The Newark Journal.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, November 18, 1915
Vol 15, No. 33
COURT ADJOURNS
AFTER BUSY TERM
48 Jury Cases Tried in Inde
pendence Circuit Court and
Docket Almost Cleaned Up.
The fall term of the Indepen
dence Circuit Court adjourned
at Batesville last Saturday, af
ter a busy term, a total of 48
jury trials having been had dur
ing the term. The docket was
practically cleared, only about
15 cases remaining and these
will be disposed of at a special
term to be held later.
The following cases weredis
’Pbsed of after our report last
week.
Tom W-eaver, night riding,
continued.
Tom Weaver, night riding,
jury trial, not guilty.
Clarence Bonner, abortion,
continued.
Edna Balcom.Vassaull tT> kill,
jury trial, not guilty.
City of Batesville vs. Sid
Reaves, continued.
City of Batesville vs. Guy
Odom, continued.
Stacy Miller, carnal abuse,
jury trial, not guilty. '
Alex Peel, burglary, jury
. trial, not guilty.
Napoleon Winkles, plea of
guilty, one year in pen.
Junius Howard, et al., plea
of guilty, one year in pen.
Arthur Earles, et al., plea
of guilty, one year in pen.
• Wm. Williams, appeal from
J. P. court, jury trial,not guilty.
Clucus C'annon,sellingliquor,,
jury trial, fined $250.
Chns. Engles, appeal from J.
P. Court, judgment of J. P. af
firmed.
• Moda Gould, et. al., vs. Dart
Hquse,judgment fordefendant;
motion for new trial overruled
and appeal granted.
D. G. Horton vs. W. M.
Thompson, motion for newtrial
overruled, and appeal granted.
C. W. Maxfield vs. Lawrence
Ruddell, administrator,* judg
jment for C. W. Maxfield for
$394.
Wm. Dean vs. John Flinn,
judgment against Flinn for $26
jset aside.
State of Arkansas for Inde
'pendence county vs. Citizens
|Bank & Trust.Co., et. al., judg
ement against bank -'for $650
! principal, and $104 interest.
Austin Cox vs.Mt.Olive Stave
Co., continued.
A1 Sparkman vs. W. A. Ru
therford, jury trial, verdict for
idefendant.
Mattie McGuire vs. V. G.
Richardson, jury trial, verdict
for plaintiff for $40.
Mrs. J. T. Stone vs. Marion
jLoy, transferred to equity.
J. S. Compton vs. Lawrence
I Hanks, judgment for plaintiff
for $61.12.
Willie A. Richardson, vs. Ida
L. Erwin, non suit taken by
! plaintiff and exceptions* taken
by defendant; appeal prayed
and granted
Florsheimer Shoe Co.. v». J*
W. Fite, judgment for plaintiff
for $271. |
Louise Durivag1 vs. Frank
Durivage; Criss Jennmgs, U.P.
Kent and F. M Ham appointed
commissioners to make parti-!
tion of lands in controversy.
V. G. Richardson vs. J. A.
Wilson, et al., dismissed at cost]
of plaintiff.
G. F. Marshall vvs. Railway, i
judgment for plaintiff for$250.
I John Cunningham vs. Fred,
liDurfee, dismised at plaintiff’s,
[cost.
SUPERINTENDENT STATE
HOSPITAL RESIGNS
A long distance telephone
lmessage from Little Rock this
morning states that Dr. F. P.
Young, at a meeting of the
board yesterday evening, ten
dered his resignation as super
intendent of the State Hospital
effective January 1. The
board of control elected Dr.
Greene as superintendent. Dr.
Greene was formerly superin
tendent of the institution, and
since his resignation about a
vear ago has been residing at
Hot Springs.
First National Bank i
NEWARK, ARK
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capitXl $25,000
SURPLUS $6,500
C. M. Edwards, Pres
G. M. Fields, V. Pres.
E. B. Chesser, Cashier
THIS, BANK
is ORGANIZED
UNDER AND
controlled by
LAWS
ENACT^^ED
AT At I• * 11»i
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THE SIGNS
Of the Times Suggest Saving
Your Dollars
YOU CAN’T
Commence loo Soon
The morning of Life
Is quickly passed.
And old age
Follows after Noon.
START A BANK ACCOUNT
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~ BUY BANK MONEY ORDERS
When Sending Money to D* - *
tant points. They are payable
anywhere and are SAFE.
STATE INSTITUTIONS
MAKE BIG SAVINGS
Official Figures Show Present
Board of Control is Saving
| the State Considerable Sum.
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i The Board of Control of the
[State Charitable Institutions, of
which Hon. T. J. Raney of this
place is a member, reports that
all the institutions arebeingrun
much more economically than
ever before.
The following figures were
taken from the books ofthesec
retary, and show the savingthat
is being made for the state un
der the management of the pre
sent board.
October, 1914. — Average
number of patients, 1,625; cost
for 31 days, $11,564.11; cost
for one day, $377.04; cost per
day per patient, 23 cents; cost
per meal per patient, 7% cents.
.October, 1915 — Average
number of patients, 1,834; cost
for 31 days, $10,629.59; cost
for one day, $342.56; cost per
day per patient, 18% cents;
cost per meal per patient, 6.22
cents.
This is for the state hospital
for nervous diseases.
The five months of May to
September ioclusive.atthedeaf
mute institute, shows a saving
of $2,894.60 over last year, the
expenditures being $7,951.68
in 1914. and $5,067.08 in 1915.
Mr. Ranev says that the cost
of running all the institutions
is falling considerably under
the proportionate amount ap
propriated for the period and
that none of the state charitab
le institutions are suffering any
inconvenience from the loss of
funds that were vetoed by Gov.
Hays last spring.
YV
NOT SCARLET FEVER
Some one sent a repot to the
Arkansas Gazette that the little
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ches
ser, whose death occurred last
Friday, died of scarlet fever,
when in fact there has not been
a case of scarlet fever in town
in a number of years.
Physicians who attended the
little son of Mr. and Mrs. Ches
ser state very positively that he
did not have scarlet fever, and
their opinion is concurred in by
Dr. W. B. Lawrence, county
health officef, who came down
from Batesville to make a diag
nosis of the case.
The rube who sent the report
to the Gazette is certainly a
“booster” for Newark, and his
action has created no little in
dignation. The man who has no
better sense or possesses no
greater loyality to his commu
nity than to send out to the
newspapers such false and
damaging reports as this, de
serves a stinging rebuke from
the citizens of the community.
The little son of Mr. and
Mrs. Chesser was first stricken
with bronchitis, which inflamed
the throat to such an ex
tent that one tonsil bursted.
resulting in blood poison.
Local physicians state that
there is not now, and has not
been a case of scarlet fever in
Newark in a number of years,
except the case brought in dur
ing the overflow and it was so
well isolated that the patient
recovered and no one else took
the disease.
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AFFIRM CROSSER CASE
The Supreme Court at Little
Rock on last Monday affirmed
the judgment of the Independ
ence Circuit Court in the case
of Geo. F. Crosser vs. Addle
Grosser. Th? < iso grew nut pf
j divorce proceedings and invol
ves title to some property grant
ied Mrs. Crosser by the lower
court.
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TO PLAN PROGRAM
FOR 64TH CONGRESS
Mr. Oidfieid Confers With Ad
ministrationLead3rsWith Re
gard to Fending Legislation.
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Washington ,Nov. 15.—That
the Ways and Means Commit
tee will convene this week to
arrange the membership of the
house committees and to layout
ithe legislative program for the
Sixty-fourth Congress, is the
statement of Representative W.
A. Oldfield, member of the
| committee.
“Among the principal legis
lative matters to be consider
ed,” said Mr. Oldfield, “are the
rural credits measure, the ship
purchase bill and the good
roads bill and the extension of
the war revenue bill. Accroding
to the provisions of the war rev
enue bill, as enacted by the last
Congress, it ceases to be effec
tive Decemb er 31. However,the
European war still greatly cur
tails our importations, hence the
law will have to be re-enacted
in order to secure sufficientrev
enue to run the government. Al
so the president will insist upon
large appropriations for nation
al defense, and while the draft
ing of measures for such de
fense will be the work of other
committees,the methods of rais
ing the additional revenue need
ed must be formulated by the
Way's and Means Committee.
“Regarding the other meas
ures. with the exception of the
.war revenue act, which became |
a law during the Sixty-third
j congress, all of them have been
passed by the house but not
enacted into law. At the last
session of Congress the house
passed a billappropriating$25,
000,000 to be apportioned a-,
along the different states for
road building, but the bill fail
ed in the Senate. The house al
so passed the ship purchase bill j
the purpose of which was toen
ai’lo the United States to buy!
av.d own ships for the South A
meriean trade, but this bill was
'also not enacted.Both the house
|and the Senate passed rural
(Credit bills providing long-time
loans at a low rate of interest
to <he farmers, but no agree
ment could be had upon the dif
ferences in the bills,and neither
was concurred in by the other
body.”
Members of the Ways and j
Means Committee are holding
[informal caucuses pending the!
formal convening. Mr. Oldfield j
has been in consultation several
times with the president and
several members of the cabinet
on the needs of the government
department and the country at
large.
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK
Ueo. L. Bevens announces in
today’s paper as a candidate
for circuit clerk.
It will be remembered that
Mr. Bevens served the people as
clerk from 1908 to 1912, and
made the county a most effic
ient officer.
He is a man of splendid char
acter, and his business qualifi
cations are such as to commend
him to the voters as a very de
sirable man for the position he
seeks.
Mr. Bevens was born and
reared in this county, and since
|retiring from the circuit clerk’s
[office, has been engaged in the
|mercantile business with W. A.
Rutherford at Magnet.
The splendid record he made
during his former ,trvic» in
this office afford "tuple ur
ance that if he is again eiected
td this important position, the
office will be in safe and cap
able hands.
BIG PRIZES FOR BEST
ESSAYS ON THRIFT
Boys and Girls Given Opportu
nity to Win Cash Prizes For
Essays on Vital Topic.
The National Education As
sociation is offering $1,350 in
prizes for essays on “THRIFT.”
In Arkansas,the following plan
is to be used :
Each County Superintedent
and Examiner is askedtosecure
a contest in each school within
his county, outside of cities of
four thousand population. He
shall have each school select
and send to him the three best
essays, and he will select the
five best essays of the county
and send to State Superintend
ent Geo. B. Cook.
There will be conducted in
each city of four thousand or
more, a similar contest. Super
intendents of cities of less than
ten thousand population will
send one essay to the state su
perintendent ; superintendents
of cities with a population be
tween ten and fifty thousand
will send two essays; superin
tendents of cities of from fifty
to one hundred thousand popu
lation will send three essays.
State Superintendent Geo. B.
Cook will determine the bestes
says from the State, and will
send the ten best essays to the
Secretary of the National Edu
cation Association.
These essays are to be on the'
general subjct of THRIFT, the
purpose being to draw out the
children’s ideas on the subject
without any suggestion as to
methods by which the same
should be treated. Essays will
be limited to one thousand
words. All essays sent to Super
intendent Geo. B. Cook, must
be in sets of three each and
typewritten.
To the writer of the best es
say a prize of $100 will be giv
en; to the writer of the second
best,a prize of $50 ;to the writ
er,; of the third and fourth best,
prizes of $25 each; to the writ
ers of the fifth, sixth, seventh,
eigth and ninth best $10 each.
All essays should be in the
hands of the county and city
superintendents not later than
January 1, and the best essays
selected from each county
should be sent to Superintend
GOVERNOR HAYS WILL
NOT BE A CANDIDATE
Makes Formal Announcement
That He Will Not Again
Seek Gubernatorial Chair.
Gov. Geo. W. Hays issued a
formal announcement from his
office in Little Rock last night,
stating that he will not be a
candidate for re-election.
The announcement that he
will not again be a candidate
is quite a disappointment to the
governor’s many friends who
had expected that he would
again be in the race.
Gov. Hays has been in vary
poor health for some time and
for the past few weeks he has
been under the care of a phy
sician. Intimate friends of the
governor have recently enter
tained fears that he would not
be physically able to stand the
strain incident to a strenuous
campaign, and it is thought
that this had a great deal to do
with the governor’s decision,
not to enter the race.
The Journal was unable to
get a copy of the governor’s
statement over the long dis
tance telephone this morning.
OIL MEN COMING
Conner Bros. & Woolsey, the
oil men will be in Newark
on Tuesday and Wednesday,
Nov. 23 and 24, with a supply
of oil.
All parties desiring oilshould
be on hand with their tanks.
For any further information
|call H. V. MERIWETHER.
.ent Cook not later than Febru
ary 1st.
In addition to the contest for
school children, prizes are of
fered for the three best essays
presented by adults on the sub
ject of THRIFT—with an out
line of a METHOD by which
[the PRINCIPLES of THRIFT
may be taught in our PLIBLIC
^SCHOOLS. The first prize will
| $750; the second prize $250
the third prize $100. Persons
jintending to compete for these
I prizes should notify Mr. D. W.
Springer, Secretary of the Na
tional Education Association,
Ann Arbor, Michigan of their
intention not later than Decem
ber 1, 1915.
WHICH DO YOU PREFER
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A White Cabinet Sewing Machine
A Handsome Runabout or
A Buck's Cook Stove
Do you want one of the above-mentioned articles
free? Well, we are going to give one of them away
without a cent of cost to you. With each note paid
in full we give you one ticket with two numbers on
it. You keep one of the numbers and we keep the
other. On December 24, some one will draw a num
ber from our box and the person with the corres
i ponding number gets their choice of the three things
offered. In case the note is above $25 we will give
one ticket for each fraction above $25. In addition
to the above, we will give one ticket with each $10
cash purchase. Come in and see the prizes. A
hearty welcome to all, with goods and prices like
they nave always been the best for the money.
— REMEMBER
MAXFIELD’S
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Lime, Cement, Paint, Harness, Hardware and
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