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S AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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LANTERNS WILL HELP.
During the absence of street lights
V at night, we would suggest that some
V progressive merchant put on a lan
N"4ern sale. Either that or the city
council might pass a law abolishing
all swinging iron gates along the
■walks. For further light consult
your almanac.
THE CHIEF IS RIGHT.
G. C. Martin, chief of police, start
ed out this morning to perform his
duties insofar as it relates to the
work of cleaning up the yards adja
cent to the rear of business houses. ;
He found the Independnt office guil
ty of sanitary negligence, after tak
ing a slant at our back yard, and
gave us just twenty-four hours in
which to get things in hape. We
, have gotten busy and hope to be in
better position to receive the chief
next time.
The chief is right, and we con
gratulate him. It is his duty to do
just what he is doing, and if he gats
on your toes do not yell. Every man
should be made to clean up his pre
mises and the officer should pay fi'3
qu’ent visits to back yards and inves
tigate conditions, no place excluded.
LITTLE ROCK MAN
CITED FOR BRAVERY.
The government has mentioned for
acts and heroism First Lieutenant
Paul S. Edwards, Signal Corps, first,
304th Brigade, Tank Corps, for ex
traordinary heroism in action near
Cheppy, France, 26 of September,
1918. During the attack on Cheppy,
Lieut. Edwards displayed unusual
gallantry by crossing a fire swept
area and carrying messages to tanks,
| eooly moving from one to another in
! forming the drivers of his mission,
! under a fire so heavy and accurate
that many of the tanks were struck
by bullets while he was standing by.
Home address: Mrs. Myrtle Ed
wards, wife, 3105 West 10th St., Lit
tle Rock, Arkansas.
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will be found a large advertisement
by Haydten-Holloway Furniture Com
pany. They have not taken the pains
to write this advertisement and gone
to the expense of having it printed
just to keej) the Daily Independent
from suspending publication, but are
advertising what they have to sell be
cause they have found that it pays to ,
advertise.
Since T. S. Holloway has entered !
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pendent than any other concern of his 1
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tising and makes it a part of busi- j
ness. He says he would not run his
business without advertising, and j
but for the advertising he had done
in this paper he would not have sold
nearly so great amount of goods.
What Mr. Holloway has done mahy
other business firms of the city can !
do. We are trying to give the people j
of Newport good newspaper service, i
There is a whole lot of expense at
tached to the publication of the daily. j
And if we depended upon the patron
age it receives to keep the other de- !
partments of the business running,!
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Casualty List j
The following casualties are re
ported by the commanding general of
the American Expeditionary Forces:
Killed in action -42
Died of aeroplane accident- 1
Wounded severely -239
Wounded (degree undetermined) 252
Wounded slightly -114
Missing in action -107
Total _755
Arkansans in the list are as fol
lows :
Killed in action, Allen Shipp, For
nosa; Charlie B. Russell, Conway;
Loney Garland, Witherspoon; Alma
P. Suin, Ozark; Pickney Foley, Ali
cia; Ross Standridge, Opal.
Wounded;, degree undetermined,
Milton D. Coffin, Swifton; Henry
D. Birks, Sidney; Samuel D. Baker,
Danville; Cleve Edgar, Ozark; Jno.
W. Bolton, Conway.
Wounded severely, Harrison Bal
lard, Grange; Floyd W. Powell, Wal
dron; Street Rash, Cominto.
Died of disease, Roy Hughes, Ken
sett.
Missing in action, Arnold Nicholls,
Monette.
SOMEBODY.
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Somebody did a golden deed;
Somebody proved a friend in need;
Sombody sang a beautiful song;
Somebody made an orphan smile the
whole day long;
Somebody thought “ ‘Tis sweet to
live;”
Somebody said, “Em glad to give.”
Was it you? Was it you?
Do this by adopting a French orphan.
LETTERS FROM MOTH
ER AND FATHER TO
THEIR SOLDIER BOY.
The following letters, one from a
mother, followed by anovher from
father to soldier son in the army,
have come in possession of the Inde
penent, whose pleasure it is to re
produce:
Dear Boy:
I’ve just been watching your moth
er’s face as she was writing to you. i
I don’t know what she said, but I’ll I
bank on it that she was telling you ;
some things you ought to know, be-1
cause she’s been at work for nearly J
two hours, and she’s worn all the
paint off the end of the penholder.
She’s spent days going over all
your civilian clothes, and the house
smells so of camphor balls that I
have to smoke that extra cigar every
evening in self defense.^ Your room’s
all ready for you—sheets on the bed
and everything.
I have an idea you’d better read
that letter over two or three times.
She believes in you. but there never
was a mother who didn’t have some
where down deep in her soul just
enough fear of human nature to make
her worry about her son. They know
men better than they know them
selves. So if she’s given you any ad
vice take it. 1 know that all she’s
asked of you is a square deal, and I
know you well enough to be sure that
you'll give her that, and then some.
I’m not expecting you to drop in on
us before next Sunday anyway, but
when you do I think I can scrape up
the interest on a Liberty. Bond or so
to buy a new suit and a pair of regu
lar shoes for you. Your mother and
I are both going to bed a little ear
lier than usual to make the time pas3
quicker. And we’ve bought a new
flag to wave at you. So don’t wait
any longer than you have to, and
while you’re waiting don’t forget
that square deal. It means a lot to
her. Hastily, DAD.
Son of Mine:
They’re sending you home to me at
last. Through all these months of
waiting and, lopging I’ve been wear
ing a star for you and holding my
head high and thinking wonderful
thoughts about you. I’ve watched
you through oce^n mists and dreamed
anxious dreams. Yes, and cried a
little too, but not when people could
see.
And now you’re coming home. Oh, j
it seems too good to be true. I’ve !
just read your letters again. They
say so much more than you ever
thought when you were writing them.
Just happenings—that’s all most of
the things you wrote about were to
you. But to me they said, you were
facing the biggest thing in life, fac
ing it bravely, as I should want my
son to face it. You were offering
your body and your soul for a thing
bigger than you or me or America.
Don’t think me silly or sentimental
because I say these things. Just re
member that while you were going
through that fire and terror I had to
sit here and smile. I had to try to
be. as brave as you, so that you should
not be ashamed of me. When I wrote
to you I tried to write cheerful, en
couraging letters, because I did not
want you to get into the battle feel
ing that I was holding you back from
the big sacrifice. It’s only now, when
the fighting is over, that I can let
down a little and be just your mo
ther, just the woman who loves you
better than anything else in the
world and is so glad to know you’re
coming back to her that she doesn't
care who sees her cry.
Perhaps for some of the boys who
have stood with you so finely
through these v trials the fighting is
not yet all o$er. The fighting I
mean is between a man and himself,
and for many of them this will be the
hardest battle of all. During the
long days and evenings of waiting!
before they can start for home
thoughts will creep into their minds
which will1 be hard to resist. There
will be times after all these months
of action when the longing for
change and for the companionship of
women may lead them into associa
tions which will spoil their home
coming and cause them shame and
humiliation and even perhaps make
them unfit for the love that awaits
them here.
You, dearest boy, are just as hu
man as your comrades, and feelings
like these may come to you too. I
don’t ask you to crush them. They
are natural, and they only prove that
war has failed to dry up the well
spring of your emotions. I ask you
only, to recognize them when they
come and to control them with the
fine strength you have gained while
fighting for the ideals and principles
of America. Just remember that
many joyous years of life are ahead
oi you and that the risk of spoiling
them and the love that will fill them
too tremendous to run for a short
hour of seeming pleasure.
Many of the boys who will come
home with you have no mothers to
write to them. Some of them may
think that no one cares what they
do. But somebody does care. Amer
ica cares. And the girls they will
marry some day care. And, oh, the
difference it will make in their lives
if they will just remember that there
is always somebody, always!
Help them to remember. Help
them to come home clean and fine.
Don’t let them spoil everything now.
They have been so splendid. If you
think this letter will help them give
,t to them. If they have no mothers
let me be their mother until they
have come back and taken the high
places that await them here. Tell
them to write to me. How I should
treasure their letters!
And, of course, you will write to
me. Just say you understand—that
you know why I have written this
letter. Then I can wait nunths—yes,
even years—knowing that you will
come home to me as fine and clean
as you were when 1 sent you away
to camp so long ago. MOTHER.
NOTICE.
EEVEE DISTRICT NO. 2. Jack
son County, Ark. The tax books for
tlm payment of the taxes for 1918, are
now in the hands of the collector, and
all persons, railroads and corpora
tions owning property within the
limits of said district are potified that
the taxes may be paid from this date
until Dec. 31, 1918. after which date a
penalty of 25 per cent will be taxed
thereon.
That said collector will attend at
Jacksonport, Ark., on December 10th
and 11th. 1918, for the payment of
taxes.
C. R. Ilite. Collector.
Newport. Ark.. Nov. 5. 1918.
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NOTICE OF BRIDGE TAX.
The tax books for the collection of
the Special Bridge Tax on real prop
erty in Bridge Improvement District
No. 1 of the City of Newport, Arkan
sas, for the fourth annual assessment
of said district, have been placed in
my hands. All owners of real prop
erty lying in said district are required
to pay ttheir tax to me by the 1st
day of December, 1918. If such as
sessment be not paid by said date,
action will be taken for the collection
of said tax for the legal penalties
and cost.
Given under my hand on this the
29th day of October, 1918.
LOU MINOR,
158d30t. Collector.
NOTICE OF STREET IMPROVE
MENT TAX.
The tax Looks for t:.e collection Of,
| the' special street tax on real proper
1 ty in Walnut Street Improvement
] District No. 1, of the City of New
| port, Arkansas, for the third annual
assessment of said district, have been
placed in my hands. All owners of
real property lying in said district
ire required to pay their tax to me
by the 1st day of December,
1918. If such assessment be not m
paid by said date, action will be taken
for collection of said tax for the legal
* penalties and cost.
* Given under my hand on this the
! 29th day of October, 1918.
LOU MINOR,
| 15Sa30t. Collector.
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