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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, January 24, 1918
Vol. 17, No. 43
PROPOSE TO FORM
WOODROW COUNTY
Want Four Townships From
Independence to Help in
Forming New County
It is reported from Searcy
that steps will be taken when
the legislature meets to form
a new county, to be known as
Woodrow county, and that if
this is done, Pangburn, which j
20 miles from Searcy, on the
Missouri and North Arkansas
railroad and its name also will
be changed to Woodrow and
be made the county ^eat of the
new county.
The new county will be com
posed of six townships taken
from White county, two from
Cleburne county, four from In
dependence county, and two
from Jackson, and will be
about 30 miles long' by about
18 miles wide.
No doubt if the effort to
form a new county is macle, it
will be an issue in the counties
mentioned above at the coming
primaries. It is said that some
citizens in the territory men
tioned to be taken to form the
new county, wall object, be
cause of the additional expense
of maintaining a separate set
of county officers, and the
building of a court house, jail,
etc.
The matter has not been dis
cussed among the citizens of
Independence county very ex
tensively, and no doubt a vig
orous protest would be made to
taking off any part of the
county to add to a new county.
CROSS CATTLE ON ICE
J. W. Williamson of Bates
ville drove 56 head of cattle
across White river on the ice
at Shipp’s Ferry, about 20
mile below Cotter, last Friday.
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ADJOURNED COURT
Judge and Law Cannot Con
trol the Weatherman
Searcy, Jan. 22.—White Cir
cuit Court convened here to
day with Judge Jamison M.
Jackson of Helena presiding,
butadjourned on account of
the weather until February 4.
The panel of neither jury was
complete, and few were in at
tendance, as tfoe roads to the
country settlements are almost
impassible.
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ARKANSAS FACES
SAMLLPOX FIGHT
If the spread of smallpox is
not checked Arkansas facer, an
interstate quarantine,according
to Dr. C. C. Pierce, senior sur
geon in charge of the United
States Public Health Service in
Little Rock. Dr. Pierce says
several states have requested
this action because smallpoxhas
been carried from Arkanas to
cities within their boundaries.
Among the states that are pro
testing against the spread of
smallpox from Arkansas are
Missouri, Tennessee and Okla
homa.
Dr. ,C. W. Garrison, State
health officer, is aiding Dr.
Pierce and will insist that all
school children be vaccinated.
Twenty thousand tubes of vac
cine, worth over $2,000 have
been donated by the United
States Public Service and will
be given to suchphysicians who
agree to vaccinate persons free
of charge. Dr. Garrison will
have charge of the distribution
of these tubes.
PHYSICIAN DROPS DEAD
Hoxie, Jan. 22.—Dr. C. E.
Pringle of Pocahontas died
very suddenly at 6:30 this
morning presumaly of heart
disease. He was standing in
his room when he fell to the
floor and died instantly.
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Are We Worth Dying For?
BY ROBERT HILL
Recently the Boston Trans-!
cript asked the question, “Are
we at home worth dying for?”
I wonder how many have thou
ght of war conditions in that
light? Have you really given j
this matter serious considera
tion? Do you appreciate to I
the fullest extent just what it
means to have the boys of our
families, our father, husbands,
or sweethearts doing every
thing in their power to win
victories in the war today?
Has it really been brought
home to you that these men
are offering their lives for us?
Then what can we in turn do
for them? What can we do to
further the ’cause, to further
their efforts, and to make
them as comfortable as possi
ble under the conditions which
they must live?
Most oi tne men wno are
fighting today or who are in
the camps come from good
home suiToundings. They
have been accustomed to home
life, where business, pleasure
and home conditions each
played an equal part. They
are called away in almost a
moment’s notice and their liv
ing conditions are changed en
tirely. Imagine, those of you
who have not had the experi
ence, what these men must un
dergo from such a sudden
change.
One of the finest branches
of the service which has done
much toward helping to make
camp life more pleasant is the
Y. M. C. A. I talked with one
of the Y. M. C. A. secretaries
just a short time ago, who is
stationed at one of our largest
cantonments where 330,000
young men and boys are in
training.
He told me about the boys
getting up at 5:30 every morn
ing, with five minutes in which
to dress; after this they enter
upon the daily training, and to
the newcomer the routine is
not readily grasped. He was
indeed proud of the fact that
95 per cent of the fnen in that
cantonment are members of
Bible classes. He also stated
that a number of the boys
never attended church at home
and that while some did not
take an interest in Bible study
at first, they soon fell in line
The Y. M. C. A. is now making
arrangements to furnish every
man with a small Bible for
such study.
iou can t oiame tne motners
of our country for advocating
the cause of the Y. M. C. A.
when their boys write home
about the good things that are
being done for them by this
great institution. When you
want to get real close to these
sacrificing mothers, help their
boy by giving to the Y.M.C.A.
every time you have an oppor
tunity. As this man told about
the many little things he did to
help the boys/ out from day to
day, the mothers whose sons
were in the camp or at the
front wept and rejoiced. If
you want to see real conserva
tion of food, take a meal with
a woman whose son is in the
ranks. She is doing everything
she can to help her boy, and
other mother’s boys. If all of
us would do as much and with
the spirit the mothers work,
how we could conerve.
The farmers can do much to
ward solving the food shortage
especially in regard to the
shortage of pork and pork pro
ducts. They are being urged
to breed more sows and gilts
and to make an extra effort to
raise more pigs the coming
spring. The food administra
tion states that there is a
shortage of 15 per cent of hogs
which must be made up if pos
sible. There is absoultely no
danger of over-producing this
year. Every farmer who han
dles hogs should increase the
number of bred sows and gilts.
Every state in the Union which
is known as a pork producing
state is being called on to in
crease pioduction, and in pro
portion to their corn crop, for
mer production and other con
ditions. The per centage re
quired varies from 5 per cent in
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WEATHER BREAKS RECORD
Oldest Inhabitant Cant Remem
ber Anything to Beat It
The weather and the war
have been the chief topics for
several days but the weather
has had a little the best of it
and has been more talked
about than the war.
The fifth heavy snow' of the
season fell in Newark Monday,
while practically all of the
second, third and fourth was
still on the ground, and Tues
day mroning, the snow meas
ured 19 inches on a level.
Zero weather, snow-bound
communities, impassible roads,
rivers and creeks frozen over,
four time the normal snow-fall
for a w?hole year, business de
moralized, schools closed, no
no wood or coal to be had at
any price is the situation this
section faced for several days.
The oldest inhabitant has
lost his occupation of telling
wrhat happened when he was
a boy, for all admit that noth
ing like this ever happened in
Arkansas before.
Conditions are improving,
how'ever, and today the weath
er is fairly respectable and the
snow is beginning to thaw a
little.
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STABBS OFFICER
Jonesboro, Jan. 22.—Con
stable W. L. Pruitt of Nettle
ton was badly cut on the hand
by a man named Joe Fleming
who resisted arrest. Fleming
was charged with stealing
some meat from the woman he
boarded with in Nettleton and
brought it to a woman on “Cot
ton Belt Row.” Pruitt traced
him to the woman’s house and
found the meat. Fleming cul
Pruitt when he tried to arresl
him. Fleming was placed un
der arrest charged with lar
ceny, resisting an officer and
assault to kill.
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COURT IS POSTPONED
Circuit Court, scheduled to
convene at Powhatan for the
western district of Lawrence
county next Monday, owing tc
the scarcity of coal and inabil
ity to get wood cut, has been
postponed until Monday, Mch.
25, by Judge Colefan.
1.428*650 IN U. S. ARMY
j American Forces Six Times
Larger Than Ever Before
There were 1,428,650 enlist
ed men and 110,865 officers
in the United States Army at
the opening of 1918 more than
one and a half times as large
as any force ever before mob
ilized by this Nation, accord
ing to a statement by Secre
tary of War Baker.
During the war with Spain
the Army of the United States
at its maximum strength ag
gregated 272,000 men and of
ficers. The Army in the field
and in training now is practi
cally six times as great as the
maximum number under arms
in the Spanish-American War.
NEGROES IN ARMY
Eight per cent of the 9,586,
508 men registered under the
selective draft law are colored
Of these nearly 209,000 have
been called and more than 75,
000 have been certified for
service.
Out of every 100 colored
men called, 36 were certified
for service and 64 were reject
ed, exempted or discharged,
while out of every 100 white
citizens called 25 were certi
fied for service.
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SOLDIER BOY DIES
Virgil Arnold, one of the
young men of Newark to be
called under the selective ser
vice law died at Camp Beau
regiard Monday of Meningitis.
He was in the first call of
young men from this colinty
and left here last fall for
CampBeauregard. He was mar
ried only a short time before
he was called. The remains
were buried at the Akron cem
etery Tuesday.
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DESHA MAN ENDS
LIFE WITH SHOTGUN
Despondent Because of Lack
of Work and Inability to
Procure Food
A man by the name of Wil
liams living on the Sam Wyatt
farm, near Desha, ended his
life by shooting himself in the
head with a shotgun.
The man came into the com
munity with his family, about
year or two ago, and has made
his living picking cotton and
working on the farms near
Desha. The family was in need
of food, and he could find no
work to do, it is said, and late
in the afternoon he took his
gun and started out of the
house- It was thought by his
family that he was going rab
bit hunting. Later a report of
the gun only a short distance
from the house caused mem
bers of his family to investi
gate, and they found him in a
near-by outhouse, dead
He leaves a wife and six
children.
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ICE SINKS STEAMBOAT
Ice floes swooping down the
Mississippi river on the crest
of a three-font rise -due to the
breaking up of gorges in trib
utary streams, caused three
steamboats, the excursion
steamer, DeSoto and three gov
ernment towboas sink at
Memphis Tuesday.
AGED NEGRO FROZEN
Roe, Jan. 23.—Jud Fallom,
an aged negro was found fro
zen to death one and a half
miles west of this place early
Sunday morning by Hugh Cos
elhom, another negro- Fallom
was in town Saturday night
and was probably overcome on
his way home.
ROCKING CHAIRS
We have a large assortment
of Rockers ranging in price
from $2.00 up.
Have an extra good, curved
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