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BUY A WAR SAVINGS STAMP AT THE NEWARK POSTOFFICE AND HELP UNCLE SAM WIN THE WAR
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, January 10, 1918
Vol. 17, No. 41
ROBBERS SVSAKE RICH
HAUL AT MAGNESS
Elow Safe hi Stare of Miller &
Company arid Get Away
With Money
Robbers broke into A. F. Mil-j
ler & Company’s store at Mag
ness Monday night, blew tin
safe and secured more than
$500 in money and checks.
Entrance was made by
breaking open the front door,
a pick and pinch bar being
used tor the purpose.
The robbery is supposed to
have occured about 2 o’clock
Tueday morning, but was not
discovered until daylight.
The robber piled a lot of I
heavy clothing on and around
the safe to deaden the sound
of the explosion when the sul’e
was blown.
Of the amount taken from
the safe, $465 belonged to Mil
ler & Company, $65 of which
was cash and $400 in checks.
Government funds belonging
to the postoffice, which is kep'
in the same building amounted
to $45.57.
The Baptist Church at Mag
ness had $2,J in ca h deposited
with Miller & Company for
safe keeping and this was tak
en also.
Mrs. Alice Campbell lost $35
which she hud placed in the
safe for safe-keeping, and Mrs.
Stephens lost $5.
No stamps were taken from
the postoftice and some had
checks given bj a St- Louis
produce hou e and payment
refused, weie carefully sorted
out by the robbers and not
taken. > __
There is no clue as to the
identity of the robbers and
members of the firm of Miller
& Co. believe the work was
that of experts.
HELD OH SUSPICION
Alleged that Men Attempted
to Poison School Children
Three suspicions character?
were arrested near Batesvillc
a few days ago and placed ii1
i ■ i, pending an investigatior
of an alleged atempt to poison
the children attending schoo
at the Mack school house neat
Moorefield.
The men gave their name:
as William Murray from Mis
souri, Joe Denison from Ohio
and John Stephenson from
Pennsylvania. They slept in
the Mac.k school hou?e one
night last week and when a
fire was started in the stove
the following morning it was
found that some kind of a pois
onous chemical had been plac
ed in the drum of the stove,
which, when it became hot
threw off an ordor that made
a. number of the chilrden very
sick. The men deny any in
tention to poison the children
but admit they slept in the
school house.
If is said that no charge ex
cept that of vagrancy or tres
passing can be held against the
men and it is probable that
they will be released.
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HONOR ROLL
The following students of
the seventh and eighth grades
of the Newark public school
having completed the work as
signed during the holidays are
placed oji the honor roll:
Nelson Eller, Ralph Raney,
Louise Atkinson, Ruby Haw
thorne. Myrle Ratton, May
Moore. Madge Mugness, Rudy
Bird, Bonnie Green. Lillian
Hoyt, Alton Raney, Hinkle
Holderby, Lina Nauman.
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marv with money'
in the Bank ^
c\wcxys
ave a
full plate.
The way to get the full plate is to bank your
money regularly. No matter how small your de
posit is, bank it. As your balance grows, a feeling
of comfort, of security for the future, grows with it.
The world looks brighter to you, because, come
what may, you and yours are secure against want.
Our Bank is a Safe Place For Your Money
Put YOUR money in OUR bank.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
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1,828 ARKANSAS MEN
ENLIST IN U. S. NAYY
Arkansas Stands Near Head of
List for Enlistments For
Year Just Closed
Between February 22nd
| 1917, and December 31, 1917
a total of 1,828 men from Ark
ansas enlisted in the United
States Navy.
This information was given
out by the Navy Recruiting Of
ficer at Little Rock this week
and covers the period from the
opening of a mian office at
Little Rock until the end of the
year.
According to the recruiting
officer, this is a very good rec
ord for Arkansas, and on a ba
sis of the available population
this state will come near the
head of the list in Navy enlist'
ments. These enlistments cov
ered some forty odd ratings
and trades in the United States
Navy, and practically every
town in the State gave one or
more recruits.
Registrants may still enlist in
the United States Navy. Any
man who is not needed for the
current quota of his Board, or
whose number and class are
so far down the list that they
will not be needed for for the
next increment may enlist. Ap
plicants for enlistment who are
registrants, by presenting a
statement, signed by their local
board that they are not need
ed will be accepted by the
Navy recruiting officer.
Enlistments are being made
in over 30 different ratings, a
number of which are open to
men without previous experi
ence who are between the
ages of 18 and 35.
BANK ELECTS OFFICERS
All Directors and Officers of
First National Re-elected
At the annual meeting of
the stockholders of the First
National Bank of Newark held
Tuesday, the following were
re-elected as directors for the
ensuing year: C. M. Edwards
G. M. Fields, E- It. Moore, F.
C. Hyot, R- B. Adams, and Dr.
A. A. Evans. The officers re
el, ctcd are C. M. Edwards,
president; W. W- Jernigan,
cashier and T. M. Harrelson.
assistant cashier.
The First National Bank has
enjoyed a splendid business the
past year, having handled a
greatervolume of business than
ever before in its history. A
dividend of 16 per cent was
paid its stockholders the past
year.
HOG SELLS FOR $8f
Animal Sold by Newark Farm
er Brings Fancy Price
A well known farmer living
in Newark sold a hog one day
this week for as much as an or
dinary horse would have
been worth a few years ago.
The hog was a thorough
bred O. I. C. weighed 541
pounds and brought its owner
$81. This furnishes a practi
cal demontration of the fact
that it pays to raise good hogs.
The hog was purchased by E.
A. Hulsey of Newport.
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Buy a thrift stamp today.
MEATLESS DAYS
FOR ALL PEOPLE
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Hamp Williams Asks All Pa
triotic Citizens to Observe
Days in Their Homes
Ilamp Williams, federal food
administrator for Arkansas has
issued an appeal to the people
I of Arkansas to observe the
i meatless and wheatless days,
as is being done by the hotels
and restaurants.
Mr. Williams does not want
it understood that his request
is in the form of an order, but
it is an appeal to the patriotism
of the people to do this as their
bit in helping to win the war.
“The success of the war and
the freedom of the world for
democracyas against autocracy
largely depends on the food
supply,’’ says the administra
tor"The world faces an alarm
ing shortage of its staple food
crops on account of the mil
lions of men engaged in bat
tle and the manufacture of
munitions of war. In view of
this Herbert Hoover has re
commended that Tuesdays be
observed as meatless and Wed
nesday as wheatless days. The
people of this great state have
proven their loyalty and pa
triotism in all war measures by
giving the army and navy our
quota and by subscribing more
than our portion of the Red
Cross, Y. M. C. A. and Liberty
Loan funds. 1 request all the
people of this state to further
prove their loyalty and patriot
ism by observing these days.
Do not serve or eat beef, pork
or mutton on Tuesdays, or any
food containing wheat or its
products on Wednesdays.”
I 5.000 DEATHS IK STATE
Tuberculosis Kills More Than
Any Other Disease
Approximately 15,000 dea
ths occured in Arkansas during
1917 according to I)r. C. W.
Garrison, state health officer
the causes of which Dr. Gar
rison ranks a*s follows: Tuber
culosis 2,500; pneumonia, 2,
400 and malaria, 2,300; other
causes, 7,200.
Concerning the causes of the
remainder of deaths Dr. Gari
son was unwilling to venture
an opinion because of incorrect
diagnosis in many cases, and
also because the vital statistics
records in Arkansas are slow
in being forwarded to the of
fice of the State Board of
Health.
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w. O. w. INSTALLATION
The Newark W. O. W. held
a very enjoyable meeting at
the hall Teusday night, when
the annual installation of of
ficers took place.
Following are the new offi
cers installed : R. C. Freeze.
C. C.; C. V. Plumb, A. L.; L
G. Foster, banker; W. A. Isgrig
clerk; Jno. T. Tharp, manag
jer; A. J. McSpadden, escort;
M. C. Purdom, watchman;
Jewette Arnold, sentry; T.
M. Ratton and W. A. Bright
well, postmen.
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Save the pennies and buy U.
S. Thrift Stamps. j
URGES FARMERS TO
SAVE BROOD SOWS
County Agent Says it is Patri
otic Duty to Keep All
Breeding Stock
The United States Govern
ment has asked that Arkansas
increase her hog production
20 per cent. To do this means
that every farmer must keep
more breeding stock than he
did last year.
Due to the present high price
of hogs, 1 notice that some of
the farmers have been selling
off their good brood sows and
gilts to buyers who are ship
ping them out of the county
for butchering purposes. Inde
pendence coanty needs all or a
greater portion of these sur
plus sows to help make up the
increase asked by the Govern
ment. Therefore, if any man
in the county has more brood
sows than he can well take
care of he can render a patri
otic service by not selling these
brood sows for butcher pur
poses but instead by saving
them for his neighbor or for
some other farmer in the coun
ty who wishes to increase the
number of his hogs.
As county agent I would like
to see every farmer in our
county secure as many sows or
gilts as he can profitably han
dle. And with (his desire in
mind, I shall act for a few
weeks as free distributingagent
between seller and buyer. I
wish that those who have a
surplus of breeding sows for
sale would write or telephone
me the number they have for
sale, giving the age, breeding
and price of the sows which
they care to dispose of; also
the information as to whether
they are open or bred. On the '
other hand I wish (hose who'
MUCH ROAD WORK
IN STATE IN 1917
Arkansas Leads all Other Sou
thern State in Road Work
During Past Year
Preliminary surveys for 3,
341 miles of roads, the esti
mated cost of which was $18,
296,396, were made in the
state during 1917, and 1,655
miles of road representing 47
per cent of the road work ac
complished in the State during
the last five years are under
construction, according to fig
uers from the report of W. B.
Owens, state highway commis
sioner.
The receipts of the depart
ment for the year totaled
$190,345, in which are count
ed $15,073 for automobile li
censes at $5 per license and
512,575 for such license at $10
per liecnse- The department’s
expenses for the* year amount
ed to $133,668.90.
Arkansas ranked first in the
amount of money received
from the federal aid fund,
$173,300.01 having been ex
pended from that fund during
the year, and second in good
road projects. Eight new im
portant road projects have
been signed up and 15 more
have been approved.
want more brood sows would
likewise write or telephose me
the number of sows or guilts
which they would like to buy
stating the age, the breed
which they desire to buy and
advice as to whether they pre
open or bred sows or gilts.
I urge that every man give
this his prompt attention as
the hog-breeding season will
soon be over.
LELAND BUNCH,
Batesville, Arkansas.
ROCKING CHAIRS
We have a large assortment
of Rockers ranging in price
from $2.00 up.
Have an extra good, curved
arm, cobble or saddle seat
rocker, with a high back
that we are offering while
they last at $3.50 each.
If you are in need of anything
in the furniture ine come in
and look through our stock.
C. W. MAXFIELD CO I
THE BEST FOR THE MONEY
BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS %
FURNITURE, RUGS STOVES FARMING IMPLEMENTS