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Newark
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, February 21, 1918
Vol. 17, No. 47
YEGGS MAKE SECOND
ROBBERY AT MAGNESS
Miller & Cc-, Post Office and
Tom Jones’ Store Robbed
Tuesday Night
Robbers made a secon suc
cessful visit to the store of A.
F. Miller & Co., at Magness
Tuesday night and secured
$119.50.
The safe in T. J. Jones’ store
was blown and robbed also.
The robbers got $61 from Mr.
Jones’ safe.
The robbery is supposed to
have occurred about 2 o’clock
Wednesday morning. It is
said that four men got off the
Red Ball freight at the grade
near Magness Tuesday night,
but their identity is-not known.
After cracking the two safes
the robbers made their get
away on a hand car stolen from
the section house near Mag
nlSsT" They ran the hand cai
to Black river and ran it into
the river and it is reported^ that
they were seen walking back
toward Newark along the rail
road track. No clue has de
veloped, however to throw any
light upon the situation
Of the money stolen from
Miller and Company’s safe,
where the postoffice is locat
ed, $94.50 was postal and mon
ey order funds and $25 be
longed to Miller & Co.
The next morning, after the
robbery, the county scrip stol
en from Miller & Co., a few
they were robbed some time
ago, w'as found lying on the
floor, from which it seems that
Tuesday night’s robbery was
committed by the same parties
who robbed Miller & ‘Co, a few
weeks ago.
Night Marshal W. M. Mag
ness saw four men pass
WOMEN REGISTER
HERE NEXT WEEK]
—
Committee Appointed to Con
duct Registration at Post
Office in Newark
The women of Arkansas have
| been called upon to register for
I national defense work, and the
ladies of Newark will be given
| an opportunity to register next
I week.
I No woman is asked or ex
pected to give any sendee ex
cept that which she may freely
offer but the government re
qusts every woman to regis
ter so that the Woman’s Wax
Census may be complete.
Mrs. C- M. Edwards and Mrs.
Leone Magness have ben ap
: pointed to have charge of the
work here and they have ap
pointed Mrs. F. C. Hoyt, Mrs.
W. W. Jernigan and Mrs. E.
j H. Williamson as a committee
| to assist in the work.
Registration headquarters
will he at the postoffice, where
] beginning next Tuesday, the
26th, the committee will con
duct the registration, which
will continue for the remaind
er of the week
There is nothing compulsory
about the registration but it is
hoped that every lady in New
ark and surrounding country
will call on the committee at
the postoffice and register
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You can’t invest $1.50 for
anything that will prove ot
more value to your children
than one of The Journal’s maps
of Independence County.
through Newark on a handcar
about 3 o’clock Wednesday
morning, but he could not see
them plainly enough to give
any description of the men.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
IS A CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
HON. W. A. HODGES
fcdsewhere in Ihe Journal
appears the announcement of
Hon. W. A. Hodges of Bald
Knob as a candidate for Con
gress from this, the second I
Congressional District of Ark-'
anas.
Mr. Hodges has lived in;
White county for more than 35 J
years and during all this time
has been abreast of the times,
progressive in thought and ac
tion, has stood for and fought j
for constructive legislation aid :
for the betterment of all things j
socially, morally and political- j
ly. White county has sent him
twice to the State legislature |
where he has acquitted him-1
self most creditably in meas
ures he has introduced, worked
for and passed which should
and does redown to his credit
as a man of sound judgment
cool delibration, forethought
and justice to all classes
Now he seeks to be promot
ed to the National legislature
where his peculiar and excep
tional abiliaies will have fuller
and more comprehensive scope
to serve his people. Mr. Hod
ges is a man who has succeed
ed not only as a business man
out as a law maxer oi no mean
capacity. He stands, as he has
always stood, for the masses as
against the classes, for justice
and right, as against wrong and
might.
He is a life-time democrat,
and his candidacy is subject to
the Democratic primary next
May.
Mr. Hodges is a man of un
common pleasing address’, affa
ble at all times, but strong and
imphatic in his denunciation of
anything that smacks of graft
and oppression to the masses
of the people.
The five cardinal issues of
his platform as stated by Mr.
Hodges himself are as follows:
“I favor national aid for
good roads.
“A bank guaranty law to
protect the depositors.
“I favor forever abolishing
speculating and gambling in
foodstuffs.
“I stand unequivocably for a
free press and free speech.
‘1 believe in electing to Con
gress, teachers, farmers, edit
ors, business men and doctors,
so that all classes will be rep
resented, and not all lawyers,
as they are now.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Thos. J. Carter of Black riv
er township announces in to
day’s paper as a candidate for
representative.
Mr- Carter was born on a
farm in Fulton county in 1884
but removed to Independence
county when quite young and
has been a citizen of Indepen
dence county continuously for
the past 28 years.
He has been engaged in
farming and teaching and sev
eral years ago took up the
study of law. He passed a most
creditable examinationand was
admitted to the bar about five
years ago, since which time
he has had splendid success
in the practice of law, enjoy
ing a good practice in Inde
penednce and Sharp counties.
He is a man of the people!
and can be depended upon atj
all times to serve their best 1
interests should they see fit to
honor him with an election to
the lower houe of the General
Assembly.
BONE FOR SENATOR
The announcement of S. M.
Bone of Batesville as a candi
date for state senator from the
the Third senatorial district ap
pears in today’s paper.
Mr. Bone is one of the best
known young lawyers in the
county, having been engaged
in the practice of law at Bates
ville for the past seven years.
He is a splendid young man
whose character and integrity
are above and beyond re
proach.
He is a self-made man, hav
ing fought his way up in the
world principally by his own
efforts.
He made the race for this
position four years ago and
with three men in the race, he
made a splendid showing.
Should the people of this
senatorial district honor Mr.
Bone with this important posi
ion,. they may rest assured that
:heir best interests will be hon
estly and conscientiously look
ed after at all times and un
ier all circumstances.
BIG MINE OPERATOR
WILL ENTER COUNTY
J. C. Shepherd of Rush District
Will Begin Operations at
Cushman Soon
J. C. Shepherd of Rush, the
largest producer of zinc ore in
Arkansas, will start mining
manganese ore in the Indepen
dence field, early this spring,
having already made arrange
ments to begin operations. He
will continue his zinc mining
operations in the Rush field,
however, producng both kinds
or ore
Manganese ore, at this time
is one of the scarcest ores in
the United States and ferro
manganese, the metal which it
produces is absolutely neces
sary in the manufacture of
steel. Formerly a vast tonnage
of this ore was imported from
Russia and Brazil This im
port has been cut off by the
war, and the government at
this time is using every effort
to locate new sources of sup
ply in this country and to in
crease the output of fields al
ready in a stage of produc
tion.
Mr. Shepherds entrance into
the field in this county will
probably agument the produc
tion of the field considerably.
He entered the North Arkan
sas Zinc Field five years ago,
coming from Old Mexico,
where he had mined all his life
He was forced out by the rev
olution and started operations
here on a shoestring, beginning
in a very limited way without
capital and has run his produc
tion up a few tons a month
to a production last year of
8500 tons, or two-fifths of all
the zinc ore that was produced
in the state. His operations
covering the five years he has
MINER MEETS TRAGIC
DEATH SATURDAY
K. M. Blaes Buried Under Mass
of Rock and Dirt and In
stantly Killed
K. M. Bales, aged 42, met a
tragic death Friday morning
while digging ore on the side
of a mountain ne^r Stark
Springs, about five miles from
Batesville.
Bales and Lawrence Green
field and Henry Roberson were
working on the edge of a dug
out when a gerat volume of
dirt and rock rolled down from
above
Bales was completely buried
by the mass and his neck was
broken. The other two men
escaped. They had * but a
moment before stepped away
rom the path of the avalanche.
Mr. Bales was a farmer and
during this season of the year
he worked in the mines. He
is survived by his wife, four
children, his parents, and sev
eral brothers and sisters.
MIMS IS ACQUITTED
Newark Young Man is Freed
of Murder Charge
Zephy Mims of this place
who was charged with second
degree murder in connection
with the killing of Herman
Harmon at Newport some time
ago, was acquitted in the cir
cuit court at Newport last Fri
day.
The jury was out only 11
minutes when they returned
with a verdict of not guilty.
operated in the field have al
so been instrumental in prov
ing the North Arkansas Zinc
field to be a big producing
field of great commercial val
ue.
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BE PREPARED
To Gather all Your Wheat 1
Crop Next Summer
To do this you have to have a binder of your own
for nine times out of ten when you are going to use
someone else’s binder, you cannot always get it and
you may lose your whole cripbecause you are un
able to borrow or rent a binder.
To some folks it may seem early to talk about
buying Wheat Binders this time of year, but on
account of the fact that binders are scarce and hard
to get, it will pay any one interested in binders, to
come in and see us or write us at once. If you are
going to need anything in this line, do not w%it, but
come in NOW.
C. W. Maxfield Co I
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BATESVILUC, ARKANSAS
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