The Newark Tournal.
Published In The Famous white River Country. Where Alfalfa Is king
$ 1 Per Annum
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 7, I <>08
Vol. 8. No. 33
FRUIT GROWERS ORGANIZE
Farmers Getting Ready to Raise Fruit,
Berries and Vegetables
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
the Hatton Hall Saturday and the
fruit and berry growing movement
given further impetus by the organiza
tion of the Newark Fruit and Truck
Growers Association, with a member
ship of 35 of the most substantial and
progressive, farmers of the community.
The meeting was called to order at
10 o’clock by Mayor Hatton and a
temporary organization was effected
by electing Mr. Hatton chairman and
J. F. Cossey secretary.
James Hauer, an experienced berry
grower from Judsonia, addressed the
meeting at some length on berry and
vegetable growing.
At the close of his address the con
stitution and by-laws of the Judsonia
Association were read and submitted
to the meeting for adoption. The con
stitution-and by-laws were adopted,
and an invitation was then extended
all those present desiring to join the
the Association to come forward and
sign the same and deposit the member
ship fee of fl. Adjournment was then
taken until afternoon.
The first business taken up in the
afternoon was the election of officers,
which resulted as follows: (1. M. Fields,
president:.!. H. McDoniel, vice-presi
dent: F. <'. Hoyt, secretary: N. M.
Wilson, treasurer: .T. J. Boillott, T.
F. Evans, (M. Magness and \V. J.
Cooper directors.
Two hundred copies of the constitu
tion and by-laws were ordered printed
for the benefit of the association.
The meeting adjourned to meet again
at the Hutton Hall on Saturday,
August 15.
SCHOOL DIRECTORS MEETING
Following is the program for the
meeting of the school directors of the
county to he held at the court house
at Bates ville Saturday, August 29.
Compulsory Attendance—W. NT. Os
borne, J. S. Ottinger, A. J. Craig.
County Sujiervision- J. '1'. Powell,
W J Ward, A. O. Gray.
Consolodation of Rural Districts —
A. A. Henderson, E. L. Jernigan, D.
1VI C. Kelley.
A longer School Term J. C. Stroud.
J. K. Matlock, B. F. Cash.
Co-operation of Directors and
Teachers—Dr. E. E. R-avvs, Dr. W.
T. Huddleston, W. J..Caldwell.
These are live school questions that
demand your best thought. Every
■director owes it to himself and to his
district to attend this meeting and get
all the good he can out of it.
Rememlrer the date, August 29, l(i
a. m. at Court House.
SIDNEY Pickens, Co. Ex.
MRS. W. D. JACKSON DEAD
Mrs. W. D. Jackson, of Argenta.
who was raised at Sulphur Hock and
who had many friends in this county,
died at Bradford Friday where she
was taken some time ago by her hus
band.
She had been a sufferer for many
months from tuberculosis, and last
April was taken to I'd Paso, Texas,
and placed in a sanitarium for treat
ment, but to no avail. She gradually
grew worse and death came Friday.
Mrs. Jackson was 2X years of age,
and leaves her husband, one sister.
Miss May me Jackson, who was with
her at the time of her death, and one
brother, Dr. R. C Allen 6f Argenta.
The remain% were taken to Sulphur
Rock, her former home, where funeral
severices were held Saturday after
noon, followed by interment in the
cemetery at that place.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
There will Ik? ah annual meeting 01
the'stockholders of the Sulphur Root
, Telephone Co., held at the town hah
in Sulphur Rock, Ark., on Monday,
August 10, 1908, at 8 o’clock, p. m.,
for the purpose of electing seven di
rectors to serve for the ensuing year,
and the transaction of such otfter busi
ness as may legally come before the
^meeting. Sam Tuggle, Pres.
John K. Rawlxno, Sec.
Sulphur Rock. Ark., July 10.
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SULPHUR ROCK SKETCHES
Sulphur Rock, Aug. 4. James Wil
liams and family of Alabama and his
brother, Bee, and family of Jaekson
port, visited tlieir sister, Mrs. Geo.
Sueberth of this place, the iirst of the
week.
Robt. Moore and sister, Miss Maud,
left Sunday night for Newport, where
they have a position with the Boston
House.
J. 1’. Martin has plenty of water in
his well and is putting the lumber and
stone on the ground for his gin.
\V. T. Anderson went to Calico
Rock last Friday to look after the
lumber for the Martin gin.
Mrs. Handle who has been spending
the summer here, returned to her home
at Auvergne Sunday.
The ball game here Friday between
Newark and Swifton was a walk over
for Newark.
The citizens met Tuesday evening to
discuss plans for a creamery at this
place.
L. C. Jernigan, the Batesville insur
ance man, was in town the first of the
week.
Sam Ashley, who has been sick for
some time is no better at this writing.
Jim Vaughan was up from Newark
j Tuesdav.
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LITTLE SHEROD MIACHELS
Sherod, the three-vear-old son of
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Miachels, died
Tuesday night and was buried Wed
nesday evening- at Macedonia.
Thus over a happy home the shadow
of a little grave has fallen: and, as
another has said, it is wonderful how
long a shadow a little grave can cast.
Death is a hard master and often
takes from us our brightest, sweetest
and best, but he cannot efface the
tender memories that cluster around
the beautiful and simple baby life of
the prattling little ones who are
always held so near and dear to father
and mother. None but those who have
sat in the shadow of a great bereav
ment can justly weigh such a sorrow
as that of giving up the prattling babe.
And yet we cannot think a little child
dead: but as a flower that lias Iteen
transplanted into divine realms where
they bloom in richer color and sweet
er fragrance than those of the earth.
SUNDAY SCHOOL DELEGATES
At the Methodist Sunday school last
Sunday the following delegates were
elected to the County Sundav School
Convention which will beheld at Sala
do Friday and Saturday, August "21
and 22.
O. F. Craig and Miss Kate Saylors;
alternates. A. B. Brannon and Miss
Addie McHenry.
The county association is inter-de
nominational, and all Sunday schools
are entitled to representatives.
NOTICE TO SOCIALISTS
There will be a county convention
held at the court house in Hatesville,
Ark., Saturday, August 15, at 1 p. in.
for the purpose of nominating a coun
ty ticket. All Socialists are respect
fully requested to be present.
J. W COOPKR,
W. P. Dkthkkow,
Committee.
TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
If your district needs desks, black
boards or school furniture of any kind,
call and fret my prices. I handle the
i best desk made and can make prices
as low as the lowest. A. A. Hender
son, Newark, Ark.
THAT AWFUL SILENCE
Money talks, the adage says,
This at least we’ve heard;
And that's the reason why our purse
Does not say a word.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Notary work of all kinds done in a.
careful and correct manner by A. A.
Henderson at the Merchants and
Planters Bank.
Deeds of trust and legal blanks for
sale at The Journal office.
Phillips Is Dead.
A. Kinney, an employe at the Nie
meyer lumber mill, near the new
penitentiary, was arrested late Sun
day night, as a suspect in the Phillips
murder case, and after a long sweat
ing in the office of the plain clothes
men he was locked up pending a
further investigation. Kinney and
another man were, it is said, prepar
ing to leave Little Rock and were
suspected and the police were noti
fied. The men were arrested in an
East Markham street restaurant.
Kinney was held by the officers,
wl ile the other man was allowed to
£0
He has lived at the Xiemeyer mill
for some time, it is said, and held a
position of some importance there.
Patrolman Phillips, who was shot
at Thirteenth :md Pine streets while
attempting an arrest at midnight
Saturday, died Sunday morning at
9:30 at the city hospital, and the body
was sent to Atkins Sunday night,
from which place it was taken Mon
day to ilie family home in Pope
county for interment.
Although the police department de
voted much time to the case Sunday
no arrest of consequence had been
made at a late hour Sunday night. A
man named Morrison was arrested in
the late afternoon on suspicion, but
was released soon after the arrival of
( 1-ief of Police McMahon at head
quarters. Morrison easily convinced
the officers that he was not in the
city Saturday night, and therefore,
could have had nothing to do with
the murder of the officer.
Coroner S. F. Vaugnter empanneteu
a jury Sunday afternoon, viewed the
body, and adjourned until Monday af
ternoon at 4 o'clock, at which time
the evidence of Patrolman A. B.
Haven, who was with Phillips when
the fatal shot was fired, the testimony
of Dr. O. K. Judd, city physician, who
ill ended the wounded officer and who
later made the post mortem examina
tion and such other evidence as the
police may be able to present, will be
taken.
The ballot which killed Phillips
entered the face and lacerated Ihe
upper part of the brain. The bullet
was found in the back part of the
head, toward the base of the brain.
It was stated that the bullet came
from a Colt's revolver of about 41
calibre. Phillips never was conscious
after tie was shot.
\V. T. Phillips was 22 years old
and was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Phillips of Appleton, 16 miles
from Atkins. He was born and raised
at Appleton, and was a farmer until
he went to Little Rock about three
years ago, when he accepted a posi
tion as guard at the rock crusher.
This position he held until the begin
ning of this summer, when he return
ed to Appleton, where he spent some
time. Before he left, however, he put
fn an application for a position as
patrolman on the Little Rock police
force. He returned to Little Rock
Thursday and went on duty as a
policeman for the first time Saturday
night. He leaves his father and
mother, five brothers and two sisters.
His brother is one of the guards at
the rock crusher.
Boy Killed by Engine.
Marvin Spencer, aged 14 years, ol
Jonesboro was fatally injured in a
railroad accident at that place Fri
day afternoon He was run over by
a switch engine and sustained in
Juries that caused death an hour later.
The boy was riding in a wagon with
a young companion and was near
the Cotton Belt railroad tracks when
his horse became frightened ami
started to run away. The wagon war
upset and the Spencer boy war
thrown beneath the wheels of a
switch engine.
Would Stop Use of Irons on Convicts.
"I am going to investigate the treat
ment of prisoners at the county farm
reform school and penitentiary, and
In case I find any treatment I think
Is inhuman, I am going to take steps
to prevent such treatment," declared
W. M. Rankin, officer for the Arkan
sas Humane Society, Saturday night
He said he would go before the grand
Jury if necessary.
(Continued on pag-e 4)
OWNS HISTORIC PIN
George Edward McLeland, who lives
at 252(5 North New Jersey street, Indi
anapolis, does not have much use for
a pen, inasmuch as he is not yet live
years old, but lie nevertheless has the
most Interesting pen in Indianapolis.
It is the one with which Benjamin
Franklin signed the Declaration of
Independence. Ills grandfather, Capt.
George \V. McLeland, who has passed
his eighty-sixth birthday, has handed
the relic down to the younger George.
Capt. McLeland received it from his
grandfather. Alexander McLeland, who
was a page in the continental con
gress.
"Grandfather was a page in that
historic congress,” said the youthful
George’s 86-year-old grandfather, "and
he was nicknamed ‘Sandy* by Its
members. He gave me this pen, which
is made of a wild turkey feather, when
I last saw him at our home down in
Jefferson county, in 1821.
‘ You see, I was only a shaver, about
as big as young George there, when he
gave it to me. He told me that all the
men who signed the Declaration of In
dependence did not use the same pen,
and that when Franklin signed it he
turned to him and said: Here, Sandy,
you take this and keep it, and now
run along and tell the sexton to ring
the bell,’ and he then, with this pen
in his hand, hastened out to the old
man at the hell, and the first music of
liberty rang out on the air.
“My grandfather lived to be 85
years old, and now that I have passed
that milestone, and my days are num
bered, I pass the old relic down two
generations. 1 came very near, how
ever, turning it over to the old liberty
bell people when the bell was in Indi
anapolis a few years ago.”
PROFIT IN STRAWBERRIES
In speaking' of the profit in growing
strawberries, Mr. Bauer, the berry
specialist of Judsonia, said in his
speech here Saturday.
“The strawberry industry around
Judsonia is one if not five best paying
crops grown at that place. 1 think I
am safe in saying the most profitable
crop grown, cotton, would come in for
next mention, yet every man nearly
grows cotton while the berry growers
number around 150 only. In the year
1007 the fruit growers at this place
shipped around 85 to Kli car loads of
berries and this vast amount of berries
on an average net the growers
f. o. b. Judsonia, or a clear profit of
$1.45 per "_’4 quart crate delivered at
the depot.
“While the crop did not do so well
this year as last owing to late freezes
and much cool rain through the season
yet there were 05 or 00 car loads again
this year, netting the growers $1.75 or
around that amount more if anything,
or clearing the sum of $1 per case.
This is not as well as berries would
have sold for it had not been for the
very bad weather.
“One association in Kentucky 1 furn
ished plants a couple of years ago tell
me that several of their growers net
$.’{00 per acre on their berries this
years, which is a good showing. This
should leave them $175 per acre clear
money.”
SYMPATHY’S POWER
A gentleman once seeing a poor
man under the influence of liquor,
stopped, and, laying his hand on the
man’s shoulder, spoke to him in kind
ness and gentleness, “John.”
It was only a word, but it saved a
soul from death, and John B. Gough
preached temperance for years and
saved many a man and woman from
a drunkard’s grave.
Only a word! Who cannot speak
it? A word in season—how good it
is, and it may bear fruit, even a huo
dred fold.
MACHINE COUNTS MONEY
A machine that will count money
has been produced by an Austrian In
ventor. The coins are thrown into a
funnel at the top of the machine and
slide downward, alighting on a spiral
track. This track has a raised border
containing slits corresponding to the
size of the various coins. As each coin
slides on the track it passes through
the slit corresponding to its denomina
tion and drops into a basket.
Deeds written, acknowledgements at
tested and all kinds of notary work
done in a careful and correct manner
by A. A. Henderson at Merchants and
Planters Hank.
SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
S ato Maintains Free School at Little
Rock for all Blind Children
This Institution is maintained b> the
state for the education of the blind
children of the state, it is the public
school for the blind children.
The purpose this institution is to
{five the blind children such training
as will enable them to l>ecome .self-sup
porting, re If-res preting', independent
citizens.
As the public schools are free to the
seeing' children, so is tins school free
to the blind. There is no charge for
tuition, treatment or board. The only
necessary expense is for clothing and
railroad fare, and even these are paid
by the state for those who are not able
to pay them for themselves.
The benefits of I ins institution are.
not only tor the totally blind, but for
those whose eye-sight is so defective
that they are not able to attend a see
ing school. The legal age limit is
from six to twenty-six years.
Pupils who are eligible to this in
stitution are taught the literary branch
es included in our public school
courses. l ivery pupil who shows music
al ability is given a thourough train
ing in instrumental and vocal music.
Besides this the girls are taught sew
ing knitting, and other handiwork that
equip them for lives of usefulness in
their homes, and the boys are taught
some trade by which they may become
self-supporting.
The school is thoroughly equipped
with all the necessary appliances. The
children are well cared for and pro
vided for; and every precaution is
taken to safeguard their health, and
to give them the best mental, moral
and physical training.
There are many blind children in
our state whose parents do not know
of the advantages provided for them
here. We are making every elfort to
reacli these pupils and apj>eal to every
citizen who knows of such children, to
help us to locate them. Please send
us the name, age, parent's name and
post oflice address of any blind or
partially blind jjerson in your com
munity.
There is a seperate department for
the negro children.
S. I). Lucas, Supt.
Little Rock, Arkansas.
FARM FOR SALE
Good farm of HU) acres near High
Rock, 11 miles north of Batesville, 75
acres in cultivation 25 acres of which
i> tine creek bottom land which grows
75 bushels of corn per acre. Good
frame dwelling with two tenant houses.
Two orchards with an abundant varie
ty of fruits. Good oak, hickory and
cedar timber on land not in cultiva
tion. Fine water, both well and spring,
with line creek running through farm.
Good mill-site on farm. Fine cavo
near dwelling where 10.000 pushels of
vegetables may be kept the year round.
Convenient to school and church.
Will be sold cheap and on easy terms.
Henderson Real Kstate Co., Newark
Ark.
THE DITCH CASE
Judge Fulkerson lias made an order
in the Big Bottom ditch case, which
was appealed to the circuit court from,
the county court, in which the court
sustained the findings of the commis
sioners in assessing l>enefits and
damages except that Boh Williamson
is allowed $200 additional damages and
Wilson & Arnold were allowed $o0 ad
ditional. The assessment on the lower
forty on Mud Creek belonging to John
Tomlinson is relieved of assessment.
The court did not render an opinion as
as who should pay assessment on land
in which Mrs. Wilson owns alifeestate.
—Batesville Guard.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
There will he a meeting of the stock
holders of the Farmers’ Union Ware
house Co., of Magness, Ark., on Sat
urday at 10 o’clock a. m., August 20,
1908 for the purpose of electing twelve
directors for the ensuing year, and
such other business as may properly
come before the body.
W. C. Sandeks, President.
W. D, Buujnctox, Sec.-Treas.