FROM OMAR HAMILTON.
Ifca following letter was received
by Miss Elesin McFadden of Beede
ville from O. O. Hamilton, who is in
Che naval air service. The letter was
written before the armistice was
aignd:
Don’t let this surprise you, but gen
tly remind you that I am five or six
thousand miles from home and
H friends.
"Wfill say this is a great life over
here if you don’t weaken. There is
not much to look forward to except
the end of the war and mail day. It
has been raining during-the past two
or three days, and the mud here is
something like the mud around Beede
ville, and they say it rains most of
*--a£he time during the winter and
Jlpring months. Although we think
:m giwe have a hard time, the boys in the
trenches have it harder, and I will
have to take a back seat any time for
one of them. We have entertainments
here at the station gotten up by the
boys. A jazz band was down from
Brest Saturday night and we had a
dance in the mess hall. We had 20
Red Cross nurses with us, but there
were of course more boys than girls.
These French people do not know
what a dance is. They spend most of
their time around the wine shops.
The vinyards here look like cotton
fields at home; that is they do from
ti distance.
I went to the cemetery last Sunday
week. It sure is a beauttiful place.
Host all the graves are covered over
by great slabs of stones, with a big
fenee around, and big floral wreaths
made of different colored beads. I
remember seeing a steroscopic view
¥ at your house that looks like this cem
etery. Some of the graves are cov
ered over with a kind of a vault that
looks like an old cathedral on the out
side and something like an altar on
the inside with vases, artificial flow
ers and candle3.
All over the country they have a
crucifix at cross roads and at some
corners of the road, and I have also
seen them in the corners of buildings.
An old Catholic cathedral was built in
the twelfth cdntury. Sure is a won
- derful piece of masonry, but it looks
old and weather beaten.
SoulaC is on the coast and is a great
summer resort and bathing beach. I
was there Sunday and went in bath
ing, the first time I was ever in the
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Sehoil Girl Pickles
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Wheat flour (bulk), per barrel
Cornmeal (bulk)
Oatmeal or rolled oats, 22 oz
Oatmeal or rolled oats, pkg., 55 oz.—
JRice, unbroken, standard quality, a lb.
nUugar, granulated (bulk) per lb
Beans, white, navy or pea not lima),
per lb.
Beans, colored, pinto or any other
colored variety, per lb
Potatoes, white or Irish, per lb
Onions, per lb.
Canned tomatoes, standard grade, per
20 oz. (No. 2) can..
Canned corn, standard grade, per 20
oz. (No. 2) can
fanned peas, standard grade, per 20
F* oz. (No. 2) can——:.—
'•''Canned salmon, tall pink Alaska, per
16 cz. (No. 1) can.-—
Evaporated milk (unsweetened), per
6 oz. can
Evaporated milk (unsweetened), per
16 oz. can
Butter, creamery- (tub print), per lb.
Oleomargarine, per lb
Cheese, American, full cream (cut),
per lb. -
Lard, pure leaf (bulk), per lb
Lard, pure leaf (in tin), per lb..
Lard substitute (bulk), per lb._.
Lard substitute (in tin), per lb.
^ 24 pounds Flour-$1.55 to $1.60
46 pounds Flour.-$305 to $310
24 pounds Meal..-$1.26 to $1.35
ocean, and it was great.
I I had a fine trip coming over, but
but in the middle of the ocean is the
lonesomest place I ever saw. The
' sea was calm most of the time and
some of the boys got seasick, but it
didn’t bother me much, although the
trip was something I had not been
used to.
Au revoir,
Omar.
ROAD BUILDING,
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The program of the State Highway
Commission for the ensuing two
years is a most ambitious one, and is
in keeping with the attitude of the
Federal Government toward this all
important phase of public improve
ment.
The total number of miles of road
of all kinds constructed during the
1917-18 season is 1,009, at an approx
imate cost of $5,846,685.66. During
the same period, surveys were made
for 3,461.35 miles of road, the approx
imate cost of the proposed projects
Referring to. the program for the
years 1919-20, State Highway Com
missioner W. B. Owen says:
“On account of the unsettled condi
tion resulting from the cessation of,
war and our return to peace we are j
at this time unable to determine just;
what we will be able to do during
the next biennial period of 1919-20,
but from all indications we feel sure
that 3,115.62 miles of road will be im
proved, at an approximate cost of
$14,299,066.02. These figures may and
we hope will be increased but we are
of the opinion that they will not be de
creased. However, this will be known
only when conditions are settled and
we are able to secure such data as
will justify an estimate of possible
and probable improvements.”
Speaking of the 1918 program, Mr.
Owen says: “The sentiment for good
roads became so strong and good road
enthusiasts harmoniously worked so
hard that the year 1918 promised to
be a banner year for road improve
ments' In the beginning of this year
our program included 2500 miles at
an estimated cost of $15,000,000. No
other state with an equal population
area, not counting valuations
came anywhere near us, and only
three states, regardless of size, were
able to exceed us in this line of pro-,
gress. The carrying out of this pro- j
gram was progressing very favor
ably until the declaration of war,
after which the Government required
the undivided resources of the state
and country, and road building like j
everything else, had to take a back ,
seat in order that we might win the
world for democracy.” .
___,-vnke, according to figures
parlv today. Firing was ince
the l one case on the «i».nal cocm
For news of the store read the ad
vertisements. Newport merchant
I! are offering a splendid and varied
r j line of holiday merchandise.
WEEKLY KEPORT ON FAIR PRICES.
The local committee on fair foot! prices announce the following
Quotations for the week, C. L. Mariner, Chairman.
Retailers Pay Consum’s Pay
$10.75 $11.35 .07 .07 Va
.04 .04 % .05 .00
.10 5-0 .11 .15 .15
.27 _ .28 .35 .35
.09 %" .11 .12 % .14
9.05 9.65 .11 .11
.12 Vi .12% .17% .17%
.09% .10 Vi .14 :i5
.02 Vi .02% .03 3-4 .03%
.02 .02% ,02 3-4 .03
.15 .15 .20 .21
.15 .15 .20 .21
.15 .19 .20 .25
,16 .16 .25 225
.06 1-3 .06% .081-3 .08%
.13 3-4 .14 .18 .19
.61 .72 6 to 7c
.30 .34 .36 .40
.37 .40 .45 .48
.31 .31% .36 .37%
.31 .31 Vi -36 .33
24Vi '.24 3-4 .28 .30
.26% .27 .31 .32
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Additional Locals
R. W. Bandy has sold his Bird
township farm to Dr. L. T. Slay den at
Tuckerman and in turn bought a
farm near Newport, that of Mr. Je
rome Runyan on £he Island. Mr.
Runyan intends moving to Pine
Bluff. Mr. and Mrs. Lockard Bandy,
who have been living on the Bandy
farm near Tuckerman, expect to move
to their Island home the first of
February.
Lieutenant Ben Mays of Pocahon
tas was here today the guest of his
friend, Joe Foster, of the Wolff -
Goldman Mercantile Company. Lieu
tenant mays has just returned from
England, where he has been for sev
eral months in the aviation service,
and has been discharged at Camp
Pike, where his company was sent
for demobilization in January. He
will enter one of the banks at Wal
nut Ridge soon as assistant cashier.
Basil Drennan of Beebe, who has
just returned from overseas where he
has been a mechanic in the aviation
service, was here yesterday, having;
been to Newark, where he spent the
first part of the week with relatives,
his family moving from there to Bee
be. The young man wore one gold
star and one gold chevron, which de
notes the fact that he was one of the
irst 250,000 fighting men sent over
by Uncle Sam, and that he had served
six mnths in France.
Sergeant H. E. Listenberger and
Miss Lena Walker, both popular!
young people of Grand Glaize, were ,
married recently at the Claridge Ho
tel, the ceremony being performd by
Rev. J. F. E. Bates of the Methodist
church. Sergeant Listenberger has
been at Camp Pike for several months I
and will probably continue there for
some time, as his work is in the base j
supply department. His bride accom
panied him on his return to Little
Rock, where they will iive until he is
discharged.
Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Jamison of
Tuckerman were here . yestereday
spending the day with his brother
and wife, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Jami
son. Dr. Jamison has recently been
discharged from army service, com
ing over from England about a month
ago. Dr. Jamison’s health is some
what impaired and with his wife left
this morning for St. Anne, Calif.,
where they will spend the re
mainder of the winter and spring.
He is quite nervous and with other
complications, did not feel in a con
dition to settle down to the practice
of his profession right now.
Rev. James F. Jernigan, one of* the
best known Methodist ministers of
North Arkansas, was through here
last night, the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Forrest Bleakley, and left this mom
ijiir for Reno, near Pocahontas, which
is his new field of labor for this year.
'Rev. Mr. Jernigan, who has been lo
cated at Eureka Springs for the past
two years, had the misfortune to lose
his wife in November, who died of
-pneumonia resulting from influenza.
'He has only two children, a grown
■son and daughter, both of whom live,
iin Little Rock. Mr. Jernigan had
been to Batesville to visit his brother
also relatives at Newark.
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SWIFTON.
J. G. Sallee, former cashier of the
Bank of Swifton, who was called in
the draft and stationed at Camp Pike
since last summer, has accepted a po
sition with the bank at Beebe.
Miss Mae Shell has gone to Medora,
Indiana, where she will make her
home with her cousin, Mrs. M. F. Da
vis.
Miss Maude Tyer, primary teacher
in the public schools, was absent all
last week with a severe attack of in
fluenza.
Mrs. Pinkie Moon spent several
days last week at Hot Springs.
Lloyd Mosley, manager of Mosley’s
gin, spent the holidays with his fam
ily at Tampa, Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude P. Trice were
guests of relattives at Searcy and Des
Arc Christmas week.
-The stave plant of the Southern
Cooperage Company has shut down
for five or six weeks because of bad
roads.
Mrs. Lula Moon has returned from
Oklahoma, where she spent several
months with her daughter,. Mrs., C. E.
Bullard.
Mrs. H. L- Mobley left Friday night
to visit relatives at Blue Mountain.
Ben S. Brann has moved into the
Shell property on Main street and on
Wednesday assumed charge of the
bookkkeeping department of the
Jones-Harvey Mercantile Co.
Miss Mary Altman has a class in
expression at Tuckerman.
J. H. Coe of Tuckerman has ac
cepted a position as assistant cashier
of the Bank of Swifton.
W. T. Altman ba3 purchased a
of p-nods at Neelyv;,ie. Mo., and
will move the goods to Swifton in a
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The family of J. W. Gates lost prac
tically all their household goods by
fire Sunday night when the building
in which they were living near the
stave mill burned.
The second number of the Lyceum
course will be given by the La Dell
Concert Company on Tuesday night,
January 28 at the High school audit
orium.
J. W. Elrod has sold his restaurant
to William Hunter and John Barnes.
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