The Newark Journal.
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Published In The famous white River Country, where Alfalfa is king
Newark, independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 20, 1909
Vol. 9. No. 19
SKETCHES FROM ALMA
Rev. Jas. F. Jernigan Writes of
Things Seen and Heard
Dear Journal:—1 boarded the
early train on the 9th for Alma to
assist in a meeting which Rev. D.
Colquit had arranged for. He,
with T. B. Murphy, J. G. May
field, H. A. Story and Tom Carter
agreed that we all would make a
good team, and so I am here.
Bro. Murphy is one of my old
parishoners at Osceola and Bro.
Mayfield from old Alderbrook, and
he and his good wife are just the
same as in ’82 and ’3. I am stop
ping with them and it is indeed
pleasant to meet old friends whose
friendship is based on the founda
tion of faith and Divine love.
Nothing of special interest oc
curred en route, except a 9-hour
wait in Little Rock. But I caught
up with some lost sleep while wait
ing. Then taking the Kansas City
Flyer I ran up to Russellville,
where I stopped off and spent a
few hours with Rev. G. G. David
son, one of our boys. I took
breakfast with Mark Craig, and
his good wife made me feel at
home. She is a sister of John
Barnes and Mrs. John Cullins of
Jamestown.
Russellville is a fine town, and
our boys, Mark and George, are
doing well. Mark feeds the bodies
with fine meats and George feeds
the souls with good sermons.
At 7 o’clock 1 took “The Dinkie”
a train that runs from Russellville
to Fort Smith, and arrived at Al
ma about 11 o’clock. Our meet
ing began that night, and up to
date a dozen or more have been
saved, and the prospect is good
for a great meeting. 1 will not be
home until after the fourth Sun
day. Let the church pull itself
together and hold a service or get
a preacher for next Sunday.
Alma is in the great fruit belt,
und while the crop this year has
not been as good as in other years,
ten thousand dollars have been put
in circulation here at this dry and
dull season from the peach crop.
This is a tine country and good
people, but not any better than
our own grand old Independence
county.
A destructive drouth has pre
vailed here for several weeks and
vegetation is dying. But early
corn is good and cotton along the
Arkansas river is good.
Hope all are well and doing
well. Cordially,
Jas. F. Jeknioan.
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Program For fleeting to be held
at Batesville Sept, i I
The Independence County
Teachers’ Association will meet at
Batesville, on Saturday, Septem
ber 11, 1909. It is expected that
every teacher will bei present. The
following program has been ar
ranged.
School Improvement—Sidney
Wells.
Six Reasons Why I Teach School
—Miss Ella Albright and Miss
Virginia Peden.
Why Arkansas Needs Compul
sory School Law—J. T. Powell
and O. T. Richardson.
How to Pacify the Opposing
Elements of a Rural School—B. F.
Cash and Miss Jessamine Perrin.
Adaptability of the Teacher—
Frank Albright and T. G. Hardin.
Methods of Punishment—Miss
Ray Powell and J. K. Rawlings.
Self Government of Pupils—W.
T. Jernigan and Arthur Porter.
Oration—Esse Esteb.
Reasons For and Against Award
ing Prizes—W. E. Dodd and Miss
Margia Love.
The regular quarterly examina
tion will be held at Batesville on
Thursday and Friday, September
16 and 17, 1909.
AIR SHIP AT STATE FAIR
Visitors to the Arkansas State
Fair this fall will have the oppor
tunity of seeing a real airship in
operation. Chas. ,J. Strobel, the
pioneer avaitor of the country, will
make a flight from Oaklawn every
morning, afternoon and night dur
ing the seven days of the Fair. At
night the ship, which is 65 feet in
length, will carry a powerful
search light, illuminating the coun
try for miles around. Flights will
be made from the fair grounds to
the goverment’s steel observation
tower on East Mountain, a distance
of over a mile.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
County Clerk Sims has issued
the following marriage license dur
ing the past week.
G. B. Fike, 19, of Batesville, to
! Miss Esther Patterson, 18, of De
} partee.
Charles Rosenbaum, 21, to Miss
! Angie Phillips, 18, both of Salado.
G. W. Browning, 24, to Miss
Beulah Owens, 20, both of Sul
phur Rock.
.James Grundy, colored, to Ste
vena Watkins, both of Batesville.
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PURPOSES OF A BANK
The purpose of a bank is to be useful
and helpful to a community; to facilitate
business by the exchange and extension of
credits, thereby making it possible to carry
on a vast amount of business with a com
paratively small amount of actual cash.
It is wrong to hoard money and bury
it in some old cellar and thereby take it
entirely out of circulation.
Bring it to this bank, where it will be
much safer and will help to earn you more
money, and yet be at your command.
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS DANK
Geo. L. Green, President
Leslie R. Acton, Cashier
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BIG PICNIC
Eaves Spring, Friday, August 27
Everybody cordially invited to come and bring well
filled baskets and enjoy the day
Stand privileges, $2.50; Swings, $1.50; Doll Racks, $1.
T. F. EAVES.
KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN
Ed Thomason Thrown in Attempt
to Catch Train at Diaz
Ed Thomason was killed by a
train at Diaz Friday evening, lie
attempted to catch a moving
freight train and was thrown
against a cattle guard. He got up
and walked to a house some little
distance and died while telling how
the accident occurred.
lie was a relative of the Thom
asons who live in the Dota neigh
borhood in this county.
The remains were buried at Shi
loh, near Diaz.
ARKANSAS’ FIRST BALE
Two bales of cotton of the 1909
crop were marketed in Arkansas
Monday, one at Nashville, How
ard county, and one at Eudora,
Chicot county. The Howard coun
ty bale was grown by William
Farley and was sold by him at
Nashville for ID cents per pound, j
The Chicot county bale was grown
by I. M. Worthington and was
shipped by him to a cotton dealer
at Greenville, Miss., to be sold.
PRIZES FOR CORN AND HAY
Special premiums for corn and
hay are announced by the Tri
State Fair for its second annual
exhibition at Memphis, Tenn.,
Sept. 28th-Oct. 9th. The two
crops are as important to the South
as cotton, and should, in a short
while, bring thousands to the
pockets of Southern farm owners.
Prizes for corn clubs aud for hay
will be a feature, and some liberal
premiums are offered.
STATE WIDERS ORGANIZING
Reports from Little Rock say
the prohibition forces are organ
izing for a strong state-wide pro
hibition campaign. The campaign
as planned will cover about four
months of constant work in an en
deavor to arouse public sentiment
in favor of electing legislators
pledged to statutory prohibition.
BALL PLAYERS CHALLENGED
l J. R. Waldrip, manager of the
Magness baseball team, challenges
an.v amatuer team in Independence
or any of the surrounding counties
for a series of games for the am
atuer championship of these coun
ties.
He claims to have the best team
in this section of the state.
CROPS DAHAGED BY DROUTH
The hot dry weather during the
past week has damaged crops very
| materially, and it freely predicted
1 that this section of country
will not make more than half a
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KILLED BY THE HEAT
Daniel Puff, a mechanic employ
ed by the Fee-Creighton Lumber
Company, was overcome by the
heat at Newport Monday and died
in a short time.
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FRISCO TRAIN WRECKED
Newark Man in Wreck But Es
capes Uninjured
Southbound Frisco passenger
train No. 3 was wrecked about
two miles south of Fayetteville
about nine o’clock Saturday night
and the fireman was probably fa
tally injured. The wreck was caus
ed by an open switch, an engine
having been run in on the siding
and the switch left open. No lives
were lost, but the Herman on the
passenger train was seriously in
jured, and several passengers were
slightly injured. Geo. L. Green of
this place was on the train when
the wreck occurred, but escaped
uninjured.
HAY RUN FOR JUDGE
The Journal has heard it inti
mated that Judge, M. L. Arnold of
this place will be a candidate for
county and probate judge in the
next primary. Judge Arnold is
no stranger to the manifold duties
devolving upon the office of county
judge, having served the people in
this capacity for a term of six
years. He was county judge at the
the time present court house was
erected at Batesville, and his ad
ministration of the county’s affairs
was one of the most successful
and economical in the history of
the county.
TRY HOHE MANs FIRST
Try your home merchant first,
If you receive a catalogue from an
out-of-town firm offering you a
certain article at a certain price,
go and ask your dealer and see if
he cannot duplicate it. You don’t
know what you pay for when you
buy from out of town, but the
home dealer is always here to make
good if things are not as he says.
Give him the chance, anyway, be
fore sending from home the mon
ey you earn here and that should
remain as a portion of the work
ing capital of the community.
COUNTY UNION HEET1NG
The Independence County Farm
ers Union will meet at Sharp
Methodist church three-fourths of
a mile southeast of Center Hall, on
the first Friday and Saturday in
September, 1909. All locals are
requested to send a full delegation
as much business of importance
will come before this meeting; also
the election of oflicers for the en
suing year.
T. L. Suebkuth , Sec.
GREAT DAY FOR HILLIGAN
Israel Milligan and wife who live
in the “hind leg corner’’ of Scotl
township, are the parents of twin
babies. On the same date a fine cow
belonging to them brought up twir
calves, and in the evening Mr. Mil
ligan found his fine brood sow wit!
eleven young pigs. —Sharp Coun
ty Record.
STILL ON THE JOB
We have recently been askec
“where do all the liars go to?'
Up to date there is nothing to in
dicate that they have gone any
where.—Forrest City Chronicle.
WEDDING AT SALADO
Prominent Yourg Couple Married
Sunday Afternoon
Salado, Aug. 18.—Mr. Chas.
Rosen bum and Miss Angie Phillips
twoof Salado’s very popular young
people, were united in the sacred
bonds of matrimony at th<f<5hurch
of Christ in Salado Sunday even
ing.
Prof. Dawson, president of the
Clay Bible and Literary College,
who is now conducting a series of
meetings here, pronounc d the
ceremony that united them for
life.
The bride is a young lady of
rare beauty and is deservedly pop
ular among all her acquaintances.
The groom is one of the best
young men in Arkansas. He has,
by energy, perseverance, and good
sense, made a success of every
thing he has undertaken, bu t be
yond a doubt, the greatest success
he has yet acheived has been in
his matrimonial aspirations.
These young people have the
best wishes of the entire popula
tion of our community.
WORK OF SOUTHERN WOMEN
The Womans Department, at
the Tri State Fair, at Memphis,
Tenn., Sept. 28th Oct. 9th prom
ises to be one of the most interest
ing features of the big show. A
program covering every branch of
womans work, with special atten
tion to art, music, and education,
with liberal cash premiums, has
been arranged. Mrs. Ben M.
Bruce is again in charge of this
department, and she will be glad
to hear from ladies in all parts of
the South who are interested in
her work. She is planning sever
al new social features, which will
add to the pleasures of the fair.
Send for a catalogue and prepare
an exhibit.
ABOUT THE SAME HERE
If half the time that has been
wasted in this county in arguing
the. scriptures, prohibition, and
politics had been utilized in road
working, a pike could have been
built from Salem to Mammoth
Spring. And even yet the roads to
heaven and the legislature are as
rocky as ever.—Salem Sun.
SHARP COUNTY’S DEBT
The total indebtedness of Sharp
county, as shown by the clerk’s
report, is $5,97+ 19.
CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES
Happenings of the Week in Dota ,
Township Briefly Told
Fred Herrington of Newark is
visiting friends here this week.
A daughter was born unto Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Thomason Sunday.
Linl.v Lane is visiting his sister,
M.s. Luther Pickens, at Dota this
week.
Miss Una Churchill visited Miss
Laura Nuckolls at Cord Thursday
evening.
Rev. Moorehead of Ratesville
began a protracted meeting at
Walnut Grove Sunday.
Miss Mabel Moore of Moorefield
spent a few da.\ s here last week
visiting Miss Vela .lernigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Baker of
Antioch were the guests of W. B.
Baker and family here Thursday
night.
Richard Walden of Cecil, Ark.,
arrived Saturday to visit his broth
er, T. M. Walden, and family for
a few days.
Prof, and Mrs. W. T. .lernigan
visited the lady’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. .1. L. (Lover, at Batesville
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Clay Baker and children,
of Edna, Tex., arrived Sunday to
visit the families of W. B. and J.
C. Baker for a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Morris from
i near Sulphur Rock spent Sunday
here, the guests of the latter’s sis
ter, Mrs. Bettie Williamson.
. Prof. W. W. .lernigan of New
ark is quite sick with typhoid fev
er here at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jernigan.
Miss Delia Lane returned home
Sunday, after spending a few days
at Sulphur Rock visiting friends. •
Miss Irene Huddleston accompan
ied her home and will spend a few
days here with relatives and
friends.
SHORT IN ACCOUNTS
The Sharp County Record con
tains a statement to the effect that
former Treasurer E. L. Dickerson
I is alleged by the commissioners of
accounts to be short in his accounts
' to the county in the sum of $1,284.
]*)1. Of this amount it is said that
$1,118 27 is due the common school
fund and the balance distributed
among other funds. Mr. Dickerson
admits that he is behind some, but
not as much as is claimed by the
county commisioners.
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