The Newark Journal.
Published In The Famous Big bottom Country, Where Alfalfa Is king.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 2, 1907.
Vo!. 7. No. 32.
WEEKS DOINSS AT SULPHUR ROCK
Short Items of Interest Picked Up
at the Hetropolisof White
River Township.
Sulphur Rock, July 30.—Prof.
Sidney Pickens, J. K. Rawlings
W. R.Rice, Misses Nett.ye Bevens,
Maud Moore and Bea Rice attend
ed the Sunday School Convention
at Jamestown last Sutarday and
Sunday.
There is solid comfort in wear
ing Star Brand Shoes, because
they fit the foot and hold their
shape. Let us figure with you on
your next pair. O. L. Hoover &
Co., Sulphur Rock, Ark.
T. B. Keeney wants 100 cases of
eggs per week. Highest cash
prices paid for chickens, eggs and
country produce, delivered at J.
H. Jimerson’s, Sulphur Rock.
Don’t pass us for laces and em
broideries. We have a large stock
from which to make your selec
tion. O. L. Hoover & Co., Sul
phur Hock, Ark.
Mesdams Y. M. Mack and W.
W. McLendon of Moorefield came
down Tuesday to spend the week
with their sister, Mrs. W. T. An
derson.
Rev. Ke&athley, of Tennessee,
spent Sunday night here with Prof.
Pickens. He was on his 'way to
Hopewell to hold a meeting.
One nice milch cow 7 years old
with U weeks old calf, for sale.
Prie£ $20. See O. L. Hoover &
Co., Sulphur Rock, Ark.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gossett left
Monday night for Farmington,
Mo., for the benefit of Mrs. Gos
sett's health.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tully and
little son, of Memphis, are visiting
Mrs. Angie Wilson and family
this week.
Mrs. Smith and son of Mel
bourne are visiting Mrs. Smith’s
daughter. Mrs. Jas. F. Jernigan,
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Dee McClendon
and children of Moorefield visited
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Anderson
Monday.
Mrs. Sorrels from near Char
lotte spent last week visiting Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Hoover of this
Mrs. Dr. Huddleston and Mrs.
Geo. Woods spent last week at
Barren' Fork visiting relatives.
Mrs. A. G. .Johnson and child
left Monday night by Bythalia,
Miss , to visit relatives, t
J. W. Barnett and O. F. Craig
came up from Newark Tuesday
night to attend church.
Jim Ashley who is working as
section foreman at Batesville spent
Sunday with his wife.
Revs. John Dye and Jas. F.
Jernigan are conducting a reviyal
meeting at tbis place.
Miss Ethel Griffin who is teach
ing at Oil Trough spept Sunday
i with relatives here.
Miss Vela Jernigan from near
Charlotte visited Miss Nettye
Bevens last week.
Miss Pinkie Dorr of Batesville
spent Tuesday here with Mrs.
Dan Moore.
Mrs. Pleas Wright and Miss
Narcie Rice went to Newark
Mondiif.
Several young people of Newark
attended church here Sunday night.
R. R. Ratton of Newark attend
ed church at this place Sunday.
CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES.
Charlotte, July 30—E. L. Jer
nigan, Otto Herrington, Mrs.
Lizzie Churchill and Miss Beulah
Crigler attended the Sunday school
convention at Jamestown last
week.
Several of the young people
from here have been attending the
protracted meeting at Pleasant
Hill.
Mrs. Sarah Braden of Sulphur
Rock is visiting friends and re
latives at this place this week.
Randolph Churchill of Tucsin,
Ariz., is visiting relatives at this
place this week.
Rev. Goodwin began a protract
ed meeting at this place Saturday
night.
P. L. Lane made a business trip
to Batesville one day last week.
A large crowd attended the sing
ing at Pleasant View Sunday.
Urban Haddock visited a
“friend” at Dota Sunday.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
'Flip nrmiml nipotimr jit flip In<lp
pendence County Sunday School
Association was held at James
town Friday and Saturday, with
a good attendance of delegates.
Judge Chas. F. Cole of Batesville
presided, and helpful and interest
ing addresses on Sunday school
work were delivered by W. R.
Shelpman of Salado, W. R. Rice,
Sidney Pickens and J. K. Rawl
ings of Sulphur Rock, C. W.
MaxfieJd of Betesville and Rev.
Fred Long of Little Rock.
W. R. Shelpman of Salado was
elected president for the ensuing
year, and Prof. Sidney Pickens of
Sulphur Rock was re-elected sec
retary. Sixty seven dollars was
raised for expenses and for state
work. The association will meet
next year at Salado.
REVIVAL AT SULPHUR ROCK
The revival meeting being con
ducted by Revs. Dye and Jernigan
at Sulphur Rock is gaining in in
terest and promises to result, in
much good. There had been 12
or 13 conversions at the close of
the services Wednesday night,
and five accesions to the church.
Dr. Dye preached a strong sermon
Wednesday night and more in
terest was manifest than at any
previous service. The meeting
will continue at leat until Sundav
night.
-STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
The annua! meetingof 1 he stock
holders of the Magness Warehouse
Co., will bo held at the warehouse
in Magness, Ark., on Saturday,
August 31, 11)07, at 10 o’clock a.
m., for the purpose of electing
twelve directors for one year, and
for the transaction of such other
business as may legally come be
fore the meeting. Each share
holder is requested to be repre
sented. W. C. Sanders, Pres.
W. D. Bullincjton, Sect’y-Treas.
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Boll weevils are said to be do
ing considerable damage to cotton
in Columbia county.
R. T. Holderness of Fordyce
took a dose of poison through
mistake and came very near dy
ing, but physicians finally saved
his life.
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Farmers’ Union official receipt
books at The Journal office.
ARKANSAS APPLES
The above bunch of apples were
raised by W. J. Cooper on his1
farm a few miles north of town.
There are twenty- four in the bunch :
covering a distance of less than 10 ;
inches.
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V Conducted by Rev. Jas. F. Jernigran in
v the Interest All That Is Good
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“The Lord hath done great
things for us, whereof we are I
glad.” (Ps. 126 3 ) Dear young
Christian, read this and divide this
plural “us” into the singular, and
make it yours: “For me. the j
Lord has done a great thing, '
whereof I am glad.” Christianity j
is intensely individual. Christian!
character is a personal matter. Xo i
one can be religious for another.
There is no substitute for personal J
piety and purity; these must in
here in the individual, and abide >
there by the loving favor of God.
This will be your joy and delight
and by a systematic, prayerful,
connection and communion with
God, each day, you will have these
vital essentials, as witnesses that
you are pleasing God day by day.
Oh, what a fellowship! That of!
the Holy spirit bearing testimony
with our spirit, that we are the
children of God. If children, then
heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs
with Christ
Personal devotion to God will
keep the warmth in your heart and
the gleam of glory and brightness
in your eyes. Men who observe
you will take note of you that you
are in the world, but not of the
world, and that you are keeping
company with Jesus each day.
Temptations will come; a.ye, they ,
have already come to many and
perhaps all of you, but remember ;
the sin does not lie in the tempta- j
tion, but in the yielding.' Hence •
the book says: “Shun the very
appearance of evil.” Avoid even j
the shadow of it. No man is any ■
stronger than his weakest point.
For example, a chain is no strong
er than its weakest link. One
hundred links in a chain; 99 good,
able to do the thing a chain is ex
pected to do, but one is weak.
That chan is no stronger than its
weakest link. All men have a
“bessetting sin,” a “weak link,”
in this Christian chain. Know that
weakness, protect it, ask God to
help you to make it strong, like
other vital elements you possess.
What is that weakness; Pro
fanity? Keep this sentence of
God on duty there: “Thou shalt
not take the name of thy God in
vain.”
Is it ardent spirits? Put this
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OIL TROUGH TINKLINGS
Oil Trough, July JO.—As ,was
stated last week the crops are
badl.v in need of rain. t No rain
has fallen here in the past week,
but it has rained all around in
sight of us.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Moore who
are visiting relatives and attending
the exposition at Jamestown, write
that they expect to start home
about the 20th of August.
A. M. Edgar and Charley
Barksdale of Newark were in town
Monday, trading horses, and on
their way to the exposition to
show their fine stock.
W. A. Nichols went to Bates
ville Sunday to see his children
and from there to Cave City to
visit his mother.
Several of our citizen went to
Kosie Saturday to attend the pic
nic, and report a small gathering.
Rev. Henderson filled his regu
lar appointment her Saturday and
Sunday.
Gus Laster and wife of Tina
are here this week visiting rel
atives.
Crops are about all laid-by un-'
less we set a good rain pretty
soon.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Ray went
to Newark Saturday.
E. L Reeves had business at
Newark Saturday. /
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NEW BOARD OF STEWARDS
The following members have
been added to the Board of Stew
ards of the Methodist church: C.
M. Edwards, D. C. Lane, F. M.
Martin, J. W. Adams, T. H.
Dearing, O. F. Craig and E. W.
Magness. The old board was J.
M. Magness, A. C. Martin and T.
J. Raney, who will continue on
the board, the others being added
to assist them for the balance of
the year.
The board held a meeting Fri
day night and organized by elect
ing C. M. Edwards, president,
O. F. Craig secretary and E. \V.
Magness treasurer.
A plan of campaign was mapped
out for the advancement of the
religious interests of the commun
ity, and the board decided to hold
regular meetings on Monday night
after the second Sunday in each,
month.
The board has gone to work in
earnest to have this place made a |
station when the annual conference I
convenes, and the prospect at
present seems very encouraging.
STOCKHOLDERS HEETINU
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Sulphur Rock Tele
phone Company will be held at
the public hall in the town of Sul
phur Rock, Ark., August 10th,
1907, at 8:30 o’clock p. m., for the
purpose of electing seven directors
to serve for one year, and for the
transaction of such other business
as may be legally brought before
the meteing.
Sam Tuggle, president,
J. Iv. Rawlings, secretary.
TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
If your district needs desks,
blackboards or school furniture of
any kind, call and get my prices.
I handle the best desk made and
can make prices as low as the
lowest. A. A. Henderson. New
ark, Ark. _ •
j Deeds of trust and legal blanks
(for sale at The Journal office.
$58,887.52 !N COUNTY TREASURY
Clerk’s Annual Statement Show*
Independence County Has
Good Sum to Her Credit
From the county clerk’s state
ment of the financial condition of
the county, published in the Batey
ville News, we take the following
information:
The assessed valuation of taxabie
property in the county last year
was $5,065,037; of which $2,929,
928 was real, and $2,135,709 was
personal property.
The receipts for the year were
as follows:
County Examiner's Fund_..$ 408.C©
Redemption of lands.. 66.3©
County general tax, 11)06_10,039.36
County bridge tax, 1906. 3,667.98
County pauper tax, 1906. 1,222.67
Fines by Circuit Court.. 1,550.52
Fines by Justice Courts. 560.74
Ferry licence.. 103.5©
Certificates lor Record. 420.45
Marriage license__ 231.(0
Overplus of salaries. 1,737.89
Road tax, 1906... 14,071.92
State treasurer... 596.93
Show licenses. 145.44
Collector’s commissions. 2,273.19
Candidates fees. 149.0©
Special road tax, 1906. 1,222.67
On hand last, settlement_ 37,568.88
Total receipts...$76,030.4-k~
The total PvnenrlitnrAQ for t.h**
pear were $45,182,52, the princi
pal items of which were as follows:
For general puposes, which in
cludes the cost of maintaining the
circuit and justice courts, and the
jail, $21,145.91; paupers, $1,547
9?; bridges, $3,339/34: roads, $17.
069.60; salaries of treasurer and
collector, $1,800.
The amount of receipts over ex
penditures for the year amounted!
to the handsome sum of $31,453.
92; and, counting the balace from
the year before, the county treas
urer has now in his hands the sum
pf $35,371.81 to the credit of the
roads, pauper, bridges and county
general funds. Against this there
are outstanding warrants to the
amount of $3,934.32, which leave
in actual balance to the credit of
those funds of $31,437,49.
Every school district in the
county, except No. 48, has money
to their credit and are in good
shape financially, the total amount
pf school money now in the hands
pf the county treasurer being
$23,361.66. The poll tax, amraout
ing to $4,K08.SS, and the state at>
protiormient are yet to be divided
among the various districts.
The road districts have money
to their credit, as follows: .Liberty
being the only one overdrawn:
Ashley, $168.82; Barren, $308.
68; Black River, $271.80; Big
Bottom, $1,283.10; Christian,$349;
Fairview, $182.84; Cainsboro,
$175.35; Greenbrier, $600.56; Jef
ferson, $137,86; Liberty, (over
drawn), $8.63; Logan, $202.17;
Ruddell, $2,871.99; Salado, $611.
53; Cushman, $149.90; Washing- <
ton, $1,102.56; White River, $358.
26; Relief, $119.52; Oil Trough,
$742.78; Magness, $466.33.
The total amount in the hands
of the county treasurer so July 2,
for all purposes, \va- $58,887.52.
A NICE HOME FOR 5ALE
For Sale—The Mayhan resi
dence on Main street: a good new
four room frame house with half
block of land; house nearly new,
well finished and painted; nne welt
of water. Price $800; $300 casR,
balance easy terms. Appiy to
Henderson Real Estate Co.