HE NEWARK JOURNAL
Published Weekly
1. F. CRAIG, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Eotered at the post office at Newark,
Ark., as second class mail.
How Prohibition
Kills a Town
While in Newport recently
our attention was called to
the fact that there is more
substantial building being
done now than ever before in
the history of Newport.
We remarked that there
must be some mistake about
this, for Newport is now a
“dry" town, and according to
the statement of some of her
own citizens, Newport should
be “dead" because they were
ver\ positive in their ante-el
ection predictions that New
port would be a dead town if
the aloons were voted out.
In this connection we must
n\ that the following from
the Wichita Beacon on how
prohibition kills a town covers
the ease about as completely as
anything we ever read.
i lie grape industry is not
tlo only tiling ruined by prohi
bition in Kansas. In fact, pro
hibition has killed about every
industry in Kansas, except the
raising of wheat and corn, and
alfalfa and fruit and livestock,
and potatoes and peas,and cab
bage and garden sass, and
chickens and ducks and geese,
and horses and mules and full
blooded cattle. It busted up a
lot of our flourishing saloons
and beer gardens, and paraly
sed many prominent gam
blers. It has absolutely killed
the bartenders’ union. Where
once the thriving saloon sent
the clamorous odor of its pros-'
po tty out upon the street we
ihid nothing but shoe stores,dry'
goods stores, grocery stores,
and other sordid activities of
an unhappy people! Where
o ice you saw long strings of
m ui on Saturday night, going
joyfully into the rooms where
the doors were closed securely,
where there was sawdustonthe
floor and a merry crowd at the
mahogany bar, treating all
around, and a man could get
his salary check cashed and
spend it all right there on his
boon companions and go en
thusiastically home and break
up the furniture and give his
wife a black eye; instead ofi
all these manifestations oi a
prosperous and thrifty citizen
ship, as in our saloon days, we
see men go into the butcher
shops and grocery stores and
then go lugging home great
bundles of supplies for their
wives and children—beefsteak
tor supper, Sunday dinner,etc.
Ah, what a sad result of the
banishment of saloons. Prohi
bition has left little of Kan
a, except her fields and fac
tories and schools and stores
and pens of fat cattle and her
sober and happy and pros
perous people!”
North Arkansas will be over
run with homesekers and in
vestors this fall and winter.
Never have we had greater in
ducements to offer or better
proof that they exist in reality
as in the mind of the booster.
This year Arkansas will har
vest the best crops for several
years, and this, following upon
the heels of bad years here as
elsewhere, puts the state on an
even footing. Added to that,we
have the only state that has
not been more or lessexploited.
Many people are just now dis
covering Arkansas.- Harrison
Times.
The recent rains insure
bountiful crops of every kind
in Independence county and
General Prosperity will soon
be a welcome guest among all
our folks.
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Mutual Interests in
The Community
There is no more import
ant work than that of promot
ing a sentiment that binds the
community together in neigh
borliness, making every man
who lives in the neighborhood
proud of his neighbors and ea
ger to help them.
The community where every
man feels that his neighbors
are comrades is a neighbor
hood where the people will
work together for better
.schools, better roads, better
churches and better citizen
ship as insured by the ideals
placed before young people.
Where a few earnest, deter
mined neighbors set themsel
ves to the task of making the
community what it should be,
the others can usually be won
and the task accomplished. It
is a work that will attract when
once it is started.
A dull backward communi
ty can not be transformed in
to a live, active, progressive
community in a few years. It
lakes time to change pedes’
sympathies and ideals, yet
there is no limit to what can
be done v hen a few men deter
mine to do things and go about
them conscientiously. Great
improvements have been made,
diflicult problems solved and
stubborn opposition overcome
by efficient leaders.—Farm and
Ranch.
Although fruit is cheaper
t han it has been in many years
the fruit crop has been worth
several thousand dollars to
the farmers of Independence
county. In fact the amount
and the variety of the crops
grown in Independence coun
ty this year will probably sur
pass that of any year in the
entire history of the county.
The Tuetons and the Allies
both continue to declare their
unalterable determination to
fight the war to a finish. Well,
if they are hell-bent on com
mitting suicide, the only thing
left for the other nations to do
is stand back and give ’em
room.
It is said that more than
five million dollars will be
spent in Arkansas within the
next few months in the con
struction of good roads under
the provisions of the Alexan
der law. Arkansas is paving
the way to prosperity.
Hog and hominy will mean
much to the prosperity of our
people this year. Those who
have bread, meat, fruits and
vegetables will not worry if
cotton prices should be low.
It is a mighty safe plan never
to give advice for others to
follow that you couldn’t follow
yourself it they should give it
back to you.
People who confine them
selves strictly to the truth usu
ally do very little talking-.
WINTER DAIRYING
The Extension Division of
the College of Agriculture is
urging farmers to prepare to
do more dairying in the winter,
to milk more cows, to have
more winter pasture or to have
silage and to prepare warm
sheds for cold and rainy weath
er. Some good cows with good
feed and shelter and a hundred
hens with warm sheds for win
er will bring in cold cash.
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CONVICT IS KILLED
Little Rock, Aug. 7.--The
penitentiary commission today
announced Thomas King, serv
ing a 12-year sentence for rob
bery, committed in Little Rock
last December, was shot and
killed by guards at the state
farm at Cummins while at
tempting to escape. King was
from Mobile, Ala.
APPLE CROP SHORT
It is estimated that Benton
and Washinbton counties this
year will ship 1,000 carloads of
apples, as against 3,000 car
loads last year.
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WILL INVESTIGATE
PEN MANAGEMENT
Former Gov. Donaghey Heads
Commission to Investigate
Conditions on State Farm.
Little Rock, Aug. 10.—Ex
Gov. Geo. W. Donaghey, Dr.
Alonzo Monk, a prominent
Methodist minister of Little
Rock and W. G. Hutton, sher
iff of Pulaski county, will form
the commission to investigate
charges that prisoners have
been ill treated, according to
announcement yesterday by
Governor Hays. The commis
sion will leave today for the
state farm at Cummins. It was
charged by the Rev. L.'Tomme
former chaplain of the insti
tution, that prisoners have been
treated in an inhumane man
ner.
“1 appointed this commission
at the request of the Peniten
tiary Commission,” Governor
Hays said, ‘‘although the
members of that body had
nothing to do with seleetingthe
members. 1 selected the men
in whom I believe the people
of the state have the utmost
confidence and they will make
a complete investigation of the
charges made by the Rev, Mr.
Tomme. I have furnished the
members with a copy of the
■charges he made in a speech
at Levy and they are to look
into each of these charges.The
commission is provided with a
stenographer to take testi
mony and other evidence.”
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SEED WHEAT
The College of Agriculture
at Fayetteville, reports that ex
periments, conducted for seven
years with (51 different varieties
of wheat, show that Fultz, Fan
caste, Red May and Alabama
Bluestem are probably the best
varieties of wheat for Arkan
sas. The Extension Division of
the University of Arkansas, is
compiling a list of seed wheat
growers in Arkansas, South
eastern Kansas and Eastern
Oklahoma, and will furnish the
list to all county agricultural
agents in Arkansas as soon as
it is ready which possibly will
be within the next two weeks.
In counties having no agricul
tural agent, this list will besent
to all banks. In the meantime,
every farmer who has seed
wheat of the above varieties,
or any other good wheat, is
urged to send his name at
once to his county agricultural
agent or to the Dean of the Ex
tension Division of the State
University at Fayetteville, so
that he may be placed on the
list of seed wheat growers. If
home grown seed wheat is to
be used it should be well clean
ed. •
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The Journal for Job Printing
DATE FOR PRIMARY
REMAINS UNCHANGED
Democratic Frimary Date Not
Affected by Passage of Law
Changing General Election..
The passage of the bill by
the last legislature to consoli
date state and national elec
tions will have no effect on the
democratic state general pri
mary next March.
No action has been taken
by the democratic state central
committee relative to chang
ing the date of the primaries.
Chairman Walls of the state
committee stated several weeks
ago that, so far as he was con
cerned, there would be no
change in the date because the
state committee did not have
the power to make the change.
The views expressed by
Judge Walls have met with;
the approval of the majority!
of the committee, and the pri-!
manes will be held on theiliird |
Wednesday in March. 1916
(he date fixed by the demo-j
eratic state convention, which |
met in Pine Bluff in June, last.
All candidates for state, dis
trict and judicial offices and
congressmen will be voted for
in that primary.
The matter of selecting can
didates for the various coun
ty positions is left to the discre
tion of the county central com
mittees. The county primaries
are usually held on the same
date of the state primary. It
is made mandatory for candi
dates for state officers to be
selected on the uniform days
fixed by the democratic state
convention.
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I NEGRO FINDS PEARL
Newport, Aug. 0.—“Fisher
man Jim,” a local negro, who
has returned from a pearl pros
pecting trip to Cache river, has
started other pearlers to this
small stream, which runs
through the eastern part of
the county. He brought in a
pearl which he sold for $150.
The supply of mussels in White
river has steadily diminished
until pearling this season has
proved unprofitable, although
a few valuable sahvlmegalm
a few valuable gems have been
picked up.
ALLIES BUY WAR HORSES
St. Louis, Aug. 9. —British
agents today resumed the pur
chase of war horses at the Na
tional stock yards. The daily
purchase of 200 horses was
stopped about a week ago be
cause of the lack of sufficient
transports for conveying the
animals to England. The
French, Belgian and Italian
army representatives last week
bought 2,000 horses here.
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About 400 acres of this place is susceptible
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H. E. Hawthorne, Manager
Newark, Arkansas
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