The Dermott news., 1918-05-09

ful new flag now floats proudly from the flag pole on Front Street. Long may it wave,
 A. L. Bynum. recently of Hudspeth. has accepted position here with the Valley Mercantile Go. He expects to move his family here next week. | Misses G adys and Minnie Bays, Will lie and Josie Markstine. Pearl Moore and Bernicr Courson were guests of Miss Myrtle lsaacs at Belaire Sunday
 The party who found saddle Satur-
 lay night. left with car of wagons east of depot. will please phone C F. Dow len and get reward. It
 Mrs. W. \ Skipper recently of Me l;ehee. was a guest here Monday of Mrs. ". H. Iephiew. She left Tuesday for North Little Rock. where she will make her future home.
 Superintendent NJ. J. Anders of the Dermott High School goes to Hermi- taEe tomorrow to deliver the bacca- laureate address to the graduates of the Hermitage High School.
 Mgr J (. Hoffman of the Dermott Grocery &; Commission Co left Tues day afternoon for Louisville, to attend the annual meeting of the National Wholesale Grocers' Association
 Rev William A Rolle is touring Drew County this week delivering pa triotic addresses and organizing Red Triangle Leagues for the Army Y NJ. CA. He will occupy his pulpit here on next sunday.
 l F. & Matthews, of the kessler- Mat thews Auto Co.,. returned last week from trip to his old home. Ruleville. Miss. Mrs Matthews and daughter remained there to spend several weeks visiting relatives.
 Mrs. Roland Clarke and little daugh ter left yesterday for Trenton. Tenn, for q months visit with relatives. From there they expect to go to Okla homa to spend a couple of weeks before returning home.
 i Under direction of the '. M. (. A, Mrs. lrion and the other Dermotters who entertained at the school auditor ium two weeks ago. went to McGehee last Thursday and repeated their per formance. playing to Sl60 house. | After year of active service as an auxiliary at large Dermott Red Cross workers met Monday night and re.or l ganized as unit of the Chicot County Chapter. E. P Remley was elected chairman, Mrs. II. Parnel secfetary and G. A. Franklin treasurer.
 Mrs. B. A. Kimpel the first of the week let the contract to Blythe X De Laney for new $500 sixroom bun galow to be erected just north of the Barlow residence on Main Street. Work on the building is to begin at once When finished it is to be oeeu- pied by Mr. and Mrs F. B. kimpel
 An exhibition program, including vo- cal instrumental and patriotic selee- tions. will be rendered at the high school auditoriumNext Monday evening. beginning at s:30., under the direction of the music department. An admis- sion fee of S5c and 2Oc will be charged, the proceeds to 20 on the new piano. The patronage of the public is solicited.
 The candidacy of Joe Ferguson for State Treasurer Is most heartily en- dorsed by his home people. They say that they are ready and willing to get behind him with the $500, 00000 Bond required of your State Treasurer. If you want honest. faithful. efficient ser vice. vote for Joe Ferguson for State Treasurer and you will have what you want. adv
 N. Friedman. formerly of Dermott but more recently of Lake Village. left the first of the week for the training camp at Waco. Texas. ''Friedy" is one of the old familiar landmarks in the county. and has many friends who will be interested in his farewell mes sage, which appears elsewhere in this paper.
 We wish again to call attention to the fact that we cannot possibly handle all the copy for the paper each week on Wednesday. For this reason sever al articles are omitted again this week. Those wishing "write-ups or articles of any sort published should see that they reach this office early in the week Monday. if possible.
 C. H. McCroskey. manager of the Allied Theatre, reports that his date on The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, which was scheduled for May l7th and | .N \ .l- I-.