The Newark Journal.
Vol. 3, No. 45.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday November 6, 1903.
$1 Per Annum
ABOUT GOOD ROADS
Good Country Roads Benefit the
Town as Much as They
do the Country.
Newspapers teem with argu
ments in favor of road improve
ment. The same refrain comes to
us from the stump. Even farmers,
with loads of produce on their
wagons in muddy lanes, frequently
mention the topic, or its equiva
lent, by uncomplimentary terms,
applied to the roads they are deal
ing with. We assume that curses
applied to bad roads are equiva
lent to blessings applied to good
roads—when enough good road
can be found to apply a few words
of commendation to. Practically
everybody favors good roads—
city people, who never use them,
and country people who often find
them unusable. If all people ad
mit the benefits that would result
from good roads, why do we find
only bad roads i The answer is,
that some people think good, hard,
water-proof country roads an im
possibility; some want good roads,
but contend that it takes both
money and labor to build them—
and who wants to pay money to
make good roads to be used by
other people? City people are wil
lingto be taxed for street improve- j
ment for that increases the value
of tluir property, but to build
roads in the country would increase
the value of farm property, and
will not increase the productive
capacity of the land. Thus it is
that on the road question, as on
many other subjects, the people
do not think or work together, but
“pull-off” lik<- a yoke of contrary
oxen. It is a strange fact that in
this country we have the best rail
roads, both steam and electric, in
the world, and the worst country
roads of any civilized nation on
earth.
If there is any work possible
that would lxuietit an agricultural
section as much as building good
roads therein we have never heard
of it, and it has never been even
suggested. The most serious han
dicap country people have is the
result of muddy roads. When roads !
are muddy fields are muddy also, |
and the farmer can neither work j
in his fields nor market his crops, ;
nor visit his neighbors. It is said j
by eminent authority that in
France, Belgium and other coun
tries where good roads are the
rule, fanners always market their
produce in wet weather, because
at such times they cannot work in
their fields; but their roads being
like unto paved streets, they can
do their marketing at any time.
The season is now almost upon us
when farmers can only reach their
market towns by struggling
through muddy lanes and over]
boggy sloughs. Would it not be
better for the towns if farmers
had easy access to them at all times'd
Would it not pay the towns and
cities to aid the country, the state
or the national government and
the country people in building
good roadsd Surely a system of
good roads radiating from them to
all parts of the tributary country
would be as beneficial to the busi
ness interests as to agriculture.
The importance of this work de
mands that the farmers, the city
people, the counties and the na
tional government aid in its prose
cution. Some will say that the
national government is spending
too much of the people’s money
already. This may be true; but is
this money spent judiciously d The
fact is, of all the money spent by
the government, country people
receive but little benefit. The last
session of Congress used up *753,
484,081. Of this $5,978,160 was
used for the benefit of agriculture,
or less than l percentof the whole.
The army and navy received over
$160,000,000, or 26 times as much
as was expended for the benefit of
agriculture. Consider which is of
most benefit to the country, agri
culture, or the huge military force.
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J
Attorney S. A. Moore had busi
ness in circuit court at Batesville !
Monday.
W. II. Jones, a good citizen of
Paroquet, was looking after busi
ness in town Saturday.
The White River Methodist con
ference will meet this year at Wal
nut Ridge on the 2ndof December.
M. E. Burt of Magness was in
town Saturday and made The
Journal a pleasant and substantial
call. \
Oliver Hawkins dropped a dol
lar in the till Saturday to renew
for this pious weekly another
year.
(.’has. Ford from near Jackson
port was in town Friday and was
a pleasant caller at The Journal
office.
Through the kindness of T. B.
Jackson, Mrs. Kobt. Caldwell of
Hickman, Ivy., will read The Jour
nal for six months.
Henry Shutters and Julian Ter
rell from near Newport spent Sat
urday in town. They expect to
move here in a short time.
W. II. Bowman orders The
Journal sent to his daughter, Mrs.
SallieE. Northern, of Como, Tex.,
for six months. We comply with
pleasure.
! William Spence and wife who
live a few miles north of town are
a remarkable couple. Mr. Spence
is 84 years old and his wife is 77.
They live alone and do all their
| owe work, their children all hav
i i’.ig married off and left the home
nest. Mr. Spence is a remarka
l bly healthy and vigorous man for
his age, and has only taken $4
worth of medicine in his life.
A. R. Barber, a good citizen of
Logan township, was transacting
business in town Saturday and
called and advanced his subscrip
tion a dollar’s worth.
The Ilalowe'en entertainment
given last Friday night by the la
dies of the Methodist church was
a very enjoyable affair and netted
the neat sum of $80.
T. Ij. Henderson of White Riv
er township was transacting busi
ness in town Monday and ordered
The Journal sent to Mrs. Lou Ar
ledge of Harrisburg.
Rev. (i. L. Fink, of the Mission
ary Baptist church, has b^en con
ducting a very successful revival
meeting at the Adams school
house on Padgett Island for the
past ten days
If you have anything good to
say about your neighbor say it
while he is liviyg. A man's hear
ing is better while he is alive, be
sides you can do him no good by
reiterating all his good deeds af
ter he is dead.
How’s This?
We offer one hundred dollars
reward for any case of catarrh
that cannot lie cured by Hall’s
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Clieney & Co.,Toledo,Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have
known F. J. Cheney for the last
15 years and believe him per
fectly honorable in all business
transactions ar.U financially able
to curry out any obligation made
i>y their firm. West & Truax,
wholesale druggists,Toledo,Ohio ;
Walding,Kiuman & Marvin,whole
sale druggists, Toledo, Ohio,
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free
Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all
druggists. Hall's Family Pills
! are Use best.
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THE CITY FATHERS
—
They Assembled Honday Night
and Passed a Number of
Important Laws.
The city council met in regu
lar monthly session Monday night
with Mayor Williamson on tho
throne and all members present.
Current hills were allowed and
ordered paid. The resignation of
Marshal J. M. Sisk was presented
and accepted and George Pearce
elected to (ill the vacancy.
Eleven ordinances were placed
on third and final reading for pas
sage. All passed without a dissent
ing vote except No. 3, Aldermen
F. M. Martin and J. F. Morgan
voting no on this ordinance.
The ordinances passed were as
follows:
JNo. 1 is an ordinance condemning:
the old building standing at the
crossing of Locust street and the
railroad and provides for the re
moval of same.
No. 2 declares certain buildings
a nuisance and provides for their
removal.
No. 3 pertains to street working
and requires all male persons be
tween the ages of 18 and 45 to
work on the streets four days in
each year and provides for the
payment of 50 cents per day in
lieu thereof.
No. 4 prohibits the shooting of
fireworks of any character upon
the streets of alleys and imposes a
fine of not less than £l nor more
than $5 for its violation.
I No. 5 establishes a lire limit cm
| bracing lots 1 to 9 in block 1, wes
I tern division, and prohibits the
erection of any wooden or frame
building therein.
No. 6 is a Sunday closing law
and prohibits the selling of goods
of any character on Sunday.
No. 7 pertains to licensing hotels,
restaurants, butcher shops, etc.,
and places the license for hotels at
$5 per quarter, butcher shops,
billiard halls, and shooting gallier
ies at *10 per quarter.
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in crops, also, are very late, and now that the crops are fast yn
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