THE CANNING INDUSTRY
Census Reports Show Arkansas is
Making Rapid Strides in This Line
The growth of the canning and
preserving industry in Arkansas
during the last seven years lias
been something remarkable. Ac
cording to the latest census office
figures this industry between the
years 1900 and 1905 has quad
rupled. In 1900 there were but
$33,038 invested in this industry.
Five years later there were more
than $124,000 invested in the can
ning and preserving business. The
number of establishments during
that time was almost doubled. In
1900 there were 34 establishments;
five years later there were 07 such
establishments. There is only one
other state in the country whose
canning and preserving industry
has made more rapid strides than
that of Arkansas, viz., South Caro
lina.
This state, with a humble start
of $35,626 in 1900, had in 1905
over $202,319 invested in this en
terprise, and was paying a total of
$101,778 in wages ever year and
employing 1,0-14 men.
Arkansas during the same
period employed 1,086 hands, with
wages amounting to $38,497. In
1900 only $21,942 was paid in
wages to men, women and child
dren employed in the canning and
preserving industry in Arkansas.
The percentage of children em
ployed in this industry as shown
by the census office figures is de
cidedly small. For instance, in
Arkansas there were but 17 em
ployed under the age of 16 in
1905, increase of 3 over the year
1900.
The apple forms the basis for
the preserving industry of the
state. Of the total value of pro
ducts in 1905, $125,094 represents
dried fruits and $36,998 canned
vegetables.
The canned vegetable business
has more than doubled in Arkan
sas during the years 1900 and
1905. Canned fruits are in the
background, with a total value of
$8,262.
There is no reason to believe,
however, that Arkansas fruit can
not be successfully canned. The
facts, neverthless, speak for them
selves, and the state, although one
of the great fruit producers of the
country, is yet in the infantile
stage so far as the canning of this
fruit is concerned.
The capital invested in the pre
serving and canning industry of
the state may be classified as fol
lows: Total, $144,106; land, $5,
370; buildings, $37,564; machin
ery, tools and implement, $29,310;
cash and sundries, $51,862.
AN AFFLICTED FAMILY
.John H. Patterson, whose seri
ous illness has heretofore been
mention, died at his home near
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High Rock Wednesday night. He
was a good citizen and left a wife
and five children. His was the
fourth death in the Patterson
family in the last two weeks. On
Friday, the 1st, John and Frank
Patterson, both residents of the
High Rock neighborhood, were
called to Batesville to see their sis
ter, Mrs. F.ffie Williams, who was
critically ill with pneumonia. The
next day she, died, and on Sunday,
the day of her burial, Frank Pat
terson had a chill, followed by an
attack pneumonia so severe that
he was unable to leave town. On
the way home, their other brother,
John, also had a chill, followed
also by pneumonia, and was so ill
that he was unable to reach his
own house, being taken into the
home of his son-in-law. On the
following Saturday, the lUh, Frank
died here in town, and on Wed
nesday, the 13th, John died, as re
lated above. On Tueday, the 12th,
the wife of Anthony Patterson,
another brother, living in the
same community, died of the same
disease, making the sum of their
attliction complete. 'They were
all good people, filling their posi
tions in the community well, and
they will be greatly missed by
their neighbors and friends.—
Batesville Guard.
DEAD BABE DRAGGED BY DOG
Helena, March 1G.—A ghastly
discovery was made on Cherry
street this afternoon, which has
greatly aroused the community.
A dog was observed dragging
an object across a vacant lot near
Ben Riley’s store. Impelled by
curiousity, some men went to see
what the queer-looking object was.
They were horrified on discover
ing it to be the dead body of a
newly-born white infant.
The police were notified, and an
inquest was held, but no clue was
obtained as to the unnatural
parents or the perpetrators of the
crime. It is supposed the babe
was killed and thrown in some
alley, ash barrel or vacant lot,
where the dog found it. The in
vestigation was hampered by the
fact that it is not known what dis
tance the dog had dragged the
body or from what direction it en
tered the vacant lot where it was
first noticed.
THE BUSY HEN
Siloam Springs, March 15.—
With yesterday’s shipment, one
Chicago firm has purchased and
shipped 3G carloads of eggs from
Siloam Springs in two months. 1
The value of these eggs is $80,000,
and represents about one-third the
annual output of this vicinity.
DEEP GRIEF
You don't know all of grief and
loneliness unless you have been a
boy and lost a pet dog.—Atchison
Globe.
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It is a food that builds and keeps up a
girl’s strength.
ALL DRUGGISTS; 50c. AND $1.00.
TWO KILLED IN WRECK
Rock Island Passenger Train Ran
Into Open Switch at Cuneo
Little Rock, March 16.—Rock
Island passenger train No. 6, east
bound, the Hot Springs-Memphis
Flyer, which left Little Rock for
Memphis yesterday afternoon at
4:15 o’clock, was wrecked at 5:12
o’clock yesterday afternoon at
Cuneo, 88 miles east of Little
Rock. Two members of the crew
were killed outright and seven
train employes were injured. No
passengers were hurt, with the ex
ception of a few who were scratch
ed by broken glass.
The dead are:
T. J. Gilcoyne, engineer, whose
home was in Argenta and M. A.
Currier, fireman, who also lived
in Argenta.
Light persons, all mail clerks,
express messengers and other train
employes were injured, but none
seriouly except Wendell Britt, ex
press messenger, whose home is in
Little Rock.
The engine, combination bag
gage and mail coach and Pullman
parlor car and dining car were de
railed and the engine turned over.
It wras through the turning over
of the engine that Engineer Gil
coyne and Fireman Currier were
killed.
GIRLS, TAKE NOTICE
Girls did you ever .stop to think
that the boys have more self-re
spect than the members of your
sex? There is not a young man
of any respectability that would
be seen with a lady that was in
toxicated. You might search the
streets with a tine tooth comb and
not find a young man who would
lock arms and go promenading
with a lady who is pufliing a cigar
or squirting tobacco juice around
on the sidewalks. Some girls have
no hesitancy in accepting the com
pany of such charactes and too
many of them are anxious for the
companionship, heart and hand of
everything that wears pants. So
ciety will never be refined until
the girls demand of the doys the
same purity of character that the
boys demand of the girls. Over
the heads of the young ladies hang
the possibilities of the greatest
moral reform that ever swept
over the country.—Exchange.
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
With the sun spots and comets
in sight, and the prophets predict
ing the coining of earthquakes,
tidal waves, famine and pestilence,
it is enough to give one the ner
vous shivers, if one did not know
that after all, the same beneficient
Providence that has ever sent
“seed time and harvest the early
and late rains” is still at the helm
and guiding the affairs of the old
world for the comfort and happi
ness of his creatuerers. For our
part we are going to look on the
bright side, and believe that 1907
is going to be the “bumper” year
for all good things. And so rob
possible adversity, of one half its
pangs.—Osceola Times.
Notice To Tax Payers.
Notice is hereby given that 1 wil at
tend in person (or by deputy) in the
different townships throughout the
county, for the purpose of collecting
the state, county and special taxes for
the year 1900, on the days and dates
specified below Each taxpayer is re
quested to bring his last year's tax re
ceipt. 1 would suggest that as many
as can make it. convenient, meet me
the day I am in their township and
settle their taxes and thereby avoid
the rush that always comes later.
And after that time, in my olfice in
i the Court House until the 10th day of
April, 1907, taxes can be paid without
penalty; and after the said 10thday of
April, 1907, the law requires a penalty
of 25 per cent to be imposed for non
payment. \V. T. GRAY,
Collector For Independence County.
Real Estate For Sale.
Some Bargains in Desirable Farm and City Property
Offered by Craig & Moore,
No. 2. 80 acres good bottom land 4
miles N. E. Newark; half subject to
overflow, balance above highwater;
40 acres in cultivation. Fine land and
a bargain.
no. 37. 2 acres nicest residence j
property in north part of town; good ■
well and garden on place.
78. Nice live room house and acre
of land in Magness; house nearly new i
and all improvements good.
80. 500 acre farm half mile from 1
railroad station and post office; 200 1
acres in cultivation; 100 acre pasture; |
six houses with good barns; half mile |
from school and church house; over a j
mile of river front and good ferry '
landing on the farm. Grows f bale of
cotton and 50 tj 60 bushels corn per
acre. Good property and a bargain.
Price $8,000. Easy terms.
84. Good small farm of 60 acres fine
bottom land, 28 acres in cultivation,
balance in pasture; good 3 room house
and barn. Price $1,200.
No. 69. Good farm of 86 acres, 45 in
cultivation, located 6 miles northeast
of Newark; good three room box house
fine cistern, good barn and orchard of
50 bearing trees; good white and red
cak timber on land not in cultivation.
Located near church and school house.
iks. iu acres tnree miles norm oi
Newark, 50 acres in cultivation; one
3 room and one 2 room house. Good
upland and and a bargain.
85. 04 acres good bottom land, one
mile from railroad station and post
office, half mile river front: 35 acres
in cultivation; good 3 room house and
small tenent house; tine water; 29
acres in pasture. Price $1,280.
71. 141 acres tine cane and timber
land on Black river 3 miles north of
Paroquet; on river front.
70. Nice home of six acres and good
four room house one mile west of
Newark: nice young orchard and good
water; improvements good. Would
make an ideal suburban home.
83. Fine bottom farm of 80 acres,
33 acres in cultivation, two good hous
es with barns and good water; half
mile from railroad and postofflce and
mile from school and church house;
grows bale of cotton per acre. Price
$20 per acre; one third cash, balance
to suit.
88. Good four room, bouble box
house and half acre of land in Mag
ness; good barn; nice location.
101. 100 acre creek bottom farm Oi ;
miles from Newark, 1 mile from post
office and school; 100 acres in cultiva
tion, balance good timber; 1 four room
frame house and small tenant house,
barn and other outbuildings; cystern
and spring of good water; land in cul
tivation is good creek bottom laud
and produces well.
103. 120 acres fine Oil Trough bot
tom land, all in timber except twenty
acres which has been cut off; 3 miles
from postoffice; 8 miles from Newark;
land lays well and when put in culti
vation will be worth $40 per acre; land
adjoining grows bale of cotton or 50 to
75 bushels corn per acre, and will also
grow alfalfa; land is inside of fencing
district and has good timber on it.
108. 00 acre farm li mile north of
Magness, 40 acres in cultivation, tive
room house, good well, barn, smoke
house and other outbuildings; 12 acre
orchard, consisting of 250 apple trees,
1050 peach trees, 12 pear trees, 20grape
vines and fine lot of plum trees; six
acre pasture under fence.
112. Good five room house and acre
of land in north part of town; good
barn, smokehouse and fine well of wa
ter, all nearly new and in good shape.
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82. Good farm of 120 acres, half
nile from ralhoad station, postottice
ind school; 20 acres in cultivation:
rood house and barn and good waten^
Will be sold cheap. Price $2,400, one
Ihird cash, balance in 1 and 2 years.
90, (30 acres tine cut-over rive r bot
tom land, very high and seldom over
flows: can be cleared very cheap and
will make a tine small farm; river
front with railroad running across one
corner; half mile from station and
postofflce. Price $10 per acre.
79. 411 acres tine White river land
near Jacksonport; 70 acres in cultiva
tion; 2 houses; tine cane pasture of
150 acres fenced. Only one mile from
railroad station, postoftice and church;
one of the finest pieces of land on
White river.
86. Good bottom farm of 165 acres
half mile from railroad station and
postoflice and mile from school and
church; good house and good water
57 acres in cultivation and balance in
pasture; will grow 50 to 75 bushels o
corn per acre; good timber on land not
in cultivation; mile of river front.
Price $20 per acre; one-third cash bal
ance in one and two years.
100. Good five room house and
three acres of land in north part of
town, all fenced and in cultivation,
tine well of water, good garden and
barn, good orchard for family use,con
sisting of apples, peaches, plums,
grapes and black berries. Very desir
able location.
93. Good small farm of 4S acres, 35
acres in cultivation, 6 miles n. e. of
Newark, mile and half from school,
church and postoffice: good three room
box house and small barn.
95. Ten acres nice residence proper
ty in northest part of town, four room
box house, small barn and good well
of water, 100 peach trees, 25 grapes
and 12 plum trees; good property.
97. Good two room box house and
two lots, with good small barn; near
school building.
98. Good farm of 80 acres, 00 acres
in cultivation, one two room log house
and one two room box house, good
well of water; located S miles from
Newark, half mile from postoffice and
one mile from school and church; a
small orchard for family use.
94. Good two room box house and
acre and half land in north part of
town; good well, tine garden and good
small barn.
J06. Farm of 40 acres. 1 mile from
Magness, 30 acres in cultivation, good
house and barn, line well and good
spring on the place; nice young orch
ard of 150 apple trees. 60 peach trees
and several pears, plums and grapes;
also five acre pasture under fence.
107. Tract of 680 acres timber land
east of Newark; enough white and red
oak timber on land to pay for it, and
will make good farming land after
timber is cut off. Price $7.50.
99. Tract of 3,000 acres fine Black
river bottom land, 350 acres cleared,
9 houses, big barn;2 miles river front;
4 miles from railroad station and post
office; all under fence; one of finest
stock farms in the county.
109. Good 39 acre, farm adjoining
town, with 26 acres in cultivation; six
room house, line water, good barn and
:>ther improvements and 13 acres in
pasture. Vety desirable location and
will be sold at a bargain.
113 Good farm of 160 acres three
niles from Charlotte; 45 acres in cul
tivation, good tour room house with
mod barn and smokehouse and good
veil oi vvates; good timber on land
iot in cultivation. Price $450.
NEWARK,
Craig & Moore,
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V L Pascoe
Phone No. 10
L. Q Poe
Phone No. 24
PASCOE & POE
Physicians ami Surgeons
Office with Newark Drug Company,
1'ront Street. Phone No. 17.
Office hours8 to 12 a. m., and 1 t05p. m.
Deeds of trust and legal blanks i
for sale at The Journal office. J
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