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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, July 13, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 29.
HOAD TAX AMENDMENT IS VALID;
Supreme Court Hands Down De
cision in the Suit Brought
by Cotton Belt Railroad
Little Rock, July 10.—The Su
preme Court yesterday handed
down a decision declaring the road i
tax amendment to the state consti
tution valid, and thereby making
it possible for the state of Arkan- j
sas to spend annually in the work I
of improving the roads of the state
a sum which is estimated at pres
ent at $700,000. This decision is
regarded as one of the most im
portant ever rendered by the Su
preme Court, inasmuch as the
state would have been left with
practically no funds to be used in
the improvement of the roads and
streets of the state, had the amend
ment been declared void.
il'he decision, which was render
«! by Chief Justice Hill, was con
curred in by all the members of
the court. It was rendered in the
suit brought by the Cotton Belt1
railroad against C. C. Kavanaugh,
sheriff and ex-officio collector of
Pulaski county. The suit was in
stituted in the Pulaski Chancery
Court, and Chancellor Hart ren
dered his decision several weeks
ago, holding the amendment valid.
An appeal was taken to the su
preme court by the railroad, and
the decision rendered yesterday
affirms the judgment of the lower
court.
I he decision of the supreme!
court is based trpr»n the contention
that in declaring an amendment;
adopted or lost the speaker of the
house of representatives has only
the vote upon the five constitution
al state officers upon which to base
his decision. It is held that under
the rules adopted to govern the
matter by the legislature, if an
amendment receives a majority of
the highest number of votes cast
for any one of these the state of- j
ficers, the speaker must declare it
adopted. It is shown that the road
tax amendment received a majori
ty of the highest number of votes
cast for the live constitutional of
ficers in the election of ISPS, when ;
it was submitted, and it is held
that the amendment was therefore
adopted. The vote for governor
in this election was the highest
cast for any of the five constitu
tional state officers. The total vote
for governor was 111,KJ*7, of
which a majority would be 55,941*.
The amendment received 57,207
votes, giving it a majority of 1,300
of the total vote for governor.
The outcome of the suit lias been
awaited with great anxiety thru
out the entire state, as it was gen
erally regarded as a matter of the
utmost importance to the entire
state. With five or six exceptions
every county in the state has taken
advantage of the apportunity of
fered by the road tax amendment
and has voted the tax. While
there are no figures available to
show the exact amount collected
on road tax in the state, it is esti
mated that the amount realized
from this tax last year reached a
total close to $700,000. This sum
was expended upon tlve roads of
the state and will be available ev
ery year now that the road tax
amendment has been held valid.
For Sale Good corner lot for
business location. A bargain.
Apply to Craig & Moore.
WEEKS DOINGS AT SULPHUR ROCK
Short Items of Interest Picked Up
at the Metropolis of White
River Township.
Dan Moore went to Batesville
Tuesday.
Ben Brannon was up from New
ark Friday.
Lee Taylor was up from Mad
ness Tuesday.
Bring your face to Gibson and
have it made over.
Squire C. P. Pickens of Dota
wa>* in town Sunday.
Mrs. J. C. Gibson was very
sick the first of the week.
D. D. VVhisnant of Logan town
ship was in our burg Tuesday.
Dr. Marion Owens was up from
Auvergn the first of the week.
Rev. Gaither preached at the
Union church here Monday night.
Miss Maud Shaver of Shelby
ville spent Sunday night in town.
Geo. Martin who has been sick
for some months is still improv
ing.
Mrs. Kva Cunningham is slowly
recovering from a severe spell of
fever.
E. M. Gibson and family of
Magness were visiting in our town
Sunday.
Uncle Henry McDoniel of the
Dota neighborhood was in town
Tuesday.
W. T. Nesbit and daughters of
Fayetteville came in Friday to
visit relatives.
«J. M. Hoover has sold out his
shop and residence to a Mr. Lew
's of St. Louis.
Rev. \Y. A. Lindsey of La
grange preached at the M. E.
church Sunday.
Our old friend Ed Carter was
shaking hands with friends on the
streets here Tuesday.
John Lindsey made a trip to
Jackson and Lawrence counties
Friday, returning Monday.
Mrs. \Y. T. Kininan of Newark
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Allen Gossett, here Friday.
Uncle Morgan Moore and son,
Wess, of Magness visited in town
Sunday. W'e are glad to see Un
cle Morgan out again.
Geo Wright came in from Nash
ville Monday where he has been
for some six or eight months in
the employ of Uncle Sam.
Mrs. R. E. Owens was quite
sick the first of the week, ller
son, l>r. M. B. Owens of Magness
spent several days with her.
Tax Assessor Caldwell came in
Tuesday to find out what we were
worth. We do not mind him so
much as we do the next man.
Mrs. Paul Kyler returned to
her home at Little Rock Saturday,
after spending two weeks here
with her parents Mr. and Mrs. T.
C. Knox.
W. R. Rice, Wash Wilson,
Clint Nothern, Sam Tuggle and
Sidney Pickens attended the Ma
sonic lodge meeting at Charlotte
Saturday night.
All parties interested in the
Sulphur Reck cemetery are re
quested to meet there Friday
morning July 27 to clean oil' the
graves. Bring your dinner and
tools to work with. This is a mat
ter that should be attended to, as it
[ is badly needed.
Boyd Johnson, who was well
known in this city, died at his
home at Des Arc Monday night.
Mr. Johnson was a brother-in-law
to Hon. 8. A. Moore and had |
many friends in Newark.
Assessor J. J. Caldwell had list
ed about 2,500 tax payers at the
close of business here Saturday.
He assessed 350 taxpayers in this
township. The total number of
assessments to date this year is a
little more than at the same date
last year.
In the supreme court at Little
Rock last Monday a motion to re
instate the case of W. II. Tomlin
son vs the St. L. I. M. & 8. Ry. |
appealed from this county, was de-!
nied. The case was dismissed by j
the court some time ago, and this
effort to have it reinstated having
failed, brings the case to an end.
The Journal received a letter;
with a nice little bunch of local ;
items from the Island neighbor- |
hood Tuesday, but there was no
name -signed. We are always
glad to have news letters from the
different neighborhoods over the
county, but we must know who
our correspondents are, and if we I
do not their communications in- ;
variably go to the waste basket.
T. II. Dealing, of Newark,
brother of our townsman, U. P. |
Hearing, has been spending the
week with Cross county relatives.
Mr. Hearing was born and reared
in Cross county, but has been at
his present home since a young
man and has been successful. He;
was elected circuit clerk of his
county and held other political
oliices. He was very complimen- j
tary of our town, which he had
not seen for twelve years.-Wynne j
Blade-Democrat.
COUNTY FINANCES
The report of County Treasur
er T. M. Waldrip shows that there
is a total of $61,871.28 in the treas
ury to the credit of the various
; funds, as follows:
School districts.$ 22,21*6.85
Road funds. 11,740.57
County general. 16,927.48
; State land redemption 67.08
| Common school fund. 4,540.88
Pauper fund. 3,150.33
Bridge fund. 2,055.25
Bogon Walden estate. 17.53
j Count# ex. 153.86
Big Bottom fencing dis 658.88
! Fencing district No. 3 352.71
Fencing district No. 5 281.80
Fencing district No. 6 s6.07
Special road fund. 2,641.39
Total.$ 61,871.28
MERE HAN
According to an exchange a
bright little Moberly, Mo., school
girl wrote this composition on
I men: “Men are what women
marry. They drink and smoke
and swear and have ever so many
pockets, but they don’t go to
church. Both men and women
have sprung from monkeys, but
the women certainly sprung fur
ther than the men.
j See The Journal for job printing.
HAPPENINGS ABOUT JACKSONPORT
Brief Review of the Week’s News;
at the Staid Old “City of
Pleasant riemories”
Mrs. Y'erdell is very sick at this
writing.
K. \V. Anderson spent Monday
trading in Newport.
Cncle Billie Robinson is report- *
ed real sick this week.
Joe Morgan visited his sister, !
Miss Lula, at Sulphur Rock last!
week.
Mrs. Sanders of Needles, Calif.,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Joe Al
bright.
Mrs. Madge Hoffman is again
able to be up, after an illness of
two weeks.
Thede Gillard is visiting friends
and relatives in Brookport, 111., j
for two weeks.
Mrs. George Wilkins of New
port moved into the Grant prop
erty last week.
Ben Bolden left Saturday to ac-!
cept a position as engineer on the
steamer Welcome.
Lugene Shaver came up from
Auvergne Saturday to spend Sun
day with his family.
Joe Albright is expected home
soon from Canada, where he spent
two months with his mother.
Oscar Massey came down from
Cotter Sunday evening to spend a
few days with friends and rela
tives.
Mbisps Lizzie a.nd Jamie Irby
came up from Newport Monday
to visit tlieir grandmother for
awhile.
Mrs. Mary Strider came down
Sunday evening from Cotter to
spend a month with relatives and
friends.
Dr. Edrington made a business
trip to Oil Trough and Paroquet
last week. He has considerable
practice.
Jessie Massey arrived Friday:
evening from Paragould to attend j
the funeral of his niece, little Flos
sie Massey.
There was no preaching here
Sunday on account of Rev. Thrash
er having to attend quarterly con
ference at Elgin.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Whitt mov
ed from this place to Paroquet
Monday, where Mr. Whitt will
put up a saw mill.
Mrs. Powers and daughter, Hen
rietta, arrived home from Almond,
Ark., Friday evening, where they
spent two months with relatives.
J. M. Gibson and Walter Pol
and left Monday on the gasoline
launch Hoo Hoo for upper White
river to buy lumber for the single
tree factory.
?dr. and Mrs. Fred Saylors
came down from St. Louis Satur
day evening, after spending ten
days with their parent®, Mr. and
! Mrs. Don Saylors.
Mr. and Mrs. Blount and daugh
ter, Miss Maude, came down from
Pleasant Plains to attend the fun
eral of Flossie Massey. They re
turned to their home Tuesday.
Flossie, the -ix year-old daugh
ter of Mrs. Fannie Massey, died at
her home Saturday morning. She
was only sick a very short time.
Friday morning she was taken
suddenly ill and Friday evening a
doctor was called in, but too late.
Saturday morning at seven twenty
she passed away. The inter
ment took place at Hickory Grove
j cemetery.
CONDEMNS RELIGIOUS QUARRELS
Rev. G. L. Fink Expresses Hi*
Sentiments in Regard to De
nominational Disputes
To The Newark Journal:
Behold what a great tire a little
spark kind loth. I have been read
ing the religious spats in each
number of The Journal for several
weeks and wondered what would
come next. ()ue of the most ri
diculous things in the world is
family quarrels; members of the
the same family or even neighbors
so disagreeable that everybody
who comes in touch with them are
made unpleasant and disagreeable.
No harmony; no peace; no pleas
ure; r>o nothing that tends to make
life pleasant and elevate society.
Yet we have been reading from
the hands of those who claim to
be children of the King, pouring
out their vile vituperations on each
other, enough to cause any re
spectable citizen, though a sinner,
to blush with shame, when the
Savior said, “Ye are the light of
the world.
i'oor souls are sinking down to
eternal night all around us and no
time to throw out the life line to
save them. No wonder there are
so many sinners in and around
Newark. You may talk of blind
tigers and other prevalent evils,
but in my judgment this one thin*
of religious quarreling is making
more intidels ,:pjd sending more
souls to torment than any one
thing now before us. Paul says
God is not the author of confusion,
(l Cor 14 M3) Religion is love,
and the apostle says, “Love work
eth no ill to his neighbor.” To be
a Christian means to be Christ
like. Have you seen in all the
Bible picture-gallery such a pic
ture as the one we have at Newark?
And Paul says, “If ye have not
the spirit of Christ, ye are none
of his.” 1 have never seen an ar
ticle from the pen of either of
these disputers condemning blind
tigers, drunkenness, profanity,
Sabbath desecration or any other
sin prevalent with us, but just as
soon as a little trouble comes be
tween denominations they are
wound up ready to tight.
Now 1 don’t desire to be con
spicuous, but let us look at the
situation unprejudiced. First of
all I consider the little piece of
poetry inappropriate on an occa
sion of this kind, and was not well
considered, f,or this was a Union
Children’s Day service. Secondly
Rev. Newman made a great mis
take when he got angry and sajd
so many hard things about the
Baptiets, for but few of the Bap
I lists knew anything about it at all,
and he reflects discredit on the
committee on arrangements. Had
| he not said so much uncalled for
no doubt that would have been the
! end of it, but somebody got hurt,
i and like the cows in the barnyard,
when one kick was made that set
the whole thing in motion, and I
think some of the hardest and
!nost uncalled for things have
been said that 1 ever heard of pro
fessed Christians saying. Mr.
h.ditor, 1 think if these abusers
won’t get ashamed and quit, you
will do justice to the cause of the
Master to out them all out and not
allow them space in The .Journal,
for when they say anything it is
not relative to the subject. They
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