The Newark Journal.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, July 18, 1913
Vol. 13, No. 15
CLERK’S OFFICE IS
VERY ATTRACTIVE
Several Prominent Citizens flen
tioned as Probable Candi
dates for County.Clerk
Prospective candidates for the
various county offices are beam
ing to feel the pulse of the dear
people with the hope of finding
the political temperature favorable
to their aspirations.
It is said that there will prob
ably be some eight or ten candi
dates for sherriff, but The Jour
nal has been unable to get reliable
information as who all the parties
are that will be in the race for
that office.
Those who want to be county
clerk are not quite so timid and
are letting themselves be known.
Among those who will be in this
race, it is learned on apparently
reliable authority that the follow
ing are probable candidates: J.
A. Kennard, present deputy clerk;
Alvin Pickens, of Pota; Wash
Browning, of Rutherford; Woods
Magness, of Newark; S. B. Wy
cough, the present deputy circuit
clerk; and J. D. Magness, of New
ark. There will probably be
others, but if reports are true all
the above named gentlemen will
be candidaties for the county clerks
office- provided, of course, that
none of them change their mind,
or get cold feet. At any rate they
are a pretty nice bunch of gentle
men and if any of them don't run
it can’t be said that it was because
of the company he is in.
CROPS LOOK GOOD
The fine rains that fell through
the Couqty Friday and Saturday
were worth thousands of dollars
to the farmers, and if reports are
true we now have the finest pros
pect for a bumper crop that we
have had in this country in a num
ber of years.
COLLECTOR SETTLES
Tax Collector Burt Arnold made
his settlement with the state Tues
day, paying into the state treasury
$37,779.23 as taxes from Indepen
dence county.
SPECIAL COURSE
FOR FARMERS
i Plan For Interesting and Profit
able Week of Instruction
at State School
The State Agricultural School
at Jonesboro has been for some
i time past making arrangements
for the big Farmer’s Convention
and Short Course in Agriculture
which will be in session at the
State School of Agriculture at Jon
esboro July 28 to August 2. The
Board of Trustees promise that
they are sparing neither time nor
expense in their efforts towards
the getting of experts along agri
culture, animal husbandry, dairy
ing and household economics lines,
to handle the work during this
session.
Many farmers with their sons,
wives and daughters from all over
the Northeastern portion of the
| State have signified their intention
I of taking advantage of thisoppor
I tunity of hearing the interesting
discussions that are promised. In
getting lecturers for this course,;
the school has tried to get men '
who are conversant with condi- j
tions in this section of the south, I
as well as men who are scientifi-!
cally and practically equipped to!
put their respective subjects be
fore the people in an interesting 1
and logical manner.
No farmer or housewife can af
ford to miss this opportunity to |
spend a profitable vacation. The
dormitories are open to the short I
course students and the charge '
for room and board will not ex
ceed one dollar per day per person, j
There are no fees. The courses l
are free to all and a cordial invita
tion is extended to every man and
woman interested in farming and
home making problems to attend
this conventien, for farmers and
farmers’ wives.
NOTICE TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
The attention of school direc
tors is called to the fact that the
law requires their annual and en
umeration reports to be filed with
the county examiner not later than
the twentieth day of July. The
reports should be made as com
plete and accurate as possible.
Sidney Pickens,
County Examiner.
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METHODISTS CLOSE
CONFERENCE HERE
Reports Submitted at District
Meeting Show Church is in
Prosperous Condition
The Batesville District Method
ist Conference held here last week
came to a close Friday night, Rev.
V. T. McCafferv of Swifton preach
| ing the closing sermon.
Reports submitted by the vari
ous pastors and delegates in at
tendance shows the church to be
in a flourishing condition through
out the district.
In an address before the confer
ence, I)r. John Anderson of the
; Western Methodist, stated that
his paper is offering to pay the
full expenses at college for one
I year of any young man who will
! secure 400 subscribers to the
| Western Methodist at $1.50 per
i year each.
T. D. Hall, representing the
American Bible Society and who
has been in the service of this
society for 19 years, stated in an
address before the conference,
that during the last year he and
his colleagues working in Louisi
ana, Arkansas and Texas, had
visited 45,000 homes, 17,000 of
which they found without a Bi
ble.
Ihe hospital committee reported
that more than $80,000 had been
secured by Field Secretary H. M.
Ellis for the Tri-State Methodist
Hospital, which the church propos
es to establish at Memphis. It is
proposed to raise $300,000 for this
purpose, and the committee rec
ommends that the Batesville dis
trict pledge $4,000 of this amount
and make an earnest effort to
rasie the amount within the next
two years. The committe rec
ommends that all adult members
of Sunday schools pay $1 each to
this fund.
The committee on missions re
ported a great need for mission
work in the district and recom
mended that the pastors lose no
opportunity to go out and carry
the gospel into the neglected com
munities.
The Bible committee commend
ed the work being done by the
American Bible Society. It re
ported that the representative of
this society had visited 3,555
homes during the past year and
found 378 of these without a Bi
ble.
The trustees of the district par
sonage, at Batesville, reported that
Cui. V. Y. Cook had given a lot
for the erection of a parsonage
and the trustees were authorized
to sell the old parsonage and erect
a new building on the lots given
by Col. Cook. A motion to in
crease the district trustees from
five to seven was adopted. W. R.
Rice of Tuckerman having resign
ed from the board, F. M. Martin
was elected to fill the vacancy, and
T. J. Raney of Newark and M. E.
Moore of Moorefield were elected
as additional members of the
board.
The committee on books and
periodicals submitted a report com
mending the jrood work being
done by the church papers, espec
ially the Western Methodist, and
urged the pastors to push the
work of supplying the people with
wholesome literature.
The finance committee reported
that. theJ^tal3^essn\e^t-Sfts gen
eral church purposes in this dis
trict amounts to $1,350; amount
paid to date on this assessment,
$185. Presiding elder’s apportion
ment, $1,300; amount paid to date,
$500. Pastors’salaries (estimated)
$12,720; amount paid to date, $3,
775. Number of houses of worship '
in the district, 65. Number of par-'
(Continued on page 8)
THE COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION
Program Arranged For Meeting
at Bethe.sda July 31 and
August 1st
The Independence County Sun
day Schon! Association will hold
its annual convention at Bethesda
July 31 and August 1.
A large attendance is expected,
and a number of the officers of
the State Association will be pres
ent and deliver addresses. The fol
lowing program has been prepar
ed for the meeting.
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THURSDAY MORNING
Song and prayer service led by
R. L. Edwards.
Opening address by the county
president.
The work of the past year and
our plans for the future.
Reports from the field given by
delegates in conference led by
Sidney Pickens.
The child in your midst. What
to teach it and how?— Miss Min
nie T. Allen.
Our need of trained workers
and how to supply this need.—
Rev. W. A. Lindsey.
Appointment of committees.
Assignment of delegates.
SECOND SESSION
8:00 p. m. Song and prayer
service - W. P. Tuggle.
A winning campaign for adults.
—W. R. Shelpman.
Practical Christian work for or
ganized classes.—C. D. Metcalf.
An address.—Miss Allen.
THIRD SESSION FRIDAY, AUG. 1
' 9:00 a. m. Song and prayer
service.—W. W. Moore.
The prepared teacher.—Rev. C.
F. Hively.
The scholars home study. What
and how secured?—0. T. Jernigan.
Conference on Sunday School
problems.—H. E. Lufkin.
Reports from the State Conven
tion.
(1) The convention as a whole.
—W. T. Jernigan.
(2) Lessons from the convention
for—(a) The Elementary Division.
—Mrs. Jane Dodd, (b) Secondary
Division. —Miss Amy Jones, (c)
Adult Division.—M. E.' Moore.
Temperance teaching in the
Sunday school.—J. B. Stewart
Address.—Miss Allen.
FOURTH SESSION
1:45 p.m. Devotional exercises.
Alva Eller.
Address or conference.—H. E.
Lufkin.
Offering anu pledges for county
and state work.
Election of officers and other
business.
Closing remarks by officers.
Benediction.
All ministers, officers, teachers
and adult members of all Sunday
schools in the county are members
of this association.
Each school is urged to send (1)
at least three delegates (2) a com
plete statistical report (3) a liberal
offering for county and statework.
Free transportation from O’neal j
to Bethesda and return will be
furnished all delegates who go by
rail. Free entertainment at Be
thesda for all who attend. All who
go by rail should not fail to write
W. H. Calloway, Bethesda. Chair
man of local committees and trans
portation, W. H. Calloway. Music
G. W. McSpadden. Entertainment
Miss Betty Shaw.
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ITS npV INC] DAY
The Journal will move today in
to its new building on the corner
of Main and Second street, which
has just been finished. It is quite a
job to move a printing office and
if The Journal comes to you next
week with holes in it and a scorch
ed look around the edges you can
easily imagine the cause of it.
FORMER NEWARK
MAN MURDERED
Elston Brewer, Former Employe
of The Journal, Killed at
Vicksburg, Miss
Vicksburg, Miss., July 15.—It is
j believed that the body of a young
white man found in the Yazoo Ca
nal this afternoon is that of Elston
Brewer of Newport, Ark,, who
reached this city several days ago
accompanied by a traveling com
panion, who gave his name as S.
L. Johnson.
The body was recovered by
Peter Petkovseek, pilot of a launch
which was making its regular trip
between this city and Desoto Is
land, opposite Vicksburg. When
the body was dragged from the
water it was found that it was
weighted down with a large stone
tied around the waist. Coroner J.
H. Thompson and the coroner’s
jury with the aid of a number of
bystanders, uncovered the head of
the body which had been tied up
in a corn sack and was badly beat
en with an axe, which was found
in one of the small boats in which
the two men had come to this city.
S. L. Johnson, upon circumstan
tial evidence, was arrested and
put in the county jail. He denied
he was guilty. He claimed Brewer
left this city Sunday to accept a
position on an afternoon paper in
Memphis, and he was positive the
body was not Brewer. Two steam
boat men said they felt sure the
body was that of Brewer. Johnson
after Brewer disappeared offered
to sell everything with the two
boats to T. M. Morrissey for $250
and later made an offer to sell for
$200. The investigation will be re
sumed by Coroner Thompson to
morrow.
Elston Brewer was employed in
The Journal office for several
months at different times during
the past two or three years, and
was well known and had many
friends in Newark. He had been
at work at Newport for several
months and left Newport in a gas
oline boat about the tenth of June.
He was the only son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Brewer, prominent
and well-to-do people of Cave City,
and was born and reared at Cave
City. _
BREWER NOT AT M EH PHIS
Memphis, July 16.—Elston Brew
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POULTRY SHOW AT
THE STATE FAIR
New Superintendent of Poultry
Department Promises (Jreat
Show This Year
Hot Springs, July 14.—Poultry
raisers and fanciers throughout
Arkansas, and the entire country
for that matter, will be gratified to
learn that the Arkansas State Fair
management has chosen for super
intendent of the poultry depart
ment for the 1913 fair, 0. C . Wil
liams, one of the most enthusiastic
poultry breeders and exhibitors in
the entire south.
Every former exhibitor at the
fair will recall Mr. Williams, who
was always prominently identified
with the poultry exhibit. He has
recently organized the Garland
County Poultry Association, and
has been elected secretary of the
organization. It is his purpose to
foster like organizations in prac
tically all the counties of the state
with the central interest in the big
Arkansas State Fair.
Mr. Williams invites every poul
try raiser and fancier in the State
of Arkansas and all other southern
states, as well as those of the
north, east and west to correspond
with him with reference to the
1913 State Fair exhibit which he
promises to make the greatest
ever held in the state.
SOCIALIST PICNICS
The Socialists have arranged for
a series of picnics in Independence
county, beginning August band
ending August 15. They will be
held at the following places.
Spring Mill, Wednesday, August
6. Committeeman, J. A. Johnson,
Batesville. R. 1.
Bethesda, Thursday, August 7.
Committeman, J. C. Medlock, Be
thesda.
Jamestown, Friday, August 8.
Committeman, A. S. Johnson,
Jamestown.
Cave Springs, Saturday, August
9. Committeman, 0. N. Rutledge,
Huff.
Sulphur Rock, Tuesday and
Wednesday, August 12 and 13.
Committeeman, W. P. Detherovv,
Batesville.
Antioch, Friday, August 15.
Committeeman, II. M. Detherow,
Cave City.
All who want privileges should
wjite the committeeman at place
privileges are desired. These pic
nics are so arranged that you can
easily move from one to another.
Write for special rate if you want
to go the whole round. There will
be speakers of all political views
and good amusements of all kinds.
W. P. Detherow, Chairman.
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The old reliable when you are go
ing to buy furnishing for the home
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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 HAChlNES
BUCK STOVES, CARTS, BUGGIES
SURR1ES, WAGONS and AUTOS
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