The Newark Journal.
*$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, February 28, 1913
Vol. 12, No. 47
Don't Boast About What You Would Do if You Were Someone Else—Just Get Busy and Show What You Can Do Yourself
FIND DEAD BODY
IN BLACK RIVER
Unknown Han Whose Clothing
Was Found Recently, is Sup
posed to Have Suicided
The nude body of an unknown
man was found in Black river near
what is known as Middle Old Riv
er, about seven miles from New
ark, last Friday. The discovery
was made by parties who work at
the Whisnant mill. Squire Scott
was notified and held an inquest
but no light wrs thrown on the
cause of his death or his identity,
and it is supposed that the man
committed suicide by drowning.
About the middle of December
a strange man, supposed to be the
one whose body was found in the
river, came to the Whisnant mill,
but was there only a short time
and told no one his name or where
he was from. He came to the
mill bareheaded and is said to have
acted rather strangely. A few
days after he was at the mill, a
suit of man’s clothing was found
on the bank of Black river, some
distance below the mill. The
clothing was identified by parties
at the mill as that worn by the
strange man who came to the mill
bareheaded a few days before.
There was nothing in the clothing
by which their owner could be
identified. The picture of a little
girl was found in the coat pocket
and in another pocket was $2.74
in money. Part of a letter was
found also, but it seems that the
letter has been lost. No hat was
found with the clothing.
The man was about five feet
and six inches in height, weighed
about 150 pounds and was of dark
complexion and had dark hair.
He was apparently about 36 or 38
years old.
IN HONOR OF WASHINGTON
Newark High School Honors Fath
er of His Country
The Newark High School cele
brated Washington’s birthday Fri
day evening with appropriate ex
ercises. Late in the afternoon
the school marched in a body j
through the business section of
town, headed by the local band.
The pupils made a procession
about two blocks in length, and
many compliments were passed
upon the excellent showing made.
Numerous flags were seen in the
procession, which halted near Main
street to give Old Glory a few
vigorous waves and render some
patriotic music. At night an in
teresting program was rendered
at the auditorium and was attent
ively listened to by a large crowd.
DOVER EXHONERATED
OF MURDER CHARGE
Old Man Charged With Killing
Son is Discharged by Jus
tice R. R, Case
Nick Dover, the old man arrest
ed last week charged with killing
ing his son near Pleasant Plains,
was given a preliminary trial be
fore Justice R. R. Case at Bates
ville last Friday and was discharg
ed.
About 30 witnesses were exam
ined, but there was no evidence
to hold the old man on, except
circumstantial and that unaccom
panied by no evidence to show a
motive or plot. Six brothers of
the dead man testified, and they
all swore that Douglass was not
in his right mind at times.
The body of the dead man was
found in a thicket, nearly a mile
from the public road and about
five miies from wrhere he had liv
ed. The evidence showed that he
had been in love with a 14-year
old girl, and was a man past 35.
She married his brother, who was
20, and the family testified that
Douglass had acted in a queer
manner after this.,
The suppositiort is that he took
poison and sat down where he
was found. Some think he may
have frozen to death at the place.
He had stripped himself almost
to the skin, and the weather was
very cold about the time he is
supposed to have died. Others
think that he took poison, but his
death, it seems will remain an un
solved mystery.
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SUPERVISION OF
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
—
Pressing Need of School Work in
State is Efficient Superinten
dent in Each County
—
The biggest business in which
l Arkansas is engaged is education
| —a business in which more than
10,000 persons are employed, en
trusted with the education and
training of more than 600,000
I boys and girls for futue citizen
ship. It is a business represent
ing a property valuation of more
| than $10,000,000 and an expendi
| ture of approximately $4,000,000 a
year—certainly any business of
such magnitude and proportions
should require the most careful
direction and supervision in all its
details.
The legislature of 1907 passed a
law that provides that any county
in the State may adopt supervision
for its schools by a majority vote
of the electors at the annual
! school election. Under the provi
! sions of this county superinten
dency law eight counties elected
county superintendents in 1910,
while in 1912, seven other coun
ties were added to the superinten
1 dency column.
I lie following dehnite lines of
work have been pursued by the
superintendents in these counties
with most satisfactory results:
Schools are being carefully grad
ed, as rapidly as possible; length
of school terms being increased;
better character of school build
ings being erected; annual school
revenues being materially increas
ed; professional standards of
teachers being raised; schools
being better equiped and physical
conditions in general made better;
greater school interest on the part
of the people being aroused; the
establishment of strong rural high
schools being stimulated; consoli
dation of small, weak districts in
to stronger ones being encouraged
where conditions are favorable;
school enrollment and attendance
being materially increased; the
real needs and conditions of the
schools in these counties being
brought to the attention of the
people in an intelligent and defi
nite way; and, in fact, there has
been a general improvement and '
vitalization of the work of the >
schools in these different counties
as a result of the work being done
by these superintendents.
When a county adopts supinten-1
dency and elects a superintendent,!
the office of county examiner is j
abolished and the office of superin-1
tendent takes its place, hence
there is not an additional offices
but rather the one takes the place j
of the other. Practically every j
state in the Union has long since
adopted the plan of county super
intendency for its schools. It has
proved eminently successful and
has resulted in greatly increasing
the efficiency of the schools.
Any county in the State may
adopt county superintendency for
its schools by a vote of the elec
tors at the annual school election,
held on the years preceding the
years in which the general state
election is held. If a majority of
the votes cast on the question of
county supervision be favorable,
then the question has been adopt
ed, and at the next general State
election a county superintendent
I is elected in the same manner as
any other coun4”*officer is elected.
; j The county superintendent does
not displace school directors or
' i other school officers, neither does
he assume or take away any of
! the powers or duties now exercised
specific and in no wise conflict
i with the duties of any other school
I officer. He simply aids, assists and
f co-operates with these school ofh
cers. He is their servant and offi
i(Cer and supplements their work.
officers. His duties are
TICK BILL CREATES |
STIR IN THE HOUSE
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Mon. A.(i Gray Entertains With
Speech on Free and Unlimit*
ed Coinage ol Ticks
Mr. Gray’s bill to exempt Inde
pendence county from the cattle
tick eradication district, came up
in the lower house of the General
Assembly last Saturday, and was
defeated. The Gazette publishes
the following very interesting ac
count of the great battle that took
place over this very important
measure.
“Aurelius Gibson Gray, member
of the House of Representatives
from Independence county, dis
| turbed the serenity of that august
; body of lawmakers yesterday
afternoon by marching up and
down the aisles waving an empty
open grip in one hand and in the
other a petition about 30 feet long
I which sailed out behind him like a
' train of the Duchess of Portland
: at a royal reception. The while,
i Mr. Gray marched up one aisle
' and down another, while pages
[ and members scampered behind
1 him, holding his petitions as he
declared something like the fa
mous Patrick Henry oration: “Give
me liberty or give me death,” at
the top of his voice.
“The cause of all this commotion
was the opposition some of the
members showed for Mr. Gray’s
bill to exempt a part of Indepen
dence county from the tick eradi
cation district, which is the big
gest local condition now confront
ing the constituents of Mr. Gray.
The representatives of Independ
ence county are divided on this
question, and Mr. bray s colleague,
Mr. Caldwell, also presented a roll
of petitions against the proposed
removal of the quarantine. Other
members in that district spoke
against the bill, and this aroused
the author of the bill to action.
“When he gained recognition,
he caught it on the jump, with
his grip in hand. Opening the
grip, he began to unroll some
| thing like a roll of adding machine
j paper about 15 or 20 feet long, on
j which the names of his petitioners'
| had been typewritten in single
! column with plenty of space be
; tween the names. As the senior
1 member from Independence start
| ed on his triumphant march
through the house he began to
shake the open grip at his enimies
! and to declaim that Americans
shall never be slaves. His voice
| rose above the confusion on the
I door, and people came running
I from all parts of the capitol to
i learn the cause of the commotion.
“Up one aisle and down another
marched the indignant member,
telling about a little “scrap” some
men over on the Atlantic coast
had with some Englishmen, along
about the year 1776, and coming
on down to the present age. He
professed a strong disbelief in cat
tle ticks, and declared that some
cattle shipped from Mexico in 1848
had started a “Spanish fever”
among cattle of this country,
which still exists.
CALDWELL OMITS RUFFLES
"When Mr.Caldwell got the floor
' he modestly admitted that he
1 coul l not display the “ruffles” of
i his colleague in a speech, but de
I dared'that the petitioners he rep
' resented stood for progress. He
said 13 dipping vats had been con
structed in this section, at a cost
of £72 apiece, and the majority of
people are opposed to removing
the quarantine. He said to pass
the bill would mean for the coun
ty to go backward instead of for
ward, and that cattle will bring a
; better price after being dipped.”
PRIDMORE-WELLHAN
J. J. Pridmore of this place and
Mrs. Cordelia Wellman of Oil
(Trough were married at the home
of Squire and Mrs. E. M. Wilson
last Sunday at 2:30 p. m., Squire
Wilson officiating. The groom
recently came here from Texas.
They will make their home in
Newark.
CLEAN UP GRAVEYARD
There will be a meeting at the
Hopewell cemetery, near Cord, on
Friday, March 14. All parties
who have relatives buried there
are urged to be present.
LIVE LITTLE LOCALS
FROM OIL TROUGH
Weeks Happenings Among Our
Neighbors in Fertile Valley
Across the White
Dutch Jackson is reported very
sick.
W. A. Oldfield’s garden seed are
coming in.
We have Trotters, Walkers and
Sartins over here.
W. A. Mayhue had business at
Batesville Thursday.
Born.—On the 16th, to Mr. and
Mrs. M. A. Parmer, a fine girl.
Mrs. Henry Taylor died Thurs
day, leaving a husband and two
children.
Our ginners have been hauling
quite a lot of cotton seed to New
ark this week.
Say, T. M., isn’t it about time
you were using that plow you
bought so cheap?
Our upper school celebrated
George Washington’s birthday Sat
urday night. They certainly had
a fine lot of paste-board hatj^ets.
Geo. W. Allen, the county farm
demonstrator, was with us this
week, interviewing our farmers
along the line of more scientific
farming.
J. J. Pridmore came over from
Newark Sunday and took Mrs. C.
M. Wellman to Newark and they
were married. We wish them a
long and happy life.
Up till Friday last week the
weather was fine, and a great deal
of cotton was picked. A great
many people planted potatoes and
quite a little gardening was done.
AGED CITIZEN DEAD
P. H. Caldwell died yesterday
morning at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. J. B. Roe, after an
illness of only a few days of pneu
monia. He was 72 years old and
was a member of the Christian
church. The remains will be
shipped to Calico Rock for burial.
WILL BEGIN BORING
FOR OIL HERE SOON
Machinery Has Been Purchased
nnd Work Will Commence
At an Early Date
W. L. kennney, of St. Louis,
who is interested with others in
the movement to put down an oil
well near Newark, spent a day
here the first of this wreek looking
over the situation with Hon. F. M.
Martin and Prof. A. A. Henderson
whom the promoters of the enter
prise have had employed for some
time taking leases on land here.
Mr. Kenney expressed himself
as well pleased with the progress
being made in securing leases.
From Mr. Kenney it was learned
that machinery for drilling a well
and also casing for the well, have
been purchased and are now ready
for shipment, and will be shipped
as soon as their leases assume a
more compact body. They now
have leases on something oyer 10,
000 acres, but there are yet a few
tracts of land on which they have
not been able to close up leases,
and these tracts are very neces
sary in order to form their hold
ings into a compact body. Mr.
Kenney unhesitatingly assures
parties here that as soon as these
leases can be closed up the ma
chinery will be shipped, and drill
ing operations started immediat
ely.
It was learned that the parties
associated with Mr. Kenney in the
enterprise are P. W. Gilford, a
railroad contractor of Kansas City;
W. A. Dunham, assistant general
manager of the M. K. & T. rail
road; C. H. Smith, of St. Louis, a
Missouri Pacific civil engineer; and
H. T. Hoffman, a banker and cap
italist of Trenton, Mo.
The parties have ample capital
to finance the enterprise and
when drilling operations are start
ed Mr. Kenney states no time will
be lost in pushing the work to a
successful conclusion. He says he
is sure oil is here, and that they
are going to find it.
YOUNGER’S BODY FOUND
The body of Jeff Younger who
drowned at Batesville about a
month ago, in an accident at the
Allen Ferry, was found in a drift
in a slough near Salado last Fri
day. The body was badly de
composed. The body was sent to
his home near Batesville for bur
ial.
REMEMBER!
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ing to buy furnishing for the home
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Look over this list and see what
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