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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, January 1, 1915
Vol. 14, No. 39
THE FARMERS AND
THE HOLDING PLAN
National Lecturer of Farmers Union
Issues Statement Dealing With
Cotton Situation
Peter Radford, National Lectur
er of the Farmers’Union of F'crt
Worth, Tex., who is an agricultur
al expert, has given out an inter
view on the hundred and thirty
five million dollar cotton holding
plan, in which he presents the
farmer’s viewpoint of the subject
Mr. Radford wants to know what
h is become of the money and in
vites the co-operation of the busi
ness interests of the nation in
warehousing and financing the
cotton crops of the future.
“The value of the 1911 crop is
six cents less per pound or $480,
000,000 less than the value of last
year’s crop’’ says Mr. Radford.
“This is a greater financial blow to
the South than the freeing of the
slaves.
“The Farmers’ Union asked
Congress to meet the emergency
by lending money on cotton so as
to enable poor farmers to hold
their crop, but the request was re
jected, or rather modified by the
government agreeing to join with
bankers in providing a fund of
$135,000,000 for lending on cotton.
The anti-trust law had a special
construction placed upon it, the
patriotism of bankers was appeal
ed to and headlines full of hope
were flashed across the columns of
the leading newspapers of th • na
tion for a few months but—where
i the money? No farmer 1. is evn
seen a dollar of it.
‘‘There is nothing quite so de
structive to those in distress as
false hope, and if this movement
which has been so persistently
heralded to the world has failed.
we are entitled to know it.
“1 want to call attention to the
fact that the farmer the owner
of the property involved — way
never consulted in the transaction
The story was told him as childrer
are told the story of Arabian
Nights and the bedtime story ol
the rainbow with the pot-of gold
and it seems to be about the same
s irt of literature. The farmers
were never taken into the confi
dence or the councils of the busi
ness men and the government of
ficials engaged in the transaction
We do not know why.
“It is perhaps sufficient to sa>
that a business movement havinc
for its component parts the most
powerful forces on the American
continent made an honest ant
strenuous effort to help the farm
er and failed and the farmers ot
the South are now drinking the
hitter dregs of that failure. Ap
proximately three-fourths of the
cotton crop is now out of the
hands of the producer and the
poor farmer who most needed
money has already squared ac
counts and has begun the struggle
to overcome the deficit that ha*
taken school hooks from his child
ren, shoes off his wife and threat
ens the shelter of his family.”
NEGRO CUTS WHITE MAN
Batesville, Dec. 29. Napoleon
Reiney, a white man, was cut a!
noon today and seriously injured
by an unknown negro. The in
jured man is a former Iron Moun
tain fireman and the negro is
one of a railroad construction
gang which came to Batesville a
few days ago. The cutting is
thought to have been the result
of a drunken row. The knife
took effect in the injured man’s
stomach.
ITI l.:CT AVCW I'AOTOn
Rev. 1'. M. Borden, editor of the
Christian Pilot of Little Rock, has
been chosen as pastor of the
Christian church here for the en
suing year. He has accepted the
call and will enter upon the work
as pastor next Sunday when he
will conduct services and preach
at 11 a. m. and at 7 p. m.
First National Bank1
Newark, Ark.
CAPITAL $25,000
SURPLUS $6,250
C. M. EDWARDS, Pros.
G. M. FIELDS, V. Pres.
E. D. CHESSER, Cashier
C. S. DUVALL, Ast. Cash
“W
T JHIII S BANK
is ORGANIZED
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A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
Comes most surely to the man or
woman who during the year has
deposited some portion of his or
her earnings to the credit of a
BUY BANK MONEY ORDERS
When sending money to distant points. The orders are payable
anywhere ana are ABSOLUTELY SAFE.
FOR EXAMPLE
Amounts up to $5.00, cost ....;i cents
Amounts of 15.00 to .&>•'.OO. cost __ . _ 5 cents
Amounts of #50.00 t•> #75.00, cost..10 cents
Amounts of $75.00 to $100.00, cost__ _15 cents
A JJraiti'r fur tlir Nrm llrar
Purge out of every heart the lurking grudge.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and persevere.
Offenders, give us the grace to accept and to forgive.
Forgetful ourselves, help us to bear cheerfully the
forgetfulness of others. Give us courage and gaiety
and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften
us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all of
our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the
strength to encounter that which is to come, that
we may be brave in peri’, Constantin tribulation,
temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune,
and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one
to another.—Robert Loui. Stevenson.
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Sulphur Rock
Sulphur Roc'-, Dec. 31.— The
; Senior League of this place sent a
| handsome Xmas surprise box to
the Methodist Orphan Home at
Little Rock.
Oscar Albright and sister, Miss
Lula, went to Batesville Saturday.
Mr. Neff, the oil promoter of
Little Rock, was in town on busi
ness Thursday.
Leslie Kent went to Batesville
Friday on business.
Mrs. Geo. Wilson of Newport is
spending the holidays here with
friends and relatives.
Ola Garrison of Batesville visit
: ed friends here Sunday.
loose Jem 4; a ii uf fmrsvtTfr
visited relatives and friends here
! Sunday.
J. S. Griffin went to Batesville
Monday.
Joe Smith of Little Rock is vis
iting relatives and friends here.
Misses Ola and Fannie Gibson of
Judsonia are the guests of Miss
Lelah Woo 4
Mrs. Bradford is on the sick list.
Dr. Z. L. Ford of Elgin spent
the holidays here with homefolks.
Miss Beulah Chaney went to
he - school at McGuire Sunday.
J. G. Moore and sister, Willie,
| came in Thursday to spend a week
visiting relatives.
Miss Zulu Ward, the popular
music teacher of Green way. Ark.,
is the guest of Miss Florence
Owens this week.
Hugh Wright is on the sick list.
Nothing lost by putting your ad
,n The Journal.
Better adopt a method this New
Year of not running down your
home town.
Miss Oma Knight of Batesvillc
is the guest of Miss Cora Moore
Miss Mamie McLendon of Moore
field was the guest of Miss Yonnie
Bevens Tuesday. ,
Clint and Fred Northern have
returned to Little, after spending
the holidays with relatives.
Alex Bolding has sold his farm
north of town and will move to
the city soon. j
Misses Monta and Stella Mender- .
son of Newark are the guests of
.Mrs. Arthur Martin this week.
J. W. Martin, the popular trav- ’
eling salesman of Newport, was in J
town Tuesday.
Miss Maud Latimer of Newark
is visiting her sister, Mrs. George
Northern.
DEPUTY PROSECUTOR
Prosecuting Attorney II. (J.
Williamson has appointed M. S 1
Bone of Batesvillc as deputy pros- 1
eeuting attorney for Independence
; county.
Ladies’Suits from $10 to $25, all
ij exceptional values, at Barnett
| Bros. Mer. Co., Batesvillc, Ark.
charlotte Ciphers $
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Charlotte, Dec.30. —School open
ed Monday with a good attendance.
Mrs. J. B. Morris of Batesville,
who has been visiting her daugh
ter, Mrs. J. A. Wright, went to
Cord Monday to visit relatives.
Miss Etlio Blair entertained her
friends with a party Friday night.
Miss Ethel Byrum who is teach
ing; near Mag ness, spent the holi
days with her parents.
Miss Vergia Jernigan entertain
ed her friends with a rook party
Saturday night.
Z pha Mi ms. of Newport visited
his cousin, Floyd Jernigan, last
week.
vv . j. .rernfgnn or Lfnie KOCK IS
visiting his parents here this week.
Hershcl McGee who is assistant
teacher here, spent the holidays at
Little Rock.
Misses Julia Churchill, Virgie
Weaver and Clara McGill who are
attending school at Sulphur Rock,
visited home-folks during the holi
days.
Miss Vela Jernigan of Batesville
visited homefolks here during the
holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Lindsey have
is house guests during the holi-;
days Mrs. Lewis Frederick Fritz
and her mother, Mrs. Annice E.
Favlor of Chicago.
Mrs. (i. J. Lindsey was hostess
it a dinner party Monday of this
week in honor of her guests, Mrs. 1
Lewis Frederick Fritz and Mrs.;
-\nnice E. Taylor. Covers were
aid for fifteen. The guests includ- '
-d Mr. and Mis. James McGill and ;
daughter, Caroline; Mrs. W. S.
Storey, Mrs A. B. Weaver, Misses I
Ciigie Weaver, Alma Lane and 1
\lma Storey.
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COTTON REPORT
The government report on cot
on ginned to December 13, shows
t total of 6,996 bales for Indepen
lence county for this season, as
compared with 12,013 to the same
late last season.
The Jackson county crop, which
tas heretofore been running away
thead of last season, shows a de
cided loss in this report, the total
’innings being 22,047 for this sea
son as compared with 26,652 for
he previous season.
THE GOING LAW
Editor Journal. 1 notice that
he whiskey men are going to
nake a desperate effort to have
he Going law repealed. Hut 1
ion't believe they will ever suc
:eed. I believe the gentlemen who
vi 11 compose the next general as-'
wmbiy ate loo honorable and high1~
minded to undo the best law that
the last legislature passed, and
thereby license men to bring mis
ery, shame and disgrace to many,
many Rood and happy families all
over the state by selling men dope
that steals their senses, robs their
families of the necessaries of life,
brings misery, shame and disgrace
to wives and children, and sends
men to a drunkards hell. Not
saying anything about the man
who sold the dope, or the men
who made it lawful for him to sell
it, but 1 fear they will hear the,
awful sentence, “Depart ye work
ers of iniquity into everlasting :
punishment.”
Only a few days ago a man in
an adjoining county got drunk
and froze to death. 1 don’t know
how the man feels that sold him
the whiskey, but if 1 h id sold it 1
would leel like a murderer.
W. S M.
Sulphur Rock, Ark., Dec. 28.
CIRCLE ELECTS
At their regular meeting Mon
day night the Woodmen Circle
elected the following officers for
the ensuing year.
Mrs. Belle Wayman, guardian;
Mrs. Lizzie Williamson, advisor;
Mrs. Maggie Magness, clerk; Mrs.
Julia Martin, banker; Mrs. Nancy
Cause], attendant; Mrs. Mollie Rod
gers, chaplain; John Rodgers and
K. W. Magness, sentinels; Miss
Nobe Holderby, Mrs. Ida Hogue
and W. M. Magness, managers;Dr.
W. P. Moore, Circle physician.
DORMITORY BURNS
Batesville, Doc. 28—The boys
d irmitory of Arkansas College
was destroyed by fire here Sun
day night. Defective wiring is
supposed to have originated the
re, which oceureJ while all mem
bers of the household were away.
On the building there was $3,000
insurance; on furniture $500.
I Tactically all contents were dis
troyed with the building.
PAINFULLY INJURED
Mrs. W. W. Jernigan was pain
fully injured Friday when she
stepped off a chair backwards,
striking her back against the
back of a chair. She was hang
rig some Christmas decorations in
ler dining room when the acci
ient occured. She is reported to
je improving nicely.
PLEASE SETTLE UP
I will expect all who owe me to
nake settlement of their accounts
yy January 5, 1915.
J. H. Holdkkby.
YOUNG FARMER IS
FROZEN TO DEATH
Jackson Cgunty Man Falls and
Perishes From Exposure While
In Dazed Condition
Newport, Dec. 28.—The body
of Cecil Hester, a young man
about 22 years old, a son of J. B.
Hester, living west of Newport
was found about noon Saturday
in a pool of frozen water at the
foot of the Rock Island levee in
Fee-Crayton yards in the northern
edge of Newport.
The father was searching for
hi-; son when the body was found
frozen stiff, by some railroad men
who helped recover the remain-,
from the water.
Cecil Hester was seen drinking'
on the treets here Thursday even
ing and some of his young mei
companions had started to tak
him home. They left him nort
of town upon the Rock Island
track, and it is thought that he
fell and rolled down the embank
ment into the water, where he
drowned. The body was so tight
ly frozen that an axe had to be
used to cut it loose.
The deceased was married re
cently to a daughter of L. J. Davis
of Sulphur Rock.
PAROQUET NEWS ITEMS
Paroquet, Dec. 30. — Xmas is
over and everybody enjoyed a nice
time. No one seemed to be intoxi
cated, and everybody was peace- '
able.
G. W. Yaney has 76 young pigs.
O. P. Estes spent Xmas with
homefolks in Izard county.
The railroad company has just
put in a ticket office at Paroquet
with T. W. Stubblefield as agent.
Ernest Williams spent Tuesday
in liatcsville on business.
Ask Mrs. Yaney why Mr. Yaney
lost his job firing the cookstove
every morning.
Bill Hare and family of Jackson
county are visiting relatives at
Paroquet this week.
Sam Williams spent Tuesday ii
Batesville.
The postoffice was moved into
the new building on Cole avenm
this week.
School opened Monday, after a
weeks vacation with a good at
tendance and two new pupils
which increased the roll to 47.
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