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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 24, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 35.
NEED OF A COTTON WAREHOUSE
Farmers Union Should Build One
At Newark or Some Other
Point On the Railroad
To The Newark Journal:
The Washington conference
with the English spinners has pass
ed into history. This conference
did much for the education of the
farmers in regard to marketing
their cotton. Of course the spin- :
ners told us we must get our cot
ton housed and graded in order to
sell direct to them, therefore it;
stands us in hand to get to work at i
once and build a warehouse some j
where on the railroad and store
our cotton so as to be ready to fill 1
the demands of the spinners. We
must get a move on ourselves and
build one, either at Newark, Mag
ness or Sulphur Rock, wherever
we can get the best inducements.
We may be imperfect in the
business at first, but we will learn
by experience, for we must crawl
before we can walk. We are not
born with a full set of teeth. And
now that we know we are on the
right road, let’s never turn back,
because the road happens to be a
little crooked and steep in places,
and don’t take the wrong road,
because some moneyed man says,
“Take this road, it is a nice gravel i
road and you could pull your load
much easier.” And when you
come to where the road forks take
the right hand and go ahead. But
we don’t think there will be any
forks in the road the farmers are
now traveling. Let us hope that
all bickerings be now stopped and
that we go to work to build this
great business and industrial or
ganization of ours until nothing,
not even foes without or within
can prevail against it. This, all of
us who have confidence in our or
der, will do. Let's all have that
confidence.
\\ e know the spinners are our
friends. They want to get in clos
er touch with us. They want to
do away with the cotton gambler;
sc do we, and we are going to do
it sooner or later, and the specula
tor, too. The gambler in cotton
makes the business of the spinner
as uncertain as he does our busi
ness. We have a common cause,
and now that we know it the days
of the cotton gambler are number
ed. It will never be done by law;
it will be done by a perfect under
standing between the producer
and the consumer, the planter and
the spinner. It will be done by
making just and staple prices on
our cotton. The time is near at
hand when we will be delivered
from undor the hands of the cot
ton gambler and the speculator a<
the Egyptians were. We must
meet combination with combina
tion. Get ready for the fray.
What about the old farmer who
continues to drive a nail with a
rock or an old rusty plow point,
when the price of three drinks ut
whisky and a plug of tobacco
would buy a claw hammer t He
also refuses to listen to the plead
ings of the Union men. Nothing
in the way of words can ati'eet him;
he cannot be made to feel anything
of less force than a rear end collis
ion with a billy goat or a hungry
cotton mule that would force him
to eat his meals from the mantle
board for about three days.
You Farmers Union man, stand
up there and pull off your hat, for
we are going to tell you something
that will do you good after while.
I want to say that everything that
glitters is not gold, and we must
look out for the wolf in sheep's
clothing. Any man who depends
on the production of mother earth,
who walks between the plow han
dles, who grips the handle of the
hoe, who shoulders the cotton
sack and picks the tieecy staple
from the boll, and won’t join the
Union is a criminal, in one sense
of the word. Come, join the Un
ion, ye tillers of the soil. The
poorer you are the worse you need
to be w'th us to help us cut out
the speculators, trusts and com
bines who sap the lifeblood from
labor and press down the crown of
thorns on our head. If the Farm
ers Union doesn’t succeed, it will
be the fault of the farmers, and
let me tell you farmers who do
not own a home, you had better
tie a mill stone to your neck and
jnmp in the river if the Farmers
Union don’t succeed. Wake up,
let the scales fall from your eyes,
soak your head with knowledge
and stay out of debt as much as
possible. 1 want to live long
enough to see the Farmers Union
the master of the cotton market.
1 want to see the time come when
the farmer who raises the neces
sities of life can say he is free.
My love to ever loyal member of
the Union. Don’t stay away from
your Union meetings; always be
there at every meeting; it is your
duty; and learn what is being
done. Yours, Sam Curtis.
OIL TROUGH TINKLINUS.
To The Newark Journal: /
Oil Trough, Aug. 20.—Milford
Palmer and Miss Cateby Prid
more were married Sunday at the
home of the groom’s parents.
They are excellent young people
and have the best wishes of a large
number of friends.
E L. Reeves has moved into
the new storebuilding and is now
ready to serve cold drinks.
C. M. Edwards and E. B. dies,
ser of Newark visited our town
Sunday.
Ruben Hill is putting material
on the ground to build a new house.
A. B. Pelly has sold his lots
here to F. M. Pridmore.
J. M. Stephens has a very sick
child this week.
\V. (). Moore is on the sick list.
Crops are looking tine.
NOTICE TO TEACHERS
Notice is hereby given that
there will be a public examination
at Batesville. Ark., on Thursday
and Friday, the 20thand21st days
of September, 1000, to ascertain
the professional qualifications of
all persons desiring to teach in the
public schools of Arkansas within
the limits of I ndependeriee county.
The examination will begin
promptly at N:30 a. in., and each
applicant is requested to be pres
ent at this hour.
Given under my hand this 20th
day of August, 100<‘>.
Sionky Pickkns,
County Examiner.
BROWNING DENIED BAIL
Hoxie, Aug. IT. Frank Brown
ing’s attorneys made application
| today before Chancellor Ilum
: phreys for bail for him, which
was refused by the court. Brown
ing, whose home is at Sulphur
Hock, shot and killed T. W. A^id
| kill, operator, here last Decernoer.
i His trial is set for October 10.
Elba (iraves, a prominent real
estate man of Peoria, 111., was in
town Wednesday.
A. B. Pelley, a prominent
farmer and business man of Dun
ningtan was transacting business
in town yesterday.
If you have a horse or mule
that can’t be ridden, bring him to
the Wild West Show tomorrow
and see them ride him without a
bridle. It costs you nothing and
they give you £100 if they can’t
ride him.
For Sale—Grocery store in
Jacksonport that will invoice from i
*000 to $700: average cash sales,!
$20 per day and good credit busi-!
ness. Will sell stock, fixtures,
trade and good will for $550 cash
if taken at once. Craig & Moore.
An appeal from Justice Tharp’s
court at Newark was tiled in the
office of the Circuit Clerk Tuesday
in the suit of Ida Bell Magness
and P. V. Cossey against .1. M.
Fox and B. W. Crow for $74.25.
The appeal was taken by the
plaintiffs.— Batesville Guard.
E. R. Moore arrived home Mon
day from a month’s visit with his
sister, Mrs. J. E. Murphy, at
Hotchkiss, Colo. He also visited
Denver, Salt Lake City and other
points of interest. His little
nephew, Master Russell Murphy,
came home with him and will
spend some time visiting his grand
father, Uncle Morg Moore, of the
Magness neighborhood.
SALADO SAYINGS
To The Newark Journal:
Salado, Aug 22.— J. M. Goff
died at his home near Salado of
consumption, Monday morning at
7:30 o’clock. He leaves a wife
and six children to mourn his loss
besides a vast number of friends
and relatives. He was buried at
the Egner graveyard Tuesday
by the F. E. <Sc C. U. of A.
Chas. F. Cole, the Republican
candidate for State Senator, deliv
ered an address to the people here
Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Burns ar
rived home Monday from Texas
where they have been visiting the
past two weeks.
Quite a number of people have
been attending the protracted
meeting at Mt. Hope for the past
ten days.
Leeman Burt and Hugh Billing
ton of Magness visited friends and
relatives here Saturday and Sun
i day.
Dr. \\\ 1>. Hankins went to
I Cotton Plant Monday to look af
i ter some business.
Mr. and Mrs. Klbert Burt visit
ed relatives at Magness Sunday.
Plenty of rain has been falling
here for the past few days.
.lames Garrett made a business
trip to Bate.sville Tuesday.
There is some sickness at the
present.
Tl AG NESS MUSINGS.
' To The Newark Journal
Magness, Aug. 22. The people
of Magness enjoyed one ot the
nicest picnics of the season yes
terday. There was a political dis
cussion for the older ones, in \
which Messrs. Edmondson and
Wright engaged in a heated de
bate over the senatorial squabble.
Two games of ball were played.
In the morning Sulphur Rock vs
Magness, in the afternoon Newark
vs Magness. The Magness boys
won each game by a small margin.
Mrs. R. E. Owens of Sulphur
Rock is visiting her son M. B.
Owens a few days this week.
A Mr. Spencer of Searcy spoke
to the Farmers Union men of Mag
ness Monday night.
Misses Alice and Dora Young
of Desha attended the picnic Tues
day.
Capt. C. M. Flinn of Batesville
attended the picnic here Tuesday.
Col. Joseph Tremble of liates
vilie attended our picnic Tuesday.
CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES.
To The Newark Journal
Charlotte, Aug. 21. There will
be a graveyard cleaning at the
Churchill graveyard on Saturday
before the tirst Sunday in Septem
ber. Let everybody come.
Lige Henderson and daughters,
Misses Clara and Eulah, of New
ark, passed through here Satur
day, en route to Antioch to visit
friends and relatives.
Rev. Jackson of this place and
Rev. Josiah Martin of Moorefield
began a protracted meeting at
Center Grove Sunday.
Miss Wilma Lane visited her
sister, Mrs. Geneva Pickens, at
Dota, last Friday and Saturday.
Oliver Rider of Cedar Grove
and Miss Sabra Taylor of this
place were married Sunday.
Several from here attended the
picnic at Eaves Spring Thursday
and reported a nice time.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunn and child
ren of Sharp visited Mr. and Mrs.
Nick Nuckolls Monday.
Miss Maude Moore of Sulphur
Rock visited Miss Vela Jernigan
last Wednesday night.
Several from here attended the
funeral of Walker Woods at Mt.
Ilermon Sunday.
Curt Stoner and sister, Miss
Rachael, went to Sulphur Rock
Monday.
Wallace Gibson of Salem was in
our burg Tuesday.
Health is very good in this vi
cinity.
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$10,000 FOR LOSS OF FOOT
Yellville, Aug. 20.—The case of
Wiley vs St. L. 1. M. & S. Ry.,
judgment was rendered in the cir
' cuit court today for $10,000 dam
ages for personal injuries done to
plaintiff, who was walking on the
track, when the train ran over
j him, cutting off two of his toes
and part of his foot.
' NOTICE.
I take this! method to notify any
! and all persons that if they cm
; ploy my son. Winfred Tomlinson,
a minor, that 1 shall expect and
demand that they pay the wages
in full to me or my legal repre
• sentative. W. li. Tomlinson
Magness, Ark., July 16th, 11106.
OLD CITIZEN PASSES AWAY
George Martin, one of the coun
1 t-y’s best citizens, died at his home
j at Sulphur Rock about one o’clock
yesterday (Thursday) morning af
j ter a prolonged illness.
TELEPHONES FOR SULPHUR ROCIC
Company Organized With $2,00(1
Capital and Will Establish
Local Phone System
To The Newark Journal:
Sulphur Rock, Aug. 21.—That
Sulphur Rock will have a locaL
telephone system is now an as
sured fact, a company having been
organized yesterday with a capital
of #2,000. The capital stock has
all been subscribed and work was
begun today. The officers of the
company are Sam Tuggle, presi
dent; J. K. Rawlings, secretary;
\V. li. Rice, treasurer; J. O. Mc
Gill, business manager.
BRIEF PERSONAL MENTION
The ball game Saturday between
the school boys of Newark and
this place resulted in a score of 10
to 0 in favor of Sulphur Rock.
Mr. Brewer and daughters of
Cave Creek were visiting in our
city Saturday, the guests of the
Misses Hiveley.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Parks, who
spent several days visiting rela
tives at Hot Springs, returned
home Friday.
Rev. W. F. Way man returned
home Tuesday from Cave City
where lie has been conducting a
meeting.
Mrs. Frank Smith and children
went to Newport Saturday night
and spent Sunday with her hus
band.
The Misses Barnwell of Bates
ville visited their grandfather, Dr.
H. W. Vaughan, here Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. George VV. Meri
wether of the Dota neighborhood,
were shopping here Monday.
Tate Akin and family of Bates
ville spent Sunday night in town,
the guests of Hugh Parks.
For Sale—Good corner lot for
business location. A bargain.
Apply to Craig & Moore.
Dr. Bevens and little grand
daughter, Rena Cunningham, went
to Batesville Tuesday.
L. C. Jernigan of Batesville is
spending a few days in our city
writing insurance.
Boon Tally left last week to
spend some time visiting his uncle
in Memphis.
George Martin who has been
sick for some time is very low at
this writing.
Dr. Henry Hodges has sold his
residence to a Mr. Uhles of Pleas
ant Plains.
Rev. C. F. Hively went toJack
sonport Tuesday to help in a meet
ing.
Quite a number from here at
tended the picnic at Magness to
! day. r
Born To Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Jimerson, on the 16th, a tine boy.
Prof, and Mrs. Sidney Pickens
spent Saturday at Batesville.
Mr. and Mrs. P. L. (irooms
spent Sunday at Batesville.
Rev. R. A. Robertson of Cave
City was in town Tuesday.
Cut price on portrait frames at
| Gibson’s while they last.
The sawmill whistled the tirst
time Monday evening.
Cleo Baker of Shetbyville was
| in town Monday night.
G. G. Hugg of Charlotte was in.
town Monday.
Mrs. Huddleston went to Bates
| ville Monday.