Newport daily independent., 1918-08-07
TUCKERMAN.

l Mrs. w. M. Crigler of Walnut Ridge came down last Tuesday to visit among 1uckerman friends.
 Preston Cook and J. T. Puckett were very busy early in the week ex- changing places of residence. The house now occupied by the former was recently purchased from Mrs. Mary Hunter by his parents, J. c. Cook and wife.
 J. M. Witt, prosperous farmer who resides on the Slayden farm near Diaz, was looking after business matters here last Tuesday. l Claude Barnett, formerly resi- dent of this section was here early in the week. His home is near Tu- pelo this year, where he engaged in agricultural work.
 1 J. w. Lindley of Battle Axe ship- ped carload of cattle from this place Wednesday morning. They were sent to the St Louis markets. l J. E. Bowen recently consummatcd real-estate deal by which he be- came the owner of seven hundred acres of land, which lies immediately south of and adjacent to the Goetz rice farm. He expects to retire from the mercantile business this year and give his entire time and attention to stock growing business in the fu- ture.
 Ray Blankenship and Hunt Puck ett, prominent druggists of Augusta, motored to Tuckerman and spent the day last Sunday. While here they were the guests of J. T. Puckett,
 rother of the latter.
 Dewey Parrott is sojourning at Hot Springs just now, where he went to rest and to recupcrate for a while. Prof. J. G. Albright of Salem came in early in the week. He was re- gently elected as superintendent of the local high school and is here to begin the prelinlinarics which are connected with that work. He ex- ects to make himself fully acquaint- ed with the conditions that exist here and adjust himself to them as best he can. Prof. Albright is one of the most prominent and popular teachers l in North Arkansas, and Tuckerman is fortunate in securing his services. I With the completion of the new l school building which will furnish ample room for the local school there should be great difference in condi- tions in the future. The past crowd- ed conditions will be entirely elimin- ated for several years at least and with a sufficient number of teach CTS this place should have one of the. best schools in the state. A twelve- mill tax was voted this year which will almost double the districts rev. enue in the future. If there was ever a time when the people should get to-| gether and boost for their education~ al interests it is now. We predict that will be the case and that the standard of our home school will be. greatly raised during the next ses- sion.
 I. N. Greenhaw is at Hot Springs taking course of baths at present.. He has been in poor health during the past few months and he hopes to be benefited by hs;s yiathne ttetth be benefited by his stay in the City l of Vapors.
 James Harvey and Penn Davis left. early in the week for Little Rock, where they went to drive back a new Studebaker car, which the former re- gently purchased through the local agency.
 | Miss Annie Jones left here Tuesday for Elgin, where she is spending the summer. She had been visiting rcla- tives here and in Jefferson township during the preceding week. Miss Ursula Moore left last week for Hot Springs, where she will rest from her strenuous labors of the past week. Miss Moore has charge of the musical department of the high school here and in addition has done much outside work, which has taken so much time that she just recently completed her years work.
 Contractor Dwyer is making very satisfactory progress with the work of constructing the new school build ing. He insists that he will have the building ready for occupancy on schedule time. The work of putting the roof on is now in progress and will probably be completed within the next week or so.