The Newark Journal
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O. F. Craig. Editor
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1907
There are two ways of spending a
dollar. You can spend it at home,
gain an easy conscience, make another
friend and perhaps get the dollar hack
tomorrow, or you send it away, feel
that you have sinned, offend the home
merchant and forever lose the dollar
and its inlluence for good to yourself
and neighbor.
One man was convicted of murder
and sentenced to hang, twenty-one
■were given penitentiary sentences
ranging from six months to twenty
one years, and a boy given a year in
the reform school, during the recent
term of the circuit court at Marianna.
Jackson county will have to get busy,
or Lee county will be crowding her for
first place in the record of crime first
thing she knows.
Every school boy knows that a kite
would not tly unless it had a string
tying it down. It is just so in life.
The man who is tied down by half a
dozen blooming responsibilites and
their mother, will make a higher and
stronger fight than the bachelor, who,
having nothing to keep him steady, is
always floundering in the mud. If you
want to aJeend in the world, tie your
self to somebody.
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Our idea of a {food citizen, and we j
are glad there are many in this com-'
munity, in one always ready to give,
according to his means, to community
enterprises. He takes stock in them
all. and doesn't lose his faith if an
occasional venture proves had. He is
not afraid to lmy real estate and to
pay what it is worth, He talks up his
town at home and abroad, thinks it is
the healthiest place on earth, believ
ing it to be destined to be the biggest
city in its section and wants to be
buried here when he dies. And lie's
•worth a whole regiment of the luke
warm kind._
According to the annual report of
the commissioner of the General Land
Office at Washington there were .'5(i2,
657 acres of government land taken
under the homestead and other laws,
in Arkansas, during tin* fiscal year
ending July 1. 1607, leaving 1,467,142
acres still unappropriated and un
reserved. For the entire country the
acres taken during the year were 17.
85.leaving in the public domain
765,.'$82,800 acres. The lands taken it
divided into farms of 1 <><> acres each
would make 111,4(50 tracts. According
to this report there yet remains 21,
574 acres of government land in Inde
pendence county, subject to homestead.
Outside of Alaska. Nevada contains
more government land than any other
state or territory in the union.
ACCIDENTLY SHOT HIS WIFE
England, Oct. 2(5.—Jesse Poor, liv
ing near Tomberlin, about !• miles
southeast of England, accidently shot
his wife last night and she died almost
immediately. He and his wife had
attended a lecture given at the Metho
dist church at Tomberlin, and on re
turning home he accidently dropped a
revolver out of his pocket, which on
striking the floor, was discharged, the
bullet striking his wife in the abdo
men, causing almost instant death.
FARMERS’ UNION CONVENTION
James W. Lewis, president of the
Arkansas Farmers' Union Warehouse
Association, has called a convention
of delegates for the counties of Marion.
Baxter, Izard, Stone, White, Inde
pendence, Cleburne, Jackson and
Woodruff to be held in Newport,
Thursday, November 14. The objects
and purposes of the conventions are
to organize a district cotton union and
establish a central office and sale
agency; also to establish a produce
clearing house and to transact any
other business that may become be
fore the convention.
The following will be entitled to a
seat in the convention as delegates: All
members of the Arkansas Warehouse
Association, all directors of ware
house companies, all county business
agents, all district busines agents.
Each of the counties named will be en
titled to 2 delegates-at-large and each
local union one delegate for every
twenty members and majority fraction.
FURIOUS FIGHT IN JAIL
Mountain Home, Oct. 2!).—Calling
at the county jail here to see and talk
with Johnson Baker, a farmer who
lives at Pigeon, seven miles north
east of Mountain Home, and who is
under arrest, charged with shooting a
boy named Walker, last Wednesday
night, seriously wounding him and
killing the horse he was riding and
the horse he was leading, Jerome
Wells, a neighbor of Baker's, became
involved in an altercation with him,
and Baker struck Wells with a large
piece of iron, crushing his skull.
Baker then cut his own throat with a
large pocket knife in an attempt to
commit suicide, and it is thought that
he will die as a result of his injuries.
Wells is considered to be in a danger
ous condition. The Walker boy is
also seriously injured.
There was no one present when the
altercation between Baker and Wells
began, but it is thought that Baker be
lieved Wells responsible for his
arrest on the charge of shooting the
boy, and that this was the cause of
the trouble. Baker was to have been
tried yesterday, but if he is ever tried,
it will be some time in the future. His
wounds will probably result fatally.
THOUGHTS ON RIGHT LIVING
“This is a free country, and a man
has a right to do as he pleases/’ is
often heard. Yes, provided a man
pleases to do right. But when he
pleases to do wrong, his right to do
is at an end.
There are some men in our town
who seem bent on the downfall of some
of our young Christians. It is a
wonder, even surpassing the seven
wonders of the world, to even think
that there is a man who really delights j
in the downfall of others. To be j
under such a spirit is nothing short of
diabolism, or the devil, pure and!
simple.
When the great revival wave was
in its zenith of glory and power, and
men were discussing it here, there and
yonder, sinners stood mute and en
tranced. Now, that the daily meet
ings have closed and men, good men
and women, are following their daily
work, and are of necessity engaged
with the affairs of this life, the devil's j
agent’s and recruiting officers are
trying to get in their work.
Young Christian, heed this word of
warning: Go not in the way of the
wicked; say No. Look your tempter
in the eye and say, “Get thee hence,
Satan,” and if he don't go, you go. j
This is written, not for the young j
Christians of any one church, hut fori
all.
If you have been a drinker, guard
well that ])oint. If you have been a
swearer, stand a sentinel of good
words to guard your lips at that point.
(,'ut out Sunday fishing. It counts
against you. There is moral death in
it. Cut out Sunday nutting; there is
mischief in it.
The writer is willing to make this (
contract with any Christian, man, wo
man, boy or girl: When you see
either of our pastors. Bros. Jernigan,
Brown or McDoniel. going a fishing
on Sunday, then you go. When you
see them drinking or getting drunk,
then you do so. too.
In doing this we do not set these
men up as paragons of moral perfec
tion, but to call your attention to the
fact that God does not have one moral
law for their lives and another law
for your lives that differs in any re
spect whatever.
How long would your confidence re
main unimpaired in these men should
they be found doing such things.
Tone up by the tonic of prayer:
observe the rule of church-going: keep
good company or be alone, and a new
light will dawn upon your life.
( Citizen.
For Sale—Full blooded Holstein
male calf, six months old. Apply to
R. K. McHenry.
WEDDING FEAST BROKEN UP
Augusta, Oct. 2”).--At a wedding
feast given by Mr. and Mrs. Monroe
Douglass, boarding house keepers for
the American Saw Mill Company on
Horseshoe Lake, three miles south of
Augusta, to John B. Elken, who had
just married Miss Bertha Nash,
Douglass got drunk and used vile and
insulting language, which so enragpd
his wife that she secured a pistol and
shot him three times, each shot taking
effect, but after being dressed his
wounds were said not to be serious.
Charles C. Barnett, a brakeinan
employed on the Cotton Belt railroad
was crushed to death between the en
gine and a box car of the north bound
local at Clio Wednesday night.
A Woodruff county paper says
many of the farmers in that county
are hauling their cotton home from
the gins, and will hold it for better
prices.
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Don’t Preach About
Home Trade
and at the same time send
your orders for job printing
out of town. Your home
printer can do your work just
as good, and in nine cases out
of ten he can beat the city
man s prices, because he pays
much less for running ex
penses. By sending your next
printing order to this office
you’ll be better satisfied all
around, and you’ll be keeping
the money at home.
See the Journal about job printing.