The Newark Journal.
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PUBLISHED IN THE FAMOUS WHITE RIVER COUNTRY, WHERE ALFALFA IS KINO
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, September 10, 1909
Vol. 9. No. 22
SULPHUR ROCK SKETCHES
Items of Interest From the Hub
of White River Township
Grandma Rice has been on the
sick list.
J. W. Lewis weut to Batesville
Monday afternoon.
W. R. Rice went to Newark
Tuesday on business.
Miss Bessie Martin who has had
the fever several weeks is improv
ing nicely.
Ewing Lane and Richard Ken
nedy of Charlotte spent Tuesday
in our city. /
Miss Ella Sanders of Newport
spent Sunday here with relatives
and friends.
Prof. Sidney Pickens of Bates
ville spent last Friday here with
his many friends.
Rev. H. T. Gibson spent Mon
day night in town the guest of his
nephew, J. C. Gibson.
Col. Joe Tremble, who has been
here several days, left for his
home in Memphis Tuesday night.
B. Masengill of Heber came in
Tuesday morning and purchased a
tine saddle horse from J. H. Moore.
Mrs. Dunnington and daughter, j
Mrs. Yancy, of Batesville, spent a
few days here last week with rel
atives.
Miss Ola Gibson spent from
Friday till Monday at Batesville
visiting her little friend, Thelma
Pickens.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. John
Lindsey, on the 5th, a tine girl,
and to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Atchison
on the 7th, a tine son.
Rev. R. C. Moorehead of Bates
,* ville came down Friday night and
preached at the Methodist church
to a large congregation.
Mrs. Joe Warner who has been
in Kansas for several months is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Dock Maxwell, for a few weeks.
Mrs. Dora East and children, of
Imboden, who have been visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Reaves, returned home last week.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our appre
ciation and gratitude ^ the good 1
people here and elsewhere for j
their kind words of sympathy in >
the loss of our son and brother, (
Elam Bevens, whose death occured j
at Quitman August 27ih. May the I
Lord bless each and every one.
Dr. and Mrs. T. A. Bevens
AND CHILDREN
Sulphur Rock, Arkansas.
CHARLOTTE CIPHERS
Rev. Hively began a protracted
meeting here Sunday.
A. P. Yates made a business trip
to Batesville Thursday.
Peel McCook made a business
trip to Sulphur Rock Monday.
Miss Phronie Kennedy, of Por
tia, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J
T. Baker, this week.
G. J. Lindsey returned Satur
day from a pleasant visit to friends
and relatives near Floral.
Harrison Crigler and Miss Clara
Henderson visited relatives at
Antioch Saturday evening.
Prof, and Mrs. O. T. .Jernigan
visited relatives at Sulphur Rock
Saturday night and Sunday.
Misses Clara Henderson and
Opal Wilson of Newark visited
friends here last week from Thurs
day until Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Lindsey
and little daughter, Alma, of Desha
visited Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Lind
sey Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. C. D. Churchill and little
daughters Mabel and Charlotte,
who have been visiting relatives
here for some time, left last week
for their home at Tuscon, Ariz.
JOHN MAGNESS FOR SHERIFF
John. M. Magness of Wycough
township announces in today’s
paper as a candidate for sheriff.
Mr. Magness was born and raised
in this county and is one of the
county’s best citizens. He made
the race four years ago and was
defeated by the present sheriff, Mr.
Dunlap, by only 64 votes. IIis
ability and integrity are unques
tioned and in the event of his elec
tion to this important position, the
people are assured of good service.
SAWMILL BURNED
The Forester Brothers saw mill
about six miles northeast of Cord,
was destroyed by fire Friday night
about 11 o’clock. There was about
a carlord of lumbur on the yard
and this was also destroyed. The
loss is about $2,500, with no insur
ance. It is not know how the fire
originated.
LADIES’ COLLARS AND BELTS
1 have just received a complete
assortment of Ladies’ Collars and
Belts in all the new and latest
styles and strictly up-to-date in
every respect. Ladies invited to
call and see them. R. L. Goad.
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PURPOSES OF A BANK
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The purpose of a bank is to be useful
and helpful to a community; to facilitate
business by the exchange and extension of
'credits, thereby making it possible to carry
on a vast amount of business with a com
paratively small amount of actual cash.
It is wrong to hoard money and bury
it in some old cellar and thereby take it
entirely out of circulation.
Bring it to this bank, where it will be
much safer and will help to earn you more
money, and yet be at your command.
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS RANK
Geo. L. Green, President
Leslie R. Actonf Cashier
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WAKE UP! THERE’S A FORTUNE
UNDER YOUR NOSE
“Arkansas, the new rice coun
try,” is getting quite a lot of the
kind of advertising that helps the
state. In its September issue, the
Southern Kuraiist of Atlanta, Ga.,
has a fine front-page picture of a
rice-threshing scene in Arkansas,
together with an excellent edito
rial giving facts and information
about rice-growing in Arkansas.
The Ta.vlor-Trotwood Magazine of
Nashville. Tenn., deals exhaustive
ly with rice-growing in Arkansas
in its issue for September, giving
a number of fine illustrations.
There is quite a lot of rice land
around Newark, and if our people
do a little experimenting and get
the crop introduced here, this sec
tion would come in for an individ
ual share of the great boom the
state is going to experience be
cause of the propagation and ex
ploitation of this great industry,
which is already attracting the at
tention of people throughout the
entire nation.
There is at least fifteen or twenty
thousand acres of land right around
Newark that will grow 00 to 100
bushels of rice per acre.
Most of this land is now lying
idle, producing nothing but mos
quitos, ticks and malaria.
Suppose this land were trans
formed into rice fields. It would
mean the production of over a mil
lion dollars annually.
A million dollars!
And it would mean a million
dollars every year, not just for one
year only, but every year as regu
larly as the years come and go, for
the beauty and attractiveness of
rice-growing is the elimination of
that element of uncertainty that
surrounds any other branch of
farming—there are no crop failures
in rice-growing.
And the only reason we havn’t
got this is simply because we
havn’t got the energy and enter
prise to wake up and take advant
age of the vast opportunities that
lie at our very door.
A sweep of the horizon with
The .Journal’s prophetic eye im
pells us to the belief that some day
the entire country for several
miles north and west of Newaik
will be one vast orchard of the
finest fruits and berries; to the
eastward will be vast rice fields,
producing their hundreds of thou
sands of dollars annually, while
the country southward will be
dotted with immense fields of cot
ton, corn and alfalfa, beyond the
touch of the withering hand of the
drouth, and with bountiful yields
assured by means of a system of
irrigation with its great reservoir
and pumping station located some
where on the outskirts of the then
populous and prosperous little city
of Newark.
But these things will never be
attained until we shake off that
spirit of lethargy and pessimism
that seems to have gotten hold of
50 many of our citizens.
Wake up! Be an optimist. Be
lieve that better things are com
ing, and go to work like a man
and help them come.
Its the men who think and hus
tle, plan and execute, that are
moving the world. We must get
into that class if we would make
Newark what her natural advant
ages and resources indicate that
she should be.
Ladies Dutch Collars at R. L.
Goad’s.
Mrs. Lee Earnheart of Newport
is spending a few days here visit
ing Mrs. Jesse Grosser.
Geo. L. Green arrived home
Saturday night from a business
trip to Chicago and St. Louis.
R. L. Goad is agent for the Ideal
Laundry of Newport, and sends
laundry down every Tuesday.
General rains fell all over the
state Saturday night, breaking a
drouth of some five weeks duration.
Mrs. Floyd and Miss Winnie
Dearing returned Tuesday from a
pleasant visit with relatives near
Elmo.
Walter Magness, who has been
quite sick for several weeks with
appendicitis, is not improving
much.
Squire J. L. McDaniel of Black
River township spent Wednesday
i night in town en route to Elmo on
I business.
Mrs. Sallie Harris of Paoli,
Okla., will read The Journal
through the kindness of her fath
er, J. D. Sturdivant.
Ship your produce to Cleveland
& Gibson, Little Rock, Ark.
Quick sale and prompt returns for
all consignments. Write for prices.
Rev. J. F. Clark of Jonesboro
was in town Tuesday en route
home from Cord where he had
been assisting Rev. J. 1. Martin
in a revival meeting.
Dr. G. F. Maynard the veterin
ary surgeon of Batesville, will be
in Newark on Saturday, Septem
ber 11, for one day only. See him
about any of your horses or cattle
that need attention.
Little Mi.ss Jewel Madness has
been quite sick for several days
from congestion and was reported
no better yesterday.
Rev. Jas. F. Jernigan arrived
borne Wednesday from Batesville
where he spent several days as
listing in a revival meeting.
For Sale.—A tine pair of young
mules, coming four years old.
Also a No. 5 Oliver Typewriter
nearly new. R. K. McHenry.
Misses I va and Alpha Braden left
Wednesday morning for their
home at Stratford, Okla., after a
pleasant visit here with relatives
and friends.
Rev. Anderson Kern, who has
been assisting in the revival meet
ing out north of town, will preach
at the Baptist church in Newark
Sunday at 11 a. m. and at night.
Prof. O. T. Richardson arrived
home Tuesday from Little Rock
and other points where he spent
the summer vacation. He^vill o|>cn
school here on Monday Septembei
20th.
Take your laundry to R. L.
Goad. He will take care of it;
will send it off every Tuesday and
receive it back on Saturday morn
ing, enabling everyone to get their
laundry on Saturday. All work
positively guaranteed.
A postcard from our old friend
and erstwhile fellow townsman,
Fred I). Whiting, brings the inj
formation that he is now in Day
ton. Ohio, attending the National
Cash Register Company’s school
of training, and will graduate the
first week in October. There will
always be a warm spot in our
heart for Fred D., and The Jour
nal, as well as his many othei
friends in Newark, are glad t<
learn that he is getting along nice
ly
DOTA DOINGS
Several are on the sick list this
week.
School is progressing nicely at
the academy.
Alvin Pickens made a business
trip to Newark Friday.
J. W. Pickens und .1. B. Cason
made a business trip to Newark
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Bullington
were visiting their daughter at
Cord Sunday.
Mrs. Clem Hall was down from
the Forester mill Sunday and Mon
day visiting relatives.
Allie Baker who is working here
with his uncle, spent Sunday with
home folks at Newark.
Miss Nora Best was visiting her
sister, Mrs. D. P. Churchill, near
Cord, Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cason attended
church at Cord Sunday and spent
the day with Mr. and Mrs. James
Blair.
Watermelons are about all gone
and oufflpeople will have to hunt
something else to satisfy their
minds and appetite.
Everybody is smiling very pleas
antly since the rain Saturday. It
came too late to be of much bene
fit to crops, but was badly needed
for stock water.
WILL PAY $45,000 FINE
Newport, Sept. 7.—In the anti
trust procedings against the Wat
ere-Pierce Oil Company brought
by the state of Arkansas, an
agreed judgement for $45,000
against the defendant company
was filed this afternoon in the
,Jackson Circuit Court, which ter
minates the civil as well as crim
inal case*, the state nolle prossing
the indictment against the com
pany.
This suit was instituted by Pros
ecuting Attorney R. E. Jeffery.
He was assisted in the prosecution
by Attorney General Hal L. Nor
wood, G. L. Grant and Campbell &
Suits of this city.
The judgement recites that it is
not to be taken as an admission of
guilt and denial of all the states
charges is maintained.
Of the $45,000 judgment, $33,
500 is to be paid into the state
treasury for the use of the common
school fund as provided in the
anti-trust act. One fourth of the
amount of the judgment goes
to Prosecuting Attorney Jef
fery and his counsel,the defendant
company paying all costs of the
suit.
SOME MORE FINE CORN
W. P. Young Breaks the Record
on l.ate Corn
\Y. P. Young loft three ears of
corn et The Journal office Satui
da.v which takes the premium for
late corn. The corn was grown by
Mr. Young over in Pig Bottom,
and considering the dry weather, is
extra fine corn.
One ear measures 11 inches in
length and 71 inches in circumfer
ence; another 10 inches in length
and inches in circumference,
while the other is 9 inches in length
and inches in circumference.
Mr. Young has twenty acres of
this corn, which was planted in
May, and says it will average up
well with the ears left at this of
fice. The grains are all sound,
well-tilled and matured.
Nearly all the early corn in the
bottoms is good, but the drouth
has affected much of the late crop.
Anybody can raise good corn
when the seasons are favorable,
but it takes a good farmer to raise
corn like Mr. Young’s, when the
season is as unfavorable as it has
been this year for late corn.
W. R. SHELPHAN ANNOUNCES
By reference to our announce
ment column on page eight it will
he seen that W. R. Shelpman
of Salado is a candidate for the
office of tax collector. Mr. Shelp
man is a young man of excellei t
character and ability and is well
titted to till the position to which
lie aspires. He was in the race four
years ago and made a clean, man
ly fight, being defeated by the
present collector by only a few
votes. In the event of election the
people are assured of good and
satisfactory service.
AN EDITOR'S DISCOVERY
The Hardy Herald publishes the
fact that the star which the astron
omers have called the Star of Beth
lehem is the planet Mars. VVre ex
pected, when the Herald’s editor
was found examining the firma
ment through an alder joint, that
some wonderful discovery would
[ result.—Melbourne Times
riAGNIFICENT PARADE
It is said that the grand parade
on opening day of the Arkansas
Suite hair will be the most mag
nificent spectacle of the kind ever
witnessed in the South.
| See The Journal for job printing.
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