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The Newark Journal.
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Published In The Famous White River Country. Where Alfalfa is Kino
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, July 16, 1909
Vol. 9. No. 14
BIG METHODIST GATHERING
District Conference in Session
With l^arge Attendance
The annual meeting of the
B&tesviile District Methodist Con
ference opened most auspiciously
Wednesday night, with a good at
tendance of pastors and delegates
present.
Rev. J. S. Cash of Tuekerman
preached the opening sermon, a
timely and able discourse dealing
with the practical side of Christ
ianity.
The conference convened at
o’clock yesterday morning with
Presiding Elder A. F. Skinner in
the chair, and after the organiza
tion, Hon. R. A. Dowdy, of Bates
ville, chairman of the Laymen’s
Movement, took charge of the
meeting, yesterday being Lay
man’s Day. A number of good
speeches and reports were made,
but the feature of the day’s pro
ceedings was the address by Hon.
Thos. B. King of Memphis.
Other delegates and visitors are
still arriving, and the conference
promises to be a most pleasant and
profitable one.
The business of the conference
will probably be finished tomor
row and the conference will ad
journ Sunday.
DROWNED BABE; HUNG SELF
Harrisburg, .July 13.—Mrs. E.
H. Bailey, a prominent matron of
this town, and the mother of five
children, while her family were
asleep Sunday night, took her
baby boy, two years old, from his
bed, drowned him in a barrel of
rain water in her back yard, and
then hung her self on the back
porch with a well-rope. Her body
was not discovered until sunrise
the following morning when her
husband awoke and went out
to look for her. Mrs. Bailey lost
her mind several weeks ago from
long continued illenes*.
THE NEED OF A HOME
Man’s nature cries out for a
home, a place somewhere in the
world he can call his own. The
young man should listen to this
call of his nature and buy a home.
He should never be content with
renting. The renter is a transient
being, and a wanderer on the face
of the earth. It may be excusable
for a time, but there should be a
higher aim.
There are hundreds of prosper
ous farmers who started by rent
mg, but that only lasted a few
years, and they were soon settled
on farms of their own. Better
buy a small home and add to it as
you can, than to rent year after
year. Kent money departs never
to return; you have nothing to
show for the future, neither can
you be independent. Then, too,
you are almost certain to become
careless. You won’t fix up the
house or the farm if it is not
yours. You lose your home pride
i and allow things to go to rack
about the place.
THE SINGING CONVENTION
The quarterly singing conven
tion was held at Pleasant Hill last
Sunday with a large crowd in at
tendance, but only three classes
participating, Pleasant Hill, Mount
Zion and Macedonia.
Each class sang three songs in
the morning and six in the after
noon, participating in order as fol
lows; Pleasant Hill, led by S. B.
| Patterson; Mount Zion, led by B
' F. Cash; Macedonia, led by C. YV. I
Heaves. A number of old-time
singers sang a few songs in the old
Christian Harmony, led by Rev.
W. P. .Jackson.
Mount Zion was selected as the
place for the next meeting, which
will be held the second Sunday in
October, when it is hoped that
more classes will participate.
CHARLOTTE CIPHERS
Prof. W. J. Jernigan made a .
business trip to Little Rock last 1
week.
Several from here attended the 1
singing convention at Pleasant Hill
Sunday. 1
Porter Claxton of Cushman vis- '
ited friends here Saturday and
Saturday night. ; <
Harrison Crigler and Porter s
Claxton attended the ball game at '
Sharp Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvord Hugg of «
Ruston, La., are here visiting the 1
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. ]
G. G. Hugg.
Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Lindsey j
of Floral visited the former’s fath- ^
er, G. ,1. Lindsey, here from Fri- (
day till Monday. j
Elbert Rawlings, a former resi
dent of this place, but now of
Asher, Okla., is visiting his par
ents here this week.
Mrs. A. P. Yates and Miss Ethel
By rum attended the Sunday School
Convention at Sulphur Rock
Thursday and Friday.
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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.
Geo. L. Green, President
4. 4. Henderson, Cashier
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MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK
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JUST WATCH YOURSELF GO BY
t Just stand aside and watch yourself go by, ♦
Think of yourself as “he” instead of
Note closely, as in other men you note,
The bay:-kneed trousers and the seedy coat;
Pick flaws, find fault, forget the man is you,
And strive to make your estimate ring true,
Comfort yourself and look you in the eye—
Just stand aside and watch yourself go by.
Interpret all your motives just as though
You looked on one whose aims you did not know
Let undisguised contempt surge through you when
You see you shrink, O commonest of men;
Despise your cowardice; condemn whate’er
You note of falseness in you anywhere,
Defend not one defect that shames your eye—
Just stand aside and watch yourself go by.
And then, with eyes unveiled to what you loathe—
And to sins that with sweet charity you’d clothe—
Hack to your self-walled tenement you’d go
With tolerance for all who dwell below;
The faults of others then will dwarf and shrink,
Love’s chain grow stronger by one mighty link—
When you, with "he” as substitute for “I”
Have stood aside and watched yourself go by.
Happenings of Local Interest
Judge A. J. Craig of Jamestown
s in the city.
R. L Goad spent Sunday with
elatives at Judsonia.
Hon. R. A. Dowdy of Bates
'ilie is here attending the Confer
nce.
J. L. Mayhan is teaching the
ummer school at Oakland, the
chool having opened Monday
vith an enrollment of 43.
The Fourth Annual State Fair
,nd Industrial Exposition of Ar
kansas will be held at Oaklawn
’ark, Hot Springs, October 7 to 13 |
Only one marriage license was
ssued by Clerk Sims during the |
iast week, that being Daniel Hicks
o Miss Della Winchester, both of
Sharp.
Dr. Jas. A. Anderson, editor of
he Western Methodist, of Little
lock, was a passenger up the road I
Wednesday morning en route to
fountain Home.
Presiding Elder A. F. Skinner
trrived from Batesville Wednes
lay and is presiding over the de
iberations of the Methodist Dis
rict Conference.
Rev. J. S. Cash of Tuckerman
ir rived in the city Wednesday
norning to attend the Methodist
Jonference. He preached the
ipening sermon Wednesday night.
Wash and Otto Herrington left
Monday morning for Mountain
drove Mo. The former has been
mgaged for some time in Missouri
lelivering pictures for the Chicago
Portrait Company.
Squire and Mrs. W. II. Jones
if Paroquet are spending a few
lays at Batesville, Mrs. Jones
laving undergone an operation at
lie K.-D. Sanitarium. She is re
ported to be getting along nicely.
Hon. Thos. B. King of Mem
jiliis arrived Wednesday night to
ittend the Methodist conference.
Yesterday was Laymen's Day, and
Mr. King delivered an address in
the afternoon on the importance
if the laymen’s movement.
Bert Williford of the Magness
neighborhood was arrested Tues
day by Constable Meachem of
Batesville, charged with carnal
abuse on the person of Lottie
Parsley. He gave bond in the
sum of $600 pending a preliminary
hearing. ,
Here’s a package for you fron
the Judsonia Advance: “If thos»
people who are so ready to criti
cise Governor Donaghey wouli
sober up, get the cobwebs out o
their eyes and look at things a
they really are, they would fee
better. ”
F. M. Daniel, the merchan
prince of Mammoth Spring, i
tiere attending the Methodist con
ference. Mr. Daniel is one of th<
most distinguished laymen in tin
White River Conference, and ii
in enthusiastic churchman. H<
was secretary of the annual meet
ing of the White River Confer
cnce held last December at Jones
uoro, and, in fact, has served the
conference in this capacity foi
several years. He is an excellen
gentleman and one of the mos
successful business men in Nortl
Arkansas.
PENSIONS CUT OFF
Batesville, July 14.—The coun
ty pension board, composed of Col
W. I. R. Howard, J. P. Collin am
R. P. Weaver, passed upon tin
Confederate pension claims for thi
county yesterday. Some person
heretofore drawing a pension wil
receive none in the future. Thi
is the result of asking for an in
crease, and when the board mad
the investigation of such case
some were found to possess mor
than $100 worth of property, show
ing they were not entitled todrai
any sum as a pension.
YOUNG CORN GROWERS
Over three thousand Arkansa
boys in fifty cojnties are growin;
corn for the State Corn Show a
the State Fair. The Corn Contes
premiums will amount to nearly i
thousand dollars. Dr. Adams, Dea
of the college of Agriculture, offer
a hundred dollar trophy to th
county making the best showing
Col. S. W. Fordyce offers $100 i
individual prizes, and the Arkan
sas Hankers’ Association will giv
$100 in a “Free Trip to Washing
ton” to the winner of the sweep
stake prize.
DOTA DOINGS
Singing at the school house wa
well attended Sunday night.
School opened at the academ.
Monday, with Prof. Ed Martin o
Sulphur Rock as teacher, and an
enrollment of 48.
Miss Ruth and Mrs. Rosalee
Pickens visited relatives at the
Forester mill Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. I). B. Gire are re
joicing over the arrival of a fine
j plowboy at their home.
Alec Cason was over from Tuck
erman Sunday, returning Monday.
He was accompanied by Butler
James.
We are having some hot, dry
weather and crops are beginning
to need rain, as we havn’t had a
good rain in some time.
Charlie Ilarrelson and family of
Kenyon were over Sunday to at
tend the singing convention and
visit relatives and friends.
J. F. Goatcher and sister, Miss
Julia, who have been visiting here
since Saturday, returned to their
home near Kenyon Tuesday.
Quite a crowd from this place
attended the singing convention at
Pleasant Hill Sunday, and report
a delightful time. The singing
was fine and there was an abund
ance of dinner on the ground.
WHAT COURTESY DOES
You may say what you please,
but it is the town that oilers the
most inducements socially and in a
business way that gets and holds
the people. It does not take long
for the public to learn whether a
town is hospitable or not, and if
the impression once gets abroad
that she is “chinchy” it would take
the life time of an average citizen
1 to clear away that impression. We
* all know what kind of an etlect
5 individual hospitality and courtesy
I will have upon people who are
strangers in other places. The
t same rule works everywhere.
When the home-seeker arrives in a
4 town on a prospecting tour, he ah
• ways notices the kind of welcome
: he receives and the information lie
■ is given. The first impression of
. ten causes him to decide whether
he will locate there or go elsewhere
i to seek a home.
DEFINITION OF LUCK
Luck means rising at 4 o'clock
, in the morning, working like the
devil till its so dark you can’t see,
living on one dollar a day if you
( make two, minding your own busi
ness and not meddling with other
peoples’.
Luck means appointments you
never failed to keep, trains you
never failed to catch.
Luck means trusting in God and
1 your own resources.
FARMERS UNION PICNIC
Two Days Encampment Will Be
Meld at Sulphur Rock
The committee composed of A.
.1. Craig, E L. Sueberth, A. T.
Best, J, II. Nash, W. F. Brinkley
and W. J. Bracy, appointed by
the County Farmers Union to se
cure the grounds and set the date
for holding a two days encamp
ment, met in the court house at
Batesville and decided upon Au
gust 10 and 11, and after consid
ering the different places offered,
decided to accept the grounds tei -
dered by the good people of Sul
phur Rock, they having offered us
all the grove lying between the
depot and cemetery, consisting of
about 25 or 30 acres. The street
car line runs through the grove
making it one of the most conven
iently situated place that could bb
found in the county.
The committee, in behalf of the
Independence County Union, ex
tends a cordial invitation to one
and all, old and young, to make
arrangements to come, and come
prepared to camp and stay with us
the entire two days, so that you
may hear what the agricultural
experts and the Farmers Union
speakers have to say. Unless you
come for the two days you will not
get as much good out of it as those
who stay the entire two days.
We have made arrangements for
the I. O. O. F. Horae Band of
Batesville to furnish music for the
two days. The Splendid music by
these boys should be heard by ev
ery boy and girl in the county.
We will also have some of the
best speakers to be had, who will
not only present the objects of the
Union, but will show the great
necessity for a united effort upon
the part of laboring people to get to
gether and prove to the world that
we are not in this fight merely to
bring ourselves into notice, but to
prove to all classes of people in
the cotton producing states that
our interests and theirs are iden
tical. For instance, if the farm
ers of the South could get fifteen
cents for their cotton they would
spend most of the money with the
people where they live, thus plac
ing more money in circulation.
And everybody knows the more
money in circulation the better
the times. So we earnestly invite
everybody to come and stay with
us during the entire two days. A
program will be sent out as soon
as it can bo prepared.
Committee.
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