I*- Vote For Tom Campbell For Congress
He is Clean, Honest, Competent, and a Winner
The Newark Journal
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
O. F. Craig. Editor
Entered at the post office at Newark,
Arkansas, as second class mail matter
REFUSES TO BE SHOW IS
With reference to our spat over
the gubernatorial contest, theWal
nut Ridge Times says The Journal
has wasted a lot of valuable space
on the Times editor.
We are fully aware of that, and
we fully realize that any sort of
argument on this question is
wasted when directed towards
Lindsey. He is like the little ne
gro boy, who, chided for his igno
rance by a white playmate, who
offered to show him something,
retorted: "Naw, you can’t show
me nothin’!’'
Lindsey absolutely and positive
ly refuses to be shown.
He thinks the governor is insin
cere in his ngnt on the whiskey
gang because the governor did not
arm himself with a hatchet, a la
Carrie Nation, and go out and
smash the booze joint that the last
legislature operated in one of its
committee rooms.
It would have been a very in
spiring performance, indeed, to
have had the governor of the state
go out and raid a little illegal
booze joint, especially where the
joint was set up and operated by
a co-ordinate but higher branch of
the state government—the legis
lature—the source from whence
comes all power.
I here are a tew little bean
headed individuals like Lindsey
who actually think that Governor
Donaghey should have butted into
that booze joint and broken it up
in approved Carrie Nation style. |
They don’t stop to consider the i
fact that the governor is under
and subject to the power of the
legislature, and that a member of
the legislature cannot even be ar
rested on any sort of charge while
the legislature is in session.
Governor Donaghey had no more
authority to raid the legislature’s
booze joint than the editor of the
Times would have to arrest the
sheriff of Lawrence county if he
should see him walking down the
street with a gun in his pocket.
The Times man is excusable
only upon the ground of ignorance,
for he has probably never read
three sections of the State Consti
tution and knows no more about
the powers and functions of the
different departments of the state1
government than a mule knows j
about flying.
But it is really amusing how
ridiculous some people make them
selves over this matter. They i
seem to think the governor can,
and should, go out and turn the
members of the legislature down
over his knee as a schoolmaster
would do so many school boys
when they do not do right. They
don’t know that the governor is
subject to the power of the legis
lature, and that he can even be
kicked out of office by the legis
lature upon the slightest pretext
of an excuse—which is the very
thing the gang in the last legisla
ture would have been delighted
to have done to Donaghey. Just
a few years ago, the legislature
came near impeaching Governor
Jeff Davis simply because he was
goat-headed enough to butt into
things in a way not to the liking
of the legislature.
Governor Donaghey is too smart
a man and too level-headed to
make a fool of himself, and it will
take a smoother bunch than Web
Covington’s gang of booze dis
pensers to lead Donaghey into a
trap. _
Why don’t some of our aspiring
citizens initiate a law, to be sub
mitted to the people, providing
for a solution of the local legisla
tion evil that handicans our legis
latures? An act should be passed
requiring these matters to be set
tled by the people affected, through
their county courts or by means of
the referendum. By this means
the legislature would have only to
deal with matters affecting the
general welfare of the state, and
the members would be enabled to
concentrate their talents and en
ergies upon matters affecting the
general prosperity and material
progress of the state.
Are the boys of our county go
ing to stand aside and take no in
terest in the Boys Com Club move
ment? This is one of the most
far-reaching educational move
ments inaugurated in Arkansas in
a number of years, and The Jour
nal regrets very much that so little
interest is shown in the work in
this county. We know our farm
er boys of this county measure up
in every' respect with those of
other counties, where the work is
proving so successful, and we
know our boys could win distinc
tion for themselves if they would
only take hold of the work in the
proper manner.
There is quite an interesting
discussion among certain papers as
to whether the Judsonia Advance
is printed on a clothes wringer or
a corn sheikr. Just to make an
off-hand guess at it, we would say
it is printed on an old-fashioned
sausage mill that had lost about
every other tooth.
The Rock Hill plan for the re
duction of the cotton acreage is
being pushed among the farmers
of the state. By raising at home
all the com, hogs and cattle that
he needs for his own use and a
surplus for the market, the Ark
ansas farmer ought to be indepen
dent and happy.
BACKACHE
Is an indication of kidney trouble. It means much to the
Yictim because the deadly Bright’s Disease begins in just
such symptoms.
Is a successful remedy for diseas* d kidneys. It
strengthens the suffering kidneys, hel; them to
perform their duties properly and by cleansing and
regulating the bowels it drives out unhealthy con
ditions; restores strength and vigorous health.
Get the Genuine with the Figure “3” In Ved on Front Lcbei,
Sold by Druggists. Prit- $1.00 per bottle.
Newark Drug Company, Special Agents
t
BROTHERHOOD OF
♦
American Yoemen
Gives Whole-Life, Accident,
Disability, and Old-Age In
surance at following rates:
AGE $1,000 $2,000
18-28.* .til) .$1.10
29-33.05 1.15
34-37.70 1.25
38-39.75 1.35
40-41.80 1.45
42-43.85 1.55
44-45.90 1.(55
40-47.95 .
48 . 1.00 ..
49 . 1.05 .
50 . 1.10 .
A reasonable rate. A big re
serve. Assets over $2,000,000.
Increasing over $1,000 a day.
JOIN THE YOEMEN
For Further Information Call on
J. W. LAWRENCE
DISTRICT DEPUTY
SULPHUR ROCK, ARKANSAS
♦-♦
Were anything lacking to prove
President Taft’s entire friendliness
to the trusts.it may be found in his
recommendations to congress on
Postmaster General Hitchcock’s
report of his stewardship of the
postal department. Taft praises
the postmaster for his leaving a
surplus of $219,118.12 at the end
of the fiscal year as compared with
a deficit of $17,479,170.47 two
years ago, and confesses that the
change was dde to scientific econ
omies; but takes issue with Hitch
cock on the subject of the govern
ment acquiring the telegraph lines
and making them an arm of the
postal service. Taft endorsed the
parcels post, however, which aims
to assist Hears Sawbuck & Co. in
shipping a threshing machine or a
steam shovel by mail. Taft then
proposes to double the rate on
newspapers — from one to two
cents a pound—having a belief,
presumably, that country publish
ers are getting rich too rapidly.
We can scarcely invite people to
come and enjoy the salubrity of
our climate when the weather
cuts the sort of didoes it has the
past few days, but when we con
sider that this same storm has
compelled the great Rock Island
railroad to declare that it will be
unable to move a train from 101
P^o to Chicago, on account of the
heavy snow, we are glad that we
can toast our shins at the big fire
place before a great hickory back
log and go out to the smokehouse
and yank down a ham and a pot
of hominy, instead of paying six
teen dollars a ton for coal and
eating out of paper sacks and tin
cans, as they must do on the Pan
handle in Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas. And we almost f orgot to
say that we got a barl’ of sorghum
to wallop our corndodger in that’s
larrupin’ good truck.
Good banks, safely managed and
conservatively operated, are bless
ings to the community. They are
the clearing houses of the commu
nity and the moneys deposited in
them serve the real purpose of the
moneys passing and repassing, and
being withdrawn seldom, and yet
deposited many times. A dollar
ir. bank is worth to the community
as much as a hundred dollars in
private hands, and more than a
million hidden in old stockings.
When you pull down the town
in which is your home, you are
pulling down yourself, and when
you build up, you are building up
yourself and your neighbor. Ban
ish from your min 1 the mistaken
idea that all good things are away
off in some other locality. Give
your town ail the praise it can
legitimately bear. It certainly will
do you no harm and will cost you
nothing.
Under the demonstration farm
methods last year, the average
amount of cotton grown per acre,
for the entire state, was 844
pounds, as against an average for
the state of 459 pounds per acre
for the land cultivated under the
old method. This is a difference
of 385 pounds, or $10 in value per
acre. The total cotton acreage
grown in the state annually is
about two million acres. This
looks very much like the farmers
of Arkansas lost twenty million
dollars last year by not using bet
ter methods of farming.
Last year 400,000 acres of land
were cultivated in Arkansas under
the direction of the government
farm demonstrators. The average
yield from these acres was 50 to
100 per cent more than the aver
age yield from the land not so cul
tivated. These figures would indi
cate that a better method of farm
ing generally adopted over the
state would increase the wealth of
the state several million dollais
annually.
A lot of so-called firm faith is
merely egotism. A whole lot of
folks think they have strong con
victions, when they have only
what was a slushy cement of ig
norance now hardened into a rigid
prejud ice._
is
Vi
W
\i
y
U
Vi
M
Vl
II
VI
Vi
V
V
V
V
V
V
l
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
\
\
Good roads and drainage are j I
matters that this section of Arkan
sas should be vitally interested in.
Teddy says he’ll take it. We i
are sorry for Little Willie Taft.
OIL TROUGH TINK LINUS
We noticed a fine lot of Easter
postcards at the postoffice.
Pat Aydelott and George Arnold
came in Saturday from Searcy. i
W. A. Mayhue returned Monday
from a trip to Bradford and Bald
Knob.
Pat Aydelott left Monday fori
Searcy to spend a few days with |
his uncle, J. I). Aydelott.
Gib Rutledge, who recently
moved down on the J. C. McGuire
farm, has a very sick child.
Cal Green returned to his home \
at Caldron last Saturday after a
week’s visit here with relatives.
Dr. Kent is fitting up an office i
in the old Mercantile building.
We now have three doctors in our '
town. j
James Webb, a fine young man
who lived on the Bateman farm, <
was stricken with pneumonia on
the 17th and died the 20th. He t'
was formerly a member of Cherry .
Camp W. OAV. but had suspended
about two months ago. a
LE I WELL ENOUGH ALONE 4
“Arkansas is without a gover- J
nor at present.” -Lee County
Courier. 4
Well, if that is the case, what is
the use of having a chief execut- i
ive at all? Arkansas is in a more
progressive stage today than ever '
before, and if this is brought ,
about from the fact that “we "
have no governor” lets leave it
like it is.—Wynne Progress.
R.K. MCHENRY
Agent for the
STANDARD HOME GO
Of Birmingham, Ala.
Will lend you money
at 5 per cent on long
time and easy pay
ments. Let me take
your application for a
home - purchasing or
an investment con
tract. See me about it
CAPITAL.$500,000
ASSETS - $1,219,860
*
V ^ ■, Jn. ‘tftr *'Ofc' tfl*' 4
■ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • «T- ’
It’s Quality
That Counts
*•* •***. S; & - S^- tSL, ■ <SL: CL • JJL C >>.
w'- 5r^ SSL «• tf". W?» w-ngr
m
'*>
m
'f\
W
*>
1\
W
't>
*>
'f*
(l>
*>
'♦>
r
\
t
/
4
4
1/
1/
I)
1/
1/
1/
1/
1/
!/
1/
1/
1/
it
i/
It
1/
1/
1/
1/
i/
1/
p Newark : : : Arkansas 2J
« (f*
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ♦ -_^JJ -_^JJ ^ • g ;_-k ^ ’ ^'^, j't’ ■T|^~
You don’t buy a wagon often,
and when you buy you want
one that will give you full val
ue for the money you invest.
The Birdsel! Wagons
are the best made. They are
made for hard service and are
worth the money. Come and
look them over and get prices.
H. E. HAWTHORNE
V
GREETINGS TO QUR CUSTOMERS
As the good Old Year 1911 has passed into history,
we take occasion to express our sincere wish that the
New Year will be good to you.
It has been our aim to give our customers exacjly
what they wanted, and we shall still endeavor to do
so in the future.
While we are conducting a busines for the purpose
of making money, at the same time there is present
with us the sincere feeling of friendship for those with
whom we come in contact in a business way, and we
feel that there is no better time to give expression to
it than at the beginning of the New Year.
Again wishing you a prosperous year, and soliciting
a continuance of your patronage, Yours for business
Newark Lumber Company
f
SATURDAY SPECIALS
£ 2 pkg. of Arm and Hammer Soda 15c
I 3 boxes of Matches.10c
2 cans of Baking Powder.15c
7 bars Lenox or Swift Pride Soap 25c
I Coal Oil 10 and 15 cents per gallon
HERRINGTON & SON
+++++++++++++++++++++++++4
*++++++++++++
ADAMS BROS.
Cotton arjd Corn Buyers
And Dealers in General Merchandise.
the Farmers--We want your produce, and will pay
you the highest market priee in cash or trade.
Newark,
Arkansas
A *DoiIar
spent at home reacts in its benefits
with unceasing general profit.
Sent out of town it’s life is ended.
Kept with the home merchants it is a messenger of continuous
benefit Business men should awake to the importance of kcepinp
nr at hu ne "n,j make a bid {or ^ by judicious advert1 sin '!
ME JOURNAL
--a place where printing is done
just a little Better and Cheaper