The Newark Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1919
VOL. 19, NO. 5
NEWARK YOUNG LADY
WINS SCHOOL HONORS
MUSICAL CRITICS PRAISE WORK
OF MISS HAZEL EDWARDS
IN CINCINNATI
The many friends of Miss Hazel
Edwards are Kind to learn that she
will graduate with high honors at the
close of the present term of the Cin
cinnati Conservatory of Music at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
That Miss Edwards has been a
close student is shown by the high
honors she has won in school. She
has won her high school diploma and
an academic diploma, and at the close
of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Mu
sic she will receive her diploma from
that institution and will receive also
an artist’s diploma.
A recent recital given by Miss Ed
wards in Oincinna'i attracted very
favorable attention, as is shown by
the following from the Cincinnati
Music Critic.
Much interest centered in the pia
noforte recital of Miss Hazel Edwards
pupil of Frederic Shailer Evans, giv
en at the Cincinnati Conservatory of
Music Wednesday evening. Miss Ed
wards is a contemplative player and
invests her interpretations with a de
cidedly interesting atmosphere. She
gave the Beethoven Sonata, Op. 31, in
a classical manner and was apt in her
presentation of a group of four Cho
pin numbers. She displayed consider
able technical capacity and pianistic
skill in the Rubinstein “Barcarolle”
and the “Mazurka Brillante” of Lis/t I
Assisting on the program was Miss
Margaret Powell, soprano, pupil of
Mr. Thomas James Kelley. Miss
Powell sang “Across the Hills”(Rum
mel), “Crepuscle” (Massene*), “The
Wind’s in the South" (Scott). Her
voice is a lovely lyric soprano of
charming timbre and she gave much
pleasure by her charming presenta
tions.”
The. Cincinnati Tribune and En
quirer publishes the following men- j
tion of the recital.
“A musical event which was much
enjoyed was that given by Hazel Ed- |
wards, pianiste, pupil of Frederic
Shailer Evans, at the Cincinnati Con
servatory of Music Wednesday even
ing. Miss Edwards is a serious
young; musician and has ambitions
which have aroused the very best
within her, as demonstrated by her
classical presentation of the Bee
thoven Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2. She
exhibited poetic fancy and much
charm in her ClTfe^jn group and the
Rubinstoin Barcarolle in A Minor
followed by the Mazurka >Brilliante
of Liszt, comprised a very satisfying
close to the delightfully arrangeo
program. Assisting on the program
was Margaret' Powell, soprano, pmhl
of Thomas James Kelley. Miss Pew
ell gave three songs with animation,
grace and vocal ease and was heartily
encored.”
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DAN MOORE PURCHASES
SPLENDID BUSINESS BLOCK
Dan Moore has bought the Magness
business lots on Front street and will
erect a modern business house on the
lots some time in the near future.
This is a splendid piece of proper
ty and is one of the best business lo
cations in Newark.
Mr. Moore states that he expects to
build in 'he near future but will
probably not build until early next
year, as he believes building material
is too high and thinks the next few
hi nuiicas a ufumi' in pric
es of building material.
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RODGERS-HORN
Henry Rodgers arid Miss Flora
Horn were married last Friday af
ternoon at the Methodist parsonage,
Rev. J. E. Snell officiating.
The groom is a prominent young
farmer of the Fitzgerald neighbor
hood of Jackson county and the bride
is a daughter of Rev. and Mrs. E. A.
horn of this place.
The Journal most heartily joins the
many friends of these excellent young
people in extending congratulations
and sincere good wishes.
CONTINUED WET WEATHER
HINDERS FARM PROGRESS
The rains of the past day or two
are interfering considerably with
farming operations and the farmers
are going to get behind if the wet
weather continues. The alfalfa crop
is ready to harvest and much of it
would have been cut the latter part
of this week if the weather had per
mitted. The alfalfa crop is said to be
very fine.
The man with
never ^ets laid off
money
or never
If he has
money in.
Bank he is not
worriedi he
works belter.
And he is the man who gets promoted. The
man with money is looking for the man who saves.
He knows that the man who can take care of his
own money if the man to trust. Saving money is
the true test of reliability. It is good common
sense, too. Be wise today. Open an account
with the money you have and make your account
grow. Don’t wait—start today.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
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ENGINEERS AT
WORK ON PAR
OQUET ROAD
ASSURANCES GIVEN THAT JACK
SON COUNTY END OF ROAD
WILL BE BUILT
The engineers are here this week
making the survey for Road Improve
ment District No. 4, running from
Newark to Paroquet Bluff, on Black
river.
It will require several days to com
ple'e the survey and make an esti
hate of the cost of building the road.
In the meantime, John T. Tharp,
secretary for the commissioners of
the district, is making an abstract of
the taxable values of the lands em
braced in the district, as shown by
the county tax records.
So the two features of the prelim
inary work are progressing nicely
and it is probable that the commis
sioners will be ready to issue bonds
and let the contract some time in the
near future.
In this connection it is pleasing to
note that the Newport Daily Inde
DUniiPflt i»f TllPSrla V cfaioo ilruf nlonc
are being considered by the Newport
Chamber of Commerce and the peo
ple in the territory affected in Jack
son county for building a road from
Newport to Elgin, a lateral of which
will connect with our road at Paro
quet Bluff. This will give the peo
ple of Independence county direct
connection with the main line of the
North Arkansas Highway running
from Little Rock to the Missouri line
The work of making the survey of
the Cord read in District No. 3, will
be commenced as soon as the engi
neers can complete the survey of the
NOTICE TO TEACHERS
Dr. C. W. Garrisoft, state health
officer, calls attention to the following
law enacted by the last session of the
Arkansas T.egislature, and all teach
ers of Independence county are here
by notified of same and should gov
ern themseevls accordingly.
Following is a copy of the act:
Section 1. Hereafter all school tea
chers within the State shall present
a certificate from a regularly licens
ed physician or regularly constitut
ed Health Officer, stating that said
teacher is free from Tuberculosis,
which certificate of health shall be
presented to the Secretary of Hie
School Boaid before a contract shall
be entered into between the School
Board and the teacher making appli
cation and said certificate of health
shall bear date not longer than twelve
months prior to application.
Section ?. It shall be the duty of
the Hygenic Laboiatory of the State
Board of Ilelath to examine free of
charge all specimens of sputum sub
mitted for examination for this pur
pose, and t shall be the duty of the
County and City Health Officers to
examine free of charge all school
teacheis applying to their offices for
such certificates of heatlh.
Section 3. Any teacher or school
board within this State violating the
erms of this Act shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined in
any sum not to exceed One Hundred
Dollars.
Section 4. Wfciereas, the public
peace, health and safety make it ex
pedient that this Act become immed
iately effective, it shall be in full
force and effect from and after its
passage.
S. E. WELLS,
County Examiner.
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TEACHERS INSTITUTE
The Independence County Teach
er's Institute will be held at Bates
ville June 2*to 6. It is the duty of
the teachres holding license to attend
said institute for the full time unless
excused by the conductor.
S. E. WELLS,
County Examiner.
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For Sale.—Good piece of residence
property; five room house and two
lots located in best residence section
of town. Price $900. E. G. Magness
& Co.
FORMER CITIZEN
KILLED IN AU
TO ACCIDENT
DIK ELISHA BEARD FORMERLY
OF OIL TROUGH KILLED AT
INDIANAPOLIS, INI)
Dr. Elisha Beard, a former citizer
of this county, was killed in an au
tomobile accident at Indianopolis, Ind.
last Thursday
Details of how the fatal accident
occurred are not known, as messa^s
received by The .Journal did not g!.-p
any of the details except that Dr.
Beard was killed in an ahtomobile ac
cident.
Dr. Beard was born and reared in
Oil Trough and was a half brother of
Mrs. Lizzie Vaughan of this place.
He left this county 33 years ago to
enter medical college at Indianapolis,
and after graduating he located at
Brownsburg, Ind., for the practice of
medicine.
Dr. Bear-1 was 51 years old and
leaves no ramily, Mrs. Vaughan being
his nearest relative. He was an un
cle of Mrs. T .J. Raney, formerly of
this place, but nowr of Joiner, Ark.
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NEWARK LADY WRITES
FROM THE RIO GRAND
Dear Editor.—If you will allow me
space in the columns of the dear old
Journal I will tell it’s readers, espec
ially those of our friends who have
not heard from us, something1 about
the Rio Grande Valley, or “Paradise
Valley" as they call it here. This is
not my idea of Paradise however;
but it is a beautiful country.
during a siege of wet weather, and
oh my! I wanted to go back on the
next train. One could not get off
the concrete walks without stepping
in mud to the top of their shoes, and
then getting out, without losing their
shoes was a job. But everybody here
was rejoicing over the rain, because
of the fact that there had not been
a season in the ground for over a
year. But the weather was warm
and very pleasant, and the sun came
out, and a very pleasant breeze from
the Gulf soon dried the ground. The
flowers began to grow, and soon re
minded me more of spring than win
ter. One could see acres of cabbage
just beginning to her*d. Lettuce, beets
tomatoes, carrots, and number of oth
er vegetables were also growing
There were tons of cabbage shipped
from this place the latter part of
February and the first of March
which sold at a fancy price. The
shipping of beans also began in Mar
ch. As soon as these vegetablese are
harvested the land is planted to corr
and cotton. Most of this truck grow
ing is close to town, though it car
be grown anywhere in the count}
where the land can be irrigated.
Corn and cotton are fine now. 1
can see a hundred acres of corn frnrr
our house which is just beginning ti
tassel, and I have seen cotton
squares in the last few days (Say Mr.
Editor will you give me a year’s sub
scribtion to your paper if I send the
first bloom ?)
I have not seen any irrigating yet,
though I am very anxious to see this.
The old plant was out of order, and
they are installing a new pumping
plant, which seems to take some time.
Last night the ground was irrigated
from above, the first rain that has
fallen to amount to anything since
our arrival.
We will roon be eating melons and
roasting ears. I wish some of our
friends from old Independence coun
ty could visit us. We like the clim
ate here fine. There is a cool, salt
breeze from tho gulf blowing nearly
every day, which is said to be a cure
for catarrh.
It seems to be healthy here. I
was told a few days ago, that people
did not die here—just dried up and
blew away. (I haven’t seen this eith
er.)
We are enjoying very good health,
Charles is at work at Harlingen,
Dwight is in school and I am canning
beets, cucumbers and green beans
whichr will soon be out of season.
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Well I did not think I would make
my first letter so long, but if this es
capes the waste basket, perhaps I’ll
tell you more of this country some
time, of the soil, which is very fertile
and how the land is laid off, and its
valuation (which is a plenty,) and the
fruit that is grown here. I am see l
ing you a copy of the Harlingen Star
Mr. Editor, which you will see is a
Booster. Everybody here is a boost
er. One nhver hears anything else.
The Journal is a welcome visitor in
our home on Sunday morning until
last week, it failed to reach us until
Thursday, It is just a real letter
from home. Why don’t more cor
respondents write?
I can’t say yet, how we like down
here. Do not know when we will
come home. Please dont’ forget to
send us The Journal. Best regards
to everybody.
MRS. SUSIE REAVES.
Harlingen, Tex., Apr. 30, 1919.
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BARN AND CONTENTS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
John Henderson’s barn and entire
contents, were totally destroyed by
fire last night about 11 o’clock.
The barn contained about 100 busb
ies of corn, a considerable quantity
of hay, a lot of cotton seed, farming
implements, two wagons, and a buggy
all of which was burned.
Mr. Henderson’s loss is about $000
and he had only $400 insurance. The
bam was ihe property of Mrs. Dove
Sturdivant and her loss on the
building is partially covered by insur
ance.
It is not known how the fire orig
inated.
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REV. CRUMITON RESIGNS
AS BATESVILLE PASTOR
Rev. H. T. Crumpton has resigned
as pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Batesville.
He resigned at the_ reguesf of tilfi
church, it ;s said, who asked for his
resignation because he recently par
took of the sacrament of the Lord’s
supper with another church of a dif
ferent denomination.
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TO ABANDON EBERTS FIELD
According to announcement issued
Tuesday the aviation field at Lonoke
known as Eberts field, will be aban
doned, together with nine other fields
throughout the country.
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ROYAL NEIGHBORS
WILL CELEBRATE
ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS TO BE
INITIATED ON ORDER’S TEN
TH ANNIVERSARY
The Royal Neighbors Lodge of
Newark will be ten years old next
Wednesday and the members arc
making arrangements to celebrate in
a fitting manner.
A class of eleven new members
will be adopted at the meeting next
Wednesday night and it is planned
to have several visiting members
present to assist in the work.
The Royal Neighbors is one of the
most popular fraternal organizations
in town and has a large membership.
During the ten years since its organi
zation the Newark lodge has lost on
ly four members by death, which is
a remarkably good record, consider
ing the large membership of the or
der.
The meeting next Wednesday night
promises to be a very interesting and
enjoyable one. Refreshments will be
served after the conclusion of the reg
ular order of business. The Modern
Woodmen have been invited to partic
ipate.
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ANNUAL SCHOOL ELECTION
The annual school election will be
held Saturday May 17 and is one
that should concern every man and
every woman in Arkansas, who is in
terested in education. In times like
these, special efforts should be made
to stimulate interest and enthusiasm
in the schools to the end that they
shall be maintained at the highest de
gree of efficiency. The best way to
secure the success of our schools is to
provide at the school gJec.tiftQ|jifor^suf
curing competent men for incux._
ship on the School Boards. Educa
tion is certainly one of the most im
portant businesses in which the State
is engaged.
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FORMER SENATOR DIES
Jacob King, who formerly repre
sented Independence and Stone coun
ties in the Arkansas State Senate,
died last Saturday at his home at
Mountain View.
THE FAVORITE PLANTER
Of BIGCOTTON GROWERS
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Is the one shown here. Men who have made the
economical production of the South’s great staple
the study of their lives, know it pays to use the
best planters their money can buy. That’s why
jwrtimtnifuiWiPiminawm'wniHmmfB®!
outsells every other com
and cotton planter made.
It plants accurately and
keeps on doing it year
after year.
It is equally efficient for
corn or cotton. For plant*
ing peanuts, or when you
want to plant two kinds or
seed in the same row, or
alternate rows, we fur
nish the famous . Avery
Duplex Hopper—the most
v a lu a ble improvement
made in planters in many
years.
Shall we save one of these planters for you?
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C. W. MAXF1ELD CO
Batesville, Arkansas
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