The Newark Journal
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NEWARK. INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1921
VOL. 21 NO. 21
OIL TROUGH AGAIN
DAMAGED BY STORM
Two Barns, School Building:
and Church Damaged Wed
nesday Afternoon
The second storm within a
year visit*/! the Dunnington
and Oil Trough communities
Wednesday afternoon though
the wind did not do the dam
age that attended the disas
trous cyclone in March when
several persons were serious
ly injured and many houses
and buildings blown away.
No one was injured by the
storm Wednesday afternoon.
The wind traveled the same
path taken by the cyclone in
March, going down the Dun
nington lane toward Meadow
lake. The barn of S. L.
Brownlow was wrecked, and
large quantities of corn and
hay were scattered about the
nearby fields.
A man named Pankie sus
tained a considerable loss
when his barn was blown
down. At Oil Trough the
Methodist church was wreck
eu, anu me scnooi nouse was
damaged. An addition being
built to the school house was
completely torn away. A hay
shed on {he W. P. Jones farm
was blown down. No loss of
stock is reported. The storm
was accompanied by a heavy
rain. Crops in the path of the
wind were injured.
JOURNAL IS LATE
Trouble in the engine room
causes The Journal to be late
this week. One of the bear
ings on the engine gave way
and a new one had to be or
dered from the factory, caus
ing a serious loss of time.
NEARLT TWO MILLION
FOR THE SCHOOLS
State Hoard Makes -Appor
tionment of Fund to Var
ious Counties
Little Rock, Sept. 5.—The
state board of education this
afternoon apportioned among
the 75 counties of the state
$1,765,380 to the credit of the
common school fund. The
per capita this year is $2.61
for each child of school age
Last year it was $2.58. The
hoard also apportioned $13,
503.61 to counties participat
ing in the forest reserve fund
Of this amount $3,128.11 was
received from the Ozark Na
tional Forest Reserve anc
$10,375.50 from the Arkansas
National Reserve.
Independence county will
receive $23,523.93 from the
state school fund.
SCHOOL OPENS
Large Enrollment of Students
in Public School
The Newark High School
opened last Monday with ar
attendance of about 300
School is progressing nicelj
and bids fair to be a mosl
^ccessful term
Prof. J. K. Rawlings h
superintendent, with the fol
lowing ocrps of teachers. Ed
gar Holcombe, Miss Minnit
Lynn Martin, Mrs. J. E
Snell, Miss Dollye Byrd, Mrs
0. L. Bone, Miss Kate Mar
j tin.
Miss Adys Allison has
charge of the music depart
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Young man! If you will start RIGHT NOW and
l^ut a part of your earnings in the bank every pay day
there is nothing can stop you from becoming influen
tial and RICH.
Money -breeds -money. _ The man .with money
knows that the young man who can and does take
care of his owrn money will take care of his money
too. He TRUSTS him. The young man gets oppor
tunities for making more money and a partnership.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Newark, Arkansas
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $75,000 00
SECOND ANNUAL SALE OF PUREBRED
HOGS FROM NEWARK HELD MONDAY
Independence County Farmers (ict the Bulk of Choice
Thoroughbred Polands From SunkLst Farm in the
Auction Sale at Batesville Last Monday
The second annual auction
sale of purebred Poland China
hogs for Independence coun
ty and this section of Arkan
sas was held at Batesville,
Monday, Sept. 5
The event was .well attend
ed by farmers from all sec
tions of^ Independence county
and quite a number of Stone
county farmers were in at
tendance.
The sale was started about
1:30 p. m., but the ring had
to be abandoned before the
first animal was sold on ac
count of a terrific downpour
of rain.
Practically every animal
sold in the sale was grown on
the Sunkist farm here and
are Independence county
products.
A feature of the sale that
carried a wide appeal to the
farmerfolk was the giving
away of a giant sow. Every
person who registered at the
sale was given a chance to
secure this fine animal. She
was won by George Lawrence,
four-year-old son of .George
Lawrence of McHue.
’ Below is a partial list of
purchasers:
i No. 1—E. E. Allen, New
ark, $75.00.
No. 2— Wallace Magness,
Newark, $57.00.
No. 3—W. M. Linnenweav
er, McHue, $45.00. *
No. 4—Clint Fortune, New
ark, $85.00.
No. 5—Roy Craig and Jim
Welborn, Newark, $62.50.
No. 6 — Oscar Albright,
Cushman, $75.00.
No. 7—C. M. Fink, Newark,
$60.00.
No. S—C. C. Whisnant, Par
oquet, $55.00.
No. 9—YV. C. Hall, Coffee
iville, Kans., $75.00.
No. 10—V. L. Pascoe, New
ark, $60.00.
No. 11—F. J. Lautzi Car
thage, Mo., $36.00.
No. 12—C. C. Whisnant,Par
oquet, $30.00.
No. 13—G. B Tripp, Sul
phur Rock, $20.00.
No. 14—D. O. Reeves, Cot
ter, $23.00.
No. 19—B. S. Swain, Bates
ville, $19.00.
No. 20 Lee Cook, Batesville,
$20.00.
No. 21—B. S. Swain, Baets
ville, $19.00.
No. 22—G. G. Owens, Bat
esville, $20.00.
No. 23—B. S. Swain, Bates
ville, $19.00.
No. 25 — Claude Collie,
Newark, $52.50.
No. 26—Neill Rutherford,
Batesville, $35.00.
No. 27—F. J. Lautz, Carth
age, Mo., $35.00.
j No. 28—E. I). House, New
ark, $30.00._
No. 31—A. M. Allen, Bates
ville, $25.00.
No. 32—H. C. Ramsey, Mtn.
View, $20.00. _
No. 33 — C. M . Magness,
Magness, $25.00.
No. 47 — Victor Wheeler,
Batesville, $33.00. __ _
No. 48—W. H. Hagle, De
sha, $26.00.
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
The annual -celebration of
the birthday of Mrs. A. H.
Saylors and Mr. C. P. Pick
ens was held at the residence
of C. P. Pickens Sunday,
Sept. 4, 1921.
The guests began arriving
about 9:30 and the day was
spent in a real good old time
as some real “old timers”
were present.
R. T. Hall, aged 79; A. H.
Saylors, 78; Mrs. A. H. Say
lors, 70; Ras Baker, 74; Mrs.
Ras Baker, 60; C. P. Pickens,
67; Mrs. C. P. Pickens, 62; A.
T. Best, 60; Mrs. A. T. Best,
58. Also a younger genera
tion, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Har
relson, Luther Pickens, Bud
Saylors, John Saylors, Alien,
Vida, and Marvin Harrelson,
Lorena Best, Flossie Tunstall,
Vernis Long, John Jimerson,
Oscar Dugger, Ozra Yates,
Victoria Pickens Saylors,
Doyne Pickens, Verne Pick
ens and Thomas Forrester.
About 12 o’clock a bounti
ful dinner of “everything
good” was spread, and all
gathered round the table and
did justice to tjie occasion.
Ice cream was served and
enjoyed by all.
We enxiously wait for Sep
tember 4, 1922 when we hope
and pray all may meet again.
One Who Was There.
BRINGS FIRST BALE
The firs bale of cotton for
the 1921 season to he market
ed in Newark was sold on the
streets here last Tuesday and
brought 18 cents per pound.
The cotton was grown by Jim
Sherill of the Paroquet neigh
borhood. Cotton picking is
opening up fast and more
cotton is coming in every day.
The first bale this year was
ginned nine days earlier than
the first bale last year.
The bale was purchased by
C. M. Edwards.
COURT AT NEWPORT
Newport, Sept. 6.—The fall
term of the Jackson circuit
court convened at Newport
Tuesday, with the largest
locket in several years. Judgf
Dene H. Coleman presided
with Hugh U. Williamson,
prosecuting attorney, looking
after the state’s interests.
Both officers in their charges
to jurors were bitter in their
denunciation of the carrying
of pistols, resulting, in many
instances in murders. The
prosecution of illicit whiskey
sales and manufacture was
another charge to the men of
both juries. There were 100
criminal and 110 civil cases to
be heard.
PASSENGER TRAIN
GOES INTO DITCH
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Several Cars Leave Traek
Near Center’s Bluff But
No One is Injured
The southbound passenger
train on the White River road
was wrecked near Penter’s
Bluff Wednesday evening.
All the coaches except the
rear one, left the track and
the track was completely torn
up for about 100 yards. The
mail car, baggage and smok
ing car turned partly over
and were left lying at a dan
gerous angle on a high em
bankment
The cause of the wreck is
not known, but it is presumed
to have been caused by spread
ing rails.
Dr. A. A. Evans of this
place was a passenger on the
ill-fated train, but escaped un
injured.
TO DRILL IN JACKSON
Company Lets Contract to
Begin Test
Newport, Sept. 6.—The
Jackson County Drilling Com
pany, of which Dr. C. E. Car
roll, P. H. Robertson and A.
N. Walker are trustees, has
contracted with a Shreveport
drilling company to sink a
test well near Newport. It is
expected that a drilling outfit
will be on the ground and in
operation by October 1. Ar
rangements have been made
for timbers for the derrick.
No woman has a future, no
woman has a past until she
has answered, “Yes or No.”
FIVE ARRESTS MADE
IN MURER CASE
Officers Hope to Unravel
Mystery Surrounding Jack
son County Murder
Newport, Sept. 6.—In the
trial to come before the pres
ent term of court of Jackson
county in the case of Paul
Curtis and Otis Harper.young
men men held in connection
with the murder of Jesse
Ford, who was shot while sit
ting at he supper table one
year ago, developments are
unraveling rapidly.
Paul Curtis, who was brou
ght from the State peniten
iary Monday was returned
there early Tuesday morning
in company with Otis Harper,
another man implicated, it
is said, in the affair. The
two will be kept there until
the case is heard, which prob
ably will be the third week of
the term.
New arrests in the ease are
Lint Osborne, Mark Harper
and Hugh Mound. Each of
these men are confined in
separate cells and held with
out bail. The case will prob
ably be the most important
to come up at the present
term.
Jesse Ford, while sitting at
the supper table with his
bride of a few weeks was shot
through the heart with a .41
calibre pistol, the shot having
been fired in the dark and
through the window. The
tragedy occurred one year
ago. Until recently no clue
to the murder could be unrav
eled by the officers.
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