The Newark Journal.
Published In The Famous White River Country. Where Alfalfa is king
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, flarch 26, 1909
Vol. 8. No. 50
WANTS BROWN TO ANSWER
/ Srome Pertinent Questions Propound
ed to Representative Brown
Kditor The Journal: I note that oui
representative, Brother J. L. Brown
has such a ravenous disposition to lx
held up in the limelight as a servan
of the people, that he not only writes
articles in answer to “Taxpayer,” ant
has them published in thii county pa
pers, but also he has taken the lil»ertj
to answer private correspondent
through the press, and inasmuch as 1
have a desira to satisfy that ambitior
which he has, I want to propound
some questions for him to answei
through the press pertaining to hit
record as an official.
Now, Brofher Brown, when th«
question of raising the salaries of the
county officials came up, you wanted
a post card from every taxpayer of the
county, stating whether he was “for it”
or “against it” and giving the amount
of taxes which he pays, did you not?
When the question of extending the
-session of the legislature came up, did
jrou make any such request of your
people to see whether they were “for
•it” or “against it?” Did you not
vote yourst f $372.00 extra pay of the
taxpayers’ money, by voting to extend
tip session for 02 days? Did you not
refuse to vote for a resolution which
would have extended the session for a
shorter time? Was not the vote so
close on the sixty-two days’ extension
resolution that your vote and the vote
of ft siujde other member of the legis
jitvurt* *ouxu nave KUteu nr
Cau you take 1372.00 of the taxpay
ers’ money for yourself without first
asking' them to let you know their
wishes, by sending you a post card
indicating whether or not they are
—“furit”_or .‘,!a*fainsu it?” Now why
is it that you adopt a rule *»>ai must
apply to all others except yourself?
Seems to me that the rule ought to
work on all alike, and now, deep down
in your heart, do you not think so?
Are yow not willing to serve that ((2
days without accepting this large
amount of the taxpayers’ money, just
to show your peopl that your heart
is in the right place and that it was
not the extra coin of the realm that
you are getting that prompts you to
remain there all this time in the ser
vice (?) of the people?
I note that you say in an article
answering “Taxpayer” that you are
not in favor of making the pathway of
the toiling thousands thorny, to make
that of a “dirty dozen” smooth. I)o
you not think that you should have
put that in this way: ”1 am not in
favor making the pathway of the toil
ing thousands thorny, to make that ol
any other man smooth, unless I am
the man whose pathway is to be made
smooth.”
Now, Brother Brown, do not dodge
the issue, and indulge in the unchaste
language that you have been in the
habit of usimr, but come right out and
answer, as i a~ anxious to harmonize
you ( n your ideas of legislation lie
fore passing an unkind judgment os
your record as a representative.
John nik.
CARD OF THANKS
On the 18th of the present month
death visited our home and took from
us our husband and father. We de
sire, through the medium of The Join
nal, to express our heartfelt thanks t ’
our neighbors and friends for theii
kind assistance in our hours of sorrow
and bereavement. Language is in
adequate to express our feeling «1
gratitude and we can only comment
them-to God and pray Ilis blessing*
upon them and theirs. Our husband
and father has gone, but his memory ii
aver present.
Lull’d in the countless chambers o
the brain,
Our thoughts are linked by many s
hidden chain;
Awake but one, and lo! what myriad!
rise;
Each stamps its image as the othei
flies.
Each, as the various avenues of sense
Delignt or sorrow to the soul dispense
Brigh'en* or fades; yet all, with magii
in
Conb Is the latent fibers of the heart
L. A. Sanders,
W. C. Sanders.
GEORGE HAWKINS WRITES
Thayer, Mo., March 21.—Leaving
, Batesville January 24th, we made oui
first stop at Mt. Olive and I workec
a while in Stone county in what i‘
, part of the Government forest reserve,
The people have to pay taxes on theii
stock that run out on the government
land, 32 cents per head on cattle, 15 tc
20 cents on hogs and 20 to 25 cents or
Koats and sheep j>er year. There is
the larger portion of four counties ir
the reserve and there are four ranger*
who receive *75 a month to stay there
arid see that the law is carried out.
Each one has a fine house built by the
government.
The next week we went to Cotter.
Cotter is a nice little railroad town.
Then back down to Calico Hock. The
scenery around this place is very fine.
A. (,. McGiboney, H. W. Wiseman
and myself made the trip from Guion
j to Mammoth Spring, stopping one
week each at Melborne, Evening Shade,
Franklin, Salem and Mammoth
Spring. Here we saw the largest
spring in the world, which is said to
cover 18 acres. We are working through
Missouri now. Gko. Hawkins.
KILL CONVICT AT BRINKLEY
Brinkley, March 22 —One state con
vict was killed and another badly in
jured while attempting- to escape at
i Brinkley this afternoon. Following
the shooting of the convicts a number
I of citizens of Brinkley, termed the
“riff-raff'’ by Mayor Jackson threat
ened the two guards who did the shoot
ing with mob violence, but Mayor
Jackson and more prominent citizens
soon checked the talk,
j The convict killed was Frank Will
iams, sentenced to live years, whose
! home is in Duluth, Minn. Geo. Per
I kins aone-year convict of Fayetteville,
, wh« to escape with Williams,
| was shot in the buck and side.
The two convicts were working with
fifty others clearing debris from The
recent tornado, which destroyed Brink
lev. when thev broke for liberty. The
; guards were compelled to shoot them
down as they ran.
TEACHERS OF ARKANSAS
By reason of its high and honorable
standing in popular esteem and its
: great influence with pupils and parents
! and the people at large, the teaching
| profession can make Itself a powerful
■ factor in the war on tuberculosis. The
association looks to you for aid in
disseminating the light of knowledge
and hope in place of ignorance and
! despair.
Tuberculosis is preventable
It is curable in a majority of cases
when properly treated early enough.
; Arkansas has a splendid climate foi
the curative treatment.
We need sanitary laws and a tuber
culosis sanitorium in the state to teacl
| prevention and cure. Help us ge
| them.
Arkansas Statk Medical Society
Dr. J. S. Shibley, President.
Dr. M. G. Thompson, Secretary.
LAST YEARS’ COTTON CROP
Running’ bales of cotton numbering
13,408,841 bales of average gross
weight of 505.8 pounds, an equivalenl
to 13,56:1,942 500-pound bales with 27,
587 ginneries operating, was the tina
report of the census bureau issuer
from Washington lubt Saturday or
the cotton crop grown in 1908
The report includes 244,970 linters
and counts round as half bales. The
final 1907 crop report was 11,375,461
500-pound bales with 27,592 ginneries
operating.
Included in the 1908 figures arc 93,
085 bales, which the ginners estiraatec
they would turn out after the time o
the March canvuss.
Arkansas furnished 1,018,708 bales
PUBLIC SALE
I will sell at public auction at mi
residence near Magness, known as tin
old Vick place, on Saturday, Marc)
27, the following articles: Two culti
> v a tors, one wagon, one set of bugg;
5 harness, one sickle rock, one scytln
cradle, one self-binder, one disc an<
1 other farming implements. Terms cash
I Mas. T. V. Ovehton.
Cf. o. Magness left Sunday morning'
for St. Louis to buy goods for his
firm.
I have a fine lot of choice alfalfa
ha}' for sale in large or small quan
tities. C. 1’. Vaughan, Newark, Ark.
Lost—Gold ring with cluster of pine
leaves around setting, and inscribed
“Cripple Creek Gold.1' Liberal re
ward for return of same to F. C. Hoyt.
H. E. Hawthorne has taken the
agency for the Tennessee Valley
Fertlizer Company in this territory
and will handle their line of high-grade
fertilizer.
For Rent—About 70 acres of river
bottom land, known as the Andrew
Allwhite place. Leslie and Lewis All
white. Apply to J. R. Alexander,
agent. Newark, Ark.
Ihe preacher says he is going1 to
lead Newark in a garden this year.
His onions are up and worked out.
Peas, radishes, mustard and lettuce
are all up, and other vegetables com
ing.
Are you reading the “Thoughts on
Boys’’ which are being published in
The Journal every week? If not you
are missing a treat. Read the article
this week on page two and see if you
don't think it is good.
Sale—One buggy and harness
for $15, worth $25: one folding bed for
$15, worth $20: two bedsteads, four
mattresses, two chairs and one dresser.
Will sell by the piece or all together.
Apply to Mrs. J. P. Magness.
For some time the ladles of Newark !
and vicinity have urged me to put iu
a line of hats and I am now in a posi
tion to do so. Am able to show you the
finest line of lingerie and tailor-made
hats outside of Little Rock. Mrs. P.
W. Peyton.
Magness Bros., invite the ladies to
attend their millinery opening on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
April 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Our trimmer,
Miss Emma Boyce, of St. Louis, will
be glad to meet the ladies and give
them her best services.
There is more joy in a printing of
fice over one sinner that pays in ad
vance and abuses the editor on every
possible occa^jon than there is over
ninety and nine who borrow the paper
and sing its praises, without conti Unit
ing a cent to keep it out of the poor
house.
John Massey, who lived at Jackson
port, was found dead in White rivet
near Jacksonport Saturday. He was
subject to epilepsy and it is supposed
that he fell into the river during an
attack of the disease. He was .'Iti years
old and unmarried. He hud l>een a
citizen of Jacksonport for about ten
years.
The supreme court on last Monday
passed on the road case appealed from
, this county by Mrs. K. C. West, and
the decision establishes the road.
Citizens jnstitioned the county court
for the establishment of a new road in
Oil Trough bottom, which was opposed
by Mrs. West, the case Ireing carried
through all the local courts and final*
, ly to the supreme court.
The Journal is glad to not© that the
Newark Public High School, under the
excellent management of Prof. Rich
ardson, is progressing nicely. The
pupils have gotten over the strain ol
examination and are again in full
pursuit of their studies. Splendid in
terest is shown in the school work.
Some of the older l»oys have quit
school to begin the farm work, but tlu
attendance is exceptionally good foi
this season of the year. The enroll
> ment has reached 338, and, as the ole
( saying goes, the school has abou'
“outgrown the shop.” It is hopec
' that additional room and teaching
' force will be added before the nex
> session begins, in order that this grea
I number may Ire better accommodated
Conditions in the school are very fine
• however, considering the great nfim
her of pupils.
LITERARY SOCIETY
The Newark Public High School
Literary Society will render the fol
lowing program on School Athletics
tomorrow (Saturday) night:
Quotations from faculty.
How the playing of games develop
the body and mind..
.-.Clemons Sturdivant.
The best all-round game in school_
...C. B. Brannon.
Our Basket ball team..
..Addie McHenry
Story—“A Day on the Athletic Field"
.-..Dye Martin
Song—By Male Trio.-Morg. Magness
Ben. Arnold and Eugene Magness.
The Sport or the Victory—Which?
--Ben. Arnold
Debate—“Resolved, That Baseball
Playingis Better to Develop the Muscle
than Football Playing.”
Affirmative—Hugh Travis and Dolph
Satnons.
Negative—Porter Crow and Paul
Hogue.
Editor
Ona Morgan
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD
The United States Steel Corporation
is the biggest industrial thing in the
world.
The total income for the past year
was *482,000,000, and counting 00,000,
000 jieople to the United States, this
means that it had an income of $f>.00
for every man, woman and child.
The total receipts for the last year
were just two-thirds of what they were
the year previous.
The net earnings last year were $90,
000,000, the same being a decrease of
$60,000,000 over the previous year.
This was an immense falling off in
business, yet the United States Steel
Corporation paid interest on their
bonds, dividends on their stocks and
passed $10,000,000 to the surplus.
The Steel Trust employs 250,000 men.
These men and their families would
noil
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that a peti
tion will be presented to the present
General Assembly of the State of Ar
kansas, praying for the repeal of
Special Act No. 170, of the Legislature
of 1007, which act is entitled: “An act
to amend an act to authorize the en
closing of certain lands on White
river in Independence county and for
other purposes,” and which Special
Act No. 170 was approved April 13,
1907. It. 11. Adams
W. T. Mauness
and Others.
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTICE
The Lord willing, 1 will preach at
the Newark Baptist church on the
fourth Sunday in March at 11 o’clock
a. m. In my sermon I will deal with
the following questions:
Can a little man get above his fel
lows? If so how can a man be honest
and be in politics? (’an a rich man
be saved? If so, how? Can a liar and
a slanderer meet an honest man and
turn him down? What fruit does the
world look for on the tree of a Chris
tian profession? J. L. Brown.
CITY TICKET NOMINATED
At a mass meeting held at the Rat
ton Hall Saturday night, the fallow
ing gentlemen were chosen as candi
dates for tiie various city offices:
For mayor, H. H. Williamson; for
recorder, J. B. Ivetchem; for treasurer,
H E. Hawthorne; for city marshal, J.
\V. FeUer; for aldermen. J. H. Hold
erby, Dr. A. A. Evans, John Austin,
H. D. ElleV and K. W. Magness.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to tender our sincere
thanks to our many friends for th«
kindness shown us during the last ill
nass and death our aunt, Mrs. Salli
Borrels. May our Heavenly Fa the i
reward you liberally.
Mr. and Mbs. C. J. Dkknnkn.
TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
If your district needs desks, black
boards or school furniture of any kind
i call and get my prices. I handle th
j best desk made and can make price
j as low as the lowest. A. A. Hendei
I son, Newark, Ark.
AT THE STATE CAPiTOL
Representative J. L. Brown Writes of
Things at Little Rock
As a member the Lower FJouse of
ihe General Assembly I am thrown in
contact with men from the four corners
of the state. Some of them are near
each other in point of geography and
far seperate in points of mental and
moral make-up. Others have hundreds
of miles stretching out between their
homes, while they breathe the same
moral atmosphere and move on the
same intellectual plane.
Some are men with noble minds,
V\ ithin them beats a warm pure heart
To knowledge and to virture both in
clined;
Willing to know and do their part. -
Inside their hearts there lurks no guile,
Inside their hands they grasp no
bribe,
me noouier Knows its not worth while
To seek enlistment from his tribe.
I am glad to say there are several
such choice spirits within the assembly,
but I have neither time nor space to
mention each in this brief article, but
will content myself at this time by
calling your attention to our highly
esteemed friend, Clarence Price New
ton, of England, Lonoke county.
Mr. Newton is a young man, only
2b years of age. He is strong and
robust in mind, but rather frail in
body.
lie is in the enjoyment of single
blessedness, if there be such a thing.
Fie cares for his mother and refers to
her in his talks in a way that is tender
touching and lieautiful. He is one of
the best orators in the house. His
words are clean and clear cut; his
thoughts sparkle with them like apple*
of gold in pictures of silver. I have
his card on which is clustered some of
his thoughts. I append the same that
in,thein joju may catch a glimpse of
“Life’s short, too short to waste;
that's why I must keep busy. I'd
rather it wasn’t so fleeting; I wish we
lived to seven hundred, instead of to
seventy; but we don’t. Then I must
keep busy- thinking, loving, working
and resting—but being human I must
dream a little, hate some, idle oceas
sionally and dissipate a bit. But its
my constant effort to put into each
day more of love, and less of hate,
more of work and less of idleness,
more of rest and less of waste. Thus
I can do my duty as 1 see it, and l»e
helpful to my fellow-mortals. I would
not be a ‘professional good man,' but
even if 1 do have to use all the day
light between Sundays to make a liv
ing, I can be helpful to the humblest
and neglectful to none, and then l>e
sure of the recompense, for the divin
est joy I can know before Heaven,
comes in the wake of service to others.
I know enough of the world’s way not
to expect to escape the thorns of in
gratitue while drinking in the sweet
fragrance of the roses that nod to me
as I tread a crooked path through the
garden of life, for I already know
what it is to be misapprehended by my
own best friends, criticised by some
for my enacted sympathy for others,
betrayed by a few in whom I trusted,
and rejected by some whom 1 profered
to help. But these thistles only heighten
the lieauty and fragrance ol the flowers
of love and worth. All will come out
right for most mortals mean well and
God is good.’’
Doubtless Bro. Newton was pricked
by some of the above mentioned
“thistles” while he was asking the
“dear people” of his county to elect
him to office. But there is one thing
of which I feel assured:
His people will not rue the day, £
that they helped him on his way.
J. L. Brown.
BANK ROBBERS FOILED
Five men attempted to rob the bank
at Bald Knob about one o’clock Fri
day morning, but their attempt to blow
the safe was a failure. The explosion
awakened everybody in town and a
- battle took place between the robbers
, and citizens which lasted an hour. The
e marksmanship on both sides was so
s poor that no one was injured, and the
- robbers Anally escaped without secur
ing any money.