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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, February 3, 1905.
Vol. 5. No. 6.
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS
AT THE CAPITAL CITY
Sketch of Some of the Most Im- !
portant Bills Offered.
Senator Hinkle Introduces Bill For
Establishment of a Home For
the Incurable Insane.
One of the best bills introduced
dnring this session of the legisla-I
ture is one introduced in the)
House last Monday by Represen-!
tative Raskin, (II. M. 196) which
provides for the establishment of;
a white normal school for the in-!
struction of white girls as teach
ers. The bill provides that the
school shall be located in the cen
tral portion of the state, in a com
munity which shall give a bonus
of 10 acres of land and $20,000 in
cash, and that the state shall ap
propriate $15,000 annually for its
support, the building to be erected
out of the $2O,000 bonus and the j
first appropriation by the state. ;
It is to be managed by a board of
trustees one from each congress
ional district"
Senator Hinkle has introduced !
a bill (No. 130) empowering the
stab* board of charities to establish
and maintain a home for the in
curable insane of the state, at a
cost of not exceeding $150,000.
The bill was read twice, 200 copies
ordered printed and referred to
the committee on public charities.
Mr. Coleman has introduced a
bill abolishing the office of road
commissioner in Independence
-county.
A ioint resolution was introduc
ed whl6h proposes an amendment
to the constitution, exempting
from taxation until January 1,
1917, all manufacturers of cotton
anil woolen goods, plate glass and
glassware, farming implements,
leather, boots and shoes, and beef
and packing houses, provided the
capital invested is $50,000 or more
and the concern is not connected
•with any trust.
Mr. Nowlin has introduced a
bill appropriating $500 for the
purpose of erecting a monument
over the grave of Augustus H.
<iarland, whose grave is said to be
unmarked.
The house, by a vote of <S9 to 3,
passed a bill over the governor’s
veto, making a four-wire fence a
lawful fence in Monroe county.
In the senate an effort was made
to pass the newspaper and stamp
bill over the governor’s veto, but
the bill failed to receive the neces
sary vote.
DROWNED IN ICY RIVER.
Eureka Springs, Jan. 30.—Jes
se, (iee, 13 years old, drowned
while attempting to cross White
river on t he ice near here last
night. He battled with the water
and floating ice for an hour, and
then succumbed just as help,which
had been attracted by his cries,
reached the shore.
Hankers money orders are the
safest way to send money. Sold
by the Bank of Newark payable
in all parts of the civilized world.
SHE TOOK THE HINT.
The people of Monticello are
just now the recipients of many
verbal boquets on the nicety of the
manner in which the town got rid
of an undesirable institution that
had formerly flourished in that
town.
The compliments arc the out
come of the passing of the Mary
Holmes Colored Institute from
Monticello. The founder of the
school, a certain Mary Holmes,
white, of Boston, on occasional
visits to Monticello, offended the
respectable people of the town by
publicly embracing the female ne
gro teachers, and further by per
mitting herself to be escorted
about the town by the male negro
principal.
< )n her last visit she was the re
cipient of a small box in the shape
of a coffin containing some pieces
of rope and a box'* of catridges.
Some pranky boys are thought;
to have perpetrated the trick, but
she left immediately and the school
has been abandoned.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Items of General Interest Gathered
Fresh From the Columns of
the Daily Papers.
The January term of Jackson
county circuit court convened at
Newport Monday.
A Kansas man named Ferguson
has bought 1,000 acres of fruit
lands near Gravette.
J. R. McRoberts was found
dead in bed at his home in Little
Rock Sunday morning.
John Hurt, a young man at De
Witt, lost a hand by being acci
dentally shot while hunting.
Hon. H. T. Bradford of Little
Rock has been appointed state cot
ton statistician for Arkansas.
Cleve Hays. 17 years old, of
Paragould, lost his right hand as
the result of a gunshot wound re
ceived while out hunting.
R. R. Yasser, charged with the
killing of John Forshee, was found
guilty at Lockesburg and sentenc
ed to live years in the penitentia
ry.
Mrs. Alice Tipton, wife of State
Treasurer II. C. Tipton, died
Monday afternoon at the family
residence in Little Rock. She had
been an invalid for many years.
Phillip Reinsch of Stuttgart sold
sixteen standard bred horses for
$5,500 a few days ago. The pur
chasers were from Illinois. The
horses were raised in Arkansas.
Mrs. Abner Prewitt of Ring was
burned to death Saturday, her
clothes becoming ignited while she
was taking coals from a fireplace
in order to start a tire in a cook
ing stove. Her two-year-old son
was the only witness of the acci
dent.
J. E. Simpson died at Brighton
from injuries received at the box
factory there on Friday. lie was
endeavoring to place a belt upon
a pulley in the factory when he
was caught and hurled around the
shafting several times before it
could he stopped.
Near Venus a few days ago
Hiram Bowline was found in the
woods by a neighbor in an uncon
scious condition. His head was
swollen and blood was issuing
from his nose. He was taken to
the nearest house and later was
removed to his home. Men ex
amined the place where he was
working and thought probably a
falling tree had struck him. He
is now able to speak, but does not
know what hurt him and is in a
very serious condition.
ENDORSES PLANS OF
COTTON CONVENTION
Organizer For A. 5. of E. Co-oper
ates With Cotton Growers.
Farmers Should Follow out Plans
Formulated by the New
Orleans Convention.
II. B. Sherman, national org
izer for the American Society of
Equity, who has been in Little
Hock several days, held a confer
ence Monday with Dr. L. E. Love
of Dardanelle, and Mr. Hughes of
Paris, Logan county, who com
pose the executive committee for
the state of Arkansas, appointed
at the national convention of cot
ton growers at New Orleans. The
Gazette says that after the confer
ence Mr. Sherman announced that
the American Society of Equity
would co-operate with the state
and national cotton growers and
assist in the movement started by
the cotton men at New Orleans.
Mr. Sherman says the only reme
dy for the cotton men of the South
is to follow out the plans outlined
by the New Orleans convention
and follow this advice at once.
“1 shall do all within my power
to get the farmers of Arkansas,
both members of the A. S. of E.
and others, to co-operate with
their brother cotton growers in
the South,” said Mr. Sherman.
“That is the settled policy of the
American Society of Equity. We
always co-operate with such or
ganizations as this and never an
tagonize one of them. The work
of organizing the farmers of this
state in the American Society of
Equity shall go on unceasingly
and will be pushed vigorously.
The cotton growers will have no
more faithful ally than this socie
ty. A united effort on the part
of all farmers’ organizations is ab
solutely necessary in this situation,
and the cotton growers of the
South cannot afford to wait. The
advice given out by the national
convention should be taken up at
once and acted upon in every state
in the cotton belt.”
Mr. Sherman promised assist
ance in whatever way possible,and
will deliver an address at the state
meeting of the cottonmen to be held
in Little Rock Friday. The New
Orleans convention provided for
the permanent organization of the
cotton growers, and at the state
convention to be held Friday
the plans will be. formulated and
notices issued for meetings in the
various townships and counties of
this state. Each township is to
have an organization which shall
elect delegates to the county con
vention, and this convention shall
have representatives at the state
convention when the final organi
zation is made.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
We, the undersigned land own
ers and tax payers, will, after giv
ing the legal notice as required by
law, present a bill to the present
I general assembly of the state of
i Arkansas for the purpose of
amending an act entitled “An act
1 to authorize the enclosure of cer
| tain lands on White river, and for
I other purposes” by enlarging the
: powers of the Board of Assessors;
| placing the pond keeper on a sala
ry; making it a misdemeanor for
| any one to turn stock in said dis
trict; to give the pound keeper the
power to kill wild hogs that he is
unable to impound and otherwise
amending said iaw.
There will be a public meeting
of the land owners and tax payers
of said district held at the town
hall, in Newark, Ark., on Wed
nesday, the 8th day of February,
1905, at 2 o’clock, p. m. to con
sider the above matter, and all
persons interested are requested to
be present and present their ob
jections thereto, if any they have.
Done by order of a previous
meeting held by the land owners
and tax payers of said district.
T. H. Dearino,
( i EG. F. CUONSEK,
S. A. Moore.
As special Committee to give
said notice and draft bill and etc.
SULPHUR ROCK SKETCHES
Short Local Items of Interest Picked
Up at the Metropolis of White
River Township.
Butler Fallis of Sharp was in
town Monday.
Jim Vaughn has been real sick
for several days.
W. J. Waldrip of Magness was
in town Monday.
J. N. Overton of Magness was
in town Tuesday.
L)r. F. M. Owens of Magness
was in town Tuesday.
Sam Conner of Magness was in
town Monday and Tuesday.
Prof. Sidney Pickens went to
the county capital Saturday.
Prof. Jernigan is hobbling
around with a sprained ankle.
AV. T. Anderson made a busi
ness trip to Moorefield Monday
evening.
W. B. Knight left Monday to
be gone several days on insurance
business.
The tacky party at Mrs. Ida
Young’s last Saturday night was
largely attended and all seemed to
have a nice time.
Rev. C. H. Newman preached
at the M. E. church Sunday at 11
o’clock and Rev. C. F. Hively
preached at night.
Doc Maxwell, who has been
quite sick with pneumonia for
some time, was reported better
Tuesday morning.
Prof. George Wright was able
to go back to his school Sunday,
after having two of his ribs broken
last week while skating.
Miss Pearl Martin who has been
keeping books for the Rice Mer
cantile Company for a year, left
for her home at Peede, Ark., Mon
day evening.
A subscription is being circulat
ed for a new Methodist church
building at this place. We think
this a move in the right direction,
as a nice building is badly needed.
Gibson the photographer ha;
just purchased a fine flash lumi
and is now prepared to make in
terior views of residences, stores
j or shops, groups of families, Loci
j ges or other interior work day 01
1 night. Lodges wishing groups
made can get just as good work
done at night as they can in th<
! day time, and it is more conven
ient as they generally meet al
j night and can get a full turnout
Give him your order when yoi
i want anything in the picture line.
WOULD HAVE STATE
PRINTING OFFICE
I3ill Introduced Appropriating
Honey for That Purpose.
—
The State Would Then Publish Its
Own School Books and Pub
lic Documents.
Little Hock, Jan. 31.- Repre
sentative Bolton of Crawford coun
ty yesterday introduced in the
house a bill providing for a uni
form series of text books in the
common schools, to be published
by the state. The bill if enacted
will mean that the state of Arkan
sas w ill go into the printing busi
ness and that all public documents,
records, etc., will be printed in an
establishment owned by the state.
Under Mr. Bolton’s bill it is
made the duty of the state print
ing clerk to superintend all state
! printing and to keep the record,
forms, etc., department separate
from the school book department,
in order that the cost of school
books may be properly ascertain
ed. An appropriation of $15,000
is providad to secure copyrights,
cuts, designs, etc., of books to bo
printed, and an appropriation of
$100,000 is provided to purchase
the necessary machinery, binders,
stitchers, etc., to carry out the
provisions of the act. A levy of
not more than 1 cent on the dollar
is contemplated to establish a “re
volving” fund to maintain the
system of publishing the books,
which is to be levied at the Octo
ber terms of county courts, and to
define who shall handle the books
after they are printed.
“I introduced the bill,” said Mr.
Bolton, “because in my opinion it
will greatly aid the school children
in procuring books, and further
because 1 think the school book
trust one of the most dangerous
of the huge corporation which
prey upon the people and which
can be controlled only by taking
the school book business from
their hands. I also believe that &
state printing establishment would
save the commonwealth a largo
amount of money.
IN MEMORIAM.
Whereas, The Supreme Ruler
of the Universe has seen tit to call
from labor to refreshments our be
loved Brother Frank Trent; there
fore be it
Resolved, That in the removal
from our midst of Bro. Trent the
Order has lost a true and faithful
member, the family a kind and
loving father and his wife a kind
husband, and the coummuuity a
kind and affectionate citizen, who
was ever ready to help the dis
tressed. Be it further
Resolved, That McGuire Lodge
No. 208 F. & A. M. extend to his
family and relatives our sympathy
and love in this sad bereavement
and remind them to look to our
Allwise Father who doeth all
things well. That a copy of these
resolutions be published in The
Newark .Journal and the Masonic
Trowel, and a copy be furnished
his family; also a copy to be spread
upon our minutes of this Lodge.
G. W. Cakr, j
I). C. .James, V Committee.
W. R. Fife.)
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