The Newark Journal.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, May 10, 1912
Vol. 12, No. 5
SCHOOL CLOSES
YEAR’S WORK
l.arge Crowds Attest the Great In
terest Taken in School by
Satisfied Patrons
The closing exercises of the
Newark High School began on
Monday evening of last week, end
ing with the graduating essays
and the declamation contest on
Friday night.
The students all acquitted them
selves in such a pleasing manner
as to reflect honor and credit up
on their teachers who had so care
fully trained them.
Thursdayevening, “The Masonic
Ring,” a very appropriate com
mencement play, was given by
the pupils of the high school de
partment. The performance went
through without a hitch and the
ease and grace with which the pu
pils presented the play, and the en
thusiastic applause from the audi
ence, showed how carefully the
players had gone over the ground
as well as the unusual talent of
our boys and girls.
Friday evening, with the audi
torium crowded to its utmost ca
pacity, the graduating essays and
declamations were delivered.
Those in the declamation contest
for the gold medal were Horace
Hoyt, Clive Hawthorne, Tom Jack
and Ruby Drennen. The judges
for the contest were Profs. Raw
lings and Bullington of Sulphur
Rock and Duke Ward of Batesville.
The contest was close, but after
careful deliberation the judges de
cided that Horace Hoyt had won
the medal, which was presented in
the name of the business men of
the town by Rev. A. H. Dulaney
with a short and appropriate
speech.
The graduates from the high
school were Misses Pearl Poe,
Morgan Tuggle, Mary Alexander,
Ruby Poe and Bessie Arnold. Their
subjects were as follows: "Happi
ness,” Pearl Poe; “Value of little
things,” Morgan Tuggle; “Self Re
liance,” Mary Alexander; “Music,”
Ruby Poe; “Love” Bessie Arnold.
These essays were well arranged
and full of thought. After the
girls had received their diplomas,
Pearl Poe being the honor gradu
ate of the class, was then present
ed a certificate of award entitling
her to a free scholarship in the
Chilicothe Business College, offer
ed by the president of that institu
tion to all the honor graduates of
all the high schools in Arkansas.
Minne Lynn Martin, Hazel Ed
wards, Effie Sisk and Maude Mag
ness, having completed the eighth
grade, were given certificates of
promotion to the high school de
partment. Hazel Edwards, Ruby
Hoyt, Dollie Carpenter and Alton
Raney have neither been absent or
tardy a day during the term and
were each given a small gold
medal for excellent attendance by
their teacher. Others deserving
special mention for attendance are
Maude Magness, Vey Morgan, Er
nest Gire and Clarence Mayhan.
Hazel Edwards deserves special
mention in music. The teachers all
desire to express their apprecia
tion and thanks, not only to the
board of directors, but to all pa
trons of the district, for their
hearty co-operation in endeavor
ing to make our school what it
should be. And The Journal might
add that no corps of teachers
ever labored more faithfully and
efliciently in the entire history of
school than those who were
in charge of the school during the
year just closed. The principal,
the teachers and the school board
all worked in perfect harmony
with the one purpose of advanc
ing the best interests of the school
and its patrons. The result shows
in what is perhaps the best year’s
work in the history of the school,
and the people of Newark and
community have cause to congrat
ulate themselves upon the high
standard of excellence attained by
our school. Too much praise can
not be given those loyal citizens
who compose the school board,
and to the principal and teachers
for the faithful labors performed
by them.
BUILD NEWPORT SCHOOL
Newport, May 4.—J. D. John
son of Little Rock was awarded
the contract for the construction
of the new school building for
Newport special district, to cost
$39,550, and be completed by Oc
tober 1. The original bid of Mr.
Johnson was $37,100 for the build
ing complete. The building is to
be of a very handsome design,
built of pressed brick, tile roof
and modern in every respect.
HOLD BIO REVIVAL
Evangilists Burke and Hobbs
closed a revival meeting at Claren
don a few days ago that resulted
in more than 300 conversions and
nearly as many additions to the
various churches of the town.
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The ES1F anti Flanders Cars are
$300 cheaper and $500 better
Builders Supplies, Lime, Cement,
Plaster, Furniture, Stoves, Ranges,
Wagons, Buggies and Machinery.
I C. W. MAXFIELD CO. (
Batesville, Ark.
CONTESTS FOR
RURAL SCHOOLS
State Superintendent Discusses
Importance of These in Cre
ating School Interest
I earnestly urge county Super
intendents, county examiners and
teachers to co-operate heartily in
stimulating interest in local, coun
ty and district fairs, or any other
i organizations that propose to have
I agricultural or industrial exhibits.
It would be a splendid idea for
every school in the county, and
especially the rural schools, to
have exhibits at all such gather
ings.
These occasions offer splendid
opportunities for magnifying the
work of boy’s and girls’ clubs of
various kinds and to show the pat
rons what the school is doing.
Large numbers of children from
the different schools of the county
are brought together on these oc
casions and there results a larger
outlook for the school and com
munity.
Friendly rivalry in the school
and athletic contests of various
kinds is of immense value in an
educational and social way. Ar
range if possible for the schools
of the county to attend these
gatherings in a body.
Will you not co-operate with
those in charge of local arrange
ments in seeing that various con
test features for the schools are ar
ranged in your county and that
prizes are offered for these feat
ures? In limited numbers athletic
contests, school drills, map-draw
ing contests, spelling matches, dec
lamation and oratorical contests,
etc., might be arranged.
This department will heartily
co-operate in every possible way
in this work. Mr. J. L. Bond, sup
ervisor of rural schools, who is
working under the direction of
the Department of Public lnstruc
! tion, will be glad to assist you di
rectly in this work. He is visiting
the different counties from time
to time in the interest of the rur
al school work and, if needed, his
services are yours in helping to
get this work organized in your
county. Very sincerely yours,
Geo. B. Cook.
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
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MARRY IN CEMETERY
A wedding took place inNewark
Monday afternoon in which the
contracting parties not only com
pletely surprised their many friends
but broke the conventional in a
most unusual and unique manner.
1). B. Cook and Miss Erie Wil
liamson went out for a walk, ac
companied by Hugh Travis and
Miss Morgan Tuggle. It had been
previously arranged that Rev. (i.
L. Fink should meet them near
the cemetery. The minister was a
little late or the young people
were a little ahead of schedule
(possibly the latter) and the young
people were sitting in the shade of
a spreading oak when the minister
accompanied by his wife, coming
across from his home nearby, saw
them and beckoned them to come
on and meet him. They did so,
and the bridal party and the min
ister meeting in the cemetery, a
wedding service was solemnized
amid the mute marble shafts that
mark the inevitable end of the
lover, the loved and the unloved.
The principals in this solemn yet
most happy wedding were D. B.
Cook and Miss Erie Williamson.
Mr. and Mrs. Cook are among the
most prominent and popular young
people in town and The Journal
heartily joins their many friends
in wishing for them a full measure
of all the good things of life.
WILL COST THE
STATE $150,000
Cost of Laws to be Voted Upon by
People indicates That Law
Making is Expensive
Thursday night of this week
saw the close of the time permit
ted under the Initiative and Refer
endum for the filing of petitions
for the initiation of laws by the
people. The experiment of direct
legislation is somewhat of a novel
ty for the people of Arkansas, but
they are learning the game rapid
ly and by next election will be as
wise as those who are elected and
paid for making laws.
There are two classess of laws
that have been initiated by the
people statutes and amendments
to the constitution. It is argued
that against the first the Legisla
ture has no power to proceed, but
the doctrine of estoppel applies to
the amendments. Attorney-gener
al Norwood, among others, holds
that after an act has been passed
by the people, the Legislature may
take it up and amend, repeal post
pone or mangle it as much as their
conscience will permit; that a stat
ute enacted by the people is scarce
ly more than a petition to the
Legislature, which may change it
as it sees fit.
There are two amendments in
itiated by the people, one permit
ting cites to issue bonds for inter
nal improvements, the other for a
sixty-day session of the Legisla
ture. These cannot be changed by
the legislature, being a part of
the organic law. A member of the
Senate was in Little Rock last
week, and predicted that the
next session would be one of the
longest ever held, and that the six
ty-day act would not bother them
any they would merely declare
that it should not become effect
ive until 1915 or 1917, or some
other future date. But Gen. Nor
wood averred that they were rec
koning without their host, for the
Legislature would have nothing
to do with it. The first warrant
that should be drawn after the ex
piration of the sixty days would
be protested, and although he
would not be attorney-general at
the time, as a private citizen he
would bring suit to enjoin the is
suance of warrants by the State
Auditor, in payment of perdiem or
legislative expense. There is not
the least doubt but that the peo
ple will approve the amendment
proposed by Gen. Norwood. The
Legislatures have brought it all
on by their flagrant disregard of
the people’s rights, by their ses
sions of constantly increasing
length, and by the profligate ex
diture of public funds.
Among the other measures that
have been initiated are the recall
and state uniformity of text books,
by the Federation of Labor; state
wide prohibition by the Anti-Sa
loon League; change in election
law for the better protection of
the minority, by the Republican
organizations.
Several measures that had been
started have failed to secure
enough names for initiation,
among them being the equal suf
frage and the state printing plant
propositions.
It is roughly estimated that it
will cost the state about $150,0U0
to put into execution its
jtion this year—a pretty penny
I when the state is already a quar
; ter of a million dollars behind,
j When the next session meets, the
| deficit will be nearer a million
; dollars, and the incoming admin
istration will face the most seri
jous problem that has ever con
fronted the state. 11 is generally
[believed that the Turner-Jacobson
j experiment of direct
bill, which its authors and Gov.
Donaghey had confidently offered
as a remedy for the existing finan
cial distress, will be defeated by
the people. The overwhelming
victory of Congressman Robinson,
who fought the revenue measure
bitterly, Gov. Donaghey announc
ing that he would stake his politi
cal future upon it, is interpreted
as meaning that the bill which has
been so active a political issue
since the s pring of 1911, will be
repudiated by the people in Sep
tember.
When the T. J. Hill is defeated,
Gov. Robinson will be forced to
adopt some other expedient to re
trench and recoup, and while his
friends have every confidence in his
ability to do so, it does not appear
at this time just what course he
will pursue. More money must be
raised. The assessment cannot be
increased, except naturally, and
the only other course open appears
to be an increase in the tax levy.
Will the new governor adopt that
plan? The state has been going
from bad to worse financially since
Gov. Jeff Davis caused the state
levy to be reduced from two and a
half to one and three-quarters
mills. At the same time the reve
nue was being reduced the ex
penses of the state were being in
creased, and many institutions de
manded by the people were being
established with heavy pay-rolls
and expense accounts. The result
was inevitable. Early in the Don
aghey administration the deficit
began to threaten, and it was
averted for a time only by the
most adroit financiering. Then for
over a year it was predicted that
the state must inevitably go upon
a scrip basis. And for four months
now it has been on a scrip basis.
It is a long hill that the new ad
ministration has set to climb, and
Mr. Robinson is being praised for
his courage in essaying the task.
SERMON CAUSE OH TRAGEDY
Imboden, May 7. -Harry Moore,
negro, was shot and instantly kill
ed Sunday night at a negro church
house near Strawberry, Lawrence
county, by Frank Cravens, another
negro, with whom Moore became
engaged in a heated argument
over a sermon preached by theii
pastor, Rev. Imboden, a negro
minister of the southern part of
this county. Cravens shot Moore
twice with a 38 revolver. Cravens
was arrested and taken to Powha
tan, where he was placed in the
county jail. He will be given a
preliminary hearing this week.
BEHRY SEASON
BRINGS A RUSH
Several Thousaud Dollars Worth
of Luscious Fruit Shipped
From Judsonia Daily
Editor Journal. — Allow me a
small space in your valuable paper
again as there might be some of
our old friends who would like to
hear from us and to hear some
thing about the strawberry crop
at this time. Berry picking has
just begun, and is about a month
later than last year, therefore the
season will be a short one and not
so good as was expected. The town
and country is flooded with
pickers and more coming in every
day, on every train and from every
direction. Lots of people from the
flooded district on the White and
Mississippi rivers are coming here
for work. ’Of course this is my
first berry season here, but it seems
to me that there are people enough
here to eat the berries, plants and
all. But some say there are none
too many hands to pick the crop.
.Saturday afternoon and night
looked like a picnic crowd in town.
They say by the 15th or 20th the
rush will be on in good shape.
There has only been a few days
that they have been shipping in
carload lots, but there will be sev
eral cars shipped every day from
now on as long as the picking sea
son lasts, which I think will be
four or five weeks. Last year there
were as high as 19 cars shipped in
one day and some say there will be
larger days shipping this year.
Berries are selling now for $2.50
per crate and it takes from 450 to
550 crates to load a car, so you see
15 or 20 cars would bring in quite
a little sum of money for one day.
In my last letter you made a little
mistake in the amount of plants
shipped in one day by one man.
He shipped 600,000 instead of 60,
000. I guess you thought that was
like the pepper the rrtan prayed
for - altogether too much— but
nevertheless it was a fact.
Wishing you and yours, The
Journal and all our old friends
success, I am respectfully,
J. C. Gibson
Judsonia, Ark., May 6.
W.C. T. U. SERVICES
The W. C. T. U. had* charge of
the services at the Methodist
church Sunday night, and excel
lent papers were read by Mrs. F.
C. Iloyt, Mrs. J. P. Magness, Mrs.
Lila Jack and Mrs. John Rodgers.
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