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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, June 2, 191 1
Vol. I I, No. 8
BIBLE IS A GOOD GUIDE
Thinks Solomon Has Placed ,~1 is
construction Upon it Con
cerning Women
Mr. Kditor. It seems that Solo
mon thinks he has bottled up the
discussion of the woman suffrage
question as completely as if the
Almighty had especially appointed
him to do the work.
According to Solomon’s state
ment, he thinks women are as in
ferior to men as the present day
(iuinea negro is to a good honest
American citizen. That is truly a
high estimate he places upon his!
mother and the other feminine I
members of his home.
He leads me to believe that he;
should have lived several hundred
years ago, when his wisdom (?)
might have been more appreciated.
1 venture to say that scores of
women could be found in Solo
mon’s community who are as far
superior to him, both mentally!
and morally, as he claims to be of1
his mother.
nut commit back to the ruble,
some of Solomon’s quotations are
absolutely punk. First Corinth
ians 11:31 can just as readily be
interpreted in another sense, and
might mean, according to the best
lexiographers, that women shall
not raise a disturbance during the
church services.
First Timoth 2:9 means, without
a shadow of a doubt, that women
are not to appear in church ex
travagantly dressed, or dressed be
yond their means.
The reading of the other quota
tions will immediately convince
any sane person that they do not
touch the top, bottom or side of
the present-day suffrage question.
So far as I have been able to
learn, the Bible teaches us to do
the right and avoid the wrong, and
I have never been able to find
where it set up one rule for man
and other for woman.
Would woman suffrage be in
conflict with the “do-right-and
avoid-the-wrong" principle?
The Bible is our best piece of
literature, and 1 am glad to say
that it is not in conflict with the
principles of woman’s suffrage.
SrnscRiHKR.
Fayetteville, Arkansas.
NOTICE TO HUNTERS
We have posted our . pastures j
and will allow no hunting in them.
Fllkr Bros.
A "BAD NIGGER” KILLED
Bad Blood and Bad Booze Prove
Patal to Husky Citizen
of Diaz. F riday
Ceorge Could, a ‘‘had nigger”
who lived al Diaz, and had been a
terror to that community for sev
eral years, was killed Friday night
about 10 o’clock by John Reddus,
another negro, known as “Ten
nessee John.”
Could has been in trouble a
number of times, and about a year
ago narrowly escaped being killed
by a whiteman. Twooi three years
ago he grossly insulted some young
white men near Newport and they
both took shots at him with the
result that he barely escaped with
his life, receiving a dangerous
wound.
Bad blood had existed between
Could and Reddus for some time
and the trouble was renewed Fri
day while both were under the in
fluence of booze. The trouble
culminated in Reddus going to
Could’s home and shooting him
down. Could died Saturday morn
ing about 5 o'clock.
Reddus escaped and has not been
captured.
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING
The Black River, Logan and
Dota township Sunday School con
vention will meet at Oak Ridge
church, one mile north of Cord,
Saturday, June 10. The following
program has been arranged.
10 a. m. Devotional service led
by J, A. Gould.
Why men should attend Sunday
school and how they may he induc
ed to do so. M. A. Sullivan.
Reading, Arab life in Central
Arabia. Mrs. Jennie Reaves.
The present day demand for
trained teachers and what we can
do to supplv this demand. Rev.
C. C. I lively.
1:30 p. m. Devotional service led
by Robert I buni on.
Reading. Through Mr. Titbot
toin’s spectacles. Miss Wreathie
Best.
Needs and results of effective
organization. C. P. Pickens.
election of officers, and other
business.
HIM USE TO ADJOURN
Senator T. J. Raney introduced
a resolution in the senate Tuesday
for the adjournment of the special
session of the legislature on Satur
day, the 3rd, hut the resolution
was defeated by a vote of 1(> to 15.
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PROF. J. 13. STEWARD
Recently Elected Principal of the Newark Hi(*h School
OIL TROUGH T1NKL1NGS
Doings of the W eek Among Our
Neighbors Across the W hite
Mrs. Will Rutlege, has a very
sick baby.
Brady Parker and sister have
gone to keeping house.
Prof. W. A. Mayhue's son, Ben
nie, has been very sick for a week,
but is improving.
Rev. Bonner, a christain preach
er, preached at the White school
house Sunday and Sunday night.
Several parties went out on Re
partee creek fishing Tuesday, but
report the creeK too dry for fish to
bite.
We have a good Sunday school
which meets every Sunday at 3 p.:
m. A new organ has been ordered
for the church.
Mrs. C. C. Wingo and Thomas
Hackney returned Saturday from
Sharp county, where they visited a
sister they had not seen in thirty i
years.
We have a nice school house and
Woodmen hall completed, and
have a gasoline lighting plant in
stalled that turns darkness into
daylight.
John Hill returned last week
from Texas and Oklahoma, where
he had been visiting relatives. He
reports crops fine in both Texas
and Oklahoma.
.1. D. Aydelott and daughter,
Miss Dollie, of Searcy, are visiting
relatives here this week. Mr. Ay
delott was conducting a restaurant
in Searcy, but was burned out
while he was here.
It seems from the continued
passing both ways that we have an
auto line through Oil Trough.
When we go out driving on Sun
days we have to go the back roads
and through the fields so as togive
the right-of-way .o the autos.
The Old Maids Club gave an en
tertainment Saturday night that
would have been hard for a New
York theatrical troupe to have
equaled. They took in $13.s0.
which will be applied on the new
church building. They will go to
Rosie Saturday night, the 3rd.
Locals are scarce, so is moisture,
for its getting very dry over this
way, and to say its hot is putting
it very mild. Cotton hoeing is the
order of the day. Corn and cotton
don’t seem to be doing much good
owing to the dry weather, and poor
stands are reported generally. Po
tatoes are not very good and gar
dens are suffering, but the alfalfa
crop is fine.
NEW SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Prof .1 15. Steward Elected Prin
cipal of Newark high School
Prof. J. B. Steward, who has
has been principal of the Wilmot
Hi,<jh School for the past two years,
has been elected principal for the
Newark High School for the ensu
ing year.
Prof. Steward was principal of
the school here during the session
of 1907-08. He is an excellent
school man and his many friends
are delighted to learn that he will
return and take charge of the
school again.
None of the teachers have been
elected, although the board has a
number of applications.
CHARLOTTE CIPHERS
Mrs. Mary Byrum is quite sick
with the fever.
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Lige
Brittain, on Monday, a fine girl.
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Moore, last Tuesday, a fine boy.
Quite a large crowd attended
Children’s Day services here Sun
day.
Mrs. Daisy Williams of Conway
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. G. J.
Lindsey, and family.
Miss Lucy Criglcr of Walnut
Ridge arrived here Tuesday to visit
her mother, Mrs. Rachel Crigler.
Hon. W. D. Baker was called
home from Little Rock last week
by the illness of his son, Emmett.
SHOULD CONSULT A DOCTOR
Editor Newark Journal. - 1 see
that Mr. Solomon is still trying to
convince the world that woman :
is a little lower than the brutes. 1
am sure his eloquence is wasted J
and he will have to find another j
subject for a brain so expansive as
he imagines his to be. Poor fellow!
I am sincerely sorry for him. I am
sure he has no wife or daughters
and never had a mother, but like
“Topsy” in Cncle Tom’s Cabin,
“jes growed."
1 think Solomon’s liver must be
out of order and a few doses of
physic might clear that clogged in
telect of his.
With all due respect to Solomon’s
superiority, I am, respectfully.
M. E. M.
Magness, Ark., May 26.
J A CO 15 SO N - M A T HEN V
A. A. Jacobson of St. Joseph,
Mo., and Miss Lee Matheny were
married at the home of the bride’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Ma
theny, in Batesville, Tuesday
morning at 1 o’clock, Rev. E. A.
Holloway officating. They left on
the early train for Little Rock and
other points to spend a few days'
before going to their home in St.
Joseph.
IMPROVE WHITE RIVER
New .Steel to be Laid and Other
I mportant Improvements
Made this Summer
It is reported that new eighty
live pound steel rails will he put
in on a good portion of the White
River road this summer to replace
the present light rails.
It is reported that Rail & Peters
have been given the contract for
re-surfacing and ballasting the
roadbed and laying new rails from
Diaz to Batesville and that they
will begin the work at an early
date.
Work on the new steel bridge
across Black river will be resumed
at once and pushed to completion.
Work on the bridge has been sus
pended for some time on account
of the lack of material. All the
piers have been finished and a good
deal of the other premliminary
work done, and it will not require
a great deal of time to finish the
structure when the other material
arrives. When finished this will
be one of the best bridges on the
entire system.
It is said that this year will see a
great change for the better in the
White River road, both in the mat
ter of equipment and service as
well as in the character of the
road.
CAPT. Y. n. MACK DEAD
Capt. Y. M. Mack died at his
home near Moorefield Thursday of
last week, from kidney trouble.
Capt. Mack was 73 years old, a
veteran of the Civil war, and one
of the county’s best citizens. He
was a man of generous impulses,
of excellent habits and of fine mor
al character. He was a practical,
matter-of-fact man, but had his
own peculiar way of extracting
merriment from life as he went a
long. He was not disposed to worry
about matters that could be bet
tered in other ways. This cheerful
spirit remained with him to the
last, and is one that all should cul
tivate. W hen he died, full of years
and ready to be gathered to his
fathers, the grief that was felt at
the close of his long career was
widespread and sincere. His best
monument will be the manner of
life he has left behind him in the
community in which he lived for
so many years.
The remains were buried with
Masonic honors Friday at the fam
ily burying ground near his home.
SALLY ANN TALKS BACK
I hinks Men Have No Monopoly
on Available Supply of the
World’s Wisdom
Mr. Kditor. It seems that .Solo
mon has made a specialty of re
vival exhortations on women keep
ing silent. I think his mouth the
most effective tiling about him.
He thinks himself very convinc
ing and puts his quotations in
words so plain that a wayfaring
man, though a fool, couldn’t make
a mistake.
You remember the saying,“Con
vince a woman against her will,
and she is of the same opinion
j still.” I read Solomon’s wisdom (?)
with agitated surprise, and passed
it on to “Mrs. Kve,” who raised
her eyebrows and handed it to
“Mrs. Abraham,” who was thrown
into a visible flutter, as she had
just called her husband lord.
He thinks women are inferior
to men, and should keep silent and
not teach, although she may be
well qualified, have a college diplo
ma and a liking for the work. Still
she must stay at home, wash, iron,
cook—do anything to make the
farm pay. This no doubt finds an
echo in Solomon’s heart.
Hut I think there are just as
many and just as good ideas in
woman’s head as there are in
man’s.
Romans 16:1-2 says, “1 commend
unto you Phcbe, our sister, which
is a servant of the church at Cen
Ichera; that you receive her in the
: Lord as becometh saints, and that
ye assist her in whatsoever busi
I ness she hath need of you.”
Here Paul is sending a letter to
I the Christians at.Rome introduc
ing a hand of his co-workers, and
he heads the list with Sister Phebe,
making no distinction unless it be
in her favor.
Now, as to women voting, my
opinion is that so long as the fran
chise is given without restrictions
as to illiteracy or other qualifica
tions, absolute harm is done by ex
tending it to the women. Wom
an’s part in the world is fine
enough; little luster would be add
ed to it by descending to the base
intrigues of politics. Sally Ann.
TAX ASSESSOR COMINO
Tax assessor C. M. Flinn will
begin his annual round of the
county next Monday at Elmo. His
list of appointments will he found
in another column of tody’s paper.
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