The
Newark
Journal.
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, August 2, 1917
Vol. 17, No. 18
CRAWFORD HELD
TO GRAND JURY
Former Superintendent I. <). O. F.
Home Given Preliminary Hear
ing and is Released on Rond
Batesville, July 31.—After being
held to the Grand Jury without bond
by Justice J. A. Holmes yesterday
on charges made against him by two
young girl inmates of the Odd B’el
low's Home, W. D. Crawford, former
superintendent of the Institution,
through his attorneys brought ha
beas corpus proceedings to have the
testimony reviewed by Circuit Judge
Dene H. Coleman, who ruled that
the evidence was not such as to hold
him wihout bail, and ordered his re
lease on $5,000 bond for appearance
at the next session of court.
Zelpha Cooper, who gave her age as
12 years, testified that Crawford had
made improper proposals to her. Drs.
J. W. Case and M. S. Craig testified
that they had been called to the home
to make an examinaion of the girls
and found them in a condition not ex
actly normal for their age. He said,
however, that such conditions could
have been brought about through oth
er causes.
Crawford did not offer any defense.
His attorneys contended that the
evidence did not warrant his being
held, and declared that it was a case
that permitted the granting of bond.
He left today for his home at Cisco,
where he expects to remain until
court convenes here.
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STATE ANI) COUNTY
PRIMARIES IN MAY
Many seem to be misinformed as t0
the time for holding the state and
county primary elections. Many have
.-^-v^^-forgotten the enactmeni under the ini.
t/atitve and referendum of Act No. 1,
adopted last November, which pro
vides that the primary elections vi ail
political parties shall be held on the
last Tuesday in May preceeding the
general election. As the next gen
eral election will be held in Novem
ber 1918, the next primaries for the
state and county officials will not
take place until the last Tuesday in
May 1918.
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FOUR ARE KfLLEI
Hamburg, July 30.—Four person
are dead as the result of an acciden
at Parkdale near Hamburg yesterda;
afternoon when a passenger trail
{hit an automobile. The dead are:
Oliver Caldwell, 14 years old.
Mrs. Lem Caldwell, 24 years old.
Lowrrenee Wolf, 20 years old.
Lola Lawrence, 14 years old.
Miss Daisy Caldwell, who was driv
ing the automobile, is in a hospita
at Monroe, La., and may die fror
her injuries. The infant of Mrs. Cald
jvell was uninjured.
„ Mrs. Lem Caldwell and Lola Law
»rence were sisters of the J. E. L.Law
rence of Hamburg and were visitin;
here from Drumright, Okla.
Prof. Ben C. Arnold who has beei
prinicipal of the high school depart
ment of the Afton, Okla., publi.
schols for the past three years, i
spending a few days here writh hi
^parents, Judge and Mrs. M. L.Arnold
! >■ Mrs. Mary Heckett has returned t<
her home at Clinton, Mo., after i
.‘pleasant visit here with her sister
Mrs. Jane Alexander.
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CORD NEWS ITEMS
Cord, Aug. 1.—We are enjoy in:
•some pleasant weather now.
Wheat threshing is the order of th<
day.
P. Crigler of Charlotte, was here
Saturday on business.
Mrs. R. R. Bullington of Dota spenl
a few days last visiting Mr. anc
Mrs. J. C. Greer and family.
Miss Alice Forrester who has beet
visiting relatives here for some tim<
left last week for her home at Pari;
Texas.
Misses Thelma and Althea Os
tiorae, Hazel Nuckolls and Grac>
Blair visited Miss Portia Rarbei
at Williams Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor William:
of Newark were in our midst Sat
urday.
Mrs. J. L. Brown and daughter
Miss Marie, of Walnut Grove vis
ited relatives here Thursday.
Dr. Rice of Strawberry was hert
on business Thursday.
The box supper and ice cream sup
per at the (Wiliams school house Fri
day night was well attended. Sev
eral from this place were present.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Greer visitet
relatives at Dota Sunday.
Grandma Nuckolls spent last weel
| with friends near Strawberry.
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fofressive men
conduct our
National
Bank.
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, Independence County
Men Called to Report
Before County Board
Following is a list 0f Independence
county men who have been called to
appear before Dr. W. B. Lawrence at
Batesville next week for the phy
sical examinatin for army duty under
* the recent selective draft law.
Failure to receive a written notice
from he board is not a legal excuse
for non appearance and those on the
list should report promptly on the
dates given.
LIST OF MEN TO BE CALLED IN
FOR EX A MIN ATION ,M ON DAY,
AUGUST 6
Gaffney Mayhan, Newark.
Jes S. Allen, Sulphur Rock.
Ross Adler Bell, Desha.
' Thomas Calvin Litte, Grand Glaize.
,Walter L. Johnson, Cushman.
> Loranza D. Edwards, Cushman.
, William Oliver Fike, Batesville.
Dave Pope, col, Batesville.
John Edgar James, Desha.
Cornelius Passmare, Magness.
George Webster Stephens, Sulphur
Rock.
Arch L. Scribner, Newark.
David Coleman McSpaduen, Bech
esda.
Guy Jenkins, Batesville.
Elmer E. Alton, Pleasant Plains.
Jimmerson B. Morgan, Bethesda.
Porter Smiley, col. Batesville.
William D. French, Elmo.
Simon Daggett, Saffell, Ark.
Issa R. Fowler, Floral.
Allen H. Phillips, Newark.
Gus May Brumley, Mobley.
Antiny J. Seward, Dota.
Martin L. Metcalf, Hutson.
Oscar M. Nelson, Cushmam.
Charlie F. Casteel, Cushman.
Columbus Smith, Batesville.
Albert F. James, Mobley.
Junius J. Callis, Batesville, R. 1.
Burney N. Moore, Charlotte.
Albert Homer Mobley, Cave City.
Arch F. Rutledge, Huff, Ark.
Hubert Meachem, Batesville, R. 2.
Charles Edward Owens, Magness.
Frank Hill, Batesville, R. 1.
Homer W. -Fox, Magness.
, Charlie Fred James, Cave City.R.l.
William Edward McKinney, Bates
ville, R. 2.
William Taylor, Moorefield.
Clarence E. Apple, McHue.
Mat Harman, Batesville.
Oscar Prince, Cord.
George C. Rutledge, Salado.
Floyd E. Stein, Batesville.
LIST TO BE CALLED FOR EXAM
INATION, TUESDAY", AUG. 7
Tilman Hurley, Cushman.
Henry Moss, Magness.
Jim McClurg, Moorefield.
Cheatum M. Pearson, Floral.
Allen G. T. Duncan, Cushman.
Charles McSpadden, col. Sulphur
I Rock.
Geoge Aronld, Oil Trough.
Louis B. Massey, Moorefield.
John II. Smith, Huff, Ark.
Charles Edgar Bradley, Charlotte.
William B. Welborn, Newark.
Bedford Laxton, Pleasant Plains.
Clarence Arthur Palmer, Sandtown.
Isaace Lawrence Dodd, Cushman.
George Milligan, Batesville.
Harry V. Torter, Batesville, R. 1.
John Thomas Offerle, Batesville.
Edward Byron Sparks, Batesville.
Herschel Chesley Adams, Batesville
M. Curdy Fain, Hutson.
Francis Marion Fife, Oil Trough.
Ernest Clyde James, Batesville.
Alfonso P. Boyles, Batesville.
Henry Leslie Baker, Charlotte.
Bishop Marvin Hankins,Oil Trough.
Millard Almus Santhard, Sandtown.
William M. Boyce, Batesville.
Grover Smith, Batesville.
Clark Puge Nevil, Mlian, Tenn.
John H. Brooks, Batesville.
Frank S. D. Snider, Cushman.
James R. Smith, Salado.
Sam W. Prince, Sulphur Rock.
Walter Wilson, Ratesville.
Leo Aaron Pool, Sandtown.
Joe C. Liles, Sulphur Rock.
Enos Joseph Tomlinson, Magness.
Grady Lee Ferguson, Sandtown.
James W. Mann, Batesville, R. 2.
Arver A. Ramer, Cushman.
Walter Haynie, Bethesda.
John A. Williams, Bethesda.
Eugene F. Morrow, Batesville.
Archie Kinnell, Batesville.
William Daniel Clyde Huddleston.
Oil Trough.
LIST TO BE CALLED FOR EXAM
INATION, WEDENSDAY, AUG. 8
Henry Dunegan, Batesville.
John W. Wren, Cushman.
Charles P. Fike, Hutson.
Marvin J. Alexander, Pfeiffer.
Guss Blythe, Magness.
Aaron A. McSpadden, Batesville.
Cyreney W. Pool, Sandtown.
J. Reed Dennison, Cushman.
Jess Clarence Redding, Batesville.
Allie Crouch Hix, Batesville.
Charles F. Elms, Locust Grove.
Jessie F. Edwards, Cushman.
Porter E. Crow, Newark.
Fred U. Turbough, Batesville, R. 1.
Sidney Brogdon, Charlotte.
William T. Miller, Batesville.
Frank Perrin Moss, Batesville.
Lonnie P. George, Huff.
Jessie E. Gills, Batesville.
Roy Baucum, col. Batesville.
Ernest Bruce, Salado.
Harry V. Henderson, Newark.
Allen R. Egner, Desha.
Coy Lamiui, Cave City.
Samuel A. Duncan, Cushman.
Joshua Shaw, Saffell.
Robert Tugwell, Batesville.
Nathan H. Thompson,Sulphur Rock.
Monce Lamburson, Magness.
George Howard .James, Desha.
Kuna Andrew Keller, Newark.
Wallace J. Presley, Jamestown.
Claud Reaves, Magness.
Franklin Clyde Rogers, Batesville.
Charles Owen Taylor, Desha.
Thos. M. Ratton, Newark.
William Oscar Baxter, Sandtown.
John F. Wyatt, Rosie.
Cecil Calbert Burge, Batesville.
Edgar Thomas B’ox, Magness.
John E. Taylor, Rosie.
James Noah Rberson, Dunnington.
George Hiram Doyle, Strawberry.
Henry Otto Paskey, Cord.
Eddie O. Turner, Batesville, R. 2.
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NEWARK’S BIG PICNIC
WILL BE HELD NEXT WEEK
Newark’s annual picnic and old
settlers re-union will be held next
week. Things are being put in read
iness and it is expected that the
crowds will begin to arrive Wed
nesday, when the concession men will
be here to put up the various at
tractions that are booked for the
picnic.
Chal Moore who operated a mer
ry-go-round at the picnic here last
year, will be here again and will
probably arrive with his machine
early in the week in order to have
it put up and in running order by
the time the picnic opens.
Governor Brough, Hon. John H.
Hinemon, Hon. H. I,. Remmel, Judge
Dene H. Coleman, Congressman W.
A. Oldfield and a number of other
prominent speakers have been in
vited to deliver addresses.
The Committee has decided to hold
the picnic in the grove where
the picnic was held last year, in the
grove near Mrs. J. I. Sturdivant’s res
idence.
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SULPHUR ROCK WILL
HAVE BIG PICNIC
Arrangements are being made by
the people of Sulphur Rock to give
a big two day’s picnic at that place
on Firday and Saturday August 17
and 18.
It is announced that Judge L. C.
Smith of DeWitt, who was a can
didate for Governor in the last
Democratic primaries, will deliver
an address. A number of other
prominent speakers have been in
vited and the committee expects to
secure some of the best speakers in
the state.
Arrangements have been made to
secure Chal Moore’s Merry-go-round
and the Committee expects to secure
various other amusements.
Sulphur Rock has an ideal nicnic
ground in the grove near the depot
and the committee announces that np
pains will be spared in making this
the best picnic ever held there.
COLLECTOR S. I). LINDSEY
SETTLES WITH STATE
Tax Collector S. D. Lindsey made
his settlement with the State Mon
day, when he paid into the State
Treasury at Little Rock, $42,706.23.
The amount paid into the various
State Funds by Independence county
is as follows:
General Revenue Fund, $12,218.72.
Common school fund, $16,988.77.
Confederate pensions, $11,322.76.
State Capitol, $708.01.
Tick eradication, $722.65.
Automobile license, $745.32.
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MRS. ARCHIE MILLER
DIES AT MAGNESS
Mrs. Archie Miller Died at home
at Magness last Friday, following an
illness of several days.
She was a member of the Baptist
church and was a most estimable
Christian lady.
The remains were buried at Mac
edonia, Rev. H. T. Crumpton of Bates
ville conducting the funeral services.
FARMERS’ CHAUTAUQUA AT
BATESVILLE AUG. 23, 24, 25
Arrangements are being made to
hold a three days Farmers’ Chau
tauqua at Batesville on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, August 23, 24
and 25.
The chautauqua will be held on the
Masonic Home grounds, where there
is ample room and all conveniences
necessary for making the affair a
success.
The program will include an old
fashioned singing contest by the sing
ing classes of the entire county, brass
band music and an old fiddler’s con
test. Other features of the program
will be as follows:
Old fiddler’s contest, old-fashioned
spelling bee, words to be taken fr. :n
Webster’s old Blue Back Speller.
Prize to be given to the scho i
that furinshes largest percentage e
pupils on Saturday—distance and
number counting.
Baseball, Basketball and games
of various kinds.
Matters connected with farm ac
tivities such as testing and judging
seed corn, testing r.oil for acidity,
spraying and pruning demonstration,
inoculation of hogs for cholera, test
ing milk for butter fat, animal judg
ing: how to know a good horse, cow,
hog, etc., poultry judging and mach
inery demonstration.
Matters connected with the home,
canning fruit, vegetables, etc., proper
care of milk, butter, etc., use of dis
infectants, antiseptics, deodorizers,
care of the sick to prevent spread of
contagious and infectious diseases.
Fireless cookers and iceless refrig
erators.
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FORMER NEWARK CITIZEN
DIES AT HOME IN TEXAS
Albert Arnold who was born and
reared in Newark died at his home
in Mineral Wells, Texas, last Friday,
after a prplonged illness of Bright’s
diesase.
Mr. Arnold left Newark about ten
years ago and moved to Mineral Wells
where he made his home since leav
ing Newark.
The remains were shiped to New
ark for burial, arriving here Monday
noon and were buried at Blue Springs
cemetery Monday afternoon under the
auspices of the (Woodmen of the World
of which he had been a member for a
number of years.
WOMAN’S NATIONAL
COUNCiL OF DEFENSE
Independence County Women Organ
ize and Ask Co-operation of AH
Women throughout County
At a meeting in Batesville last Fri
day, a permanent organization of
ihe Independence County [Woman’s
1 Committee of the National Council
of Defense was formed.
Mrs. I. N. Barnett presided as
• emporary chairman and stated the
plan of the organization.
This meeting consisted of Bates
•ville women only. An earnest endeav
had been made to have represen
e women from throughout the
inly attend this meeting, but as
these women did not find it possible
to attend upon motion made and car
! ried unanimously it was decided to
proceed with organization:
The following officers were elected'
Chairman, Mrs. C. M. Edwards,
Newark; vicechairman, Mrs. J. S.
1 Griffin, Sulphur Rock; secretary, Mrs.
J. N. Barnett, Batesville; treasurer,
Mrs. Coy Laman, Cave City.
It is requested that all officers noti
fy the secretary, Mrs. I. N. Barnett,
; of their acceptance of office, so that
j an executive meeting may be held as
soon as possible.
According to the plans outlined, it
becomes the duty of the executive
committee to appoint women as chair
man of the following lines of work:
Registration food production, and con
servation, home economics, women in
industries, child welfare, maintenance
of existing social agencies, education
home and foreign relief, safe guard
ing of moral and spiritual forces.
This list will show how far reach
ing will be the mission of this organ
ization to successfully carry forward
, this work. The county committee will
expect the co-operation of every wo
man in Independence county.
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HOT SHOT WILL
NOT BE TAKEN OFF
The Arkansas Railroad Commission
yesterday denied permission to the
railroad companq to discontiuue the
Newport-Batesville passenger train,
known as the “licit Shot” and it will
be continued in the service as hereto
fore.
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Now is the Time
to commence thinking about plant
ing your next year’s wheat crop.
The U. S. Senate has passed a bill
placing the lowest price of wheat
at $2 a bushel, and the chances are
it will be much higher.
Plant Wheat and
Make Money
j|| Plant it With a Good Grain Drill
|;| and Make More Money. A good
jil grain drill will pay for itself with
|| the increased yield in one crop.
ij Call and Take a Look at Our Drills
jl: Remember the Farmers Chautauqua
||| August 22nd9 23rd, 24th
G W. Maxfield Co
THE BEST FOR THE MONEY
BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS