$1.50 PER ANNUM
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1919
VOL. 19 NO. 12
LITTLE ROCK MEN
BUY NEWPORT BANK
B. C. POWELL AM) S. R. MORGAN
PURCHASE CONTROL OF THE
FARMERS’ NATIONAL
Newport June 24.—An important
business transaction in Newport bank
ing circles took place Monday when
B. C. Powell, vice President of the
Southern Trust Company of Little
Rock, and S. R. Morgan of Little
Rock purchased the controlling inter
est of the Farmer’s National Bank of
Newport to succeed N. II. Landis, who
leaves for Kansas City to enter one
of that city’s banks.
Captain J. D. Knight, late of the
United States army, has been made
active vice president, and has assum
ed his work* Captain Knight is from
Fordyce. Wm. N. Dunaway continues
as president of the banking institu
tion and F. J. Harmon of Newport
has been made cashier.
It is one of the strongest banking
concerns in Newport.
-o
INSTRUCTOR FOR CLASSES
IN HOME HYGIENE ANI)
CAKE OF THE SICK
Mrs. R. L. McNairy, chairman of
nursing service, Independence Coun
ty Chatper, A. It. ('., has applied
through the Southwestern Division
for a registered Red Cross nurse to
come and take charge of the cla-sc
in Home Hygiene. She hopes to se
cure this nurse soon and the women
and High School girls of our county
are urged to organize classes for this
course of instruction.
A central nursnig room will be
fitted up in Batesville for da -, pur
poses, and the nurse will go to the
other towns and communities where
as many as ten women or High
School girls will lake the course, car
rying with her everything necessary
to teach the lesson.
Our county chapter will bear tin*
expense of the instructor, the only
expense of the women being the book
of instruction which is 45 cents for
a paper-bound book of 15 lessons,
each lesson to he about 1 1-2 hours’
duration, one-half being taken up ii
theoretical instruction, and the other
half in practical work and demonstra
tion.
POPULAR YOUNG PEOPLE WED
A pretty home wedding was sol
emnized Sunday afternoon at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Roe, when
their neice, Miss Willie became the
bride of Roy H. Latimer.
The ceremony was said by the Rev
erend C. Bridenthal, pastor of the
First Christian Church of Newport
and took place on the wide veranda
of this handsome home in the pres
ence of only immediate relatives and
a few intimate friends of the young
people, where the minister with an
impressive yet simple and exceedingly
fjretty ring ceremony made them hus
band and wife.
Miss Maude Matthews of Calico
Rock, a cousin of the bride, was maid
of honor, and Richard Holderby, of
this place, best man. After congrat
ulations refreshments were served in
the dining room.
Both young people are well and
favorable known, both having resided
here for a number of years, the bride
having been a most successful teach
er in the High School here for the
past few years.
The groom has held a responsible
position with the Bevens Drug Com
pany at Newport for some time,
where his sterling business qualities
and excellent character have earned
for him a host of friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Latimer left on the
evening train Sunday for Newport
where they will be at home at 618
Hazel Street.
The Journal heartily joins their
many friends here and elsewhere in
extending to this splendid young
couple sincere congratulations and
v> ishing them a long and happy mar
i ried life.
•o
SOMETHING TO RKMEMRER
As peace terms are presented by
the victors to the vanquished, and as
oar Allies demand this, that and the
other concession, it is well to remem
ber that in the j>oace terms there is
not a single demand made by the
'nited States of a material nature.
All the United States has asked is
some arrangement whereby the peace
f the world will be insured and its
own interests safeguarded for all
time to come. The United States
will emerge from this war as free as
it entered it after having given to the
world service for which dollars and
cents can never pay.
If you on joy a good laugh don’t
fail to go tc the Skydome Saturday
right.
Vi.Mi't!
If he has
money in,
Bank he is not
worried; he
Works better.
And he is the man who gets promoted. The
man with money is looking for the man who saves.
He knows that the man who can take care of his
own money if the man to trust. Saving money is
the true test of reliability. It is good common
sense, too. Be wise today. Open an account
with the money you have and make your account
grow. Don’t wait—start today.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
i*
CLUB RALLY OF BOYS
AND GIRLS NEXT WEEK
PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR MEET
ING TO BE HELD AT BATES
VILLE JULY 2
W^e are planning the best day and
the biggest club rally ever held in
Batesville on Wednesday, July 2.
We will have barrels of fun on that
day, and every club member in Inde
pendence county is expected to be
present and make more noise than
you did last year.
And listen! We are going to give
away, absoltuely free, a fine, pure
bred pig to some club member. You
will have no chance to get this fine
pig if you are not at the club rally.
The program of the day is as fol
lows:
10:30 a. m. Meet and register at
Arkansas College.
10:40 a. m. Songs and yells by
club members.
11:00 a. m. Welcome address on
behalf of the Batesville Chamber of
Commerce by Marcus S. Bone.
Welcome address on behalf of Ark
ansas College, Dr. W. S. Lacy.
11:25 a. m. More songs and yells
11:40 a. m. Talks by W. J. .Jerni
gan and other club agents.
11:50 a. m. Partiotic parade.
12:15 Lunch will be served to the
club members and the Chamber of
Commerce on the College campus.
1:30 p. m. Moving picture show.
Free to Club membert.
3:30 p. m. Drawing pure bred pig
3:45 p. m. Adjournment.
We are expecting every club mem
ber to be here. We have planned for
you and will be disappointed if you do
not come.
LELAND BUNCH,
County Agent.
-o
THE COUNTRY SUNDAY SCHOOL
If the Sunday School has been al
lowed to die down there should be
no further delay in reorganizing it.
In our concern for the mental de
velopment of our children, we should
not forget the need for moral training
also. In the writer’s neighborhood
a boy who was to have graduated at
the high school last month—a bright
boy in his books—spent the commen
cement period in jail, having entered
a store at night and killed its ownei
only a few weeks before. Proper
moral training had not accompanied
his mental training.
Every father or mother should ask
himself or herself if the Sunday
school is not needed to supplement
the training given in home and pub
lic school. And even if a boy learn
ed nothing useful in Sunday school,
it might still be worth while for him ,
to go simply because the Sunday
school offers an opportunity for him
to meet other boys and girls in the
right environemnt and under whole- j
some influences. The average boy j
who has nothing to do from sunup t„
sundown every Sunday is pretty like
ly to get into mischief.
The moral and spiritual benefits of
the country Sunday School, therefore
should alone insure efforts to utilize
and strengthen it, while the social and
intellectual advantages which it offers
may also be not improperly consider
ed. The Bible is one of the world’s
supreme pieces of literature, and to
study it Sunday after Sunday will
contribute to anybody’s mental grow
th and equipment.—The Progressive
Farmer.
A DM IN1 ST R ATOR’S NOTIC E
Notice is hereby given that letters
of administration of the estate of
Mrs. Malinda Hurt, deceased, have
been granted to the undersigned by
the Probate Court of Independence
County, Arkansas.
All persons having claims against
the said estate are required to exhibit
the same to the undersigned, properly
authenticated, within one year from
date hereof, or they may be forever
precluded from any benefit in the
said estate; and if such claims be not
exhibited within two years, they will
J>g forever barred and precluded from
any benefit from said estate.
Given this 23rd day of June, 1919.
Wl. W. GRAVES,
Admr. Estate Mrs. Malinda Hurt.
MAN ONCE REPORTED
KILLED VISITS HOME
JOHN JAMES ONCE REl’ORTKD
KILLED IN FRANCE ENJOYS
\ I SIT HOME
John W. James who has been in
the military service in France and
Italy, spent last week visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan James,
; near Oil Trough. He left Friday fo*
! Camp Merrit, New Jersey, to return
to his company, still having seven
I months to serve, as he is in the reg •
uiar army.
Young James, who has been pro
moted to Sergeant-major, has had
one of the most interesting carreers
of any young man having gone out
from this section of the Sttae. lie is
only 24 years old, but has 17 wounds
on his body, besides being gassed.
He saw service in the battles of the
Marne, Soissuns, Chateau Theiry and
the Champagne offensives. While in
the hospital at one time the hospital
was bombed by the Germans, and it
was then young James was lost sight
of and II rn, ♦. iiffp to hw frithor*
ported him dead.
While a boyish looking youth, he
is every inch soldier, and the Fren
ch government awarded him the Croix
de Guerre, and grateful Italy confer
red upon him a bae.ge of honor. In
addition he wears the chevron of ser
geant major, three wound stripes, two
services stripes and other marks for
distinguished honor.
During hi . convalescent period af
ter he was able to travel, he visited
Rome and there saw the house in
which the Apostle Paul was held pris
oner, the Colliseum, and other his
toric places. He visited Venice, the
city where they use gondolas, a small
boat, to get about the streets as we
use autos. Naples was another place
of interest visited by him, and he
climbed Mount Vesuvius, n voter.no
lhat far back as
history records.
The «:ay before he sailed for Prance
he was married, his wife remaining
with her parents. She accompanied
her husband on his trip home and
they have returned to Gamp Merrit
where she will remain near him. Un
less he changes his plans he will
locate in St. Louis after his time
expires.
SYNOPSIS FIFTH EPISODE
OF THE HOI SE OF •! VI E
Harvey Gresham cleverly outwit?
two foreign spies, battles with the
Hooded Terror and helps Pear! Wal
don to thrwart her conspiring rela
tives in the fifth episode of the grip
ping. Pathe serial, “The House of
Hate” at the Skydome Saturday night
The mysterious Terror is choking
Pearl to death at the deserted boat
house, when she goes to find out
from Patch-Eye Pete the identity of
the mysterious assassin. She learns
only that the cowled fiend is a rela
tive before Pete is killed and she i=
attacked.
Gresham sj>eeds up to the pier in
a taxicab and hurls himself at Pearl’s
assailant. He fights amely against
the Terror but is overpowered by the
brute strength of his opponent. The
man of awe and mystery picks Gresh
am up and hurls him down to the
frozen river with such force that the
ice gives way. Just as the fiend
is about to shove the body beneath
the water Gresham’s chauffeur comes
to the rescue. Although quickly
knocked out the chauffeur engages
the terror long enogh to enable Gres
ham to recover. As Harvey climbs
up the edge of the pier, he takes to
his heels.
Gresham returns t Waldonclyffe
with Pearl, but the Terror is there
first again. 11 - overhears Pear! con
cluding a big munitions deal with
Captain Armand, representative of an
Allied government.
Ezra, Naomi and Haynes Waldon,
the conspiring relatives, try to pre
vent Pearl from closing the deal.
They want the war material sold to
the Baron von R uh. But Pearl de
nounces the Baron as a spy and is
not even deterred from her original
plan when the Terror leaves a threat
ening note on the table, warning hei
not to close the deal.
The Baron and the conspiring Wal
dons become suspicious of Gresham
and plot to learn the secret of his
presence at WaldonelyfFe. The Baron
goes to Gresham’s apartment in the
city to rifle it. Naomi Wlaldon is
delegated by the conspirators to fas
cinate Gresham and thus pry th. se
cret from him, but she fails utterly.
The Baron, surprises Gresham’s
valet in the act of opening a code let
ter to Harvey from the secret Serv
ice. Gresham returns to his apart
ment while the two spies are talking.
The valet hides Baron in a closet but
the Baron’s gloves are let on the
table.
Gresham sees them and also notices
that the letter handed him by the
valet has been tampered with. He
translates the note with the aid of
his red code book, then switches the
book for a blank one similar in ap
pearance and after writing in the
blank book appears to leave it on the
table by mistake.
The valet helps Gresham to dress
and he departs to keep an engage
ment with Pearl at the opera.
The Hooded Terror rips all of
Pearl’s evening dresses to shreds to
prevent her from going out . She tel
ephones to Gresham’s apartment to
let him know. The valet is trying to
eject the Baron when the telephone
rings. The valet answers it and secs
the baron diving foi the red book
A pistol battle ensues in which the
volet is killed. Pearl hears the noise
and the valet’s cry. She thinks Gresh
am is in peril and speeds to the
apartment in her car. On the way
she passes Gresham who turns and
pursues in a taxicab.
Pearl (titers the apartment and
finds the body of the valet. A moment
later she is attacked by the Terror
and flees to the bedroom of the apart
ment where she almost falls over the
lifless Body of the Baron. The Ter
ror dashes after Pearl and catches h'~r
just as she is climhin.tr through tly
kitchen window to the fire e cape.
His fingers close on her throat as
Gresham’s car halts in front of the
apartment house.
-— -o-■
SEA KCT-C'LINGH AM
Willie Searcy and Miss Luda May
( hngham were married Sunday af
ternoon by Rev. G. L. Fink, in the
bridge neighborhood where Rev. Fink
had gone to fill his regular appoint
ment.
^ oung Searcy recently returned
! rom oversea- where ho was severly
wounded, one side of his face being
almost entirely blown off by a high
explosive shell bursting near him.
LICENSE REQUIRED
TO DEAL IN WHEAT
PRESIDENT ISSUES PROCLAMA
TION THAT BECOMES EF
FECTIVE ON JULY 15
Julius Barnes, United States wheat
director has annuonced that President
Wilson has issued a proclamation put
ting under license of the wheat di
rector, persons, firms, corporations,
and associations dealing in wheat,
wheat flour or baking products, man
ufactured either wholly or partially
from wheat flour. The only excep
tions are farmers and small bakers.
The proclamation which goes into
effect July 15 applies to the business
of “storing or distributing wheat, cr
manufacturing, storing or distributing
wheat flour as well as to the manu
facture of bread or other bakers’ pro
ducts either wohlly or partially from
wheat flour.
Blank forms to be used in applying
for such licenses may be obtained
from the zone agents of the Grain
Corporation in Baltimore, Chicago,
Galveston, Minneapolis, Kansas City,
Mo., New Orleans and other cities.
After the applications have been fill
ed out they must be sent to the wheat
director, division of licenses, Wash
ington.
The proclamation states that “any
person, firm, corporation or associa
tion, other than those hereinbefore
excepted, who shall encase in or car
ry on any business above specified
after July 15, without first securin'?
such licenses, or shall carry on ar.y
such business while such license is
suspended or after such license is
revoked, will be liable to the penalties
subscribed by law.”
-o
MRS. RICHARDSON DEAD
Mrs. Willie Richardson Traylor of
Batesville died at Denver, Colorado,
Thursday morning and the remains
were brought back to Lawrence coun
ty Sunday for burial beside her late
husband V. G. Richardson, who died
less than a year ago. The remains
were accompanied by Tucker Richard
son and the little daughter, Elizabeth,
who were with the deceased at the
time of her death. The deceased was
only 21 years of age and was former
ly, Miss Willie Erwin.
PM. ffi'snm
I
' .r ,'J
DMAS CROWN
W E R
g*
m
ONE OF THE BEST MOWING MACHINES ON THE MARKET
It has an extra heavy frame, with large wheels.
Is roller hearing and is very light running.
Has two speeds, slow and fast, and the gears are
all enclosed in a dust proof box and run in oil like
the gears on an automobile.
Come in let us show you some of the many advan- i
tages this mower has over others, and after we |
have showed it to you and you do not think it is §
the best mower made, we do not ask you to buy*
Come in next time you are in town or write for
circular.
C. W. MAXFIELD CO
Batesville, Arkansas
■
f
.l.mJ«li!UIIM!!HK!:!l!ti! W®,' I * ’M i .ill.imilUlliHIHIBHHlH:anilllliyti ill:!iiil!;'G IflilliaiimaillliaBmiMiHIlliflmMfltlBmtmumtuiiiH.ii^