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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1920
VOL. 20 NO. 35
NEWPORT’S LEVEE
NEAR COMPLETION
Protection From White River
Cost Jackson County Town
Huge Sum
Newport, Dec- 1.—Two
years ago the Newport Levee
directors let the contract to
Dennison & Burcher fer the
building of a levee and wall
around Newport for flood pro
tection, to cost approximately
$300,000. The dirt levee was
finished last summer, and the
wall of solid concrete is near
ing completion and will prob
ably be turned over to the di
rectors as a finished job by
the middle of the month The
contractors have a force ot 50
men at work and before cold
weather will complete the
enormous task of controlling
the waters of White river, as
the concrete wall is the entire
river front for several hundred
feet, connecting with the dirt
levee.
The base of the wall ; four
feet thick with reinforced con
crete and laid on sheet pika;*',
is nine feet high, making it v
big and substantial wall that
will preset the ( of New
port from flood waters tha'
have on two occasions invaded
the city and caused terrible
destruction. The Morgan En
gineering Company of Mem
phis drew the plans for tl e
work which is being ’finished ■
with their approval.
THE MATTER WITH HIM
“Come, now! Don’t look so
miserable!” said a Tumlinville
photographer. “Just »pret- ml
in your own mind that you are
going to get married tomor
row.”
“Dad-burn the dad-burned
luck, that’s presizely what I
am going to do!”
EACHERS PROGRAM
The following program has;
cm prepared for the teachers
meeting to be held at Bates
vrlle, Saturday December 11,
1920
Opening—O.. T. Jernigam
President’s Address.
Professb nal Reading.—G.
M. Ward.
Gleanings from A. S. T. A-—
Edgar Holcombe.
The Coarse of Studv.—W.
T. Jernigan.
1 The Teaching of Geography
—C. F. White.
Meeds of our Schools.—Prof.
Lewis.
Contests. — Mrs. Leland •
Bunch.
Round Table Discussion.
The regular quarterly ex-;
an.ination will be held at the'
frrdepond nee coifiiff*"coftff1
house, the third Thursday and I
Friday of December.
' W. E. MORRIS, Pres.
S. E. WELLS, j
County Examiner-;
NO SPECIAL SESSION
Gcv. Brough has announced
that there will be no more j
special si ssions of the legisla- •
ture during his term of office.
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SW W U I
It is common cents that make dollars and enough
dollars make a FORTUNE.
If you ever expect to ha\e ‘‘a barrel of money”
you must use COMMON SENSE and bank regularly
a PART of your income.
Nor must you let some peddler of a “fakei
scheme” get in his work on you.
Consult your BANKER before you invest.
We are at your service.
We invite YOUR banking business.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Newark, Arkansas
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $75,000.00
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NEW PLAN TO GET
REVENUE FOR ROADS
Highway Commission Would
Tax Autos According to
Horsepower & Weight
A plan for obtaining revenue
for road maintenance in Ark
ansas through the taxing of
automobiles and motor trucks
according to horsepower and
gross weight or capacity, will
be recommended to the state
legislature for consideration
by Chairman W. B. Owen of
the State Highway Commission
in lii3 biennial report.
The present system of licens
ing automobiles and trucks,
Mr. Owen declares, is mani
iestiy inequitable, inasmuch as
tae uwat-i ui a ngut luausiei
is forced to pay as much as
the owner of a heavy truck.
The light car takes practically
nothing from the roads or
streets it traverses, while the
eavy truck is the greatest des
tructive factor with which
highway forces have to con
tend.
Arkansas, Mr. Owens points
out, is one of the only five
states in the country still hav
ing a flat automobile license
rate. The others are Kansas,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and
South Dakota.
Mr. Owens plan would pro
yjtfi for the building of roads
with the usual funds, after
which the automobile license
tees would be looked for to
laintain the highways. In hi
eport, Mr. Owens deals with
the plan only in general, but in
raking public this part of the
report he said he had worked
out a plan on a more technical
basis that would provide for
the distribution of automobile
license funds according to the
cost and kind of road combin
ed with the amount of traffic
handled by them.
Mr. Owens declares that the
present three-mill road tax,
provided by law for road main
tenance, if all collected, would
furnish only $1,700,000 to be
distributed over 52,000 miles
of public roads in the state and
would properly maintain only
6,000 miles of road, leaving
nothing with which to main
tain the other 40,000 miles.
The federal aid law, under
which Arkansas has received
more than $4,000,000 for road
building during the last five
years, Mr. Owen points out,
provides that the roads on
which the money is expended
must be properly kept up. In
the event the state is negligent
in this matter the state will
face the possibility of having
other federal aid refused in the
future.
There will probably not be
the flood of local road legisla
tion in the coming session of
Ihe legislature that there was
i i the last session, but the roa 1
problem is a vital one in Ark
ansas and must be dealt with
in some manner.
Dr. A. A. Evans and H. A.
Gire returned Friday from a
camp hunt with a pu"ty of
friends in the St. Francis hot
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toms. They killed a number
of turkeys and other small
game but failed to get any
deer.
MRS. MAGNES3 ENTERTAIN
Mrs. E. G. Magness enter
| tained the officers of the La
j dies Home Missionary Society
! with a beautifully appointed
four course dinner Friday ev
ening in honor of the Presi
dent, Mrs- Chas. M. Edwards,
who has been so untiring and
faithful in her efforts to make
the society a flourishing suc
cess this year.
Toasts were given between
courses, and later plans were
discussed for the betterment of
the society next year. Tho. se
present were Mrs. C. M. Ed
wards, Mrs. O. L. Bone, Mrs.
Chas. Atkinson, Mrs. John
Adams, Mrs. T. II. Dearing,
Mrs. E. W. Nelson, Mrs. B. F.
Adams, Mrs. L. G. Poe, Mrs.
W. C- Martin, and Mrs. H. E.
Hawthorne.
KILLS HIMSELF^WHEN
FRIEND REFUSES TO
Searcy, Nov. 29.—Asking
that he do him a favor, Walter
Sutton camly requested Dewey
Long to shoot him, and when
Long refused to accomodate
him, Sutton walked away,
leaned the gun against a fence
with the muzzle against his
heart, pushed the trigger with
a forked stick and killed him
self. The man, who lived at
West Point, 12 miles from
I Searcy, had been acting queer
ly for some time. It is thought
■ by some that an unsuccessful
love affair had made him des
pondent, as he is reported to
have previously threatened his
own life. He was 24 years old
and had been in West Point
only a few months.
Nothing is known of the rel
atives of the dead man, though
he claimed to have come from
Texas.
ZINC MINES CLOSED
Rush, Nov. 29.—There is
not a wheel turning at any zinc
mine in this camp on account
of the low price of ore. It is
expected, however, that the
Edith-Lonnie Boy, one of the
richest mines in the camp, will
start operations by the first of
the year. McCormick, manag
er of the pi'operty, states that
there is a big tonnage of rich
ore developed and that if the
labor situation eases up a bit
and the price of powder goes
down or the price of ore ad
vances a little they can make
fl pi UHL.
WOMAN’S BURNS
PROVE FATAL
While sitting before an open
fireplace combing her chil
dren’s hair, the clothing of
Mrs. Russell Bruce of Violet
i Hill, Izard County, took fire
and she sustained burns which
caused her death four days lat
er. Workmen nearby heard
her screams arid went to her
rescue and put out the flames,
but not until she was horribly
| burned. Her children had
made an unsuccessful attempt
to smother the flames with a
BIG INCREASE IN
COTTON FOR COUNTY
The report of J. H. Hill
special cotton agent for Inde
pendence county shows a tota
of 7,924 bales of cotton ginnec
in this county up to Novembei
114, as compared to a total o
5,635 bales to the same dab
last year.
OFFICIALS TAKE OATH t
ON JANUARY 1, 1921 I
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In a statement issued a few f
days ago Attorney General Ar- j
buckle announced that with j
certain exceptions state, dis- j
trict, township and county otti- \
cers elected November 2 will y
take office January 1, 1921. y
Members of the Senate andjj
House of Representatives take
office when the legislature j
convenes the second Monday; (
in January. i
Mr. Arbuckle issued this i
, statement at the request of (
several newly elected officials ,
I '.ho were confused over an act
j of the 1917 General Assembly f
which slightly amends the act }
j specifying the dates of taking
effice, but which does not!,
i change the dates
HARRISBURG LAD IS
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
Harrisburg. Nov. 28.—The i
11-year-old son of L- T. Thorn,
living six miles south of Har- j■
r is burg was accidentally killed ;
today. He was riding a horse
near the bank of a deep gulley
or wash when the banks caved
.off and the horse fell, killing •
him almost instantly,
sheet.
WHERE PREACHERS
GO FOR NEXT YEAR
Methodist Ministers Assigned
For Batesville District
for the Coming Year
At the. Methodist. Annual
Conference held at Rogers last
veek, the following appoint
nents were made for the
latesville district.
If. L. Wade, presiding elder;
Satesville First Church, F. M.
’’clleson; Central Avenue, E.
I. Hook; Bexar, J. O. Vance;
lethesda, J. W. Johnston;
’harlotte, M. B. Nichols; Cot
er, J. W. Black; Calico Rock,
). II. Holland; Calico Rock
ircuit, H. K. Stewart; Desha,
I. J- Reaves; Evening Shade,
. B. Finley; Floral, W. B. Mc
dullen; Kenyon, W. S. Storey ;
dinturn, W. A. Franks; Mel
iourne, N. S. Chaney; Moun
ain View, J. G- Parker; Moun
ain Home, O. D. Langston;
Newark, J. F. Jernigan; New
tort Mission, M. B. Umsted;
Jewburg, Verner Bruce; Sala
lo and Oil Trough, Porter
Veaver; Sulphur Rack, T. H.
Vright; Swifton and Alicia, F.
j. Villines; Tuckerman, W. W.
Ubright; Yellville, L. L. Cloud
Rev. E. W. Nelson who has
erved Newark the past year
;oes to Monette.
Rev. J. E. Snell of this place
vas assigned to Wheatley and
'iavnes
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WHO IS THE GUILTY p
CULPRIT? Q
If you want to learn p
il who is “Respectable By p
j Proxy,” go to the Roy- P
al Friday night. p
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Batesville, Ark