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period of the war.
SOME SHAKE THAT.
The earthquake shock at 4:30 Sun
day morning came like an explosion.
It caused Mr. Herdon, night clerk at
Boas hotel, to stagger and almost
ed rtf. shook a dollar out of his
!ch had just been paid him
Miss AlbiIoxie Correspondent of
list this weeKe Blade.
—true to his call
Z. B. Reid spenfct have shaken
this week at Grubbs}s teeth out,
busing”* e shake him
HUJkU%. 11 IIIII.B ■ITT —JI» ^
loose from that dollar.—Arkansas
Gazette.
“Dash, determination and daring—
also efficiency”—That’s what our
boys at the front are doing. Keep ’em
going! War Savings is a massage tc
the kaiser that will “get over.”
SWIFTON.
Miss Mae Shell is the owner of a
new piano, delivered by J. D. Pope
of Searcy, Tuesday.
Ferdinand Tonney made a busi
ness trip to Little Rock Tuesday.
Judge and Mrs. E. L. Boyce of New
port, called on Swifton friends Sun
Misses Rebecca Young of Newport
and Wava Wyatt of Lonoke were the
guests of Swifton friends Tuesday.
Miss Claudia Smith has been quite
ill with malarial fever for two weeks.
H. E. Clark of Kansas City was
here on business Wednesday,
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Holly Cobb of East
T.miia stvent. Sundav here with
friends.
A mammoth watermelon, weigh
ing 42 pounds was brought to town
Saturday by John Jenkins, who do
nated the melon to the Red Cross.
Rev. W. D. Ellis acted as auctioneer
and the melon was sold after some
spirited bidding to W. T. Altman for
thirty dollars.
C. E. arrett of Tilton is the new
manager of the local stave mill. C. A.
! Mauck, who has had charge of the
1 mill for the past year has gone to
i Pocahontas, where he will enter the
employ of a stave company. Mr. and
Mrs. Mauck left Friday for Poca
hontas, much to the regret of their
many friends.
Mrs. James N. Moon has returned
from Memphis, where she spent a
week with her sister, Miss Bessie
| Morse.
' Boyce Coe of Tuckerman, who is
attending school at Batesville, spent
Sunday with Swifton friends.
Roscoe Parsley, aged 29, died Mon
If Its Good To Eat
We Have If
Call and inspect our stock, it will
attract your attention as to quality
and freshness both. We have in stock
FLOUR CREAM MEAL
I ,.fS HUBERT’S COUNTRY
TEARL HOMINY STYLE CORN MEAL
BRANZOS
Country produce on hand at all times
R. J. Wise Grocer Co.
Beautiful Rug's
make
COMFORTABLE HOMES
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We have the Rugs in all the latest
colors and designs.
Large room sizes in price from
$5.50 to $75.00
Small rugs in all sizes. Buy now
and be comfortable for the winter.
AVERA FURNITURE STORE
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Calfs
Modem
Mother.
To the
there is no
particular
between cow’s
Purina Calf Chow—and to
you there is $15.00 saving
per calf. Purina Calf Chow
ia the nearest duplicate cf
cow’s milk on the market—
that's why calves thrive on
Makes calf raising easy. Sell your
milk—raise calves on Purina Calf
Chow. You'll make more money
with less work. A boy can feed it
—just add hot water and give to calf.
' Sold in Checkerboard bags only by
Tor Sale by
JOHN R. LOFTIN, JR.,
Newport, Arkansas.
day night of influenza, after an ill
ness of three days. The young man
came from Little Rock several days
before his death and it was thought
he was ill when he came. His two
year-old son died of the same malady
two days later. These two deaths
have been the only deaths from in
fluenza in this locality. 1
Taylor Keaton, mail carrier on
Route 1, and Mary Mullens were
married last Wednesday evening by
Rev. M. A. Fry.
George Ashley, who is serving in
the navy is here from Norfolk, Va.,
visiting his aunt, Miss Kate Fors
ter.
J. N. Moon has been quite sick for
several days with influenza.
Mrs. S. A. Driver and Mrs. C. P.
Trice, who were on the sick list for
several aays, have recovered from
severe attacks of influenza.
J. H. Clark, a farmer living south
east of town, was called to Secacus,
New Jersey Saturday by a telgram
i saying his son, who is a member of
I the national army, was seriously ill.
Mrs. W. R. Harvey, Mrs. W. T.
Altman, Mrs. C. P. Trice and Miss
Mae Shell made a trip in a car to
I Newport Tuesday.
J Misses Eula, Mildred and Alma
Moon spent Monday in Newport.
B. S. Brann and family moved to
their farm Wednesday.
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TUCKERMAN.
The “flu” seems to have full sway
now.
W. M. Shaver is quite ill. His two
sons, Charms and Edwin, are also
sick, both suffering with influenza.
Prof. Albright and his corps of
teachers are ready to begin school
work here, but it seems as if we shall
have to wait quite a while because of
health conditions.
The kaiser would like to get out
of his present predicament. The
man whose ox is gored generally
hollers, and it is now Wilhelm’3
! time to “squall.”
Jackson County Realty Company
of Tuckerman sold W. A. Farr a 17b
acre farm near Elgin, the first ot
this week, the conskk-ration being
$13,200. This is only another re
minder of how vaTuable farm prop
erty is near Tuckerman.
Mrs. Massey, whose husband is a
sergeant with the colors in France,
1 is visiting her friends, Mrs. Willie
Payne and Misses Clara and Sylla
Harvey.
] The influenza is an unwelcome
visitor in the homes of Hubert and
C. E. Harrison, and in fact at so
many places that the writer cannot
mention them.
Mr. J. E. Parrott, one of Tucker
man’s most distinguished citizens,
and one of the oldest settlers of this
community, who was killed by acci
dent, was buried last Saturday at
Pleasant Grove cemetery. Mr. Par
rott’s team became frightened and
ran away with him while in Newport
on business. The burial services
were under the auspices of the W. O.
W. and the funeral was preached by |
S. C. Vick. The bereave dones have
the heartfelt sympathy of many j
friends.
R. B. Vick of Judsonia has accept-j
ed a position here with the Slayden
Mercantile Company and will begin
work as soon as the “flu” turns
away from his family.
We notice quite a number of peo
ple in Tuckerman from the hills,
looking for lands to rent. These fer
tile farms appeal to the men whose
crops have been so light.
Now that the Fourth Liberty Loan
is oversubscribed we must all get
down to our knitting in doing many
other things to help win the war.
There should b3 no let up because if
this war is to be won by a military
victory, it is my opinion that it will
take next summer’s campaign to do
it. There will be lots of lives lost
and indeed a great sacrifice yet for
us to make. Shall we complain be
cause of our little offerings of dol
lars and cents when our boys on the
battlefields pour out their life’s
blood to preserve us a nation ? Then
well might we say in the words of
Key:
“Then conquor me must,
When our cause it is just,
An this be our motto:
In God we trust.”
And the star spangle banner,
In triumph shall wave,
O’er the land of the free, and the
home of the brave.”
Several of Tuckerman’s citizen’s
went to Violet Hill Monday to attend
the burial services of Dr. C. C. Smith,
formerly a prominent dentist of our
city. Dr. Smith volunteered his ser
vices to our country and was accept
ed. We understand he died from
Spanish influenza.
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BENGEL.
Fortunately Jack Frost has de
ferred his visit so long that all late
crops are now practically safe.
T. A. Ray is on the sick list this
week, but so far no symptoms of
the dreaded “flu” has developed.
Elihu S. 0| Allen and nephew, Bud
Wortham, spent Sunday in Bradford.
Quite a bunch from Weldon were
out on the river nutting Sunday.
Mrs. Ledbetter drove down from
the Island Sunday to spend the day
with Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Bell.
Ernest Cooper has been very ill
for several days with the influenza,
but is much batter at this writeup.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cagle enter
tained the young people with a dance
Monday night. All report a good
time.
We understand that the condition
of little Louise Plant still remains
critical. We trust, however, that
die report is exaggerate.
Bennie Forster, wife and baby of
Ingleside were mixing with old
d-iends here Sunday.
Owing to the unsafe condition of
the Picket Lake bridge, the farmers
are compelled to haul their cotton 14
mils to Newport to be ginned and
marketed, a long hard trip for man
and beast. We suppose the time is
not yet ripe (?) for the authorities to
move in this matter.
Mrs. S. M. Bains and son, Sam, are
spending the week on the farm.
Mrs. W. T. Keen is suffering from
a severe attack of influenza. Dr.
Price of Tupelo is attending her.
Several of our farmers hauled cot
ton to Newport this week.
We regret to hear of the death on
October 18 of the infant of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Matthews of the copperage
plant. The baby had influenza.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Thomma and
baby and Mrs. Geo. Thomma, all
drove up to Newport in the former’s
car Sunday. Mrs. George Thomma
left for Pocahontas, after a pleasant
visit of some ten days with her son
and family.
TAKE SALTS TO "
FLUSH KIDNEYS
Eat less meat if you feel Backachy or
Bladder troubles you—Salts is
tine for Kidneys.
Meat forms uric acid which excites
and overworks the kidneys in their efforts
to filter it from the system. Regular eat
ers of meat must flush the kidneys occa
sionally. You must relieve them like you
relieve your bowels; removing all the
acids, waste and poison, eise you feel a
dull misery in the kidney region, sharp
pains in the back or sick headache, diz
ziness, your stomach sours, tongue is
coated and when the weather is bad you
have rheumatic twinges. The urine is
cloudy, full of sediment; the channels
often get irritated, obliging you to get
up two or three times during the night.
To neutralize theso irritating acids
and flush off the body’s urinous waste
get about four ounces of Jad Salts
from any pharmacy; take a table
spoonful in a glass of water before break
fast for a few days and your kidneys will
then act fine and bladder disorders dis
appear This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia, and has been used for
generations to clean and stimulate slug
gish kidneys and stop bladder irritation.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; harmless and
makes a delightful effervescent lithia
water drink which millions of men and
women take now and then, thus avoiding
serious kidney and bladder diseases. j
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Our Sentiments:
“The sweetness of low pr ces
never equalsthe bitterness
Of poor
Of 29 Competing Tractors
The Rumely Oil-Pull
Plowed at Lowest Cost
What follows is not what the Rumely makers have to say
of their own machines, but what unbiased judges at State and |
National Tractor DemoiiStrations have officially found on ex
haustive tests.
" NORTH DAKOTA STATE DEMONSTRATION AT MINOT
, JUNE 19, 1918.
(29 Tractors Competing.)
r. 1 Synopsis of Official Findings
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AT STATE DEMONSTRATION.
Average ofb Average of 23 Rumely .
Tractors burn- Trato rburn- Oil 11
ing Gasoline ing Kerosene II
Exclusively or Gasoline and Burnin
Kerosene. Kerosen
Number of acres plowed- 2.02 1.84 2.27
Fuel per acre (gallon)- 3.26 3.77 2.97
Fuel cost per acre (cts.)38.2 66.27 45.
Note that the Rumely Oil Pull using kerosene ||
—used less fuel per acre than any competing tractor us
ing kerosene gasoline or both. ,
—plowed at the lowest cost per acre of all competing trac
tors. '
Note the number of plows and depth of plowing. Ten so-called
3-plow tractors pulled on y two plows—eight tractors rated
14-27 to 24-36 h. p. pulled only three plows each.
—the Rumely Oil Pull pulled' four plows—the number it is
advertised to pull.
—it plowed AVz inches deep—the maximum depth—equaled
by two competitors only.
—it was theonly tractor burning kerosene that plowed
4 Mj inches deep.
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AT NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
At the National Tractor Demonstration at Salina, Kansas,
July 29th to August 3d, the Oil Pull was entered in all offi
cial tests. No comparisons with other tractors can be made as
results of tests were not made pr ftc by the officials. All
tests were under the sup jrvision of agricultural authorities.
Following are the official figures for the 14-28 Oil Pull:
Drawbar Fuel Test.
Soil—moist gumbo, stubble ground.
Number of plows—4.
Depth of plowing—6 inches.
Fuel used per acre (kerosene) 2.92 gallons.
Note that fuel consumption per acre is almost identical with
that of the Oil Pull at Minot.
Drawbar Fuel Test.
Soil—stubble loose on top.
Average drawbar pull—15.7 H. P.
jE Maximum drawbar pull—17.3 H. P.
Showing a .reserve power of 23 fi per cent over advertised
rating . ’ " ■
v Belt H. P. Test ~ • j
Average belt H. P. 35.01.
Showing a reserve power of 25 per cent over advertised rating.
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Special attention is called to the latest size Oil-Pull
THE “BABY” RUMELY TRACTOR.
This is the smallest Tractor made by Rumely, and while
only recently introduced, it made an immediate hit. It weighs
only 5,000 pounds, pulls three plows and can be turned in a
space of 20 feet. ■ , ' / t U) ■
There are five sizes, the others being as follows:
14-28 Rumely Oil Pull Tractor, of which over 200 are in
use in Arkansas alone.
18-35 Rumely Oil Pull. I
20-40 Rumely Oil Pull. 'y
30-60 Rumely Oil Pull.
All of these tractors operate on kerosene and are guaran- j;
teed in writing to burn kerosene during the life of the raa
chine. i
We will demonstrate the above Tractors at Newport all
next week, at the foot of Walnut street, known as the show
grounds. ilSttUB
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Sctlemen
H. M. MUNDY
J. M. GIBSON
Joe Lyons Machinery Co.
SUCCESSORS TO
Southwestern Supply Company
Joe Lyons, President
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All Kinds of Farm Machinery
112-120 North Louisiana Street Little Rock
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