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The Newark Journal
Published In The Famous White riven Country. Where Alfalfa Is king
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, February 18, 1910
Vol. 9. No. 45
SKETCHES FROM SALADO
Doings of the Week Among Our
Neighbors Across the White
We are having the grip.
Miss Nobia Pearce of Elmo, is
visiting relatives here this week.
J. B. Wright, of Sulphur Rock
was over Friday looking after
business,
Mrs. Augusta Allen, is at Little
Rock this week visiting the family
of,lames C. Allen.
Roe Vaster of Grubbs is spend
ing a few days visit with his sister
Mrs. W. P. Conley.
S. M. Trammell attended the
debate at Newark last week, re
turning home Saturday.
Henry Taylor and family of
Dunnington were visiting the fam
ily of William Tell last week.
I). P. Engles’ residence caught
fire Sunday afternoon but by the
neigh bora acting promptly the
flumes were soon extinguished.
('apt. Engles is having.a very
nice yard fence erected around
his residence which adds greatly
1 to the appearance of his premises.
Mr*. Nellie Varnell and infant
died at their home Friday near
Mcllue. Mr. and Mrs. Varnell
had. been married less than a year
and were excellent young people.
# Miss Robbie Engles who has
• . been teaching the winter term of
school in the Locust Grove neigh
borhood, near Jamestion, closed
the school Friday evening and re
turned home Saturday.
FARMER SLAIN BY SON
Yellville, Feb. 14—W. T. Dav
enport, a well-known farmer, was
shot and killed by his son, Russell
Davenport, aged 17, near here to
day. According to the statement
of the boy, his father had attempt
ed to draw a weapon, after an
nouning his intention to kill him,
when the lad fired. Bad feeling,
it is stated, had existed between
father and son for some months.
TALKING ABOUT JEFF
Jeff Davis in the senate the oth
er day referred to the bankers of
Arkansas as "high-collared roost
ers,’’ and declared that he belong
to an entirely different crowd, to
"the horny-handed, snnburnt sons
of toil.” Of course, the utterance
greatly interested the senate and
pushed its author very far to the
front as a statesman.—Memphis
News Scimtar.
SAYS HE IS SCARED OF IT
Would-be Lawmaker Says Hit
Billie Has Rattled Him
Mr. Editor.—I had made up m;
mind to run for the legislature
but have about decided not to rui
as Hill Billie has demanded tha
we tell our platform. You knov
1 don’t want to tell a lie, and I an
afraid to say that 1 will serve thi
people for fear the railroads, cor
porations and trusts might offe
me some boodle, and if 1 shoulc
take it the people might not wan
to vote for me any more, even un
der the gag rule
You know if I was to tell a lie
and it was found out on me, tin
old booger-man might get me. I
I don’t promise to do something
for the people they won’t vote foi
me, and I am afraid the legislature
won't extend the session, and ther
I’d have to wait two years before
I could go back, and then the peo
pie might take a notion to sene
somebody else next time. And i
I don't do something for the cor
porations and trusts I won’t ge
any boodle money. And then
heard that old Jim Brown wasn’
going to sign no pledge, and I'v<
just got so riled up over the whok
thing that 1 decided not to run foi
the legislature nohow. When th<
peoples’ shoulders get well maybe
I’ll run for road overseer or schoo
director. Tobe Svilkess.
BUSTER BROWN WILL
PLAY AT BATESVILLE
The big Musical Comedy, “Bus
ter Brown,” will play at Bates
ville, Ark., one night, Feb. 21st
and a big crowd is expected. Thii
show last season drew a full house
and is bigger and better this sea
son than last. It is a play thal
will amuse the children and please
the old people. Buster Brown,
Tige, and Mary Jane will be there
just as represented in the comic
papers, and they have forty help
ers, mostly Chorus Girls who arc
pretty and who can sing and dance
The song numbers in this shon
are grand, and cause a great sen
sation, and the play is full of fun
from the begin ing to end. Prices
50c to 11.50. Seats on sale at Me
Adams Drug Store.
CAN’T SEE A JOKE
Coburn Kavanaugh still insist!
tnat his candidacy for governor is
not a joke. Its mighty hard tc
make some people see a joke
-Paragould Soliphone.
I F YOU carry your money around
■ in your pocket, hide it in the
house or bury it, you leave your
self liable to loss from hold-up, fire
robbery or other accident.
H If you keep your money in the
bank you are secure from all these.
% And, you can get it just as easily
when you want it—
«[ BESIDES, you improve your
standing in the community by hav
ing a bank account and paying
your bills by check. TIO 1 f!
We want YOUR account, large or small.
We give to each the same attention.
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK
Geo. L. Green, President
Leslie R. Acton, Cashier
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PLANT AN ACRE TO POULTRY
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The cotton crop of Arkansan produces lots of wealth
But the middlemen and spinners pocket nearly all the pelf.
The rice crop’s a sure winner, but expensive to produce;
j If a man makes good with either, he must hustle like the duece.
The diamond mines of Kimberly, and Pike county, Arkansas,
Look good to speculators, but takes sand within your craw.
There’s apple trees and peaches, wealth producers, in their way,
But fruit raisin’ has it’s drawbacks, if you're in to make it pay.
There's another source of income within the reach of all,
A crop of every season, summer, winter, spring and fall;
It's every day production'makes it worthy of our ken,
’Tis the fruit produced by Biddy, the rustling, laying hen.
Dry weather gets your cotton,.and a whole years work is lost;
The apples and the peaches are often nipped by frost.
The egg crop’s ripening all the time and isn’t hurt by drouth.
Its a crop for everybody, the greatest in the South.
Then raise a flock of chickens and make your income sure,
Cut out all future worry, for your living is secure.
Plant an acre out to poultry and cultivate them well,
You’ll have fresh eggs for breakfast and lots of them to sell.
—Jay Hawker, in Union Poultry Journal.
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Finest sugarhouse molases at J. |
| H. Holderby’s.
Fred Churchwell of HazelGrove
was in town Sunday.
Chas. L. Moore and son, Bond,
of Charlotte were in town Friday.
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Commodore Ball of Charlotte
was transacting business in town
iSaturday.
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Mrs. K. T. Herrington and son.
Wash, attended the funeral of
Miss Zula Jackson at CenterGrove
Sunday.
Owen Walden of Charlotte was
in town Monday en route to Fort
I Smith, where he will take a course
I in telegraphy.
Misses Dora Harrelson and
, Alice Sandefer of the Dota neigh
borhood spent Tuesday night in
town, the guests of Mrs. Nora
Way man.
Miss Esther Case of Batesville,
formerly a missionary in Mex ico,
delivered an excellent lecture on
mission work at the Methodist
> church Tuesday night.
J. W. Barnett returned Friday
from an extended trip to points in
' Oklahoma. He saw quite a good
deal of the new state, but was not
very favorably impressed with the
§ country.
[! Clara Ruby, the six-year-old
\ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. V.
J Merriwether, died at the home of
: her parents a few miles north of
[ town Thursday night of last week,
£ after a prolonged illness from dip
| i theria.
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The postoflice department at
Washington has issued a ruling
that rural mail carriers will no
longer be required to collect loose
coins from mail boxes. Patrons
who desire stamps left in their
boxes or letters stamped must
enclose coins for same in an enve
lop or wrap them in paper so they
may be easily and quickly taken
from box by the carrier.
Tonk Galloway arrived home
Tuesday from St. Louis where he
has been in the Misouri Pacific
Hospital since last fall. He fell
from the Black river bridge, near
Parquet, on the 29th of October,
while engaged as bridge watch
man. He was attempting to open
the draw when the accident oc
curred, and be sustained a broken
limb and other serious injuries.
He has not fully recovered, but is
able to get around with the aid of
a stick. His friends are glad to
I 6$e bio) able to return home.
The announcement of Constable t
YV. L. Hall as a candidate for re
election appears in today’s paper. ,
Mr. Hall has served the people in
this capacity for the past two years
and has made a good officer. He .’
promises the same close attention «
to duty in the future as in the I
past, if the people see lit to re- I
elect him to a second term.
Halley’s Comet is due to appear
soon. Irl. 11. Hick, the noted St. :
Louis astronomer, says it is due
to appear on the 8th of May, but
it has already been sighted by as
tronomers and the prediction has j'
been made by some that it will be ;
visible to the naked eye next Sun
day night. A meteoric shower is
also set for the same date, which,
it is said will be quite a spectacu
lar event.
The Iron Mountain has secured j
control of the Brinkley-Jackson-;
port road, formerly known as the
YY’hite & Black Kiver Valley. The
Iron Mountain already owns the
Arkansas Midland, running from
Brinkle.y to Helena, and with the
White Kiver road, will now have
a direct line from Kansas City to
New Orleans, and it is probable
that through service will be put
on in the near future.
BAKER’S PLATFORM
To the Democratic Voters of
Independence County:
I submit the following policies
which I shall stand for. Consider
these and talk them over with
your neighbors.
First. I favor a pay-as-you-go
government.
Second. I favor the completion
of the state capitol without extra
cost to the taxpayers.
Third. Better roads and longer
schools.
Fourth. Economical manage
ment of the state charitable insti- j
tutions.
Fifth. Remedial legislation on
freight and passenger rates.
Sixth. A democratic disposial
of the liquor question.
Seventh. A $400 salary for
! members of the legislature.
Eighth. An eradication of all
I suspicious tendencies threating!
i the peoples’ interests.
For these I stand. Does this in
terest you? If so, give me your
! support. If 1 don’t go, we will
make the boys who do go think
| they had a fight.
W’m D. Baker,
Candidate for representative, j
BYRAN AND THE SALOON
lireat Democrat Says Saloons arc
Against Virtue and Morality
William ,1. Hr.van recently (Jo
ined his position on the liquor
luestion in the following unmis
takable language:
“The saloon as a rule is an al
ianoe with vice. It is constantly
ised to debauch politics and to
irevent the intelligent considera
tion of public questions. The
iquor interests interfere in all
natters that may even remotely
itfect their interests. They made
themselves odiouins the last ses
sion of the Nebraska legislature.
I he Democrats had a majority in
■>oth branches for the first time in
.he state’s history and the splen
iid record of the legislature has
3ut one blot on it, and that blot
vas put there by the liquor inter
ests. They controlled enough of
■he senators to prevent the sub
mission of the initative and refer
endum.
“The Democratic party cannot
ilford to act as the mouth peice of
he liquor interests. It can have
lothing in common with the *«ei
ish, mercenary and conscienceless
rusade that the liquor interests
lave organized against the home
nd the state, against private vir
ure and public morals.
/OTER WANTS INFORMATION
Mr. Editor:—1 see an item in
■our paper stating that the Hon.
I no. C. Stroud fathered the road
aw and our Big Bottom fence
aw.
But what of that* Does Mr.
3troud want us to pay him for it
his late day, or is he a candidate
or road overseer or fence commi.s
>ionerf I have carefully read the
mnouncement column in The
Journal and fail to find his an
nouncement as a candidate for any
)fhce. Please explain what you
nean by publishing such items as
he ones referred to in your paper.
Jimmie Hayseed.
CHARLIE HILLER DEAD
C. E. Miller died at his home
sast of town Tuesday morning
rom pneumonia. He was a good
nan and a good citizen. He leaves
t wife and four children.
The remains were buried Wed
nesday at Blue Springs cemetery
mder the auspices of the I. (). ().
F. Lodge of which he was a mem
ber.
FAVORS LIMITED OWNERSHIP
Says no Person Should Own Hore
Than 160 Acres of Land
Mr. Editor—Hill Billie says we
should tell the would-be law-mak
ers what, we want. I think we
should have a law prohibiting any
one person, firm or corporation
owning more land than is needed
for him to live on. If he is a
farmer, lt»0 acres should be the
limit; if he is a mechanic and
makes his living by working at his
trade, he should be limited to 40
or k0 acres, and this should be the
limit for the merchant and all
other professional men.
How many of our want-to-be
law-makers favor a law of this
kind? 1 think they should tell
the people what they do favor, be
sides a long session and drawing
their pay.
If a law like this has to come
down from the general govern
ment., why not start it in Arkan
sas? You may call me a Socialist
for favoring such a law, but I be
lieve it is just and right.
Tommy Green.
CHARLOTTE CIPHERS
Several from here attended the
debate at Newark last week.
Peel McCook of Sulphur Rock
was here on business Friday.
Miss Ida Ward of Batesville is
visiting relatives here this week.
Miss Ola Ward visited relatives
near I)ota Thursday and Friday.
Miss Rena Crigler spent a few
days with friends at Newark last
week.
E. L. Jeruigan and son, Floyd,
made a business trip to Batesville
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. J. ,Lindsey
spent Monday night and Tuesday
at Sulphur Rock.
Mr. and Mrs. Mance Wilson of
Hazel Grove visited Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Thomason Saturday night.
Mrs. Rebecca Moore and Mrs.
Bettie Williamsson visited the
latter’s sister, Mrs. Morris, near
Moorefield Monday.
Miss Zula Jackson died at her
home near here Friday night and
was buried at Center Grove Sun
day. The bereaved family have
the sympathy of the entire com
munity.
LOOK HERE, HR. MAN
If you want to sell your farm
see the White River Land & In
vestment Co.
HAVN’T YOU BEEN
EXPECTING
TO START BANK ACCOUNT?
Been trying to save an amount suf
ficient to make a “good start?”
The “small purchase” temptation
makes it very hard to accumulate any
certain sum when you keep your money
in your pocket or around the house—
probably that has been YOUR trouble.
This bank accepts deposits of $1 and
up—why not come in and open an ac
count with us NOW—let the bank help
you save —it is the only SAFE way.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF NEWARK, ARKANSAS
Under Supervision of U. S. Government