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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1919
VOL. 18, NO. 50
NEWARK WILL HONOR
RETURNED SOLDIERS
Proposed to Hold First Annual
Re-Union of Soldiers Here
During August
There is talk of making the
annual picnic at Newark this
year the greatest event of the
kind in the history of the coun
ty by making it also a re-union
for the. Independence county
boys who were in the great
war.
It is thought that all the
boys will have returned home
by the first of August, and it
is proposed to hold the re
union some time about the mid
dle of August.
It is proposed to make a
special effort to have every
man who was in the sendee
from this county attend the re
union.
Plans for the picnic and re
union have not been fully
worked out, but it seems a cer
tainty that the reunion will be
held in Aygust.
CAPTURES BOOZE
Sheriff Harris made a sear
ch for whiskey on the passen
ger train going south Thurs
day and captured 21 pints of
whiskey, which he proceeded
to break on the streets of
Batesville Friday morning. No
arrests were made, as no one
claimed the suitcase containing
the bottles of whiskey.
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FOR RECORDER
't he announcement of E. H.
Williamson as a candidate for
re-election as city recorder
appears in today’s paper. Mr.
Williamson has rendered the
t< wn good service as recorder
and will probably be re-elected
without opposition.
Owen Fetzer Arrives
At Newport News
A telegram was received by
Squire and Mrs. J. H. Fetzer
last Sunday from their son,
Owen, announcing his arrival
at Newport News. He will
probably be sent from there to
Camp Pike for discharge and
will arrive home soon.
Of the men who were sent
to France from Independence
county, there were none who
saw more actual hard service
than Owen Fetzer. He was a
member of the first detach
ment of Arkansas men sent ov
er. He n as in the memorable
drive against the germans at
Cheatau-Thierry where some
of the bloodiest fighting of the
war took place. He was wound
ed once and was in the hospit
al for seme time. His parents
are overjoyed that the young
man is returning to them safe
and sound.
W. H. M. S. MEETING
The W. H. M. S. of the M.
E. church met at the home of
Mrs. John Adams on Tuesday
afternoon. A very interesting
meeting was enjoyed by those
present.
Mrs. J. W. Boyce was elect
ed President. The treasurer
gave a very gratifying report.
Mrs. T. H. Dearing was elect
ed a delegate to the Missionary
council, which meets at Bates
ville soon. Mrs. E. G. Magness
was elected chairman of music
for the year. It was decided
to meet every week on Tues
day afternoon and the next
meeting will be with Mrs. J.
W. Boyce on March 25 at 2:30
p. m. Come and bring some
one with you.
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Alfalfa and clover seed at
Hoyt & Company.
It all started with the first deposit. His bank
account grew until he was comfortable. Then the
convenience of paying his bills by check enabled
him to keep his accounts straight and save time and
worry. Happiness was the result of seeing it grow
and all of a sudden he realized he was a man of
wealth. You can accumulate money, too, if you
will only put that money you have in your pocket
RIGHT NOW into the bank and. keep adding to it
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
NEWARK, ARKANSAS , 1
ROAD COMMISSIONERS
AFTER FEDERAL AD
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Hold Meeting at Batesville
Saturday and Plan to Push
Road Work
A meeting of the commis
sioners of the various road im
provement districts of Inde
pendence county was held at
Batesville last Saturday for
the purpose of discussing plans
for road work in the county.
It was brought out at the
meeting ihat there should be
due the Independence county
districts approximately $1,000
or $l,20u per mile for road
work from the government
road fund. As there is about
110 miles of improved high
ways to be built in the county
under th i provisions of acts of
the recent legislature, this will
mean that this county should
receive about $125,000 in fed
eral aid for road work in Inde
pendence county.
Chas. F. Cole, S. M. Bone, E.
C. Parsons and C. P. Vaughan
wrere appointed as a committee
to go to Little Rock and take
up with the State Highway De
partment the matter of secur
ing the government funds due
this county, as the apportion
ment is to be made through
this Department.
The commissioners of the
various road improvement dis
tricts in Independence county
are all enthusiastic good roads
men and it is safe to say that
they will make every effort to
get construction work started
on these roads at the very ear
liest date possible.
COUNTY WILL HAVE
CANNING CLUB AGENT
At the meeting of the quor
um court last October an ap
propriation for the salary of a
lady demonstration agent to
supervise the Girls’ Canning
Clubs of this county, was over
looked.
There are in Independence
County more than 300 mem
bers among the girls and
young women, and the pros
pect of their being without a
director for this year was not
very encouraging to them. W.
J. Jernigan of the Farm Dem
onstration Work put it up to
the secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce recently organiz
ed at Batesville with following
results :
It was agreed that if the
county will raise $300 the gov
ernment will supplement the
fund with a like amount.
Judge Jimerson quickly came
forward with an offer of $100
from the county funds, and
Mr. Metcalf, chairman of the
Agricultural committee of the
Batesville Chamber of Com
merce visited the three banks
in Batesville and called up the
First National Bank of Newark
with the result that each insti
tution gladly promised $50,
making up the entire fund.
H. V. Williams received a
telegram Tuesday from his
brother Roscoe, saying that he
had arrived in New York from
overseas. He is expected to
arrive in Newark some time in
the near future to spend a few
weeks visiting relatives.
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ROAD BUILDING IS
GIVEN BIG BOOST
Appropriations by Government
Makes Largest Amounts
For Roads in History
With full State cooperation
according to the terms of the
Federal-aid road act, the
United States will have a total
of at least $574,000,000 for
cooperative road building dur
ing the next three years. The
Federal part of this fund is as
sured by an extra apprporia
tion of $209,000,000 in the
Post Office appropriation bill
recently passed by Congress
and signed by the President.
Officials of the Bureau of
Public Roads, United States
Department of Agriculture,
which administers the provis
ions of the Federal-aid road
act and cooperates with the
State governments in the ex
penditure of the money, point
out that this amount of funds
is the largest ever appropriat
ed for similar purposes and for
a similar period by any govern
ment in the history of the
world, and that it enables the
Federal and State governments
to carry out a road-building
program of a magnitude never
equaled.
I In connection with the great
Federal-aid program, it is also
noted that expenditures for
highway work in the United
States this year are likely to
amount to a half billion dol
lars or more. On reports re
ceived from State Highway
Depatrments, the Bureau of
Pubic Roads estimates the 1919
expenditure for roads and
bridges at $385,000,000 or
$110,000,000 more than the
average expenditures for 1916
and 1917.
An important effect of the
law containing the new aporo
priaticn is that it broadens the
definition of rural post road,
under which class a highway
had to qualify in order to re
ceive the benefits of the Feder
al-aid act.
Under the old act it was re
quired that mail should actual
ly be carried on the road or
that there should be a reason
able prospect that mail would
be carried on it within a short
time after improvement.
The new act says “the term
rural post road shall be con
strued to mean any public road
a major portion of which is
now used or can be used or
forms a connecting link of any
road or r >ads now or hereafter
used for the transportation of
the Uited States mails, exclud
ing streets and roads in a place
having a population of 2,500
or more.
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LEAVES FOR HOME
Press dispatches say that
General Pershing reviewed
the Rainbow Division at Cob
lenz, Germany, last Sunday
and said goodbye to the troops
of the Rainbow unit who are
preparing to sail for home the
first week in April. Ben C.
Arnold of Newark is a member
of this division and he will
probably arrive home about
the first of May.
Cooperative Shipment
Shows Good Results
Following is the result of the
second Co-operative shipment
of hogs from Indpendence
County, made by County Agent
Leland Bunch.
Shipper No lbs Price
Masonic Home 20
Masonic Home 1
Bee Vandemberg 3
W. L. Paiker 1
H. jCarpenter_3
J. B. Fitzhugh__ 3
J. B. Fitzhugh_4
J. E. Sherrill_1
J. E. Sherrill_1
F. P. Albright__ 1
Clyde Lesley_1
J. A. Hardy_15
J. A. Hardy_5
J. A. Hardy_1
T. R. Davis_12
T. R. Davis_3
J. M. Smith_5
S. V. Bales_4
C. P. Vaughan__ 3
I. N. Barnett_10
I. N. Branett_2
110 16.50
190 12.00
123 17.50
220 12.00
127 17.50
120 17.50
188 19.00
200 19.00
270 15.00
220 12.00
180 12.00
127 17.50
95 15.00
200 19.00
66 15.00
127 17.50
126 17.50
98 15.00
277 19.50
107 16.50
165 10.00
Weight of hogs, 12,340.
Cost to Market $112.78. Cost
per hundred to market 91c.
Average price $15.60.
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HAS ACCIDENT AT SEA
Bryan Welborn of this place
who has been in the U. S. Navy
for some time ,is now in a hos
pital at Brest, France, suffering
from a broken leg. In a letter
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. J. Welborn he states that
he was injured during a severe
storm at sea and came near
being washed overboard. He
has been in the hospital at
Brest for three weeks but is
improving nicely and hopes to
be able to be out soon.
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We pay cash for Liberty
Bonds. E. G. Magness & Co.
j SUBMISSION PLAN
HELD NOT FEASIBLE
Proposed New Constitution Can
Not Be Put on Ballots
by Petition
Little Rock, Mch. 17.—Sug
gested re-submission of the de
feated constitution to popular
vote through initiation by the
people as amendments and
acts now are done would not be
possible, according to Hamil
ton Moses, secretary to Gover
nor Brough.
Mr. Moses said the suggety
tion had been made to him,
and thoroughly investigated
both by himself and others,
and that it had been decided
that the method would not be
warranted by the present bas
ic law.
Several members of the Su
preme Court unofficially are
said to have coincided in this
view.
Mr. Moses is of the opinion
that only two methods are pos
sible for the proposed resub
mission. They are through
convention and through the
legislature, the method attemp
ted in the Vaughan Bill, S. P.
No. 617, which administration
forces believe would have
passed both houses but for the
filibuster carried out by Sena
tor George F. Brown of Rison,
which resulted in its death on
the calendar in the Senate
when that body was automati
cally adj». urned sine die Thurs
day noon.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our
heartfelt thanks to all who so
kindly helped us during th«
suffering and death of our dar
ling little girl, Sarah Mollie.
Mr. and Mrs.Wilson Tomlinson
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Which Do You
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PREFER?
Wide or Narrow Track
ed Wagons and Buggies?
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(J IF WIDE, then we advise
early action—for the fac
tories tell us that we have re
ceived our last car of wide
tracked wagons.
Delay may mean disappoint
ment. Remember “It is the
Early Bird that gets the Worm
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C. W. MAXFIELD
Batesville, Arkansas
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