Tiie Newark Journal
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Published In The Famous White River Country, where Alfalfa is King
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, September 3, 1909
Vol. 9. No. 21
SULPHUR ROCK SKETCHES
Items of Interest From the hub
of White River Township
Mrs. W. B. Nothern moved to
Batesviile Wednesday.
Mrs. Lindsey of Charlotte spent
Wednesday here, the guest of Mrs.
W. F. Way man.
W. B. Knight and two little
daughters, Ona and Gertrude,went
to Cushman Tuesday.
J. U. Martin ginned his first
bale of cotton for the season Mon
day. It was brought in by Price
Sammons.
Mrs. Jeff Morgan and daughter,
MissSallie, of Salado, were in town
Tuesday, making preparations to
move here.
Squire W. T. Anderson made a
business trip to Creswell and Cali
co Rock Monday, and bought two
cars of lumber.
J. P. Sink is having some im
provements made on his residence.
A Mr. Lowry, of Jackson county,
is doing the work.
Prof. O. T. Jernigan began a
seven months school at Charlotte
Monday, and moved his family
there Wednesday.
Dr. and Mrs. T. A. Bevens re
turned Sunday from Quitman,
where they had been for two weeks
attending their son, Elam, who
died Friday of typhoid fever.
PRIZES FOR CORN AND MAY
Special premiums for corn and
hay are announced by the Tri
State Fair for its second annual
exhibition at Memphis, Tenn.,
Sept. 2Sth-Oet. 9th. The two
crops are as important to the South
as cotton, and should, in a short
while, bring thousands to the
pockets of Southern farm owners.
Prizes for corn clubs aud for hay j
will be a feature, and some liberal
premiums are offered.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
County Clerk Sims has issued
the following marriage license dur
ing the past week.
R. M. Dobbs, 42, of Newport,
to Mrs. Ilettie Hoket, 25, of Hazel
Grove.
L. H. Smith, 48, to Mrs. Mary
Bates, 43, both of Sandtown.
COULDN’T COMMIT SUICIDE
Despondency over the discour
aging crop prospects caused an
Oklahoma man to attempt suicide
a few days ago. He went to the
“tore and bought a rope, a can of
oil, a box of matches, a quantity
of arsenic and a revolver. He
went to the river, got in a boat
and paddled down to where a good
strong. limb hung out over the
water. He got up in the boat
and tied one end of the rope to
the limb and the other end around
his neck. He then swallowed the
arsenic, saturated his clothing
with oil and set them on fire, held
the revolver near his head and
pulled the trigger. But the bullet
glanced and cut the rope just above
his head and he fell kerwallop into
the river. The water put out the i
fire, and he got strangled and:
coughed up the arsenic. The water
was not deep enough to drown
him, so he waded out and declared
himself a candidate for the legis-;
lature on the populist ticket.
THOUSAND DOLLAR PRIZE
Opportunity For Some Arkansas
Boy to Win Distinction
An unusually attractive prize of
a $1000 loving cup is offered by
the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flkae
Co. to be awarded at the National
Corn Show in Omaha this winter. |
The prize-winning exhibits of the I
state contests of the Boy’s Corn
Clubs held in connection with the
Arkansas State Fair, October 7 to
13, at Hot Springs, will be for- j
warded to the National Exposition
and it is possible that this splen
did prize may be awarded to some
Arkansas boy.
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTICE
I desire to visit and preach at
each church in the Independence
Baptist Association this year, and
will he at the following places on
the dates given. If you desire ser
vices arrange accordingly.
Newark, Monday night, Sep
tember 6; Spring Creek, Tuesday
night, September 7; Cushman,
Wednesday night, September 8;
Sulphur Rock, Thursday night,
September 9.
This completes the round to all
the churches in the Association.
G. L. Fink, Missonary.
FINE FARn FOR SALE
Fine Oil Trough farm near
Dunnington for sale at a bargain.
185 acres; 140 acres in cultivation;
three houses, two barns and all
improvements good. Will pay 12
per cent on investment in rent.
See or write White River Land &
Investment Co., Newark, Ark.
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PURPOSES OF A BANK
The purpose of a bank is to be useful
and helpful to a community; to facilitate
business by the exchange and extension of
credits, thereby making it possible to carry
on a vast amount of business with a com
paratively small amount of actual cash.
It is wrong to hoard money and bury
it in some old cellar and thereby take it
entirely out of circulation.
Bring it to this bank, where it will be
much safer and will help to earn you more
money, and yet be at your command.
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS RANK
Geo. L. Green, President
Leslie R. Acton, Cashier
ARKANSAS BEATS KLONDYKE
Fortunes Picked Up in Pearls in
. This Part of the State
It is not only the diamond fields
of Pike county that furnish for
tunes ready to he picked up be
tween the thumb and forefinger.
Arkansas pearls, some of great
value, have been found in this sec
tion of the state this year.
About the luckiest of all was a
negro named Massey, who found a
pearl in White river near New
port which he sold to a Memphis
buyer for $4,000.
Near Corning, in Black river,
J. B. Bolton found a pearl which
he sold for $2,500. In the same
vicinity George Cobb and George
Hensley found valuable pearls
which they readily sold at good
prices.
Near Pocahontas, Capt. Wibb
Connor took an 80-grain pearl
from Current river, the value of
which was $1,000. Abe Keel
found a pearl in Black river near
Pocahontas which he sold for $1,
000. Three other fine pearls of
considerable value have been found
near Pocahontas this summer.
Several small gems were found
in Black river near Black Rock
during the summer.
Near Bald Knob, A. M. Whit
low found a pearl which he sold
for $200.
All these pearls have been found
in North Arkansas, in this imme
diate section of the state, and does
not include the several hundred
small pearls that have been found
and sold at prices ranging from a
few dollars up to one hundred.
There seems to be an irresistable
charm about the work of pearl
fishing, which draws men from all
walks of life to the river banks.
Even when no valuable gems are
found, the persistent hunter gen
erally cleans up at least a fair sal
ary for his time through the find
ing and marketing of smaller
pearls.
The government has recently
recognized the importance of the
pearl-fishing industry, and it is
said that steps will be taken to
propagate the industry in this sec
tion of the state.
PLEASANT CAflP HUNT
Will and Bone Lane, James and
Heather Laster, Willie Hearing,
James and Lige Jackson spent a
few days last week on a camp hunt
on Grassy Slough south of White
river and report a jolly good time.
In a squirrel killing contest the
members of the party have the fol
lowing number of squirrels to their
credit: Will Lane, 1; Will Dear
ing, 5; Bone Lane, 11; Lige Jack
son, 14; Heather Laster, 15; James
Jackson, 33. James Laster pre
ferred fishing and landed seven of
the finny tribe.
James Laster and Will Lane
performed the culinary duties and
it goes without saying that the
party was well fed.
COUNTY UNION HEETING
The Independence County Farm
ers Union will meet at Sharp
Methodist church three-fourths of
a mile southeast of Center Hall, on
the first Friday and Saturday in
September, 1909. All locals are
requested to send a full delegation
as much business of importance
will come before this meeting; also
the election of officers for the en
suing year.
T. L. Suebekth, Sec.
HAGNIFICENT PARADE
It is said that the grand parade
on opening day of the Arkansas
State Fair will be the most mag
nificent spectacle of the kind ever
witnessed in the South.
See The Journal for job printing.
SCHOOL TAX PAYS ITSELF
Fertile Lands of no Value Where
Ignorance Prevails
Probably in every community
which votes a local tax for schools,
land values in a very few years
advance to double the amount of,
school-tax money voted. And
this is but one of a hundred ways
in which better schools pay for
themselves many times over.
The whole life of the communi
ty is richer and tiner wherever
there is a good school at its cen
ter; the citizens feel a pride in it
such as they never felt before, and
everything in the neighborhood
begins to catch step with the new
standard of progress thus set up.
It is not the fertility of land
alone that makes it valuable; it is
the intelligence of the community
in which it is situated.
Land in Africa today is more
fertile than the average Southern
farmer ever saw, but it is practi
ftlly worthless because of an ignor
ant population, while land in Bel
gium, originally little more than a
sand-waste, has become intensely
valuable by reason of the presence j
of an intelligent population, and
intensely fertile by reason of the
wise methods of cultivation prac
ticed by these intelligent farmers. I
Kven if a man has no boy or
girl to send, the school tax invest
ment is a good one for any prop
erty owner because of the increase
in values that always result from
the presence of an intelligent cit
zenship.—Southern Farm Gazette.
COTTON IN BAD CONDITION
Memphis, Aug. 39.—The report
of the National Ginners’ Associa
tion, made public this afternoon,
^ives the condition of cotton up to
and including August 24 as 64.1
per cent.
“This is the lowest condition in
a number of .years,” the report
says, “and indicates a crop of
about 10,500,000 bales. An early
frost would reduce these figures
somewhat, and a late frost would
probably increase the total yield
to 11,000,000 bales.”
The report by states follows:
Alabama, 64; Arkansas, 59; Flori
da, 76; Georgia, 74; Louisiana, 54;
Mississippi, 62; Missouri, 80;
North Carlonia, 75; Oklahoma, 58;
South Carolina. 76; Tennessee, 75;
Texas, 57.
LITTLE ROCK COTTON REPORT
The annual cotton statement of
the Little Rock Board of Trade
for the season of 1908-1909, which
ended Tuesday has been compiled
and printed. The total receipts for
the year were 271,756, against 177,
517 bales of the year before. The ;
cotton had a value of $12,114,490,1
against $9,675,108 a year ago. The
increase in the number of bales re
ceived amounted to 94,239 and the |
gain in money was $2,439,382. The
average price of middling cotton
for the season was 10 1-16 cents,
against 10 3-4 a year ago.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our thanks
and appreciation to our friends for
their kindness and attention dur
ing the brief illness and death of
our dear child, Paul Knox.
May the richest blessings of our
Heavenly Father, who is able to
abundantly reward, rest upon you
all. Mr. and Mks. Fred Martin. 1
CHARLOTTE CIPHERS
Prof. J. G. Albright of Cave
City was here Tuesday.
Quite a large crowd attended
the singing here Sunday.
Joe Provence of Maxville visit
ed relatives here last week.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Curt
Stoner, on the 30th, a fine boy.
Several of the young people at
tended church at Convenience Sun
day night.
Rev. Curry began a series of
meetings at the Christian church
here Friday night.
Misses Gun/.ila Wilson and
Maude Henderson of Newark are
visiting friends here this week.
R. R Reeves and daughter, Miss
Jessie, of Newark, visited the
former’s daughter, Mrs. Joe Kent,
Sunday and Monday.
Richard Kennedy, who has a
position at Grand Glaize, came up
Sunday to attend the singing and
visit relatives a few days.
Mrs. Callie Baker, and children
who have been visiting relatives
here for some time, left Monday
for their home at Edna, Texas.
WOMAN DROWNS IN RIVER
Black Rock Lady Loses her Life
While in Bathing
Black Rock, Aug. 25).—Mrs.
Florence Thomas of this place was
drcHltfied this afternoon in the
Black River, about two miles
above Clover Bend. Mrs. Peterson
who was with her, came very near
drowning, but was rescued. After
the rescue she was resuscitated
with difficulty.
As far as can be learned here,
a party of women went in bath
ing in the river, and Mrs. Tomas
and Mrs. Peterson got in water far
beyond their depth. Mrs. Peter
son was rescued but Mrs. Thomas
drowned before the eyes of her
terrified and helpless companions.
Mrs. Thomas managed the cot
tage hotel here. Her husband
lives at Jonesboro. She was 25
years of age and is survived by
her husband and two little girls.
HODGES NOT A CANDIDATE
Deputy County Clerk Armie
Hodges has announced that he will
not be a candidate for county
clerk in the coming primary. He
has held the position of deputy un
der Clerk Sims for some time and
has performed the d uties so well
that many of his friends have urg-1
ed him to enter the race for clerk
to succeed Mr. Sims, who is now
serving his second term and will
not be a candidate for re-election.
Mr. Hodges made the race for cir
cuit clerk two years ago, and will
probably be a candidate to succeed
Circuit Clerk Bevens two years j
hence.
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Program For Heeting to be Held
at Batesville Sept. 11
The Independence County
Teacher*’ Association will meet at
Batesville, on Saturday, Septem
ber 11, 1909. It is expected that
every teacher will be.present. The
following program has been ar
ranged.
School Improvement—Sidney
Wells.
Six Reasons Why I Teach School
—Miss Ella Albright and Miss
Virginia l’eden.
Why Arkansas Needs Compul
sory School Law—J. T. Powell
and (). T. Richardson.
How to Pacify the Opposing
Elements of a Rural School—B. F.
Cash and Miss Jessamine Perrin.
Adaptability of the Teacher—
Frank Albright and T. G. Hardin.
Methods of Punishment—Miss
Ray Powell and J. K. Rawlings.
Self Goverment of Pupils—W.
T. Jernigan and Arthur Porter.
Oration—Esse Esteb.
Reasons For and Against Award
ing Prizes—W. E. Dodd and Miss
Margia Love.
The regular quarterly examina
tion will be held at Batesville on
Thursday and Friday, September
16 and 17, 1909.
CHILD DIES SUDDENLY
Paul Knox Martin, the two year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred #
Martin, died very suddenly at
their home at Sulphur Rock on
Thursday of last week.
The little fellow was sitting on
the floor eating some candy when
his mother heard him make a pe
culiar noise and upon reaching him
found him gasping for breath.
She telephoned for a physician,
but the little one was dead when
the physical) arrived. The cause of
death is not known, but it is sup
posed that it was either from chok
ing or poisoning.
The remains were buried Satur
day at Sulphur Rock.
The little fellow was Mr. and
Mrs. Martin’s only child, and
their many friends deeply sympa
thize with them in their sad be
reavement.
LADIES’ COLLARS AND BELTS
I have just received a complete
assortment of Ladies’ Collars and
Belts in all the new and latest
styles and strictly up-to-date in
every respect. Ladies invited to
call and see them. R. L. Goad.
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