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Newport daily independent., 1918-06-29
HERE AND THERE

HEnE HIvU IHEhE
 Bevens Heat Lotion cures all kinds of heat. 47d1mo. |
 George H. Banks is spending the day at Little Rock.
 Knox mends snoes cneap. Ill Wal nut street. dtf. Alcorn Ferguson is spending 1 several days at Augusta.
 Bevens' Heat Lotion cures heat with one application. 47d1mo L. McDouglad is at Little Rock spending the day on business.
 Kauga hose guaranteed for two years. 171Ac foot Bowen's Cash Store. 18d1mo George B. Irby returned yesterday | from business trip to Forrest City. | s. Lewis, of the Memphis Store, has returned from weeks stay at Mem phis.
 P. G Graham is home from Heber | Springs and is feeling improved from his three weeks stay there.
 Drayage of all kinds handled promptly. Phone No. 10. Chester Robinson 13-dtf |
 Mrs. Ida Hogue, of Newark, is en- toying visit with her son and wife, MT. and Mrs. Claude Hogue. Dr. R. c. Dorr, w. F. Albright and ]! | little Emily Bates, of Batesville, were | here yesterday returning from Little Rock
 1 W. A. Mink, contractor and build CT, satisfaction guaranteed.- 825 Malcolm Avenue, Newport, Ark. 43d1 mo.
 Mrs. J. E. Bridger arrived from Memphis yesterday and will spend a few days here and at Jacksonport on business.
 | Mrs. Belle Jackson, of Little Rock, is in the city visiting her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Heard, on Beech street
 1 Mrs. F. B. Morehead and little daughter, Lillian, went down to Cot ton Plant this afternoon to visit Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Walker for week.
 Mrs. Fred R. Suits and little son, Frederick, are expected home Sunday evening from two weeks visit with Mrs. Grant Minton, at Batsville.
 For Sale-National Cash Register, cost, $75.00, will sell at bargain; also 14-inch Emmerson electric fan. Apply at this office. 53d6t
 Bolt Makers Wanted-at Nuckoll's i Switch. Wood inspection. Pay ev- cry two weeks Chess and Wyman, Nuckolls' Switch. 55d6t | Mrs. George Anderson and little son, Flynn, of St. Louis, are expect ed in few days for a several weeks visit with her mother, Mrs. A. J. Wolf.
 Mrs. Gibson will open a summer school, beginning Monday, July l. See Mrs. Mrs. Gibson or Phone 92.
 55d4t |
 Mir. and Mrs. S. Heinemann ex- nect to drive through to Jonesboro |
Newport daily independent., 1918-06-29

Drayage of all kinds handled promptly. Phone No. 10. Chester Robinson. 13-dtt
Newport daily independent., 1918-06-29

Misses Helen Mcdonald and Cor inne Sweatt, two of Weldon's popular and talented young ladies, are spend- ing the day in Newport with friends. They were to have given concert at Weldon last evening, for the bene- fit of the Red Cross, but the storm broke into their arrangements. It will be given next Tuesday evening, however, and it is hoped Weldon peo- pie will give them good hearing.
Newport daily independent., 1918-06-29

Mrs. Ida Hogue, of Newark, is en- toying a visit with her son and wife MT. and Mrs. Claude Hogue.
Newport daily independent., 1918-06-29

P. c. Graham is home from Heber Springs and is feeling improved from his three weeks stay there.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
CONGRESS IS PERSHING'S
 SUPPLY DEPOT.

This is to be one of the Democratic rallying cries during the fall campaign, It will be heard as @ slogan in every Congressional district and in every state that elects a United States Sen ator in November. To back it up, the Democrats will prove that it has been Democratic support that has upheld the President in the conduct of the war.
 The slogan is not one provided by Washington leaders but is from an editorial in the Louisville Courier Journal This editorial, in part, says:
 Congress is General Pershing's g supply depot. It must put into ef- feet the plane to reinforce him that are conceived at the White House and in the war-making departments. It must be entirely in accord with the policies of the Administration par ticularly while the war lasts. Ob- struction and discord in the houses of Congress mean a slackening of the lines of communication between Washington and France. Soldiers have no politics, but, if General Pershing and the American army could give their views, they would declare for Congress in entire ac- cord with the Commander-in-Chi of the Army and Navy.
 "The only Congress that can be
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

nesses which are so common to women, should take the right tonic for the womanly system.
 If 8 woman is borne down by pain and sufferfngs at regular OF irregular intervals, by nervousness or dizzy spells, by headache or baekaehe, "Favorite Prescription" should be taken. If her existence IS made gloomy by the chronic weaknesses, delicate Arrangements, and painful disorders that afiliet her sex, she will find relief and emancipation from her troubles in Dr. Pierces Favorite Pfescrip- tion. If she's overworked, nervous, or rundown" she finds new life and strength. It's powerful, invigorating herbal tonic and nervine which was dis covered and used by an eminent physician for many years, in cases of female eom- plaints'' and weaknesses. "Favorite Pre- scription" can now be had in tablet form as well as liquid at most drug stores. Send to Doctor Pierce's Invalids Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y, for ten-cent trial package of tablets.
 For fifty years Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets have been most satisfactory i liver and bowel troubles.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
DEFENSE COUNCIL EXEMP TING
 SCHOOL TEACHERS
Number of Male Teachers in Connecticuts Schools is
 on Decline.

Hartford, Oct 10-Schoo1 boards and committees throughout the state have been urgently requested by the Connecticut State Council of De- fense to make claims for draft ex- emption on behalf of efficient male teachers, whose 1ossethrough the op- eration of the Selective Service Law would act to the detriment of educa- tional standards. Defense Council resolutions of similar import to those which led to this action were also sent to Provost Marshal General CroWder and to all district exemption boards in the state. The action of the Defense Council is in full accord with the wishes and policy of Federal Commissioner of Education P. P. Claxton, who urged the proceeding with the consent of General Crow der.
 The resolutions of the Defense Council emphasized the fact that many male teachers have hesitated to claim draft exemption on occupa- tional grounds despite the facts that President Wilson has repeatedly urg- ed the maintenance of educational standards unimpaired, and that the experiences of the countries allied with the United States have shown that the retention of a proper propor- ton of male teachers is absolutely necessary. The Defense Council pointed out that as result of the war the number of male teachers in Connecticut's secondary schools has shown a consistent and steady de- cline. This, it was said, Is a situa- ton much to be deplored because o1 the fact that a large number of male teachers are necessary for purposes of discipline, and because of the fact that they remain in the teaching pro- fession moro permanently than wom- en.
 The letter sent by the Defense Council to all the school Boards anG school committees, a copy of the reso- lutions of the Council being enclosed follows:
 Since the opening of the war ii has become increasingly apparent thai the situation with regard to main tenance of educational standards has not been wholly satisfactory. Despite frequent appeals on the part of the President and others in authority circumstances have prevented effec- tive action of the practical sort. More
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
BOYS
 JOKE WHILE IN
 HOSPITAL CO'TSI
Shrapnel Loaded Citizen Soldiers Will Have Their
 Fun Though Suffering.

With the American Army ID France, Oct. 10-The laugh and jeAo' and the prank are not absent from the American military hospitals. There is suffering, of course, in these great, splendidly equipped institutions, but even the shrapnel loaded American citizen soldier has his fun. One sur- geon tells this story:
 When the lines of stretcher cases were being brought into this hospital the surgeons stood in the reception ward making quick examinations. One stretcher was brought silently in, the form of soldier lying rigid un- der blankets drawn over the head. This is the sad sign of one who needs, no more help. They motioned the bearers to set it aside in corner and when the last wounded man had been looked over the surgeons reverently lifted the blanket from the face. The dead man sat suddenly up with a loud "Boo" Then the ease" laugh ed, lay down and again drew the blanket over his face. They let him play his joke on others for a while, then sent him to a ward to have some machine gun bullets picked out.
 Do you suffer much. laddie" asked a nurse of a soldier who lay in his cot with white face and tight lips in an American field hospital.
 NO, Miss, Oh, no,'' was the shaky reply. We Marines don't suffer, you know"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
NOW ARE. REAL SKY PILOTS
 OVER IN FRANCE

Paris, Oct -(Correspondence of the Associated Press) and tanks are being used by volunteer chaplafns and field secretaries with the Knights of Columbus, to serve the American soldiers over here.
 4 Two. chaplains, Rev. John Moran, of Eugene, Ore, and Rev. John Su1- livan, of Tuckahoe, N. Y, were the first priests to make their rounds by the air route Rev. Mr. Sullivan uses airp1anes several times a week and thus is able to visit field hospitals within a radius of 200 miles of his camp
 .Airp1ane transportation was used by Rev. MT. Moran for the first time when he received two calls to say call came from villages 50 miles apart where troops were bil1eted- An avia- ton pilot solved the problem for Chaplain Moran by offering to take him to both places and he went The result was a field mass at one village at 6 o'clock in the morning and at another mass in the village 50 miles further on at 7:30 a. m-
 L. Rev. Edwin O'Hara, rector of the Cathedral at Portland, volunteer chaplain for the Knights of Columbus, used tank to fulfill an engagement to say mass to distant troops and a secretary went with him to supply the soldiers with boxing gloves and base ball material for use after the ser vices.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
MINISTERS ASKED TO AID FIGHT ON
 GRIPPE EPIDEMIC
State Council of Defense Says Pastors Gan Help
 Authorities.

Hartford. Oct. 10-Au pastors in the state were today urgently called upon by the State Department of Health to cooperate in the campaign to check the epidemic of Spanish in f1uenza- Pastors were asked to ex- plain the nature of the disease to their congregations and to impress upon the latter that there must be no sneezing or coughing during services
 Pastors can do much toward pre- venting the spread of the epidemic if they will explain to their congre- gallons that the infection is spread from the sick to the well by means of the discharge from the nose and throat conveyed by coughing and sneezing," said Dr. John T. Black, State Commissioner of Health. Pas tors should also request that any member of the congregation who is liable to sneeze or cough during the service ought to retire in the interest of the health of those sitting near by."
 Physicians and nurses, while at- tending cases of influenza, were urg- ed by the State Department of Health to wear masks These, 1t was said should be adjusted to the face before entering a sick room and not removed or otherwise touched by the hands until the attendant leaves the room Then the hands should be thoroughly washed in an antiseptic solution and the mask sterilized- Hospital as- sistants, according to the Health De- partment, should change their masks at two hour intervals unless the masks are wet, when they should be changed at shorter intervals. The masks should then be sterilized-
 Disinfection of masks, 1t was ex- plained, may be accomplished b5 boiling them for five minutes. Until they can be boiled, they shou1d be wrapped securely in paper.
 The Health Department pointed out that observance of these rules would lessen the danger of infection to at tendantS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

specifically, deterioration has set in because of the sharp decrease in the number of male teachers in secondary schools and those of a lower grade. In the state of Connecticut, at the beginning of the war, there was only ' per cent. of male teachers in such schools. The decline in that num- Der has been so marked and the con- sequent loss in discipline so evident that the Connecticut Council of De- fense felt impelled to take cognizance of the situation and to do whatever was possible in the way of checking a movement which has dangerous pos abilities.
 'The result was the adoption of the enclosed series of resolutions on the subject Resolutions were also sent to the Provost Marshal General and to the district exemption boards in the state of Connecticut, which have original Jurisdiction over exemp. tions based upon occupations or em. ployment.
 We commend to your very carefu attention the subject which ha: doubtless come before you in othel forms, and trust that you will find i
 possible to present claims for ex emption for efficient teachers. "In making this suggestion the Council. has no intention whatever O .obstructing the operation of the Sc
 lective Service Law but it is attempt ing simply to emphasize one of th'
 selective features of the law whicl has been too long overlooked ant 1 which the experience of allied coun
 tries indicates should not be allowet i to go by default"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
EXPL PLOSIONS ARE WAR DOCS DINNER
 BELLS AT FRONT

Dog Training Camp in France, Oct. ed Press)-A war dogs dinner bell is a bomb. When all Is ready for the ters close to the kennels throw in fused hand grenades, and right and left all over the place there are ter rife explosions with clouds of smoke and dust.
 The dogs are not frightened, for they have been taught that explosions are merely the prelude to a meal. As the grenades go off the "dog men" run down the line, pushing each dogs plate of steaming food within reach, so that all are served at the same time.
 This training teaches the dogs, car rytng messages at the front to pass through the heaviest barrage without fear, believing that the only purpose of all the racket is to announce his dinner. Arriving with the message at headquarters, the dog at once finds his waiting master, who detaches the message from the collar receptacle and immediately rewards the animal with food In this way communica- tions can be maintained with advanc- ed elements of troops without the sac rifice of human life.
 The advantages of a dog messenger are many. The dog of course runs much more quickly than a man mes senger, and presents a far more diff ficult target for enemy snipers. In the case of small garrisons in outlying posts, the sending of soldier runners seriously weakens the fighting power of the unit, besides exposing the mes- sengers to all the perils of a fre- swept zone. Experience has proved that a combination of dog and carrier pigeon service is, if not more reliable than that of the human runners, very much more efficient.
 It is of the utmost importance that the dog of war be safeguarded from all b1andishments and temptations to finger among new-found friends for l everything depends when he is re- leased, upon his bolting straight back with his precious message to his mas ter. As food is the reward for faith ful services, no one but the master may give the dog even a scrap of meat
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
CHILD GETS SICK CROSS, FEvERISH
 IF CONSTIPATED
California Syrup of Figs" can't harm tender stom-
 ach or bowels.

A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will ,not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up with waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach sour.
 Look at the tongue, mother! If coated, or your child is listless, cross, feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's ailment, give teaspoonful of California Syrup of Figs" then don't worry, be- cause it is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, ard you have g. well, playful child again. A thorough inside cleansing" is oftimes all that is neces- sary. It should be the first treatment given in any sickness.
 Beware of counterfeit fig syrups Ask your druggist for a bottle of California Syrup of Figs" which has full directions for babies, chi1- dren of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Look carefully and see that it is made by the California Fig Syrup Company" !" -Adv.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
BEDDING
tEpecaal to The Tfmes.1

Bedding, Oct. 1.-The RepuEltcan candidates for the office of selectman were snowed under at the town meet ing yesterday when William c. San 1ord and James Drisco1E both Demo cratss were elected by a light vote. LA s. gNarner. one of the Republican candidates, was also elected
 Joe Godfrey was elected assessor with a majority of two votes over ] Albert Gorham.S There was some dis c1ssIon over this election owing to the fact that three ballots were rejected because a cross was marked against the names of the anditors.
 Stanford argued that if these marked ballots were counted it would leave 8 loophole for working smart practices His views were upheld by Everett Gorhan, the moderator, who by his decision defeated his brother.
 It was voted at the business part of the town meeting to invest $1.000 of the sinking fund in Liberty Loan Bonds.
 The matter of letting contracts for the repair of town roads was taken up and after some discussion was postponed to a future date.
 Fire on Monday afternoon destroyed the remaining barn on the property of p. c. Sanford. This is the fourth destructive fire which visited the San ford school during the past four years The fire broke out just as the cattle were being driven in for the night. Fortunately due to the brilliant and heroic work of the men employed on the estate the cattle were all saved, but the barn, which is the only one remaining, and two siIos were com p1ete7y destroyed with loss of about $4, 900. The property was insured for s2,5 300. All efforts to discover the or1- gin of the fire have so far failed. On account of the fire B. c. Sanford viii sell all his live stock, g head of cat
 tie, including 15 cows and a pair o1
 oxen, Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
 Rev. Raymond Cunningham, rectol
 of the Episcopal church, starts fol
 France Friday to take up his duties
 as chaplain with the American Ezpe
 ditionary Force. At the parish meet ling he was given indefinite leave c
 absence and was told that his posi-
 tion would be open for him upon hi r return from the front. During thu @ absence of Rev. Raymond Cunning l ham, the parish will be served b. f Rev. MT. Twelve, of Bethel, who vii s assume his new duties immediately. t Wednesday night 8 barn on tn n premises in hometown occupied by
 S. Burgiss and owned by Miss Nevve1
 of New York citk, was destroyed b V fire, the surrounding buildings haSin V a. narrow escape from being set O , fire by the flying sparks.
 v The citizens of Bedding have decid . ed to speed up the sale of Libart - Bonds and the town is below it's q1ot ', of $2S,000. While the -exaet fig1re u were not given 1t was announced ths , ,0 up to date in the neighborhood Of l. per cent. of the quota had been sut
 scribed.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
U. s. TROOPS GROW IN NIGHT
 SAYS BRITISH
Their Automobile Trucks on All the Roads Columns
 of Infantry All Over.

London, Oct, 10-(Correspondence of, The Associated Press)-"American soldiers seem to grow in the night so that each morning there are more of them than before" writes British soldier in France to his relatives in England. Americans are the topics of conversation everywhere" he con tinues "The villages are full of them" Their automobile trucks are on all fhe roads, and their columns of in faatry are everywhere. We are be- ginning to know the songs they sing and the phrases they use.
 sS ''To many of us they were a com plete mystery at first. We had heard of America only as distant country Then suddenly they were in France,- tall, well-trained men with a genius for making friends and adapting watched them with curiosity at first, surprised to find how like they were to other men.
 F@ "sThen, before we had quite recov- cred from the first pleasant surprise, they were fghting,-making a reputa- lt1en in a trade where the test Is not easy. They came up from their viii AageS singing, and filtered into the Trenches, more and more of them each dSE The paper began to talk about aheir fighting, but we thought Surely they cannot be doing much yet And then all at once we began to see it 0R lbpinion straightway that the papers had not grasped the wonder of the sAafa.
 Sa They were so keen and so fresh, those first Americans And every day others as keen and fresh are go- ing up to the line, and every day their places are being taken In the villages by yet others. What would the Ger mans say If they really knew all this one wonders
 @ They are merry and nght-hearted but underneath they are taking this business very seriously, and some o1 their talk shows 1t That's the way to take one's fighting, you know neither too much in earnest-whict Is morbid-nor too much as a joke which is foolish- The wise man 1: he who neither overrates himself no1 underratss danger. ThB American. are wise men
 The peasants like thems inc olf French mothers mother them ThE7 have an instinct w11ich gives them 2 realization of the h0mexickness wfsc1 must sometimes come to these mem When years have gone by, and it l. possible to see the war in prospective 1t may be possible to give full value to what those women have done
 Meanwhile, as I was saying, thu Americans go on arriving and spread ~--4Eg GH ever France"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
TRANSPORTATION
 FOR DOCTORS AND VISITING NURSES

Hartford, Oct. 1.-The Transpor- Nation Department of the Connecticut State Council of Defense, in co-opera- ton with the Motor Messenger Corps, has arranged volunteer automobile transportation fur doctors and visiting nurses of the State Department of Health during the epidemic of Span ish tnfueIrza- The Bridgeport and New Britain Boards of Health have been furnished with one car daily for a similar purpose +' ~.'
 The doctors sent from Hartford and Bridgeport act as inspectors They investigate local epidemic conditions and report advisory emergency meas ures to Dr. John T. Black. State Health Commissioner.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

entirely relied upon to present this front is a Democratic Congress. The course of the Republican minority demonstrates that while they have been held into line as minority, once in the majority party politics would inevitably creep into the con- duct of the war. It Is the natural course of legislators in a government by party, not wholly intentional, but partly temperamental and tradition al.
 Republicans are planning a hard fight this fall to win control of the House and Senate. One vote may decide whether the Administration Is to have Senate majority"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
Can't Find Dandruf

Every bit of dandruff disappears after one or two applications of Dan derine rubbed well into the scalp with the finger tips. Get a small bottle of Danderine at any drug store and save your hair. After a few applica- tions you can't find a particle of dan- druff or any falling hair, and the scalp will never itch.-Adv.