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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, November 16, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 47.
WEEKS DOINGS AT SULPHUR ROCK
hort Items of Interest Picked Up
at the Metropolis of White
River Township.
Sulphur Rock Nov. 11*. Dr. J.
M. Byrura and mil.v \vl*r have
he^u visiting her-' i t>r some time
left Sunday fo their home at
Asher, Oklahou
Misses Vela Jer.bgan and Vale
na Hogue spent .Saturday night
and Sunday with Miss Vela's par
ents near t Charlotte.
Rev. C. b\ Hiv«-ly left Tuesday
for BetheMa and othtf points and
will be away several weeks.
Ras Baker was over from Dota
Monday trading and left a bale of
cotton in tiie warehouse.
G. G. llugg of Charlotte was
in town Tuesday with beef and
sweet potatoes to sell.
Mr. an^| Mrs. Will HartsBeld of
Newark spent Sunday with rela
tives at this place.
Miss Ola Jernigan who is teach
ing at Batesvilie spent Sunday
with home folks.
.John Woods the saw mill man
went to Batesville Saturday on
business.
.lack By rum and Bud Edwards
of Charlotte were trading in town
Tuesday.
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Rev. \V. F. Way man preached
at the M. E Church Sunday
night.
Burton I’ascoe of Batesville vis
ited a friend here Saturday night.
Clint Burket of Missouri is vis
iting relatives here this week.
Mrs. Maud xVllen of Newark
was visiting here Saturday.
Charlie Wright is at Batesville
this week attending court.
Mrs. Hugh Wright has been on
the sick list tins week.
Our telephone system is work
ing Q. Iv. now.
The busiest place in town is' T.
C. Knox’s.
CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES
Charlotte, Nov. 13.-Mrs. Avon
ia Yates and Mrs. Rebecca Moore
visited Mrs. J. K. Rawlings at
Sulphur Rock Thursday.
Mrs. Lizzie Churchill and daugh
ters, Misses Esther and Jimmie
attended church at Walnut Grove
Sunday.
There will be a singing at this
place on the fourth Sunday in this
month. Everybody come.
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Prof. J. K. RawliDgs of Sul
phur Rock was visiting friends
here Sunday.
Rev. Storey of Jessup visited
the family of Peter Byrum Sun
day night.
Rev. J- L. Brown will preach
at this place next Sunday night.
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AUCTION SALE
1 will sell at public auction
t'ht highest bidder for cash
hand, on Saturday, November
1906, all the furniture, such
bedsteads, springs, dressers, etc.,
used in the Hotel Magness. This
furniture is all nearly new and in
good condition. Sale will begin
hi forenoon and eontinxe until the
nropert.\ is all sold.
Mrs. J. P. Magness.
URENNEN LOSES SUIT
The case of Morg Drennen of
this city, executor of the estate ot
Win. Prince, deceased, vs J. S.
tjtowman of New York which oc
copied several days in circuit court
at Batesville this week, was con
cluded Tuesday morning, when
the jury returned a verdict in fa
vor of the defendant.
The suit was for $5,000 dam
ages alleged to have resulted to
the Prince farm over in the bot
tom by the construction of a levee
on the Stowmau place.
PROMINENT CITIZEN DEAD
Maj. B.F. Busby Passed Away at His
Home in This City Saturday
Maj. B. F. Busby died at his
home on the east side of town ear
ly Saturday im rning, after an ill
ness of seve, days from pneu
monia.
Major Bu »\ came here with
his family fs n Lonoke county a
| few years ago ,md had made many
friends. He e • ' 66 years old and
: was a high type of the old time
Southern gent ;■ man; kind, hos
I tillable and gen rous, and wss lik
t'-d by all who knew him.
He is survived by a widow and
j two children, a son and a daugh
ter. B. F. Busby, Jr., of Alexan
dria, La., and Mrs. Boisclair, of
Lyons, Miss. The remains were
I taken to the old home in Jefferson
county, near Altheiraer, for bur
ial.
WORK ON STATE CAPITOL
Little Rock, \ov. 14.—Work
ion the new state eapitol is now
progressing nicely. A force of
150 men. the largest crew that has
been employed in the work within
: the past nine months, are now en
j gaged on the ornamental and oth
er work on the building. The
structure will be under roof with
in the next thirty days. The con
tractors estimate by the first of
.January two stories of the build
ing will have been floored and that
three-fourths of the ornamental
work on the interior will have
been finished. All the heating
ducts have been installed and
work has been started on the in
stallation of the plumbing appara
tus.
CARL) OF THANKS
We desire to express our sin
cere thanks to the friends who so
kindly assisted us in administer
ing to the wants and comforts of
our beloved husband and father
! during his recent fatal illness.
I Words fail to convey our gratitude
and we pray that Heaven’s rich
est blessings may reward you.
Mrs. B. F. Busby,
B. F. Bushy, Jr.,
Mrs. Boisclair,
Mrs. Lancaster.
COTTON RECEIPTS
Up to noon yesterday there had
> been a total of 1,0U2 bales of cot
| ton bought in Newark this sea
'son. It was selling yesterday at
hi cents.
Just a day later than this last
year there had been 1647 bales sold
here and the price at that time was
103 cents.
SHOT FROM AMBUSH
Oscar Lloyd was shot and killed
1 Saturday night near Boonville.
lie and his cousin, Ed Lloyd, who
; it is alleged was preparing to elope
! with the daughter of W. A. Smith,
were riding along the road and
when nearing the Smith residence
they were tired upon from am
i bush and Oscar Lloyd was killed.
Jesse Leonard, the young1 man
j from Oil Trough who was stabbed
by Noah Harris during a difficulty
I at the Newport ferry a few days
ago, died Friday night at New
port.
It is rumored that a new time
card will go into effect on the Iron
Mountain road next Sunday, but
what changes, if any, that will be
made on the White River branch
is not known at this time.
Miss Eley Sims, a passenger on
the local going down Monday, was
injured by a rock thrown through
the car window about two miles
this side of Diaz. A negro wom
an who was picking cotton neai'
the track is said to have thrown
the stone.
W. H. Lane of Newby, 1. T„
sends The Journal a newspaper
clipping giving the details of the
murder of Lucian Johnson, who
was well known in Newark. He
was shot and instantly killed while
standing in the door at his home
near Bristow, I. T., by Clarence
Henry, a Mexican who had been
picking cotton for Johnson.
John Minord and George Ken
j drick, two timbermen giving their
home as Batesville, were ejected
from the White River passenger
train Monday morning near New
port after engaging in a tight in
the smoker of the train, which re
sulted in two broken windows and
two seats being overturned.
E. W. Owen of Gassville has
spent a few days here this week
trying to organize a company to
| put in a canning factory. A con
siderable amount of stock has been
subscribed and it is thought there
will be no difficulty in securing
the balance of the necessary stock.
Mr. Owen will address the farm
ers on the subject here Saturday
afternoon, •
\Y. F. Tracy, a prominent citi
zen of the Oil Trough neighbor
hood, died at hi* home near the
head of the bottom Saturday night
from pneumonia. lie was about
150 years old and was born and
! raised in the county. He was en
gaged in the mercantile business,
having recently purchased the
store formerly owned by Griffith
& Morrow of this city. He was a
good citizen and had many friends.
He leaves a wife and an adopted
son.
Road Overseer N. M. Wilson
requests The Journal to say that
the law requires persons who are
warned to work on the public
' roads to either report in person to
j perform their duty or pay one dol
| lar a day, and if they do not re
port for duty the money is due
and payable on the date they are
warned to appear. He proposes
j hereafter to follow the law strictly
! and those who do not comply with
I the same will be dealt with accord
ingly. <
UNUSUAL ACCIDENT
Paragould, Nov. 14.—Harvey
' Forsythe, a prominent teacher o:
| this county, accidentally cut ai
artery in his neck while killing
hogs at Gainsville. The knife
slipped and severed the ^artery.
He would have bled to death but
that with much presence of mind
he pressed his thumb into the
| wound until a physician arrived.
; He is still living, but is very weak
; from loss of blood and is uncon
| scious. —
KILLING AT BLACK ROCK
Prominent Citizen Shot and Killed
Thursday by Mrs. Gay Shales
Alfred Judkins, a prominent
citizen of Black Rock was shot and !
almost instantly killed at that
place Thursday of last week b.\
Mrs. Gay Shales.
The killing of Judkins, owing:;
to his prominence in the county, is
much talked of in Lawrence conn
ty. It seems that ill feeling: had
been engendered between Judkins
and the Shales family. Judkins’
I on Thursday wei^t to the Shales
home and raised a disturbance with
the children in the yard, after
which he started toward the house
and was warned by Mrs. ^Shales
not to enter. He persisted, it is
said, and in his attempt to "enter
’the door Mrs. Shales fired a gun,
! the ball taking effect in the region
of the heart. Judkins started
home, but only walked two or
three blocks, when he fell from
exhaustion. He was carried home
and only lived about half an hour.
Mrs. Shales surrendered to
Sheriff Surridge/since which time
1 she has been guarded, awaiting
her preliminary trial, which was
to be held at Black Rock yester
day.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Parties to whom we may owe
hills of any kind will please pre
sent the same within the next few
days and we will pay them, and
all parties who owe us are request
ed to call and settle their accounts
promptly as we expect to leave in
a short time. Would suggest also
that those who desire to purchase
bees, honey or beekeepers sup
plies that they do so before we go
away, and thus save additional ex
pense of freight or expresscharges.
There is nothing that pays so well,
according to the trouble and
amount invested, as beekeeping,
and as we handle only the very
best strain of pure Italian bees
you will have no better opportun
ity to engage in a paying business
at so small cost as now.
Thanking the people of the com
munit.v for their liberal patronage
during our stay in your midst, 1
am respectfully,
ML ,1. Littlkfihi.d.
flAGNESS MUSINGS.
Madness, Nov. 14. George
Boillott went to Carthage, Mo.,
on this morning’s passenger.
l>r. Wiley Hodges of Sulphur
Hock was in town Tuesday.
Dr. Huddleston of Sulphur
; Rock was in town Tuesday.
Dr. M. B. Owens went to Au
vergne today on business.
Health is good at this writing.
VES HARPER HANGED
Yes Harper was hanged at
Illy the vi lie at *> o’clock Monday
evening for the murder of Ulic
Knight, his father-in-law, onAgu
' uKt 10, 1W)5, near Clear Lake,
l j Mississippi county.
THE COUNTRY'S BIG CORN CROP
Figures Just Issued Shows the
Year’s Corn Crop is Worth
Over Billion Dollars
Figures just, issued by the offi
cials of the iSanta Fo railroad re
garding the corn crop of the Unit
ed States are attracting unusual
attention everywhere because of
their proportions and the ulti
mate relation of the crop to the
general prospet ity of the country.
The year's crop is estimated at
2.730,000,000 bushels. Weighed it
would amount to HO,000,000 tons.
If it were shucked and'thrown in
piles it would make seventy six
piles each as high and as broad a*
the great pyramids of Egypt. If
shelled and sent to elevators it
would tax the utmost capacity of
forty-six centers of distribution
each as great as Chicago.
According to me estimate tner®
is enough corn to supply every
living person in the world with
two bushels. Even after ibis
country’s vast consumption hu»
been fully provided for there wilf
be enough left to give every per
son in Russia’s vast empire one
bushel. If the present crop were
put into cars, each containing 1,
000 bushels the corn would require
80,000 trains of thirty cars each to
carry it to market. Putting two
trains to the mile, these trains of
corn would stretch fifteen times
across the continent or almost
twice around the earth at any par
allel passing through the United
States.
At the present market prices
this crop would be worth $1,310,
400,000. Allowing a decline of
10 cents a bushel in the price
when the market becomes glutted,
the value of the crop at the decline
would be $1,092,000,000, an
amount big enough, if equally dis
tributed to give every man, wom
an and child in the United States.
$13.05.
The figures compiled by the
Santa Fe officials, if correct, show
an increase of 100,000,000 bushels
in this year’s crop over the gov
ernment report on the crop of
1000. In 1000 there were 2,666
440,279 bushels, an increase of 25.6
per cent over the corn crop of ten
years before. The 1890 crop was
an increase over the crop of ten
years before, however. In 189ft
the crop was 2,122,627.547, while
in 1880 it was 1,754,591,676. In
1870 the crop was 760,944,549, in
1860, 838,792,742 and in 1850 ife
was 592,071,104.
ARKANSAS COMING TO FRONT
For the past two decades twenty
states in the Union have raised
more than 90 per cent of the corn
crop and it is probable these same
states raised the usual per cent for
the present year. Arkansas,
which has always been toward tho
last of this list, will come to tho
front this year in increased acre
age and in the grade of the crop.
In 1900 the first five states in corn
production were Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri.
The next rive states in order of
production were Indiana, Ohio,,
Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Following these in order of pro
duction were Wisconsin, Pennsyl
vania, Minnesota, Michigan, Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Virginia and Alabama. Those
states have for two decades pro
duced more than 90 per cent of tha
corn crop.
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