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Vol. 8. No. 26
SULPHUR ROCK HAPPENINGS
Items of Interest Picked up at the Hub
of White River Township
Sulphur Rock, June 15.—On the first
Sunday in July Prof. Sidney Pickens’
young men’s Bible class will render
a piogram of son^s and speeches for
the Methodist Sunday school, every
body invited* to attend the Sunday
school.
Jack Gibson who has been at home
for some time from the effects of a kick
from a mule returned to Walnut Grove
Saturday where he is at work on a
farm.
Prof, and Mrs, Sidney Pickens went
to Center Grove Sunday evening to
attend the unveiling- of the Garfield
Way man monument.
Dr. H. W. Vaughan spent a day or
two last week visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Geo. W. Merriwether out in the
Dota neighborhood.
Miss Fannie Stores who has been
visiting here for the past week left
Tuesday morning for home in Cald
well.
lu. v.. .jernigan or nates vine spent
Sunday and Sunday night in town
with iiis brother, (ieorge Jernigan.
Johnson Moore came in from Bald
Knol) Saturday to visit his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Moore.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Moore and chil
dren spent Monday at Sharp visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Keeney.
Misses Irene Huddleston and Lou ]
McCook went to Moorefield Saturday
evening visiting.
Dr. Ford was over from Tuekerman
to arrange"to move his family here for
the summer.
Bob Gossett went to Batesville Sat
urday for a load of Hour for Mr.
Buchanan.
Rev. Smith of Batesville preached
at the Methodist church here Friday
night.
R. 1. Moore came in from Swifton
to visit his parents, Mr. W. S. Moore.
Johnson and Robert Moore came
home Saturday to spend a few days.
Miss Nareie Rice and Mrs. Fannie
Bevens went to Batesville Friday.
Miss Ella Sunders of Newport is
visiting her mother this week.
Neal VVilsor went out to Dota Fri
day to visit for a few days.
Dan Moore and son, Dan, Jr., went
to Newport Tuesday.
Miss Rena Cunningham is on the
sick list this week.
Sam Bevens went to Batesville Sat
day evening.
R. H. Buchanan went to Batesville
Monday.
J. M. Hoover was up from Newark
Friday.
CARD OF THANKS
I want to thank our neighbors and
friends for their kindness and help
during the illness of my beloved com
panion, which i* now gone. She often
spoke of your kindness and said that
she loved you all and said that we
must have the best neighbors in the
world and I want to say to you all
that I can’t tell how much 1 appreciate
your help and kindness during her ill
t ness and I want you to know that I
love you all. For a friend in need is
a friend indeed and you have been as
true as any one could be and I hope
that you all will rewarded for it.
• W. P. Holcombe,
and Children.
BIG BOTTOM FARM FOR SALE
We have for sale one of the finest
farms in the famous Big Bottom, only
34 miles from Newark, consisting of
342 acres, 250 acres of which is in culti
vation, and produces 50 to 75 bushels
of corn or a bale of cotton j»er acre.
This is one of the finest farms in
Big Bottom which is noted for its
immense yields of cotton, corn and
alfalfa.
There are five tenant houses on the
farm, of two to four rooms each and
two good large box barns.
A genuine bargain if taken at once.
Henderson Real Estate Co., Newark,
Ark.
OUR MEETING AT NEWARK
Remember it hewing' on the 4tl» Sun
day in June at 11 a. m. Every lover
of Jesus is hereby invited to be there
arid do something towards promoting
the good work. If every one who loves
God and is professing by his or her life,
to l>e a representative of our Lord,
would do their utmost, each could and
would lead a sinner to Christ during
ihe meeting. Our great work last year
would, in comparison to such a work
as this would be, could only be a drop
on the plant as compared with the
great rivers of water.
Our motto will be: “Help all, hurt
none.'” Build to l>e sure, but build of
material that now does not know God
in the forgiveness of sins, but will
know him and love him. Some things
will be in the way but all things will
never all be out of the way. Crops
are late, and it is as much a man's
duty to provide for his household as
any other duty. In fact he serves
God when he does, but if he stops there
he does not go far enough, for God
says “seek first the Kingdom of God
and its righteousness and all other
things shall l>e added.” Get *s near
ready to attend every service as you
possibly can for it is the cemented
work that is going to count. Like
good deep plowing, make every furrow
la]) and lap well.
There will not be a child of God who
attends, that can't do something. Sing,
pray or testify for Jesus. Mv soul
leaps for joy when I think of the great
things 1 see by faith, that will, I trust
come to pass. Amen.
James F. Jernxgan.
THE COMMAND TO LOVE
You are not commanded simply to
love your neighbor. There is a very
important qualification attached there
to, and. with it, there comes into plwT
the grim humor that lights up the pages
: of Scripture: and be sure the uttermost
depths are sounded'. The command is
a large and healthy invitation to self
knowledge, the necessity of which has
been insisted on by the sages) and
prophets of all the trilies of men since
Experience came out of the underbrush,
full of wounds and bruises, in search
of a full meal and a soft pallet. The
behest is simply to love your neighbor
as you love yourself, and the qualifi
cation is such as to lit every case: for
when you look frankly into the depth
of your own heart—into the dark r(»m,
as it were, where your native thoughts
seeth and rage, and catch a glimpse,
however fleeting, of the lair of the
best, you will, have to acquire a
strange taste for what is almost whol'y
bad if you fall in love width the things
you find there. Let no thin scum < f
piety, however real it may l>e, inter
fere with the thoroughness of this self
examination, let no veneer of culture
and refinement come between your vis
ion and the thing you really are; and
when you have seen all there is to be
seen, and learned a great deal you
never knew Itefore, you will lie com
pelled to admit that your neighbor
must indeed be q monster if you can
not love him as you love yourself.
Joel Chandler Harris in The Home
Magazine.
TRUE SUCCESS
If men expect, in truest the sense, to
succeed in business, all chicanery,
sharp, practice, dishonest dealing and
and low cunning must be given up. It
is true that temporarily fhe employ
ment of these things may produce an
apparent prosperity. But it is only a
matter of time when these practices are
revealed in their true light and the
men who indulge in them meet with
well deserved public condemnation.
No man can be said to be prosperous
who forfeits the esteem of his fellow
man. Therefore, men engaged in busi
ness and professional life must under
stand that without integrity and up
right business dealing, true success is
impossible.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Marriage license have recently been
issued to Wm. T. Bracy, 21, and Miss
Virgie Ella Leonard, 20; Theo
dore Garrett, 31, and Miss Emma
Linebarger, 10; E. W. Nelson, 18, and
Miss Mary Dobbs, 15: John Brown,
21; and Miss Ola Benton, 21; Frank
Ackerman, 02, and Mrs. Belle Smith,
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Dr. ('. S. Ellis of Oil Trough was in
town Sunday visiting relatives. He
was accompanied home by Miss Leila
Crow.
Misses Josephine and Della Chas
tain of Batesville came down Satur
day night to attend Childrens’ Day
returning Monday morning.
Rev. Jas. F. Jernigan returned
Friday from Heber, where he had been
for two weeks assisting Rev. Frank
Jernigan in a revival meeting.
Miss Edith Adams of Oil Trough,
Miss Shook of Fayetteville, were in
town Friday en route to Oil Trough,
where she will visit Miss Adams.
Deputy Sheriff Nickens of Jackson
county, arrested Tom Brown Tuesday
on a charge of slander. He was taken
to Newport and placed under a $1,000
bond.
Mrs. Jesse B. Brown, left Monday
for her home in Gargona, C. Z. Pana
ma. after spending three weeks here
visiting her parents. Prof, and Mrs
A. A. Henderson.
('apt. R. R. Poe, of Clinton, was In
town Tuesday en route home from the
U. C. V. reunion at Birmingham, Ala.
He was joined here by Mrs. Poe, who
has been visiting their son, Dr. L. G.
Poe and family, for some time.
The Childrens' Day services at the
Baptist church Sunday was pronounc
ed a grand suecesss by all present.
The good ladies of the Baptist church
deserves much credit for the well ren
dition of the program, which was one
of the best that lias ever been rendered
in Newark.
We are in receipt of a copy of The
Hoxib Observer, a new paper which
made its first appearence last week,
edited by Roy L. Elliott, formerly ed
tor of the Tuckerman News. The Ob
server is a six column quarto, and is
a newsy, clean printed paper. We
wish Editor Elliott abundant success.
Blame your doctor for your bodily
ills, lawyer for your losses, cook for
your stomach, children for your bad
temper, wife for all else that goes
wrong, and then if you run out of ad
lisaries, sum it all up and jump onto
your newspaper as it is generally re
sponsible for all wrongs in sight, and
a thousand imaginaries of a pessimis
tic individual. An editor can stand
more than all the rest of the human
family, and then come up smiling for
more worlds to conquer. He is gen
erally right and you like him just the
same.
THE REVIVAL
The series of meeting's are still in
progress at the Methodist church, this
is about lb days since it liegan, much
good lias lieen accomplished, many
souls have been converted and a num
ber have joined the church Rev. Jas. F.
Jernigan, of Newark whohas been
assisting the pastor in theseServices
left Friday for his home. He is an
enthusiastic worker and a good mixer
and an able preacher and has made a
large number of friends here who are
sorry to see him leave, the meeting
still continues.—Heber Searchlight.
NOTICE FOR NEW ROAD
Notice is hereby given that a peti
tion will lie presented to the Indei>en
dence County Court, July term. 1908,
for an order appointing viewers to
view, survey, and lay out a new public
road in Logan township. Said road
described as follows:
Beginning at the section corners of
Sections 13 and 14, 23 and 24, town
ship 13 North, range 4 west, running
West on section lines to intersect the
Newark and Cord road on the east
side of Dota creek.
Jno. H. Fetzer,
C. E. Jimerson,
J. E. McCoy,
William Bradley
May 30, 1908. and Others.
OIL TROUGH TINKLINGS
Oil Trough, June 15.—J. L. Taylor
,s building a large hay shed and from
the looks of his 80 acres of young med
ow he will find use for it.
( barley Wasson came in Sunday
night from Batesville where he spent
a few days witnessing the ball games.
R. R. Reeves has sold his crop here
in the field to J. C. and M. ('. Goure
and is talking of going to Jerico.
( Mrs. Thomas Crow and daughter,
Jessie, visited here Sunday, the guests
her daughter, Mrs. L. L. Ellison.
William Griffith of Cincinnati, Ohio,
is visiting his uncle and aunt here,
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Moore.
Mis. O. Fischer came in Monday
from a pleasant visit to Nashville,
Tenn., visiting home folks.
The W. O. W. Circle will give an
ice cream supper Saturday night in
the lieautiful Oak Lawn.
Owing to the bad weather Saturday
night there was a small attendance at
the Odd Fellow hall.
vve are 10 nave a new postmaster
soon the present one, W. A. Nichols,
having resigned.
Vv? A. Nichols has the contract of
covering- and painting the Gum Chapel
school house,
Mrs. Curtis died Saturday and was
hurried Sunday at the Mount Zion
cemetery.
Owing to heavy rains and hard winds
of late, crops are badly damaged.
Alex Byrd and went to Newport
Saturday to do some shopping.
Our public school opens in July with
Prof. May hue as principle.
Rev. Anshutz filled his regular ap
pointment here Sunday.
Mrs. Montie Davidson is reported
as being sick the week.
Cotton, corn and hay are suffering
for the want of work.
W. A. Nichols attended to business
in Newport Monday.
Dr. C. S. Ellis made a flying trip to
Newark Sunday.
Health generlly good.
ON TO MOUNTAIN VIEW
A RARE OPPORTUNITY
We are expecting a great time at
the District Conference, which begins
on Tuesday night the 23rd of this
month. Let every lay leader, delegate
and preacher be on hand. The interest
of the great cause of Jesus Christ in
this district requires your presence,
besides, you will be personally bene
fited.
Bishop Hendrix is a great man and
will give something worth hearing.
A. E. Skinner.
The delegates from this place to the
District Conference at Mountain View,
June 23rd to 2fith, are: C. M. Edwards,
F. M. Martin, I). C. Lane and John
Austin; alternates, R. R. Ratton, T.
J. Rainey, R. T. Magness and J. M.
Magness. Lay leader, E. W7. Magness;
R. R. Ratton, alternate. llre(hren,
begin today to get ready to go. It is
indeed a rare opportunity. You will
enlarge the borders of your |>ersoneI
experience one hundred per cent.
Jas. F. Jerniuan.
FARM FOR SALE
Good farm of ItiO acres near High
Rock, 11 miles north of Batesville, 75
acres in cultivation L'5 acres of which
is fine creek bottom land which grows
75 bushels of corn j>er acre. Good
frame dwelling with two tenant houses.
Two orchards with an abundant varie
ty of fruits. Good oak, hickory and
cedar timber on land not in cultiva
tion. Fine water, both well and spring,
with fine creek running through farm.
Good mill-site on farm. Fine cave
near dwelling where 10,000 pushels of
vegetables may be kept the year round.
Convenient to school and church.
Will be sold cheap and on easy terms.
Henderson Real Estate Co., Newark
Ark.
DISTRICT UNION MEETING
The Northeastern I mlependence
County District Union, F. E. & C. U.
of A., will meet ih regular session
July 4th, 1908, with Mountain Gap
Local No. 756. A. L. CRAIG,
Secretary-Treasurer.
A BRIEF VACATION
Pleasant Moments Recalled by Trip
to the Old Boyhood Home
Union City, Tenn., .June 1H.—A little
vacation is a wonderful tonic for the.
man who has been tied down to office
work ten to fourteen hours a day for
four or five years, and while I am not
exactly a boy again, I feel consider
ably invigorated already as a result
of the few day spent here, carefree,
’midst the scenes of boyhood, and have
lived over again many of the little in
cidents of the years gone by, when a
rag saturated in turpentine adorned
the big toe of one or both feet.
About a mile from town is the old
country school hous% known as Pleas
ant Valley, where I attended my first
school.
Can anythin# be more pleasant for
just a few moments in the busy hum
,drum of after years, than to permit
your mind to wonder back to the days
of your school life? The sweet mem
ories and incidents that came up: the
smiling faces, pleasant countenances;
the old school house, the playground,
the old school house door that has so
often swung back to admit the raotly
crowd of youngsters; the very old
walls and everything speak forth of
happy hours: while in your mind's eye
you behold the teacher who labored so
patiently and faithfully with the little
crowd of anarchists whom she must
transform into great (?) and useful
men and women. As these pleasant
memories come back to one, the eye is
almost moistened as he realizes that
those days are gone forever, and so
many who took part in those happy
hours have crossed over the great
river.
As we contemplate that never again
will those days return; that the partici
pants who -so joyously romped the
playground together, are scattered far
and wide, and some departed to their
eternal home, one is painfully remind
ed of the swiftness of time and is made
to realize that we are fast journeying
toward the setting sun.
It has been about twenty years since
I left here, and in some respects twenty
years works many changes.
Today I am going down to the fam
ous Reel Foot lake, about twenty-two
miles from town. This lake is about
fifteen miles long and about seven
miles wide at the widest places, while
at some places it is not more than
thirty feet wide. It was made by the
earthquake of 1IS12 and in some places
is so deep that no bottom lias ever
been found. This is jierhaps the most
noted fishing resort in the entire South
and thousands of pounds of fish are
taken from its waters every year. For
some three or four years it has been
under the control of a corporation
which has sought to monopolize the
rights of taking fish from its waters,
but the Night Riders have been taking
a hand in the matter^and have about
succeeded in freeing the lake.
We who have known nothing of the
Night Riders except what we read in
the papers about the burning of the
great tobacco barns in Kentucky, look
upon them as a lawless and blood
thirsty set but it seems that they have
accomplished much good in many
instances, one of which is the freeing
of this great fishing resort from the
grasp of a corporation that sought
only to bring dollars und cents into
its own coffers.
I heard a prominent man remark
yesterday that so long as the Night
Riders confined their operations to the
lines pursued in this community here
tofore, there was not a jail in Tennes
see that would hold them nor a jury
that would convict them.
But here comes the rig to take me to
the lake, so I must cut this short a a
skidoo. O. P. C.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Editor Journal: I wish to annmi ico
through your paper that I will preach
at Cord on the third Sunday in this
month at 3:30 p. m., instead of at night.
On the fourth Sunday at 11 a. m., I
will preach the funereal of Sister
Adams, daughter of Bro. G. L. Fink.
I will deliver a lecture on temper
ance at Sulphur Rock on the 4th Sun
day night in this month.
J. L. Brown.