Arkansas state news
Items of General Interest Gathered
Fresh From 'the Columns of
the Daily.Papers.
Judsonia shipped a car load of
strawberries Monday.
There are 15 cases of smallpox
at Concord, in Lonoke county.
* At Texarkana $510 has been
contributed to the town clock
fund.
First services were held in the
new Episcopal church at Newport
Sunday.
The Sharp County Telephone
Company is building a line from
Cave City to Sidney.
Three prisoners sawed out of
the county jail at Bensonville
Sunday night and escaped.
The strawberry season has open
ed at Van Buren, and berries are
being shipped out in carload lots.
Two thousand live hundred dol
lars has been subscribed for the
erection of a canning factory at
Paragould.
llascomb Snyder, aged 5 was
run over by a wagon in the streets
at Paragould and seriously injur
ed Saturday.
Lizzie Bell, a negress, shot and
killed Will Mitchell in an alterca
tion at her home at Lake Village
Saturday night.
The Hempstead County Farm
ers' Union will meet at Rocky
Mound May 4 and continue in
session two days.
Near Bierne Saturday .1. 1>.
Robinson was shot by Charles Ab
bot as the result of a quarrel.
Robinson will recover.
A Small tornado swept over the
vicinity of Lawrence, near Hot
Springs. Monday, doing consider
able damage. A tree was blown
irto a buggy, killing the team and
slightly injuring two of its occu
pants.
Thos. Byrd, who killed an aged
man named Burnsides in Calhoun
county last September, has been
sentenced to twenty-one years in
the penitentiary.
BIG NOTE “QUEERS” THREE
One of Thousand Franc Caliber Prove*
Undoing of Trio of Paris
Frenchmen.
A thousand franc note proved,
the undoing of three Frenchmen j
not long ago. The note belonged
to a lady who had the misfortune
to lose it while walking along the
streets of Paris. It was picked up
by a (“hair mender named Renaud.j
who lived at Montreaux; and he j
placed it very carefully in his
pocket and proceeded home. It is
not often that a chair mender has!
occasion to change a note for that
amount, and Remind, recognizing |
the impossibility of turning it into
gold without detection, agreed
with a friend to do the business j
for the consideration of 10(1;
francs. Lucien Mathern, also a
chair mender, was in his t urn filled
with apprehension. The difficulty
was solved by the aid of a horti
culturist, named Rimonnet, who
kindly consented to buy himself a
horse for 1100 francs and return
the change. Renaud thus became
richer by 600 francs. All might
then have gone well if. two days
later, it had not been discovered
that the horse had been stolen
from a dealer at Meaux. This led
to the arrest of t he t rio, and later
in tin* day the police put their
hands on the horse thieves.
Oil from Tree
China has a tree which produces
oil, and two American tirms now
have houses in China which are ex
porting the oil. The business is
so successful that about 1,000
trees have been transplanted from
China to California and are now
growing well.
FOR WOMEN WHO THINK.
Good Counsel Concerning Grave Peril* j
of Social Organizations in
This Country.
No better advice has been of
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fered to woman—the intelligent, |
educated, influential woman of
America—than that spoken by Mr.1
James II. Angell, president of the
University of Michigan, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean.
“High privileges are opened to
educated women in this country at \
this time, and consequently seri
ous duties are laid upon them.
There is a strong tendency among
them to associate action in many
directions. Women's clubs for
literary, musical, philanthropic
and social ends are every where or
ganized. With so many facilities
for combined action, there is, in
my judgment, a loud call for them
to do something to shield their sex
from some grave perils.
“Certain customs which are
rapidly gaining ground among
women in wfiat are called the
higher social circles demand a
vigorous effort on the part of in
telligent and high-minded women
to secure the elimination of the
element of gambling from amuse
ments and games innocent in
themselves.
“Furthermore, we have a right
to expect from educated women
pronounced condemnation rather
than indulgent views of the rap
idly growing practice, for which
both sexes are guiltily responsi
ble, of procuring under loose laws,
laxly administered, divorces on
trivial grounds or by collusion,
and of contracting subsequent
marriages with unseemly haste.
“In some quarters, and in what
calls itself our best society, the re
nunciation of the solemn marriage
vow on slight pretexts and the
playing of games for stakes by
women in private parlors are
treated w ith a levity and publicly
discussed with an indifference
which recalls the declining days
of the Homan empire.
“The purity of domestic life, the
sanctity of the home, the very
foundations of society are imper
iled by these abuses. The educat
ed and high-minded woman should
by word and by example sound the
alarm concerning them with no
doubtful or hesitating voice.”
Eaters of Earth.
Consumption of earth as food is
said to be common not only in
China, New Caledonia and New
Guinea, but in the Malay arch
ipelago as well. The testimony
of many travelers in the Orient
is that the yellow races are es
pecially addicted to the practice.
Jn Java and Sumatra the clay
used undergoes <i preliminary
preparation, being mixed with
water, reduced to a paste and the
sand and other hard substances
removed. The clay is then formed
into small cakes or tablets about
as thick as a lead pencil and baked
in an iron saucepan. When the
tablet emerges from this process
it resembles a piece of dried pork.
The Javanese frequently eat small
figures roughly modeled from
clay which resemble animals or
little men turned out in paatrj
shops.
The Safety Pin.
The inventor of the safety pin
lives in Cleveland, <>., and he has a
bigger bank account and more
public gratitude than the inventor
of the safety bicycle.—Denver Re
publican.
LOCAL MARKET REPORT.
Carefully corrected every Thurs
da.y afternoon.
Apples, dried, per pound. .. .<'4
Beans, dried, i>er bushel....
Butter, per pound.lo
Eggs, j>er dozen.lit
Corn. js;r bushel.00
Cotton, lint, per pound.OOp
|Cotton seed, in*r ton.lO.tMt
Molasses, sorghum, per gal. .45
Potatoes, Irish, per bushel.. 1.00
j Potatoes, sweet, per bushel. 1.50
Turnips, per bushel.50
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We can not only show the best
variety, but lower prices, quality
considered, on millinery, dry
goods, clothing ete. Fred I).
Whiting & Co.
CHAS. MOSBY,
— DEALER IN —
Watches, Jewelry,
Diamonds, Arkansas Pearls.
we Fit spectacles Correctly.
Watch Inspector For The
White River Railway.
Batesville, - Arkansas.
Railroad Time Card,
WHITE RIVER BRANCH
Sf. L. I. M. & S. Ry.
Trains pass Newark as follows:
GOING WEST.
No. 127.12.50 p. m.
No. 125.8.00 a. tit.
GOING EAST.
No. 128.9.10 a. tn.
No. 128.7.02 p. m.
F. C. Hoyt, A"ent.
TRADING MADE EASY
it is a pleasure to buy goods when you can go to a store with the assurance that you will get
your money's worth, and that you don’t have to help pay for goods some one else has bought and
failed to pay for. You should trade with Fred D. Whiting & Company who sell goods at one price,
spot cash, to all alike. You will always find in a store like this more up-to-date goods than are
handled by the credit houses. Our Millinery Department, the fashion center of Newark, is now
enjoying the rush season. If you desire a new Spring hat, come while the stock is complete.
A Few of the Prices We are Making:
Mercerized Voils in light green, red and navy blue .12'2
Special lot of Percales_ .072
Black Brilliantine, 40 inches wide, a 65c quality .. .50c
36-inch Silk, guaranteed, worth $1.50, special price 1.25
Wash Silks in all shaifes_____ .45c
Silk Mull in plain weave ____.35c
Silk Mull in light green, dotted weave, -... . .45c
White Duck, 30 inches wide and free from starch, . \2\
White Pique, a regular 15c goods, now priced at A2\
Lawns in blue, pink, lavender and all latest shades 10 to . 15c
Organdies in all the latest shades_ 10 to. 15c
White lawns___ 5to.l5c
White Mercerized Duck, looks and wears like Linen _ .121
Wash Cotton Voils, in brown, white and black check .10c
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We haven’t room for a full line of groceries, but here’s how they go: 15 pounds Standard
4 packages for 25 cents; a 10-pound bucket of Lard for
6 Granulated Sugar, $1; Arm <&
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75 cents; 5 pound buckt of Lard 40 ce.i:s, and numerous other articles in the grocery line that will
interest you and appeal to your good judgment. When you come to Newark come around to the
progressive store, Fred D. W;hiting & Company’s, and examine our goods and prices.
Fred. D. Whiting & Company,
C. L. LOVE, Manager. NEWARK, ARKANSAS.
Whiting & Co., Tillar, Ark.; Cheairs & Co., Winchester, Ark.