The Newark Journal.
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Published In The Famous white River Country. Where Alfalfa Is King
$ 1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, June 18, ld()(>
Vol. <>. No. 10
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Newark High School Will Close
With Appropriate Ceremonies
The commencement exercises of
the Newark High School will take
place next week, closing with an
appropriate program at the Chris
tian church on Friday night, the
25 th.
The commencement sermon will
be preached next Sunday at 11 a.
m. at the Christian church by the
Rev. Dr. Jas. A. Anderson, editor
of the Western Methodist, of Lit
tle Rock.
The final review will take place
in the school Monday.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day will be devoted to examina
tions and promotions.
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 the
closing exercises of the primary
department will he held at the
school building, and at 8:30 p. m.
the closing exercises of the inter
mediate department will take
place.
Friday will be devoted to final
arrangements and a meeting of the
board of trustees and faculty.
Friday at 8:30 p. m. the High
School department will render the
following program at the Christ
ian church:
Invocation. .Rev. Jas. F. Jernigan
Duet.'..
Willie Kinman and Miss Dudley
Welcome address.. M. C. Magness
Duet.Van and Yirl Pascoe
Oration.Dye Martin
Duet.
Della Fields and Erie Williamson
Solo.Miss Dudley
Reading.Mary Alexander
Duet.
Addie McHenry ami MissDudley
Declamation.Thus. Brown
Reading.Van Pascoe
Duet..Ona Morgan and Pearl Poe
Declamation.Thos. Ratton
Duet.Ruth and Blanche Crow
Duet .
Bess Arnold and Morgan Tuggle
Recitation.Yirl Pascoe
Essay.Ida Welborn
Duet.
Opal Wilson and NobeHolderby
Valedictory.Ben Arnold
Duet.. Ruby Poe and Miss Dudley
Benediction.Rev. Jas. F. Jernigan
The following program has been
arranged for the final meeting of
the Literary Society to be held at
the school building Saturday, the I
19th, at 8:30 p. m.
Recitation.Lola Ward
Declamation.... Eugene Magness
Piano Duet.
Willie Kinman and Miss Dudley
Essay.Morgan Tuggle
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Recitation.Della Fields
Vocal Duet.
.. . Mess Arnold and Van Pascoe
Declamation.Clara Brannon
Piano Solo.Addie McHenry
Reading1.Ruth Crow
Recitation.Iva Baker
Piano Duet.
Morgan Tuggle and Virl Pascoe
Recitation.Blanche Crow
Recitation.Willie Drennen
Piano Solo.Ruby Poe
DOTA DOINGS
Alvin Pickens tilled his regular
appointment at Cord Sunday.
Postmaster C. P. Pickens made
a business trip to Sulphur Rock
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. 1. E. Martin of
Cord visited at Mr. and Mrs. C.E.
Hugg’s Sunday.
Mrs. Viola McDonald of Cord
spent last week visiting her par
ents at this place.
Lindly Lane of Charlotte was
visiting Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Pick
ens Saturday night and Sunday.
«T. R. Bullington the son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. A. Bullington, has
been quite sick for several days.
Mr. Cornuhan, a Jackson county
carpenter was visiting in our com
munity Saturday night and Sun
day.
Crops look reasonably good in
this vicinity. A few more days
and the majority of the cotton will
be worked out.
Rev. C. F. Lively tilled his re
gular appointment at Walnut
Grove Sunday and preached to a
large and attentive crowd.
Quite a battle is raging between
the farmers and General Green, the
general being assisted by a few
cockle burrs, and seems to have the
advantage of the farmer during the
wet weather. But just a few more
hot dry days and the tide will turn.
FIERCE GAME OF BALL
A very exciting and interesting
(0 game of ball was played Satur
day at Magness between the New
ark and Magness teams, resulting
in the Newark boys forfeiting the
game to Magness. The game stood i
8 to '1 in fourth inning in favor of
Newark, when a squabble arose i
over a decision of the umpire and
he declared the game forfeited to
Magness, !» to 0.
AT PLEASANT HILL
Childrens Day services will be
held at Pleasant Hill on the fourth
Sunday in this month, which is the
27th.
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No Bank more fully appreciates the ne
cessity of co-operation of depositors and
banker than does this bank.
And realizing this, the aim of this insti
tution has ever been to promote that
feature by giving its patrons the most per
fect banking service it is possible to obtain.
Promptness, careful attention to details,
liberal policy and courteous treatment
comprises the system that has governed
this bank ever since it opened its doors for
business.
W. D. Magness, President
A. A. Henderson, Cashier
Cooperation in |
Banking
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK fc
SKETCHES FROM SALADO
Doings of the Week Among Our
Neighbors Across the White
A good rain fell in this section
Friday morning.
\V. M. Morgan made a business
trip to .Jamestown Friday.
H. I). Uhles gave the young
people an ice cream supper Friday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. Allie Baker of
Stone county are visiting relatives
here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cook are
spending the week in Batesville,
visiting friends.
W. 1). .Johnson of Hutson and
J. D. Allen of our township spent
Sunday at Tina, in Cleburne i
county.
Another good rain fell here Mon
day evening, making the ground
too wet to work Tuesday. We are
getting more rain than we need.
Rupert and Ed Varnell and Mrs. I
Beulah Smart, of Pottsboro, Tex ,
came in Thursday on a visit to
their sister, Miss Chloe Varnell.
who is sick.
(.'apt. C. M. Engles went to
Newport Tuesday, where he will j
begin work at once on the govern
ment boat, Quapaw. He has been
employed as pilot on the boat this
season.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hogan of
Batesville, Mrs. N. E. Gardner,
of Granger, Tex., and Cbas. W.
Hogan, of Corsicana, Tex., spent
Tuesday here with Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. E. Hogan.
Yes, Mr. Editor, Newark is not
alone in feeling deserted during
the day, as our busiest time is ear- j
ly in the morning and late in the
evening. Nearly every one is in
the field except the women and
small children.
. r. rwwiui, me csa» mill man
i f Alonzo, was here a short time
Saturday. Mr. Fowler has just
finished repairing and replacing
his machinery that was wrecked
in the cyclone which passed over
that section recently.
Jasper Lawrence of Rural Mall,
N. C., came in Thursday from the
re-union at Memphis, to visit his
brother, J. M. Lawrence, whom
he had not seen since 1850. Mr.
Lawrence represented himself as
a book agent and played quite a
joke on his brother before disclos
ing his identity.
There was an old time singing
at Mount Zion church Sunday,
which was well attended by both
old and young. The old “Christ
ian Harmony” books were used,
and it is needlses to say there was
some good music rendered. At the
noon hour dinner was spread and
all present enjoyed themselves.
The old and middle aged people
did the singing, and to those who
listened, it was evident that some
oi the older ones have not forgotten
how to sing. It was a day well
and pleasantly spent and many will
not forget it soon.
NEW TOWNSHIP CREATED
The county court has granted
the petition for the division of
Black River township, and issued
an order creating Dota township
of the territory lying west of the
line between range 3 and 4, the
eastern portion to retain the name
of Black River.
The present township otlicers
will continue to serve in the town
ship in which they are now lo
cated, and vacancies will be filled
at the special election to be held
on the 1st of July. Walnut Grove
will be the voting precinct for Do
ta township and the Williams
school house will be the voting
precinct for Black River.
Black River township is road
I district No. 3, and Dota is No. 23.
GROWING SWEET POTATOES
How Some Independence County
Farmers are /Making /Morey
It is said that one half the peo
pie don’t know how the other hall
is getting along; and I’ve some
times thought the other half didn't
care, especially when some fellow
beat me ten or twenty dollars in a
horse trade.
Often we do not know how our
neighbors are living, or how they
are making a living, and in all
probability we would never know
unless we visited them and saw
their mode and manner of work,
and their management about the
farm, garden, orchard and truck
patches.
1 had business some months ago
that called me to Relief township
on the south side of the river, and
while there I learned something
about how sweet potatoes are rais
ed and handled in large quantities,
and thinking it might interest
some of the readers of The .Jour
nal, 1 will give them an idea of
how some of our neighbors make a
living in that part of the county.
The people on this mountain
land are makings living— and they
are living, too. Their land will
not grow a bale of cotton nor fifty
bushels of corn to the acre, but
will produce more and better fruit
or potatoes than our rich river
bottom lands.
In preparing the land for a po
tato crop, it is first broken during
the winter or early spring and if
harrowed, rolled and re-broke sev
trial times before time for setting
me i nt" supping is uuuu u.y
furnaces or kilns. A trench oi
Jitch is cut in the ground two feet
deep, three or four feet wide and
twenty to thirty feet long. On
top of the ground by the sides of
this ditch, beds are walled up
about a foot high, on which are
placed large flat rocks, and on
these rocks a good thick layer of
?arth is placed, in which the pota
toes are bedded. One end of the
furnace, or ditch, is left open,
while at the other end a chimney
is built some six or eight feet high.
After the potatoes are bedded, a
tire is kept burning in the furnace
for several days, or until the po
tatoes begin to slip well. In about
ten days after the potatoes are
bedded the slips are large enougl
to transplant. The ground is ther
furrowed in rows about three feel
apart, and the transplanting bo
gins. This is done by dropping
the plants along in the furrow li
to 18 inches apart and all leaning
to one side. Then a furrow is
thrown on them from the opposite
side with a small shovel plow.
The cultivation is similar to cot
ton, leaving a good-sized ridge
when laid by. Growing potatoes
is easy, as a great many people
know, but the great trouble is ir
keeping them during the winter.
Hut the keeping of potatoes, like
many other things, is easy, if we
are prepared and know how
The growers here have houses
built purposely for storing pota
toes during the winter. These
houses arc built with double wall;
with twelve to sixteen inches oi
space between the walls, and this
space is packed tightly with saw
dust. The buildings are 10 to 15
feet wide by 20 to 30 feet long anc
about eight feet high, with en
trance facing the south. Near the
door is a partition wall, forming i
small room, in which a stove I,
kept.
It the weather is rainy and we
just before digging time, the po
tatoes are sorted, and the large
ones housed first and taken througl
a heating process before bein;
placed upon the market or storei
for the winter. The room is heat
ed until the temperature reache
60 or 70 degrees, and is kept wart
until the potatoes ure sproutei
This is done to run the sap out <
them, which makes them kec
much better and makes them tie
ter for table use. The smalh
ones are tlien stored for the wii
ter and are marketed in thesprin
for slipping.
In extreme cold weather a Hi
is kept burning day and night i
the stove in the front room, so i
to keep the temperature to 40 c
50 degrees. Sweet potatoes wi
chill at 35 degrees, and willsproi
at 60.
In the fall potatoes are worth 5
cents a bushel, but in the sprin
they are worth #1 to $1 25 a bus!
el, so the man who stores 1,00
bushels and watches and cares fc
them through the winter gets fiv
hundred dollars for his winter
work.
These potato raisers are livin
well, and living at home; and whs
they are doing can be done on an
of the uplands in Independenc
county. Uncle Silas.
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THE Bid BOTTOn DITCH
A decision was rendered in th
supreme court Monday in the fa
mous Big Bottom Ditch case,whic
has been tied up in the courts fo
the past three years.
The county court granted th
petition of certain land owners fo
the creation of a drainage dif
trict, but parties who objected t
the ditch appealed to the circui
; court. The circuit court found i
favor of the petitioners, and th
opposers then appealed to the su
preme court. The decision of th
supreme cojrt is in favor of th
I opposers to the extent that th
| court has reversed and remande
| the suit, with instructions to th
circuit court to dismiss the appea
from the county court and remain
the case back to the county court.
In just what condition this leave
the suit and where it will final 1.
! eod, we are unable to say.
HONORS FOR INDEPENDENCI
\V. J. Jernigan, of Charlotte
who recently graduated from th
University of Arkansas, has bee
elected to the faculty of the Uni
versity, to hold the chair of math
ematics. This is quite an hono
| to Independence county, as we
| as to Mr. Jernigan, he being th
tirst Independence county ma
ever elected to the Universit
faculty. The position pays $1,00
a year.
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Items of Interest From the Hub
of White River Township
A. P. Yates was down from
Charlotte Wednesday.
W. M. Jernigan was down from
Charlotte Wednesday.
Squire C. 1*. Pickens of Dota
was in town Saturday.
.J. P. Sink, Fay Wilson and J.
I). Moore went to Batesville Mon
day.
A few more faces for sale at
Gibson’s gallery, cheap while they
last.
W. I). Mngness and Minor Por
ter of Magness were in town Sat
urday.
Sam Moore and Harrison Crig
ler of Charlotte were in town Wed
nesday en route to Batesville.
J. II. Jimerson and family re
turned homo Tuesday from a
week’s visit with relatives in Ten
nessee.
Mrs. Sam Ashley and daunhter.
Miss Una, came down from Cush
man Tuesday to visit relatives and
friends for a few days.
The Rev. Mr. Gardner of Texas
spent Tuesday here visiting his
son, who is assisting in the meet
ing at the Baptist church.
Grace, the two year old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keen,
died Tuesday evening. The re
mains were buried Wednesday af
ternoon.
Prof. W. J. Jernigan of Fay
etteville, came in Wednesday to
spend the vacation with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jerni
gan of Charlotte. • --
Mrs. T. L. Crafton, who had
been confined to her room for
eight months with consumption,
died Saturday morning at her
home near town. The remains
were buried Sunday at Mack’s
Chapel.
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SHIPPING POTATOES
The Newark Fruit & Truck
Growers Association shipped two
cars of potatoes to St. Louis Wed
nesday night. They expect to
realize about 80 cents a bushel for
them, and as the average yield has
been about 75 bushels per acre,
it can readily be seen that potatoes
are a paying crop. They expect
to ship several more cars this
season.
The Journal hopes this will
prove a profitable and permanent
industry for our people.
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Moline Riding and Walking
Cultivators—the best made
FULL LINE OF FARM TOOLS OF All KINDS
H. E. HAWTHORNE
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