The Newark Journal.
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, January 31, 1913
Vol. 12, No. 43
Don't Boast About What You Would Do if You Were Someone Else—Just Get Busy and Show What You Can Do Yourself
AS U. S. SENATOR
Legislature Elects Governor Fori
Long Term and Kavanaugh
Short Term Senator
Little Rock, Jan. 29.—Gov. Joe
T. Robinson was today elected
United States senator to succeed
the late Jeff Davis for the six year
term, beginning March 4. He re
ceived 70 votes, 68 being necessary
to elect. Brundidge received 26
votes, Norwood 14, Kirby 1.
Judge W. M. Kavanaugh of Lit
tle Rock, Democratic national com
mitteeman from Arkansas, was
elected United Slates senator for
the short term ending March 4.
He will succeed Senator J. N.
Heiskeil who was appointed by
Governor Donaghey.
BOY KICKED BY HORSE
Edgar Hobbs Sustains Fractured
Skull But Will Recover
Edgar, the 12 year-old son of
John Hobbs of Cord, was kicked
on the head by a horse a few days
ago and seriously injured. The
horse was being led around for
exercise and in making a quick
turn near the boy the animal
wheeled and kicked at him, one
foot striking him near the top of
the head and fracturing the skull.
It was feared for a time that the
boy could not recover, but he was
reported a few days ago to be get
ting along nicely, and it is now
thought that he is out of danger.
CREAMERY MEANS WEALTH
Business men in small towns
that desire to render service to
farmers and at the same time
build up the town and increase the!
trade of the merchants could do
no better than help establish a co
operative creamery. This is an
enterprise when properly manag
ed that builds up the town and
makes farmers more prosperous.
It is in no sense a charitable insti
tution nor a place to loose money
for the good of the community, j
The creamery,when properly man
aged, means profits to stockholders
and wealth to the community.—
Farm and Ranch.
WAR VETERAN A VISITOR
Left America After War But Saw
Histake and Returned
—
L. F. Johnson, a prominent citi
zen of White River township, was
in town Wednesday on business
and visiting his friend, R. R. Rat
ton. He is a few years older than
Mr. Ratton but they grew up to
gether in the same neighborhood,
and together they can relat: some
interesting incidents relative to
local history fifty years ago. Mr.
Johnson saw active service in the
First Arkansas Cavalry during the
bloody conflict between the states
in the sixties and after the close
of the war he and his family de
cided that this country would be
a very unpleasant place for 'the
vanquished in that, struggle, so
they organized a colony and emi
grated to British Honduras, taking
passage on a steamboat at Jack
sonport and making the entire
trip by water. It did not take
them long, however, to discover
that life at its best in Honduras
could not he any worse than the
worst that might befall them in
Arkansas, as the tropical climate,
insects and other disadvantages
made life a continual burden. A
number of their colony fell sick,
so they decided to return and
face the worst, whatever it might
be. Accordingly they shook the
British dust from their feet and
embarked for American soil. Some
of their party died en route home
and others never recovered from
disease contracted under the trop
ical conditions surrounding them
while on the British island. So it
was indeed a sadder but wiser
colony that landed back in Arkam
sas and again took up the tangled
skein of life. But- darkness does
not last always and soon the dawn
of a better day burst forth upon
them. Prosperity smiled upon
them and soon they recouped their
losses and a number of them are
now among Independence county’s
most prosperous and contented
citizens.
OUR GREATEST NEED
We need more volunteers in the
army of progressive people who
desire to see the Southwest ad
vance in agriculture, in commerce
and in manufacturing.—Farm and
Ranch.
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—Courtesy Arkansas Homestead.
SOME PROGRESSIVE
BILLS INTRODUCED
Legislature is Considering a Num
ber of Proposed Laws of a
Progressive Nature
The prospects are there will be
at least some progressive legisla
tion during the present term of
the Arkansas legislature, not the
least important of which will be
the probable substitution of the
electric chair for hanging of per
sons convicted of capital crimes.
This proposed law, reported favor
ably by the house Judiciary Com
mittee, is based upon the Virginia
and New York laws, and provides
that all condemned persons shall
be conveyed at once to the death
house in the state penitentiary,
and there confined until the time
set for their execution by electric
ity.
The close of the second week of
the legislature witnessed the in
troduction of 79 bills in the senate
and 183 bills in the House. A few
local bills were ground out ready
for the Govenor’s signature, but
no general legislation affecting the
whole state was passed. Many of
the 262 bills introduced are of
great importance, a few of strik
ing importance, and all have been
advanced to second reading and
referred to committees, which are
at work on them, preparing them
for enactment or rejection. An
effort is being made to minimize
the evils of special legislation, al
though the usual large per cent
on the bills introduced are of a
local nature. Little time is wasted
of this kind, however, and they
are seldom ever referred to a com
mittee.
There are seven or eight pro
posed amendmenis pending in
cluding woman suffrage, the bond
amendment, increased school tax
levy, -the grand father clause, low
er rate of interest, but in view of
the restrictions imposed with ref
erence to the submission of amend
ments, the most important is prob
ably that which provides that the
Legislature may submit three
amendments and the people three
and that an amendment may be
carried by a majority of those vot
ing on the question, rather than
: by a majority of those voting at
; the election. Unless this is done
i the people are not likely to gain
!any privileges under the 1. & R.
I Amendment in the amending of the
; organic law. There is a growing
i sentiment that the Constitution is
RAILROAD PLANS TO
HELP THE FARMERS
Iron Mountain Will Establish
Three Large Demonstration
Farms in Arkansas
The Iron Mountain System un
der the direction of its agricul
tural department is establishing
the most extensive system of
demonstration farms to co-operate
with the farmers along its lines
yet undertaken by an American
railroad. The company has already
established five large demonstra
tion farms and expects to soon
have a sixth in operation. These
farms range in size from twenty
five to forty acres which makes
the undertaking the most preten
tious yet inaugurated. Work will
be conducted along the same lines
as the Government demonstration
farm work, but will be on a much
larger scale which will make it
relatively more valuable.
At present the farms will be
confined to the tracks of the Iron
Mountain, three being in Arkan
sas.
All the farms will be under the
general supervision of L. A. Mark
ham, Commissioner of Agriculture
of the Iron Mountain, with head
quarters at Little Rock. Mr. Mark
ham was formerly in the service
of the U. S. Agricultural Depart
ment.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture will cooperate directly in
conducting these farms and have
field agents representing them.
Each farm is to have a resident
manager and each is to be located
along the tracks of the company’s
lines in close proximity to a town.
The towns near which the farms
so far established in Arkansas are
Dermott, Conway and Hope.
The company’s object is to pro
mote better and more productive
farming, and in addition to assist
ing the farmers otherwise, the
very best grade of field seeds of
various kinds will be produced on
these farms and sold to the farm
ers at actual cost.
not sufficiently elastic to meet the
requirements of a progressive age,
and there is a strong following in
both houses for the calling of a
constitutional convention to re
vise the state’s organic law\ A
bill to that effect has been intro
duced in the Senate, and should it
fail, it is understood that a popular
movement will be initiatied soon
thereafter for the calling of such a
convention.
ENTIRE FAMILY STRICKEN
Three Deaths in 10 Days and Two
Others Hortally Sick
Cave City, Jan. 28.—John Story
j who lives two miles west of town,
has lost three of his family in the
past ten days, a son and two
daughters, Luther, Roxie and Ad
! die. The latter was buried the
118th, Luther the 21st and Roxie
j the 25th. The girls were secretly
I married last September to Wiley
Felts and J. D. Ford, and none of
their friends or relatives knew
anything about their marriage, not
even their parents, until just be
fore the death of Addic, when a
confession was made. They had
decided to marry and keep it a se
cret until the young men complet
ed their education, and were mar
ried under an oak tree in the cem
etery, and the burial services of
each were held under the tree
where they were married, it being
but a few days over four months
since their marriage.
Wiley Felts was attending med
ical college at Memphis and did
not arrive until after the death of
his wife. Mr. Ford is teaching
school. Two other members of
Mr. Story’s family are dangerously
ill and are not expected to live.
EARLY EASTER THIS YEAR
Lacks Only One Day Coming on
Earlist Date Possible
Easter Sunday for 1913 will be
March 23. The earlist date on
which Easter can fall is March 22,
but that hasn’t happened since
1818. This year it will be March
23, the same date on which it fell
1856 and 1845. A noted St. Louis
astronomer, says that tables com
puted by mathematicians have
not been carried far enough to
show just how long it will be be
fore Easter again falls on so early
a date, but that it will not occur
until some time after the year of
2000. The rule for fixing the
date of Easter originally was that
it was the Sunday after the first
full moon following the spr ng
equinox. The equinox falls on
March 21. According to a ruling
of the council at Nice, if March 21
isSaturday and there is a full moon
on that day, the following day
will be Easter. This year March
21 will be on Friday and there
will be a full mcon Saturday.
ANDERSON-ADAIR
Francis Anderson and Miss Eva
Adair were married at the home
of Squire and Mrs. M. E. Burt last
Sunday, Squire Burt officiating.
TWO DROWN WHEN
FERRY BOAT SINKS
Jeff Younjrcr and Dick (irahnm
Lose Lives at Allen Ferry
Near Batesville
Two men were drowned and a
number of others barely escaped
when a ferry boat sank in White
River at the Allen ferry near
Batesville last Saturday.
One of the tow-ropes on the
boat broke and the boat was
swept down the river and turned
over and sank.
Jeff Younger and Dick Graham,
both farmers, who were hauling
bolts to Batesville, were drowned
in an effort to save their teams
which were on the boat when it
went down.
Graham is survived by a wife
and two children. Younger had
been married about six weeks.
REPORT ON HOOKWORM
l)r. T. M. Fly Has Spent the La*t
Week in Batesville
Batesville, Jan. 28.—Dr. T. M.
Fly, who is in the government ser
vice of hookworm demonstration
and eradication, has spent the
past week in Batesville and hts
made a report on the work done
here. He says he has made in this
county 147 examinations and
found 42 victims of hookworm.
That the hookworm is due large
ly to unsanitary conditions, says
Dr. Fly,must not be taken to mean
there are not agencies. He says
he found one youth affected who
belongs to one of the most promi
nent families in Batesville, sur
rounded by all that good sanita
tion can provide. The boy may
have caught it from impure water
at school or in any other place, or
he may have gotten it from a fly
or a mosquito, he says.
The work in this county is meet
ing with the interests of the peo
ple, and he will remain here for
two or three weeks. He has had
requests from 10 towns in the
county, and will try to visit all of
them.
OLDEST J. P. IS DEAD
Mobley, Jan. 28.—J. T. Foster,
58 years old, who had held office
continuously for 35 years as a jus
tice of the peace in Scott township
Sharp county, died at his home of
pneumonia. He was elected last
November for the nineteenth con
secutive time. He is survived by
his wife and several children.
REMEMBER!
The old reliable when you are go
ing to buy furnishing for the home
or farm. We have everything you
need and at the right price too.
Look over this list and see what
you want then come in and let us
figure with you:
FURNITURE, SEWING /TACHINES,
BUCK STOVES, CARTS, BUGGIES,
SURRIES, WAGONS and AUTOS,
TENTS and AWNINGS, WAGON
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Batesville. Ark.
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