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Published In The famous White river Country, where Alfalfa is king
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, November 3, 1911
Vol. 11, No. 30
TEACHERS CONVENTION
Forty-Fourth Annual Association
to be Held in Little Rock
December 27 to 29
The Executive Officers of the
Arkansas State Teachers Associa
tion, annouuce that the programs
for the 44th Session, Little Hock,
December 27, 28, 29, will be the
most impressive in its history.
Three noted speakers and
educational leaders have already
been definitely engaged for the
meeting as follows:
Dr. Warren H. Wilson, Super
intendent Presbyterian Depart
ment of “Church and Country
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Life”. He was a prominent speak
er at the National Conservation
Congress in Kansas City. He also
addressed the Conference for
Education in the South at Jack
sonville Fla. His subject here
will be “Cooperation and Consoli
dation in Country Life”.
Prof. P. G. Holden Superinten
dent Agricultural Department of
the Iowa State University. His i
address, “Social Life on the Farm”,
at the Conservation Congress won
great applause and wide-spread i
comment.
Dr. Huben Post Halleck, Prin
cipal Boy’s High School, Louisville,
Ky.t also author of Halleck s’ Psy
chology and a number of other
books. His subject will be “Moral1
Stimulus in American Literature”,1
a subjeect to which he has devoted
many years of careful research.
Other prominent speakers will
be included in the General Pro
gram wffiich is being carefully
worked out.
Special railroad rates will be
available from all points in Ark
ansas, and ample hotel facilities
can be secured at reasonable rates.
A registered attendance of 2,000
is expected.
PREDICTS VOTE FOR WOMEN
While in Louisville Love Grant
of Newport was invited to address
a meeting of the National
Woman’s Rights Convention, in
session there this week. Mr.
Grant had to refuse in veiw of the
fact that his train left at 1 p. m.
However he met with Miss Anna
Shaw«*nd Miss Jane Adams and
predicted that a bill would soon
pass the Arkansas legislature giv
ing woman the right of suffrage.
—Newport Independent.
DISCONTINUE “HOT SHOT”?
The railroad company has
filed with the Arkansas Railroad
Commission an applicaton for
permission to discontinue pass
enger trains Nos. 231 and 232,
between Newport and Batesville.
Application has been docketed
by the railroad commission for
hearing at its office in Little Rock
on Wednesday, November 14.
These trains were put into
service some two years ago at the
instance of the people along the
line from Newport to Batesville
in order to give better connection
with main line trains at Newport.
If these trains are discontinued
the service will be as bad as before
they were put on, when it took
two days to make the trip to Little
Rock or nearly any other point on
the main line because of the poor
connection at Newport.
If we want these trains con-1
tinued it will be necessary to make
a fight for it before the com
mission at its meeting in Little
Rock on the 15th of November.
CAUGHT BIG COON
George Brewer and Jesse Gross
er caught a coon while hunting
in the botoms southeast cf town
early Faiday morning that was the
largest ever seen here. It
measuured three feet and two
inches from the tip of its nose to
tip of its tail, and weighed sixteen
pounds and two ounces.
They are pretty successful hunt
ers and never fail to bring in game
when they go out. During last
winter Mr. Brewer caught 75
coons and sold more than $5U
worth of fur. All these were caught
with his coon dog “Drive,” which
is one of the best in the country.
PASSENGER TRAIN VVR ECKED
Passenger train No. 210, due
here going west at 7:43 a. m. was
wrecked about piidway between
Fitzgerald and Reamy, a few miles
east of Black river, Wednesday
morning.
Three cars left the track, the
Pullman, chair car and smoker,
and although the train carried
about the usual passenger list, no
one was injured, except for a se
vere shaking up and a bad scare.
The wreck was caused by a
broken rail. The engine and mail
car passed over, the three rear cars
leaving the track. The train was
running at about its usual speed,
and it seems a miracle that no one
was hurt.
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TAX LEVIES ARE MADE
Quorum Cort f-'ixes Rate of Tax
ation and Hakes Appro
priations For the Year
The Quorum Court met at
Batesville last week with Judge
A. J. Craig presiding and 43 Just
ices of the peace in attendance.
The report of Assessor C. M. j
Flinn, which was submitted to the j
court, shows the total assessed j
value of property- in the county
to be $6,097,251.
This is an increse of more than
$300,000 over the assessment for
last year, and should yield about
$2,500 more reveune for the
county than was recived last year,
but as the county has been run
ning behind a little, the rate of
taxation was not changed and will
remain the same as last year.
The levy is as follows: county
general, three mills; pauper fund,
one-half mill; bridges, one mill;
special road, one-half mill; general
road, three mills.
The following appropriations I
were made by the court: for coun
ty general purposes, $16,000; for
pauper fund, $2,500; bridge fund, I
$5,000; special road fund, $2,500;
general road fund, $16,000.
The court refused to make an
appropriation to pay a county ag
ricultural demonstrator, and this
work will have to be discontinu
ed. The federal government has
been paying half the expense of
this work in this county for the
past two years, and proposed to
continue doing so, but the mem
bers of the court did not seem to
consider the work worth the cost,
and refused to make an appropri
ation.
Reports submitted to the court
show a total actual net increase in
the assessed value of real and per
sonal property of $311,447. Of
this increase, $174,271 is made upon
the property of the railroads and
$141,655 upon the real estate of
the county. There was a final re
duction in the assessment of per
sonal property from the assessed
valuation of 1910 to the amount
of $4,479, leaving the total net in
crease on all property $311,117.
The equalization board effected a
raise of $25,132 in the valuation
of real estate.
The total rate of taxation in
Newark for the year will be 26*
mills, divided as follows: State 6i
mills; county, 8 mills; local school
7 mills; corporation 5 mills. This
is $2.68 on the hundred dollars. i
CHEAP MOO FEE!)
Twenty-five thousand acres of
peanuts were planted in Arkansas
last year. Farmers find them
cheaper hog fattner than corn, and
so much less trouble. The hog
does his own gathering. An acre
of artichokes and an acre of pea
nuts will fatten enough meat for
a large family. YelTville Moun
tain Echo.
PAYS 13 YEAR OLD DEBT
Oklahoma Man Ciets Religion and
Rays Debt in Newark That
is Long Rast Due
B. J. Reynolds, of Checota, Ok.,
has religion. Its the genuine, hon
est kind, too—the kind that makes
a man pay his debts, and the kind
that the world stands so much in
need of.
In 1898 Mr. Reynolds was a
member of the Arkansas regiment
of soldier boys who inlisted to
help whip Spain. In the same
regiment was A. M. Edgar of this
place, and to be neighborly Mr.!
Reynolds borrowed $2.50 from Mr.
Edgar just before the troops were i
mustered out at Anniston, Ala., in j
1898, a little more than thirteen
years ago.
It was a matter of small conse
quence and soon passed entirely
from Mr. Edgar’s memory. In
fact, he does not remember Rey
nolds, and even yet is unable to
place him.
nut about a year ago Mr. Edgar j
received a letter from Reynolds'
saying that he (Reynolds) owed
him (Edgar) $2.50, borrowed at
the time above stated, and stating
that he had professed religion and
joined the church and wanted to
live right, and was therefore go
ing to square up all the old scores.
He asked Mr. Edgar how much it
would take to pay the -debt and
interest. Mr. Edgar, having en
tirely forgotten the matter, wrote 1
him that he remembered nothing
about such a debt, but stated that I
if Reynolds thought he owed him
anything, and wanted to pay it, to
pay whatever he thought was '
right. In a few days he received
a letter from Reynolds enclosing I
his personal note for $5. Mr. Ed
gar still thought very little about
the matter, so little, in fact, that j
he laid the note aside with some j
other papers and had again for
gotten it.
On Wednesday of this week he
received a letter from Reynolds
enclosing a postal money order for!
$5.50 in payment of the note and
interest.
A religion like that is bound to
be genuine, and its a great pity
there is not more of that kind.
RAISE REACHES MILLION
The aggregate of assessments
raised by the board of equalization
is from $500,000 to $350,000, being
confined to real property with two
exceptions, as the board did not
have time to go over the personal
property assessments. This with
the raises made by Assessor Char
les E. Smith, will make the total
1911 assessment for Jackson county
about one million dollars in excess
of that of 1910. -Newport Inde
pendent.
Most all the folus read The New
ark Journal don’t you?
NEIGHBORS ENTERTAIN
The Royal Neighbors gave a
Hallowe’en entertainment at the
hall Tuesday night which was
greatly enjoyed by a large crowd.
A ghost drill was a feature that
was weird enough for all, and so
perfectly did the ladies disguise
themcslves that not even their own
husbands knew them. Mrs. W.
D. Hinson played the witch and
acted the part so well that she
scared some of her nearest neigh
bors so bad they had heart pal
pitation. Mrs. J. I. Sturdivant
played fortune-teller, and the
chunks of cheering imformation
she handed out to some of the
inquiring ones would make Mad- j
ame Zolyznixbalcree turn green
with eveny. Its plainly evident
that she should have been a
professional medium and sooth
sayer.
Refreshments consisting of
sandwiches, cake and coffee were
served in the banquet hall. The
evening was pleasantly spent by i
all, and the ladies proved them- i
selves not only Royal Neighbors
but royal entertainers as well.
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING
A Sunday School Association for
Big Bottom, Magness and Wy
cough townships will be organized
November 25th at the Baptist
church in Newark. The following
program has been arranged for
the occasion.
10:30 a. m., Opening Song.
10:40 a. m., Invocation.—Rev.
A. II. Dulaney.
10.45, Permanent organization.
11:15, Song.
11:20, Reports of Sunday schools.
11:40, Song.
12, Adjournment for dinner.
1:30 p. m., Song.
1:35, Prayer—Rev. J. F. Cossey.
1:40, The Organized Class.—J.
A. Page.
2:00, How Should We Observe!
Temperance Sunday?—Rev. A. II.!
Dulaney.
2:20, Song.
2:40, The Object of Missionary
Sunday.— I). B. Hire.
3:00, Methods of Securing New
Members. Clyde Griffin and Mrs.
Robbie Drennen.
3x10, How to Secure Attendance
)f Parents.— Hon. T. J. Raney.
3:40, Selection of next place of
neeting.
3:45, Song.
3:50, Benediction. -Rev. E. A.
lorn.
WILL SEEK RE-ELECTION
Judge Pearce Who Made a G< od
Record as County Judge
Asks for Re-election
Judge Cul. L. Pearce, who an
nounces his candidacy for the of
fice of county and probate judge,
is no stranger to the people of In
dependence county, having been
born and reared in Independence
county. Neither is he a strangt r
to the duties of the office he seeks,
having formerly served the county
in this capacity, and has a good
record to his credit.
Judge Pearce’s administration
was one of progress and economy,
together with system and busi
ness-like management along all
lines. This is especially true of
his good roads policy. He built
more substantial bridges and more
miles of permanent roads during
his term than has ever been done
during any other administration.
He did a good work for the county
in building up and fostering the
good roads sentiment, and never
lost an opportunity to encourage
this most important movement.
Being of a progressive nature
and having a desire to be of ser
vice to his county, he naturally
made some enemies, as any man
will who gets out of the old ruts
and pursues an aggressive policy.
As a result, some ugly charges
were made against him. But ev
ery Commission of Accounts, every
Quorum Court and every Grand
Jury during his term of office en
dorsed his management of the af
fairs of the county, which goes to
show that the charges against
him must have been founded upon
prejudice and hot air.’
The records of the county show
that his administration was an
economical one, and that the busi
ness of the county was handled
to good advantage.
He is now better prepared than
ever to take care of the duties of
this very important position, and
in the event of his election the
people of the county are assured
of a progressive and business-like
administration of the county’s
affairs.
Prof. Chas. Van, the well known
band instructor and piano tuner
of Batesville, writes The Journal
that he contemplates a visit to
Newark tomorrow (Saturday.) All
persons desiring work in his line
will please phone this office.
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