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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 17, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 34.
PROCEEDINGS OF COUNTY COURT
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Poll Tax Apportioned to Y'ariou s
School Districts at Rate of
52 Cents to Each Child
At the recent session of the i
county court at Batesville the poll
tax of £4,503.92 was apportioned
among the various school districts,
according to their school popula
tion, at the rate of fifty-two cents
a head, the total number of chil
. dren in the county being ,s,t»61.
The scholastic population of the
Newark district being 55t5, this
district will receive £289.12 from
the poll tax.
The town of Newark was allow-:
•ed£75and the town of Sulphur
Hock £50 from the road funds of
their respective townships for use'
on the streets.
The special road fund of £2,tiS9.
39 raised by the levy of one-half
^/nill in the county,was apportioned
among the various road districts
as follows:
Ashley, $150
barren, $150
Black River, $100
Christian, $so
Kk«rview( $150
ainesboro, $150
Ireenbrler, $150
Jefferson, $15o
White River, $100
Liberty, $2oo
Logan, $150
Stubbs, $100
ijalado, $150
Union, $100
Relief, 15o
Oil Trough, $15o
M agues*, $loo
Nothing from this fund w&sgiv*
«n Ruddell, Big Bottom and Wash*
'ter townships, because these are
wte stronger townships financially,
are able to keep their roads in
fair condition from their own road
tax*,
"Probate court will convene
again on Tuesday, September 4th,
and county court on Wednesday,
September 5th.
AN APPROACMINO WAR
To The Newark Journal:
Charlotte, Aug. 14 -There is a
war approaching—not a war, how
ever, to be fought witli guns
and swords, but a war to be fought
with ballots.
On one side of the lineup you
will find the brewer, the saloon
man, the blind tiger man, the wild
cat distillery man, the drunken
part of our citizenship, the gam
blers, the street loafers and every i
other foul class you can imagine,
arrayed for license and an open
saloon.
It is useless to reason with this
class—they have no reason—you
had as well try to reason a hog out
of a mud hole as to try to reason j
them out ofsjyhisky. A large per
cent of them are open violators of
the law. It is not to them I am |
talking; it is to you who claim to
want to do the right thing. The
above set of whiskeyites are sing
ing “Better have the open saloon
than to have the blind tiger.”
Some of them 11O doubt have run
blind tigers in order to get you to
vote for the open saloon. Tell
them no. you will keep out, the sa
loon by your vote and will work
to have every blind tiger become
a dead tiger. Remember we will
never conquer whiskey by surren
dering to it. ,J. L. Bkown.
NOTICE
All parties are hereby warned
not to buy the stock of John L.
Grosser in the Newark Telephone:
Company, as the same belongs to
me, and if they buy they will do
so at their own risk.
Given this 13th day of August
1906, at b::tO o’clock a. m.
Gko. F. Crosskk. j
COMPLIMENTS MR. OSBORNE
The Bluffs Weekly Times, pub
lished at Bluffs, 111., pays the fol
lowing nice compliment to one of
Independence county’s good citi
zens;
“It is with pleasure that we an
nounce to the many friends of our
former resident, William N. Os
borne, that he lias been nominated
by the Republican party of Inde
pendence county, Arkansas, as
their candidate for the office of
County Clerk, and the fact of the
nomination coming to Mr. Osborne
without solicitation or any effort
on his part and in fact was a sur
prise to him, clearly demonstrates
that the new friends Mr. Osborne
has made in his new home appre- ;
ciate his ability and worth as a cit
izen as his old friends in Illinois
did and we can assure the voters,
Republicans and Democrats of
that county that if elected to the
office they will find in him a care
ful, thorough, able, efficient and
accommodating public servant.
“Mr. Osborne was born, lived
and grew to manhood in our midst
and we all know him favorably
and well as an energetic, honest
young business man, starting out
in life as a poor boy with no capi-1
tal but with a genial, affable dis
position, honesty of purpose and
willingness to work, he soon by
economical methods acquired suffi
cient funds with which to engage
in the mercantile business on his
own account and opened a grocery
store with a small stock and by
his industrious habits and accom
modating honest methods soon en
joyed the fruits of his efforts by
receiving the confidence of the
people which he never betrayed
and was awarded by a liberal pat
ronage from the community until
failing health caused him to close
out his business here and seek a
more suitable climate which was
greatly regretted by all his friends
and patrons.
“Knowing Mr. Osborne as long
and favorably as we have we do
not hesitate to recommend him and
his candidacy to the favorable and
most gracious consideration of his
party in Arkansas, and while we |
are not of the same political faith
as Mr. Osborne and have always
supported Democratic doctrine
and principles, we can recommend
Mr. Osborne to men of all parties
as being a thoroughly honest, con
servative, able, efficient, careful
and accommodating gentlemen
and should he succeed in the elec
tion to the office for which he has
been nominated by his party, we
are firm in our convictions that
the people who will have business
with the office will find him an ef
ticient, accommodating official.' ’
IN MEnORIAn
We, the members of the Pleas
ant Mill Sunday School, tender
our heartfelt sympathy to the fam
ily of our departed brother, F. M.
Fugles, who was a good and faith
ful member of our school. He
was born Jan. IT. ls4^ in Inde
pendence county and lived in the
same county all his life except one
year. He joined the Methodist
church in 18P1 and lived a faith
ful member until his death, July
;U, l'.KM). He was buried in the
Mack’s Chapel cemetery by the
Farmer’s Union of which he was
a good and faithful member.
His family has lost a good com
panion and father and the commun
ity a good citizen.
F. M. Bauxktt |
Wksi.kv Hugo, - Com.
M. W Hou omhk, )
The Batesville Guard says that
Hon. J. C. Yancey is preparing
to move to Seattle, Wash.
Good business house and two
lots on corner of Front and Locust
street for sale cheap. Apply to
Craig Moore.
If your name is not on our
books, we would be pleased to see
it there before the close of l!*Ot>.
Bank of Newark.
Dan Moore arrived home Thurs
day night from a pleasant visit
with his sister, Mrs. J. E. Mur
phy, at Hotchkiss, Colo.
Mrs. AN'm. Isabel left for her
home at Hickman, Ivy., Thursday
night, after a pleasant visit here
with Mrs. «J. T. Barksdale.
John Magness and F. M. Mar
tin left Wednesday night for
points in Hempstead and Little
liiver counties to spend a few days
visiting friends and looking over
the country.
Dr. J. C. Whited of Paroquet
was in town Monday. The doc
tor arrived home Friday from a
pleasant visit to Atoka and other
points in the Indian Territory and
reports the Arkansas people out
there getting along nicely.
For Sale—Grocery store in
Jackson port that will invoice from
£*!uo to £700: average cash sales,
£20 per day and good credit busi
ness. Will sell stock, fixtures,
trade and good will for £550 cash
if taken at once. Craig & Moore.
The Republican county central
committee has made a list of ap
pointments at which Chas. F. Cole,
candidate for state senator, will
address the voters of the county,
beginning today at Salado. He
will be at Newark on Tuesday,
the 2.sth.
J. W. Barnett arrived home
Monday from an extended visit to
his boyhood home in Hardeman
county, Tennessee. He had been
away thirty years, and while many
changes had taken place during
that time, there were still many
of his boyhood friends left to
greet him and he enjoyed his visit
immensely.
Secretary Brown of the Little
Rock Board of Trade has secured
from the United States Land < )fKce
in Little Rock a report in regard
to the government land subject to
to homestead in the Little Rock
district and the information has
been published in the form of a
circular. The report shows that
there are 37,452 acres of govern
ment land in Independence coun
ty subject to homestead.
\Y. T. Dugger, a former resi
dent of this community, who has
spent the past live years in Texas,
arrived with his family Tuesday
and will again become a citizen of
Independence county. He was in
Upshur county and says the boll
weevils are playing havoc with
the cotton throughout that portion
| of the state. There are several
other families out there who went
from this county and Mr. Dugger
j says that it is very probable that
, they will all return.
LUTHER WILSON DEAD
Luther Wilson, aged 18, son of
Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Wilson, died
at their h6me just west of town
Monday, after an illness of several
days from typhoid fever.
He was a most excellent young
man and had many friends
througout the community who
deeply sympathize with ■♦tar* be
reaved family. He was in school
here, where he was a general fav
orite with both teachers anti pupils,
when stricken with the fatal mal
ady. Had he lived he would have
finished the high school course and
graduated with honors at the close
of the present term of school.
The funeral took place Tuesday
at Macedonia attended by a large
number of friends, the school hav
ing closed out of respect to the
deceased and the teachers and pu
pils attended in a body.
FOR SALE
I have for sale in Newark one;
block of land in front of the Meth-!
odist church with good eight-room,
two story house and two small
houses that rent for £5 each per
month; splendid barn and smoke
house, good garden, young orchard
and fine well of water; ail fenced.
All nearly new and well finished.
Also a half interest in good busi
ness house on south side Front
i street and two brick business hous
es in heart of town, now occupied
by the Newark Grocer Company
and Hawthorne’s hardware store.
I get from $75 to $100 rent per
month from this property, and
live on some of it too, thereby
paying no rent. This is a good in
vestment. Everything insured in
good strong companies. Reason
for selling is that I want to leave.
R. K. McHenry.
OIL TROUGH TINKLINGS.
To The Newark Journal:
Oil Trough, Aug 13.—Grandma
Outlaw, while walking around in ■
the house, fell in such a manner '
a* to severely hurt her side and j
back, and has not been able to be
up since.
.Tames Stephens and family have
.just returned from a visit with rel
atives in Missouri.
Mrs. ,J. 1. West of Little Rock
! is here this week looking after her
' farming interests.
Lawrence Ellison and family
I visited home folks ne»r Rosie the
first of the week.
Laborn Nichols of Cave City is
here doing some repair work on
the cotton gins.
J. C. McGuire was down from
Batesville on business the tirst of
the week.
The Oil Trough (iin Co. is mak
ing preparations for the fall gin
ning.
Joe .Tones of Tupelo has been
| visiting relatives here this week.
W. (). Moore's new store build
ing will be completed this week.
At this writing, Monday, we
have a ten-foot rise in the river.
Some nice work is being done
' on the public roads this week.
K. C. Adams went to Newark
Saturday on business.
j Oscar Fisher’s new residence is
nearing completion.
There is no complaint now about
the scarcity of rain.
Crops were never better, es
pecially coru.
RANEY QUITS SENATORIAL RACE
Secretary of State Says Hinkle is
Nominee and Raney With
draws From Contest
The fight for the senatorial toga
in this district has now narrowed
[down to Hinkle, Kdmondson and
; Cole, a telephone message having
been received from Mr. Raney
yesterday morning stating that he
had withdrawn from the contest
since Secretary of State Ludwig
had assumed authority to place
Mr. Hinkle on the ticket as the
I >emocratic nominee.
The recent senatorial conventio»
declared that it was impossible to
determine who was the nominee,
and an effort was made to have the
secretary of the state place Hin
kle, Raney and Kdmondson all oa
the ticket merely a- Democrats.
Mr. Hinkle, however, carried the
matter before Mr. Ludwig and
succeeded in getting Mr. Ludwig
to place him on the ticket as the
regular nominee. Mr. Raney is
out of the race and will make a
formal statement of withdraw.-l
within a few days.
CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES.
To The Newark Journal:
Charlotte. Aug. 14.—Mr. and
Mr*. S. R. Tunstall and their little
daughter. Miss Willie of Walnut
Ridge are visiting Mr. Jernigr.n
and family this week.
Mr. and Mrs. .lernigan had a
re-union and birthday dinner, Mr.
.lernigan being 55* years old and
Mrs. .lernigan 53.
Luther Northern of Sulphur
Rock was visiting Nick Nuckolls
and family Saturday and Sunday.
Some of the people from here
attended the picnic at Cord Satur
day and report a nice time.
Middleton Kenedy who ha.s been
home from Little Rock on a visit
returned Monday.
Miss Wilma Lane, who has been
sick, we are glad to say, is some
better.
Miss Laura Kent entertained
her friends at her home Saturday
night.
Will Baker returned home from
Little Rock Friday.
We have been having some rain,
in this vicinity.
Owen Waldon went to Bates
ville Monday.
i Aunt Siene Hensley is still on.
i the sick list.
! Plenty of rain and some to
j spare.
FREIGHT WRECK
i
\
The Red Ball freight was wreck
ed near Mooretield about 2 o'clock
Monday morning and three car*
went in the ditch, a earof peanuts,
a car of lumber and an empty coal
car. The wreck was caused by
spreading rails, and the track was.
pretty badly damaged, but fortu
nately no one was injured. AIL
trains were delayed several hours,
and the west-bound passenger laid
over here until noon waiting for
the wreck to be cleared and the
track repaired.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Having decided to remove front
the township, I shall withdraw
from the race for justice of the
peace and in so doing 1 desire to
thank the people for thoir liberal
support in nominating me.
I R. K. McHenry*