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The Newark Journal
Published In The Famous white River country, where Alfalfa is kino
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, July 30, 1909
Vol. 9. No. 16
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SKETCHES FROM SALADO
Doings of the Week Among Our
Neighbors Across the White
A nice rain fell Thursday and
was ranch appreciated.
N. E. DeCamp who has been at
work at Elmo for some time is at
home for a few days.
II. D. Inman and family of
Desha passed through here Sunday
to visit fjiends near Newport.
Nathan Sanders and family are
visiting Mrs.Sanders’ mother, Mrs.
Edmonson, near Elmo this week.
The picnic at the Little Hock
crossing on Salado Saturday, was
attended by a number of our
young people.
Luther Daniels removed from
our township a few days ago to
Paroquet where he is employed in
the timber business.
As crops are being finished, the
wagons are being put into use in
the stave and lumber haul, from
the hills to Batesville.
J. H. Nash and S M. Trammel
are at Balch this week attending
the Borden-Bogard debate which
is being held at that place.
A thunderbolt Thursday during
the rain caused the team of G. C.
Baker to run away with a cultiva
tor. But little damage was done.
Justice court was in session
awhile Friday on account of two
of the boys participating in an old
fashioned rough and tumble en
gagement.
The Southwest District Union
had a meeting here Saturday and
elected officers for the ensuing
year besides attending to quite a
lot of other business.
The summer term of school at ;
this pl^e is progessing nicely j
witli Prof. Aldridge of Cave City
as principal. Mrs. Jane Dodd has
charge of the primary department. |
Sterling Davis, who removed
from here twenty years ago, dur
which time he has been over most
of the Southwest, returned a few
days ago on a visit to relatives and
old friends.
J. W. Scott was elected justice
of the peace in our township at
the recent special election to fill a
vacancy caused by the division of
the township in the formation of
Rosie township.
Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Shelpman'
and Miss Francis Allen of Little
Rock are visiting the parents of i
Mr. Shelpman. They will return
home Wednesday, where Mr. j
Shelpman is employed as book- j
keeper for the Waters Pierce Oil '
Co., of that city.
KIRBY LIKES DONAGHEY
The report published over I he
state that former Attorney (ten
eral W. F. Kirby will oppose Gov
Donaghey for a second term, hn<
been denied by Mr. Kirby, and ht
j announces that he will be a candi
date for associate justice of thf
supreme court, to succeed Judge
Battle, whose term expires nexl
year.
Mr. Kirby says that even if hf
had no intention of entering the
contest for associate justice, he
certainly would not oppose Gov.
Donaghey for a second term. Me
says Donaghey is doing well a^
governor, and does not think there
is a man in the state who can de
feat him for a second term.
Kirby uras one of Donaghe.v’s
opponents for the gubernatorial
nomination last year, and this
spring was appointed by Governor
Donaghey as assistant counsel for
the state in the railroad rate cases
at a salary of $5,000 a year.
SHOT DOWN IN COURT HOUSE
In the Pulaski county court
house, in the presence of Judge
Fulk, United States Senator JelT
Davis and others, Tuesday after
noon at Little Rock, W. Y. Ellis
of Pine Bluff, nephew of Jno. F.
Rutherford, millionaire lumber
man and prominent Democratic
politician, shot and almost instant
ly killed Nathaniel P, Willis, a
wealthy resident of Indianapolis,
Ind., a former husband of Ellis’
wife. The killing was the tragic
culmination of a long and bitter
legal warfare which had been
waged between the dead man and
his divorced wife (now Mrs. Ellis)
for the possession of their six-year
old child.
Fearing mob violence, Deputy
Sheriff' Steele and Detective Haw
kins took Ellis to Newport Tues
day night, where he was placed in
the Jackson county jail for safe
keeping.
MORE DRAINAGE CONTRACTS
Harrisburg, July 27. —The con
tracts for digging two more drain
age canals in this county have
been let to the Mitchell Dredging
Company. Canal No. 2 was let
for 12 cents per yard, and No. 5
at 11.624- cents per yard. There
were sixteen bids on the work, and
the contracts were let at the lowest
figures of any work of that char
acter that has ever been contracted
for in this county.
PURPOSES OF A BANK
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 BANK
Geo. L. Green, President
A. A. Henderson, Cashier
For Sale—A fine pair of big
mules. Apply to R. K. McHenry.
R. M. Galloway left Monday
| for Balch to attend the Bogard
; Borden debate.
Clarence Crook of Newport was
in town Wednesday, having driven
up in his automobile.
Geo. L. Green left Wednesday
morning for points up the White
! River road on business.
Mrs. and Mrs. W. W. Magness
and little daughter, Mary Eleanor,
spent Thursday at Batesville.
.1. F. Morgan and little daugh
ter Nettie, left Tuesday night for
Hot Springs to spend a few days.
Rev. das. F. Jernigan will be
gin a revival meeting at the Meth
odist church near Elgin next Mon
| day.
Mrs. Atlas Brannon, who has
been quite sick for some time
with typhoid fever, is reported to
be improving.
Mrs. M.d. Leonard returned to
her home at Newpport Saturday,
after a pleasant visit here with
Mrs. Mollie Porter.
W. I). Murphy, who has a posi
tion with the Farmers Bank at
Newport, spent Sunday and Mon
day here with relatives.
PEACH CROP SHORT
Batesville, duly 28.—The El
berta peach crop in this section is
fast being marketed, two cars
j being shipped out Tuesday. The
j crop is very short, practically noth
ing compared to other years, and
all the fruit of this class will be
I gone at the end of this week.
Some growers sold their crop in
the orchard at $1 per bushel, the
buyers to gather and crate the
same.
One orchard in this county,
which usually yeilds several car
: loads, will not yeild five bushels
this season, and others have so
few no attempt will be made to
market what inferior fruit they
have.
TO THE PUBLIC
1 wish to announce that I have
| bought the R. C. Dorr Mercantile
Company’s stock of goods at this
place, consisting of about #3,750
worth of tirst class general mer
chandise, all of which I am selling
at considerably reduced prices. I
can save you money. Come to
see me. ,J. H. Jimekson.
Sulphur Rock, Arkansas.
A THOUGHT FOR THE FARMER
The farmer who rents the land
upon which he makes his crop, and
^ who is compelled to execute a
mortgage to his merchant for sup
; plies, will never do much in the
way of diversified farming. Un
til he is free from both of these
j weights, he is chained to one
, crop—the all-cotton crop.—Clar
j endon Sun.
WHEAT CROP GOOD
N. M. Wilson, who has been
running a thresher, reports the
wheat crop pretty good. The
acreage was small this year, but
the crop has turned out a pretty
I fair yield. There ought to be more
wheat grown in this county.
A SHORT WILL
The will of dames Burke, once
chief of the Memphis fire depart
ment, tiled for probate last Mon
day, is one of the shortest on re
cord. It reads: “I want my wife
to have everthing I have.”
N. M. Wilson hAm some seed
wheat for sale, and parties who de
sire to buy are advised to call on
him and get same at once. He is
selling it only for planting pur
poses.
There is a general cry for rain
from the people living north and
west of town. No rain has fallen
in that section in about three
weeks and crops are beginning to
sutler. A gook rain fell in Oil
Trough and Big Bottom all south
of Newark a week ago yesterday.
An exchange has discovered that
a poor girl has to be awfully good
looking to be pretty, and a rich
girl has to be awfully homely to
be ugly. It might have added
that a poor man has to be awfully
smart to be intelligent, and a rich
man almost a blockhead to be
ignorant.
Judge Pearce made a thirty-five
mile drive Tuesday in White River,
Magness and Big Bottom town
ships, visiting the Big Slouch
Bridge works and the road work
ings in three townships. He re
ports crop conditions line in the
river bottoms, but that the hill
crops are fast, burning up in the
present scorching suns.—Bates
ville Guard.
12 SUITS AGAINST RAILROAD
Twelve suits have been filed in
the circuit court at Batesville by
property owners near Newark for
damages against the Iron Mount
ain Railway Company, alleging
that the railroad company, by
raising the road lied, has caused
Thomas creek to overflow their
lands. The suits are similar to
the one tried in the circuit court
last fall in which W. T. Magness
was given judgement againgt the
railroad company, and which is
now pending in the supreme court.
TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
On Saturday, August 14th, the
annual meeting of the school direc
tors of Independence county will
be held in the circuit court room
at Batesville.
An excellent program has been
arranged. It is hoped that every
director and teacher in the county
wiil be present. Sidney Pickens,
County Examiner.
A FOUR DAYS SCRAP
Rev. Ren. M. Bogard, editor of
the Arkansas Baptist, and Rev. E.
M. Borden, editor of the Christian
Pilot, are engaged in a four-days
“religious debate” at Balch this
week, in which they are doubtless
making the fur fly, and rendering
valuable assistance to Satan in
making infidels and skeptics.
THE FARMER
The farmer bends the knee to
none, and is less disturbed by the
world-wide reign of graft and
greed than any of his fellows.
May he live long and prosper—
this son of the soil, who is the bal
ance wheel or the universe.
MARRIAOE LICENSE
Only two marriage license were
issued by County Clerk Sims dur
ing the past week, as follows.
S. V. Martin, aged 21, to Miss
Rebecca l'raddy, 18.
J. W. Farmer, 21, to Miss .Nora
Chandler, 18.
LOOK HERE, HR. MAN
If you want to sell your farm
see the White River Land & In
vestment Co.
THE OTHER FELLOWS PLACE
When you are criticising men
for making mistakes, do you ever
consider that the men who never
make little errors very seldom
make anything? When you are
veiy liberal with your abuse for
someone who has unconciously
made a slight mistake, arc you
just as liberal with your kind
words for him when he is con
scious of the fact that he is doing
I a righteous act? Unjust criticism
is the offspring of egotism, malice
or selfishness. It is disgusting to
the refined, insulting to those with
whom we associate and degrading
to the mind. The most worthless,
ignorant man can draw it to his
bosom and nurture it.
Reason should be our weapon
when we criticise men and their
works. Before you speak evil of
your fellow-man put yourself in
his shoes and consider how you
would feel under smiliar circum
stances.
CONVICTS ON PUBLIC ROADS
There wore 18 convicts working
on the public roads Monday and 12
Tuesday.
The work is being taken from
the end of the rock road in East
Newport and is to he 1(5 feet wide
and built the same as the streets
of Newport.
Mr. Hill, who built the roads in
Newport, is starting the work and
the convicts are under the care of
warden «J. U. Ard
Jackson county is the first in
the state to begin the work. New
port Democrat.
REPAIRING SCHOOL BUILDING
The school board is having the
; small frame building on the public
school campus repaired and fitted
up in good shape, and will use it
for the primary department of the
school. The school has outgrown
the main building, and as the dis
trict will not be able to erect the
desired annex to the building fora
year or two, the small building
will be used temporarily.
Wilson & Hartsfield are doing
the w7ork.
MEN WANTED
The demand for men was never
so great as now, and every line is
issuing the call. Men who can
stand for the higher principles of
life; men who are clean and wide
awake to the demands of the stren
uous times, are the kind of men !
needed.—Brinkley Argus. j
COUNTY IN GOOD SHAPE
Clerk’s Report Shows $24,956.20
in the County Treasury
The annual report of County
Clerk Sims, published in today’s
paper, shows the county to be in
wood condition, financially, there
being the sum of $24,956,20 in the
treasury over and above all liabil
ities.
Few counties in the state are
out of debt, and few indeed, can
boast of having so neat a sum of
actual cash in their treasury.
The report shows some things,
however, that does not speak well
for our county. For instance, the
total assessed valuation of property
in the county is not as great as
was shown in the last report.
The report published a year ago
showed the total assessed valuation
of property in the county to be
$5,150,204, while this years re
port shows only $4,928,306, a de
cline of over two hundred thou
sand dollars. The real estate and
railroads shows a loss of $102,840,
and the personal property a loss
of $122,058.
Evidently somebody has been
renigging on the assessor. Of
course it is possible that the per
sonal property valuations could
show an honest decline, but we all
know there is as much land and
railroad property in the county as
there ever was, and this property
could not have been honestly valued
at any less when the last assess
ment was made than at the preced
ing one.
But while this has lessened the
county’s revenue, the conuty’s ex
penses have also been reduced,
which speaks well for our efficient
corps of county officers.
The report shows the county’s
expenses were less for the year
ending July 1, 1909, than for the
preceding year, the total warrants
issued and outstanding on July 1,
1908, being $54,041 541 while the
report for this year shows the to
tal warrants issued and outstanding
July 1, 1909, as $48,692.33.
The total receipts for the year
ending July 1, 1909, shows a de
crease of #4,565.25 over the preced
ing year.
STRAYED OR STOLEN
A two-year-old light sorrel filley;
halter broke, and is known as a
colt of the old “yoeneck” mare.
Reasonable reward paid for return
of same to me at Newark.
Mrs. Dove Edwards.
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