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AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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s paper has enlisted
government in the
cause of America for the
period of the-war*•* • *
ERS ASKED
PLANT MORE,
from Page One.)
of acres of
following additional
s' I can handle with my
present supply of labor, teams, tools,
and other eauiDment I will make
any needs for extra help at certain
seasons known to the proper authori
-i. / ties and will co-operate with other
farmers when necessary to increase
food production and eliminate all pos
sible waste. I will do everything
possible on my own farm to prevent
waste or destruction of crops in fields
' or in storage.
“I make this voluntary offer to the
United States government and in or
der to do my duty in this hour of
need."
This is the pledge which is being
pushed all over Arkansas by the Ag
ricultural forces, volunteer speakers,
the State Council of Defense, and the
various county councils.
In advocating this resignation, the
government is only asking a mobili
zation of every ounce of man-power
in the nation toward the one supreme
object of winning the war. It is re
cognized that the farmer is as im
portant a factor in winning the war
as the soldier himself, for if the
physical support of the army should
fail at its source, the result can be
nothing short of disastrous.
The indications are that through
plans already inaugurated and that
are under consideration, every man
and woman in the United States is to
be registered, to the end that there
shall be definite information as to
the actual resources of the nation for
any required service.
BAILLEUL IS CAPTURED
BY THE GERMANS.
(Continued from page 1).
fighting occurred last night on the
main battlefront in the neighborhood
of Montdidier, the war office an
nounces. The French captured ma
chine guns and prisoners near the
Oise canal.,
HEAVY FIRE
AT TORONTO
—
Associated Press Dispatch.
Toronto, Canada, April 15.— The
plant of Harris-Abbatteir Company1
at the Union Stock Yards was dam
aged to the extent of $750,000 by
fire last night. The police are inves
tigating the report of mysterious ex
plosions preceding the fire.
MUST BE STAMPED OUT.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 15.—One of the
greatest problems confronting the
State Council of Defense and the
County Councils is that of overcom
ing disloyalty and sedition. The
council is asking cities and towns to
enact a model ordinance, already
passed by the Little Rock Council,
providing heavy penalties for of
fenses against the government, the
flag, and the army and navy. It is ]
Jt>elieved $ip will provide a means for i
reaching some offenders that could t
not be reached otherwise. c
Disloyalty Must Be Stamped Out, 1
is the demand of the Council. a
Jribscribe
SCHOOL INSTITUTE
SEGANJESTERDAY
Despite Rainy Weather Twelve Mem
bers Enrolled In Class At
Baptist Church.
The work of the Sunday school and
Bible Institute being held this week
at the Baptist Church began yester
day afternoon with the class in Sun
day school methods, under the leader
ship of J. B. Moseley, State .Sunday
school secretary. In spite of the
rainy afternoon there were twelve en
rolled in the class, which will meet
each afternoon from four to five. All
interested in Sunday school work are
I invited to attend this class each af
ternoon.
At eighto o’clock each evening Rev.
J. S. Compere will deliver an address
on some phase of Kingdom building.
A cordial invitation is given to every
one to attend these evening services.
Late Wire Briefs
Associated Press Dispatch.
Canadian Atlantic Port, April 16
Two British missions to the United
States arrived here today.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 16.—A bill to
bring persons charged with violation
of the espionage act under the juris
diction of military court martial was
introduced in the senate today.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 16.—The presi
dent today issued orders stopping the
issuing of patents and copyrights to
enemies.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Amsterdam, April 16.— A Wolff
bureau dispatch from Berlin dated
Monday says that the main part of
American positions eastward from
Maizey on the right bank of the
Meuse and north of St. Mihiel was ta
ken by storm Sunday. A large sec
tion of the main enemy lines of de
fense from St. Mihiel to Rouvreois, a
distance of three and a half miles,
was rolled up, the dispatch adds,
despite the brave resistance of the
enemy, who suffered the severest cas
ualties,
PIES ANI) CAKES SELL
AT A BIG PREMIUM.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 16.—Think of
pies at $17 a piece, and cakes at
$41.50 a piece! Talk about the H. C.
L!
Yet that is what happened in the
progressive little town of Cove City,
in Crawford county, a city of which
many citizens of Arkansas never
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map.
P. D. Scott, of Van Buren, chair
man of the Crawford County Council
of Defense, reported that two pies
were sold at auction there a few days
ago for $94, and two home-made
cakes for $83, for the benefit of the
Red Cross.
Crawford county proudly points to
its record on the Red Cross, the Lib
erty Loan, the War Savings and oth
er campaigns. Its quota for the
Third Liberty Loan was $229,000, and ,
it has already invested $300,000.
Last Saturday $25,000 worth of Lib
erty Bonds and $4,000 worth of War ]
Savings Stamps were sold on the
streets of Van Buren. (
Additional Locals
Miss Dove Erwin, who has been
visiting Little Rock friends, has!
gone to Jonesboro to attend the State
Sunday school convention.
Judge W. D. McLain is at Little
Rock attending the Good Roads con
vention.
Mrs. Charles G. Henry is expected
home this afternoon on No. 3 from a
visit of three weeks to her daughter,
Miss Janet, and to Mr. Henry’s mo
ther at Indianapolis.
Mrs. J. Hensley, of Oklahoma City,
will arrive this evening to visit her
sister, Mrs. J. W. Stayton, Sr.
Mrs. C. Dutlinger, of Little Rock,
was here la6t night, going to Bates
ville this morning.
A home talent musical concert will
>e given at .the school auditorium
his evening, beginning promptly at
!:15. The program will be composed
f piano and violin numbers, songs
y Mrs. Hillhouse, Mrs. Adam Lock
rd and Miss Elise Hooker. Th*
hoir of the Methodist church will re
eat the Easter Cantata “Now Is |
Christ Risen," which they sang
beautifully at the Easter morning
service. Your patronage is expected,
for your twenty-five cents will go to
buy material for the Red Cross work
room.
WRITES FROM GREAT LAKES.
The following interesting letter
was written by Omer Hamilton, who
is a sailor stationed at Great Lakes,
111., to his sister, Miss Muriel Hamil
ton, of Beedeville:
Great Lakes, 111., Jan. 11, ’18.
Dear Folks:
Just got back from dinner. We
had a good dinner. Had creamed
potatoes, pumpkin, bowl of soup,
piece of meat, bread and butter and
coffee. We always have an apple or
a banana with some other junk for
breakfast. We always get a variety.
Sometimes for breakfast we get
beans, bread and butter, coffee, and
an apple or a banana. I can eat
them all right, but some of the boys
can’t so they just do without. There
are some who are always complaining
about not getting enough to eat, but
looks like they would learn that it
doesn’t do any good.
Most of the boys are getting pretty
well broken in. The worst was right
on the start. It was so different
from the way we had been doing.
When I washed the first time, I just
thought I’d rather be dead. To think
of washing one’s clothes in a little
old bucket and with cold water. If
I could have had a tub and a wash
board I would not have minded, be
cause I had nothing else to do. We
have been having hot water lately.
Then it seemed unfair to me for
the officers to “raise cain” with us
for things we couldn’t help. Every
man has to have his shoes shined, but
they had never supplied us with the
polish. Two or three fellows had
some and they passed it around. If
fUntr Vwi /I n nrn rimnlr] Vioim rrntf on a
“tongue-lashing.” Sometimes some
of the boys say something about it,
and some one will say, “You’re in the
navy now,” and start a big laugh, so
the man that can laugh the most gets
along the best. If you could hide in
the house and listen, you would think
it was a crowd of men out on a pic
nic. They are just like a bunch of
young mules. We have a dance
nearly every night and just have a
big time. Had a dancing match the
other night, and my partner and I
can\p out second best.
We have our hammocks now, and
they are just so warm and comfort
able. When they are pulled up tight
they close in over one and I get too
warm before they let the windows
down at 9 o’clock. Believe me, they
are something to get into, and it’s a
pretty hard job to stay in. They are
lashed up to iron rods, which are
just high enough so a man can walk
under them. If a man tilts them a
little too much they topple over, and
his body is so much heavier than his
feet that it tumbles out first, and as
he hasn’t a thing to catch hold of,
and can’t get his feet out, his head is
the first thing that strikes, and there
is nothing to fall on but the floor.
Three or four of the boys have been
knocked unconscious for a while. I
fell out the other night but there is a
brace-rod by every fifth hammock
ind I grabbed the brace-rod and sav
'd myself from falling.
We were here three weeks before
ive got our hammocks, thn it was an
other week before we could get the |
•opes to lash them up with, and three
lays more before we could get a rope
;o tie around them. In the morning
vhen we get up we have to fold the
dankets a certain way, roll the ham
nock up and take a rope and tie sev
m marline hitches around it, and1
they’ve got to be just right. A man
goee around and inspects every ham
mock and if it doesn’t come up to
orders he has it to do over again.
Everything has a place and if it is
out of place it goes in the lucky bag,
and you have to do extra duty to get
it.
Last Saturday we had bag inspec
tion—that is—we had to take our
sea-bag and lay it down on the floor
so the edge came to a certain crack
in the floor, turn all our clothing
wrong side out, roll it up so our
name was on the outside and lay each
piece just a certain way on the sea
bag. It looked like foolishness to
me at first, but after it was done, it
sure did look pretty to look down the
row and see all the clothes piled out
so neat and clean, and when you
think about it, it is just as easy as
any other way. Then the “big-bug”
came in, walked down the aisle and
every man stood at attention behind
his clothes. I don’t know what rank
he was, but he was all dressed up,
Political Announcements
The Independent is authorized to an
nounce the following persons as can
didates for public office, subject to
the action of the democratic primar
ry, May 28, 1918.
FOR CONGRESSMAN
Wm. A. Hodges
W. D. Davenport
W. A. Oldfield
FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE.
Dene H. Coleman
FOR CHANCELLOL
(Eighth District.)
Lyman F. Reeder
George T. Humphreys.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
T> T SInmnno
Fred R. Suits
FOR COUNTY JUDGE
John A. Melville
R. F. Tyer
W. M. Tims
W. A. Mink
! OR SHERIFF AND COLLECTOR.
Terry Guin
J. M. Ivy
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
J. M. Balch
Garland E. Land
A. J. Garner
Z. D. Barber
Lehman Thomas
COUNTY TREASURER
W. D. McLain
Charles K. Coe
Geo. W. Grant
FOR COUNTY CLERK
J. F. Parish
Grover C. Nance
FOR ASSESSOR
D. J. Nance
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK
R. W. Bandy
FOR SURVEYOR
E. H. Bowman
FOR CORONER
T. J. Mooney
FOR CONSTABLE
(Union Township)
C. M. Ivy
Ben Sandmon
FOR ROAD OVERSEER
(Richwoods Township)
Mark Cole
(Bird Township, Eastern District)
R. A. Wilson
(Western District, Bird Township)
Walter Cole
(Jefferson Township)
J. D. Wyatt
Clay Roberts.
(Union Township.)
W. D. Runyan
FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE
(Union Township.)
Frank Foushee.
and 9 iplendicl ®word ort. He
asked some of the boys some questions
but didn’t say anything to me, and I
was glad he didn’t. H© sure could
make a man feel his superiority. Ev
ery man was so still you could have
heard a pin drop.
Two “gold braids” came in this
morning and every man stood up and
at attention while they marched
through. Attention means stand
erect with your hands at your sides
and heels together with toes out 45
degrees.
Each man is supposed to have a
Blue Jacket manual and study it to
learn his duty. The company com
mander gave orders to read over to
the forty-fourth page this morning
but I had already read several pages
so I soon finished. I believe when a
man goes through his training, he
will walk out to a battle as uncon
cerned as he does when he goes to
dinner, or it seems that way now.
The men here seldom mention the
war. I was surprised that the men
who really expect to do the fighting
talk less about it than the men at
home.
It is snowing again this morning.
It snowed last Sunday and the wind
blew till the snow was drifted higher
than my head against the barracks.
There were some of the prettiest ici
cles I ever saw. Some of them were
three or four feet long and all woven
together every way. When the sun
shone on them they were beautiful.
They haul the mail in here on big
trucks, piled up like some one mov
ing. Thera ara two postoffices at
Camp Dewey but I think they take
all the mail to Waukegon. It is
about four miles north of here and
has about twenty thousand inhabi
tants, I think. I have never been
there and I have never seen Lake
Michigan. It is about two miles
from here, but couldn’t go while we
were in detention. We were out e£
detention the 4th of January, but
were quarantined for measles the 2nd
and that’s worse than ever. We are
not allowed to get out of the bar
racks now except to go to mess or
sick-bay, and then there is a guard
along. There is a guard at each
door day and night. We are on
guard two hours and off six. That
cou.es around to each man every
week now.
It’s time to disinfect the floor.
Omar.
NOTICE.
There will be a meeting of the
Democratic Central Committee Sat
urday afternoon at 1:30, April 30th.
All committeemen are urged to be
pi’esent.
Geo. A. Hillhouse, Ch’m.,
Hdtf Jno. E. Williams, Sec.
PIANO TUNING.
Robert Carlton, piano tuner, is.
here for a few days. Telephone 227,
at J. D. Neal’s. 311d3t.
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