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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, March 2, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 10.
SULPHUR ROOK ITEMS
Short Items of Interest Picked Up
at the Metropolis of White
River Township.
Luther Massey was down from
Moorefield Tuesday.
L. C. Jernigan was down from
Batesville this week.
Mrs. Pleas Wright has been on
the sick list this week.
E. II. Williamson of Newark
was in our town Monday,
M. A. Black and family of New
ark were in our town Saturday.
Messrs. Sam Bevens and Oliver
East went to Batesville Tuesday.
Mrs. Berr.y Best of Newport,
' isited homefolks here last week.
i
\\ ill Ward of Batesville, spent j
Saturday and Sunday in our city.
Miss Birtie lveeny of Madness
visited\relatives here the Hirst of
the week.
Mrs. W. T. Anderson went to
Lie per Tuesday to visit relatives
for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heflins of
Gainsboro township, were trading
in town Monday.
1
The young people enjoyed a
party Saturday night given by
Miss Girtie Maxwell.
Misses Carrie Stnder and Mayj
Vaughan of Cotter, were the guests
of Mrs. Sid Sims Sunday.
Miss Archie Fetzer of Cush
man, spent a few days here last
week, the guest of Miss Sue Bra
. den.
Miss Lucy Bevens of Batesville,
visited her cousin. Miss Rena Cun
ningham, here Saturday and Sun
May.
Mrs. II. E. Dowel and Miss,
•Cora Kimberlin of Tuckerman,
visited Mr. Sink's family here I ist
week.
K. 1. Moore who has been oper
ator at Faulkner, Miss., for the
past, two months, came in Monday
to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. S. Moore.
Misses Mable Moore, Pearl
Morgan, Lizzie Logget and Mam
mye McLendon of Mooretield at
tended the exercises at the Aeade
'my here Friday night.
Judged. S. Little spoke for an
hour and a half here Monday night
and made the first political speech
we have heard in a long time in
which the speaker did not put in
the most of his time abusing his
opponents.
CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES.
Will Baker is on the sick list]
this week.
John Yates and Ira Somers went!
to Batesville Tuesday.
M. L. Pickens, of Dota, was
transacting business here Satur
day.
if
Rev. W. F. Way man preached
an interesting sermon here Sun
day.
Master Raymond Yates had a
severe ease of croup Monday and
Tuesday.
Misses Geneva Lane and Unie1
Churchill visited friends at Cord j
Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Lucy Baker of Antioch, j
visited her uncle, James Baker of,
this place, Saturday night.
Miss Julia Ball, of Hickory Val- j
ley, was the guest of Miss Josie
Moore Saturday and Sunday.
Mamie, the little daughter of!
Mr. and Mrs. .lames Baker, has
been quite sick with pneumonia,
but we are glad to say is better.
Mrs. Rilla Baker and little
daughters, Ivy and Lena, of I)ota,
attended church at this place Sun
day.
Prof. W. J. .Jernigan, who is
teaching at Moorefield, visited his
sister, Mrs. Allie Blair here Sat
urday.
Will Baker, Sam Moore and
Lindley Lane and Misses Wilma
Lane, Nellie and Unie Churchill
attended church at Antioch Thurs
day night.
HEAD EM) COLLISION
Two Freight Trains Collideat Diaz
Sunday Evening No
Lives Were Lost.
Through freight trains 55 and 56
collided head-on just south of the
ill fated l)inz curve Sunday after
noon at 5:30 o’clock and as a re
sult both engines and six cars of
freight were badly wrecked. No
lives were lost, and the injuries
were few and not serious. Brake
men Parker and Bullock were the
most badly hurt, the former hav
ing his shoulder bruised and thelat*
ter his head skinned. It is alleged
that train No. 55 had orders to
take the siding at Campbell for No.
56, and it is also said that Engin
eer Fink and Conductor Hall
failed to make a note of this, and
their train was making 35 miles an
hour when it rounded the Diaz
curve anti crashed into the train
No. 56. The crews on both en
gines jumped. A. J. Steer was
conductor^md OttoLinber engineer
on No. 5<>.
$30,000 FIRE AT NEWPORT.
Newport, Feb. 27. — With a
veritable March gale blowing, a
lire broke out at 1 o’clock this
morning in the leading business
block of this city and but for the
heroic work of the fire department
every store in the block would have
burned and probably that entire
section of the business district.
Two store buildings were des
troyed, that of Frank Brothers’
shoe store, where the fire origi
nated, and Bailey Bros, saloon, the
loss being estimated at $30,000.
The tire was marked by several
explosions, which rent the ceilings
of several contiguous stores and
are supposed to have been caused
by the ignition of escaping gas
which had accumulated between
the ceiling of the ground story
and the floor of the second.
Virgil Graham, who was sleep
ing in a room over Bailey Bros,
did not awaken until the floor was
in flames and barely escaped with
his life.
FARHER5 FIX PRICES:
At a meeting: of the Farmers’
L'noin of .Johnson county, at Hol
man, the following minimum
prices for country produce were
fixed: Fat beef cattle, gross, 1?A
cents per pound; dressed beef, 4!
and 5 cents per pound; home-raised
pork, bcents per pound; sweet and \
Irish potatoes, 75 cents per bushel;
eggs 12i cents per dozen; -butter, ;
15 cents per pound.
Willie Trager, aged seven, was j
crushed to death by a street car at
Little Hock Friday evening while
attempting to cross the track in 1
front of the car.
—M. Wilson, one of the Charlotte
neighborhood’s good farmers, was
transacting business in town
Wednesday, and called to renew
for The Journal.
Judge John S. Little, candidate
for Governor, addressed a small
sized audience at the liitton hall
here Monday afternoon. He
spoke at Sulphur Rock that night
and at Batesville Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. II. E Hawthorne
entertained a number of friends
at their home Monday in celebra
tion of Mr. Hawthorne's twenty
ninth birthday anniversary. Quite
a number of their friends were
present and the occassion was a
very enjoyable one.
Some lint cotton in the press at
the Madness yin here was accident
ally set fire Friday while some re
pairs were being made on the press,
and a disastrous lire was narrowly
averted. By prompt work the
tire was extinguished, however,
before any material damage re
: suited.
J. M. Childers and George Sisk
captured a wild hog in the cane
J brake on the Henry Long farm
over in the Big Bottom a few days
ago. The animal had huge tusks
about three and a half inches long,
and cut their dogs up considerably
before they succeeded in captur
ing him.
Hon. W. A. Oldfield of Bates
ville, candidate for congress, was
in town Wednesday. He has just
finished acanvassof White county,
having made twenty-nine speeches
in that county. He has made a
close canvass of the entire district
and is very confident of his elec
tion at the coming primary.
Luck means rising at six o4clock
in the morning, living on a dollar
a day if you earn two, minding
your own business, and not med
dling with other people’s. Luck
means appointments you have
never failed to keep; trains you
never failed to catch. Luck means
trusting in God and in your own
resou roes.
J. N. 1 flack announces in today’s
paper as a candidate for city mar
shftl. Mr. If lack lias served the
city for the past year as street
commissioner and has given gen
eral satisfaction. He has all the
necessary <|ua I ideations for the
position to which he aspires, and,
in the event of his election, would
doubtless make the town a good
officer.
Rev. (i. L. Fink is being solicit
ed by a great many of his friends
to offer as a candidate for jut ice
of the peace for this township.
When asked about the matter by a
.Journal representative, he stated
that he haP not yet fully made up
his mind, but would run if he
thought the people wanted him to
do so. He is a good man and
would doubtless make a good offi
cer.
SCHOOL PROGRESSES NICELY
The first term of the public
school closed last Friday and ex
aminations were had in all the
/
grades. At the close of the term
there were 2(50 pupils enrolled,
and of these 245 have taken the ex
amination, which indicates a good
interest in the school work.
Prof. Wynn informs The Journal
that the attendance for the term
just closed was at least ten per
cent better than any attendance
last year and he feels very much
encouraged by the good showing
made by the pupils in all grades
of the school. At the opening of
the second term Monday, four
new pupils were enrolled, making
the total enrollment to date 264.
JOHN l»OW IS NO MOKE
Negro Who Killed His Wife at
Sulphur Rock Last Spring
Pays Death Penalty.
•John Dow was hanged at Bates
ville Tuesday morning shortly af
tei 11 o'clock. The execution
j took place about a mile south of
the jail, the spot being enclosed by
a closely constructed Id foot fence.
Dow was baptized Sunday by
Rev. Powell, pastor of the A. M.
10. church, who visited him daily
and who accompanied him to the
; scaffold, continually offering him
spiritual consolation and nerving
him up to the point where he ex
pressed himself as resigned to his
fate.
Only 25 persons witnessed the
execution, and the condemned
man is said to have been the cool
est person on the scaffold. He
spoke briefly after his pastor had
offered a prayer, saying that he
was not afraid to die and was being
[sustained by God’s grace. lie re
quested the reporters to be sure to
state that he did not collapse.
Notwithstanding the fall was 1"
feet 7 inches, Dow’s neck was not
broken and death resulted from
strangulation. After hanging 20
minutes he was pronounced dead.
The crime for which Dow paid
the extreme penalty was the mur
der of his wife at Sulphur Rock
last April, the details of which are
familiar to readers of The Journal.
STATE NEWS ITEHS.
The DeQueen Electric Light
j plant was destroyed by tire Sun
day. Loss $20,000.
Ben Powell, an old citizen of
Little Hock, was found dead in
his bed at that place Monday morn
ing.
The six-year-old son of J. \V.
Smith living near Bough ton was
killed by a tree falling on it a few
days ago.
Burglars dynamited the safe in
the postofHee at Princeton Sunday
night and secured a large quantity
of stamps and some money.
George Anver of Boone county
was killed Friday in a mine acci
dent at Webb City, Mo. He
leaves a wife and four<*hildren.
While the 18 months old baby
boy of d. II. Caldwell of Mam
moth Spring, was playing before
i the open fireplace Monday it fell
headlong into the tire and was so
badly burned that there is no hope
! for its recovery.
John Gibson, who was stabbed
during a light in a “blind tiger”
in .Jonesboro a few weeks ago,
died Wednesday night of last
week. It is not known who
stabbed him. but the authorities
{are investigating.
A rilA\(JE OF BUSINESS
Oldest Mercantile Company in
This Part of the State Now
in Banking Business
The Theodore Max Held Bank
and Trust Company, of Batesville*
which tiled an amendment to its
articles of incorporation February
3rd, and by which its name is
changed from the Theodore Max
tield Company, is now open for
business, being authorized under
the law to operate a bank and
trust company.
This concern was founded by
Uriah Max field in 18fi5 and his son,
Theodore Max field, succeeded to
the mercantile business after hi*
father's death in INH8. In the
course of a few years the busines*
was changed into a partnership
known as Theodore Maxfield <fc
Bros., under which name it was
known until incorporated in 1905
as the Theodore Maxfield Com
pany.
The concern has now been in un
interupted operation for 41 years
and has gradually increased from
a most modest beginning, with
virtually no capital, to a place
among the foremost and strongest,
financial institutions in North Ark
ansas.
While incorporated with a cap
ital of #100,000 at the time of dis
continuing the mercantile business,
it enjoyed a rating of from #125,
000 to #200,000 wtth the most
prominent mercantile agencies and
1 was rated with the highest
grade credit.
The company, during its many
i years of business in this section,
has accumulated an amount of ex
perience in judging credits, and is
i so well known thoughoutall North
Arkansas as being entirely respon
jsible, that it should be able to con
tinue its former success in its now
broadened field of operation.
Mr. Theodore Maxfield was ono
of the incorporators of the Peo
ples Savings Bank, which was lat
er changed to the First National
Bank of Batesville, and during hi*
connection with it never missed :i
directors meeting and was an im
portant factor in contributing to
the success of the institution. Ho
recently resigned to devote his en
tire time and attention to the com
pany bearing his name.
The name Maxfield is not only
familiar throughout Northeast
Arkansas, but there is probably no
business institution in the entire
i state more favorably known >i
broad.
FARMER'S UNION.
The Independence County Un
ion of the F. E. & C. U. of A.
will meet in regular session at.
•Jamestown, Friday March 9 to I<),
1900.
A full delegation fronm all the
i unions is requested to be present.
! There is business that can not well
be deferred until later. Will op
en Friday at 10:30 a. rn.
,J. C. Stewart, President.
W. D. Bullington, Secretary
SHOT HIS WIFE ANO SELF.
A timberman named Gray shot
his wife three times in a tit of
jealously Sunday near Perry. He
then turned the pistol upon him
self and sent a bullet into his own
breast. It is that his wife will re
cover, but there is little hope for
| Gray.