The Newark Journal.
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, Septembei 6, 1917
Vol. 17, No. 23
APPORTIONMENT OF
SCHOOL FUND MADE
State Hoard of Education Divides
.Million Dollars Among Various
Counties of the State
Apportionment of the common
school fund for 1917, giving $2.12 for
each person of school age in their
respective counties was announced by
J. L. Bond, state superintendent of
education at Little Rock last Monday
following approval of the apportion
ment by the State Board of Educa
tion Monday morning.
The fund totaled $1,396,854.00. In
addition the apportionment of the
forest reserve funds also was an
nounced. The latter apportionment
was based on the area of natoinal re
serve in each of the counties par*ie
ipating. The total amount available
was $8,540.40, of which $5,741.10 was
received from the Arkansas reserve
and $3,066.30 from the Ozark reserve.
The school fund apportionment last
year was $2.03 per child or nine cents
less per child than the 1917 appor
tionment. Thd 1917 enumeration
showed 658,705 persons in the state
between the ages of six and 21 years.
Independence county has a school
population of 9,132 and will receive
a total of $19,359.84 from the State
aonortionment
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TO THE PATRONS OF
THE PUBLIC’ SCHOOL
The State Board of Helath has is
sued an order that no pupil be al
lowed to enter school who has net
been successfully vaccinated In com
plinace with this order we cannot al
low any one to enter school this year
except those that have been success
fully vaccinated. Also there is a law
compelling all persons between uie
ages of seven and sixteen to attend
school. If your child expects to at
tend school and has not been vaccin
ated it would -be well to have the
vaccination done at once in order that
their arms may be well before school
begins.
Respectfully,
W. A. ISGRIC.,
Supt. of Schools.
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Patronize the merchants who ad
vertise in The Journal.
HELP BUILD BRIDGE
ACROSS BLUE CREEK
A subscription has been started in
Newark to assist in erecting a bridge
across Blue Creek on the Newark
and Batesville road. Those who have
driven cars across this creek know
how bad it is and know how badly
a bridge is needed. Material for a
steel bridge has been bought and the
fund being raised for the purpose
erecting the bridge.
A considerable sum has been rais
ed at Batesville and the people of
Newark should contribute something.
(The subscription list can be found
at the Newark Drug Company’s place
of business where all who wish to
do so are asked to call and give
something.
Following is a list of donations a-1
ready made to the fund.
J. B. Ketchem _ _$2.50
Dr. V. L. Pascoe_1.00
J. G. Edwards_1.00
F. C. Hoyt__2.50
W. G. Moore_„‘v_*-00
O. F. Craig_ 2.00
T. J. Raney_2.00
IvX DEP EN I) EN CE BAPTIST
ASSOCIATION MEETS SEPT. 9
The sixty-ninth annual meeting of '
the Independence Missionary Baptist
Association will meen with Moorefield
Baptist Church on Friday, September
7, and close on Sunday the ninth.
This Association takes in practical
ly all of the Baptist Churches of In
dependence county and the First Bap
tist church of Newport and the church
at Marcella. It is an annual event ot
great importance to the Baptists of
this section and will be largely at
tended. There will be some visiting
ministers from Little Rock and other
parts of the State.
Hon. W. M. Thompson of Bat n
! ville is moderator and Rev. G. L.
Fink of Newark is clerk of the as
ciation.
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VACCINATING SCHOOL
CHILDREN AT NEWPORT
Newport, Sept. 1.—The physcian
of this city have been very busy due
ling the past week vaccinating chil
dren against small pox. The scho >1
Board has issued a statement that no
child will be admitted to the schools
which open next Monday, unless able
to furnish a physcian’s certificate of
vaccination.
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The Man wilh Morf?y
has his money safe
m the Bank,so when,
adversity comes he is
prepared jor itr"
“It never rains but it pours.” It seems that
everything happens to a man when he is BROKE.
“Troubles nhver come singly.”
Guard against poverty by putting some of
your spare money in the Bank. Of all the worries
and care the worst is poverty and debt. You can
prevent them by the money you can well afford to
put into the Bank now.
Put YOUR money in OUR bank.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Sickness is bad; to lose your job
is worse; but poverty is the
worst calamity of all.
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
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j iiappenings oi Local Interest
Cleburne Fink, the popular soda
lispenser for the Newark Drug Co.,
has been quite sick for the past few
days
(W. V. Gibbs of Sulphur Rcok was
in town Monday and remembered the
Journal in a pleasant and substan
tial manner.
Pol'. J. L. Mayhan left Friday for ;
Bald Knob whre he will have a po
sition in the Bald Knob school the
•cming term.
A. A. Henderson left Saturday for ,
SC, ring, Fla., where he will spend j
he winter with his daughter, Mrs.
Jesse B. Brown. t
A. G. Black, formerly employed on
.he Commercial Appeal of Memphis,
arrived Saturday to take a position
with the Journal.
Will be glad to have all of my old
mstomers and friends call and see
me whether you trade with me or
lot. John M. Martin.
Lost.—Tire and rim off a Dort
•ar between Batesville and Newport.
Finder please notify Emmet William
son, Batesville, A rkansas.
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Kennerly and
Miss Sallie Crow have returned from
ui extended trip to Colorado and
Wyoming.—Batesville Guard.
Mrs. T. McCaleb has returned
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lelightful visit here with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R..Alexander.
\V. D. Barber, a successful farm
er of Logan township, was in town
Monday and remembered the Journal
in a pleasant and substantial manner.
A new school building is being
erected at Diaz to replace the one
that was burned last spring. The
lew building will cost about $3,000.
Mi.-.3 Winnie Dearing left Friday
evening for Bald Knob where she will
uive charge of the music department
>f the Bald Knob High School the
nsuing term.
Let’s not forget that more people
*ie needed in this vicinity to develop
rar splendid farming opportunities.
More homebuilders in this territory
means more prosperity for all.
Nan Holland and family have
.novel- back to Newark from Barren
i ’ork and MJ. Holland will be em
ployed in Porter’s Blacksmith Shop,
lown from Batesville Tuesday.
The Macedonia Missionary Bap
tist Association will meet at James
town Friday September 28, at 7 p.
m. Elder Brcwnlow Taylor will
preach the introductory sermon.
The next primary eletcion for state,
listrict county and township officers,
o ill be held on the last Tuesday in
May, 1918. At this election women
ivho have qualified as electors may
rote.
Mr. and Mrs. Wash Ball of Bates
I'llle wore passengers up the road
i-Viday morning en route home from
v. Lcuis where they had been to
my goods for Barnett Brothers Mer
mrftile Company.
That Dutch scientist who built a
•oom with vacuum walls to give
lim quiet, went to unnecessary trou
>le and expense. Most any business
muse that doesn’t advertise could
nuet ills need.
iThe autoist who confines his joy
'iding to 15 miles an hour may not
see as many miles in an hour as the
nan who goes 30, but he will sec
nore to the mile, and there’s lots of
deasure in that.
The Skydome has now secured a
letter film service and are giving its
nitrons the best in moving picttires,
he pictures now being show here are
he same as those shown at the
fempner theatre at Little Rock.
Rev. J. I. Martin, who has been
engaged in Baptist mission work
n Western Texas since last Decemb
r, was in town Tuesday en route
o his home at Cord. He says it ha?
'Con extremely dry throughout the
ntire Western part of Texas, fifty
countis having been affected to such '
an extent there is practically no crops 1
of any kind in that section.
A few hogs will help to solve the
problem of the high cost of living.
It is not much trouble to raise a
few hogs.
Rev. G. L. Fink was taken seri
ously ill last Friday while engaged
in his meeting at Moorefield, and had
to be brought home. He has improv
ed some and was able to be up yes
terday.
Members of the W. O. IW. are re- 1
quested to be present at the regular
meeting of Newark Camp No. 288 on
Tuesday September 11. Business of
importance to be transacted. F. C.
Hoyt, C. C.
With prospects ot the whole coun
try going dry the fellow who used
to justify his opposition to pohibi
tion on the ground that it doesn’t
prohibit is having a hard time find
ing a new excuse.
IW. C. Crowell who is at work at
Woodson spent Sunday here with
his family, returning to 1 Woodson
Monday, He says they have fine
crops on the Magness-Moore plan_
tation down there.
There’s one thing about Woodrow
Wilson—he is not (mint* tr> mnl-e
the same mistake twice What he
learned about watchful waiting with
suspenses of what he proposes to do
Mexico, has relived Germany of any
now.
Nashville, Tenn., which is “bone
dry,” has $50,000 worth of contra
band booze stored in the death cell
fn the county jail, and old soaks of .
that city are wondering if a death
sentence would not be a blessing in
disguise.
Joe Parsons and Wiley Sims of
Batesville have received notice to ap
pear for service in the navy at San
Francisco. They took the examin
ation some time ago and have been
awaiting orders. Frank Parsons of
Little Rock, brother of Joe, is also
in the navy and will leave with them.
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The fellow' who will repudiate his
obligation to his country' in this
supreme crisis of its history will re
pudiate any other obligation, it mat- ,
ters not how sacred. If he will evade <
his duty to his government, he will i
evade any other duty. If he permits J
“conscientious scruples” to stand be- ]
tw'een him and a performance of 1
his duty, his conscience will work <
likewise on any other occasion as j
well. He will bear watching. J
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The Journal has a number of sub- ]
scribers with tdlephones in their home j
who could give us an item of news
occasionally if thy would call us up !
and do so (We want our friends to <
feel free to call the office at any time j
and communicate any item they think J
wuum ue ox interest, we are diligent
ly searching for news but cannot see
everyone each week but the telephone
makes it easy for any friend to com
municate with us at any time.
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HOGUE & WILLIAMS MILL
BURNED BY INCENDIARY
Newport, Sept. 4.—The stave mill
ownned by Hogue & Williams locat
ed on the river front here was burn
ed Saturday night. The fire origin
ated in the oil room, where about 200 !
gallons of lubricating oil were stored. I
It is believed that the fire was of!
incendiary origin. There was no in
surance on the mill and the loss to
Hogue & Williams will amount to
$3,000. The owners say they will ,
immediately rebuild the plant.
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MINISTER IS FINED
AT HEBER SPRINGS
. Jdeber Springs, Sept. 3.—J. A. Pate
a Baptist minister, was fined $100
lere Friday on a charge of operating
a house of ill fame. It was charged
that he owned a hotel building in
which immoral women were living
It was alleged that Pate had know
ledge of their violations of the law.
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HARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL
OPENS SEPTEMHER 17
Charlotte, Sept. 5.—The High
school at Charlotte will begin Sept
*mber 17, 1917, with Professors Wm. j
larvis and John Mitchell co-principals
ind Miss Vela Jernigan primary
eacher.
Mr. Jarvis brings to the school
/cars experience and a reputation of
>eing one of the best eilucators in
;he State.
Mr. Mitchell, who proved his abili
ty as co-principal last year brings
> years experience and considerable
Momal training.
Miss Jernigan comes from Bates
’ille where she has been teaching for
several years and has thoroughly
•stablished her reputation as a teaeh
:r.
Owing to the great demands, both
Domestic Science and Music will be
aught in the school this year.
Good board can be had at from
en to tweleve dollars per month.
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CORD NEWS ITEMS
Cord, Sept. 4.—Mrs. Morris is hav
ng some work done on her residence
tere.
Sunday night here the guest of Mr.
ind Mrs, T. N. Blair.
Dr. and Mrs. V. D. McAdams and
Miss Hazel Nuckolls attended the
Farmer’s Chautauqua at Batesville
Friday.
A. T. Best and son, Earle of Dota
vere transacting: business here Mon
lay.
Mr. White of Bowling Green, Ky.,
is spending the week here looking
after business interests.
W. N. Osborne and J. C. Grer
made a business trip to Newport
Monday.
Clede Shaver of Batesville was
here Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Northcutt are
the proud parents of a little daguhter
.vhich arrived Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Anderson of
Hopewell visited Mrs. Alfred Ander-!
son here Sunday.
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TAKEN UP
The undersigned has taken up as
m estray, one bay horse colt, about
ive months old. IWas taken up about
August 12.
R. M. GALLOWAY,
Newark, Arkansas.
MANY ARE EXEMPT
BY LATE WAR RULE
den Having Families Dependent Upon
Them Will Not be Required
For Army Service
Probably more than 35 per cent of
the men accepted for service in the
national army by the local boards of
Arkansas will be discharged it is said
is a result of instructions received
From Provost Marshal Chowder .These
nstructions state explicitly that
men whose families actually are de
pendent upon the men’s daily labor
For support will be discharged and
that all married men with depend
ents will be issued temporary dis
charges.
This necessitates a wholesale re
versal of decisions by the exemption
ippeal boards.
Adjt. General England has issued
ihe following statement:
\“The instructions will by no means
exempt all married men from service,
fhe dischage of the married men is
[eft entirely with the local board.
I'he order only affects those whose
relatives are entirely dependent upon
:hem for support. In cases where
the parents of a drafted man or his
wife are able and willing to care for
iis family during his abscenee, and
:ile affidavits to that effect with the
local board, the husband will not be
lischarged from service.”
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PEN POPULATION
SHOWS DECREASE
Eight convicts were pardoned, 14
escaped and 14 were paroled during
the month of August according to the
monthly population report of the
state penitentiary commission. The
population of the institution Septem
ber 1, was 1,017, as compared with
1,030 August 1.
Eight of the 14 men who escaped
were recaptured.
The population September 1 was as
follows: White men, 325; negro men
>70; white women, three; and negro
women, 19.
During the month 57 prisoners
were received and 70 left the insti
tution, 34 of them having completed
:heir prison sentences.
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