The Newark Journal.
Let’s Raise What We Eat and Keep Our Money at Home. Diversified Farming Means Permanent Prosperity For All
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, July 15, 1915
Vol. 15, No. 15
NEWARK CANNING FACTORY
BEGAN OPERATIONS TUESDAY
HAS CAPACITY OF 25,000
CANS PER DAY
Will Afford Market for Entire
Peach Crop of County in Ad
dition to Tomatoes and Truck
The first steam was raised
in the Newark Canning Com
pany’s factory Tuesday, the
machinery tested and the first
run was made Tuesday after
noon.
Everything was found to be !
in fine running order and the j
management is well pleased
with the results.
The capacity of the plant
surprises everybody, even the
officials of the company, and
it is now plainly evident that!
the greatest obstacle to be met
is the matter of securing the
raw products for canning. A
second run was made Wednes
day afternoon, when more than
7.000 cans of peaches were
put up in less than five hours.
This result was accomplished
with about three-fourths of a
crew, and it was thoroughly
demonstrated that with a full
crew the factory will handle
25.000 cans a day.
The company is buying ev
ery available peach and is in
the market for .30,000 to 40.
000 bushels of peaches. Far
mers who have good market-:
able peaches for sale need no
longer have any fear of hav-1
ing no market for them, and
there is no danger of finding
the factory overstocked. The
capacity of this factory is such
that it can easily handle
every peach grown in Indepen
dence county this season.
The establishment of this
factory in Newark means the
opening of a ready market
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FOUR MEDALS
FOR ARKANSAS
Exhibits From This State Get
Gold Medals at San Fran
cisco World’s Fair.
San Francisco, July 10.—
Arkansas was awarded four
gold medals by the Executive
Board of the Panama-Pacific
Exposition today, one of which
was for the collective display
of agriculture and miscellane
ous products. The other medals
were for the Boy’s Corn Club
products, cotton and cotton pro
ducts and the rice exhibit.
The regular jury of awards
gave Arkansas only one silver
medal for the entire agricul
tural display, ruling that the
state was not entitled to any
higher award because of its
failure to have the exhibits in
place on the opening day. John
P. Logan, director of exhibits
for Arkansas appealed to the
Executive Board, and at its
meeting today overruled the
Jury of Awards.
No announcement of the
awards for the horticultural
displays have been made, this
department being separate
from the other departments.
The Jury of Awards on horti
culture views the exhibits each
week, and will not make their
awards public until the close
of the exposition.
LITTLE GIRL BURNED
Pine Bluff, July 14.—Eliza
beth Steward, nine, daughter
of W. S. Steward of Altheimer,
was painfully but not serious
ly burned yesterday when she
attempted to make a fire with
gasoline.
First National Bank
Newark, Ark.
CAPITAL $25,000
SURPLUS $6,500
C. M. EDWARDS, Pres.
G. M. FIELDS, V. Pres.
E. B. CHESSER, Cashier
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MAN DENIES HE
IS KIDNAPPER
Horse Trader Arrested Heer
Charged With Kidnapping
Says Accuser is Crazy.
Jim Ersher, a horse trader,
about 45 years old, was arrest
ed here Wednesday afternoon
by Officer James Vaughan,
charged with kidnapping An
nie Cave, a young woman
about 18 years of age.
The arrest was made at the
instance of an old man named
Conley, who is apparently
about 50 years old and who
claims to be the father of the
girl alleged to have been kid
napped. Conley tells a rather
disjointed story and the offi
cers are inclined to doubt the
old man’s sanity.
The girl alleged to have been
kidnapped is 18 years old and
is said to have been married,
but Conley, it is said, separated
her and her husband.
Jim Ersher, the alleged kid
napper, was driving along the
public road near Pangbun sev
eral days ago, when he over
took Conley and the young
woman, walking along the
road. Ersher says they asked
him to let them ride, which he
did, as he had no family or
traveling companions except
his little girl, wno is eight
years old.
Conley and the young wo
man wanted to come to New
ark, so they said. Ersher was
headed this way, trading hor
ses, and he agreed to bring
them. Somewhere near Jud
sonia, Conley leftthe wagon but
says he merely stopped to talk
to a man for a few minutes
and that Ersher drove up and
ran away and left him, taking
the youg wonman, and that he
'could not overtake them and
that he then swore out a war
rant for the arrest of Ersher.
Ersher says the old man ap
parently became frightened
and jumped out of the wagon
and disappeared. After his
failure lo return, the young
woman insisted on coming to
Newark and he decided to
bring her, thinking the old man
would eventually come on and
overtake them.
When arrested Ersher de
nied that he hail mistreated
the young woman in any man
ner and said he had no inten
sion of kidnapping her. The
girl told a similar story and
steadfastly maintained that Er
sher had been guilty of no mis
conduct toward her.
Ersher was unable to give
bond and was taken to Bates
ville Wednesday night by Con
stable W. R. Fausel and plac
et! in jail. Ersher declined to
employ an attorney, declaring
that he was guilty of no crime.
The youg wnoman and Er
sher’s little daughter accom
panied him to Batesville, where
they say they will remain un
til he is released.
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I EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID
Little Rock, July 14.—A se
rious epidemic of typhoid fe
ver at Lake Village was re
ported to the office of Dr. C.
i W. Garrison, state health otfi
I cer, today. The report said
20 cases have been found in
I town. Dr. Garrison loft to
'night to make an investigation
of the water and milk sup
plies and the general sanitary
conditions of the town.
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FIRST WATERMELONS
The first load of homegrown
watermelons was received on
the loci mack t this morning.
The mi l' ns ar of line <ju; lit.
and it is said the yield will 1 ■
large.
HIGH SCHOOLS
ARE HARD HIT
Supreme Court Holds State
Aid Law Unconstitutional—
155 Schools Affected.
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The Supreme Court, in a de
jcision handed down at Little
Rock last Monday, signed the
death knell to the state aid to
[high schools proposition. At
I the same time and in the same
|opinion the court refused to
tie up the $1,250,000 to the
{credit of the common school
fund in the state treasury. In
the former case the court held
that a specific legislative ap
propriation was necessary,
while in the common school
fund case the state constitu
tion covered the matter.
The decision of the court
will be a serious blow to many
of the high schools of the state,
it is said. Many of them will
be disorganized and forced to
reduce the length of their
courses. The rural high schools
the smaller institutions, will
be the hardest hit by the de
cision. The high schools, in
the cities and the larger towns
will not be affected appreciab
ly, for they do not depend to
|any extent upon the state aid
fund. When the work for the
upbuilding of the high schools
was started there were only
4,000 pupils in them. Last year
there were 16,000. The state
aid act was a part of the pro
igram of development that
{brought this increase.
There were three high
schools in Independence coun
ty that received state aid last
year under the state aid law.
'I hey were Newark, Sulphur
Rock and Pleasant Plains. The
Newark High School received
$300 last year and the Sulphur
Rock and Pleasant Plains
schools received $200 each.
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CHARGED WITH
SHOOTING HORSE
Frank Derivage of Sulphur
Rock was tried in Squire J. H.
Jimerson’s court at Sulphur
Rock Monday, charged with
shooting a horse belonging to
J. H. Liles. Durviage was
found guilty and fined $25
and costs, amounting to a total
of $52.25. In default of pay
ment of the fine and costs, he
was taken to Ratesville and
placed in jail.
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DOCTRINAL PREACHER
COMING TO NEWARK
Rev. R. H. Pigue of Mem
phis, Tenn., who is said to be
|one of the strongest doctrinal
preachers of the Southern
Methodist Church, will preach
at the Methodist church in
Newark Friday night at 8 p.m.,
also Saturday at 11 a. m., and
3 p. m. His sermons will deal
strictly with the doctrines and
practice of the Methodist
I church.
MURDERED MEN HAD
RELATIVE IN NEWARK
.Jot' Walls and Kelley Smith
who were murdered nearPang
burn in White County last week
jwere cousins of Mrs. 11.A. Gire
'of this place.
So far as known nothing has
developed to throw any light
upon the identity of those who
i committed the crime.
ROLLER FLOUR MILL
A? MOUNTAIN VIEW
Mtn. View, July 14.—The
machinery for the new roller
| Hour mill which is to be trect
;ed at this place, has arrived
. land will be installed immed
ijiately. The building is al
most completed. \ • e . - .
acreage of wheat wat n in
! Stone County this season and
the yield is immense.
ORDERS PROBE
OF STATE FARM
Governor Will Appoint Com
mission to Investigate Con
ditions at Convict Farm
Little Rock, July 12.—An
investigation of the conditions
of the state convict farm at
Cummins will be made by a
commission to be appointed
within a few days by Govern
or Hays.
“At the earnest solicitation
of the members of the Peni
tentiary Commission I have
agreed to appoint a commis
sion to make a thorough in-'
vestigation of conditions at'
the state farm and the state I
penitentiary,” Governor Hays;
said. “The commission will
include three men and will be
appointed within a few days.
The commission will be
furnished with a stenographer
and instructed to secure all
the evidence it desires. The
commissioners have assured
me that the investigation will:
not be hindered in any way.
but that every opportunity will j
be afforded to make a tho
rough investigation of the con
ditions. A copy of teh charges
made by Rev. L. Tomme, form
er chaplain of the penitentiary
will be furnished the commis
sion, and it will be instructed
to take up each one separately
and make a report to me on
its findings.”
NEWPORT MAN HURT
BY WINDSTORM
Newport, July 13.—During i
a wind-storm which visited j
this section yesterday after-j
noon, during which the wind
attained a velocity of overfor
tv miles an hour, a large can
vas sign in front of Wolff -
Goldman’s department store
was torn from its fastenings
and hurled through the plate
glass front of the building.
T. 1’. Umsted who was pass
ing the store at the time, was!
hit on the head and knocked'
to the sidewalk, where he lay
unconscious, until he was car
ried to his office, where medi
cal aid was summoned and he
was revived.
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“The Golden Rule is highest
standard of conduct,” says a
writer of note. True, quite
true, and it is so high most of
us are unable to reach it.
ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL SCORED
■vestigation Commilte File* Re
port Charging Many Irreg
ularities Against Moose.
Little Rock, July 15.—Attor
ney General W. L. Moose is se
verely criticised by the legis
lative committee in its report
on his office filed with Govern
or Hays yesterday. The com
mittee concludes its report with
the following summary of its
criticisms:
“That the attorney general
has kept very inadequate re
cords of money received and
paid into the treasury.
“That he used the Southern
Trust Company as a sub-treas
ury or depository for most of
the funds that have come into
his possession and checked
them out indiscriminately with
bank checks in the face of
the statute against him depos
iting the money or the bank re
ceiving it.
“That he has dealt in state
iwarra nts.
“That he has employed spec
ial counsel at a cost of more
than $7,000 in one instance,
when he could have done the
work himself in less than sev
en hours and saved thisamount
to the taxpayers.
“That while he was em
ploying special counsel he was
doing private practice.
“That he failed to comply
with the law in not itemizing
his inheritance tax collections
in his biennial report.”
LAD DROWNS IN RIVER
Little Rock, July 13.—James
Naylor, 17 years old, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Naylor,
was drowned this afternoon
in the Little Maumelle River
while bathing. Young Naylor
got beyond his depth and being
an indifferent swimmer, was
unable to reach the bank. The
body was recovered and
I brought to Little Rock late this
'evening.
CATTLE DIPPING DATES
Inspector J. S. Griffin will
dip cattle at the following
places on the dates given be
| low.
Otter Lake, Saturday, July
17.
Paroquet, Tuesday, July 20
Rider vat, near Curia, Thurs
jday, July 22.
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