MANY ILLEGAL NAMES
ON EIQUOR PETITIONS
Action May be 1 aken to Pre
vent Bill Going to the Peo
ple For a Vote.
Little Rock, Sept. 5.—Inves
tigations that have been made
of the petitions for the repeal
of the State-Wide Prohibition
law, according to the officials
of the Arkansas Anti-Saloon
League, indicate that fully one
half of the signatures are ille
gal. Not all of the verifications
have been completed, but
enough has been done to show
that if illegal and irregular
signatures were eliminated,
there would not be enough
names left for the initiation of
the bill. Just what course will
be taken by the League will
not be decided for several days
yet. There is a disposition
among some of the leaders to
let the bill go to a vote, mak
ing public the illegal signatures
to show what steps the saloon
interests have taken to gain an
advantage while others favor
going into the courts to secure
an injunction against the bill
on the ground of irregularity.
Here are a few of the in
stances that have been discov
ered of glaring irregularities
in the petition:
In Pulaski county 5905
names were secured, of which
2184 are said to be legal, 3,
137 illegal and 584 the sig
natures of persons residing in
other counties; of 1399 signa
tures in Sebastain county, 704
are illegal and 128 reside in
other counties; Union county,
49 of which 24 are illegal ;Per
ry county, 136, of which 70 are
illegal; White county, 68 of
which 35 are illegal; Hemp
stead, 57 or which 29 are ille
gal; Prairie, 223, of which 82
are illegal; Arkansas, 632, of
which 308 are illegal; Lincoln,
34, of which 18 are illegal; St.
Francis, 248, of which 132 are
illegal; Crittenden, 42, of
which 30 are illegal.
The investigations are being
continued >n other counties,and
everywhere the ratio is being
maintained. In Jefferson coun
ty, it is found that a majority
of the signers are negroes.
AUGUST PEN REPORT
SHOWS 16 DECREASE
The population of the state
penitentiary was decreased 1G
prisoners during August, ac
cording to the monthly report
of the penitentiary commission
issued on the 1st. The popula
tion September 1 was 1,101.
Sixty-eight convicts were
committed during August,there
were 39 white men, one white
woman, anil 23 negroes. Three
negroes were recaptured and
two negresses were committee*.
During August G7 inmates
were released, eight pardoned.
10 were paroled, four escaped
and three were transferred.
One white woman was par
doned. Twenty negroes were
released on expiration of their
sentences, five were pardoned,
eight were paroled, eleven es
caped and one died. One ne
gress was pardoned.
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Hev. J. D. Ragan of Sidney
sustained a severe injury to his
side when he fell while getting
in a buggy recently.
PAROQUET ITEMS
Paroquet, Sept. 6.—T. D.
Barber left Wednesday night
for Oklahoma to visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. (Clayton from
G. L. Green’s mill were visitors
here Friday morning en route
to Newport.
T. W. Stubblefield made a
business trip to Newport Thurs
day.
1). W. Johnson transacted
business at Newport Friday.
Mrs. Walter Bray is on the
sick list this week.
Mrs. Jefsie Drennen and
son, Morg, of Newark spent
Friday here visiting her cousin,
Mrs. Sterling Johnson.
A. N. Trent of Batesville
spent Saturday here taking up
bolts.
Chas. Prather of Batesville
spent Friday and Saturday here
| looking after his farming in
| terests.
Miss Hazel East is on ttye
sick list this week.
Sid Lewallen made a busi
ness trip to Newark Saturday.
1 S. P. Williams spent Tues
day morning at Newark trad
j ing.
Kirk Walker malde a busi
ness trip to Newark Saturday.
Mrs. J. O. Phillips spent
Saturday morning at Newark
shopping.
D. W. Johnson transacted
business at Newark Saturday.
Rufus Erwin is visiting his
neiee this week, Mrs. Sterling
Johnson.
Mrs. Minnie Styles and Mrs.
Laura and Minnie Love joy
spent Tuesday morning atNew
ark shopping.
Rev. A. L. Young is holding
a meeting here tnis week.
Lon Love joy moved to Hall’s
sawmill Wednesday.
J. P. Williams made a busi
ness trip to Newark Tuesday.
I>. P. Whisnant spent Tues
day here looking after his
farming interests.
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CASEY GOT IT
Into the office of a railroad
president came a burly Irish
man, who said :
“Me name’s Casey. Oi want
a pass to Chicago. Oi worruk
in th’ yar-r-ds.”
“That’s no way to ask for a
pass,” corrected the president.
‘ ^ on should introduce yourself
politely. (Come back in an hour
and try it again.”
At the end of the hour the
Irishman name back. Doffing
his hat, he inquired:
“Ar-re ye th’ president,”
“I am.”
“Me name is Patrick Casey.
Oi’ve be’n workin’ in th’
yar-r-ds.”
“Glad to know you, Mr. Cas
ey. What can I do for you?”in
quired the president vvarmiy.
“Yez can go to h-. Oi’ve
got a job an’ a pass on th’ Wa
bash.”
FOR BETTER BABIES
CONTEST AT BATESVILLE
1 he Batesville Improvement i
Club announces that a better I
babies contest will be held at 1
Batesville some time in Octo
ber, on the dates of the coun-!
tv agricultural exhibit, which
are to be announced later. The
club has already made ap
pointments of the different ;
committees to have charge of
the contest.
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BOARD APPORTIONS
STATE SCHOOL FUND
Amounts to $2.03 Per Capita
and Independence County
Will Receive $17,703.62
The State Board of Educa
tion, at a meeting held in Lit
tle Rock last Monday, made
the apportionment of the state
school fund, which this year
amounts to $1,315,157.83.
The apportionment is $2.03
for each ’person of school age,
and falls below taht of last j
year when the amount was
$2.12.
According to figures tabula
ted in the state superintend
ent’s office, there are 647,8641
persons of school age in the
state, a decrease of 1,828 from
last year.
The following table shows
the scholastic population and
the amount apportioned to each
county.
Counties Pop Amt.
Arkansas _ 6,368 $ 12,927.04
Ashley — 10,265 20,837.95
Baxter _3,989 8,097.67
Benton __12,236 24,839.08
Boone -6,477 13,148.31
Bradley_5,757 11,686.71
Calhoun —3,738 7,588.14
Carroll __ 7,141 14,496.23
Chicot-10,375 21,061.25
(Clark-10,136 20,576.08
Clay -10,387 21,085.6?
Cleburne __5,170 10,495.10
Cleveland—5,319 10,797.57
Columbia — 9,870 20,036.10
Conway .9,923 20,143.6n
Craighead 11,690 23,730.70
Crawford —9,670 19,630.10
Crittenden 10,980 22,289.40
(Cross _6,408 13,008.24
Dallas _5,489 11,142.67
Desha _5.819 11,812.57
Drew _10,521 21,357.63
Faulkner 10,762 21,846.86
Franklin —7,654 15,537.62
Fulton _4,568 9,273.04
Garland _..12,941 26,270.23
Grant__ —3,974 8,067.22
Greene_9,493 19,270.79
Hempste’d 12,350 25,070.50
Hot Spring 6,187 12,559.61
Howard _ .4,672 9,484.16
Independ’ce 8,721 17,703.63
Izard _5,436 11,035.08
Jackson —8,737 17,'<*36.11
Jefferson 23,676 48,062.28
Johnson _ .7,888 16,012.64
Lafayette .4,945 10,038.35
Lawrence —7,767 15,767.01
Lee_12,399 25,169.97
Lincoln _ .6,247 12,681.41
Little River 6,619 13,436.57
Logan_10.365 21,040.95
Lonoke __ 12,414 25,200.42
Madison __6,853 13,911.59
Marion_4,827 9,798.81
Miller __10,452 21,217.56
Mississippi 12,230 24,826.90
Monroe —7,262 14,743.89
Montgom’v 5,508 11,181.24
Nevada __ 7,695 15.620.85
Newton _ .5,551 11,268.53
Ouachita —8,209 16,664.27
Perry _3,916 7,949.48
Phillips —13,912 28,241.36
Pike -4,959 10,066.77
Poinsett _ .5,802 11,778.06
Polk - 6,064 12,309.92
Pope -10,768 21,859.04
Prairie-5,828 11,830.84
Pulaski —31.903 64,763.09
Randolph —7,163 14,540.89
Saline _6,380 12,951.40
Scott - 5,468 1 1.100.04
Searcy _6.556 13,308.68
Sebastin— 18,951 38,470.53
Sevier— —6,076 12,334.28
Sharp 4,450 9,033.50
St. Francis. 9,685 19,660.55
Stone 3,751 7,614.53
Union_ 11,738 23,828.14
Van Buren, 5,977 12,133.31
Wash mg’n 13,899 28,214.97
White 12,641 25,661.23
Woodruff. 8,376 17,003.28
Yell_ .. _9,467 19,218.01
Totals 647,861 $1,315,157.83
MUCH INTEREST IN
REVIVAL AT NEWPORT
New port, Sept. 4.—The Rev.
W. B.Hays,pastor of the Meth
odist church, assisted by Evan
gelist G. A. Klein of Nashville,
Tenn., is conducting a series of
revival meetings at the Metho
dist church in this city that are
I attracting much interest.
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NEGRO FINDS A FINE
PEARL AT BLACK ROCK
Atlas Skipper, a negro, of
Black Rock, found a fine pearl
in Black river at that place
last week which he sold for
$G00.
CHARLOTTE ITEMS Q
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Charlotte, Sept. 6.—G. J.
Lindsey spent Saturday and
Sunday at Batesville
Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Hays
went to Batesville Thursday.
Rev. Thrasher will begin his
revival meeting at the M. E.
church next Sunday.
Mrs. Will Jones of Batesville
was the guest of Mrs. G. J.
Lindsey Monday.
G. W. Purcelly visited his
family at McHue Sunday and
Monday.
Prof. S. E. Wells of Sulphur
Rock spent Thursday night
with Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Lind
sey.
Mrs. G. W. Purcelly and
family moved to McHue last
week.
Prof. Carpenter and Miss
Lee Hall closed a successful
term of school last Frday.
Mrs. C. L. Moore and son,
Turney, attended the funeral
of Mrs. T. A. Simpson atRates
ville last Thursday.
Misses Lucy Wilson and Ha
zel Parks of SulphurRock were
guests of Miss Clara McGill
Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs. G. J. Lindsey and her
daughter, Miss Esther Church
ill,returned last Thursday from
a pleasant visit with relatives
at Wanette and Asher, Okla.
MR .EDWARDS STATEMENT
ABOUT THE “PRIZE FIGHT”
Mr. Editor.—Allow me to
say a few words in reply to
Mr. Detherow’s item in the Re
cord last week.
Mr. Dethrow said that New
ark had a picinc and that there
was a brutal negro prize fight
pulled off on the picnic ground
and that the people who had
charge of the fight were in
church every Sunday. He said
also the negroes got $15 for
fighting.
I’ll show to the people where
Mr. Dethrow misrepresented
things. Some people call it mis
represented, some call it a mis
take and some call it a lie.
When I .tell about this
the people, I believe, will say
its a lie. The fight was noi
pulled off on the picnic
ground ;it was pijlled off in my
horse lot. It was not a prize
tight-—they never fought for
a prize. They never got $15.
All they got was a black eye. I
was the referee and the one
that had the fight pulled off,
and I haven’t been in a church
house in two years. I just got
home from a section of Cali
fornia where they havechurch
es only for negroes and Social
ists. Yours truly,
CLIFTON EDWARDS.
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MAY RE-OPEN SHARP
OUNTY MANGANESE MINE
Poughkeepsie, Sept. 3.—
That the Lavender Mining and
Milling Company, near Shelby
ville, which was placed in the
hands of a receiver recently,
will again he operated, is a
probability since *Iie visit there
of Captain Herron of New
York and a mining engineer
and Albert Sims and Jack
Handford of Ratesville. The
property was paying well but
the company was unable to
finance the project.
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A. H. Chapin and H. M.Rice
have begun the publication of
the Randolph County Democrat
at Pocahontas.
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Take calomel today and tomorrow you
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SEE THE JOURNAL FOR FIRST CLASS JOB PRINTING
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THI
CONSTITUTION OK THE STATE
OF ARKANSAS.
Notice Is hereby given that the fol
lowing Joint resolution, proposing an
amendment to the State Constitution
was passed by the General Assembly
at Its regular session of 1915, and that
the same will be submitted to the elec
tors of the State at the next general
election, to be held Tuesday, Novembef
7. 1916, for adoption or rejection.
Proposed Amendment Ne. 14.
That the follow lug Is hereby pre
posed as an amendment to the Consti
tution of the State of Arkansas, which,
when agreed to by a majority of all
members elected to each house and
adopted by a majority of the electors
of the State voting at the next gen
eral election for senators and repre
sentatives, shall become a part of the
Constitution of the State of Arkansas:
“Section 1. The county courts In
tiielr respective counties. In addition to
tne county tax now allowed to be lev
ied, shall have power when authorlxed.
as hereinafter provided, to levy an an
nual tax not exceeding three mills on
the dollar on all taxable property,
which shall be collected and expended
In making and repairing public roads
and bridges In their respective coun
ties: and said court shall have power,
after authority given as hereinafter
provided, to -levy a tax not exceeding
three mills on the dollar on all taxable
property for a period of time not to
exceed thirty years, to borrow money.
Issue bonds, and pledge the revenues
arising from the tax levied for a pe
riod of time, to pay the Interest and
principal of any sum or sums so bor
rowed. All bonds Issued by authority
herein given shall bear a rate of Inter
est not to exceed 6 per cent per annum.
All sums so borrowed shall be used ex
clusively In making and repairing the
public roads and bridges In the county.
Tho annual tax and the tax for period
of years shall not both be levied and
bo In force at the same time In any
county—-the levy of one shall exclude
the levy of the other.
Before any levy of taxes herein au
thorlxed shall be made, the question
of levying such tgx shall be submitted
to the qualified electors of the county
at a general or special election called
for that purpose, at which a majority
of the qualified electors voting at such
an election shall have voted In favor of
such le^y of taxtja.
Approved February I, 1915.
The above resolution was filed In the
office of the Secretary of State on Feb
ruary t. 1918.
Eaoh elector may vote fer er against
the above amendment.
Witness my official signature this
19th day of April, 1911.
EARLE W. HOPOU,
Secretary ef Itsta
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