he Newark Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1920
VOL. 20 NO. 4
TWO LITTLE GIRLS ARE
SHOT WHILE PLAYING
BOTH IN SERIOUS CONDITION AS
RESULT OF ACCIDENTAL
DISCHARGE OF GUN
Williford, April 26.—Roberta and
Joyce Garner, nine and seven years
respectively, daughters of H. B. Gar
ner of Williford, are in a serious con
dition at St. Joseph’s hospital in
Memphis, suffering from gunshot
wounds in the head and body, inflict
ed at their homes Saturday night.
Roberta’s condition was reported
slightly improved, while Little Joyce
is sinking, according to word receiv
ed today.
A portion of the buckshot charge
struck the girl in the head and thigh.
Some of the shot struck Joyce in the
head. The children were accidentally
wounded at a gathering of boy and
girl scouts at the Garner home Sat
urday.
The girls were at play in one room
while Roland, the 13-year-old brother
of the Garner children, was with
Others in another room. Roland was
playing scout when the gun was ac
cidentally discharged, the charge
going through the door into the next
room, wounding the two children.
PEARL WHITE’S GREATEST
SERIAL COMING SOON
Pearl White, the most popular star
who ever appeared on the movie
screen, bids good bye to her millions
of serial admirers in “The Black Se
cret" which will be shown at the new
Royal Theatre in the near future.
It is not too extravagent to state
that Pearl White serials have literal
ly millions of admirers in every quar
ter of the civilized globe. Her serials
are as popular in England, France,
Japan and South America as they
^ are in the United States.
“The Black Secret" is not just
another serial,”—it is one of the
greatest serials ever produced- a
show that will enthrall, mystify, •In
cite and absorb the interest of every
person who sees it, as they follow the
absorbing plot which leads oversea -
from America to a romantic spot l
the Swiss mountains where the final
scenes are dramatically staged and
love has its fullfillment under the
stars.
Don’t fail to see the opening epi
sode of this thrilling serial at the
Royal.
TREASURE UPHELD IN
REFUSING WARRANTS
w instance where uncle
JOE FERGUSON SAVED THE
STATE A LARGE SUM
The Supreme Court in an opinion
I rendered Monday morning affirmed
the findings of the Pulaski county cir
cuit court in the suit of Edward A.
Haid vs. Joe Ferguson, as treasurer
of the State of Arkansas.
The circuit court refused to allow
tlu payments of warrants drawn on
the state treasury for expenses incur
| red by Haid in going to Washington
for the purpose of arguing before the
Interstate Commerce Commission a
rate case before that body in which
Arkansas was interested, although
i 1 a id was employed by the Arkansas
[Corporation Commission to represent
t at the hearings and which com
mi-sion allowed the claim, which was
lat or rejected by the state treasurer.
The claim which was presented by
Haid was ordered by the auditor to
h- paid out of the appropriation to
pay rate cases begun by the old rail
road commission and also met with
the approval of the state’s attorney
general, who ordered the claim paid.
Mr. Ferguson, however, still refused
to allow the claim and hired a law
yer at his own expense to defend the
action brought by Mr. Haid.
In its opinion the court declared
that counsel for Haid sought to have
the judgment of the lower court re
\ 11 sed on the authority of that sec
tion of the general appropriation bill
which appropriated $15,000 to the
railroad c< mmission for the defense
and prosecution of rate cases when
i ad in connection with a subsequent
act roating the Arkansas Corpora
tion Commission and defining its
powers and duties, and that the coun
sel insisted that this section trans
ferred the appropriation previously
made to the Arkansas Corporation
Commission. The court said that it
did not agree with this contention, as
the act creating the corporation com
mission abolished the railroad com
mission and it then became functus
officio.
The court also held that provisions
were made for the payment of all ex
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Grow Your Living
and a Cotton Crop
Nineteen twenty wli be the great
est year of the great South!
There will be such a wave of busi
ness, of prosperity as has never been
dreamed of for the Southern farmer,
the merchant, the banker.
The day of cotton is at hand! No
longer will the cotton farmer feed
himself 'out cf the scpply man’s tin
cans and pork barrel cntil at the end
of the year he owes his whole crop.
Instead, he will grow better cotton
on less acreage, and on the rest of
his farm he will raise his own fruit,
his own vegetables, his own meat.
Then, when his cotton is picked and
baled he will get a good price and
will have some surplus money.
This bank stands for that kind of
farming—because that kind of farm
ers wil have money to put into the
bank at the end of the year.
The Southern farmer who grows
cotton and food and feed is the farm
er who will have a bank account this
year!
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Newark, Arkansas
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WILLIAM A. HODGES
Whose picture appears at the head of this article announces in this
paper that he is a candidate for Con press in this district.
We have known Mr. Hodges for a number of years and have always
found him to be a straight-forward man whose sympathies are all with
Hie common people.
He gives the following as his platform:
1. We believe the producers of the oeuntry should be protected
against the Cotton Exchanges, Grain Exchanges and other combinations
and allowed to sell their products to the consumer.
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2. We believe that Congress should make laws adequate to sup
press radicalism and export from this country all illiterate aliens.
3. We believe in a more progressive system of education and an ade
quate compensation for those who are engaged in training the youth of
the states and nation.
4. We believe in a National Bank Guarantee Law to the amount of
$5,000 to protect the small depositors.—Eagle, Bald Knob, Ark.
HON. W. A. HODGES
Among the candidates for Congress
man from the second District; our
fellow townsman, Hon. W. A. Hodges
enjoys the distinction of being the
only one so far in the race who is
not a lawyer, notwithstanding the
fact that less than one-tenth of one
per cent of the people in this district
are lawyers.
Mr. Hodges will make this cam
paign, as he did two years ago, as a
candidate from the masses of the peo
ple.
He represented White County in
the State Legislature for two terms
and has the distincion of having been
present at every roll call and of hav
ing voted upon every measure that
was brought before that body, during
his term of office.
He has recently retired from a sue
cessful mercantile business which he
has conducted for about twenty years.
His active business life of the
past twenty years has brought him
into close personal touch and acquain
tance with the best interests of the
State and given him that broad-mind
ed vision so needful in looking after
public affairs at, well as private in
terests.
He is a White County man well
known and well respected; his home
section can be counted on for him by
a large majority.
Compare with the other men who
are mentioned as candidates for con
gressman in this district, we feel
safe in saying that Hon. W. A. Hod
ges is the peer of any and if elected
will make the people of this district a
Congressman of whom they will not
be ashamed.—Bald Knob Eagle.
penses incurred by the Arkansas Cor
poration Commission out of the gen
eral revenue fund, and that when the
legislature abolished the railroad
commission it took up the whole sub
ject anew and transferred the duties
of this commission to that of the
corporaion commission, and that the
legislature had by appropriation pro
vided al> money deemed necessary for
the support and maintenance of the
corporation commission.
“17 YEAR LOCUSTS” WILL
VISIT ARKANSAS THIS YEAR
A brood of the 17 year locusts will
appear in Arkansas this year some
time in May and will be most numer
ous in the northern part of the state
is the statement of W. J. Baerg, En
tomologist of the College of Agricul
ture and Arkansas Experiment Sta
tion, University of Arkansas.
The title of “17 year locust" can
not be properly applied to this insect
for it appears every 13 years in Ark
ansas, and, furthermore, it is not a
locust, a term commonly applied to
I grasshoppers, but a suckling insect,
i more closely related to the squash
bug and similar insects. They are
about one and one-fourth inches long,
the body is black, bounded with red
and the wings are red along the
veins and at the margin.
The adults feed on the sap of trees
but although they have occurred in
enormous numbers, there is no record
that by their feeding they have ever
caused any serious damage, Mr. Baerg
says. They will be most abundant on
white oak groves, on high land and
rich soil in the nature of sandy loam.
Considerable damage may be caused
by the “locusts” however when after
1 four or five weeks the females begin
i to deposit their eggs in slits cut in
i twigs of various trees and shrubs.
In this way, considerable damage is
often done to young orchards or trees
in the nursery row.
Irtformation on the occurrence of
locusts in Arkansas is incomplete and
very much out of date and Mr. Baerg
is anxious to receive reports on the
appearance of the insects from as
many people as possible in the state.
He would like to know how numerous
they are in each section, on what date
they appear, whether or not the birds
feed on them extensively and whether
or not they cause serious damage to
young trees or crops.
The most conspicuous feature of
their appearance will be their shrill
song lasting from early morning till
twilight for four or five weeks.
HENDERSON-ARNOLD
J. W. Henderson and Mrs. Lillie
Arnold were married at the home of
Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Snell on Wednes
day night, Rev. Snell officiating. The
ceremony was performed in the pres
ence of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Edwards
and Mrs. Dove Sturdivant.
Mr. Henderson is one of the com
munity’s best citizens and has many
friends who appreciate him for his
real worth as a good man and a
good citizen.
The bride was born and reared in
Newark and is a most estimable lady
who is held in high esteem 1 y all
who know her. , .
The Journal most heartily joins
their many friends in extending con
gratulations and sincere good wishes.
M AKE BIG PROFITS IN
OKLAHOMA OIL LEASES
It is reproted that J. M. Aldridge
and J. Hersch, formerly of Batesville,
recently went to Oklahoma, where
they bought oil leases. Out of an
investment of $450 Mr. Aldridge sold
his lease for $17,500, while Mr. Her
sch bought a lease for $175 and sold
it for $6,500.
THE ROYAL THEATRE
PLANS FOR PATRONS
BRIEF OUTLINE OF SOME OF
THE TREATS IN STORE FOR
OUR MOVIE FAHl"*
The new Royal Theatre building
will be completed this week and will
be ready to open to the public as soon
as the seats arrive. The seats were
shipped from the American Seating
Company’s factory at Grand Rapids,
Mich., on the 29th of March. They
may arrive in two or three days or
in two or three weeks, as they are
tied up somewhere by the railway
switchmen’s strike. Every available
effort is being made to locate the
seats and get them moving this way,
and as soon as they arrive the exact
opening date will be announced.
As the show will open soon, the
management desires to state that it
will be our purpose ?o run the show
on a high standard, giving the very
best shows that the size of the town
and our patronage will justify. We
know the Royal is equipped equal to
the best, for we have looked over all
the shows in the smaller towns fn
this section of the state, and have
striven in every way to make New
ark’s show house just a little better
than any of the others, as we have
built for the future, as well as for
the present.
In making contracts for films, we
have bought nothing but good pic
tures, and some of the most popular
stars of the movie world will be
brought to Newark for the entertain
ment and amusement of our patrons.
Wo will be glad to have suggestions
from our patrons who may have in
mind at any time some especially
good picture they would like to see.
You do not have to go away from
Newark to see a good show, as all
the good ones are available and can
be shotvn here. It will take a little
time to get them, but if our patrons
want them we will get them as soon
as available.
The Royal will be thoroughly clean
ed after each show and will be fu
migated once a week and we kindly
ask everyone not to use tobacco o?
smoke during the show or spit on
the floor. We want to maintain a
clean show in every respect and we
ask each and every one to assist us
in making the Royal a show that
Newark can feel proud of.
ROYAL THEATRE,
Roy Craig, Manager.
HOGS FROM NEWARK
BRING FANCY PRICE
LOCAL BREEDERS OF POLAND
CHINAS UNABLE TO SUPPLY
DEMAND FOR HOGS
Bens^L& Claridy’s Poland China
farm h^R has been unable to supply
the demand for young breeding stock
since the Decent sale of the $5,000
boar from their farm.
“The Dynamo,” as this boar is
known, was the head of the Benson
& Claridy herd for some time, and
was sold by them recently for a
nominal sum, in a sale at Bradford,
Ark. He was shipped from there to
Missouri where he was later sold at
auction for $5,000.
They have a large number of pigs
sired by this famous boar, and since
the outside world learned that such
fine hogs were being raised here,
these gentlemen have been floods!
with letters from breeders all over
the country wanting to buy young
breeding steck sired by this famous
hog.
i o snow how the lieneon & dandy
Poland China farm is helping to
boost Newark, The Journal publishes
Uie following list of sales and ship
ments made by these gentlemen dur
ing the past week, the sales having
been young hogs sold by them for
breeding purposes.
One hog to C. E. Guthrie, Okemah,
Okla.
Five hogs to W. T. Campbell, Ne
osho, Mo.
One h g to Lester Jones, Fisk,
Wis.
One hog to J. B. Tye & Son, Pleas
ant, Iowa.
One hog to Johnson Bros., Epworth,
Mo.
Three hogs to R. B. Whorton, Pur
dy, Mo.
THE GREATEST MISTAKE
A FARMER CAN MAKE
The greatest mistake a farmer can
possibly make is in putting every mo
ment of his time in market crops to
the exclusion of home supplies, for
man and beast and yet 50 per cent
of the farmers in this section are
doing just that.—Southern Agricul
turist.
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IN LESS TIME
Can be done with an up-to-date Lest advantage. That’s why the
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C. W. Maxfield Co
Batesville, Arkansas
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