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rIHE INDEPENDENT AUSTIN C. WILKERSON

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period of the war.

SOME SHAKE THAT.

The earthquake shock at 4:30 Sun-

day morning came like an explosion. It caused Mr. Herdon, night clerk at

Boas hotel, to stagger and almost ed rtf. shook a dollar out of his

!ch had just been paid him

Miss AlbiIoxie Correspondent of

list this weeKe Blade. —true to his call-

Z. B. Reid spenfct have shaken

this week at Grubbs}s teeth out,

busing”* e shake him

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loose from that dollar.—Arkansas Gazette.

“Dash, determination and daring— also efficiency”—That’s what our

boys at the front are doing. Keep ’em

going! War Savings is a massage tc

the kaiser that will “get over.”

SWIFTON.

Miss Mae Shell is the owner of a

new piano, delivered by J. D. Pope of Searcy, Tuesday.

Ferdinand Tonney made a busi- ness trip to Little Rock Tuesday.

Judge and Mrs. E. L. Boyce of New-

port, called on Swifton friends Sun- Misses Rebecca Young of Newport

and Wava Wyatt of Lonoke were the

guests of Swifton friends Tuesday. Miss Claudia Smith has been quite

ill with malarial fever for two weeks. H. E. Clark of Kansas City was

here on business Wednesday, day.

Mr. and Mrs. Holly Cobb of East T.miia stvent. Sundav here with

friends. A mammoth watermelon, weigh-

ing 42 pounds was brought to town

Saturday by John Jenkins, who do-

nated the melon to the Red Cross.

Rev. W. D. Ellis acted as auctioneer

and the melon was sold after some

spirited bidding to W. T. Altman for

thirty dollars. C. E. arrett of Tilton is the new

manager of the local stave mill. C. A. ! Mauck, who has had charge of the 1 mill for the past year has gone to

i Pocahontas, where he will enter the

employ of a stave company. Mr. and

Mrs. Mauck left Friday for Poca-

hontas, much to the regret of their

many friends. Mrs. James N. Moon has returned

from Memphis, where she spent a

week with her sister, Miss Bessie

| Morse.

Boyce Coe of Tuckerman, who is

attending school at Batesville, spent

Sunday with Swifton friends. Roscoe Parsley, aged 29, died Mon-

If Its Good To Eat

We Have If

Call and inspect our stock, it will attract your attention as to quality and freshness both. We have in stock

FLOUR CREAM MEAL I ,.fS HUBERT’S COUNTRY

TEARL HOMINY STYLE CORN MEAL

BRANZOS

Country produce on hand at all times

R. J. Wise Grocer Co.

Beautiful Rug's make

COMFORTABLE HOMES l

We have the Rugs in all the latest

colors and designs.

Large room sizes in price from

$5.50 to $75.00

Small rugs in all sizes. Buy now

and be comfortable for the winter.

AVERA FURNITURE STORE r

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Calfs Modem Mother. To the there is no

particular between cow’s Purina Calf Chow—and to

you there is $15.00 saving per calf. Purina Calf Chow ia the nearest duplicate cf cow’s milk on the market— that's why calves thrive on

Makes calf raising easy. Sell your milk—raise calves on Purina Calf Chow. You'll make more money with less work. A boy can feed it —just add hot water and give to calf. Sold in Checkerboard bags only by

Tor Sale by JOHN R. LOFTIN, JR.,

Newport, Arkansas.

day night of influenza, after an ill- ness of three days. The young man

came from Little Rock several days before his death and it was thought he was ill when he came. His two-

year-old son died of the same malady two days later. These two deaths have been the only deaths from in- fluenza in this locality. 1

Taylor Keaton, mail carrier on

Route 1, and Mary Mullens were

married last Wednesday evening by Rev. M. A. Fry.

George Ashley, who is serving in the navy is here from Norfolk, Va., visiting his aunt, Miss Kate Fors-

ter.

J. N. Moon has been quite sick for several days with influenza.

Mrs. S. A. Driver and Mrs. C. P. Trice, who were on the sick list for several aays, have recovered from severe attacks of influenza.

J. H. Clark, a farmer living south- east of town, was called to Secacus, New Jersey Saturday by a telgram

i saying his son, who is a member of I the national army, was seriously ill.

Mrs. W. R. Harvey, Mrs. W. T. Altman, Mrs. C. P. Trice and Miss Mae Shell made a trip in a car to

I Newport Tuesday. J Misses Eula, Mildred and Alma Moon spent Monday in Newport.

B. S. Brann and family moved to

their farm Wednesday.

Subscribe for the Independent.

TUCKERMAN.

The “flu” seems to have full sway now.

W. M. Shaver is quite ill. His two sons, Charms and Edwin, are also sick, both suffering with influenza.

Prof. Albright and his corps of teachers are ready to begin school work here, but it seems as if we shall have to wait quite a while because of

health conditions. The kaiser would like to get out

of his present predicament. The man whose ox is gored generally hollers, and it is now Wilhelm’3

! time to “squall.” Jackson County Realty Company

of Tuckerman sold W. A. Farr a 17b

acre farm near Elgin, the first ot

this week, the conskk-ration being $13,200. This is only another re-

minder of how vaTuable farm prop-

erty is near Tuckerman. Mrs. Massey, whose husband is a

sergeant with the colors in France, 1 is visiting her friends, Mrs. Willie

Payne and Misses Clara and Sylla Harvey.

] The influenza is an unwelcome visitor in the homes of Hubert and C. E. Harrison, and in fact at so

many places that the writer cannot

mention them. Mr. J. E. Parrott, one of Tucker-

man’s most distinguished citizens, and one of the oldest settlers of this community, who was killed by acci- dent, was buried last Saturday at

Pleasant Grove cemetery. Mr. Par-

rott’s team became frightened and ran away with him while in Newport on business. The burial services were under the auspices of the W. O. W. and the funeral was preached by | S. C. Vick. The bereave dones have the heartfelt sympathy of many j friends.

R. B. Vick of Judsonia has accept-j ed a position here with the Slayden

Mercantile Company and will begin work as soon as the “flu” turns

away from his family. We notice quite a number of peo-

ple in Tuckerman from the hills, looking for lands to rent. These fer-

tile farms appeal to the men whose

crops have been so light. Now that the Fourth Liberty Loan

is oversubscribed we must all get down to our knitting in doing many other things to help win the war.

There should b3 no let up because if this war is to be won by a military victory, it is my opinion that it will take next summer’s campaign to do it. There will be lots of lives lost and indeed a great sacrifice yet for us to make. Shall we complain be- cause of our little offerings of dol- lars and cents when our boys on the battlefields pour out their life’s blood to preserve us a nation ? Then well might we say in the words of

Key: “Then conquor me must, When our cause it is just, An this be our motto:

In God we trust.” And the star spangle banner, In triumph shall wave, O’er the land of the free, and the

home of the brave.” Several of Tuckerman’s citizen’s

went to Violet Hill Monday to attend the burial services of Dr. C. C. Smith, formerly a prominent dentist of our

city. Dr. Smith volunteered his ser-

vices to our country and was accept- ed. We understand he died from

Spanish influenza. —

BENGEL.

Fortunately Jack Frost has de- ferred his visit so long that all late

crops are now practically safe. T. A. Ray is on the sick list this

week, but so far no symptoms of the dreaded “flu” has developed.

Elihu S. 0| Allen and nephew, Bud Wortham, spent Sunday in Bradford.

Quite a bunch from Weldon were

out on the river nutting Sunday. Mrs. Ledbetter drove down from

the Island Sunday to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Bell.

Ernest Cooper has been very ill for several days with the influenza, but is much batter at this writeup.

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cagle enter-

tained the young people with a dance

Monday night. All report a good time.

We understand that the condition of little Louise Plant still remains

critical. We trust, however, that die report is exaggerate.

Bennie Forster, wife and baby of

Ingleside were mixing with old

d-iends here Sunday. Owing to the unsafe condition of

the Picket Lake bridge, the farmers are compelled to haul their cotton 14

mils to Newport to be ginned and

marketed, a long hard trip for man

and beast. We suppose the time is not yet ripe (?) for the authorities to

move in this matter.

Mrs. S. M. Bains and son, Sam, are

spending the week on the farm.

Mrs. W. T. Keen is suffering from a severe attack of influenza. Dr.

Price of Tupelo is attending her.

Several of our farmers hauled cot-

ton to Newport this week. We regret to hear of the death on

October 18 of the infant of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Matthews of the copperage

plant. The baby had influenza. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Thomma and

baby and Mrs. Geo. Thomma, all drove up to Newport in the former’s car Sunday. Mrs. George Thomma left for Pocahontas, after a pleasant visit of some ten days with her son

and family.

TAKE SALTS TO FLUSH KIDNEYS

Eat less meat if you feel Backachy or

Bladder troubles you—Salts is tine for Kidneys.

Meat forms uric acid which excites and overworks the kidneys in their efforts to filter it from the system. Regular eat- ers of meat must flush the kidneys occa-

sionally. You must relieve them like you relieve your bowels; removing all the acids, waste and poison, eise you feel a

dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, diz- ziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment; the channels often get irritated, obliging you to get up two or three times during the night.

To neutralize theso irritating acids and flush off the body’s urinous waste get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take a table- spoonful in a glass of water before break- fast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine and bladder disorders dis- appear This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com-

bined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate slug- gish kidneys and stop bladder irritation. Jad Salts is inexpensive; harmless and makes a delightful effervescent lithia- water drink which millions of men and women take now and then, thus avoiding serious kidney and bladder diseases. j

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Our Sentiments: “The sweetness of low pr ces

never equalsthe bitterness Of poor

Of 29 Competing Tractors

The Rumely Oil-Pull

Plowed at Lowest Cost

What follows is not what the Rumely makers have to say

of their own machines, but what unbiased judges at State and | National Tractor DemoiiStrations have officially found on ex-

haustive tests. NORTH DAKOTA STATE DEMONSTRATION AT MINOT

JUNE 19, 1918.

(29 Tractors Competing.) r. 1 Synopsis of Official Findings tfi 3

AT STATE DEMONSTRATION.

Average ofb Average of 23 Rumely Tractors burn- Trato rburn- Oil 11

ing Gasoline ing Kerosene II Exclusively or Gasoline and Burnin

Kerosene. Kerosen

Number of acres plowed- 2.02 1.84 2.27

Fuel per acre (gallon)- 3.26 3.77 2.97

Fuel cost per acre (cts.)38.2 66.27 45. Note that the Rumely Oil Pull using kerosene ||

—used less fuel per acre than any competing tractor us-

ing kerosene gasoline or both. —plowed at the lowest cost per acre of all competing trac-

tors.

Note the number of plows and depth of plowing. Ten so-called

3-plow tractors pulled on y two plows—eight tractors rated 14-27 to 24-36 h. p. pulled only three plows each.

—the Rumely Oil Pull pulled' four plows—the number it is advertised to pull. —it plowed AVz inches deep—the maximum depth—equaled by two competitors only. —it was theonly tractor burning kerosene that plowed 4 Mj inches deep.

! AT NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION

At the National Tractor Demonstration at Salina, Kansas, July 29th to August 3d, the Oil Pull was entered in all offi- cial tests. No comparisons with other tractors can be made as

results of tests were not made pr ftc by the officials. All tests were under the sup jrvision of agricultural authorities.

Following are the official figures for the 14-28 Oil Pull: Drawbar Fuel Test.

Soil—moist gumbo, stubble ground. Number of plows—4. Depth of plowing—6 inches. Fuel used per acre (kerosene) 2.92 gallons. Note that fuel consumption per acre is almost identical with that of the Oil Pull at Minot.

Drawbar Fuel Test. Soil—stubble loose on top. Average drawbar pull—15.7 H. P.

jE Maximum drawbar pull—17.3 H. P. Showing a .reserve power of 23 fi per cent over advertised rating ■

v Belt H. P. Test ~

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Average belt H. P. 35.01. Showing a reserve power of 25 per cent over advertised rating.

Special attention is called to the latest size Oil-Pull

THE “BABY” RUMELY TRACTOR.

This is the smallest Tractor made by Rumely, and while

only recently introduced, it made an immediate hit. It weighs only 5,000 pounds, pulls three plows and can be turned in a

space of 20 feet. ■ / t U) There are five sizes, the others being as follows: 14-28 Rumely Oil Pull Tractor, of which over 200 are in

use in Arkansas alone. 18-35 Rumely Oil Pull. I 20-40 Rumely Oil Pull. 'y 30-60 Rumely Oil Pull. All of these tractors operate on kerosene and are guaran- j;

teed in writing to burn kerosene during the life of the raa-

chine. We will demonstrate the above Tractors at Newport all

next week, at the foot of Walnut street, known as the show

grounds. ilSttUB

j Sctlemen

H. M. MUNDY

J. M. GIBSON

Joe Lyons Machinery Co. SUCCESSORS TO

Southwestern Supply Company Joe Lyons, President

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All Kinds of Farm Machinery 112-120 North Louisiana Street Little Rock

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