The
Newark
Journal.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, July 27, 191G
Vol. 16, No. 17
WHEAT CROP PROVES
BIG HELP TO FARMERS
About $40,000 Paid to the Far
mers of This Vicinity For
Wheat This Season
Wheat threshing is still in
progress throughout this sec
tion and the crop is moving
rapidly. It is said that it will
take at least ten days or two
weeks longer to finish thresh
ing the crop.
The yield is not as good a.<
last year but a majority of the
farmers have made a fairly
good crop and are 'very well
pleased with the returns from
the crop.
F. C. Hoyt & Co., local buy
ers for the Arkadelphia Mill
ing (Co,, have shipped 29 cars
and are now loading the doth
car of wheat of this season’s
crop. Total shipments of
wheat to date amount t6 a lit
tle more than 35,000 bushels.
In addition to this, about 6,
000 bushels of wheat have
been shipped from Magness.
Prices have advanced during
the past few days and F. C.
Hoyt & Co., are paying $1.12
for wheat here today.
BATESVILLE RESIDENCE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
The residence of Constable
I). G. Horton of Ruddell town
ship was totally destroyed by
lire at Batesville early Mon
day morning.
Mr. Horton was awakened I
about 1 o’clock Monday morn
ing to find the building in
flames near the roof. He ex-!
tinguished the tire and went i
to bed but was awakened
again about 1 o’clock by the
fire which had broken out
again. The fire was again ex-1
tinguished, but about an hour
later fire broke out again in
the same place and the build
ing was totally destroyed.
The fire is supposed to have
been caused by a defective
flue. The loss is about $750
with $500 insurance.
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Trade with the merchants
who advertise in The Journal.
MAKES $86 IN FOUR
DAYS OF PFARLING
One Example of How Profit
able the Pearling Industry
Has Become in This Section
The pearling industry is
proving a very profitable one
to parties who engage in the
work in a business-like man
ner and save all the shells they
find.
Shells are now selling on
the local market for $38 per
ton, which makes pearl hunt
ing very profitable even if a
man finds no pearls.
As an instance of how pro
fitable this work has become,
it is reported that C. M. Meis
enheimer, who is pearling in
White river a few miles south
of town, worked 4i/> days the
past week taking out shells,
i As a result of the 4 •/-< days la
bor he sold $4G worth of shells
and $40 worth of small pearls
anti slugs, making a total of
$86 for the 1' ^ days labor.The
shells were sold to J. G. Ed
wards of this place who is
paying $38 per ton.
FARM TRACTOR SEEN
BY MANY FARMERS
The demonstration of the
farm tractor given at Bates
ville last Saturday by the C.
W. Maxfield Company was
witnessed by many farmers
from all sections of the county.
All who saw the demonstra
tion expressed themselves as
highly pleased with the work
done by the tractor.
This modern iron., ,
»e*em« tfrrtt+tflT to revolutionize
farming and it is very probable
that a number of them will lx
purchased by Independence
county farmers in tin near fu
ture.
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COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION
The Independence County
Sunday School Convention will
be held at Moorefield on Aug
ust 24 and 25. A large attend
ance is expected.
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CAPITAL $25,000
SURPLUS $6,000
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$82,680 TO ARKANSAS
FOR ROAD BUILDING
Amount Allotted Arkansas
From Government Under
New Good Roads Law
Arkansas will receive $82,
G89 this year as its share of the
$5,000,000 federal road fund
available under the new feder
al roads law recently passed
by congress, according to a
statement issued yesterday by
the Department of Agriculture j
at Washington.
The money was apportioned
among the states according to
population, area and the num
ber of rural and star routes in
operation.
The bill appropriates a total
of $75,000,000 for five years.
The first year’s appropriation
will be $5,000,000, the second
$10,000,000; third, $15,0000,
000; fourth, $20,000,000, and
the fifth and last year. $25,
000,000. The amounts of states
will be increased in the same
ration. Arkansas’ share in five
years will amount to $1,230,
000.
The money must be expend
ed under the direction'of the
highway departments of the
states. If there is no such de
partment, the money will be
held in trust for two years un
til the department is provideu.
If the state fails to provide this
department, the money will be
apportioned among the other
states. All the money received
each year must be expended
bfore more money can be re
ceived. Funds available this
year must be expended before
Juno ;>n 1017, or the amount
tor next y«ar cannot be rt
ceived.
To secure a share of the fed
eral funds, state legislatures
must appropriate sums equal
to the federal allotments, and
must pay at least 50 per cent
of the cost of all roads in
which the federal funds are
used. All roads are subject to
inspection and approval by
government engineers. Selec
tion of routes and the roads’
structure and composition is
left to the state highway de
partments.
INDEPENDENCE MAN
WILL. BE RELEASED
Twenty seven convicts, sev
en of them white, comprise the t
list of state prisoners who will
be released on commutation
of sentenc^ during August, ac
cording to a report of the peni
tentiary commission.
Among the number is Reed
Williams, a young man of
Batesville, who was sentenced
from this county upon convic
tion on a charge of forgery and
uttering.
PEARLS SCARCE ON
UPPER WHITE RIVER
Cotter, July 24.—The White
river below this place is lined
with pearl fishers. More per
sons are engaged in this in
dustry this year than for sev
eral years. The finds, however,
have been few and mussels
hard to get. The beds have
been depleted by the past 12
years’ fishing.
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FIRE DESTROYS
BARN NEAR DESHA
A large barn belonging to
('raft Stephens, near Desha,
was totally destroyed by fire
about 11 o’clockTuesdaynight.
The fire started in the corn
crib in some loose feed. About
15 bales of hay and a small
quantity of oats and other feed
was destroyed. The loss is
about $500 with no insurance.
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If you have property for
•ale, list it with the Newark
Real Estate Co.
CHEAP POWER ONE OF
STATE’S GREAT NEEDS
Development of Power on Red
River Would Mean Great
Things for Arkansas
That cheap hydro-electric
power is revolutioniizng busi
ness conditions in other South
ern States, bringing factories,
giving employment to thou
sands, making better cotton
markets through new cotton
mills, opening up rqw material
markets by providing forcheap
manufacture and that logically
the same results will be obtain
ed in Arkansas when the riv
ers are harnessed is the testi
mony being taken by the Lit
tle Rock Board of Commerce.
The Board is corresponding
with commercial bodies in oth
er Southern towns and cities
which have access to hydro
electric power and the scores
of replies received indicate
that it will be a great day for
Arkansas when the current is
turned into the transmission
lines of the Arkansas Hydroel
ectric Development Co., which
has launched its project of
harnessing the Little Red River
near Heber Springs and which
will furnish cheap power to
Little Rock, Memphis, and in
termediate towns, with an ex
tra loop into the rice belt and
a line to Bauxite where the raw
material for aluminum is pro
duced in enormous quantities.
Dickinson and Watkins, engi
neers for the Hydro-Electric
company this week forwarded
a quantity of supplementary
data for the use of the engi
neers of the nnanemi interests
in Kou- w no will provide
tne $5,000,000 capital. The of
ficers of the company have an
nounced that no bonus will be
asked of any town or city and
no subscriptions to stock will
be solicited except in the East
ern market.
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BROUGH TO SPEAK IN
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
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Goes to New England States in
August to Make Speeches
for President Wilson
Little Rock, July 26.—Dr.C.
H. Brough Democratic nomi
nee for governor, will be one
of the speakers to open the na
tional Democratic campaign in
Maine next August, he an
nounced in Little Rock today.
Several days ago Dr. Brough
was requested to take part in
the campaign by Homer S.
Cummings, vice chairman of
the Democratic National Com
mittee, in charge of the Speak
ers’ Bureau, lie referred the
request to the State Central
iCommittee. Chairman J. W.
House Jr., and other members
of the committee approved Dr.
Brough’s acceptance.
The national campaign will
open in Maine, August 15. I)r.
Brough will return to take up
the Democratic campaign in
Arkansas as soon as the State
Central Committee advises. It
is probable the state campaign
will open about September 15.
Dr. Brough is optimistic ov
er the national Democratic
campaign. “There is no reason
why President Wilson should
not be re-elected by a large
majority,” he said. “I believe
he will be if the Democrats
will stand together and work.
The recent rumblings in the
remnants of the Progressive
party and the unquestioned
solidarity of the Democratic
party make the prospects for
a continuation of the Democrat
ic administration very bright.”
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PROHIBITION PROVES
HELP TO ARKANSAS
Criminal Business In theCourts
Greatly Decreased and Much
Money is Saved Taxpayers
Little Rock, July 25.—Re
ports reaching Little Rock from
a number of cities of the state
indicate that the statewide
prohibition law passed by the
Legislature has practically de
stroyed criminal business in
circuit courts. Sessions of
grand juries held in several of
the larger counties, where sa
loons flourished up to last Jan
uary, were the dullest in
years, according to final re
ports submitted the last few
days to circuit judges. In sev
eral cities the juries reported
that they did not- have enough
business to keep them in ses
sion for more than two orthree
days at a time, and in conse
quence jails were virtually
empty.
This condition prevailed in
Little Rock to such an extent
that the Pulaski County grand
jury, in its final report, stated
that the session which began
last March and ended last
week was the dullest ever held
and as a result business did
not keep the inquisitors to
gether more than two or three
days at a time, and the num
ber of indictments returned
were about 65 per cent less
than any previous grand jury.
Many of the members of the
Pulaski County grand jury,
who always voted for license
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ated recently for the repeal of
the statewide prohibition law,
basing their refusal upon the
ground that the closing of the
saloons lessened crime to a
very large degree and saved
the taxpayers of the county
large sums of money in the
way of paying witness and
prosecuting attorney’s fees in
the criminal division of the cir
cuit court.
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J. G. Edwards is paying $d8
per ton for mussel shells deliv
ered at Newark.
CAR TURNS TURTLE;
OCCUPANTS ESCAPE
Rudd Alexander and James
Vaughan Have Narrow Es
cape When Car Turns Over
Ruck] Alexander and James
Vaughan had a narrow escape
from a serious accident late
Wednesday afternoon while
out for a spin in Mr. Alexand
der’s Ford roadster.
They were driving west on
the road toward Magness and
when near the Thomas creek
bridge just west of town, the
car turned turtle, throwing
both occupants several feet.
They were running about 30
miles an hour when the car be
came unmanageable and be
fore they could stop it, the car
left the road and turned com
pletely over.
Both occupants of the car
escaped with only a few slight
bruises, but the car was badly
damaged, one wheel being
completely demolished and the
car otherwise badly damaged.
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NEW ROUND HOUSE
NEARS COMPLETION
The new round house of the
Iron Mountain being construct
ed between the main line
tracks and the switch tracks
opposite the Itner-State News
Company building, is rapidly
nearing completion as the up
per work will require very lit
tle time for its construction.
While the round house will
be sufficien
ILs only
Tor tne
mean more repair work for the
enginemen here and thus an
increased force, from which
Newport will be benefitted by
reason of an increased payroll.
—Newport Independent.
ELECTRIC FAN CUTS
OFF BOY’S FINGERS
Batesville, July 25.—George
B. Rust sustained the loss of
two fingers on his right hand
yesterday, when his hand was
caught in an electric fan.
tly large for twelve
present. This will
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