The Newark Journal.
Published In The famous white River Country. Where Alfalfa is kino
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, December 1, 1911
Vol. 11, No. 34
BIG SCHOOL MEETING
Program For Directors and Teach
ers Meeting to be Held at Bates
ville December 9th
There will be a meeting of the
school directors and teachers of
Independence county in the circuit
court room at Batesvilleon Satur
day December 9, which should be
attended by every teacher and
director in the county.
There is a good school interest
throughout the country, and our
schools are the superior of those
of many counties, but there is still
room for improvement. A feature
of the meeting will be an address
by State Superintendent Geo. B.
Cook, of Little Rock, whose untir
ing efforts to build up the schools
of the state are bearing good fruit.
The following program has been
arranged for the meeting.
Opening address.—Hon. J. C.
Stroud.
Co-operation of Directors and
Teachers.—W. E. Dodd.
The Director and the young
teacher.—Victor Wade.
Some things we may do to better
our schools.—T. E. Hickmon.
Consolidation of small districts.
—J. B. Stewart.
Round Table Discussion.—Direc
tors and Teachers.
Noon.
1:30. Address by Hon. Geo. B.
Cook, state superintendent of pub
lic instruction.
FINISHING YEAR’S WORK
The White River Annual Con
ference of the M. E. Church, South,
will meet at Blytheville on next
Wednesday, the 6th. Rev. A. H.
Dulaney, pastor of the church
here, is closing up the year’s work
and will leave for the conference
early next week. Rev. Dulaney
has done good work since coming
here a short time ago, and consid
ering the adverse conditions under
which he found tne work, will
have a good report to make to the
conference. _ _
MRS. MAXWELL DEAD
Mrs. Mary Maxwell aged 94,
died atthe home of her son-in-law S.
B. Wycough, in Batesville Monday
night, after a short illness from
pneumonia.
NELSON STILL IN JAIL
Application was made before
Judge Jeffery Tuesday for a re
duction in the amount of the bond
of Joe Nelson of Cushman who is
in jail at Batesville on a charge of
carnal abuse. Nelson was recent
ly bound over to the grand jury
by Justice Bonham of Cushman in
the sum of $1500. He has been
unable to make bond and is in jail.
Judge Jeffery refused to grant
any reduction of bail.
SAYS SEND TEACHERS
Supt. Cook Addresses Letter to!
Directors Urging Attendance
of Teachers at Association
State Superintendent Geo. B.
Cook is using every effort to cre
ate a greater interest in the annual
teachers meeting to be held in
Little Rock during the Christmas
holidays, and has addressed the
following letter to the school di
rectors of the state:
“Following the well established
precedent in the State Department
of Public Instruction, I urge you
to encourage the teachers of your
respective schools to attend the
Arkansas State Teachers’ Associa
tion, Little Rock, December 27, 28
and 29.
“I know of no other means
whereby your teachers can be so
greatly benefited and bring back
to the school room so much inspir
ation as will surely result from at
tending the annual session of our
State Teachers’ Association.
“Wherever the funds will per
mit it, I recomend that all teachers,
who will attend the State meeting,
join the Association and partici
pate in the deliberations, be allow
ed their regular salary for the
week in which the Association is
held.
“Among the speakers on the'
program this year are men whose
messages are well worth hearing.
Not only the teachers, but any
citizens engaged in any other vo
cation, who may attend the ses
sions of the State Teachers’ Asso
ciation will be well repaid.
“A very cordial invitation is ex
tended to the members of School
Boards to attend the teachers’ i
meeting. There will be many
features of direct interest and a
genuine welcome to all directors
who will attend.”
NOTICE TO HUNTERS’
Notice is hereby given that
hunting on my land is forbidden,
j and all hunters are notified to keep
: off. W. C. Sandeks.
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SENATORIAL BOQUETS
Davis and Brundidge Toss a Few
to Each Other Just to Keep
Things Lively
The most determined effort of
recent years to break the hitherto
impregnable power of Senator Jeff
Davis will be given an impetus at
Beebe next Saturday, Dec. 2, when
former Congressman S. Brundidge
meets Senator Davis in joint de
bate. This is the first of a series;
of four joint speeches proposed by
Senator Davis and agreed to by
Mr. Brundidge. Senator Davis j
has positively refused to make
more joint speeches, claiming that
there is no issue between them
except that each wants the office.
Mr. Brundidge retorts that if that
were the only thing to be consid
ered, both should retire and let
some one run who would have a
higher conception of the duties of
the high office.
Senator Davis, whose past cam
paigns have not been noted for
their mildness, insists that this
campaign must be free from per
sonal abuse and billingsgate, to
which his opponent agrees, thus
giving promise that it will be on a
higher plane than could have been
expected a few years ago. Mr.
Brundidge, however, fearing that
“not all is gold that glitters,” re
serves the right to exercise his
own judgment as to the proper
method of meeting such conditions
should they arise in the campaign.
The speech at Beebe on Satur
day will be followed by another at
Morrilton Monday, after which, on
Tuesday and Wednesday, the po
litical gladiators will meet in the
arena at Russellvile, Senator Davis
old home, and Fort Smith, where
it is known that the Davis stock is
quoted far below par. Senator
Davis says that affairs of state
will call him to Washington for
the meeting of congress, and he
does not think any good can be
accomplished by a series of politi
cal harangues. Mr. Brundidge re
minds him that he did not always
think so, and that on another
occasion, when important matters
were pending in Congress, he
found the time to return to Ar
kansas and take part in a cam
paign in which he was not even a
candidate. While beginning thus
with symptoms of comparative
non-combativeness, it is realized
that all the elements are present
to make the campaign one of pro
nounced asperities. That it will
become more lively along toward
the holidays no one doubts, and
that Senator Davis will make
more than the four schedule
speeches is almost a certainty.
SAMPLE ISO. K.; (JET
READY FOR BIG SHOW
The first installment of the re
ligious debate was delivered a
little ahead of time Monday even
ing. Judging by the preliminaries,
the main show will be a great
! event, and we would advise our
i friends at a distance to come
; early and well armed.
The first installment fulfilled all
expectations, and if the main event
: comes up in every respect to the
sample exhibition of Monday, the
big show will have to be held out
in the open air, for there is no
building in town large enough to
j accommodate the spectators.
OFF ON HUNTING TRIP
A hunting party composed of
Uncle Nat Wilson, Dr. A. A. Evans,
I J. B. Ketchem, H. A. (lire, ,J. W.
Kinrnan, Tom Ratton, and Ben
Hutchinson left Monday to spend
a week or ten days in the Cache
river bottoms deer hunting.
BAXTER WARRIOR DEAD
Old Time Newspaper Man and Bax
ter Lieutenant Formerly of
This 5ection is Bead
Press dispatches fromMiluawkee J
Wis., tell of the death of Michael
McConnay at his home in that city
Saturday night.
McConnay was a printer and
newspaper man and will be re
membered by many of the old
citizens of this section.
McConnay published the old
Jacksonport Ilearld at Jacksonport
during the reconstruction period
following the war, and becamej
known throughout the country for
his connection with the Brooks
Baxter war over the governorship
of Arkansas in 1872.
Early in the struggle McConnay
was commissioned adjutant-gener
al by Governor Baxter and collect
ed a small army for the purpose
of driving Brooks from the state
house, quite a little battle took
place in Little Rock between the j
opposing factions in which about a |
dozen persons were killed.
McConnay was born in Ireland
in 1846 and before coming to Jack
sonport he was a tramp printer.
He had been a resident of Mil
waukee for several years previous j
to his death and was the owner of I
the Globe Printing Co.
INDORSES COURT’S ACTION
Editor Journal.—I will ask for
space in your paper to say a few
words in reply to the Batesville;
Guard in regard to the farm de
monstration work.
I am glad everybody can’t see !
alike, and I am glad the quorum
court did what it thought best
without asking counsel of the
Guard. 1 believe that was as fine
a boby of J. P.s as ever went into
a quorum court, and they had the
assistance of one of the best county
judges who ever occupied the
bench. And then to think that
the Guard had the gall to come
out and say that the court acted
foolish in not letting a man onto |
the public teat and let him pull a
whole year.
Now, Mr. Editor of the Guard,
that court did what it thought was j
best, and never even once thought
of coming over to ask your advice.
Why didn’t you come over and
tell them how to run the county’s
business { But its too late now.
You will have to stand to the
racket or leave the country.
The idea of an editor who never
even helped to make a crop in his
life telling the farmers that they
did not have sense enough to do
business for themselves!
He says county scrip is worth
lOOcents on the dollar. Ask some
of the J. P.s what they got for the
time they were in court. And it
is just such men as those who com
posed the quorum court are the
ones who have cleared the land,
built the towns and the public
roads of the county. And then
we see the little editor of the
| Guard jump up in the face of that
! class of people and tell them that
they havn’t got sense enough to
. run their own businsss. Why, a
; man like him could not even make
a garden if he had a guide to go
by. J. D. Rutledge,
Huff, Arkansas.
TIME FOR DAI) TO (JET BUSY
The boys of Arkansas have set
the pace for their daddies this year
in raising corn, and if the old ’uns
just consent to strike the same
: stride it will not be long before
Arkansas is leading corn growing
state in the Union. And by the
way, that would not be a bad way
to compensate for the loss occasion
ed by the weevil, the boll worm
and several other pests that make
ife a burden to the cotton fanner.
Corn at 70 or 80 cents a bushe , as
sold now, or turned into 1 'gs
at from $4 to $6 per 100 bea'j 8
and 9 cents for cotton out of
sight.—Fort Smith Times Record.
MYSTERIOUSLY LEAVES
J. T. Mall Left Town For Hemphis
Two Weeks Ago and Has Not
Been heard From
J. T. Hall, who came here about
two months ago and bought out
Brown’s Restaurant, has myster
iously disappeared.
He got on the train here Satur
day night, the 18th of last month,
to go to Memphis, saying that he
would return the following Tues
day. That is the last that has
been seen or heard of him in New
ark.
This week his creditors, the
White River Grocer Co., of Bates
ville, the Plunket-Jarrel Co., of
Newport, and the Scott-Mayer Co.,
of Little Rock, closed his doors
and instituted legal proceedings to
close up the business.
No one here knows anything
about Hall. He dropped in here
about two months ago and upon
learning that Mr. Brown’s restaur
ant was for sale, Hall called on
him and immediately closed a trade
with him.
Hall is said to have passed
through this country some five or
six years ago with an aggregation
styling themselves King Broth
ers and giving exhibitions of West,
ern horsemanship by riding “un
ridable” horses and mules.
Further than this nothing is
known of him here. Apparently
he is a very nice fellow and did a
good business while here.
DEBATE BEGINS DEC. 12
To whom it concerns:
Since the Baptist church in
Newark asked Drs. Bogard & Black
to change the date of their debate
to another date, for reasons which
were explained at the time, we
have learned that the debate can
be held beginning Tuesday Dec.
12th, at 10 a. m., and continuing
four days. This is to give notice
that, nothing unforeseen prevent
ing, the debate will begin at 10
a. m., Dec. 12th, 1911, in the Bap
tist church in Newark.
M. F. Matheny, Pastor,
Newark Baptist church.
PROHI PETITIONS OUT
Fight is Launched For State-Wide
Prohibition and Lively Con
test is Ahead
Blank petitions for securing the
signatures necessary for the init
iation of a state-wide prohibition
law for Arkansas were mailed out
broadcast over the state from
Little Rock Saturday.
Lnder the law putting in force
the initiative and referendum, it
will require between 8,00() and
10,000 signatures to the petitions
to secure the reference of the
measure to the voters of the state.
No trouble will be experienced in
securing these and it is now al
most a certainty that the proposed
state-wide law will be submitted
to the people at the general elec
tion to be held next September.
Various church conferences and
associations representing a total of
about 175,000 people have already
indorsed the state-wide movement.
The liquor people reached the
conclusion several days ago that
the question would be submitted
to the voters at the next election,
and are organizing throughout the
state with a view of contesting
every inch of available ground in
the campaign.
It is hard to predict what bear
ing the question will have on the
pending gubernatorial contest.
Gov. Donaghey is leading the ul
tra-prohibition movement, declar
ing unalterably in favor of the
measure. The friends of Joe T.
Robinson have placed him at the
head of the local option column,
and Norwood, the other candidate
for governor, favors anything and
everything that will bring about
state-wide prohibition, he says.
But he is opposed to submitting
the question, and says if Arkansas
is ever to have prohibition, it
must be done through the form of
legislative enactment.
Gov. Donaghey makes reply to
Norwood’s platform by saying
that a statutory prohibition meas
ure and one also seeking its sub
mission to the voters have been
considered by every legislature
during the past ten or fifteen
years, but unfortunately was chlo
roformed in the senate. Besides,
much valuable time of the legis
lature is taken in the consideration
of prohibition bills. The gover
nor also makes the point that all
| other important legislation is sub
ordinated to the liquor question.
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