The Newark Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1919
VOL. 19, NO. 1
BOSS IS KILLED BY MILL HAND
STRAY SHOT KILLS LITTLE GIRL
CONVENED AT
BAIBVILLE MONDAY
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Juries Are Empaneled and
Court Gets Down to Usual
Grind of Business
The Spring term of the In
dependence Circuit Court con
vened at Batesville last Mon
day with Judge Dene H. Cole
man presiding.
The juries were empaneled
as follows:
Grand Jury.—H. C. Wade,
foreman; J. F. Ottinger, J. B.
Thompson, S. J. Moore, W. R.
Parks, Wat Searcy, Bird
Brown, W. M. McArthur, H.
L. Dickerson, A. A. Webber,
Frank Wright, Will Hollings
worth, J. D. Martin, Z. T.
Griffin, D. D. Adams, J. E.
Snell.
R. L. Patterson is baliff and
D. D. Adams clerk of the
grand jury.
Petit Jury.—Chas. Patter
son, Coy Layman, John Austin,
D. E. Weaver, L. N. Rutledge,
I. N. Gill, J. F. Yates, Y. M.
Mack, J. B. Southard, R. T.
Magness, B. H. Dood, T. N.
Huff, P. S. Fortune, J. J. Cald
well, O. T. Edmondson, G. L.
Fink, D. I. Arnold, A. L. Jeff
rey, G. A. Halmark, Tom Corn
ten, R. T. Herrintgon, H. W.
Johnson, ("laud Burrell, E. E.
Esteb.
The following cases have
been disposed of:
State vs. Bob Cannon, gam
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WHEAT CROP WILL
BREAK ALL RECORDS
Largest Wheat Crop in History
of Nation Forecast by Gov
ernment Report
The largest crop of wheat
ever grown is forecast for this
year by the department of ag
riculture in a statement given
out at Washington Tuesday,
basing its estimate on condi
tions existing April 1. The
enormous yield of 837,000,000
bushels was announced, which
at the government’s guarantee
price of $2.26 a bushel places
the crop’s value at $1,891,620,
000.00.
This year’s wheat erpo, if no
unfavorable conditions develop
between no wand time of har
vest, will be 152,000,000 bush
els larger than the previous
record crop produced in 1914
and 248,000,000 bushels more
than was grown last year.
GILBERT BURT DEAD
Gilbert Burt of Magness
died Tuesday in a sanitarium
at Newport where he was op
erated upon one day last week
for an abscess on the lung.
Following a severe atack of
pneumonia, an abscess formed
on his lung and he was taken
to Newport last week for an
operation.
He was about 30 years old
and is survived by his wife and
two children.
The remains were shipped
to Magness for burial yester
day.
The man witK £|& morxey
never <£ets laid off never
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If he has
money in.
Bank he is not
worried; ne
works better.
And he is the man who gets promoted. The
man with money is looking for the man who saves.
He knows that the man who can take care of his
own money if the man to trust. Saving money is
the true test of reliability. It is good common
sense, too. Be wise today. Open an account
with the money you have and make your account
grow. Don’t wait—start today.
FIRST NATIONAL RANK
NEWARK* ARKANSAS V
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GIRL RINGING DINNER
BELL WHEN SHOT
Double Tragedy Enacted at
Grubb i When Man and
Little Girl are Killed
Newport, Apr. 7.—Tom Du
ty, aged 51 years, a resident
of Grubbs, is in the Jackson
county jail in Newport charg
ed with killing Dave Tarwater,
aged 35, and the little seven
year-old- daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Newt Albright at the mill
of the Mroris-Land Timber
Company, two miles south of
Grubbs Saturday morning be
fore noon.
Duty shot Tarwater four
times with a .45 calibre pistol,
a fifth bullet going wild and
striking the little Albright girl
who was standing on her porch
thirty yards away, hitting her
just above the heart.
Tarwater and the little girl
were immediately placed upon
a train bound for Jonesboro in
the hope of saving their lives.
When the train was about four
miles from Grubbs Tarwateb
died. The little girl reached
Jonesboro alive and was plac
ed in a hospital but she was un
able to survive the bullet
wound and passed awray Sun
day afternoon.
Tarwater s home was at
Jonesboro, where his wife and
child live. He was foreman of
the Morris-Land Timber Com
pany’s mill near Grbubs. Sat
urday morning he went to the
mill to pay off the working
crew. It is said he had dis
charged Duty, who demanded
his check when Tarawter came
to the mill. It is sstated that
the men exchanged hot words,
following which Duty jerked a
.45 calibre Cotls pistol from his
pocket and began firing. One
bullet entered Tarwater’s fore
head, coming out back of the
right temple. He was shot in
each arm. The fifth shot is
said to have been the one that
went wild and inflicted the fa
tal wound upon the litle Al
bright girl. Duty says that
Tarwater started toward him,
and that he told Tarwater
to stop. He says Tarwater
kept coming toward him,
whereupon he shot him down.
Duty was arrested by Sheriff
J. M. Ivy Saturday afternoon
as soon as the sheriff could
reach the scene of the killing
after being notified and was
brought to Newport and plac
ed in jail. Duty has a wife
and one son.
MRS. WESLEY HUGG DEAD
Mrs. Wesley Hugg died at
her home in Caney, Kans.,
Monday and the remains were
shipped here for burial.
She is survived by her hus
band and four children. She
was a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Eber Boles who live a
few miles north of town and
the remains were carried to
her old heme for burial.
STORM TAKES HEAVY TOLL OF
LIFE IN ARKANSAS, TEXAS, OKL
NINE REPORTED DEAD
IN SOUTH ARKANSAS
Miller, Little River and How
ard Counties Swept by Se
vere Storm
Three persons, all negroes,
are known to have been killed,
six are reported to be dead
and scores are seriously injur
ed as a result of a tornado that
struck southwestern Arkansas
yesterday morning, damaging
stock and property far into the
thousands.
Three persons are reported
to have been killed at Saratoga
in Howard county and three
are reported killed on a large
plantation on Red river in Mil
ler county.
Farms and plantations were
laid bare by the storm and
trees, stumps, bridges, barns,
and other obstacles were
strewn over the landscape.
Many persons were reported to
be seriously injured in the var
ious cities and communities
where the tornado struck. The
path of the storm was said to
be about three-fourths of a
mile wide and about one mile
long. It approached from the
southwest, coming from Texas,
and ran a zizzag course in a
onrth-easternly direction, dip
ping at various points in Miller,
Hempstead, Little River and
Howard counties.
Portions of Texas and Okla
homa were swept by the storm
and 82 persons are reported
killed by the storm in those
states as flolows:
Canaan, Tex., four; Durant,
Okla., 11; Wood county, Tex.,
four; Pontotoc county, Okla.,
one; Ector, Tex., three; Raven
na, Tex., eight; Mineola, Tex.,
11; Tundra, Tex., eight; Win
nsboro, Tex., 15; San Angelo,
Tex., one: Texarkana, Tex.,
one; Newsome, Tex., six;
Plesaant Grove, Tex., two; Eu
stace, Tex., one; Walters, Ok
la., one.
TRAIN STRIKES AUTO;
TWO ARE INJURED
A Ford car driven by T. V.'
Russell, cashier of the Bank of
Yellville, was struck by White
River passenger train at Flip
pin a few days ago and Mrs.
Butler was painfully injured
about the head and face and
one knee was badly wrenched.
Riding in the c^r with Mr.
Russell at the time of the acci
dent were his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Butler and Mr. Russell’s
four children.
George Billings of Flippin,
who was standing near the
scene of the accident, rushed to
the automobile when he saw
that the train was going to
strike it. While in the act of
removing the children from the
car it was struck by the cow
catcher of the engine and Mr.
Billings was knocked 40 feet
by the force of the blow. He
sustained a broken collar bone,
a dislocated knee and other in
juries. His condition is not
regarded as serious, however.
WOMAN KILLED WHEN
GUN FALLS ON FLOOR
Wife of Former Sheriff of Mis
sissippi County Killed in
Peculiar Manner
Blytheville, April 5.—Mrs.
J. T. Collins, wife of the form
er sheriff of Mississippi coun
ty was accidentally killed this
afternoon when a .22 pump
gun was jarred from the kitch
en cabinet by a door closing.
The ball struck her in the
right breast, ranging through
the body to the heart. She liv
ed but a few minutes.
A grocery boy had delivered
some groceries to the kitchen.
Her 10 year-old son’s rifle was
laying on the kitchen cabinet
The grocery boy removed the
gun, laid the groceries on the
cabinet and then placed the
gun on top of the groceries.
When her son closed the
door the impact jarred the gun
to the floor, discharging it.
Mrs. Collins was coming
down the back stairway just in
time to receive the bullet.
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OPTOMETRIST WILL
BE IN NEWARK
Dr. W. D. Hinson, Optome
trist of Newport, will be at
Newark, Monday morning,
April 14th and Tuesday morn
ing April 15th, and at Sulphur
Rock Monday evening. If yuc
need glasses you should see
him then as this will be the
last trip he will make here.
FIRST NATIONAL WILL
HAVE LARGE QUARTERS
Buys Raney Building and Wil*
Remodel That Part Occu
pied by Bank
The First National Bank
has closed a deal with T. J.
Raney for the purchase of Mr.
Raney’s two story brick build
ing on Front srteet, the lower
floor of which is occupied by
the bank and the Newark
Drug Company and the upper
story by the White River Tel
ephone Co. and several offices.
It is reported that that part
of the building occupied by the'
bank will be remodeled and
one of the interior partitions
will be taken out or removed
so as to give more room. An
additional vault may be built
and all the interior walls will
be replastered.
The bank has outgrown its
present quarters and the
change is necessary in order
to take care of the rapidly in
creasing business of this splen
did institution.
The work of remodeling the
building will probably begin
jsome time within the next few
weeks.
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TAKEN UP
I have taken up as an estray
at my farm north of Newark
one small bay horse, known as
the C. P. Vaughan saddle
horse.
VAUGHAN MERRIWETHER
R. F. D. 1. Newark, Ark.
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It plants accurately and
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It is equally efficient for
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BatesviHe, Arkansas