The Newark journal
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, August 15, 1918
Vol. 18, No. 20
FLAN ROAD WORK FOR
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Committees Appointed and Ar
rangements Made For
Good Roads Days
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Road Overseer John M. Bar
ber has appointed committees
auB made ether arrangements
to observe Good Roads Days
in Big Bottom township next
Thursday and Friday, the 22nd
and 23rd, as was suggested by
Judge Jimerson in an article
published in The Journal last
week.
The plan is to get as much
road work done as possible on
these two days and Judge Jim
erson urges every citizen who
can do so, regardless of age,
to turn out in every township
in the county and assist in the
road work.
Oveerseer Barber’s plan for
this township is to work the
three principal roads, the Cord
read, the Paroquet road and
the Chamberlain ferry road.
He asks every citizen who can
do so to donate two days work
on- the roads next Thursday
and Friday, and he leaves it to
their choice as to what road
they will work.
Mr. Barber has selected the
following committees who will
have charge of the work cn the
roads mentioned.
Cord Road.-—T. .1. Welborn,
W. L. Hall and J. B. Ketchem.
Chamberlain Ferry Road.—
E. D. House, Joe Freeze and
E. R. Moore.
Paroquet Read.—F. C. Hoyt,
D. C. Belvidge and John Mc
Clure.
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You will want to throw up
your hat and yell, “On to Ber
lin,’’ when you see the gfeat
war pictures at the Skydome
Saturday night.
ALL YOUTHS OF 21 TO
REGISTER AUGUST 24
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All Yeung Men Reaching 21
Since June 5 Must Regis
ter for Military Duty
Registration on Saturday,
August 24, of all youths who
have reached the age of 21
since the second registration
last June 5, was ordered yes
terday by Provost Marshal
General Crowder, under a pro
clamation by President Wilson.
The purpose is to add quickly
to the almost exhausted Class
1 to meet army draft calls in
September.
About 150,000 young men
will register. Most of them
.will qualify for Class 1, and,
therefore, will .join the army
probably within a month after
their names are recorded.
Telegraphic orders to local
authorities to arrange for the
registration have already been
distributed. Only men in the
armed service are exempted
from registration.
WAR IS NOT OVER;
CONTINUE TO SAVE
Specific instructions to all
County Food Administrators
to “sit steady in the beat” and
not allow the present victories
of American and allied armies
to divert them from war work
generally and food conserva
tion in particular, have been
sent out by State Food Admin
istrator Hamp Williams. The
members of his official family
were requested to remind the
people that the war is not ov
er and that many months of
hard fighting remain during
which every bit of energy one
can give should be put intc
these things that make for a
certain victory.
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LIST OF MEN WHO
LEAVE DURING AUG.
Independence County Men Are j
Called Into Military Serv
ice During This Month
The local registration board
for Independence county fur
nishes the following lists of
men to answer the August calls
and they will entrain on the
dates given for the camps des
ignated.
The following will leave for
Camp Pike, August 15:
Gus Blythe
Alexander Hively
C. C. Walbert,
James Prentice,
13. K. Baker.
Frank Talley
Ora Walbert
Gib Robinson
Arthur Walbert
Herman Williamson
Lee Roy Taylor.
The following will leave for
Camp Mabry August 21.
Albert Wright
W. A. Carpenter
Geo. F. Wright
Tom Compton
The following will leave
August 26 for Camp Pike:
W. A. Isgrig
G. M. Fike
W. M. Burchfield
Alvis H. Elms
Alfred R. Barnett
A. A. Robertson
W. E. Hook
O. W. Maxwell
R. B. Lumbarger
H. McClure
Arch C. Kent
O. E. Gould
J. B. Garner,
Morely Starks
Claude Simpson
W. B. Monday
Gus May Bremles
Charles C. Bradley
M. D. C. Huddleston
J. Arthur Porter
Hugh W. Vaughan
Frank Brown
I Harrison Wolfe
C. C. Daggett
Coy McClure
Luther W. Simpson
John D. Ford
Everet Slayden
Tom A. Gill
narvey 1. liiinnana
Martin Wadkins
Cunard Hughes
A. P. Rutledge
J. B. Goodwin
S. W. Slayden
The following will leave for
Vancouver Barracks, Washing
ton, August 18:
Ed L. Haddock
Leroy B. Eubank
Arch L. Scribner
Benjamin Harrison Crigler
Charles E. Hughes
Albert L. Kaneaster
David E. Medlock
Carl Quearry
James Crissenberry
J. Thomas Whaley
John Ashby
Chas. L. Welborn
Ralph E. Younkin
Roy Wright,
Tip Keller
William G. Tcdd
J. Leander Mayhan
Noel F. Kerlin
Myron H. Allen
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Good music and the best
show ever seen in Newark, at
the Skydome Saturday night.
WAS SEVEN DAYS IN
FRONT LINE TRENCHES
Owen Fetzer Has Had His
Baptism of Fire and Came
Out Uninjured
Owen Fetzer, son of Squire
and Mrs. J. H. Fetzer of Logan
township has been through the
rain of shot and shell on the
battle front in France and has
come through it uninjured. He
has been in the hospital from
an attack of appendicitis but
has recovered and is now at
the front again where he is no
doubt giving a good account of
himself. His parents have just
received the following letters
from the young man.
Somewher in France.
July 14, 1918.
Dear Father and Mother.—
I am getting along fine; am
living in the ground now, and
it is a very good house too, or
at least I sometimes feel safer
in it than out. We are not far
from where the Huns are, so
you can guess why we are liv
ing in dugouts.
We are having quite a bit of
rain over here. Papa, this is a
good wheat country; wheat
looks like it will make 35 bush
els per acre. There is no corn
raised here. Hay and small
grain are the crops raised here.
Wheat is about ready to cut,
and it is certainly a pity for a
fine country like this to be
ruined by wrar but there is lots
of it absolutely ruined.
I haven’t time to write much
Tell all the folks to write me.
Your son,
THOS. O. FETZER,
France, July 18, 1918.
Dear Mother.—I am now in
the hospital. Have not been
wounded, but have the appen
dicitis. You know I have had
attacks of it before, but it is
not as bad this time as it was
before.
Have been on the front line
for seven days and sure have
been lucky.
This chilly breeze in France
doesn’t seem much like July to
me—it’s more like October.
THOS. O. FETZER.
France, July 20.
Dear Mother.—I leave the
hospital today, going back to
my company and am feeling
O. K.
I feel like I will continue to
be lucky and believe I will see
you all again, but of course you
can’t tell what is going to hap
pen over here.
Mother, you know I am very
well satisfied over here. Every
time I think of you all, I think
you are getting along fine, and
I hope you are.
Mother, you know you al
ways told me that the darkest
hour was just before day. Be
lieve me, Monday, July 15,
was some dark day for me,
and it certainly did look dark
for atvhile, but oh how lucky I
was! I will tell you all about
it when I come home.
Your son,
THOS. O. FETZER,
Co. C. 7th Inf., A. E. F.
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Get a copy of the new coun
ty map of Independence coun
ty at The Journal office.
WRITES FROM FRANCE
Mrs.Blanche Hancock ofPar
oquet has received the follow
ing letter from her brother,
James O. Stubblefield, who is
with the American Army in
France.
France, July 14, 1918.
Dear Sister.—I am getting
along very well. Am in the
hospital at the present time;
have been here eight days, but
am not injured and it is noth
ing serious.
I have been in France now
almost three months. Was in
the trenches once for 12 days
but did not get hurt. Big
shells would fall all around us
and burst like big drops of rain
but no one in my company wras
injured. Have also seen a
number of air battles.
Think I will be out of the
hospital soon so I can go back
to the trenches and help the
boys show the Kaiser what we
Americans can do to the Huns.
Your brother,
JAMES O. STUBBLEFIELD.
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34 MEN FOR CAMP PIKE
The call from the adjutant
general's office for 2,000 white
men to be sent to Camp Fun
stun on August 26 for military
service has been rescinded, and
a new call has been issued for
I, 700 white men to be sent to
Camp Pike on the same date
instead of to Camp Funstun.
Independence county’s quo
ta of men for this call will be
34 instead of 44 as was called
for in the original call for this
date.
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ADAIR-GIBSON
Andy Adair and Miss Nora
Gibson were married at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. George
Holderby last Saturday, Rev.
J. F. Cossey performing the
ceremony.
MUST GET LICENSE
TO OPERATE GINS
Timely Announcement is Made
By Food Administrator on
This Big Feature
Notwithstanding repeated
announcements on the subect,
many persons have begun the
erection of gins in various parts
of the state, unmindful of the
fact that before any enterprise
of this nature may be operated
it will be absolutely necessary
to have a license from the
United States Food Adminis
tration. Appreciating the fact
that it will no doubt save con
siderable expenditure for those
who may not realize the nec
essity for a license, Hamp Wil
liams, federal food adminis
trator for Arkansas, requests
that all who contemplate erect
ing gins make application to
his office before any work of
this nature is undertaken.
The United States Food Ad
ministration has requested that
all applications for a gin be
given careful investigation by
state and county food adminis
trators, and that gins that have
been built and are being op
erated without the official li
ens be stopped at once.
“The license to build and
operate a gin,” explains Mr.
Williams, will not cost the ap
plicant a penny. The license
is free, but the government de
mands that application for
permission be made first. All
who contemplate building gins
should write and get the li
cense. Do not go into the gin
business without a license, for
you will not get anywhere and
only have endless trouble.
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Knox mends shoes cheap.
Ill Walnut St., Newport, Ark.
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