The LEADING BANK in TOTAL DEPOS
ITS of ANY BANK IN THIS SECTION,
according to the LAS7 OFFICIAL REPORT
published for November i 7, 1919 :
Heartiest Greetings—
From the YOUNGES ! bank in this
section of the state, but according to
the last official call the leading bank
m this section in amount of deposits.
This unusual distinction could not come to
this young bank, but for the host of good
loyal friends and customers. To them we
give the credit for making our record io
remarkable, and they all deserve the thanks
and sincere appreciation of all the stock
holders in this bank.
Watch Us Grow!
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
IJ. I). ADAMS, President C. D. METCALF, Cashier
J. C. FITZHUGH, Vice Pres. E. A. HODGES, Asst. Cash
E. H. GLENN, Vice Pres. J. H. KENNARD, Asst.Cash
SAMUEL M. CASEY C. C. FITZHUGH
C. W. MAYFIELD J. C. HAIL
J. \V. WILLIAMSON
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This (Bank is Under Direct Supervision of Both the
State Banking Department and the Federal Reserve
System of the U. S. (government, thus Miking
double protection to depositors. :
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V Ye TAKE this occasion to say
^ ^ further that we appreciate the
friendship and good will of many who have
been situated so they could not conveniently
give their personal business or only a small
amount of it to this bank.
Such friends have frequently been in
position to say kind words about us and
have otherwise lent us their persona! influence by encour
aging others to give us their business. W e a p p r eciate
Such strong friendship very much.
In return, we can only continue to try in every way
possible to serve your best interests at all times, by pre
paring ourselves in every safe manner to make your con
nection here the safest, soundest, and most serviceable to
a degree that is most satisfactory.
May the New Year be most bountiful in
every way, and may it be our privilege to
add to your success both individually and as
a community as a whole.
We Appreciate Your Support
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CHRISTMAS
The GLAD DAY for
ALL WORLD
EVERY country and every peo
ple have their own special
holidays, both national and
religious, but Christmas is a
day for all countries and all people. |
It is the world’s holiday.
It is a day of gladness, as it should
be, for it commemorates the birth of
Him who brought to the world the
greatest gladness it has ever known
or will ever know, though it were to
last for countless aeons to come.
So universal is the application of
the celebration of Christmas that all
men are included in it, whether they
be of high or lowly station, rich or
poor in the goods of the world.
It is a time for kindly deeds, fdt
charity, for gifts and all that goes to
make life gentler and sweeter. The
hardest heart can scarcely escape its
softening influence, the most sordid
miser must struggle to resist its
promptings to generosity.
At first the day was a day observed
by professed Christians only; now it
is observed by both those who profess
themselves Christians and those who
make no such professions. Its warm
th envelops all.
This being true and no one will dis
pute it—the meaning of Christmas
grows ever clearer to us. Its mean
ing is beyond all that we have al
ready said of it. Christmas means
that, ultimately the whole world will
become one vast brotherhood.
And it is entirely logical that this
should be the real meaning of Christ
mas, because that was the reason
Christ came upon the earth whose
birth is celebrated by Christmas. It
was to make all men brothers that he
lived and taught and toiled; it was to
accomplished this that he gave him
self up voluntarily to a cruel death
on the cross.
It is a wonderful thing that he
was born in a stable, that he was son
of a carpenter, that he never had a
dollar to his name, that he had no
home after he left Nazareth, that he
was a wanderer on the face of the
earth with no place whereon to lay
his head, and that now, 2,000 years
after his death, his power is over the
i world as the power of the Roman
I empire never was.
It is a marvelous thing about
Christ that as the years and centur
ies increase since his death, the more
real he becomes in the thoughts of
men and the better he is understood.
There have been attempts to prove
that he was a myth. But there never
was an attempt at anything that
failed so dismally. There have been
attempts to dispute the miracles he
performed, but these attempts have
also failed.
There is no question now in the j
mind of any historian worthy of the
name that Christ performed all the
miracles that are related of him in
the Gospels. He undoubtedly healed
the sick—the leprous the palsied and
the others. He turned the water
into wine; he fed the multitude on
a few loaves of bread and fishes.
He raised-the dead.
Men may differ, as indeed they do
as to whether or not Christ was the
divine, son of God, but even those wbo
in the face of every proof reject
this claim still regard him as the
purest, the noblest and the greatest
man that ever walked this earth. Ev
ery man does not worship him as1
God, but no man defames him. He
is the vision and the hope of all
men.
When, in mockery, they crowned
him king with cruel thorns, little they
thought that he would rule a world
at last—a world in which all races
vie with one another to render him
their homage.
Now comes again in the swing of
the years another Christmas day.
May it be a glad and merry one for
every reader of The Journal.
TASTED SUSPICIOUS
“My dear, did you make this
Christmas pudding out of the cook
book ?"
“Yes, love."
“I thought I tasted one of the
covers."
SETTING THE DATE
A young Swede in South Dakota
who had been sent out to collect bills
for the general store returned with
this report:
“Yon Brown, he say he pay you
when he sell his wheat; Ole Oleson,
he say he pay you when he sell his
oats; and Yon Yonson, he say he pay
in Yanuary.”
“In January,’’ repeated the pro
prietor, surprised. “Why, he never
set a date before. Are you sure h<
said January?”
“Veil, Ay tank it bane Yanuary.
He say it bane dam cold day when
you get your money.”
AN EXCELLENT NAME
The fair young student, at the
Polytechnic, says the Argonaut, at
the close of the cooking period, care
fully wrote out a label that read
T X X X X % X %
“Yankee Jam” and pasted it on the
side of the jar she had just filled.
“But why Yankee Jam?” asked the
teacher.
“Well,” was the young woman’s re
ply, ‘every time I stirred it up it
wanted to go over the top.”
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Here’s another thing we’ve noticed:
A'one of the opposition to the League
of Nations came from the men wTho
went through the Argonne.
For Good Things to Eat
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Gregory’s Restaurant
C. W. GREGORY. PROPRIETOR
FRONT STREET
Newport, Arkansas
j For Christmas
j There is No More Appro
: priate Gift Than Your
Photograph
It is a simple and fitting Token of
Love or of Friendship, and will be
valued accordingly. Its time for a
sitting now.
The Bowen Studio
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
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for Old Santa Claus
Scatter Sunshine
and Good Cheer
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We Have a Full Line
of Holiday Goods
You Will Also Find Our Stock of
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BATES VILLE, ARK