority, to
which no party or faction fails to
contribute, but with a general
enthusiasm that becomes so aus
picious a national event. For
with this act the United States
is finally emerging into financial
light.
This is the one great nation
that never had a civilized bank
ing and currency system adapt
ed to its economic and industrial
needs. The earlier bank charters
were granted for political pur
poses and the banks themselves
were used to serve partisan
ends. Then the Bank of the
United States was perverted in
to a corrupt political machine
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We wish our Patrons 1
A Merry Christmas S
and 1
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A Happy New Year
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BANDY’S CHAPEL.
Maude Allen’s young baby is bet
ter. . ,
Mrs. Chas. Hatton is getting along
nicely. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Hat
ton of M inturn came down to see her.
Mrs. Vina Davis of Carthage, Mo.,
sister of Wm. Hurst, came by to see
him. She was en route home from
Okalona, Arkansas. , I
Dorr Baker and Miss Dollie Jacobs,
Mr. James Harbinson and Miss Nora
Cox went to Tuckerman and got mar
ried by G. W. West,
Mr. Andrew Harris came over from
Strawberry and was married by Es
quire Tyer at Battle Axe.
Mr. Barnett, who taught school one
week at Dunn’s school house, and no
more, got home sick.
Loyd Adams on Sam Swan s farm,
has been married three times and is
the father of twenty-five children, 13
living, one two weeks old.
Let’s have a sober Christmas, in
stead of a dissipated, shameful, mis
erable one. ,
Cold weather started several butch
i ering.
Bro. Talkington failed to fill his
appointment here the second Sunday.
There is some talk about singing
school here. There is to be singing
the first Sunday in January at 3 p.
m., to decide.
i Avy Conditt has returned from
California.
j j. D. Johnson has moved on his
place. , , .
The house at Geo. Huskey’s is near
completion.
Mr. Porter has departed to ien
nessee.
Wm. Biggers’ sale came off the 13th
and things sold reasonably well.
B. F. Hartwick went to Swifton and
got concrete blocks to go under his
house. . ,
J. H. Davis, wife, Marvin, J. Q., Mrs.
Boatman and Dan went to Newport
the 19th- , «nAA •
M. D. Allen invested over $o00 in
horses. Mr. Biggers sold one for
$150. ^ „ ,
Few better citizens than Frank
Dunn was. ,
jno. Dunn administered on his pa s
estate.
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BATTLE AXE. ‘
I Forgot last week to mention our
new preacher, sent by conference to
| the Jacksonport circuit—Rev. J. B.
Stewart at present and for several
years past, principal of the Newark
school, has been assigned to the work,
j He filled his first appointment here
I on the 14th, making a favorable im
I pression on his congregation. Plans
| to abandon teaching at expiration of
present term and enter fully upon his j
oastoral work. ■
We inadvertantly made Will Hm- j
son’s girl one week too young, not- ,
ing her arrival on the 21st, instead [
of the 14th. Trust she will not re- <
sent it, but prefer to correct the mis- |
UMrs. Leonard Murray died very sud- 1
denly last week and was buried at
the cemetery here last Saturday. ,
J. L. Brown filled his monthly ap-, |
pointment here Saturday and Sun-j,
day. He remained over Monday to(|
sell a new variety of cotton seed that,'
has proved very satisfactory in In- |l
dependence county. It is called the
Half- And-Half, yielding more line
and less seed than any other variety.
Several of our planters are purchas
ing small quantities to test it out
next crop. . ,
Tommie Jones is at home for Christ
mas from school in Alton, Illinois.
He hasn’t forgotten how to ride a
mule and makes him go.
J. A. Thompson and wife left Mon
day to spend Christmas among the
Ozarks in Missouri, visiting Mr.
Thompson’s brother, whom he has
not seen for twenty years.
Stan Bridges and family are spend
ing Christmas in Fulton county with
his father and numerous other rela
tives.
Mrs. Lou Jones had several Tuck
erman friends out Sunday to enjoy
one of her skillfully prepared din
ners.
Miss Alva Bledsoe, a niece of Mrs.
J. W. C. Gardner, stopped over to
visit Saturday and Sunday. She is
one of the teachers in theBiglow pub
lic schools, and was on her way to
spend the holidays at her Izard coun
ty home, near Melbourne.
Will Page is selling off stock, feed
etc., preparatory to seeking another
location. Have not learned his pro
posed destination.
H. Hanley is buying stock, feed etc.,
preparatory to making another crop
at Batle Axe. Told you*so. >
Roads have been something fear
ful. Were just beginning to dry out
and be respectable again in places,
when the present rain appeared and
we fear the drying out process is re
versed. It i3 very evident that the
road problem in Jackson county has
not yet been solved.
Quite a snow Monday afternoon,
making things look white a short
while, but rain following soon after,
gave us slush and mud instead. Some
what cooler now, and perhaps we
shall have no more precipitation im
mediately. We trust not, at any
ratG Scribbler.
i that became a menace to the
I public welfare. Following the
Bank of the United States came
the wild cat currency issues of
'the state banks, and no man
I knew whether the bank note he
had accepted for merchandise or
labor was worth the paper on
which it was printed. The Civil
war threw the country upon a
greenback basis, and the green
backs cost the country at least
two dollars for every dollar ex
pended. What was even worse,
they warped the country from
financial sanity and spread the
idea of fiat money, which has be
deviled the American people for
a generation. The national
banking system was erected up
on a foundation of national debt.
When panic after panic had
finally chastened the countiy in
to a semblance of financial
sense, privilege and plutocracy
came forth with their scheme to
re-establish a central bank and
subject trade, commerce, indus
try and labor to the exactions of
a money trust created by due
process of law. That plot was
throttled by the firm hand of
Woodrow Wilson, and at last the
American people are grasping
roaliialinn nf a piiminpu
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banking system that is measur
ed to their necessities.
The measure is not perfect.
Perfect laws are the product of
growth, not of legislative fiat.
But it is the first long step in
the right direction.—St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Small Wonder.
A lady suffering from a severe cold
directed her maid to procure two pen
nyworth of amrnoniated tincture o?
quinine, ilreat was her amusemeDi
on the return of the maid, who ex
pressed her Inability to obtain “the
two animated pictures of Queen
Anne."—London Telegraph.
New Idea for Saving Life.
Birmingham. England, has a new
etyle of life-saving apparatus for the
fire department. Entrapped person*
are rescued in a cage which is raised
and lowered to the windows of the
burning building.
Good for Honing Rtion.
People who hone their own ra&ors
wlil be Interested In the statement ir
one of the magazines that what ie
known as “cuttlefish paper” makes
an Ideal material for the rapid honing
of razors, surgical Instruments, etc
This paper Is made for use by dentists
for polishing gold fillings, and If
coated wltt an abrasive substance of
remarkably fine grain.
Had a Good “Take.’'
One of the latest novels saya* “He
stooped a little and printed a round
dozen of swift kisses on her sur
prised lips.” Evidently a job prlntp
nr.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
C. R. GRAY
PHYSICIAN
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