The Newark Journal.
Published In The Famous White River Country. Where Alfalfa Is king
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, October 2, 1908
Vol. 8. No. 41
PROMINENT COUPLE WED
Col. Bojs Adams Surrenders to Dan
Cupid, and Becomes a Benedict
A pretty home wedding was solem
nized at the home of the birde’s sis
ter, Mr. and Mrs, John Rogers, Sun
day afternoon at 2:30, the contracting
parties being R. B. Adams and Miss
Ida McAhron. Rev. Jas. F. Jernigan
pronounced the beautiful and impress
ive ceremony uniting the lives of these
estimable people.
The wedding was a quiet one, wit
nessed by a few of the relatives and
intimate friends of the bride and
groom.
They are among the best people of
the county, the groom being one of
News ’s leading business men.
The., are the recipients of the hearty
congratulations and good wishes of
innumerable friends, and The Journal
Heartily joins in wishing them a full
measure of all the good things of life
' and a pleasant and happy voyage to
the great haven of rest beyond the
setting sun..
CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES
Charlotte, Sept. 30.—Ralph McGill,
Sam Moore and Orena Long left Mon
day for Sulphur Rock to enter school,
but returned Tuesday on account of
the smallpox.
Rev. J. L. Brown preached an in
teresting sermon here Sunday evening.
Judge G. J. Lindsey returned home
Tuesday from a visit to Floral.
Several from this place entered
school at Cave City Monday.
Miss Bonnie Kent was very sick a
few days last week.
John Yates made a business trip to
Newark Tuesday.
Miss Delia Lane has been chilling
this week.
BIG BOTTOM FARM FOR SALE
We have for sale one of the finest
farms in the famous Big Bottom, only
3} miles from Newark, consisting of
342 acres, 250 acres of which is in culti
vation, and produces 50 to 75 bushels
of corn or a bale of cotton ]>er acre.
This is one of the linest farms in
Big Bottom which is noted for its
immense yields of cotton, corn and
alfalfa.
There are live tenant houses on the
farm, of two to four rooms each and
two good large box barns.
A genuine bargain if taken at once.
Henderson Real Estate Co., Newark,
Ark.
A WONDERFUL CLOCK
A slab-sided, mud covered granger
entered a clock store the other even
ing, and with a bewildred look asked:
“Mister, is this were a man kin get a
clock?” “Yes, sir,” said the clerk.
‘•Wall,” said the granger, “what be
that ticker worth?” pointing to a piece
of time-recording mechanism on the
shelf. “That, sir,” said the clerk,
“is a w'onderful timepiece; it is worth
•zuu ana win run tnree years wnnoui
winding.” ‘‘Great Scott!” gasped tiie
granger, ‘‘three years without winding!
Say, mister, how long- would the
blamed thing run if it was wound up?”
—Ex.
NO SMALLPOX IN NEWARK
The report is lining circulated that
there is smallpox in Newark. Such is
not the case, however. There is not
now. nor has not been, a case of
. smallpox here, or any disease resem
bling smallpox.
The only cases of smallpox in the
county so far as The Journal has
been able to ascertain are at Sulphur
Rock, and there seems to be some
doubt as to the cases there being gen
uine smallpox.
FOUNTAIN PEN FREE
As a special campaign offer to
anyone who will secure 20 new ten
weeks’ supscriptions to the Weekly
Commercial Appeal, (remitting $2.00
for same) will lie sent a Diamond
Point Fountain Pen, guaranteed finest
grade, 14-kt. solid gold pen. Act
quick, as this sjiecial offer will be
withdrawn in a short time. Address,
Weekty Commercial Appeal, Memphis,
Tenn.
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MOUNT PELEE AT THE FAIR
The “Eruption of Mount Pelee”
every night during the State Fair will
be the gigantic show, complete in every
detail, given by the Layton Fireworks
Company, which carried away the
highest honors at the Jamestown Ex
position. This gigantic production
numbers among the most stupendous
enterprises ever successfully under
taken and far outrivals all other
panoramic pyrotechnic exhibitions.
The spectators see before them the
historic city of St. Pierre, Isle of
Hartinique, the eve pf that most awe
inspiring disaster. Mount Pelee,
sombre and threatening, towers above
the city. Night gathers; the crowds
throng the picturesque streets, enjoy
ing a street fete. The dancers and
singers, gymnasts and acrobats per
form wonderful feats.
The priest leads the religious march
into the cathedral just as the chimes
nine o’clock. This is the fateful hour.
With one warning rumble and groan,
dark clouds burst forth from the crater
of the volcano; then rock, lava and
fiery ashes, flames of every tint and
hue, burst high into the air. The
terrified multitudes endeavor to flee
from their doom. The spires of the
city totter and fall, buildings crash to
the ground, while gigantic pyrotechnic
displays fill the air with weird and
vast beauty. The very earth seems to
rock and heave from the shock, so
realistic is this great exhibition.
THE HUMAN TONGUE
An exchange truthfully says the
most deadly instrument known to mor
tal man is the human tongue. Dyna
mite is not in it as a trouble breeder.
It is a hair trigger of the universe.
The less brains. Christianity, brother
ly and sisterly love back of it, the
freer its action. It goes oft on the
sllBfctest provocation. It strikes
heavier blows than a prize-tighter or
a mule kicking in a hornets nest, and
causes more headaches than a tax
collector. A tongue can make a sore
spot for years. The crimes chargeable
to the tongue are words of criticism,
unkindness, gossip, envy, scandal,
lying, malice and hate. The aggregate
of sorrow caused by the tongue in one
day would rise above the mountains if
we could but view it with the natural
eye.
FARM FOR SALE
Good farm of 100 acres near High
Rock, 11 miles north of Batesville, 75
acres in cultivation 25 acres of which
is tine creek bottom land which grows
75 bushels of corn per acre. Good
frame dwelling with two tenant houses.
Two orchards with an abundant varie
ty of fruits. Good oak, hickory and
cedar timber on land not in cultiva
tion. Fine water, both well and spring,
with tine creek running through farm.
Good mill-site on farm. Fine cave
near.dwelling where 10,000 pushels of
vegetables may be kept the year round.
Convenient to school and church.
Will Iwj «olrl f*hpA.n And nn aacv
Henderson Real Instate Co., Newark
Ark.
THE WAY IT WILL WORK
Do not lie deceived. The people are
not mocked. If it is an easy thing to
override the law in order to protect
saloon keepers, some day it will bean
easy thing to override the constitution
in its protection of property.—(Gover
nor Hughes of New York.
TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
If your district needs desks, black
boards or school furniture of any kind,
call and get my prices. 1 handle the
best desk made and can make prices
as low as the lowest. A. A. Hender
son, Newark, Ark.
NOTICE TO HUNTERS
All persons are notified to not hunt
coons in, or run through, or l>e found
in our fields of cotton at night. Any
one found doing such, will be prose
cuted. W. E. Prince,
11-6 Nathan Prince.
ONE OF THE LOSSES
Civilization has its drawbacks.
There are not nearly so many hazle
nut patches as there used to be.
McCulloch Makes Request.
"The present situation, due to the
alleged appearance of night riders in
Arkansas, which has already had a
marked effect on the cotton market
in some parts of Arkansas, appeals
to me as being a very serious one. I
intend to write to John Bowers of
Jacksonville, president of the Arkan
sas Farmers’ Union, immediately and
usk him to either call an emergency
meeting of the Arkansas union for
the purpose of taking steps 10 check
the night rider movement, or write
letters to all parts of the state at
once and ask the union leaders to do
everything possible to check the
growth of this movement. I believe
that the proper solution is to appeal
to the business men and cotton buy
ers and ask ihem not to buy cotton.”
The foregoing declaration was made
by R. H. McCulloch of Beebe, chair
man of the Executive Committee of
the Arkansas Farmers’ Union and sec
retary of the national organization of
the union. The statement was given
out upon Mr. McCulloch’s return from
Little Rock.
The statement is considered to be
of unusual importance as indicating
the position that may be taken by the
Farmers’ Union in the present threat
ened night riders’ movement in this
state. It is interpreted to mean that
UK* UIllUIl Will ctMlA tilt* lumin
and merchants of Arkansas to cease
business entirely as far as the buying
of cotton is concerned.
“The union is opposed to such a
thing as night riding,” declared Mr.
McCulloch Saturday, “and will do all
that it can to stamp oul the growth
of such a movement. However it
seems to me that the only possible so
lution of the situation at this time is
to ask the merchants to stop buying
-otton throughout the entire state.
This is being tried at Paragould and
is successful in checking the further
appearance of night riders. If the
merchants want to take the cotton on
Indebtedness that would be all right,
but we would ask that he cease buy
ing any.”
“Dut if merchants are allowed to
take the cotton to apply on indebted
ness would not the result be another
scheme for financing ‘distressed cot
ton?'" was asked Mr. McCulloch.
“In a way it would,” he replied.
“However there is no doubt but that
the ‘distressed cotton' will be handled
all right and without trouble without
the aid of any such scheme as that."
Night Riders To Be Prosecuted,
The first arrests in connection with
the appearance of night riders in Ar
kansas will probably be made imme
diately, according to reports brought
to Jonesboro Sunday night. A band
of night riders appeared in the lower
edge of Greene county recently and
ordered a farmer who was hauling
cotton to a gin not to sell his cotton
imiuc ho rmitd eet as much as three
and one-half cents per pound in the
seed for it. Those who brought the
news of the appearance of the riders
to Jonesboro claim that they recog
nized a number of the members of the
party and that they will all be arrested.
It is also rumored that the night
riders in the lower part of Greene
county have done some violence, but
it is not believed that anything seri
ous has occurred.
According to the report received, the
man who was met by the band recent
ly and ordered not to sell his cotton
was also notified at the same time
that if he or anyone else failed to
obey the warnings of the riders they
would suffer the consequences.
The night riders in C'raighead coun
ty have not thus far carried out any
act of violence.
There is not much fear of any trou
ble at Jonesboro, and by many it is
thought that the reports are greatly
exaggerated by the time they reach
the city.
Sheriff Mooney Not Slain.
John C. Roberts, charged with as
sault with intent to murder, was found
guilty by the jury at Mountain Home
Friday and sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary. Roberts is the man,
who, with his wife, stood off a posse
headed by Sheriff l^eon Mooney, kill
ing Obie Kasinger and wounding the
(Continued on page 8)
PRICE ON COTTON SITUATION
Theodore Price, the cotton specu
lator who has been on the bear side
of the cotton market for two or three
seasons past, and the man who issued
the confidential circular last year tc
bankers and merchants advising then:
to force the farmers to sell, has turn
ed to the other side of the market
and has just issued the following cir
cular:
America will sell its agricultural
products of this year for something
over eight billions of dollars. The
world cannot pay us for this in gold,
abundant as it is, because there is
not much geld in the world, and we
must be paid in goods which other
people will produce. The result will
be an impetus to industry and com
merce that will set all wheels in mo
tion and give employment to all able
to work.
I shall not be surprised if aboul
September, 1909, Messrs. Hood, Fer
nie & Co. in the light of spinners
takings of 14,000,000 bales of Ameri
can cotton for the season then ending
shall cable me that a crop of 15,000,
000 bales will be too small for 1910
When cotton was half a cent lower
1 advised spinners to protect theii
prospective requirements until De
cember. I now advise them to buy
all the cotton they can, around pres
ent prices. I am certain the crop has
been over-estimated and am equally
certain that it will seem so small be
fore trost that the cotton they now
buy or the good3 they inanufacturf
from it can be sold at a handsomt
To the Southern planter 1 say there
is no possible reason why you should
accept less than 10 cents per pound
for this year’s crop, however large
and you may be justified in demand
ing very much more, if the crop prom
ises to be less than 13,000,000 bales
A year ago, in September, 1907
when cotton was selling at 13 cents
I predicted that under the panick]
conditions which I foresaw, it wouk
sell at 8 cents, and May contracts it
New York actually sold at 8.03.
FAITH IN WOMANHOOD
The following words of Henry Wart
Beecher’s are worthy of a place in tin
memory of every man who desires t<
bo^a true gentleman: “I think T an
more grateful to God for the sens*
that came to me through my mothei
and sisters of the substantial integri
ty, purity and nobility of womanhood
than for almost anything else in this
world. After a long life I can sa>
that T have not lost faith in women
The longer I live the more chivalric ii
my regard for them. I should lool
upon it as a fatal canker in my sou
if I fell from my confidence in the gen
eral trustworthiness, honesty, honoi
and charity of womanhood. There
fore, when I hear young men, or mei
in middle life, or old men, cast gros:
aspersions on the character of women
I feel as if I were in a den of hissinj
serpents. No real man should corm
into communion with such men; bu
should abhor them, nass bv them: fo
they are themselves far down in cor
ruption. If I hear a man speak con
temptuous words of women, my bear
sighs at the thought that he had a moth
er whose memory he insults.”
FRUIT GROWERS MEETING
The Fruit and Truck Growers Asso
ciation held a meeting Saturday tc
consider the matter of buying1 straw
berry plants. The attendance was no
as large as was expected, but orders
were placed with the secretary foi
nearly 300,000 plants, and he was in
structed to notify the absent members
to be present at the next meeting anc
place their orders for plants. Sever
al members of the association wil
plant Irish potatoes next spring, then
being seventeen acres already pledg
ed. Another meeting of the associa
tion will be held at the Ratton Hall ii
Newark on Saturday, October 10, a
3 p. m. This movement means mon
for the people of Newark and sur
rounding country than any movemen
set on foot here in recent years, anc
The Journal sincerely hopes that tin
people will take hold of the matter ii
earnest and push it on to success
Berry and vegetable growing hai
proven a decided success around Jud
sonia, and there is no reason why i
should not prove as successful here.
Set' the Henderson Real Estate Co.
if you want to buy or sell property.
THE SMALLPOX SCARE
Situation at Sulphur Rock Not as Bad
as Reports Have Indicated
Editor The Journal:-! understand
the report has gone out that Sulphur
Rock has quarantined, and that it is
a $25 line for any one to come to
town.
Who ever heard of such an absurd
thing? It seems that ony one with a
thimble full of brains would know
better.
The only quarantine there has been
is on W. R. Rice’s and I)r. Bevens’
houses, and an order issued that they
should stay in. be vaccinated or pay a
$25 tine.
There has only been four cases in
town and three of them hardly went
to bed.
While Miss Rice was dangerously ill
for a few days, 1 do not think there is a
particle of danger in any one coming1
to town, and the doctors bear me out
in this. If I did not ltelieve this, I
would not say it for my right arm.
I have no right to say there is not a
case of smallpox in town, but I have a
right to my opinion.
The excitement has quieted down,
and I am glad to say that Miss Rice
is improving rapidly and will be able
to be out in a few days.
W. S. Moore.
Snlnhnr Rnp.lr.
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QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
The fourth and last quarterly con
ference for Newark station will lie held
on Saturday and Sunday, October 10
and 11, by our genial and efficient
presiding elder, Bro. A. F. Skinner.
Brethren, it is needful that we “pull
ourselves together,” and begin in
I earnest to get ready to make a full re
L port at the annual conference to be
held at Jonesboro the lbth of Decem
ber. The report to Vie presented then
is two-fold—yours and mine: yours as
to the material interests of the church,
1 and mine as to the spiritual.
We are fully able to make a full re
' port, one that will be creditable to our
church at Newark. Eyes all over the
White River conference are looking at
us, and ears are listening for notes of
victory from Newark station. We
can make a full report and not a sin
gle member touch the point of self-de
nial. And this is Bible doctrine—self
denial.
; On next Sunday at the 11 o’clock
service I hope every member of our
' chuheh will be present. The subject
to be discussed is, “Why I am a
Christian.” At night a service in
' praise of the great temperance victory
1 in our state. Pastor.
SPECIAL RAILROAD RATES
Social railroad rates have been an
^ nounced for the State Fair for all
points in Arkansas during the entire
six days of the Third Annual State
Fuir and Industrial Exposition at
Hot Springs.
The rate for the fair will be one and
and one-half fare for the round trip,
based on the two-cent rate, making
three cents for the round trip.
The railroads in Arkansas are fur
, ther co-operating with the State Fair
by adding extra coaches to the regular
trains and placing in commission dur
ing the six days of the State Fair a
. number of daily State Fair s]>ecial
trains from all near junction points.
This will include extra State Fair
trains from Little Rock daily over
. Iron Mountain and the Rock Island,
I an extra daily train over the Pine
. Bluff Western from Pine Bluff, also
extra service from Benton and Mal
. vern.
TO THE LADIES
5 After September 25th I may be found
• at my millinery shop on upper Main
t street, where I will be pleased to show
1 to ray friends the latest styles of the
! season. Mrs. Bertha Hoover,
i Sulphur Rock, Arkansas.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Notary work of all kinds done in a
careful and correct manner by A. A.
Henderson at the Merchants and
Planters Bank.