Newport daily independent., 1918-11-04


 weekend with MT. and Mrs. John D. Neal.
 MT. and Mrs. J. R.. Pitts and little daughter, who have been visiting her sister, Mrs. John Fotte, left today for Newark, and from there will go to 1 Cotter to live.
 l Mrs. R. B. Hooking was down town at the store this morning for the first time in two months, and her friends are glad to see her booking so well after a long illness.
 William N. Dunaway leaves this evening for Kansas City to join his wife and little daughter for visit with his mother, expecting to return with hs family next Sunday. l Toylor Dowell of Camp Pike is on a short visit with his mother, Mrs. Dan Dowell, ST., at Tuckerman, and with the Misses Harvey of that city, I visited Newport friends for short while Sunday.
 Mrs. w. A. Isgrigg, principal of the Newark school, was at the Hazel hotel Sunday night, returning from
 little Rock, where she spent the time that her school was closed with her husband at Camp Pike.
 Mrs. Charles Hartsfield has been brought home from Little Rock, where she has been quite sick with influenza. Mrs. Hartsfield was at Mrs. Lockhart's school when taken sick, and has been carried to her fa- ter's home at Diaz.
 | MT. Edgar Williams, who is the county chairman of the Victory Boys" has selected Freeman Irby as the Key Boy for this Drive and Miss Elizabeth Irby, who is county chair man for the ''Victory Girls" has se- lected Miss Mabel Dean for the Key Girl.
 l The Mothers Club, which was to have met tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. T. J. Gregg, will not hold a meeting until the influenza quaran- tine has been raised, announcement of which future meeting will be made l in due time.
 Annie Cooper, Estelle Cooper and Hazel Hardin, negresses, were 1 brought before the court of Mayor C. M. Erwin this morning and fined for fighting on Front street yesterday l afternoon. Also the following per- sons were tried in the same court and fined S10 each and the costs for gam ing: Nick Newton, Wm. Newton, Chas. Bright, B. Jones, Gabe Strong, E. Calaway, Tim Moore and Will |
 1 Cooper.
 The body of Private Luther s. Hen drix, who died at Camp Pike Friday night of pneumonia, was brought here Sunday at noon and buried at Walnut Grove. The young mans mother, who is widow and lives on the Island, has the sympathy of her \ many friends who live in that section, where she is well known. The body was accompanied by a comrade from Camp Pike, and the burial was at 5 o'clock.
 Homer Thompson, aged 40 years, died at his home in the Hickory Grove neighborhood Saturday afternoon and
 was buried Sunday afternoon at the eemetry at that place. Rev. Brown low Taylor of the Baptist church, con ducted the funeral service in the pres ence of large number of friends and rlatives of the deceased, who was one
 of the county's best citizens. He was victim of pneumonia, and besides a wife and several children, leaves five brothers and sister. A message from Charles Hipolite at Cotton Plant this morning, stated that Mrs. Harry P. Mathis diee there Friday from pneumona and tho remains were carried to her former
 home at Augusta for burial Sunday MT. Mathis is we'll known here by many business men, who regret t' learn of his sorrow. Mir. and Mrs Mathis had rooms with Mrs