The Newark Journal.
Let’s Raise What We Eat and Keep Our Money at Home.
Diversified Farming Means Permanent Prosperity For All
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, January 29, 1915
Vol. 14, No. 43
SUPPOSED NIGHT RIDERS
BURN FARM BUILDINGS
Three Fires Wednesday Night, Two
of Which are Said to he Work
of Supposed Night Riders
Three fires, all supposed to
have been of incendiary origin,oc
curred within a short distance
of Newark Wednesday night.
Two of the fires are supposed
to have been started by alleged
Night Riders.
The house on A. C. Martin’s
farm in Oil Trough bottom was
burned and the barn on the place
recently rented by Will McAhron
on the Island was destroyed.
Alleged night riders are sup
posed to have burned these build
ings. Notices signed “Night
Riders’’ have recently been serv
ed on land owners warning them
not to rent land for money rent.
11 most instances these warnings
have not been taken seriously
and a good deal of land has been
rented for cash instead of a part
of the crop. Mr. Martin’s place
and the place occupied by Mr.
McAhron had both been rented
for cash, and it is supposed that
the alleged “Night Riders” ap
plied the torch.
The house on W. E. Self's
1 ace northwest of town was
burned about 9:30 Wednesday
i >ght. The house was occupied
1 y Mr. and Mrs. Orvill Smith,
v ho were away from home when
the fire occured, having gone to
the Point neighborhood a few
cays before to visit relatives and
look after some stock in which
Mr. Smith was interested. Noth
i ig was saved from the building,
as neighbors who discovered the
fire arrived too late to save any
thing. It is thought that the fire
v as started by parties who enter
e i the house for the purpose of
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Judge Jeffeiy to
Oi|i!smatis Post
Judge R. E. Jeffery of Newport
has been nominated by President
Wilson to be minister to Uruguay,
South America.
Judge Jeffery has announced
that he will accept the appoint
ment and will immediately tender
his resignation as circuit judge to
Gov. Hays.
Judge Jeffery, who was a boy
hood schoolmate of Congressman
W. A. Oldfield of this district, is
38 years old. He was a member
of the Arkansas legislature in 1901
and in 1906 was elected to succeed
Congressman Oldfield as prosecut
ing attorney for this district, in
which position he served until
1910 when he was elected circuit
judge.
Judge Jeffery’s appointment had
i the endorsement of Senators
Clarke and Robinson and Con
i pressman Oldfield. It is said he
was first tendered the place last
November but only recently he
displayed a willingness to accept
the appointment. The position
pays $10,000 a year.
House Passes Bill
Repealing State Aid
I By a vote of 53 to 40, the house
i of representatives voted to repeal
the law providing for state aid
to high schools. The action fo!
lowed almost an entire day of
debate. The house passed a sim
ilar bill two years ago, but it was
not sanctioned by the Senate
More than 100 schools of the state
would be affected.
Eight 5c twists of tobacco for
25 cents at the Golden Rule.
First National Bank
Newark, Ark.
CAPITAL $25,000
SURPLUS $6,500
C. M. EDWARDS, Pres.
G. M. FIELDS. V. Pres.
E. B. CHESSER, Cashier
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TO THE CREDIT OF
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Amounts up to $5.00, co«t-cents
Amounts of 85.00 to $50.00, cost-- 5 cents
Amounts of $50.00 to $7o.00, cost-10 cents
Amounts of $75-00 to $100.00, cost_15 cents
ENDORSES WORK OF
THE FARMERS UNION
The Farmers Need to Organize For
Mutual Protection and Educa
tion Says Writer
Editor Newark Journal —If you
can spare me space in your paper
to print the following, allow me
to thank you in advance for the
same. I will say that I am proud
of the organization with which I
stand identified, so far as I under
stand its principles. I understand
that this organization is founded
upon the principles of equity, jus
tice, and the golden rule, for the
purpose of helping the farmer and
farm laborer to evade the mono
polistic oppression we are now
under, thereby placing him on an
equal basis with the many other
industries that are in the United
States. According to history, this
grand old American continent was
discovered in the year 1492. At
the same time immigration start
ed, by people who were seeking to
find a place where all industries
could be established upon an equal
basis. After finding the place
tuai mcy wcic occrwiii^, uy
ization and co-operation, and
standing together, thev gained
their independence, and evaded
the unjust and oppressive laws of
their mother country, and have
come to be a great nation. Faring
ing in all ages has been the most
important industry of our coun
try, but the farmer has neglected
looking after his own interest in a
business way, until he is in an
almost helpless condition. Each
year after our crops have been
produced and harvested, the spec
ulators and corporations stand
with out-stretched arms ready to
rake in the bountiful harvest of
the American farmer, at the price
they may mention, and holding
our products for an extortinate
profit, leaving the farmer barely
enough to exist, while he makes
another crop, and usually not
enough.
And I think it is time for the
farmers to organize, and by co
operation, and strict business
methods, prevent speculation and
gambling on farm products, by
boards of trade, cotton exchanges,
and institutions, which prevents
the normal operation of the law
of supply and demand. We should
also discourage the mortgage sys
tem, and encourage the diversiti
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efforts to bring farming up to the
standard of other industries, at
the same time strive for harmony
aifcl good will among all mankind,
and establish the principles of
equity, justice and the golden rule.
Anyone interested in the organi
zation, write G. D. Hall of Pleas
ant Plains, lecturer and organizer
for the Farmers Educational and
Co-operative Union.
C..H. Hall.
Pleasant Plains, Ark., Jan. 25.
LIGE MATHENY DEAD
E. F. Matheny, formerly county
treasurer and for many years a
prominent citizen of this county,
died very suddenly last Saturday
at his home in San Antonai, Tex ,
to which place he moved from
Batesville about three years ago.
The cause of his death wras appo
plexy. Mr. Matheny was 55 years
old and is survived by his wife and
; two children. The remains were
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QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
Presiding Elder B. L. Williford
w its "hoidt h e-'fcst-q-aar'rt rly row •
ference at the Methodist church
in Newark on Saturday and Sun
j day, the 30th and 31st of January.
ADVANTAGES OF A
CANNING FACTORY
Some of the Ways in Which They
Help the Farmers and Business
Men of the Community
Notwithstanding the fact that
the canning industry is more than
50 years old in this country, and
canned goods are as common in
the majority of homes as sugar
and coffee, yet there are few who
have any conception of the won
derful advance made in this line
within the last few years.
It is supposed by the ordinary
farmer or merchant that the can
ning of vegetables is confined al
most exclusively to Maryland,
New Jersey and one or two other
of the far-away Eastern states and
that ii requires a great deal of
capital and a wonderful amount
of technical knowledge to make
any kind of success in the canning
business. But when we come to
investigate the rapid progress
made all over the country in re
cent years by the canning indus
try, we find that such is by no
means the case. In many parts
of the country, farmers and busi
ness men have learned that the
canning of home-grown products
is one of the surest and most
profitable avenues of wealth open
to them. They have learned that
no other business connected with
farming is so sure to bring a cash
reward as is that of growing and
canning vegetables
They have learned that with the
help of a reliable canning factory
they can earn more ready cash in
six to ten weeks in the fall season
than can be made in the entire
year in other kinds of employ
ment. In fact, many of them have
learned that a few’ acres planted
in tomatoes and berries and prop
erly cultivated and the products
canned, will bring more ready cash
than seveial times the same num
ber of acres planted to other crops
and also that this work furnishes
employment for every member of
the family at the time of year
when there is least to do in other
crops.
This all means much to the in
dividual farmer and to the com
muninty at large.
We hear a great deal about di
versified crops and it is a well rec
ognized fact that the people of
those communities in which the
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are much more prosperous and
contented than those who depend
entirely upon one or two crops,
and for this reason, thinking men
everywhere are advocating the
greatest possible diversity, both in
the growing and marketing of
tarm products. It is evident that
the farmer or truck-grower who
finishes his products before placing
them upon the market is sure of a
greater profit than the one who
disposes of them in the raw state,
if there were no profit in the pre
paration of food products, there
would be no factories engaged in
this work. If the farmers of this
community could prepare their
own products for the consumer
before marketing,.them, the farm
ers would soon become rich. If
the cotton crop of the South were
made into the finished products
by the growers, Dixie’s prosperity
wrould amaze the world.
Since there is a chance for the
growers to join hands with others
and own and operate canning fac
■ii/rics" Which they"can-pack a&
i kinds of vegetables, fruits and
! berries, and thus add the canner’s
profits to his own. There is no
j-g-dod' ■r-eassa • why- the-sesearaers
j of this community should be com
pelled to buy canned goods that
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MOVE TO SECURE MORE
SIDEWALKS IS STARTED
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Robbers Hike When
Burglar Alarm Rings
It is reported from Batesville
that an attempt was made to rob
the First National Bank of Bates
ville early Saturday morning, but
the robbers were frightened away
when they stepped upon a hidden
button which is connected with
a big gong on the outside of the
bank building. The gong began
to ring, and the burglars fled in
haste through a window which
they had entered.
This bank is the only one in the
county equipped with a burglar
alarm and it is said that the noise
made by the gong which was set
off is decidedly tame in comparison
to that which would have been
set off had the would-be burglars
tampered with the vault door or
the steel casing inside the vault.
It is thought that they were
amateurs in the business as an ex
pert safe-cracker would be too
wise to tamper with a bank hav
ing a burglar alarm system.
No clew as to their identity has
been discovered.
Attempt Is Made to
Blow Up Store House
Shirley, Jan 23 —Will Gliddens,
a merchant of Shirley, this morn
ing found 13 sticks of dynamite
tied in a package and placed on a
block of wood under his store.
A piece of fuse several feet long
fastened to the package had been
ignited but the dynamite did not
explode because no caps had been
attached. There was enough dy
namite to have blown the building
into kindling wood.
Several residents of Shirley have
recently received letters threat
ening death. The letters wrere
written with a lead pencil and
signed “Night Riders.”
DYNAMITE BEEBE JAIL
Beebe, Jan. 25—Another at
tempt was made to destroy the
town jail in Beebe with dynamite
last night. Some damage was
done to the cells but the damage
is only slight. This is the third
attempt to destroy the building in
the last three months.
Additional Improvement District
Proposed to Secure Walks For
The North Part of Town
A special meeting of the town
council was held Saturday after
noon to consider the matter of
forming an additional sidewall ,
improvement district.
A number of citizens who livr
out in the north part of tows
have become interested in gettinc
the walks extended, and at the
meeting Saturday it was suggest
ed that another improvement dis
trict be organized, to build walk
on a proposed route about as fol
lows: Beginning at F. C. Hoyt’,
residence on Third street and run
ning west two blocks to E. E. Al
len’s residence on the corner o
Third and Hill streets; thence
north on Hill street to Dr. J. B.
Roe’s residence near the corpor
ation line. It was also suggest
ed that the walk on the east side
of town be extended, begining at
the end of the present walk at T.
H. Dearing’s residence on Maple
street and running north about
four blocks or further, if the
property owners desire it. Walks
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the side streets at any point the
property owners desire them.
No definite action was taken, as
only a few of the property owners
affected were present. A com
mittee consisting of Mayor J. B.
Ketchem, T. J. Raney and 0. F.
Craig was appointed to investigate
the sentiment of the property
owners in regard to the matter
and report to a meeting of the
council to be held next Saturday
evening.
COTTONSEED
I had 1070 pounds of “Half-and
Half” seed cotton ginned at the
Newark gin which made a bale
weighing 452 pounds, net. I
have a few bushels of these seed
for sale at $1.25 cents per bushel.
J. L. Brown.
Newark, Arkansas.
COULSON-PRINCE
Carroll Coulson and Miss Mollie
Prince were married at the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Say
lors Sunday morning at 11 o’clock,
Squire Saylors officiating.
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