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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, November 17, 1905.
Vol. 5. No. 47.
HAPTIKT ASSOCIATION
Sketch of Hot Springs fleeting by
Rev. Hartin Who Attended
From I his County.
To 1 lie Newark Journal:
I lie General Association of
Missionary Baptists met at Hot
Springs November :>rd, 4th and
5th. I left home November l. As
I had some business with the Bap
tist Publishing Company I stop
ped oil at Little Hock and stayed
till next morning. Here I met
the managers, Bros. W. M. Bar
ker and Ben. M. Bogard, and sev
eral brethren on their way to the j
General Association. We ex
pected to get to Hot Sprins on
time, but the train was several
hours late, so we did not get or-j
ganized until afternoon. We were
permantl.y organized by re-elec
ting Bros. W. T. Box of Morril
ton as moderator, Ben. M. Bo
gard of Little Hock assistant mod
erator, J. M. L. Thomason of
Monticello*, clerk, and M. W.Izard
of England, treasurer.
Bro. J. A. Smith, pastor at
Springdale, preached a tine ser
mon Friday night on “Witnessing
for Christ.”
After the sermon the report on
•education was read by Bro. Bo
gard, and he made a telling
speech. The Buckner Baptist
0)1 lege was offered to the General
Association clear of debt, worth
ten thousand dollars. This is the
oldest Baptist college in the state
.and it was accepted unanimously.
-There is a bright future for this
•school.
Saturday came and with it a
rainy day, yet we had a good at
tendance. The temperance report
read by .J. A. Smith was fine. A
number of brethren spoke on the
report. Among them twdng Bro.
J. H. Melbourne in which he said
that we can be against whiskey
and be Democrats or Republicans
by supporting anti whiskey men.
Bro. J. M. Rains of Jonesboro
offered the following resolution
which was Unanimously adopted:
"Resolved, That it is the sense
of this body that all the Baptists
in Arkansas, in fact all good peo
ple in the state, should use their
influence in every way possible to
promote the passing of a bill now
before Congress, introduced by
Hon. R. B. Macan of Phillips
county, which bill has for its ob
ject the prohibition of the Federal
Government granting license to
sell liquor in prohibition territory
by the state.”
From this the readers of The
Journal can see that 1 am standing
with my brethren in opposing
whiskey.
The Orphans Home report elici
ted some discussion, but the home
was reccommended and a collec
tion taken for same. The report
on literature recommended among
other things, the reviving of the
old Arkansas Baptist, or starting
a paper in the state.
Saturday night Bro. Puthotf.
editor of the Baptist Echo, at
Jacksonville, Texas, preached a
splendid sermon and about a hun
dred dollars was raised in cash and
pledges to help the Second church
at Ft. Smith.
Most of the pulpits in the city
were occupied Sunday by the As
sociation preachers. 1 heard Bro.
S. W. Roney at 11 a. m. at the
auditorium. His subject was'
“Our Final Home.” Many tears
were shed as the preacher spoke
of leaving the old home and when
we get to our final home there will
be no parting. It was good to be
there. At night the writer preach
ed at one of the South Hot
Springs churches. The attendance
at the Association was not near so
large as it lias been, but a good
work was done.
The executive committee re
commended a number of mission
aries. The writer will continue as
before.
1 do not know about the money
raised. On Sunday at the place 1
was, at 1L a. m., there was nearly
one hundred dollars raised for
missions. 1 close, lest this report
be too long, by saying that 1 en
joyed the trip hugehly.
J. I. Martin.
Sl'LlMli'lt I’OCK ITKMS
Short Items of Interest Picked Up
at the Metropolis of White
River Township.
•J. 1*. Sink of Sharp was in town
Saturday.
das. Huddleston of Sharp was
in town Monday.
Clem Howard of Sharp was in
our town Monday
F. M. Shaver was down from
S t ra w \ >e r ry M o n d ay.
Mr. and Mrs. ,1. H. dimmerson
came in Monday on a visit.
L. 11. Pascoe of Batesville came
down Sunday to visit home folks.
Mrs, Ludie Ashley moved Itack
to her home here in town Tues
day.
Chas. Thomas has taken charge
of the mail contract on the Hazel
Grove route.
Hon. T. J. Raney of Newark
was shaking hands with the hoys
here Tuesday.
Tom Rest and Pete Ryrutn, of
Black River township were in
town Tuesday with cotton.
Hon. John A. Hinkle of Bates
ville was shaking hands with
friends in our streets Saturday.
Miss Archie Fetzer returned to
her home at Cushman Sunday, af
ter it pleasant visit here with
friends.
Frank Smith left Monday for
Louisiana where he will take
charge of an extra gang on the
railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Magness of
Batesville came down Tuesday to
visit Mr. Magness’ mother, Mrs.
Angie Wilson.
Prof. W. J. Jernigan spent
Saturday night and Sunday at
Batesville. visiting his aunt, Mrs.
Julia Harrington.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Stovall of
Batesville spent Saturday night at
the parsonage, and left Sunday
morning for Stuttgart.
Mrs. F. M. Barnett of the Dota
neighborhood and her daughter,
Mrs. Frank Painter, of Pine Buff,
were visiting at J. C Gibson here
Friday.
SCARCITY OF TEACHERS
There seems to be a scarcity of
good teachers in the county. The
opening of a number of rural
schools has been postponed for ihe
want of a teacher, and the direc
tors of district 2(5 have, so far,been
unable to secure a teacher at all
for the school at Black Rivet
Academy. They pay a good sala
ry, and this is a good opening for
some competent teacher.
W. T. Neal left Tuesday for his
home at Imboden, after a pleasant
visit here with his father.
K. li. Poynor and little daugh
ter. Jessie, of W hite River town
ship were trading' in town Wed
nesday and called to renew for
The Journal.
Magness Bros, are building a
new house on their lots back of
(Jallo way’s restaurant, which will
be used by Mr. alio way as a
rooming house.
M. B. Burns, one of Magues*
township’s best citizens and a
good friend of The Journal, was
transacting business in town
Tuesday and called to advance his
subscription a couple of dollars’
worth.
Mrs. \V. I). Bowlb.y returned to
her home at Prescott Sunday, af
ter spending a week or two visit
ing relatives and friends here and
out in the vicinity of Dota. She
was accompanied as far as New
port by her brother, T. M. Mar
re Ison.
Lee Mayhan, a former citizen
of this place who has held a posi
tion at the State Blind School for !
the past live years, has resigned
to accept a position with a whole
sale harness establishment at Lit
tle Rock. He had been with the '
school just live years on the day j
he resigned.
The public school will open!
Monday for a nine months session. ;
It is hoped to make this the best |
session of the public school ever]
taught in Newark. Prof. S. J. T.
Wynn will again have charge of 1
the school as principal, and he will :
be ably assisted by Miss Fannie j
Blalock, Miss Sal lie Crow and j
Mrs. Della McArthur.
W. R. Shelpman of Salado;
township announces in today’s pa-1
per as a candidate for tax collec-J
tor. Mr. Shelpman is one of the j
county’s best citizens, and is a i
man whose qualifications and in-!
tegrit.v are unquestioned. He has |
had some experience in this posi-;
tion. as deputy under Collector
Montgomery, and promises faith
ful and efficient service if elected.
Hon. Dene II Coleman who
served this county in the lower1
house of the last general assembly,
seeks a re-election to that honora
ble body. Mr. Coleman gave the
people faithful and efficient service j
in the legislature and made an en-j
viable record as an earnest and '
hard-working member. II is for
mer record is sufficient evidence!
j of his ability and integrity, and is j
assurance that his re-election
would secure the people good ser
vice.
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In this issue will be found the |
announcement of Hon. T. .1. Ra
ney as a candidate for state sena
tor from this district. Mr. Raney)
! served this county as representa- j
tive in the lower house of the last
general assembly, and was one of
the very few members who did not
miss a roll call during the session.
He was always in his seat and was
known as one of the most solid
and conservative members of the
body. He was the author of sev
oral very important measures, one
of which is the present law requir
ing mutual tire insurance compan
ies to give a $25,000 bond guaran
teeing the payment of all losses.
This measure met wiih strenuous
opposition, but Mr. Raney suc
ceeded in getting it enacted into a
law, and it is said by the state in
surance commissioner to be worth
the entire cost of the last general
assembly. He promised the peo
ple in his campaign for represen
tative that he would pass a law
making the road overseers elec-!
tive in this county and this prom-j
ise was fulfilled. If elected to the
senate he promises the same faith
ful and deligent service to the;
people as he has given them in the
lower house.
STATE NEWS SKETCHES
Items of General Interest Gathered
Fresh From the Columns of
the Daily Papers.
C. A. Fox was killed by an en
gine in the railroad yards at
Booneville Sunday evening.
A Hot Springs policeman found
a pearl in an oyster which he was
eating and was offered ^500 for it.
A boy named < ru 1 let living near
Conway was so severely whipped
by his step-father a fewr days ago
that he died from the injuries! in
flicted.
The toree year-old son of Sam
uel Depriest, near Marshall, fell
into a lire Iasi week and received
burns from wdiich he died in a
few hours.
.1. A. Edwards of Crawford
county, is t»3 years old and has
19 children. Fifteen of them are
living and he has ten boys old
enough to vote.
According to the Magnolia
News; the cotton crop in that sec
tion is turning out more disap
pointing as the season advances.
Nearly all the crop has been gath
ered.
Last summer Gr. W. Morris, of
Nashville placed *37 in silver in a
stove for safekeeping. He forgot
about it and a few days ago built
a lire in the stove, with the result
that twelve of the dollars were
melted.
A train hauling the John Robin
son circus was wrecked near
Norphleet Sunday afternoon. Two
cars were badly damaged and one
lion and four cubs escaped from a
cage. The animals were captured
soon afterward. There was no
loss of life.
KILLED HIS BROTHER.
Booneville, Nov. 14.—While en-;
deavoring to enter his father’s
home in this city about '1 o'clock
this morning1, after an absence of
several weeks in the west, Walter
Guinn, son of 1). X. Guinn, was
shot and killed by his brother, j
Tom Guinn, who mistook him for
a burglar. The shot took effect
in the man’s breast, from the ef
fect of which he died at *! o'clock
this morning.
It appears that Walter had ar
rived ifi town on a late train and
going to his father’s home, rap
ped on his brother’s window for
admission. Awakening suddenly,
the brother thinking of burglars,
seized his shotgun and fired
through the window with the
aforementioned result.
I’ll K Til INUTOCO.NHKJIY
The Act, Not the Instrument, De
serves Condemnation t-or
Consequential Evils.
To The Newark Journal:
1 see that my good friend, F.
W. Pearson took a notion to in
ject a few thoughts into the con
troversy in which alcohol is the
point at issue. Now I would liket
to have about live minutes to in
ject a few thoughts into him. Say,
friend, if there is nothing else in
your essay, there is some fun.
Some of your remarks are wise
and some otherwise. As to liber
ty, 1 am for laws to protect life,
property, chastity and individual
liberty. After that, I am for the
utmost liberty for man, woman
and child. Teach them to love
liberty. You say that “ever
since you were a boy, liberty, lib
erty, has been the cry of the
whiskey people.” That, too, was
the cry of our forefathers in time
of the Revolution, and the British
did not like to hear it. I want no
old Puritan blue laws in mine,
thank you. You say that my “al
legations are not well taken."' L
did not expect them to be, as view
ed from a prohi standpoint. 1 >ee
that they have stirred the prohi
camp from the ridge pole to the
foundation. r‘
I think that there is a cla^s of
people in the country who would
welcome the “indigo” laws back
again, provided they could be the
ones to administer them, ^io,
friend, there is no assumption int
what I say, I am prepared to
prove most of what 1 say. You.
say that “prior to the year IStfOf
that at least one dozen states aud
territories had voted the sale of
alcoholic liquors out of their bord
ers.” For the information of an
expectant public, please tell us*
what states and territories they
were, as well as the year in which
such elections were held. Now
show up, or play the oyster. Now
comes the funny part of it. Snake
oil, and “Yaller” fever. Say.
friend, you should remember that
you was born near the edge of fif
ty years ago, and that you should
be rather guarded in your asser
tions. Now suppose that three
fourths of the people wanted to
have yellow fever, and that there:
were millions of people making
honest livings producing its
germs. You could not quarantine
against it so easy. And, besides
this, yellow fever is a scourge that
no one wants to have, it forces
itself unbidden, upon individuals
and communities alike, and all
unite, as they should, in suppress
ing it. So much for your yellow
fever thought that you was so
anxious tot“inject.”
Now, as to the snakes. People,
that is, the common people, do
not “hanker” much after snake
oil. It might be very effective
though by rubbing it on a prohlf
Hut with the average citizen thret
drops of snake oil will go as far as
three hundred gallons of pure dis
tilled corn juice will. If peoplo
craved snake oil like most of them,
do John Barleycorn, we would
have as many “snake farms” as
we have distillery in the country
today. No one feels easy when ho
thinks that there is a loose snake
around. Therefore we need not
fear a deluge of snakes. Now %
few words for the great prohi,
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