Newport daily independent., 1918-08-30

Contractor Anderson has been making fair headway with the work of constructing concrete walks. He has already built several thousand lineul feet and is probably only about one half done the work which he has contracted to do.
 Mrs. Joe Greenhaw left one day last week for Jackson, Tenn, where she went to be at the bedside of an uncle who was seriously ill.
 A very unfortunate condition for the best interests of the town exists here just now. There are no vacant houses available and the demand for houses was probably never greater. Several families in different parts of the county have attempted to se- cure places of residence in order that they might have the advantage of the public. school. Others desire to building material and carpenters come here for various reasons. Ii were available several residences would be constructed here during the next few months.
 Wednesday about noon fire, which originated from a defective flue, de- stroved the handsome two-story res idence of Joe Dunn, who resides two miles northeast of Tuckerman. Only small amount of insurance was carried on the structure, and great amount of the contents of the build ing was a total loss.
 Wednesday night the dwelling owned by Mrs. Eliza Smith and occu- pied by a family named Tanner on the east side of the railroad, caught fire and was destroyed, together with the contents. The Tanner fam ily was attending a revival meeting here when the alarm of fire was giv- en. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin, and man is under arrest here charged with having connection with the destruc- tion.
 lC,. E. Land of Denmark, democrat icknominee for county superintendent of schools, was here the latter part of last week. He is assisting Coun- tv Superintendent E. H. Bowman Tn performing the duties belonging to that office.
 1 Z. B. Reid of Newport was here several days ago looking after busl- ness belonging to his avocation, that of selling musical instruments.
 Mrs. James Harvey was real sick several days during the past week but is much improved physically at present.
 1 Little Miss Margaret Harrison en- tertained about fifty of her little friends with a birthday party last Saturday afternoon. She received many tokens of remembrance from her little visitors.
 1 Chas. K. Coe recently accepted a position with the Riegler Mercantile Company and will be with them Tn the capacity of salesman during the { busy autumn months.
 s. L. Bogle and wife returned home the latter part of last week from Middle Tennessee, where they spent several days visiting amo their many relatives in that section
 Miss Ursula Moore returned home early in the week from Hot Springs and other Arkansas points, where she had gone to rest and recuperate from arduous musical work.
 Jno. M. Covey left last Thursday for Pine Bluff, where he went to look after business matters. He returned to Little Rock and spent the next day with his children. From there he went to Van Buren and Fort Smith where he visited his parents and oth- CT relatives before returning. J. B. Slayden is able to be out af- ter a several days tussel with mala- rial troubles.
 Henry Rogers of the Anderson school house community, accompanied 1 by his sister, Miss Maud, was here several days last week visiting at the home of J. A. Strider.
 1 Mrs. w. M. Shaver and two sons, Edwin and Charles, left Tuesday morning for Heber Springs, where they will probably remain during greater part of next month.
 Cards were received here Monday announcing the safe arrival in France of Dewey Roberts and Edgar Parrott,