The Newark Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1921
VOL. 21 NO. 2 3
NEWARK BOY SHIPS
. FINE HOGS TO TENN.
Clint Fortune, Young Farmer
Breeder Sells Choice Ani
mals to Tennesseean
Clint Fortune who resides
on a farm about five miles
north of Newark brought three
fine thoroughbred Poland
China hogs to town last
Thursday evening for ship
ment to Lytel Peyton, a breed
er of Lebanon, Tenn.
These hogs were raised on
the farm by young Fortune
who resides with his father, j
P. S. Fortune, on a fine Dota
creek farm. He has quite a
number of pedigreed animals
having become interested in
the Poland China breed sever
al years ago through the ef
forts of Herbert Benson, New
ark’s veteran breeder of Po
land Chinas.
HTho Tah r*r» o 1 ia orloH fn QPP
the young men on the farms
of this section of Independen
ce county take up the breed-:
ing of pure bred livestock, and,
we are more than glad to see;
these breeding animals going
from Arkansas into other
states and making good.
Mrs. C. M. Edwards has
been appointed local chair
man for the Baby Show De
partment of the County Fair
to be held at Batesville Octo-|
her 19-22. Mrs. Edwards
would be glad to get in toudh
with the ladies who desire to!
enter their babies. A display
of baby pillows, coverlets,
dresses, bibs, bonnets, caps,
socks, buggy robes, petticoats,
baskets, kimonos and novel
ties is desired. Those desir
ing to enter the contest should
confer with Mrs. Edwards at
once.
CONTINUE ROAD WORK
Jackson County District Will
Proceed With Work
Newport, Sept. 17.—At a
meeting of commissioners and
taxpayers of Road District No.
2 of this county at the Cham
ber of Commerce Thursday, it
was decided to continue with
the work of building the road
which was begun in the early
summer. The work was being
held up for the want of funds
but at the meeting it was de
cided to issue bonds necessary
to complete the road and work
under the contractors, Greg
ory- and Wilson, will go for
ward.
This action by the taxpay
ers of the district was grateful
ly received by all interests in
the northeastern section of the
county, which is almost isolat
ed in the winter months on ac
count of the bad roads. The
highway runs in an easterly
direction from Newport to
Amagon, Remmel, Algoa,
Eight Mile and Grubbs, 22
miles, ah thriving little towns
and in an unusually fine farm
ing district.
MAN DIES IN JAIL
Plummerville Man Victim of
Alcoholic Poisoning
Morrilton, Sept. 19.—Till
man Dempsey, arrested at
Plummerville yesterday and
jailed here on a charge of
being drunk, died about mid
night in the jail. Dempsey is
said to have been in a stupor
and never recovered. The
verdict of the coroner’s jury
was that he died from alcohol
ic poisoning, 't'he dead man
is survived by his widow and
four children.
Tom Mix, in a thrilling
story of the West, at the Roy
al Friday night.
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Young man! If you will start RIGHT NOW and
prut a part of your earnings in the bank every pay day
there is nothing can stop you from becoming influen
tial and RICH.
Money .breeds money. _ The man .with money
knows that the young man who can and does take
care of his own money will take care of his money
too. He TRUSTS him. The young man gets oppor
tunities for making more money and a partnership.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Newark, Arkansas
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $75,000.00
j
$500,000,000 ADDED
TO COTTON VALUE
In the last 60 days the ad
vance in cotton has made the
new crop and the carryover
worth nearly $500,000,000
more than they would have
been worth at the price then
prevailing . Moreover, the
gambling bears were bent on
beating prices still lower, but
fortunately they have been
caught in their own trap and
are being right gloriously pun
ished.
This $500,000,000 means a
change difficult to exagger
ate. It will wonderfully af
fect the whole atmosphere of
the South’s business and agri
cultural interests; it will save
many a man and many a busi
ness from bankruptcy; it will
revive trade; it will nourish
every industry with new life
blood; it will quicken the
nf rtanpH • it
will put new courage into all
the people; it will show the
tremendous blunder committed ;
when the former Administra
tion curtailed credit and kill
ed the War Finance Corpora
tion by the present Adminis
tration.
This advance will also show
the wisdom of a reduced cot
ton acreage, with an increase
in foodstuff production. In
this lesson the South should
find the road to permanent 1
prosperity, greater than it has
ever known.
If the South will, now and
forever be independent and
rich, let it cut its cotton acre
j age heavily for all time to
come and intensify the acre
age it does cultivate in order
to reduce the cost of produc
tion and then concentrate on
foodstuffs for itself and for
the country. Then home
made fertilizers will enrich its
soils, grain and grasses and
cattle and hogs will diversify
its agriculture, enlarge the
horizion of its farmers and
add enormously to their pros
perity. Never was there a
better object lesson than the
present.
If the south had raised 12,
000,000 bales of cotton, the
price would probably have
gone to 6 cents a pound; but
with a crop of only about 7,
[)00 bales the price has gone
to more than three times that
figure and many a farmer will
now live who at 6 cents would
nave been hopelessly bankrupt
in nnvprl r -fm* tn
:‘ome. A crop of 12,000,000
sales with a carry-over of,
<ay 8,000,000 in round figures
sr 20,000,000 bales at G cents
would have been worth only
j>G00,000,000, which would
lave meant bankruptcy for
he entire cotton-growing in
terests. A 7,000,000 bale crop
md a carry-over of 8,000,000
sales at even 18 cents a pound
—and it should go higher—
would be wrorth $1,350,000,
)00.
Let the South reverently
thank God for thus increased
wealth, take courage and go
forward with new zeal and
energy.—Manufacturer’s Rec
srd.
TO EXHIBIT POULTRY
C. C. Whisnant, north Ark
ansas’ chief chicken fancier,
and who has one of the larg
est poultry farms in this sec
tion at Paroquet, will leave
Saturday night for Memphis, |
where he will exhibit 25
White Leghorn layers and
roosters at the tri-state fair.
Last year Mr. Whisnant cap
tured four first prizes, two
seconds and one fourth prize
at the tri-state exhibition.
WHAT A GOOD
• SCHOOL DOES
One of the best ways to
promote the development of
a country town, is to provide
it with an exceptionally good
school.
If vou can keen such a
school constantly improving,
so that it turns out bright j
young people who stay in their
home county and develop its
industries, you are going to:
draw in new students from
many miles around. As the
school grows it can employ
more teachers, can carry on
more community activities,
and become a center for the
development of the entire:
comyiunity. Families will |
move into a town having such
an institution, and few will
move away.
Go to J. B. Fitzhugh & Bro.
Batesville, Ark., for your clo
thing. We have plenty of
young men’s suits from $12.50
up.
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TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
Mena, Sept. 19.—Robert O.
Owen, real estate man, was
found dead at his country
home near Rainbow Springs
todav with a bullet hole thru
his head. A farewell mes
sage, leaving all his property
to his bride of 48 hours, for
merly Mrs. Sarah Dlaton of
Mena, gave evidence of sui
cide. At the coroners inquest
today it was testified that Mr.
Owen asked Mrs. M. J. Hun
ter of Roxton, Tex., to come
to Mena to marry him. Be
fore she arrived he mairied
Mrs. Dalton. Mrs. Hunter
reached Mena late yesterday
and Owen is believed to have
killed himself shoitly after
ward.
IMPROVING ROAD
Road Overseer H. T. Mag
ness is having some good
work done on the road lead
ing south from Newark. The
tractor ajid grader are being
used and it is said the road
to Paroquet will be graded
when the Oil Trough road is
finished.
Gross Qualls has charge of
the work and is doing a good
job of it.
REWARD FOR THIEVES
Walnut Ridge, Sept. 20.—A
reward of $200 has been of
fered by J. C. Pinnell for the
capture of two burglars who
took his Paige car on Satur
day night, September 10.
BOY KILLED BY TRAIN
Horribly Mangled When He is
Thrown Under Wheels
Rector, Sept. 18.—Dari
Ferguson, aged 13, met a hor
rible death about 11 o’clock
this morning when he was run
over and his body terribly
mangled by a Cotton Belt
freight train near the Rector
station. Both arms and legs
were severed, the back of the
head was cut off as if by a
knife, and the body was oth
erwise badly bruised and cut.
Young Ferguson, a son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Ferguson,
had attempted to “hop” the
train when, it is believed, he
missed his footing and was
thrown underneath the
wheels.
CAR TURNS OVER
Mother and 1 wo Small Chil
dren are Injured
Newport, Sept. 20.—Ml*s.
Felix Blanton and t\yo small
■hildren, living four miles east
jf Newport, had a narrow es
cape from serious injury this
orning when the sedai. in
which they were riding turn
ed over as they were en route
:o their home from town. Mrs.
Blanton was driving the car
and in making a turn in the
curve of the road she lost con
trol of the car, which rolled
down the steep embankment,
completely demolishing the
car. The three occupants
were painfully but not serious
ly injured.
COTTON BRINGS 34 CENTS
Newport, Sept. 16.—A bale
of long staple cotton grown
by Bowden Bros, of Tucker
man brought 34 cents a pound
on the local maiket yester-j
day.
! JACKSON COUNTY HAS
PLEDGED 5,000 BALES
Farmers Said to Realize Merits
of Co-operative Marketing
Plan, for Cotton
Newport, ‘Sept 17.—J. S.
Wilmans, chairman of the
Jackson county unit of the
Arkansas Co-operative Mark
eting Assciation, with M. L.
Hix, one of the Oklahoma
state officials of the market
ing bureau, has just complet
ed a tour over the county in
tne interest of the cotton mar
keting. Mr. Wilmans said
tnat 5,000 bales of cotton had
been pledged for next season’s
crop, to be sold by the asso*
uation next year.
Little opposition is being met
with from farmers, who are
beginning to realize, he said,
that the c i-operat'.re market
ing of any product is the only
successful an 1 profitable wav
to dispose of anything raised
by the farmers for sale. The
fr'dt growers and producers
of the county also are being
more thoroughly organized,
and the 200 acres planted in
strawberries this fall will be
sc Id to-operc.tivel/.
NEWPORT SCHOOLS
ENROLL ONE THOUSAND
Newport, Sapt. 19.—The
Newport public schools opened
for the fall session this morn
in* with an enrollment of 1,
000 in the white school. The
N wport special school district
has an enrollment of 1,555 of
school age with the above at
tendance the first day of the
term. Prof. J. H. Patterson is
superintendent.
TomMix
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