THE NEWARK JOURNAL
Published Every Friday
0. F. CRAIG, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Entered at the post office at Newark,
Ark,, as second class mail.
THE MAN WHO READS IS
THE MAN WHO LEADS
Discussing some of the ben
efits to be derived from rend
ing, the Progressive Farmer,
in a recent editorial says:
“The man who reads is the
man who leads. The ancestor
of every action is a thought,
says Emerson. The man who
doesn’t read gets his thoughts
from only Tom, Dick, Harry,
and the others, in a little nar
row neigborhood right around
him. The man who reads gets
the thoughts of the foremost
minds, in his county, state, na
tion, and the world.
“A people are not educated
if they only know how to read,
f li Air mucf o pf 11 o 1 1 lvvorl
one goes to school weeks and
months, year after year learn
ing how to read, then doesn’t
read—if he is then too short
sighted to pay a few cents a
week for a good paper and
books—he is like a man who
spends days and weeks break
ing a piece of land, getting it
in shape for planting, and then
is too foolish or stingy, to buy
enough seed corn, or cotton
seed to plant it.
“Learning how to read pre
pares the mind, cultivates it.
makes it a fertile seed bed,
but then a man must (ill it
with seed thought. Books and
papers furnish the seed corn
for the mind. When a man says
he is too poor to pay two cents
a week for a paper for inspira
tion, help, intellectual food;
seed thoughts for his whole
family, ask him if lie ought
not to spend as much for brain
food as he does tobacco.
“Make your eighborhood a
reading neighborhood and you
will make it a leading neigh
brhood. Join in a movement
to teach all grown up illiter
ates to read next year if you
can, but in any case bestir
yourself to get all those who
can read, to read more. If
they read papersthat stand for
progress they will surely
join with you in all the pro
gressive movements you are in
terested in.”
The State Bankers Associa
tion at its recent meeting ad
opted a resolution against
serving wines and liquors at
the banquets given at the
meetings of the association,
anti it is announced that here
after the strongest drink to
appear on the menu at these
annual gatherings will be
grape juice. The resolution
was introduced bv Jno. Q.
Wolf, cashier of the First Na
tional Bank of Batesville, and
was unanimously adopted. The
bankers are setting a good ex
ample for other state organi
zations to follow, and The
Journal is pleased to note that
this movement was started by
an Independnce county man.
Holland claims to have as
many cows as human beings
within her borders. Denmark
has 85 cattle for every 100
persons. The proportion in
the United States is only 56
cattle tocvery 1 00persons. The
high cost of beef needs no
other explanation than this,
and the remedy is as clear as
the difficulty.—Farm and
Ranch.
Pope County citizens are al
ready forming an improve
ment district under the new
road law to build 25 miles of
road in that county. Let’s get
busy and do some road build
ing in Independence county.
Boys are like pencils: they
need to be sharpened and
pushed before they will make
their mark.—Youth’s Com
panion.
Strength of character is for
those who have the mind and
the power of will to acquire it.
(Copyright, by McClure Syndicate.>
OUR COUNTY CAN NOW
BUILD GOOD ROADS
The Alexander road law,
| enacted by the last legislature
opens the way for any com
munity t oseeure good roads.
The operation of this law is
upon the same principle of the
law governing the creation and
operation of improvement dis
tricts and drainage districts.
Millios of dollars of improv
ments have been made in Ark
ansas under the drainage and
improvement district . laws
There is hardly a county in
the state but what has bene
fited by the formation of im
provement districts for some
purpose.
Here in Newark we took ad
vantage of the improvement
district law to issue bonds,
borrow money and put in ide
jwalks, which we would prob
ably not secured for a number
of years had it not been for
this law.
A drainage district was or
; ganized nearby and some of
the finest land in the county
i drained and opened for culti
vation.
The Alexander road law
extends the same opportunities
to us now for building roads
that we have enjoyed in the
making of other imqrovements
There is nothing of more vital
imqortane to a county or com
munity, than good roads.Why
not form n number of road
| improvement district in Inde
qendence county and get busy
| and build some good roads?
The way is open, the coun
ty needs the roads and there
is no good reason why we
should not have them.
DR. HUGHES ACQUITTED
Dr. J. C. Hughes, ;i promi
nent physician of Walnut
Ridge, charged with the mur
der of Alt' Bagiev in Walnut
Ridge on October 22, 1910,
was acquitted in circuit court
at Batesville last Friday, the
jury returning a verdict of not
guilty at 9 o’clock Friday
night.
Although at a trial at Wal
nut Ridge last December of
Hughes for the alleged mur
der of I. J. Bagiev, father of
Alt' Bagiev, was attended by
great excitement, no evidences
of ill feeling existed at
Batesville. During the trial at
Walnut Ridge the court order
ed every one searched who en
tered the court room.
Circuit Judge Coleman an
nounced that the case against
Dr. Hughes for the murder of
1. J. Bagiev which resulted in
a mistrial and was transferred
to Independence county on a
change of venue to come up at
this term f court will be tried
the first week in next Novem
ber.
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CARD OF THANKS
To our friends and who so
w illingly assisted us in the ill
ness and death of our beloved
father, we wish to express our
heartfelt thanks, and pray that
God’s bent diction wifi abide
with you all and that we may
meet in aworld that is free
from sin and death, is the wish
of Mrs, R. G. Molsbee.
! SEEK REPEAL OF
STATE WIDE LAW
Movement Also on Font to In
itiate New'Primary F.lccticn
Law Legislature Killed.
Reports from Lire1 • Rock in
dicate that the repeal of the
Statew.'Te prohibit ot; law ef
fective January I. and enact
ment of i°■' primurv election
bill drawn by the Democratic
Staff t on • r.tion at Pine Bluff
last spring are apt to be two
dominant measures in the next
political campaign in Arkan
sas.
Plans for submission ofthese
two measures through the in
itiative and refendum are un
der way. The statewide pro
hibition law was passed by the
11915 legislature, and the pri
mary election bill, after being
passed by the senate was kill
ed in the house during the re
cent session of the Arkansas
legislature.
©nouia inese iwo measures
be submitted no doubt they
will be the center of political
interest; other measures will
be apparetly insignificant in
comparision. The prohibition
element will be prepared to
battle against the repeal of the
new statewide prohibition law,
and it will cause the true
strength of the advocates and
opponents of statewide prohi
bition to be broght out. Can
didates, no doubt, will be com
pelled to declare themselves
unequivocally.
TOWNS ARE LIKE MEN
There isn’t much difference
between a town and the peo
ple that live in it. The man
who has no desire to better
himself never gets much better
He accumulates neither wis
dom nor wealth.
Rut the man who studies
how to add to his knowledge
and to his world's goods ultim
ately becomes idependent in
l-purse and mind. So does the
town become independent that
seeks to add to its wealth and
comfort.
One way to accomplish
these things for the town’s
good is thrugh the medium of
a.n aggressive, forceful and
progressive commercial organ
ization. Everybody ought to be
interetsed in such a body. The
work of building up this town
ought not to be delegated to
merely one man or to any one
set of men. It ought to be
everybod’s business.
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FORMER TREASURER IS
SAID TO BE SHORT
Former County Treasurer J.
W. Thompson of Sharp Coun
ty is alleged to be $4,912 short
jin his accounts with the coun
ty. The commissioners of ac
counts in checking the ac
; counts recently discovered the
| alleged shortage and reported
the matter to the county judge
| who ordered an investigtion.
'the trial of the matter was
| taken up in the county counrt
at Evening Shade a few days
ago. resulting in a finding that
the amount due the county by
the treasurer is $4,912.92. Mr.
i Thompson was ordered to pay
lover this sum to the county
j within ten days and judgment
will be taken against him for
that amount. He has filed no
tice of appeal to the circuit
court.
1 lie Jounal for Job Printing
Who Has Lived
Here the Longest?
We would like to know who
has lived longest in Independ
ence county. Write us a let
ter, if you are an old resident,
and tell us some facts about
your early days. We will pub
lish the letters from the oldest
residents. We wish to secure
as many interesting facts as
possible. The publication of
one incident will remind other
old timers of other incidents,
so let the letters come.
To the person showing the
longest continuous residence
in the county, absence of loss
than one year, or service in
the army not counted against
the pioneer, we will send the
Journal free for the remaind
er of his or her life. To the
second oldest pionerr we will
send the paper for five years
free, and to the third, one
year free.
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DALLAM BUYS PAPER
Leslie, Apr. 24.—The Leslie
Record, owned and edited by
J. L. Alexander, has been pur
chased by II. R. Dallam of
Batesville. He is an old news
paper man, formerly of Padu
c ih, Kenucky, but has been in
Arkanas about 35 years. His
lirst paper was the Mountain
Echo, which he established In
Yellvile in 18G6. Mr. Alex
ander will retur to his old
home at Brenolo, Kans., where
he will engage in business.
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GOOD PASTURE
We have the finest cane
pasture in the county and are
prepared to take stock for
pasturage at $1 a head per
month. Man on place to look
after stock.
If. E. HAWTHORNE.
THE PESKY HOUSE FLY
The open season of the
, housefly is here once more. It
| is the duty of every man, wo
man and child to join in the
Icamqaign against this danger
I ous insect. Cleanliness is the
most effective weapon in the
war upon this carrier of dis
jease; elealiness in the home
i and the stable, in streets and
ialleys; above all; in places
where foodstuffs are prepared
for the table, for the marketor
placed on sale.
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The Newark Canning Com
any desires to contract with
irmers for growing tomatoes
>r our canning factory for
ie this season. Those who
esire to grow tomatoes
lould call and sign contracts
t once.. ^ ’
President. '
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ascriptions at the Newark
amber Company.
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Lime, Nails, Wire Fencing, Pumps, Pipe,
Farm Implements, Coal, Hay and Crain.
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And will make it to you interest
to trade with us. Your money’s
worth on every purchase made
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Newark. Arkansas