16 May 1918
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Newspaper
Dermott News
Location
Dermott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1918
Page
1
Community items list Orr's New Laces at The Novelty Bargain Carnival at Dante's and Big Patriotic sale at Weisman's. Local notices include visits, church events, Red Cross drives, school elections May 1st, and farm equipment ads plus multiple small business promotions and personal updates.
Those from 1s to 45 who wish to enlist in the Fifth Arkansas Regiment now being organized should report at once to recruiting officers W. Blackwood R. Parrish at Dermott Arkansas.
A Red Cross Drive for the Second War Fund opens with a big rally at Dermott High School auditorium. Lt Hogg from Camp Pike and Capt Abercrombie are slated to speak, with Judge Toney as chair. A large musical program includes a quartet, solos, community singing, and orchestra numbers performed by local artists. An evening program for colored residents follows with the same speakers.
A school auditorium program featured piano solos by Chrystine Kennedy Ruby Harrison Virginia Hoffman Kate Hoffman Ruth Leeper and Anne Laurie Graves with vocal solos by Ada teen Johnson Winnie Bowden and Blanche Neal. A 36 student chorus plus grades one and three patriotic selections and an address by Mr Anderson drew applause. Four Chicot County men appear on the University of Arkansas Service Flag unveiled May 13 with Gov Charles E Brough speaking. Names listed include Johnson Chapman J Buford Daniels Earl Porter Rudolph R Tushok.
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