Wondrukk Ciuntx News.
vol. v.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 190(5.
NO. 35.
ARKANSAS STATE FAIR.
WILL EMBRACE MANY FEATURES—OAKLAWN PARK EEING CON
VERTED INTO STATE FAIR GROUNDS—OVER 100,000 AR
KANSANS EXPECTED IN HOT SPRINGS DURING
FIRST FAIR, OCT. 1 TO 10 THIS YEAR.
The Arkansas State Fair Associa
tion are spending several thousand
dollars in addition to the $550,000 al
ready invested at Oaklawn Park in
fully adapting this magnificent plant
for State Fair purposes. This work is
now over half completed.
Oaklawn Park, the permanent State
Fair Grounds, is located on the main
electric car line less than a mile from
the center of the city of Hot Springs.
The grounds are finest and newest in
this country. The main Exposition
building is nearly 200 by 400 feet, two
stories high, steel framed, steam
heated with electric light, water and
sewerage; elegantly equipped in every
detail with solid glass front and ends
made removable at a minute’s notice,
and having amphitheatre and audi
torium capacity for 5,000 seated.
The other buildings are on the same
immense scale. The grounds are elab
orately landscaped. There are over a
thousand of the finest stables and
stock stalls that were ever built. The
stock department alone has fifty arc
lights on the main streets, complete
sewerage system and water mains tra
verse the entire plant. There are
The industries and products of this
wonderful state are so diversified that
! it has been almost impossible to com
pletely catalogue each and every item
produced or manufactured in this
state.
The coming Fair being the first one,
the Executive Department have made
| the Premium List for the Fair as com
prehensive as possible. It is realized,
however, that even the extensive Pre
mium List now being published, will
be imperfect and incomplete in many
respects. The Association has de
cided therefore, to receive, without
any charge for entry, each and every
Arkansas product offered for exhibi
. tion, provided only that these exhibits
have some artistic, educational, indus
trial or commercial merit. Articles
j entered for exhibit purposes that are
not specifically enumerated in the
Premium List, will be placed on a
competitive basis with any other arti
; cles of the same class, and each and
every article thus exhibited, will re
ceive a diploma, medal or other valu
abue mark of merit, for all points of
superiority possessed.
In the Educational Department it
Exposition Palace—Arkansas State Fair Grounds.
fifteen full gauge fire plugs with!
natural pressure to throw a stream of
wafer over 100 feet and 5,000 feet
of standard fire hose ready for instant
use. The stable department has also
thirty kitchens and sleeping apart
ments with every convenience for use
of stock owners.
The mile speedway is admittedly
one of the finest courses ever built in
America. A midway of over 2,000
feet of street frontage has already
been built and twenty of the highest
classed amusement features obtainable
are already under contract for the
State Fair.
The fair will include a Live Stock
Show, all Exposition Features, all
wholesome amusement features, and a
daily racing program of both harness I
and running speed contests. There!
will be reduced rates on all railroads j
in the State during the first State !
Fair from October 1 to 10.
An important feature will be the
morning programs which will ba ar
ranged by ten of the most important
municipal, fraternal or social organi
zations of the State. The organiza
tions which hold their conventions
during the State Fair will not only
have advantage of the low excursion
rates but will be given the free use of
the large auditorium, of nearly 5.000
seating capacity, in which to hold
their sessions.
is especially desired that every class
and character of school within the
state of Arkansas be represented, the
district school as well as the great
universitiy. There has been no at
tempt at all to classify or enumerate
in this important department, but each
and every creditable exhibition of
school work will be exhibited at the
Fair. In this department the Associa
tion does not even require that the
exhibits be brought to the Fair in per
son. From September the 15th until
the day before the Fair opens, or
September the 30th, any school may
consign exhibits to the State Fair
Association with the assurance that
they will be well taken care of, ex
hibited during the Fair and carefully
packed ready for reshipment to the
original consignor if so desired.
The premiums in the Educational
Department will be in the form of
medals, diplomas and high class books
suitable for school libraries or pri
vate use.
The Fair Association is determined
make the Educational Division of the
iihmense Exposition Department one
of the most valuable and important
features. The Association is desirous
of correspondence from every school
and school teacher in the state.
The Arkansas State Fair is to be a
permanent institution, and the A. S.
F. A. as now organized, will earnestly
Grand Stand—Arkansas State Fair Grounds.
Friday, October 5th, will he “Little
' ?ck Day;” Saturday, October Cth.
be "Arkansas Travelers’ Day.”
‘Uirsday, October 4th, has been se
lected as "Hot Springs Day.” Still
another date will be selected as “Far
„ er® ' nion Day,” and arrangements
< re )eing made for the designation of
filing dates of the State Fair.
a , . Pne idea which the State Ftair
saociation is keeping continually be
0le ,*lem is to make the State Fair as
valuable as possible from an iiulus
"a standpoint to the entire state of
Arkansas.
endeavor to give to the people or Ar
kansas a great annual State Fair of
such magnitude, of so much value to
every worthy enterprise within the
state, and so free from objectionable
features, that all the broad minded,
intelligent, patriotic citizens of the
Commonwealth can consistently sup
port and co-operate in this great work
to the end that this state, with great
er possibilities than almost any other
domain in the world, may have and
maintain the greatest educationtl and
industrial exposition in the United
States.
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
Maddox Seminary Property Sold.
The Maddox Seminary property, on
Lincoln avenue, Little Rock, has been
purchased by a number of physicians
of that city, and will be converted into
a hospital, medical college and train
ing school for nurses. The deal for
the property was closed by Drs. J. P.
Runyan and \V. P. Illing. but there
will be other physicians associated
with them in the enterprise. It was
purchased from the Freedmen’s Aid
and Southern Educational Society,
which is allied with the Northern
Methodist Church. The headquarters
of the society are in Cincinnati. The
property comprises five acres, on
which are situated the main seminar}
building, which is of brick and foui
stories high; a four-story annex, s
two-story brick residence and numer
ous smaller buildings. The consider
ation was $28,360. Prof. A. S. Mad
dox, president of Maddox Seminary
says that the sale of the propert}
does not mean that the Maddox Sem
inary will be closed or moved fron
Little Rock. “It is not my purpose tc
abandon the seminary,” said Mr
Maddox, “and it will be continued it
Little Rock, provided we can get i
suitable location and buildings. W<
are willing to take buildings tempo
rarily, and that of itself, I think, i;
of sufficient evidence that it is oui
intention to keep Maddox Seminar}
permanently in Little Rock. Tin
transfer of the property came so sud
denly that we have as yet had timt
to make no plans.”
Mrs. Annie Hartley, alias McAbles
chief witness for the state in »h<
case of Govan Beard, convicted a
Helena Jaunary 4, 1906, on a charg<
of criminal assault and sentenced t(
be hanged at Helena July 18, ha;
made public confession in the oific'
of Baldy Vinson, attorney for Beard
in which she declares that she testi
fled falsely in the trial of Beard. A
the time the confession was madi
there were present fifteen or twent;
ministers, lawyers and business men
all of whom were convinced at thi
close of her confession that her state
ment is true, and a committee wa:
named to wait on Governor Davis ii
the negro's behalf, but the Governo
refused to grant the respite.
For some days a special agent o
the Department of Justice ha:
been in Fort Smith looking U]
the record of C. C. Waller, with ;
view to a prosecution for using thi
mails for fraudulent purposes. It 1
claimed that letters sent out by Wal
ler in his effort to boost the Souther!
Bank and Trust Company containei
fraudulent representations, and fo
that reason he is amenable to th'
postal laws. It is also stated that twi
prominent physicians of Dallas havi
examined Mr. Waller, who is in th
Texas state insane asylum, and hav
pronounced him sane. If that be true
he will likely be brought to For
Smith for trial in connection wit]
criminal charges against him on ac
count of the collapse of the Souther!
Bank and Trust Company.
A Strange Case.
He Is Not Crazy.
A Kopuiar trror worrectea.
The surrendering of the charter o
the Arkansas Asphalt Company a
Little Rock a few days ago has causei
many to believe that another conceri
of similar name has gone out of bus!
ness. The Arkansas Asphalt Compan:
quit business two years ago, but th
charter was never surrendened unt.i
recently. The Arkansas Rock Asphal
Company is a private concern, and i
not incorporated. The members o
the firm are John M. Derritt, J. J
Kress and J. A. Woodson.
Looks Lika Business.
Auditor A. E. Moore and Commit
sioner Bradford, members of the Stat
Penitentiary Board, and two member
of the committee on the new' reforn
school have visited the site for th
school, five miles w’est of Little Rock
and selected the exact location for th
building. They also selected the sit
for a 200-foot well which will b
drilled for use at the reform schoo!
Bids have been received by the boar'
for the erection of the building, whic:
will cost ?30,000.
Hurry Up and Settle It.
The schools at Lisbon and Ebeneze
will meet at Ebenezer soon and er
gage in a debate on the subject
"Resolved, That the Negro Shouh
Be Colonized.” Ebenezer affirms an
Lisbon denies.
Good for Cotter.
According to the tax assessment jus
made the Increase of value in taxabl
property in Cotter, exclusive of th
new roundhouse, yards and other rai
road work, together with all building
now under construction, amounts t
ove $50,000 in the last year.
The State's Finances.
The quarterly report of the state
treasurer will show there was but
$1,269.84 in the general revenue fund
of the state on July 1. Since that
time almost $200,000 has been paid in
by the sheriffs and collectors over the
state, but had the annual statement
time been a month later state officials
would have gone without salaries for
the present month. The Burning
Board has not yet gene over the hooks
of the state treasurer and given him
credit for the warrants redeemed, but
when this is done the report w ill show
as follows:
General revenue.,...$ 1,260 84
Common school. 777,17 90
State capitol. 149,070 93
Permanent school. 1,951,347 95
Swamp land.
Internal improvement.,
Confededate pension...
54,471 56
134,708 60
19,781 33
Sinking fund. 134,708 60
Tax due counties.
Tax due cities.
Penitentiary deposit.
Direct tax.
State school interest.
U. of A. endowment..
Teachers’ fund.
19,407 27
462 27
16,646 74
419 93
660 99
216,363 75
108 70
Total .$2,711,191 21
Of this amount $433,537.63 is in
United States currency and the re
mainder in county and city scrip, cer
tificates, notes, bonds and coupons.
Corporation Affairs.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by
the Mutual Real Estate Company of
Little Rock with a capital stock of
$100,000, of which $75,000 has been
subscribed. The incorporators are
Gabe Block, Joseph Lyons, Herman
Kahn and Sidney L. Kahn. Articles
1 have been filed by the American
Ginning Company of Newport, show
ing a capital stock of $40,000. The in
corporators are Sigmund Wolff, Isaac
[ Goldman, M. S. Lettleton and William
R. Lettleton. The Farmers’ bank of
Washington has filed articles showing
a capital stock of $10,000, with $6,525
subscribed. The incorporators are C.
L. Miller, H. A. Forsythe, J. H. Gold,
T. J. Garner, C. M. Conway, W. J.
Johnson, W. H. Etter, J. B. VanCleve,
J. S. Monroe, C. N. Trimble, L. E.
Cowling, W. C. Myers, H. T. Trimble,
M. H. Bryce, T. C. Wilson, E. R.
Beck, F. L. Monroe, A. M. Robertson,
T. Y. Williams, and W. S. Eakin. Ar
ticles have been filed by the C. W.
Reed Mercantile Company of Lone
Pine, Johnson county, showing a
1 paid-up capital stock of $5,000. The
incorporators are T. A. Johnson, J.
H. Russell, J. T. Bynum, J. H. Will
iams, J. E. Kendall, C. W. Reed and
. A. N. Martin. The corporation of
1 Brame Brothers of Parkdale has
’ given notice of surrender of charter.
l Capital City Meat Inspector.
; Dr. B. H. Merchant, veterinary sur
> geon, has been appointed meat in
- spector for Little Rock. He will hold
l offiec under the resolution 'of the
1 Board of Health, passed at the meet
• ing recently. The resolution pro
. vides for the appointment of a meat
i inspector to ascertain whether bad
. 1 meats are kept or sold in the meat
, * shops, groceries, restaurants or hotels
, | of the city. The resolution also makes
I it unlawful to handle meat that is not
i ■ pure. Vegetables are included in the
j j list.
More Blackberries, More Money.
1 Farmers in the vicinity of Gravette
have reached the conclusion that
blackberries will eventually prove to
f be a more profitable crop than straw
t berries. It is argued that if every
[ farmer within a radius of ten miles
t of Gravette had ten acres in black
berries his profits yearly would be
r twice as much as they now are.
Abolish Executive Committee.
1 The Democratic Central Committee
t of Carroll county, at its meeting at
5 Beryville, adopted a resolution abol
f ; ishing the executive committee. Here
• after the whole committee will trans
act the business of the party.
The New Depot Scheme Looks Good.
An option on lots 11 and 12. block
, 340, city, in favor of the St. Louis,
, : Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
’ ! Company has been recorded in the
i i circuit clerk’s office of Pulaski county.
This property, which is owned by M.
’ W. Gibbs, colored, is located on the
southwest corner of Markham and
Victory streets. It is a part of the
property desired by the Iron Moun
' tain in building the new Union depot
1 , Under the option the railroad may
1 purchase the property for $12,000 at
any time before September 1, 1906.
Who Can Beat It?
W. W. Moore of Independence
county, can boast of one of the largest
j and most prolific pumpkin vines in his
garden of any one in the county. It
is of immense length, and has nearly
half a hundred pumpkins on it, the
largest of which will weigh something
t like 35 pounds.
The last call of the Supreme Court
docket until after the vacation has
been made. The adjournment of court
3 in reality will not come until two oi
J three weeks later, about July 23, but
the court has stopped taking cases.
ARKANSAS BRIEFS
The fruit, popcorn and ice cream
stands on the downtown street cor
ners and sidewalks of Little Rock
must go. The City Council by reso
lution ordered the city collector to
issue no more licenses for this class
of stands. It was stated when the
resolution passed that no more stands
will be permitted after the first of
next month. Even those dealers who
have paid three or four months in
advance will be forced to leave and
will be refunded the amount of money
they have paid to the city. The dis
trict includes al that section between
the river and Ninth street from Scott
to Louisiana street. Stands of this
character will be permitted outside
this district, but with the possible
exception of two or three there are
none outside this district. The pass
age of the resolution practically does
away with this class of business.
Sheriff C. C. Kavanaugh, as ex
^fficio collector of Pulaski county,
has colected during the past year a
total of $668,469.53. This amount less
the commissions allowed the collec
tor and treasurer, will be turned over
to the various funds by Sheriff Kav
anaugh after the settlement has been
approved by County Judge Coffman.
The settlement will probably be pre
sented to Judge Coffman within the
next few days and the sheriff then
has twenty days in which to pay the
money into the various funds. That
part of the funds due the state will
be paid the state treasurer, that due
the city to the city treasurer and
that due the county to the county
treasurer.
The Supreme Court has handed
down a decision declaring the
road tax amendment to the state con
stitution valid, and thereby making it
possible for the state of Arkansas to
expend annually in the work of im
proving the roads of the state a sum
which is estimated at present at
$700,000. This decision is regarded
as one of the most important ever
rendered by the Supreme Court, inas
much as the state would have been
left with practically no funds to be
used in the improvement of the roads
and streets of the state, had the
amendment been declared void.
The convention of the Sixteenth
judicial circuit at its meeting at Hardy
declared Judge John W. Meeks the
nominee of the Democratic party for
judge and Thomas L. Hearn nominee
for prosecuting attorney. The Cen
tral Committee was organized for the
ensuing two years by the election ol
Hon. D. L. King chairman and E.
L. Hutchinson of Mammoth Spring
secretary.
A pet goat belonging to little Pau
line Rickman was hanged in the
court house yard at Perryville a few
nights ago by unknown parties whom
the Perry county authorities are try
ing to identify. All that was accom
plished by the cruel joke was the
torturing of the goat and the wound
ing of the heart of a little child, who
is sorely grieving over the loss oi
her pet.
The Republicans of Independence
county have nominated the following
ticket: Representative, H. A. Bick
ers and L. S. Starnes; county judge
J. W. Scott; circuit clerk, \V. R. Bax
ter; sheriff, Sam Tuggle; count j
clerk, C. N. Osborne; assessor, L. H
Bonner; treasurer, James F. Hud
dleston; collector, M. F. Bruce; coro
ner, Joe Wells; surveyor, John Hind
man.
Charley Swadley, who lives upon
Terrapin creek, was taking a large
groundhog to Harrison to dispose oi
to raise some Fourth of July money
The groundhog became unruly anc
Charley's right hand is considerabl.v
the worse for wear. The anima
caught hold of his hand and could
not be released until his throat was
cut.
James Goodwin and Abe Greer en
gaged in a fight at' Con Ray's place
near Mitchell's Point, and as a resub
Goodwin is laid up with five knife
wounds in his left side and back anc
one in his arm. Goodwin formerly
lived at Paragould. Greer is aboui
IS years of age, and was working foi
Mr. Ray as a farmhand. Goodwir
is cultivating a crop on the Ray farm
The two engaged in an altercatior
about some trivial matter, and Good
win attempted to thrash the boy
when the boy used his knife anc
carved Goodwin up pretty badly.
Julia Jones and Alberta Wright
two negro women, had a quarrel ovei
a bottle of beer at Marked Tree
Alberta threw the bottle at Julia, bu
the aim was defective. Julia ran int<
her house, seized a 38-calibre revol
ver, and taking aim at Alberta, shu
her eyes and pulled the trigger. Tin
bullet went through Alberta's mouth
cutting off half her tongue and lodg
ing under the right ear. Julia wai
fined §1 and costs for firing her pisto
in a public place.
BAD COMPLEXIONS
Depraved Blood Causes Pimples an#
Boils—Dr. Williams’ Pink Pill*
Make New Blood and
Cure Follows.
•• I abused my stomach, my blood got
out of order and then niv face broke out
with pimples and boils,” says T. E. Rob
ertson, of 197 Addison street, Washing
ton, Pa. ‘‘This was over two years ago.
My stomach was in bad shape. After
eating I would have to rest awhile or I
would suffer the most severe pains in
my stomach. On arising I would often
be so dizzy that I could hardly stand up.
The slightest exertion would start my
back aching so that I often had to sit
down and rest awhile. At times I ex
perienced a pain around the heart which
alarmed me but which I suppose cama
from my stomach trouble.
‘‘I began to break out on the face with
pimples and later with boils which con
fined me to the house a week or more at
a time. One day I saw Dr. Williams’
Piuk Pills for Pale People advertised in a
pamphlet which was left at the door and
I thought I would give them a trial. I
took several boxes of the pills before all
the pimples and boils left me, but I am
now glad to say that my blood is good.
I do not have any eruptions and I no
longer have the head and stomach
troubles I have described. I am very
grateful for what Dr. Williams’Pink Pills
have done for me and I have recom
mended them and ahvays will advise
those who are suffering from bad blood
or stomach trouble to try them.”
If you waut good health you must have
good blood. Bad blood is the root of most
common diseases like anaemia, rheuma
tism, sciatica, neuralgia, St. Vitus’ dance,
nervousness, indigestion, debility, par
tial paralysis and locomotor ataxia.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists or sent, postpaid, on receipt
of price, 50c. per box.six boxes for$2.50,
by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company,
Schenectady’, N.Y.
BADGER PHILOSOPHY.
A man can't be unusually polite
without being looked upon with sus
picion.
When the real nature of a man's
business is in doubt it is often hinted
that he is a gambler.
A woman is never satisfied with her
self until she has outdone her neigh
bor in some respect.
It's hard to understand why actors
with such fabulous salaries alway3
stop at such modest hotels.
Lots of people think they have been
cheated unless they get more than
their money’s worth.—Milwaukee
Sentinel. _
PROVERBS AND PHRASES.
He who would gather honey must
bear the sting of bees.—From the
Dutch.
When you make de jail too nice you
better strenkin de hogpen.—Americaa
Negro.
A sensible housekeeper begins to
sweep her stairs from the top.—From
the German.
An honest man does not make him
self a dog for the sake of a bone.—
From the Danish.
It is good to be a priest at Easter,
child In Lent, peasant at Christmas,
and fool in harvest time.—From the
Danish._
Some people regard a collection plats
as a slot machine in which they drop a
dime in the hope of getting a dollar’s
worth of religion.
Some women wouldn’t be satisfied in
Heaven without burglar-proof vaults
in which to lock up their halos.
OUTDOOR LIFE
Will Not Offset the 111 Effects of Coffea
When One Cannot Digest It.
A farmer says:
"It was not from liquor or tobacco
that for ten years or more I suffered
from dyspepsia and stomach trouble,
they were caused by the use of coffee
until I got so bad I had to give up
coffee entirely and almost give up eat
ing. There were times when I could
eat only boiled milk and bread and
when I went to the field to work I
had to take some bread and butter
along to give me strength.
“I doctored with doctors and took
almost everything I could get for my
stomach in the way of medicine, but
if I got any better it only lasted a lit
tle while until I was almost a walking
skeleton.
“One day I read an ad for Postum
and told my wife I w’ould try it, and
as to the following facts I w'ill make
affidavit before any judge:
“I quit coffee entirely and used
Postum in its place. I have regained
my health entirely and can eat any
thing that is cooked to eat. I have
increased in weight until now I weigh
more than I ever did; I have not
1 taken any medicine for my stomach
• since I began using Postum. Why, I
believe Postum will almost digest an
iron wedge.
"My family would stick to coffee at
• first, but they saw the effects it had
on me, and when they were feeling
bad they began to use Postum, one at
a time, until now we all use Postum.”
! Name given by Postum Co., Battle
, Creek, Mich.
Ten days’ trial of Postum in place
of coffee proves the truth, an easy and
pleasant way. “There’s a reason.”
1 Look in pkgs. for a copy of the fa
mous little book, “The Road to Well
ville.”