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The Newark Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
OSCAR F. CRAKi, Editor.
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FR1DAY, J A MARY 27, 1 w >o.
Did Mr. Fuller get fuller on the
wrong article?
If there’s anything in ;i name
Representative Fuller ought to be
able to know beer when be sees it.
without tht> aid or consent of an
official inspector.
A bill has been introduced in
the legislature amending the game
laws so as to permit the killing of
snipe and plover. \\ e suppose
the boys can now go ’’snipe hunt
ing.’' ...___
It is rumored that the Harde
man Free Press will be moved to
.Little Rock when the law creating
the office of state beer inspector
becomes effective, in order that
Editor Reeves may be appointed
to tlu' position.
The Journal believes that the
legislature should pas.s an act al
towing school dist riots to increase
their tax levy to ten mills. The
insufficiency of funds is a great
handicap to our public schools all
over the state. No amount of tax
is too great if properly spent in
educating the boys and girls of the
state, and the present limit of five
mills is entirely inadequate. It
would be much better to make five
mills the minimum, instead of the
maximum limit, and allow the tax
payers to levy any tax for school
purposes that they might see lit.
The legislature could materially
i aid the good roads movement by
abolishing the new chancery dis-i
tricts created by the last legisla-j
I Lure and appropriating the money j
to the different county road funds j
I that it now costs to pay the salaries
of the chancery judges.
In discussing the proposed mar
riage and divorce law now before
the legislature, the Pocahontas
. Star says speedy marriages should
: be prohibited, and that a man
; should be compelled to court his
sweetheart at leaat a year before
being permitted to marry her.
This looks to us like a sinister
scheme to prohibit widows and
widowers from marrying.
There’s no rubbing it out. That
man 1 Iaskiell of the Arkansas tia/.
ette is a genuine humorist, lie
wants the attorney-general to
bring suit against the country
newspaper trust, and figures it out
that the state will derive enough
revenue in tines from this source
to complete the new state house.
Hut the attorney-general should
try the new anti-trust law on
something easy first. These cor
pulent trust magns tes of the press
association are going to spend their
millions in a manner calculated to
corrupt every court in the land
when the.\ are brought to trial.
DUTY OF A NKWSPAPKR.
The Beebe News has "got its
back up” over an editorial pub
lished in i he Journal, (which, by
the way, has been indorsed by a
number of our exchanges) in which
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Remember that our usual low prices still
prevail in all the following lines:
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Batesville, = - Arkansas.
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Is The Host Complete and Up
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County, and the Price is
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we mentioned the fact that Broth
er Woods was loo ready to criti
cise any suggested reforms com
ing from a Republican source, and
charges us with having “made no
effort whatever to defeat a Repub
lican for governor of Arkansas
in the last September election.”
We are not surprised at this,
however, for according to the
News' idea of “supporting the
ticket” (especially if Jeff Davis’
name happens to be on the ticket)
a. newspaper e ust ignore the real
purpose for which a newspaper is
supposed to he published— the dis
semination of news -and devote
its entire contents to lambasting
ami hattlewhanging the opposition
with any and ail kind of state
ments and assertions, regardless
of reason, facts, figures or logic,
and to praise your party leaders
and sanction their every word and
deed regardless of its effect -eith
er upon the welfare of the coun
try, the success of the party, or
the standing of the paper, individ
ually.
The Journal’s idea of a newspa
per’s duty to its leaders, the peo
ple who pay their money for the
priviledge of reading its contents,
is to publish news and give both
sides of all questions and allow its
readers to form their own con
clusions—and not try to force up
on them the individual ideas and
opinions of its editor. Of course
the editor has a right and it is his
duty, to discuss, editorially, any
and all questions of public interest,
but he should do so in a gentle
manly manner, and not as if lie
thought all those who differed
from him were lit subjects for an
insane asylum.
But our brother's assertion that
The Journal did not support the
Democratic ticket in the last elec
tion does us a rank injustice, as the
tiles of The Journal will show. In
fact, we, for the time being, so
far forgot and ignored one of the
cardinal virtues and time-honored
customs of the party that we ac
tually violated all precedent, and
not only voted for, but advocated
the election of one of the party
nominees for a third term. No
other paper in the county made
any tight for the ticket, and The
Journal did so over the protest of
some of the oldest and best Demo
crats in the county.
But the Sharp County Record
sums up the situation in a nutshell.
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C. T. ROSENTHAL,
BATES VILLE, . . . ARKANSAS.
Prices are right. Assortment as complete
as can he found in the state. Your particular
attention is called to our line of
Heating Stoves a:r! Cook Stoves.
On these we can offer extra inducements.
Your patronage respectfully solicited.
C. T. ROSENTHAL.
as follows:
“Why will the 'steemed Newark
Journal waste its wind trying1 to
pound a bit of reason into the Bee
be News' It can't be done."
As Brother Coger has had some
experience in the matter referred
to, we are willing to take his word
for it and say no more.
MAGNESS HAPPENINGS.
Tomlinson <Sc Lewis have a new
shop.
Work has begun on the big
store here.
More cold weather; thermometer
below “cairo.
W. I). Magness slaughtered
twenty-one hogs yesterday (Tues
day).
Geo. Young of Batesville has
bought \\ ill Waldrip’s place north
of town.
T. M. Waldrip was down from
Batesville a few days this wee, on
business.
Ed Troy of Heber has gone in
to the mercantile business here
with his son, Will.
T. M. Waldrip has let the con
tract for the erection of a two sto
ry dwelling in Magness.
The Oak Grove church house,
which was destroyed by tire re
cently, will be rebuilt soon.
(irandma Kay died Sunday night
of consumption, and was buried
Monday at the Magness grave
yard.
Demp Weaver has bought the
property east of the Ladd-Ijewis
store and will move to town in a
few days.
Emmett McJenkin happened tc
a bad accident a few days ago,
while cutting wood. lie made a
f
i glancing lick and cut his foot real
bad, but is getting along very well
at present.
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Would Change Assessment Laws*
Senator McKerrin has introduc
ed a bill in the legislature to so
I amend the present assessment laws
and to abolish county boards of
equalization and to establish town
ship boards, to be composed of the
i assessor and the justices of the
peace in each township, who are
authorized to take up the assess
ments, assesses property, etc. The
justices are required to meet with
the assessor, on receiving notice
from him, and in case the taxpay
ers fail to comply with the law as
to making returns on property for
taxation, under the laws now in
force, the justices are to visit the
property and assess the same. The
justices of the peace are to be paid
$2 per day while actually engaged
! in these duties. Taxpayers are
i authorized to appeal to the county
courts in case they consider them
selves aggrieved by the the assess
ments so made.
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