Vol. 3, No. 50.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday December 11, 1903.
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AGAINST SALOONS
Judge Fulkerson Revokes License
Issued by County Court to
Five Newport Saloons.
Newport, Dec. 5.—Judge F. D.
Fulkerson has announced his
finding in the liquor appeal from
the County Court, holding that no
election had been held in the First
ward of this city upon the question
of license and revoking the licenses I
issued by the County Court to the !
five Newport saloons on the ground
that the latter court did not have
jurisdiction to issue license with
in the Jacksonport three-mile dis
trict. Unless this judgment be!
superseded the saloons of New
port must close or move without
the limits of the Jacksonport
three-mile district. The license
attorneys have filed a spersedeas
boud and taken an appeal to the j
Supreme Court.
Revolution Imminent
A sure sign of approaching re
volt and serious trouble m your
system is nervousness, sleepless
ness, or stomach upsets. Electric
Bitters will quickly dismember the 1
troublesome causes. It never fails ;
to tone the stomach, regulate the
kidneys and bowels, stimulate the
liver, and clarify the blood. Run j
down systems benefit particularly j
and all the usual attending aches
vanish under its searching and
thorough effectiveness. Electric :
Bitters is only 50c, and that is re
turned if it don't give perfect sat- j
isfaotion. Guaranteed by J. I.
Sturdivant, Druggist.
A Record Breaker.
Proant i t ranssubstant iationisti
cally is supposed to be one of the
longest words in the English lan
guage. It is quite a mouthful if
one happens to be in a hurry.
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heart Fluttering.
Undigested rood and gas in the
stomach, located just below the
heart, presses against it and causes
heart palpitation. When your
heart troubles you in that way
take Herbine for a few days.—
You will soon be nil right. 50c, at
.J. I. Sturdivant’s.
Cotton Spinners Plan Curtailment.
An Associated Press dispatch
from Boston, Mass., under date of
December 5th says:
“That a widespread curtailment
of production by cotton mills in
the United States will be found
necessary during the next few
months, on account of the great
cost of the raw material, is the
opinion of leading mill men in this
city, from which the policy of
many cotton mills in the North is
directed.
“The market for finished mate
rial has been unsatisfactory for
months, and prices have not risen
correspondingly with those of cot
ton. The mills in New England
employ fully 175,000 hands, 65,
00 of whom have had their wages
reduced 10 per cent this fall, and
15,000 additional will be cut with
in the next two weeks.
“A matter of great interest in
New England is the project now
on foot in the Southern States to
bring about a general curtailment.
A meeting of Southern manufac
turers has been called for next
Tuesday, and if a policy of wide
spread curtailment is adopted it
will have much influence on the
future action in large New Eng
land mill centers.
“Most manufacturers have
agreed that the cotton situation is
the most critical for twenty-five
years.”
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It Does The Work!
“1 was much afflicted with sci
atica,” writes Ed C. Nud, Iowa
vilie, Sedgwick Co., Kan., “going
about on crutches and suffering a
deal of pain. 1 was induced to
try Ballard’s Snow Liniment,
which relieved me. I used three
50c bottle. It is the greatest lini
ment 1 ever used; have recommend
ed it to a number of persons; all
express themselves as being bene
fited by it. 1 now walk without
crutches, able to perform a great
deal of light labor on the farm.”
25c, 50c, $1, at J. I. Sturdivant’s.
Killed His Little Sister.
Osceola, Mo., I)cc. (1,— Two
children of W. T. Wilson, living
north of town, were playing with
a target rifle when the son, 11 years
old, accidentally shot and killed
his little sister, 5 years old. The
little girl lived about six hours af
ter the shooting. The bullet en
tered the top of her forehead.
Coughing Spell Caused Death,
“Harry Duckwell, aged 25
years, choked to death early yes
terday morning at his home, in the
presence of his wife and child- He
contracted a slight cold a few days
ago and paid but little attention to
it. Yesterday morning he was
seized with a lit of coughing which
continued for some time. His wife
sent for a physician but before he
could arrive, another coughing
spell came on and Duckwell died
from suffocation.—St. Louis Globe
Democrat, Dec. 1, 1902.” Bal
lard's Horehound Syrup would
have saved him. 25c, 50c and $1.
00, at Sturdivant’s Drug Store.
Timely Mints on Giving,
We should not give people things
they don’t want.
We should avoid giving anybody
the mumps or the chickenpox if
we can help it.
Do not give a friend the cold
shoulder without backed beans and
hot coffee to go with it. j
A man should not give/a lady a
kiss unless he thinks she, would en
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I joy it, except in the base of his
wife and his mother-\i\-law.
When you give castor oil to a
howling infant givV it for its in
trinsic worth and np>t merely as an
evidence of your /regard.
A Costly /Mistake.
Blunders are sometimes very ex
pensive. Occaf >>nally life itself
is the price of ur^/iistake, but you'll
never be wraps if you take Dr.
King’s New Jl a* Pills for dyspep
sia, dizziocyfiefieadache, liver or
bowel troi/ (. They are gentle
yet thoroijr /25c, at Sturdivant’s
Drug St(
Texas Farmers Forming Unions.
j i'iie farmers of Texas are being
unionized at a rapid rate. There
are today some 3,000 unions in
Texas, with a total membership of
40,000 or more, and the organiza
tion is spreading like wildfire. It
began at Emory, Rains county,
about ten months ago, under the
name of the “‘Farmers’ Educat ion
al and Co-operative Union of
America,” and is now established
in nearly every populous county
in the state. About the middle of
February next a meeting will be
held for completing a state organ
ization, and it is believed that the
movement will spread. Former
Governor Hoggs has recently been
advising the farmers to organize,
but it seems that the Rains county
farmers anticipated him by sever
al months, and during the last few
weeks the order has grown amaz
ingly. The purposes of the union
are to buy and sell in bulk, to ed
ucate along agricultural lines and
to eschew politics, but to, never
theless, discuss political economy.
Several north Texas lodges during
the past few days have made ex
tensive purchases of supplies in
carload lots and are greatly en
couraged by these savings.
A Frightened Horse.
Running like mad down the
street dumping the occupants, or
a hundred other accidents, are ev
ery day occurrences. It behooves
everybody to have a reliable Salve
handy, and there’s none as good as
j Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Burns,
cuts, sores, eczema and piles, dis
appear quickly under its soothing
effect. 25c. at Sturdivant’s Drug
Store.
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Fatal Quarrel at a Crap Game.
Walnut Ridge, Dec. 7.—Asber
ry Hawkins, a negro, was shot and
killed at 11:30 last night by Will
Jones, a negro. They quarreled
over a game of craps. Jones went
. away, but soon returned with a
double-barreled shotgun. He fired
and Hawkins fell, being instantly
'killed. Jones is in jail.
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The Bureau of Statistics F>Iaces a
Low Estimate on the Pres
ent Cotton Crop.
Preliminary returns to the Chief
of the Bureau of Statistics of tho
Department of Agriculture at
Washington indicate that the ac
tual growth of cotton in the United
States in the year 1903 will amount
to 9,962,039 bales, of an average
net weight of 490.8 pounds.
The area picked, or to be pick
ed, is estimated at 28,104,860 acres,
a reduction of 892,495 acres, or
3.09 per cent from tho acreage
planted.
The total production of lint cot
ton is estimated at 4,889,796,267
pounds, an average of 174.5 pounds
per acre. The estimated produc
tion by States in pounds of lint
cotton per acre is as follows: Vir
ginia, 180; North Carolina, 210;
South Carolina, 178; Georgia, 158;
Florida, 142; Alabama, 161; Mis
sissippi, 211; Bouisianna, 223; Tex
as, 143; Arkansas, 196; Tennessee,
200; Missouri, 232; Oklahoma, 223;
Indian Territory, 231.
In addition to the reports of its
regular correspondents, the Bu
reau of Statistics lias had the ben
efit of an investigation of the ef
fect of the boll weevil upon the
cotton crop of Texas for 190d,
conducted under the direction of
the Chief of the Division of En
tomology. The results of this in
vestigating have been given duo
weight in the present report, and
the details will be published later
by the Division of Entomology.
Through the courtesy of the of
ficials of the Census Office the de
partment has also had access to
the estimates made by the census
agents as to the amount of cotton
remaining unginned. These esti
mates were turned over to the de
partment too late, however, to re
ceive full consideration, and they
were, therefore, not used in mak
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