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The Newark Journal.
PUBLISHED IN THE FAMOUS BIG BOTTOM COUNTRY. WHERE ALrALFA IS KING.
$1 Per Annum.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, June 28, 1907.
Vol. 7. No. 27.
WEEKS DOINGS AT SULPHUR ROCK
Short Items of Interest Picked Up
at the Getropolis of White
River Township.
Sulphur Rock, June 25.—Mrs.
Elizabeth Tune died at the home
of her son in-law, G. W. Jerni
#an, Friday morning. Shewasdn
her ninety-third year. She was a
native of Tennessee, but came to
Arkansas in 1870. She was a
noble, gentle, kind and womanly
woman.
T. B. Keeney wants 100 cases of
eggs per week. Highest cash
prices paid for chickens, eggs and
eountry produce, delivered at J.
H. Jimerson’8, Sulphur Rock.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Malery who
have been visiting the latter’s sis
ter, Mrs. W. F Wa.yman, for two
weeks, left for their home at Ash
er, Okla., Tuesday.
Hugh v aughan who has been in
Oklahoma for five months, was
visiting his many friends here
Monday.
Will Jernigan came in from
Fayetteville last week, where he
has been attending the State Uni
versity.
A1 Stogsdill, formerly head
sawyer at Wood’s Mill, but now
of Jonesboro, wras in town Tues
day.
Just received a car load of the
famous Bowman Hour, also meal,
chops, bran, etc. J. H. Jimerson.
J. T. McArthur came down from
Sylamore last week and spent
sveral days, returning Monday.
Mrs. Della Pool of Batesville is
visiting in our city this week, the
guest of Mrs. Sidney Pickens.
Mrs. Conn Dean came up from
Newport —Monday to visit her
mother, Mrs. John Harvison.
Hugh Wright and Mrs. Dunn
ington left Monday for Hamilton,
Tenn., to visit relatives.
Rev. James McDoniel came in
from Barren Fork Monday, where
he had beeu preaching.
Dye Moore, who went to Chat
tanooga last week, writes back
that he is well pleased.
The young people enjoyed a
party Saturday night at Miss
Maud Moore’s.
Mr. aod Mrs. J. H. Tuggle of
Rush Springs, Okla., are visiting
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Mrs. Dr. Huddleston and chil
dren spent Saturday and Sunday
out on Dota.
Miss Hilda Moore came down
from Batesville Sunday to visit
home folks.
Charlie Wright went to Oil
Trough Monday to be gone two
weeks.
Emitt Kay and Ed Tomlinson of
Mag ness were in town Saturday.
F. M. Barnett of the Dota neigh
borhood was in town Tuesday.
Urbin Haddock of Charlotte
was on our streets Tuesday.
Judge M. L. Arnold of Newark
was on our streets Monday.
Mrs. W. S. Moore has been on
the sick list for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. John Qualls were
up from Newark Tuesday.
Prof. Sidney Pickens went to
Batesville Tuesday.
Clint Northern came down from
Batesville Tuesday.
Fred Hartsfield who left nere
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MISSIONARY OFFICERS
Newport, June 26.—The Wo
man’s Foreign Missionary Society
of the White River Conference ol
the M. E. Church, South, has just
closed a very interesting anc
profitable annual session at thh
place. A very good representa
tion was in attendance.
The business session convenec
Monday morning at 9 o’clock
with Mrs. S. H. Babcock of Jones
boro, president, in the chair. Mrs,
A. L. Malone of Jonesboro was
elected secretary. The report
from auxiliaries show progress it
most every way. The following
officers were elected for the ensu
ing year:
Mrs. M. A. Neill, president
Mrs. Geo. W. Willey, first vice
predent; Mrs. A. L. Malone, sec
ond vice president; Mrs. C. E
Crook, third vice president; Mrs
J. M. Hawley, corresponding sec
retary; Mrs. W. H. Allie, record
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son, treasurer; Mrs. S. H. Bab
cock, secretary Jonesboro district
Mrs. Guy Murphy, secretary Hel
ena district; Mrs. Eli Meiser, sec
retary Paragould district; Mrs
Etta Jones, secretary BatesvilU
district; Miss Olive Chandler, sec
retary Searcy district; Mrs. A. L
Malone, delegate to general board
The next meeting will be helc
at Searcy. The date has not a.
yet been set.
BANK ROBBED
Mena, June 22.—At 3 o’clock
this morning the Caddo Valley
Bank at Black Springs, Mont
gomery county, east of here, was
entered by burglars and betweer
§2,000 and §3,000 secured.
The bandits went about theii
work in a systematic manner anc
were evidently experts. Before
they began work on the bank the.\
cut all the telephone wires, and
built barricades of heavy timbei
at the rear of the bank. Aftei
securing their booty, the burglars
took to the woods north of town,
going in the direction of Oden.
The cash secured by them was
covered by burglar insurance, anc
the depositors will not lose.
SHOTA NEGRO
Zach Calhoun Jr., Saturday
night shot Pink Ripley, a negro,
at Old Grand Glaize with a loac
or birdshot, inflicting wounds
which will likely prove fatal. Il
is alleged that Ripley h*ad enticec
one of Zach’s father’s farmhands
away and was also carrying ofl
property belonging to the eldei
Calhoun, on whon Ripley pulled a
gun, and young Calhoun coming
up, fired at the negro. He gave
himself up and made bond foi
$500 awaiting the effects of his
shot. While hunting for the
negro a few minutes before the
shooting the elder Calhoun acci
dently shot himself in the left arm,
inflicting a painful wouud.
HORE COUNTY BRIDGES
County Judge Wycough award
ed the contract Wednesday to Jno
Evans for three more county
bridges. One of these is to be
built over Miller’s creek, one mile
east of Batesville, 150 feet long
another over Curia, in Black Rivei
township, 100 feet long, and the
third across Ten Mile, on the line
of White and Independence coun
ties.—Batesville Guard.
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POLITENESS, GRATITUDE AND
REVERENCE
Politeness is a creature of culti
[ vation and education. Still it ap
pears that some people are by
birthright studiously polite. With
such a basis as an innate gift it re
, quires little education for one to
develop early into a perfection
of politeness that is indeed a thing
. to be admired. It is another
word for good manners. A man
neredly man or a woman with
gentleness of manner and speech
, is a desirable associate and such
fellowship imparts to others a
wholesome influence that elevates
and molds useful men and women
for service, one to another and to
the home, church and state.
Others seemingly come into the
world without this gift of polite
ness. And it takes line upon
line, here a little and there a little”
to build up such a one to be real
courterous and gentlemanly. Too
many people are so stupid as to
what real, true politeness is that
when one appears before them as
a paragon of perfection in the art
of this much desired accomplish
ment, they are ready to say, he or
she, is stuck up and proud. For
a remedy for such folks, the writer
is not able to pick up one lying
around loose, because this one
thing has been so neglected in their
training as to make it next to im
possible for them to see and know
the virtue and merit there is be
tween being “proud and struck
up,” and being real nice, gentle,
polite and manly. It is another
word for being “well raised.”
Here comes in parental respon
sibility, like a thousand of brick
on the heads and hearts of fathers
and mothers. Politeness taught
at home will manifest itself every
where; at church, at school and
at all kinds of gathering and along
the big road. And here is where
much of it is lacking. The man
who is not predisposed to give half
or all the road is lacking, essenti
ally, in politeness. The empty
wagon is always expected to give
the road to the loaded one Polite
npca will ef-.nnd find lp.h ntliprs eif,
and be delighted to do so, unless
the corns are hurting.
' This is a thing purely between
people. But gratitude includes
both man and God. This is often
a point of true politeness. The
really polite seldom forget to use
a “thank you.” More men and
women too, are sinners here than
one will decide at first thought.
Ingratitude. It is a hideous thing.
; It will alieniate people; it disrupts
ties that were once strong and
! seemingly invulnerable. It makes
callous the heart, and drys up the
fountain of sympathy.
“You ungrateful wretch,” said
a man to another once, where life
had been saved by the reprover,
But to be ungraetf ul to men is not
the worst of it. Ungrateful to
God. How much owest thou thy
; Lord, in the the way of gratitude?
s There is not a word strong enough
to give expression as to the
! enormity of the debt. All, and
more than all, is what we owe.
1 The sin of ingratitude. How
high it mounts, how deep it digs
into the heart and life!
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STATE NEWS ITEMS
The peach growers near Horatio
are advertising for *300 pickers at
$2 a day.
Josh Hampton, colored, was
shot and killed by another negro
at Pine Bluff Sunday.
Some blind tiger juice caused a
general row atCreswell a few days
ago and got several persons into
court, where they were fined.
Mrs. Winfield Barton of Jones
boro found a live cabbage snake in
a head of cabbage a few days ago.
The snake was two inches in length.
In a difficulty between Jim
Daffron and Bob Doll ins at Wald
ron last Saturday, Daffron shot
Dollins, causing his death in a few
minutes.
R. F. Wintker of Clarendon
raised a turnip in his garden this
spring which measured 21 inches
in circumference and weighed
seven pounds.
A valuable horse belonging to
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got its neck entangled in its halter
at Des Arc a few days ago, and
was choked to death.
W. R. Abbott, president of the
American National Bank of Fort
Smith^who was one of the very
few millionaires in Arkansas, died
at his home in Fort Smith Tues
day.
Sunday morning, at Portia, A.
L. Cook, aged 53, attempted sui
cide by stabbing himself in the
right side, and it is said he cannot
recover. Despondency was the
cause.
Gov. Pindall has offered a re
ward of §500 for the apprehension
of the parties who attempted to
dynamite the residence of Ashley
Cockrill at Little Rock Saturday
morning.
William Hill, a negro living
near Kedron, Cleveland county,
! was shot and killed Monday by
Deputy Sheriff J. P. Hfender, who
who was attempting to arrest
Hill’s son.
The trial of Capt. Brown and his
son, Rudolph Brown, for wreck
ing the Bank of Mountain Home,
will come on at Hardly on July
3rd, having been removed there on
change of venue.
The seven-year-old son of Kerr
Cash, living near Pea Ridge, fell
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day, while climbing for a bird’s
nest, and sustained injuries from
which he died in a few hours.
Ernest Lassiter, a young white
man, was found dead at Stamps
last Saturday. The body was
found near an oil tank and the
skull was badly crushed. It is
thought that he was murdered.
Fruit growers in the vicinity of j
of Rogers are shipping apples to j'
Springfield, Mo. Early apples)'
are never packed in barrels, but
I come in lots of a third of a bushel
and are worth from 50 to 75 cents
per lot.
A. Raasch, a Baptist preacher j1
living near Center Point, accident
ly shot himself while loading a j
small target gun recently. The j
ball entered his head below the
left eye, producing a wound from
the effects of which he died.
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LOST HIS POCKETBOOK
R. T. Herrington of Charlotte
lost a pocketbook somewhere be
tween Batesville and Charlotte a
few days ago, which diligent in
quiry has failed to find. The
pocketbook contained between
$135 and $155, all in bills.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY1
Annual Meeting of the County A-v
sociation to be Held at James
town, July 27 and 28
The annual meeting of the Inde
pendence County Sunday School
Association will be held at James
town on Saturday and Sunday,
July 27th and 28th, with the fol
lowing progamme:
SATURDAY MORNING
Calling association to order and
opening with devotional exercises.
Calling roll of Sunday schools
and enrolling delegates.
Reading of the minutes of the
last convention.
Receiving reports of Sunday
schools. \
Reports of the president, secre
tary and treasurer.
Appointment of committees.
Address—YV. Fred Long, gen
eral Secretary of State Sunday
School Association.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
The needs of a country Sunday
school—W. R. Shelpman.
The State Convention—W. K.
Rice.
The Teacher at His Work—J.
K. Rawlings.
What I am Teaching My Class
for—Jno. Q. Wolf.
Round Table Talk, conducted by
Rev. W. Fred Long.
Conference of townsihp officers
will be held at 4:30 to 5:30 p. ru.
SATURDAY WIGHT
The Responsibility of the Sun
day School Worker—Rev. W. M
Thompson.
Report of committees.
Address—Rev. W. Fred Long.
SUNDAY MORNING
Association will meet with.
Jamestown Sunday School.
11 a. m.—Sunday School Talk
—Rev. W. Fred Long.
Musical Director—J. W. Glenn.
Sidney Pickens, Sec.
TOOK A POCKETBOOK
Saturday afternoon Virgil Wil
son, an employe of the Pfeiffer
Stone Company at Quarry A, went
to the central office of the tele
phone company in Batesville to
send a message to his wife at New
ark. After he had departed Miss
Myrtle Tally, one of the telephone
girls, missed her pocketbook.
Constable Patterson was called
md soon after found Wilson and
took the pocketbook from his
pocket. Wilson was fined $10 and
josts by Justice Holmes.—Bates
ville Guai'd.
STRAYED OR STOLEN
A red-brindle cow, about 9 years
}ld, marked with crop and split in
}ach ear; has small white spots in
?ach flank, left hind foot is white
aear hoof and has large horns,
she disappeared about May 12,
md is now supposed to have a calf
ibout five weeks old. Will pay
iberal reward for information
eading to her recovery. Mrs.
Lena Henry, Newark, Ark.
BIG FEE FOR PONDER
Walnut Ridge, June 21.—At &
special term of the chancery court
neld here today Judge Humphreys
illowed Hon. H. L. Ponder an
additional fee of $7,500 for his
services as receiver for the Culver
Lumber and Manufacturing Com
pany. This makes $12,500 allow
ed Mr. Ponder.