The Newark Journal.
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published In The Famous Bio Bottom Country, Where Alfalfa is kino
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, December 22, 1905.
Vol. 5. No. 52
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.V^tfjNDAY MEETING
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Baptists Will Hold Their Fifth
Sunday Meeting Here De
cember 29th to 31st.
The Independence Baptist As
sociation will hold its next fifth!
Sunday meeting in the new Bap
tist church here, beginning at 9:30
Friday morning, December 29th,
and continuing to Sunday night.
The following program has been
arranged:
T? T» TT\ A IT
At 9:30 a. in. prayer and non#
■service.
10:00 a. m.—Talks by brethren;
reports frem their fields.
11:00 a. m.—Sermon, dames
Purcelly.
1:30 p. m.—Devotional exercise,
|M. G. Burge.
Y\ :40 p. m.—The Characteristics
-ol a Spiritually Influential Church,
D. A. Allen, M. M. Burge.
2:4.'» p. m. The Ordinances of
„4i New Testament Church; Their
Meanings aud Purposes, E. N.
Gampbell, Amos James.
H 3:45 p. m. Why Are We Call
<.a Missionary Baptists? James
Purcelly anc^others,
4:45 p. m.—Was the Tabernacle
in the Wilderness a Type of the
Church of Christ of Today ? W. P.
Jackson, Geo. D. Hooper.
7:00 p. m.—Sermon: The Dis
.nctive Elements of a Baptist
.'hprch, S. B. Callaway.
00—Executive Board meeting.
SATURDAY.
9:00 a. m. Devotional service.
c.n o m i n a tiu^al,
heir Ne^S^^R” B.
•Calljuvay and otlires.
10:15 a. m. Association Mis-1
sion Work; Its Place and Effect iy
State Evangelization,W. II. Wren,
D. A. Allen and others.
11:15 a. m. Sermon E. J. P.
Garrott (Newport).
#1:30 p. in. The Obligations of
a Church-Member to the World,
L. Fink and J. L. Brown.
I s?:l| p. m.—The Obligations of
iChurch Member to His Church,
& U Crow and Fagan Cossey.
3:00 p. m.—The Relation of
hurch-Membership >> Missions.
M . James and \\ i 11 is Pate.
4:00 pi m. Will the Heathen
HBftlie Saved Without the Gospel? J.
Ip. Lovelace and J. I. Martin.
7:00 p. m. Sermon J. P.
■Lovelace.
*UNDAY.
9:30a. ru. Sunday School Kal
— Addresses by the brethren on
lesson and other things.
10:30 a. ip.—Prayer service.
11:00 a. fn. Sermon D. A.
en.
Devotional and Mis
eeting.
e r m o n E. N.
and their friends
care for all who
meeting' from the
e Association, and
cordially invite the
to come.
NOTICE.
All parties knowing themselves
indebted to us, will please come in
and settle as our collector will
out immediately after Christ
Thanking you for past fa
we are, Tom^ truly.
U. | !
OH HOW.
Go to I. D. Price, Newport, for
holiday goods. Largest and most
complete line in the city.
SULPHUR ROCK ITEMS |
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Short Items of Interest Picked Up
at the Metropolis of White
River Township.
»L P. Sink went to Batesville
Tuesday.
John Huddleston went to Bates
ville Monday.
Our school closed Wednesday
for the holidays.
Rev. W. F. Way man went to
Batesville Monday.
The Wright Bros, shipped a car
of cattle this week.
Wili Ware of Batesville was in
town Sunday night.
Ed Atchison will run the barber!
shop at this place hereafter.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hartsfield
were up from Newark Saturday.
Miss Odell Latimer, is recover
ing from an attack of rheumatism.
County Treasurer T. M. Wal
drip of Magness was in town Tues
day.
Ewing Lane, who is attending
school here has been sick this
week.
Dr. W. T. Huddleston is having
some improvements made on his
office.
Adler Magness who has been
sick for three weeks, is reported
better.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Williamson
of Sharp were trading in^-feow u
Monday. ^
If your face^dyves not suit you
see Gibsonvabout it; he makes
races (her.
Hud Harvison left Monday
morning for a visit to his daugh
ter in Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilson of
Newark visited Mrs. Hartsfield
here Sunday.
.Johnson Moore left Friday for
Tennessee to accept a position as
railroad agent.
Mrs. l)r. Black of Porum, I. T., |
is spending a few days here with
her father, .1. M. Keith.
Hugh Parks has the lumber on
the ground for a new livery stable
which will be built soon.
R. 1. Moore went to Cotter Sat
urday where he has a position as
salesman in a mercantile house.
Rev. dames F. Jernigan was on
our streets Tuesday. He held his
first quarterly meeting in dackson
county Sunday.
Mrs. Win. Kent and Miss Pink
ie Dorr of Charlotte were looking
for Santa Claus here Tuesday and
from the looks of bundles they
carried away they must have found
him.
Santa Claus has rented our en
tire store room, fixtures and ev
erything, for tht1 purpose of dis
playing his toys and other valua
ble presents, during the holiday
season. O. L. Hoover & Com
pany, Sulphur Rock, Ark.
HOLIDAY RATES.
Account of the Holidays, the
Iron Mountain will sell round trip
tickets at rate of one and one
third; minumum fare being 5Uc.
Tickets on sale December 22, 2d,
24, 25, 30 and 31, and .January 1,
good to return on or before dan 4,
1006. F. C . Hoyt, agent.
Moore Bros. & Co. want you to
call and see some of their bar
gains that are being offered during
their great Money-Raising Sale.
Cashier H. J. Drennen, of the
Bradford State Bank,was up from
Bradford on business Wednesday.
Willie Davidson and Miss Jessie
Reeves spent Sunday visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Reeves at Oil
Trough.
Mrs. W. P. Lawton presented
The Journal family with a tine
turkey for Christmas, for which
she has our sincere thanks.
J. C. Huddleston, proprietor of
the New Central Hotel at Sulphur
Rock, was in town Tuesday, and
favored The-Journal with a pleas
ant call
I will sell at auction ou Satur
day, December 23, at 2 o’clock p.
rn., one jump-seat buggy, nearl.\
new; one 2-piece bed room suite
and two bedsteads. W. J. Little
field.
The local engine got off the
track at Cushman Friday morning
and the local was about nine hours
late goitig down. It hasn't madt
u0 the lost time yet, and has been
running about eight hours late all
the week.
A. A. Covington, one of White
River township’s good citizens,
was in town Wednesday. He and
Mrs. Covington expect to spend
Christmas with old friends at La
(xrange, Tenn.
N. M. Wilson lias received a
check for $1,000 from-the Knights
and Ladies of Honor, in payment
of the policy carried in that Order
by his daughter, Miss Zeno, vvhc
died a few weeks ago.
Miss Eulah Foote of Sulphur
Rock came down on the passenger
Wednesday and spent the night
here with relatives. She went out
near Dota yesterday to spend the
holidays with home folks.
Tax Collector Montgomery will
begin his annual rounds of tin
county on Tuesday, .January 2, at
Pleasant Plains. llis notice, giv
ing dates, etc., will be found or
the third page of today's paper.
.1. K. Weinmeister, of Elgin
the Farmers’ Union organizer fen
Jackson, Crittenden and Mississip
pi counties, spent Friday and Sat
urday here attending the uieetinj
of the Independence County Uni
on.
Uncle Zibe Barber, one of tin
pioneer citizens of Logan town
ship, was in town Monday, am
while here called and ordered Th
Journal sent to P. 11. Brigganc
of Bath Springs, Term., for si:
months.
J. M. Pennington, one of th
Union Hill neighborhood’s gooi
farmers, was in town Friday an<
Saturday attending the count,
meeting of the Farmers’ Unio
and favored The Journal with
pleasant call.
Oscar Warren, a good citizen o
Black River township and an ol
friend of the editor, was in tow
Monday on business. He recen>
ly returned from Kansas where li
spent two years, and we are gi t
to learn that he is now better sa
, isfied to remain in Arkansas.
STATE NEWS SKETCHES
Items of General Interest Gathered
Fresh From the Columns of
the Daily Papers.
A new $10,000 school building
will be erected at Mansdeld.
A company lias been organized
and are boring for gas at Plum
merville.
A factory for the manufacture
of egg cases has been established
at Searcy.
Eight negroes were lodged in
jail at Van Buren a few days ago
on a charge of murder, committed
nine years ago.
Governor Davis has offered a
reward of $200 for the arrest and
conviction of the unknown parties
who burned the school house at
Cotton Plant last week.
The teirteen-year-old son of P.
M. Lowry, of Schooley, was
thrown from a mule Sunday morn
ing and sustained injuries from
which he died in a few hours.
Andrew Grundy, 14 year-old
son of Henry Grundy of Mena,
while attempting to board a mov
ing freight train near Rust, was
thrown under the cars and killed,
his body being horribly mangled.
dames Hopgood and Amos Bur
row were arrested at Pocahontas
on a warrant charging them with
shooting insulators off of tele
phone poles. Hopgood\s case was
tried in Justice .lames’ court and
he was lined $200.
Mrs. Mat Tighe of Little Rock
was sentenced to four years
in the penitentiary on a charge of
shoplifting, to which she plead
guilty. There was no other white
woman in the penitentiary and the
governor pardoned her before she
was committed.
MAGNESS MUSINGS.
Christinas greetings to all.
Sara McJinkins, Jr., has moved
to Elmo.
Mrs. S. C. Knight visited at
Newark Tuesday.
B. B. Owens and family visited
at Newark Tuesday.
George Krammer of Rosie was
in Magness Tuesday,
i Luther Dugger of White River
township was in town Tuesday.
Clint and Theodore Northern of
■ Sulphur Rock were in our city
Monday.
Rev. C. II. Newman was dowr
C from Sulphur Rock Saturday,buy
• ing corn.
George McDoniel sold to Lath
>, & Young a turkey which net-tec
- him $2.39.
1 T. M. Waldrip is down front
1 Batesville this week, looking afte
3 his farming interest.
( Our school at Magness will dost
Friday and open again on Wed
ej nesda.y after Christmas.
1 ! George Seuberth and family o
1 ! Sulphur Rock visited S. C. Knigh
; and family here Sunday,
i Dr. F. M. Owens and family o
* Auvergne attended the funeral o
James Lewis here Thursday.
f J B. I*. Conner has moved fron
j off the Island, and now occupie
u the residence recently vacated b.
j Mr. Cobb.
e Tom Jones has taken charge o
d the store belongihg to the lat
■ I James Lewis, and will run it dui
| ing the holidays.
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HHi UNION MEETING
County Meeting of the Farmer*"
Union Held Here l.ast Fri
day and Saturday.
The fourth quarterly session of
the F. K. <& C. U. of A. met in
regular sesson with the Newark.
Union: Friday and Saturday, I)e~
i cember loth and 16th,
MORNING SESSION.
At 10 o’clock a. m. the house
was called to order by President
jJno. C. Stewart.
After the usual opening exer
cises W. C. Sanders, J. \Vr. Fefc
zer and T. A. Bullington were ap
pointed as members of the creden
tial committee.
While the committee were mak
ing ready their report, interesting'
j speeches were made by various*
members of the body.
Committee on credentials made
its report. It was found that there
were 88 delegates representing
their respective unions. There
were 50 delegates present.
At the opening of the evening
session Hon. T. J. Raney in be
half of the town os Newark deliv
| ered an address of welcome. Vice
President James Marlin replied in"
behalf of the Union, after which
the body went into executive ses
i sion.
John Magness, being a candi
| date before the people for an of
fice, resigned his position as door
keeper and also as a member of
the executive committee. J. K.
York also resigned his position as
, a member of above named com
j mittee for similar reasons. C. P
Pickens and W. C. Sanders wer^ f
appointed to till the vacancies in
! said committee.
An open session was held at
night. Vice President Marlin de
livered an interesting address on
the educational features of the
1'nion. There were also interest
ing addresses by J. K. York, (Jol.
Moore, Rev. James Jernigan and
others. The second day’s session
was executive.
It was decided to hold the next
county union meeting at James
town in March 1906.
Among the resolutions passed
were the following: “Be it re
solved that we, the County Union,
j extend to the generous and hos
pitable people of Newark our sin
cere thanks for the courteous man
ner in which they have entertain
ed us during our stay with them,
and especially to the ladies of the
choir for the excellent music given
us at the night session.”
[ „W. 1). Bi i.linuton, Sec.
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE.
, The Journal is in receipt of the
• following note from Presiding El
der James F. Jernigan in regard
to the first quarterly conference
of the Methodist church:
“The first quarterly conference
for Sulphur Rock circuit will be
held at Newark Saturday and Sun
day, December 30th and 81st. A.
good attendance of the officials is
f
much desired, as business of irn
^! portance will come up for consid
eration. Let us pray for a time
1 of awakening to come to the un
s < lodly, and that some sin-sick souL
may be saved.”
f Men’s, boys’ and children’s ov
e ercoats; ladies' misses’ and child
- ren’s jackets, all go in the Decem
ber sale at Whiting Company’s.