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The Newark Journal
Published In The Famous white River Country. Where Alfalfa is king
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, February II, 1910
Vol. 9. No. 44
CANDIDATES MEETING
County Candidates Decide on Joint
Canvass Beginning March 7
On last Saturday, pursuant to a
previous call, a meeting of the
county candidates was held at
Batesville.
C. M. Flinn was elected chair
man and George Bevenssecretary.
The question of making a joint
canvass was taken up, and by a
vote of 8 to 18 it was decided to
make a joint canvass.
The time allowed each candidate
is as follows: State senator, repre
sentative and county judge, each,
fifteen minutes; clerk, sheriff, col
lector, treasurer, assessor and eor
orner, each, three minutes.
R. W. Earnheart asked to be
given ten minutes at each speak
ing place, which was granted, and
ten minutes allowed for a reply to
Mr. Earnheart if any one so desir
ed.
The canvass will begin at Brew
er's school house, in Ashley town
ship, on Monday, March 7, and
close at Batesville on Tuesday,
March 29. A complete list of the
speaking appointments will be
published later.
Jt was decided that all candi
dates must remain in the audience
during the speaking
The meeting adjourned to Sat
uftlay, April 2, when the regular
biennial re-union will be held at
DeFeet Landing on Salt River.
GOV. DONAUHEY’S SPEECH
Gov. Geo. W. Don&gkey ad
dressed a fair sized audience at the
Ratton hail Tuesday night.
X ' He took up the work of his ad
ninistration and defended himself
against the attacks made upon his
official conduct in a straightfor
ward, business-like manner, stand
ing pat upon his every official act
and showing where his administra
tion had at all times been in the in
terest of the people and for the
general welfare of the state.
His speech was the subject of
considerable favorable comment
and the governor materially
strengtheud himsely with the peo
ple in this section.
NOTICE TO LOGAN CHURCH
Having been called to sit in
presbytery at the organization of
a new church, I cannot till my ap
pointment at Logan church on the
third Saturday, but will be there
Sunday at 11 a. m. A full attend
ance is desired on Sunday.
G. L. Fink, Pastor.
SOME USELESS EXPENSES
hill Billie Turns His Battery on i
natter of Vital Importance
Mr. EJitor.—I am told that i
costs about seven thousand dollar
a year to run circuit court in thii
county and our legislators seem
ed to think this was too cheap, si
they raised the jury fees to $3 i
day, by a special act of the las
legislature. Notwithstanding thi
fact that there has been very few
felony cases in the last few yeai
(one of them being reversed by thi
supreme court because the prose
cuting attorney and circuit judgi
did not know the law, and anothe
pardoned by a deputy who caughl
the governor out of his chair) yei
our circuit courts last four week;
a term with two terms a year, ant
j very little is done A grand jur.t
I of sixteen men, costing the countj
a hundred dollars a day is held it
session fifteen to twenty dayseacl
term trying to find out such awfu
secrets as whether Bill Smith real
ly did laugh while some numb
skull called a preacher was stupid
ly trying to explain the beauties
of the doctrine of total human de
pr ivity—or what in h— baptidze
really does mean—or some othei
equally important truth that doe.
not make men morally better. Ant
some times grand jurors, wit!
spite or malice toward their neigh
bors, indict them wrongfully tr
“get even,” and thus spend the
peoples’ money, the prosecuting
attorney lending his name and as
sistance to this costly folly. Hall
of those indicted for misdemeanors
come clear or get their cases no
prossed.
Fifty dollars is the standard tint
for selling liquor, no matter how
often repeated, and if you had
cases by the dozen the prosecuting
attorney would treat you right (?)
about it—let you pay off a few
and nol pros the others, or advise
the obliging court to continue
them. To tine a fellow fifty dol
lars for the first case, a hundred
dollars for the second, as the law
contemplates, would ruin the busi
ness of the boot-legger, the grand
jury and the prosecuting attor
ney, therefore the virtue of hav
ing a standard fine.
Batesville—old historic Bates
ville—hub of Independence coun
ty, home of so many courts, home
of the deputy prosecuting attor
ney, the sheriff, constables, three
,T. P. courts, mayor’s court, mar
shals and deputy marshals—a cits
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I F YOU carry your money around
" in your pocket, hide it in the
house or bury it, you leave your
self liable to loss from hold-up, fire
robbery or other accident.
«i If you keep your money in the
bank you are secure from all these.
% And, you can get it just as easily
when you want it—
■f BESIDES, you improve your
standing in the community by hav
ing a bank account and paying
your bills by check. TRY IT!
We want YOUR account, large or small.
We give to each the same attention.
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK
Geo. L. Green, President
Leslie R. Acton, Cashier
GOVERNOR GEORGE W. DONAGHEY
Who Spoke in the interest o! his Candidacy for Re-election Tuesday
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where tirst church is for the rich ]
and second for the poor—home for
the widows and orphans of two
great secret orders—indeed a cit.v
of homes, courts, officers,
churches and schools—and yet she
has not enough patriotism and
moral pride to put the boot-legger
out of business, notwithstanding
all law is against the poor boot
legger. An apostle of civic right
ousness could not find a richer
field for labor than Batesville while
she stands back like some lazy old
drone and waits for the grand ju
ry to oust her boot-leggers.
Stop this expense! It will re
duce your taxes.
For the sake of our great state,
where Nature has so abundantly
provided with lavish hand, and
only bad government has made an
industrious and intelligent people
poor; for the sake of these and the
welfare of your children, call a
halt! Clear out the old draggy
fossils from office, and put in new
blood. Put in a prosecuting at
torney who will have none but
faithful deputies, and who will
not find twelve indictments and
then nol pros six of them. There
is no reason why your circuit
courts in this county should last
over ten days, only that you suf
fer it.
Call conventions in every town
ship in the county and notify your
representatives and senator just
what you want them to do before
you hire them, and tell them if it
takes them over sixty days to do
the job, they will become undesir
able citizens, if permitted to stay
in the county at all. Tell them
that you want an election law; that
you are tired of reading the offi
cial vote of all the surrounding
states before you can get the vote
of your own county. Tell them
you are tired of standing mum
to be plundered every two years
by the legislature; that you want
progress and economy. Tell them
it gives you no more pleasure to
be plundered by a boodling or
drunken law-maker than by a
pious, preaching law-maker; that
when either of them vote to ex
tend the session of the legislature
they become grafters alike, and
both are enemies of your welfare.
Tell them you must have laws, re
forms and political economics in
keeping with the times; that you
have slept Long enough.
The liatesvillc Guard is too busy
with oflico-gettiug politics to spare
any time or space to the promo
tion of political economy; it take:
all its time and space to cuss Don
aghey and chew the raj;.
Hill Bii.uk.
CjIRL HANGED HERSELF
Mammoth Spring, Feb. 7.—Be
cause her mother objected to th
purchase of a dress pattern, Cora
the 16 year old daughter of Dunl
Brown, a prominent merchant o
Salem committed suicide by hang
ing herself at her home this morn
ing.
Miss Brown went down towi
this morning and purchased ad res:
pattern, which she brought hom<
and showed her mother, who it is re
ported, objected to the purchase
and is said to have insisted that
the girl should return the pattern
So great was Miss Brown’s dis
appointment that she immediately
secured a rope and, tying one enc
around her neck, fastened theothei
end to the edge of the porch roo
and jumped off, the fall breakinj
her neck.
OAK GROVE PARSONAGE
Oar new parsonage at Oal
Grove is now tinished, and tin
good people around Oak Grove in
stalled us in our new home Satur
night with an old-time pounding
and singing. The many article:
brought are too numerous to men
tion, and we are profoundly thank
ful. May the Lord wonderfully
bless this good people, both tem
porally and spiritually, durinj
this year.
D. W. McGinnis, Pastor.
PRIZES FOR GROWING CORN
Every boy in Arkansas unde
18 years of age who lives on a fan
can learn how to win a valuabl
cash prize, a trip to Washington
D. C., or a year at school withoi
expense by corresponding wit
H. S. Mobley, in care of Superir
tendent Geo. B. Cook, at Littl
Rock, Ark., or care Experimer
Station, Fayetteville, Ark.
Write him today, giving yoi
postoftice address and county.
KAVANAUGH IN TOWN
C. C. Kavanaugh, of Little R< cl
candidate for governor, addresse
a fair sized audience at the Ratt
I hall here Friday night. His entir
! speech was devoted to knocking c
Gov. Donaghey's administrate
in a manner that seems to ha\
created a rather unfavorable in
yression of Mr.&w&nkugh.
SKETCHES FROM SALADO
Doings of the Week Among Our
Neighbors Across the White
>1. W. Cook is in Relief town
ship this week visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark of
Elmo were up last week on busi
ness and visiting.
Alex Snead shipped two cars of
cattle and one of hogs to St. Louis
market Saturday.
Alec Sneed returned Wednes
day from Stone county, where Le
had been buying cattle.
Dr. Reeves is having a good
; stone sidewalk layed from his resi
dence to his store building.
H. C. Smith and J. A. Varnell
have just completed nice stone
chimmeys to their residences.
Prof. \\ . C. Huddleston visited
home folks near Hickory Valley
Saturday, returning Sunday even
ing.
Robert Welch has removed back
to our neighborhood from Texas,
where he has lived the past ten
' years.
Elburt Burt of Magness spent
Saturday night and Sunday here
with his old friends and acquain
tances.
If this pretty weather continues
a few days longer there will be
• but little work to do at planting
' time, except to plant.
Paul Wycough purchased a
peice of land a few days ago, near
his father’s, and is building a new
house on it,which he aims to occupy
soon.
Saturday morning Rev. Z T.
? Griffin of Magness passed through
’ here enroute to McHue, where in
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the afternoon he said the ceremony
that made Amos Mayhue of Oil
Trough and Miss Zoda Bradley of
McHue man and wife.
W. M. Huff accidentally re
ceived a painful wound the other
day. In removing some old lum
bers in which were some large
spike nails, a piece fell unexpect
edly and one of the spikes pierced
Mr. Huff’s leg above the knee mak
ing an ugly gash.
Sol Swain the 16 year old son of
I P. M. Swain of our township, while
hunting a few days ago, accident
• ally dropped his gun in such a way
r as to cause it to tire, receiving the
discharge in his left hand, tearing
away the little finger and palm of
hand thus leaving him a cripple for
; life.
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EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE
Important fleeting to be Held at
Little Rock in April
The Conference for Education in
I the South will hold its Thirteenth
Annual Meeting at Little Rock Ap
ril fith lo s h. This will be the
most important educational gather
ing ever assembled in Arkansas.
The Conference for Education in
the South, working with the South
ern Education Board, has been an
important factor in every success
ful, practical and beneficial edu
cational campaign of recent years
throughout the South.
This is a conference of all the
people and for all. It is not limi
ted to teachers, educators and
school men to meet and discuss
technical and profesional quest
ions. The Conference for Educa
tion in the south extends its invi
tation to citizens in every walk of
life. It is a meeting of the farm
ers, business and professional men
to discuss and consider carefully
the best, sanest and most practical
means of raising the standards of
citizenship by giving better and
more practical trainig to our boys
and girls in the public schools.
Every industrial, commercial
and proffesional organizations in
Arkansas should send delegates or
representatives to this great meet
ing. Every citizen, interested in
the welfare of our schools, our
state, and our beloved Southland
should make an effort to attend
this important gathering.
A OREAT FATERNAL ORDER
The Modern Woodmen will pay
no assessment for February, no
assessment having been levied by
the head office, the funds on hand
being sufficient to meet all demands
for the next thirty days.
On January 1,1910, the Modern
Woodmen had a membership iu
good standing of 1,083,638. The
number of death claims paid dur
ing 1009 were 5,823, and the net
increase in membership for the
year was 85,983. It is the fastest
growing fraternal insurance order
in America, over seventeen thous
and members being added during
November and December.
PROPOSED NEW STATES
The House of Representatives
has passed without opposition a
bill to give seperate statehood to
the territories of Arizona and New
Mexico. This is the third time
that such a bill has passed the
House.
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HAVN’T YOU BEEN
EXPECTING
TO START BANK ACCOUNT?
Been trying to save an amount suf
ficient to make a “good start?"
The “small purchase" temptation
makes it very hard to accumulate any
certain sum when you keep your money
in your pocket or around the house —
probably that has been YOUR trouble.
This bank accepts deposits of $1 and
up—why not come in and open an ac
count with us NOW—let the bank help
you save —it is the only SAFE way.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF NEWARK, ARKANSAS
Under Supervision of U. S. Government