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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, June 14, 1917
Vol. 17, No. 11
JEALOUSY LEADS TO
KILLING AT NEWPORT
Herman Harmon Killed by Slim Kel
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ley and Newark Hoy Impli
cated in Affair
Herman Harmon, a young me
chanic in the employ of of P. H.
Van Dyke Auto Co., of Newport,
was shot and killed about 1:00
o’clock last Saturday morning while
with a young woman at a house
near the river front in Newport.
“Slim” Kelley, said to be from
Poplar Bluff, Mo., Zephy Mims,
formerly of Newark, and Mabel Sher
man were arrested and placed ,n
jail at Newport, charged with fir«t
degree murder, and are being held
without bail.
It is said that Kelley fired the
shot that killed young Harmon.
Jealousy probably was the cause
of the shooting. It is said that the
three now in jail went to the house
and broke in the door, and that the
shooting followed almost immediate
ly. It "is said that Kelley obtained
the revolver from Mims, and that he
shot when Harmon grappled with
him. H. C. Gallagher, night engin
eer at the light plant, near the
scene of the killing, says that he
saw the three enter the house ant
heard the shots. H armon was shot
four times, and died about 8 o’clock
Saturday morning.
When the killing became knowr
there was much excitement and tall
of lynching by friends of Harmon
It is said that the young womer
have been maintaining a disorderly
house and that Kelley has been as
sociated with them. The young wo
man with Harmon when Kelley she
him is said to have been Kelley’s
mistress and his infatuation for th<
woman caused him to shoot Harmor
when he found Harmon with her
Harmon was a member of thi
Newport company of the Arkansas
National Guard. His body was sen
to his home at Little Rock for bur
ial.
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Bald Knob shipped 140 cars o.
strawberries during the season jus
closed, and the Bald Knob paper say\
the crop is reported to have beei
the most profitable one ever grown ./
that Section.
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REGISTRATION RESULTS
BEAT ELECTION RETURNS
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: The results of the recent registra
tion for the entire State were known
within 38 hours after the booths
(closed, although the registration card
was almost as complicated as the
; ordinary election ticket. It is evi
j dence of efficient organization and
should be an example to election of
I ficials.
Army officials say that had it not
been for the delay in three of the
counties,Phillips,Stone and Mississi
ppi, it would have been possible to
have complete returns in 26 hours.'
or twelve hours earlier. As it was,
Arkansas was one of the first seven
states to make its report to the de
partment,Deleware having been first.
Pulaski county, the largest in the
State was one of the first to report,
with a complete statement of regis
trations, and most of the counties
did the work without a cent of cost
to the Seate or government, all of
the work having been done purely
voluntarily.
It was the biggest achievement of
the kind in the history of the coun
try, and June 5 will go down in his
tory as proof of what American gen
ius and patriotism can do when em
ergency demands it.
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BATESVILLE MAN IS
SMALL BUT PATRIOTIC
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John Wesley Warick of this city
is perhaps the smallest man in the
state to register under the selective
draft law. He was 23 years old last
March, weighs 55 pounds, and meas
ures 24 inches in height. His father
died about the first of the year and
he lievs with his mother. Owing to
deformity in his lower limbs, caused
by a fall in infancy, he cannot walk
a great distance and was haul
ed to the court house in small wag
on.—Batesville Guard.
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GOOD HOME For sale
Five room frame house and 30
acres of land, 1 mile north of public
school building in Newark, 15 acres
cleared. Will produce fine straw
berries, fruit and vegetables.. Price
$1200. One-half cash and balance
' easy payments or will take first half
in stock or real estate at the rgiht
1 price. This a bargain and will make
i a fine home.
i T. J. RANEY,
Newark, Ark.
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Do you know, young man, that most gam
blers die poor? Do you know that any “Get
Ricb-Quick” scheme is a gamble, and money
that comes easy goes easy?
The vine that grows up over night is easily
blown down, while the sturdy oak which grows
slowly but surely, withstands the storms.
Plant a little money in this bank now and
watch the balance to your credit grow.
Put YOUR money in OUR bank.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
TOO MANY FEMALE
ANIMALS BEING SOLI)
During the last year there were
1,570,021 cattle slaughtered at the
Armour Packing plant in Chicago
and their eight branch houses.
Among this number were 530,861
heifers and cows and 127,570 heifer
calves. This number, of course, in
dicates the animals slaughtered by
only one of our large packing com
panies but it points out very clearly
that the female anima si ar?
being indiscriminately sold and slau
ghtered. This may be due largely
to the high prices of feed and the
exceptional prices offered for beef,
but if the slaughtering continues the
shortage now prevailing will, un
doubtedly, be increased greatly.
We must conserve the mothers
among all classes of livestock. Save
the cows, heifer calves, brood sows
gilts and ewes. Remember if you
sell, it will be difficult *to replace
them and one of your greatest means
of “growing into money” will be
eliminated. Farmers in every coun
ty should discourage the sale of suet
animals. What the present practice
means to the future of Arkansas
can only be estimated but Arkansa;
is typicallly a livestock state in many
parts and for every heifer calf sole:
and killed we have lost one cow am
the possibility of ten offsprings.
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PAROQUET ITEMS
raroquet, June 10.—a. r. miuams
returned to Little Rock Sunday night.
Mr. Freeman and son, Roy, left
Sunday night for Alicia.
Sterling Johnson made a business
trip to Batesville Saturday.
John Barber made a business trip
to Newark Saturday.
Presiding Elder Williford held the
quarterly conference here Friady and
Saturday.
John Parks spent Friday and Sat
urday at Newport.
Claude Hensley of Jacksonport was
a business visitor here Monday.
Sam Barnett of Newark made a
business trip here Monday.
Miss Georgie East spent Saturday
morning at Newark shopping.
George Boswell of Newark made
his regular appoinrment here Sun
day.
Black and White Rivers have done
considerable damage to crops in the
low land. Lots of the crops in the.
low land will have to be planted over.
Earle Williams spent Sunday at
Newark visiting friends and rela
tives.
Ed Gregory made a business trip
to Newport Saturday.
The farmers are making good use
of these fine days cutting wheat and
chopping cotton.
Mrs. Chas. Dry has gone to Mag
ness to spend a month or two with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hodges.
A. N. Trent of Batesvile spent
Monday morning here taking up
stave bolts.
Mrs. Grace Daily spent Monday at
Newark.
Let the Journal do your Job Print
ing.
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MT. CARMEL ITEMS
Mt. Carmel, June 12.—Farmers
are busy this fine weather battline
wth Gen. Green .
Quite a number enjoyed a singing
at the home of Miss Volina Mar
shall Saturday night.
Misses Ethel Fitch and Reba Me
| Doniel spent Saturday night, verj
j pleasantly with Miss Graeie Norris.
Claude Fetzer who has been work
ing at Alicia for some time was ir
our midst Sunday .
Clarence Atchison and family! o
I near Cord are visiting friends am
I relatives here.
Aunt Mary Highland is spending
the week here with frinds.
Misses Marie and Ola Rainwate
i Claud Fetzer and Eugene Gibsoi
attended Sunday school at Mt. Car
mel Sunday.
1 Mrs. Basil Holcombe and childrei
: spent Friday and Saturday wit!
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Holcombe nea
Pleasant Hill.
Several from here attended churcl
at Logan Sunday night.
Basil Holcombe spent last week i:
Batesville where he expects to mov
soon.
CLEBURN COUNTY MAN
SHOT FROM AMBUSH
Heber Springs, June 13.—Officers
are searching for an unkonwn man
who shot and probably fatally woun
ded B. M. Free, a farmer of Den
nard. It is said that Free was fast
ening a door to an outbuilding on his
premises when some one shot him
with a load of buckshot, the load
taking effect in the lower part of
the back. The shooting occured
about 7 o'clock yesterday morning
and the assassin was hidden near
w'here Free was standing. The sher
iff received a message that the man
had been arrested at Arlberg, a small
railway station between here and
Leslie.
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CURIA DRAINAGE DISTRICT
TAX COLLECTION
To the land owners of district:
Notice is hereby given that the
drainage tax on land lying witin
the Curia Drainage District of Inde
pendence county, Arkansas for the
year 1916 is now due and should be
paid on or before July 15th 1$17, and
if not so paid a penalty equal to
25 per cent of the tax and interest
thereon will be added.
Anyone desiring to leave their tax
with the cashier of the Citiens Bank
and Trust Company may do so should
the collector be absent from the city.
Notices are mailed out to those
whose names appear on the Books
of the District, and if any error
make known to the collector at once
so the same may be corrected.
It is the desire of the Board of
Directors of the District that the
taxes be paid as soon as convenient,
and at least before the 15th of
July.
H. A. BICKERS,
Collector Curia Drainage Districf
Batesvilel, Arkansas. 6-14-41
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ABANDON FOOD PREJUDICES.
Don't Bp Finicky. Be willing to try
now foods. Certain plentiful and
nourishing foods widely used and on
joyed in one section are practically
unknown in other sections of the
country. Learn to know all the good
things; not a few only.
People too easily get into food ruts
—insist on eating only the food they
are used to and refuse to give a fair
trial to others This causes undue
demand for certain staples, with re
sulting scarcity or high prices when
crops are short. At the same time
other valuable foods may be relative
ly cheap and available.
Cook Food Properly: Learn how
to cook all kinds of staple foods and
1 to serve them in a variety of ways.
Simple dishes well prepared are bet
‘ ter than expensive foods badly cook
1 ed. Many persons are prejudiced
against certain good foods because,
when first tried, the foods were im
properly cooked or prepared. Remove
1 from your vocabulary “don’t like" or
“can't eat." Most individual preju
dices against widely popular foods are
i either imaginary or baseless. Try In
like every simple food; give it a Ian
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LESTER-CRAIG
Dosha Lester and Miss Pearl Craiy
were married at the Methodist par
nonage last Sunday morning at 10:3'
o’clock, Rev. A. R. Haltom officiat
Immediately after the ceremom
they drove to Newport in a car ant
left on the evening train for Gal
. veston, Tex., where they will spen<
a brief honeymoon.
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WANT TO BUY 300
CORDS OF 4 FT WOOl
We want to buy 300 cords of
foot oak wood and will pay $2.25 pe
cord for same delivered on the gii
yard in Newark. Will buy in an;
quantities, from one cord to 100 cords
NEWARK GIN CO.
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Reports from over the county indi
cate that rcops are growing fsat an
are looking much better since th
recent hot weather set in. Some crop
were beginning to get foul but the
are being cleaned out and are grow
ing rapidly.
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Charlie Grimes and Will Julia
left last night for St. Louis to spen
a few' days looking after busines
matters.
DON’T NEGLECT THE
GARDEN THIS SUMMER
All feed and food products are ex
ceptionally high this season. This
makes it important for each farmer
to produce everything possible that,
his family and his animals eat, on
on his own farm. Nearly all farmers
put out a small garden in the spring.
As soon as the cotton, com and oth
er crops need attention the garden
is forgotten, so that by the middle
of the summer it has grown up in
weeds or has dried out. Instead of
having green things from the gar
den all summer, fall and into the
winter, many farmers depend upon
getting their supply from the local
store. No spot on the farm will
yield as great returns as the garden
and ti shoulb be worked during the
season of the year so that the mois
ture will be maintained. Late plant
ing of onions, radishes, turnips, po
tatoes, and many other vegetables
should be made. One farmer at
Danville last year had twenty var
ities of green vegetables growing
in his garden as late as October.
This garden saved the farmer many
dollars during the season, and he
and his family of five had the satis
faction of having fresh vegetables
whenever they wanted. A surplus
should be produced and canned for
winter use. A big supply of green
vegetables during the summer and
fall, and canned vegetables during
the fall and winter, all produced at
home will go a lone way toward
solving the hard times of the farm
er and will enable him and his fam
ily to have much better health.
OPEN NAVY RECRUITING
OFFICE AT BATESVILLE
Postmaster 0. F. Craig has receiv
ed official notice that a Navy recruit
ing office has been opened at Bates -
ville and he is urged by the govern
ment to secure some recruits from
among the young men of this sec
tion. He states that if any of the
young men here desire to enlist in
the Navy he will furnish them con
veyance to Batesville, and if accept
ed at Batesville recruits will be fur
nished transportation to Little Rock.
The recruiting office at Batesville
will not be kept open long and those
who desire to enlist should do so at
once.
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Ueslie Andreson arrived Monday
from Paris Tenn„ to accept a posi
tion with The Journal.
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SHARP COUNTY YOUTH
KILLED IN FRANCE
Citizen of Hardy Has Just Learned
of Son’s lKath on Battlefield
In France
Hardy, June 12.—In addition to the
recruits for the United States Army,
Sharp county has contributed to the
Canadian army. W. H. Phillips has
received a letter from Lieut. L. J.
Bertrand of Company 4, Seventh
Canadian infantry, pertaining to the
death and burial of his son, Ira Phil
lips, who was killed on a battlefield
in France, in which he says:
“You have no doubt been informed
by this time of the death in action of
your son, and I am writing you these
few lines to convey my deep sym
pathy for you in your loss. Your
son was in my platoon and was very
much liked by me and all his com
rades. He was of fearless character
and devoted in duty and his loss is
keenly felt by all with whom he
came in contact. His death came by
a machine gun bullett and was in
staneous. It may be some consola
tion to you to know that he died for
the great cause that is now yours as
well as ours.
“He was buried together, with
some officers and men, in a small
cemetery between Thilus and Ecmic
two small villages around which
there was heavy fighting.
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LIBERTY BONDS
GO UP IN SMOKE
While campaigns are being put on
in all parts of the United States to
raise money for the war by selling
liberty bonds, the public—meaning
you and me and our neighbors, are
burning up millions of dollars every
year through the curse of careless
ness. If there was ever a period in
American History when our resources
should be conserved it is now. Fire
is the greatest ally of extravagence
and waste. Now is the time to think
and act to protect ourselves and our
community against preventable fires.
The money lost in needless and pre
ventable fires in the United States
annually would pay the interest on
the Liberty Bond Issue of $2,000,000
dna then furnish $100,000,000 fo the
amount the President has asked for
the Red Cross.
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