Newport daily independent., 1918-10-24

Rutland Fuel Go. Phone 290. 5Od4
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Handford of Little Rock were at the Hazel hotel last night, going to Batesville this morning to visit relatives of their former home.
 Deputy Sheriff Robert Ivy is re- porte better this morning from se- rious illness of pneumonia, and his friends are glad to know he is on the road to recovery.
 Prof. Edgar Williams arrived home yesterday afternoon from Mountain Grove, Mo-, but his wife, who is improving, was not able to come for few days.
 Adam Lockard spent very rest less night, but was reported to be resting very well this morning. A nurse from Little Rock came last night to care for him.
 The Independent learns that Wes- ley Shaver and little son of Tucker man, are among the sick of that city, suffering from the terrible malady that has befallen the nation.
 Rev. w. c. Mitchell, the new pas tor of the Baptist church, is out again after having been kept at home for several days at the bedside of his wife, who has been vrry sick.
 Claude Hogue, is able to be out af- ter an illness of several days with severe attack of influenza. Mrs. Hogue, however, continues very sick and has been for several days.
 Miss Corinne Mosby has accepted position in the cotton office here with Chump, Britton 6 West of Memphis. Pete Mitchell is buying for the company and has an office in the Arkansas Bank & Trust Company building.
 Edgar Finch, a young man hvlng at Brookland, Craighead county, who was to have left Jonesboro this morn ing for Camp Travis, went home thls week after his examination for the army. it is stated and shot two of his fingers off with his shot gun.
 Wallace Davis, former attorney general, and son of the late Senator Jeff Davis, has been inducted into the military service at his own re- nuest. and will be in training at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas. He enters the service as a private.
 The Red Cross chapter of Jackson county is in receipt of $11.4O from pie supper given ythe people of the Bridge School House, in the vicinity of Swifton. The patriotic people of that district, who are just now so terribly stricken with influenza, are to be commended for their work, and have the thanks of the people of the entire county for the interest they have taken in this great cause.
 On next Saturday, October 27th, the government says set your clock back one hour, and thereby get back to the former standard time. For six months we have been saving day light, and it has been generally liked and approved by everybody, who hope that next May the president will save some more daylight by setting the clocks forward one hour again.
 Reports from all over the country hring the news of much sickness and suffering. Many people are unable to get physicians or medicine in itme to check the disease. In Newport the situation is very much relleved' but there are several new cases de- veloping each day. The situation at l Swifton and Tuckerman is still very bad, but to a great extent has been relieved, many being on the road to recovery. Walnut Ridge, another neighbor city in an adjoining county has been among the hardest hit, a great many cases being reported tberA and in the immediate vicinity. Eighteen deaths have occurred m that section in the past three days.
 PSYCHOLOGICAL.