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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, February 21, 1913
Vol. 12, No. 46
Don't Boast About What You Would Do if You Were Someone Else—Just Get Busy and Show What You Can Do Yourself
WILL BORE EOR OIL
AT NEWARK SOON
Prominent St. Louis and Kansas
City Captalists are Back of
the riovement
W. L. Kenney, C. H. Smith and
H. M. Dodds, all of whom hold
official positions with the St. Louis
Iron Mountain & Southern Rail
way, have interested St. Louis and
Kansas City capitalists in a move
ment to put down an oil well at
Newark, and it is reported that the
necessary machinery to begin drill
ing will be shipped here ot once.
Mr. Kenney, who is chief of the
right-of-way department of the
Iron Mountain, and Mr. Dodds, an
expert civil engineer in the employ
of the same company, are thej
prime movers in the enterprise.
They have had parties at work for
several days taking leases on land
and it was reported yesterday that
they had secured leases on some
thing over 9,000 acres.
Mr. Kenney has assured parties
who are interested locally that
machinery will be placed on the
ground within the next three
weeks and that it will be of suffi
cient size and capacity to sink a
large w'ell in the shortest possible
time.
LOCAL PHONE SYSTEri SOLD
A deal was consumated last Sat
urday whereby the Newrark Tele
phone Company disposes of its
entire holdings to a new company
to be known as the White River
Telephone Company.
The new' company filed articles j
of incorporation with the secre- j
tary of state Tuesday, and is com j
posed of M. J. Manning, David R. j
Gates and T. J. Raney. The new ;
company will take charge on the I
first of March.
NOTICE TO SINGING CLASSES
The first convention to be held !
this year by the association will;
be at Lone oak, one mile west of
Sulphur Rock. Leaders, get your
classes in good shape and be there
and take a hand in the contest for
the banner. Prof. 0. T. Jernigan’s |
class captured the banner in the
last convention at Sulpuhr Rock
last fall. The convention will be
the second Sunday in April. There
are some visiting classes expected;
to come. Let us make 1913 the
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banner year for good singing in
old Independence county. We
want as many classes as can come
or be sure to send a delegate, as
vve wish to arrange for a three
days county convention to be held ;
near Moorefield some time in
August. We want a delegate
from each and every class in the
county. Be sure and get in shape.'
We are not selfish, we want all to
come and take a part with us. All
come and bring dinner.
A. B. Duff, President.
Newark, Ark., Feb. 18.
PROSPECTS FOR OIL
PRONOUNCED GOOD
Sulphur Rock Well is Cased and
Promoters Well Pleased
With the Situation
—
Anton Knudson, general manag-1
er of the Sulphur Rock Develop
ment Co., who is putting down the
oil well at Sulphur Rock, was in
Newark a few hours Monday.
The well is now about 13(30 feet
deep and has been been cased and j
the water pumped out. Oil has !
been found but not in paying
quantities and Mr. Knudson says
that the other necessary machin
ery for continuing the drilling has
been ordered and will arrive about
Monday or Tuesday, when he ex
pects to resume drilling. He ex
presses himself as well pleased
with the prospects, and is cofident j
that oil will be found in paying j
quantities.
NOTICE
I have sold mv business at Sul-'
phur Rock, to Yr. Will Duvall and
all parties owing me on open ac
count or by note (that is due) will
please come in at once and settle
same or make satisfactory arrang
ments. You will find me at Mr.
Duvall’s store, or he will give you
proper credit or receipt. Thank
ing you for your promptness in
this matter, I am,
J. H. JlMERSON.
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
Presiding Elder E. K. Sewell
will hold the second quarterly con
ference at the Methodist church
here Saturday and Sunday.
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ROBINSON SIGNS
NEWJJQUOR LAW
Sounds Death of Open Saloon in
Arkansas,—lavs Becomes
Effective January 1
A telephone message from Sen
ator T. J. Raney Monday morning]
brought the news that Gov. Rob
inson has just signed Senate bill
118, the effect of which will be to
drive the open saloon out of Ark
ansas.
The new law will become effect
ive January 1, 1914, and is pub
lished herewith in full.
Section 1. It shali be unlawful
for any court, towm or city coun
cil or any officer thereof to issue a
license or permit, or any other
authority to any corporation, per
son or persons, to sell, barter or
give away any alcholic, malt, vin
ous or spiritous liquors, or any
compound or preparation thereof,
cormponlv called tonics, bitters or
medicated liquors within the state
of Arkansas, except as provided in
this act.
section i. W hen a majority or
the adult white inhabitants living
within the incorporated limits of
any incorporated town or city in
this state shall have signed a
petition to the county court of the
county of which said town or city
is situated, asking that license for
the sale of intoxicating liquors be
issued for that town or city, then
the said county court may issue
such license for a period already
provided by law. Provided, that
the majority of the votes cast at
the last general election in that
county on the question of ‘for
license,' and ‘against license,’ was
in favor of ‘for license.’ Provided,
further, that said petition referred
to in this act, together with all
names and addreses signed there
to, shall have been first published
in at least two issues of some
newspaper published in the town,
city or county, in which said pe
tition was cirulated, for at least
ten days before the said court acts
upon the petition. And, provided,
further, that the court shall duly
consider all competent evidence
offered by remonstrants to said
petition for the purpose of show
ing that the petition does not con
tain a majority of the adult white
inhabitants as set forth therein,
and all legal testimony that may
be offered by the petitioners or
any of them in support thereof,
and both petitioners and remon
strants shall have the right of
appeal from all final orders and
judgments.
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court and any officer of a town or
city council in this state, and any
other persons violating this act or
any of the provisions thereof shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined in any sum not less than
£500 nor more than £1000, and im
prisonment in the county jail not
less than two months nor more
than twelve months.
Section 4. This act shall not
repeal section 5131 of Kirby’s
Digest of the statues of Arkansas
nor any local acts or local option
law forbidding the'sale of intoxi
cating liquors. But this act shall
be cumulative to all laws now in
force.
Section 5. Each petitioner shall
sign his or her name thereto, and
[if any petitioner cannot write,
j then his or her signature shall be
I witnessed by two reputable white
; persons, who can write and shall
! sign their names as witnesses.
i Each petitioner shall give his or
her postoffice address,
i Section 6. Before any such pe
| tition shall be filed in any court in
this state, the person circulating
same shall attach an affidavit
thereto, stating that the name of
each petitioner was signed b> him
or her in his presence, or by affi
ant in the presence of the petition
er to his or her request, and il
such affidavit is false in any par
ticular, the same shall be deemed
perjury and affiant shall be pun
ished accordingly.
THE SUCCESSFUL
SUNDAY SCHOOL
County President Discusses Some
Different f-eatures of Sun
day School Work
To the Sunday school workers
of Independence County:
This week, I wish to say a few
words in regard to Sunday School
Institutes. I talked with Bro. Luf
kin, General Secretary of our state
association during our recent
county convention at Newark, in
regard to holding a series of Sun
day school institutes in this 'coun
ty. Later, the subject was dis
cussed by a number of our local
workers, and I had some corres
pondence with our state head
quarters in regard to it, but my
illness during December and Jan
uary made it necessary to drop the
work for some weeks. But I again
toon up the matter, and while we
have been delayed, others have
been arranging for work, so that
in a letter recently received from
Bro. Lufkin, he informs me that
it will he impossible to send a
worker to this county until after
the statq convention, which will
be held at Batesville April 15, 16,
17, as their time is already occu
pied until that date.
He states that he wants to plan
with us for some work in this
county later. We shall try to ar
range for a series of institutes
during the summer, perhaps in
July or August. In the meantime
with the opening of spring, I hope
to see each Sunday school in the
county take on new life. “Lift up
your eyes and look upon the fields,
for they are white already to har
vest.”
Let us hope, and work, and
pray,that through the agency of
the Sunday schools, a great har
vest of souls may be gathered in
to the Master’s Kingdom, before
this year closes. f
I am very anxious to see town
ship associations organized and a
convention held in each township
in the county within the next
three months.
Two such associations have al
ready been organized, embracing
Black River, Dota, Logan, Big
Bottom, Magness and Wycough
townships. If any of the other
townships have organized we have
no record of it.
If any pastor, superintendent or
other interested party in any of
the unorganized townships will
write me, I shall be glad to give
such information and help as I am
able in order to form an effective
organization.
But one says “What is the use
of such organization?”
The following, given as a true
story, aptly illustrates their use
fulness:
In the town of Hastings, N. D.
lived a mother with a three-year
old boy. The busy mother thought
the child was playing in the house,
but when she called, there was no
answer—the child had strayed
away. The mother searched the
premises in vain. She went to the
neighbors across the street, but no
child was to be found. She then
raised the cry of “Lost Boy.” The
neighbors came in to help. They
went round and round looking for
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A PACKING PLANT
AND ITS BENEFITS
The Weil packing plant has ship
ed to New York its first carload of
meat, and three more cars are
booked for shipment respectively
to Boston, New York and Birming
ham. Thus Little Rock has got
ten a new industry and becomes a
packing point. But that is only a
small part of the benefit this plant
will bring. It will be a benefit vir- j
tually to the whole state. The cat
tle and hogs slaughtered to make
up these carloads of meat were
bought from Arkansas farmers.
The money that these cars cf meat
bring in New York, Boston and
Birmingham will for the greatest
part be distributed among Arkan
sas farmers.
This packing plant will mean
more cattle raising in Arkansas
and' the raising of better cattle,
more diversification of crops, bet
ter farming and more money for
farmers.—Arkansas Gazette.
WEEKS DOINGS IN
DOTA TOWNSHIP
Crisp Items of News From Char
lotte (iathered by The Jour
nal Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lewis spent
Tuesday at Newark.
G. J. Lindsey spent Thursday
and Friday at Batesyille.
W. M. Jernigan is sick at the
home of his son, E. L. Jernigan.
Marvin Fallis and Ralph McGill
attended Sunday school at Pleas
ant Hill.
J. W. Crigler of Sulphur Rock
spent Monday and Tuesday here
on business.
Rev. McDonald of Newark
preached at the Christain church
Saturday night.
Alison Weaver visited relatives
at Batesville and Cave Creek a
few days this week.
Prof. S. E. Wells and Owen
Walden attended the teachers
meeting at Batesville Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jernigan
of Newark spent Saturday night
and Sunday here with relatives.
Luther Jernigan of Batesville
spent Sunday and Monday here
with his brother, W. M. Jernigan.
W. J. Jernigan of Little Rock
was called home last week by the
illness of his father, W. M. Jerni
gan.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Moore of <
the Pleasant Hill neighborhood
spent Saturday night and Sunday (
with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Moore.
Rev. W. S. Storey has changed j
his appointment at the M. E.
church from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m.
and will fill his appointment next
Sunday at 3 p. m.
Several of the young people at- ;
tended a party at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Vaughan Merriwether of
the Pleasant Hill neighborhood
Friday night and report an enjoy
able time.
CHARGED WITH
MURDER OF SON
Nick Dover, 70 Years Old, Arrested
as He and Family Were in
Act of Leaving
Nick Dover was arrested near
Oil Trough Tuesday morning by
Deputy Sheriff Brown, charged
with the murder of his son, Doug
lass, who was found dead in a
thicket near Pleasant Plains sev
eral days ago.
Dover was brought here by
Deputy Brown and taken to Bates
ville on the afternoon train, where
he was placed in jail for safekeep
ing until he can be given a pre
liminary trial, which Will probably
be Friday.
The case is one of considerable
mystery. The dead body of Doug
lass Dover was found in a thicket,
in a sitting position, leaning
against a big log, around which
a heavy string had been tied and
fastened around the body to hold
it up. He had been dead several
days when found. The coroner’s
inquest developed the fact that
there had been trouble in the fam
ily over a love affair. This led to
the suspicion that, instead of being
a case of suicide, as the family
professed to believe, it was a case
of murder. It is thought by many
that he was poisoned by some one
and the body thus hidden away in
the thicket. The family is said to
have acted rather peculiarly about
the matter, and Monday they load
ed their household goods on wagons
and started to leave the country.
This intensified feeling against
them and resulted in the deputy
prosecuting attorney swearing out
papers for the old man’s arrest and
Deputy Brown apprehended him
in lower Oil Trough Tuesday
morning as he was endeavoring to
make his get-away. The old man
stoutly denied, however, that be
was leaving the country but said
he had rented land “down the
country” and was "just moving.”
The old man is about 70 years
old. In appearance he is a very
peaceable, quiet, unsophisticated
and harmless old man. He and
his family came from Illinois.
DISCUSS HOP LAW
A citizens meeting will be held
at Sulphur Rock Saturday after
noon at 2 o’clock for the purpose
of discussing a hog law. All par
ties interested are invited to be
present.
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The old reliable when you are go
ing to buy furnishing for the home
or farm. We have everything you
need and at the right price too.
Look over this list and see what
you want then come in and let us
figure with you:
FURNITURE, SEWING HACHINES,
BUCK STOVES, CARTS, BUGGIES,
SURR1ES, WAGONS and AUTOS,
TENTS and AWNINGS, WAGON
and BUGGY HARNESS.
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