The Newark Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1922
VOL. 22 NO. 9
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IK AIN KILLS WON AN
NEAR TUCKERMAN
Was Returning Home From
Day s Work in Cotton
Field When Killed
Tuckerman, June 15.- Mrs.
Sarah Rosin, aged 49, a widow
was struck by a Missouri Pa
cilic freight train a mile south
o! the passenger station at 7
o’clock last night and instantly
killed. Her body was badly
mutilated.
Mrs. Rosin worked in a cot
ton field throughout the day,
and was hurrying home to at
tend a sick baby when the ac
cident occurred.
1 he field is on the opposite
side ot the railroad track from
her home. It is thought her
mind was concentrated on the
infant, and that she failed to1
observe the approaching train.'
Mrs. Rosin is survived by five j
children.
GRAVEL PIT RE-OPENS
Operations have been resum
ed at the Good Roads Gravel
t ompany’s pit near town aft* :•
a shut-down for the past sev
eral months, and loading of
gravel was commenced Mon
day.
The product of this pit is said
to be the best gravel for build-'
ing roads to be found anywhere
in the state, and many miles
of good roads in Arkansas have
been built of Newark gravel.
At the present time the pit
is supplying gravel to the rail
f ^ io£d company to be used in
raising the dump of the Iron
Mountain tracks in the New
port yards to the heighth of
the levee there, and two train
leads fo gravel have been going
out daily this week.
According to Superintended ;
W. T. Thornton the pit has eng :
ployed 18 men, with a payroll
of about $2,100 per month.
$521.61 CAN’T FIND
HOME IN THE COUNTY
Supreme Court Renders Deci
sion in Case of This Coun
ty vs. O. O. Wright
A decision rendered Mondax
hy the Supreme Court in the
case oi Independence county
against O. O. Wright, tax col
lector, has the effect of ren
dering a sum of $521.01 tem
porarily homeless. The state
auditor has held that the mon
ey does not belong to the state;
the Supreme Court held that
it does not belong to the coun
ty, and while Wright later raaj
establish a claim to it, at pres
ent the money seem to belong
to no one.
Under a special act of the
legislature the Independence
county collector was allowed
to retain one and one-fourth
per cent of the taxes he col
lected, in lieu of a salary. In
making his 1920 settlement
with the state auditor, Wright
turned in all the county taxes
less his one and one-fourth
percentage. The state audi
tor held, however, that under a
general law now on the stat
utes, Section 100071 of the Di
gest of the Statutes, the col
lecor is allowed in lieu of a sal
ary, a commission of 5 per cent
ot the taxes collected up to
$10,000, three per cent be
tween $10,000 and $20,000 and
two per cent on taxes in ex
cess of $20,000. Under this
law Wright’s commission
amounted to $521.61 more
than under the special act.
Molding that the general act
took precedence over the spec
ial act, the auditor turned the
$521.61 back and the countv
claimed it. There is nothing
in the act requiring the county
collector to turn into the coun
ty any money in excess of the
com.n'ssions allowed him, and
in the Independence Circuit
r
man is now
ut money
bit at a
'^et-rich
ick”
In one county in South Dakota ovsr ninety
farmers were “caught” for $200.00 apiece in
one month, by a “Get-Rich-Quick” schemer.
If those farmers had consulted their bank
before investing their hard-earned money, they
wouldn’t have been burnt.
We will gladly advise with you on any in
vestment you are thinking of making. Maybe
we can steer you away from losing your money
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Newark, Arkansas
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $75,000.00^
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Buys Good-Sized Town
For Small Sum of $212
Batesville Big Game Hunter Manuvers About State Land
Commissioner and Catches Unsuspecting Town
—Has to Have Help to Turn it Loose
The Chancery Court in sea
son at Batesville, handed down
i decree last Thursday stating
that the State of Arkansas had
no lawful title to certain lands
in the incorporated town of
Newark, known as the Arnold*
addition. The action was
brought about through a suit
by Geo. F. Grosser, as guardian
tor Frank Divers. 1. J. Mathe.
lv of Batesville represented the
plaintiffs.
This brings to light the fact
hat one Capt. Vance of Bates,
ville will now be able to re
cover from the State of Arkan
sas the sum of $212, which
said sum, for reasons known
or unknown, the before-men
tioned Captain had rather po
sess than a deed from the State
to eighty acres of perfectly
good land, fully equipped with
a dozen or more good resi
liences, barns, outhouses and
gardens, all under good wire
and paling fences, said land
being the East half of lots 2
and 3 N. E. quarter Section 5,
Fwp. 12, Range 4, being known
as the Arnold addition to the
Incorporated Town of Newark.
Along in 1920, Captain
Vance purchased the above 80
acres for $1.25 per acre; $100
for the tract. An abstract cost
$112. After receiving title
from the State, parties went
over that part of Newark mak
ing pictures of the resiliences
NEWARK BOY GRADUATES
Richard Holderby Gets Diplo
ma at University
Fayetteville, June 14.—
Richard Holderby of Newark, i
received the diploma and de- ]
gree of Bachelor of Science in !
Agriculture this morning at <
the hands of Thomas C. Me- ;
Rae at the Semi-Centennial i
commencement of the Univer-jl
sity of Arkansas.
The special nature of the i
celebration was brought out in i
the formal academic parade, il
in which the entire faculty i
Look part, arrayed in their caps 1
and gowns and wearing the
bright colored hoods bestowed i
upon them by the leading col- i
leges of America. Fifty col- 1
leges also sent representatives I
to bear messages of good will :
to the instituion on »ts fiftieth i
anniversary. :
One hundred and seventeen i
diplomas and certificates were l
awarded this morning, the i
largest number ever granted at
Arkansas in a single year. The
commencement address was'
delivered by Chancellor E. H. 1
Bindley of the University of 1
Kansas.
SINGERS TO MEET '
Newport, June 14. — The
first meeting of the summer of
the Jackson County Singing
Convention will be held at i
Grubbs July 9. Seven commun-'
ity classes will take part.
Court a decision was made to
the effect that the county was
not entitled to the money.
This decision was affirmed
by the Supreme Court, but the
higher court’s decision did not
go to the length of establishing
either Wright’s claim or the
state’s.
and property, and quite a lit
tle bit of excitement and high
feeling was in evidence over
the actions of the supposed
new owners.
This was a perfectly good
get-rich-quick scheme, which
for some reason did not work
out very satisfactory, or fast
enough, and after tailing to
secure possession of the
propertyy through various
h o k u s-pokus methods the
wily “captain” then began
offering the property for sale
to its rightful owners, some
of whom had owned the prop
erty for years, and had built
comfortable homes on it. No
one seemed inclined to “bite”
and the result was, the “cap
tain’s” scheme to make some
epsy coin, faded away like a
summer dream,’ and the “cap
tain” began to look about for
means for recovering some of
the perfectly good money he
had paid out in his attempt to
put over his “get-rich-quick”
scheme.
Suit had to be brought by
some landowner, against the
State, showing that the State
had no just claim to the
property in litigation, and it
is said that proposals were
made to Newark parties that
if they would file this suit that
all expenses and attorney fees
would be borne by Captain
Vance.
iDMONDSON FOR SENATOR
Well-Known Citizen of This
County to Make Race
W. W. Edmondson of Paro
quet, announces in today’s pa
ler as a candidate for State
senator from the Sixth district
omprised of Independence
md Stone counties.
Probably no man in the dis
rict who ever made this race
s better known than Mr. Ed
nondson, who formerly lived
n Stone county, where he was
leld in the highest etseem, as
s evidenced by his career as a
mblic official there.
Mr. Edmondson’s record is
inique, and one which many
nen hardly ever attain in poli
ics. lie has the distinction of
laving held office for fourteen
ears in succession and was
lever defeated. Mr. Edmond
lon was sheriff of Stone coun
v two years, County clerk <>
ears; Representative, 2 years,
aid held the office of Senator
vhich he is again seeking, for
'our years.
Mr. Edmondson says that his
notto then an now is “R4
renchmerit and Economy” and
jelieves that this is what thej
people want. At the present
ime Mr. Edmondson states that
le is very busily engaged in |
ooking after his extensive I
’arming operations and will be'
triable to state just what sort
if campaign he will be able to
nake, but says that he will
see as many of the voters as is
possible for him to do so, and
wants the supprt of every man
n the district who wants to see
his section receive a fair rep
rensentation in the Senate of
Arkansas.
Mr. Edmondson retired from
public office 14 years ago and
[his is his first race since thatj
time.
16-YEAR-OLD BOY
KILlS OWN FATHER
Lawrence Couity Lad, Sleep
Walker, Kills 60 Year-Old
Parent at Home
Walnut Ridge, June 12.
Will.am Delaney, a 16-year-old
bo,\, shot and killed his (>;)
year-old father, Ed Delaney,
Sunday night, while the boy
was in a sonambulistic state.
Officers who made a further
investigation today of the kill
ing of Delaney, a Lawrence
county farmer, were satisfied
that the killing was due to the
sleep-walking habits of the
youth, although he was to have
a hearing this afternoon at 1
o’clock before Justice of the
Peace, J. Q. Hall. A coroners
jury has declared the shooting
was accidental and has exoner
ated young Delaney.
The shotoing of Ed Delaney
look place in the Delaney home
r.ear Bessie, six miles from
Walnut Ridge, about 11 o’clock
Sunday night. Delaney and
his wife had been to church.
1’hey returned home and retir
ed. The best information ob
tainable from those who inves
tigated the affair is that young
Delaney arose from his sleep
ind, with pistol in hand, enter
ed his father’s bedroom. The
dder man awakened and, see
ing his son with the pistol, and
realizing the boy was asleep,
rushed toward him to take
I from him. The gun was fired
the bullet striking Ed Delaney
in the heart and causing in
stant death. Only one other
person, a little daughter of the
Delaney family, was in the
room.
Members of the Delaney
family, state William Delaney
had the sonambulistic habit in
a marked degree, and no other
member of the family could
•sleep in his room, as he was
liable to attack and beat them
CASHIER IDENTIFIES
LEAD HILL ROBBER
O. S, Sitton Arrested in Mis
souri—Bank Lost $9,000
in Bonds and Money
li urison, June 10.—O. S.
3.Mon, arrested at Anderson,
Mo,, This week, has been iden
tified as one of the two men
who held up and robbed the
Bank of Lead Hill, April 24,
of $9,000 in cash and Liberty
bonds, according to word re
ceived here this afternoon from
Lead Hill. Identification was
made by J. C. l’enix, cashier of
the bank who returned today
Irem Pineville, Mo., where Sit
ton is now confined in the
county jail.
The man was pointed out
from a line-up of 10 men in the
jail and was further identified
by scars on his left leg and on
one side of his body, said to
have been the result of wounds
received during his escape from
the bank after the robbery.
Sitton, who is said to be
wanted also in Kansas, is a
brother of Lee Sitton, now serv
ing a term in the Arkansas
penitentiary for complicity in
the robbery of the Bank of
Everton, south of here, last
December. Officers in both
states, it is said, will endeavor
to obtain Sitton’s return for
trial.
Take a red-blooded, full of
pep young American, with a
pocket full of money and turn
him loose in London in search
of adventure, and its ten to
one he finds it in large quan
tities. Bryant Washburn will
fulfill your expectations along
this line in “The Road to Lon
don” at the Royal Friday.
while in his sleep. Delaney
was released on his own recog
niaznce to await the hearing
this afternoon.
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NEVER AGAIN!
If Universal offered
me a Million Dollars
to do again what I did
in making “Conflict,”
I would not do it—life
is too precious.
PRISCILLA DEAN
Million Dollars is a Lot of Money. W hat
Would You Do For a Million Dollars'.J