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Newspaper
Dermott News
Location
Dermott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
8
A Dermott proclamation designates Friday June 28 1818 as War Savings Pledge Day. Citizens are urged to devote after two o clock to pledge savings and purchase War Saving Stamps to support the war effort, with pledges to save to the legal limit. Signed by Mayor J A Bennett.
Mayor proclaims Friday June 23 as War Savings Pledge Day urging every man woman and child to pledge up to a $20 quota. County total is 549009 with a $1000 cap for those who can, county directors and W S S county committee plan Lake Village meeting at 2 pm to organize drive led by J B Sims W D Trotter and W A Rolle.
The Seventh District Democratic Convention at Camden on June 11 1915 elected C W Smith as permanent chairman and H A Pickett as secretary. It canvassed May 28 1915 primary results showing W S Goodwin with 1194 votes over Tillman Parks, declaring Goodwin the party nominee for Congress. The district named officers for the two year term and chose a central committee with Cone Turner as chairman and A N Meek as secretary.
A telegram from Congressman W. S. Goodwin to C. Warfield of Readland reports lawmakers in session adding funds to Mississippi Lower project costs. The total includes seven million four hundred thousand for bank revetment and four million two hundred seventy thousand for levees, with local boards adding over two million.
At a June 13 meeting of the Southeast Arkansas Levee Board in Arkansas City, bids for 150000 cubic yards of levee work on the Arkansas River were received from R T Clark 85 cents per cubic yard Roach and Stancil unknown per cubic yard and Brown Bros 39 4 cents per cubic yard The contract went to R T Clark The Board will seek bids for enlarging 75000 to 100000 yards from Lower Luna to Upper Leland in Chicot County
The Chicot County Sunday School Convention held its second annual meeting at the Dermott Presbyterian Church with out-of-town delegates and six sessions. State secretary Fred L. James led the event and spoke alongside district president W. D. Trotter and Rev. M. Holland. Officers were reelected: President Gil Eberdt, Lake Village. Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Rastnering, Chicot. Superintendents N. Smiley, Bunker, Llewelyn, Hudson. District presidents were named for Dermott, Lake Village, Jennie, and Eudora areas.
Rev Wm Provand of Glasgow and cousin S Burleigh He of R Burleigh & Sona arrived from Liverpool on Tuesday to discuss business and war matters He preached at the Presbyterian Church and praised America’s role while noting two sons one killed in September and the other still serving on the western front Also mentions real estate for sale and a local business ad from Blytheville Arkansas with Heinz products.
In Chicot County a report alleges one hundred German prisoners are working as laborers on the Sunny Side Plantation beside the Mississippi River. Warfield, president of the Southeast Arkansas Levee Board, seeks congressional action to remove them due to alleged high-class status and potential risk to levees and public safety. He urges Congressman Goodwin to address the issue amid wartime anxieties.
Farmers urged to place orders now for hay presses cane mills peanut diggers threshers farm engines and related equipment from Williams Mill Mfg Co Texarkana Arkansas to avoid missing the chance.
A promotional message urges buying Turret STAMPS with the slogan that a country worth fighting for is worth saving, framing stamps as patriotic support.
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