Newport daily independent., 1918-07-24

Dr. l.. T. Hays returned yesterday from a business trip to Memphis. Dr. Hays family, who are at Heber Springs, will remain there until September.
 Charles Smith, who is home from a naval training station on furlough of twenty-nine days, is spending the week with his brother, c. L. Smith of our city.
 Charles Long was expected home this afternoon, after a several days stay at his home at St. Joe, Mo, where he was called by the illness of his sister.
 Help Wanted-Girl to help do housekeeping, pleasant location, con genial family of four; white girl pre- ferred. Call or write 51O Main St., Newport, Ark. 77d3t wit
 
 Miss Seago, a trained nurse of Little Rock, was here last night go- ing home from Batesville, where she has been nursing the baby daughter of MT. and Mrs. George Terry, who has been very i'll, but improving.
 A. M. Allen, of the Delco Light Co.,, was here from Little Rock today, go- ing to Tupelo, where he is putting in a lighting system for the Gardner Mercantile Company.
 Mrs. Evelyn Kinman returned last evening from a few days visit at Little Rock. Mir. and Mrs. w. T. Parish, with whom she made the tri' in the Parish car, went on to Hot Springs.
 Owing to circumstances which are unavoidable the Christian Sunday school picnic will be postponed until some time next week. The time will be announced at Sunday School Sun- day morning, so if you want to go be sure and be there and you will learn the date. 77d2t.
 Mrs. A. M. Edgar had as her guests Tuesday afternoon, her sister, Mrs. Chas. Edwards, and her daughter, Miss Hazel Edwards, of Newark, also Miss Lucille Carter and Miss Hazel Hall of Pocahontas, the party driving up in their car and returning in the late afternoon.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. F. Beasley, of Walnut Ridge, and Mrs. J. T. Big gers, of Powhatan, are spending the day in our city on their way to Little Rock. They are making the trip in their car and had a break down when nearing Newport and were com pelled to spend the day here for re- pairs.
 Byron Parrott, the accommodating deputy circuit clerk, will resign his position this week and leave Monday for Vancouver, Washington, where he has enlisted in the Spruce Forests army service. He will be succeeded in the circuit clerks office by Otis Armstrong, another fine young man of Tuckerman, who has recently finished a business course at one of the business colleges at Little Rock.
 Miss Dove Erwin arrived home yesterday afternoon from Lake Gen. eva, Wisconsin, where she has been since the first of July, attending the school for National Sunday School Workers, which meets in Juuly of each year, and is attended largely by the leading Sunday school workers of the nation. On her retuurn Miss Err win enjoyed weeks visit with Miss Docia Dowdy, at the "Three Arts Club in Chicago, and also a day with Mrs. Gillieus Aureus, in St. Louis
 A card from MT. and Mrs. R. IT. Scruggs shows them to be at Eliza beth City, North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs left here the first of July on a months vacation to be taken in their car, and were to visit their home in Virginia and North Carolina. They stated they had gone fifteen hdndred miles and had one little prncture, which had been their only trouble, annd had averaged about two hundred miles day, over fine roads. They were to leave Eliz-