MEN WHO VOTED 29 YEARS AGO
List of Those Who Voted in Big
Bottom Township in the Sep
tember Election 1878
Through the courtesy of Capt.
R. K. Reeves, who was one of the
judges and who has preserved
a copy of the poll book used in the
general election held in 1878, The
Journal gives below a list of those
who voted in Big Bottom township
at the election held 2b years ago,
which will no doubt be of interest
to many of the older citizens:
Daniel Boster, Joseph Laneaver,
Clay Dillingham, YVr. S. Brown,
John Brown, J. D. Hodges, Ad
Dillingham, John Riddle, Henry
Cannon, Irvine Daggett, Freeman
Daggett, Henry Crumpton, John
Denton, V. L. Rose, M. A. Mull,
W. T. Tunstall, Joe McKaney,
Robt. Gillmore, F. L. Foster, A.
R. Scott, A. II. Powell, Richard
Clark. R. A. McHenry, J. D. Ellis,
H. A. Porter, Ewing Clark, D.
M. Porter, H. A. Ladd, J. W.
Henderson, Geo. Hatfield, John
Gillim, R. B. Dunham, Richard
•Sloan, Wm. Magness, Richard
• Eaves, Richard Denton, Nelson
Laneave, W B. Hodges, Wm.
McPherson, W. J. Alford, A. M.
Tooley, Sam Adler.Wm.Vandiver,
James Fell. B. S. McPherson,
Shelby Tun-call, Silas Sturch, H.
C. Diver, B. F. Roseberry, John |
Cleveland, dames Loveless, Geo. |
Brown, F. M: Carver, H. A. Hall,
Albert Magness, Ben Cleghorn,
A. J. Young, J. J. Duck, Robt. B.
Stephen-, Wm. Owens, D. C.
Lane, J H. Davis, Thos. Martin,
Geo. Flurnoy, Wm. Fisher, T. R.
Mitehel, W. T. Kinman, James 1
Galloway, *G. W. Stirch, W. N. <
Humphreys, James E. Seymore, (
M. K. Crow, Albert Simpson, 1
Aaron Roberts, F. M. Barnett,
Clint Owen, A. D. Baldwin, La
fayette Flurnoy, W. L.Anschultz,
John Sanders, H. R. Brown, J.1
W. Parson, W. F. Adams, C. B.
Solomon, Bennett Miaehels, L. M. •
Seymore, dames Mustain, John
Webster, Robert Hogan, Ellington 1
Walker, A. W. Gray, Thos. Steel,
Kirk Reeves, C. Howard, S. D. 1
Barnett, John H. Solomon, K. S.
Latimer, I). B. Duck, Lee Fort, 1
Richard Childress, Scott Smith, '
.lack Enis, dohn Lacy, Perry'!
Magness, Dan Arnold, Henry *
Wilson, Jack Eaves, W. F. Moore,
Charles Seymore, E. .1. Kinman,
S. S. Clark, James Deckard, J. E. .
Rogers, Wm. Hudson, W. C. i
Walker, Wm. Brady, Wm. Baker, 1
Wm. Robertson, Louis Allwhite, ;
Ed Reddy, Joe Dillingham, Thos. 1
Davis, Ed Summer, L. M. Gray, I.
H. H. Burns, J. N. Arnold, Sr., ]
J. C. Coker, M. W. Finch, G. W. j
Alford,R.M,Crow, Alex Miaehels, i1
Arthur Pennington, T. G. Iiarg- j,
cress, W. C. Porter, Andrew Mag- -
ness, Joe Flurnoy, Thos. Jones, j (
Stephen Rodgers, J. C. Smith, J. ;
F.Morgan,-James Connelly, James ,
Garner, W. T. uateman, Wm.
Keeney, T. C. Baldwin, G. B. ;
Finch, F. M. Mayhan, W. L. Rob- j
inson, F. M. Slayton, John Bar-j!
nett, tW. T. Lambert, Andrew j
Gray, B. F. Lamberson, James
Vaught, H. C. Tucker, Anthony
Hatch, R. C. Greenhaw, J. C. j
Harper, J. 1. Sturdivant, J. M. ;
Barnett, H. H. Hulsey, Silas;
Wosley, J. C. Pascoe, Albert Ar j
nold, B. S. Smith, Alfred Arnold,
Chas, Frost, T. E. Carter, Andrew
Childress, Owen Prince, Lafayette
Taylor, W. H. Palmer, J. W.
Magness, E. P. Hill, W. A. Wha
ley, R. G. Conn, Win, Dillingham.
John Clark, W. A. Irvin, John
F. Walker, Z. T. Garner, M. B.
Burns, C. B. Finnelly, Wm. Rich
ardson, J. S. Brooks, R. R. Rat
ton, C. E. Spaldwin, Wyatt Fort
enberry, J. R. Smith, W. H.
Smith, R. R. Riley, Isaac Mc
Pherson, Clinton Earls, Jacob
Magness, Ewing Clark, Jabez
Mosley, J. II. Kennedy, George
Cow, W. R. Arnold, Porter Hul
sey, M. M. Baker, W. A. Killings
worth, H. C. Long, F. M. Broyls,
James Hodges, O. H. Wallace,
M. C. Todd, J. W. Kinman, John
N. Tomlinson, Perry Arnold, T.
K. Moore, Wm. Prince, Henry
Earls, J.- P. Spalding, Westly
Bruce, Thos. E. Mays, W. D.
Magness, Alfred Henderson, Lew
allen Robertson, John Ford, Thos.
Magness, J. J. Wald rip, J. B.
Hodges, J. Sterling, Richard
Hamlet, J. A. Beark, W. F.Brew
er, John Castelo, J. M. Hughes,
Perry G. Magness, Wm. Eckles,
J. C. Brown, C. J. Washburn, J.
G. Owens, Alfred Hogan, T. J.
Stjohn, A. D. Arnold,R.R. Reeves,
D. D. Whisnant, Ben Branan,
A. O. Espy, Hugh Tomlinson, B.
Bass, J. T. Palmer, W. A. Hill,
J. N. Arnold, Fred Sheriff, Frank
Hudson, M. L. Arnold, James T.
Sanders, H. H. Durham.
DAVIS WILL LECTURE
The Arkansas Democrat says
United States Senator Jeff Davis
las closed a contract for a series
)f lectures over four states, to be
jin July 18. For some time this
leal has been under consideration,
md Friday morning1 the Senator
'eeeived a message to the effect
Fat his terms have been accepted
md that the cream of Missouri
Democracy will hear him at Col
ombia, Mo., on July 18. The sub
ject of the Senator’s lecture will
te “The Trust Evil and Its Ten
lency.”
His tour will cover the States
>f Missouri, Louisiana, Texas and
Oklahoma. The length of the tour
las not yet been communicated to
.he Senator, but it will cover con
siderable time. He will be paid at
.he rate of $250 per lecture.
ASSESSOR’S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that I will
ittend in person, or by deputy, at the
isual voting places in the various
ownships in Independence county,
\rkansas, for the purpose of taking a
ist of the real and personal property
>f each resident of said township
md the per capita tax of such as are
iable to pay the same for the year of
907, on the day and dates specified
lelow:
Big Bottom township, Newark,
rhursday, Friday and Saturday, July
1, 5 and i).
Magness township, Magness, Mon
la.v, July 8.
White River township, Sulphur
Hock, Tuesday and Wednesday, July !
) and 10.
Ruddell township, Ba t e s v i 11 e , j
rbursdiv, Friday and Saturday, July
1. 12 anil 13.*
And at my office in the court house
it Batesville July 15 to 25, after which
ime all persons failing to assess will j
je subject to penalty.
You must asses in person. Each per
ion will have to swear to his or her!
issessment, and each person will be
'equired to give number of school
listrict. School directors will please
furnish list of tax-payeas at precinct
m first day of assessment.
J. J. CALDWELL, Assessor,
Independence County, Arkansas.
The effect of malaria lasts a long time. ^
You catch cold easily or become run
down because of the after effects of malaria.
Strengthen yourself with Scott*s
Emulsion.
It builds new blood and tones up your nervous
system.
ALL DRUGGISTS : SOc. AND SI.OO.
THE ARKANSAS REFORM SCHOOL
Short Sketch of the State’s School
For Youthful Criminals, Re
cently Completed
Little Rock, July 1.—One of j
the noblest gifts which a munifi
cent Legislature has bestowed
upon the fair State of Arkansas is
its reform school, which was com
pleted and put into use on May 7.
There is probably no institution
within the boundaries of the state
1 which so nearly comes up to all
I the expectations that may readily
and naturally be expected from its
name, and which so far has so
carefully and successfully per
formed the functions for which it
was established, as has this same
reform school.
A massive stone and brick build
ing, two stories high, crowning
the top of a gently sloping and
wooded hill, with an impressive
arched entrance and bearing a look
of bright, cheerful newness, is the
picture presented by the reform
school. In vain does the visitor,
who knows he is going to what is
commonly known as a penal insti
tution, look for a guarded wall, on
which iron points sticking upward,
inclose the inmates like an im
penetrable row of bayonets, on the
guns of armed sentinels. In vain,
even, do they look for an ordinary
fence. There is no inclosure of
any kind, nor is it intended that
there shall be, and any one who so
chooses may walk into the build
ing, while it looks as if any one
who so choose could also walk out
of it.
This latter, however, is not true.
No one can walk out of the build
ing without the permission of the
guard, but it requires neither
fence nor tether to enforce this
rule. And all of this because of
the fact that this institution is in
deed a “reform” school and not a
prison or a place of punishment. ;
At a quarter after five every j
morning the night watchman
awakes the boys, who are supposed
to be ready for breakfast, washed, j
and with their beds made up prop
erly by half past six. After break
fast they go to work, and dinner
is served at 11:40. There is no!
lock step for these boys when they
come and go to and from their
meals. Instead of that, after the
manner of the best military schools
in the land, they are required to
march to aud from the table like
soldiers, and in this, military tac
tics are followed.
Every Saturdu.y after dinner
the boys are given a half holiday,
which means that during the after
noon they are not required to
work, but may amuse themselves
as best they can. They may, of
course, not leave the small clearing
around the building, without per
mission, and must then be accom
panied by a guard. On Sunday
they must attend chapel twice,
and the rest of the day they are
free.
In talking to one of the boys
confined in the school, he said:
“1 think that when it comes
down to reforming a fellow two
months in this place will do more
to straighten him out and make
him do better than two years, or
20 for that matter, in the peni
tentiary. We get good things to
eat, and plenty of them, and get
good treatment if we want it. It
is very much a game of getting
what you give, and if you don’t
give right, you’ll not get right,
and will in the end be convinced
of the error of your ways and
change your mind. I think that,
with my credits for good behavior,!
I will be free before so very long.
Then I’ll go home, but I’ll remem
ber this place and what I have
learned here for many a year to
come.”
With a lot more places like this
Real Estate For Sale.
Some Bargains in Desirable Farm and City Property
Offered by the Henderson Real Estate Co.
no. 37. 2 acres nicest residence
property in north part of town; good
well and garden on place.
80. 500 acre farm half mile from
railroad station and post office; 200
acres in cultivation; 100 acre pasture;
six houses with good barns; half mile
from school and church house; over a
mile of river front and good ferry
landing on the farm. Grows t bale of
cotton and 50 ta 60 bushels corn' per
acre. Good property and a bargain.
Price $(5,500. Easy terms.
84. Good small farm of 60 acres line
bottom land, 28 acres in cultivation,
balance in pasture; good 3 room house
and barn. Price $1,200.
No. 69. Good farm of 86 acres, 45 in
cultivation, located 6 miles northeast
of Newark; good three room box house
fine cistern, good barn and orchard of
50 bearing trees; good white and red
cak timber on land not in cultivation.
Located near church and school house.
85. 64 acres good bottom land, one
mile from railroad station and post
office, half mile river front; 35 acres
in cultivation; good 3 room house and
small tenent house; tine water; 29
acres in pasture. Price $1,280.
71. 141 acres line cane and timber
land on Black river 3 miles north of
Paroquet; on river front.
83. Fine bottom farm of 80 acres,
33 acres in cultivation, two good-hous
es with barns and good water; half
mile from railroad and postoffice and
mile from school and church house; i
grows bale of cotton per acre. Price
$20 per acre; one third cash, balance
to suit.
101. 160 acre creek bottom farm 6i
miles from Newark, 1 mile from post
office and school; 100 acres in cultiva
tion, balance good timber; 1 four room
frame house and small tenant house,
barn and other outbuildings; cystern
and spring of good water; land in cul
tivation is good creek bottom land
and produces well.
103. 120 acres tine Oil Trough bot
tom land, all in timber except twenty
acres which has been cut off; 3 miles
from postoffice; 8 miles from Newark;
land lays well and when put in culti
vation will be worth $40 per acre; land
adjoining grows bale of cotton or 50 to
75 bushels corp per acre, and will also
grow alfalfa; land is inside of fencing
district and has good timber on it.
108. 60 acre farm 1£ mile north of
Magness, 40 acres in cultivation, five
room house, good well, barn, smoke
house and other outbuildings; 12 acre
orchard, consisting of 250 apple trees,
1650 peach trees, 12 pear trees, 20grape
vines and fine lot of plum trees; six
acre pasture under fence.
112. Good five room house and acre
of land in north part of town; good
barn, smokehouse and tine well of wa
ter, all nearly new and in good shape.
i
115. Two acres of land and good I
five room house in North Newark;]
good barn, smokehouse and garden !
and good well of water. Cheap for
cash or will trade for farm property
anywhere near a railroad station.
118. Farm of 110 acres fine White
river land, four miles from Newark;
good four room house, barn and other
outbuilding; good orchard, garden
and good water; 85 acres in cultiva
tion. This is fine White river cane
land, only 35 acres subject to !
overflow. A bargain.
120. 250 acres fine cut-over timber 1
land in Black river bottom. Fine for
stock pasturage.
102. Good upland farm of 125 acres
six miles north of Newark, 75 acres in
cultivation, two houses, two wells,
spring and running creek on place;
some good creek bottom land on this
farm; located only one mile from post
office and school.
i
82. Good farm of 120 acres, half
mile from railroad station, postofflce
and school; 20 acres in cultivation; fi
good house and barn and good water.
Will be sold cheap. Price $2,400, one
third cash, balance in 1 and 2 years.
90, 60 acres tine cut-over rive r bot
tom land, very high and seldom over
flows; can be cleared very cheap and
will make a tine small farm; river
front with railroad running across one
corner; half mile from station and
postofflce. Price $10 per acre.
79. 411 acres tine White river land
near Jacksonport; 70 acres in cultiva
tion; 2 houses; line cane pasture of
150 acres fenced. Only one mile from
railroad station, postofflce and church;
one of the finest pieces of land oa
White river.
86. Good bottom farm of 165 acre#
half mile from railroad station and
postofflce and mile from school and
church; good house and good water
57 acres in cultivation and balance in
pasture; will grow 50 to 75 bushels o
corn per acre; good timber on land not
in cultivation; mile of river front.
Price $20 per acre; one-third cash bal
ance in one and two years.
• 100. Good five room house and
three acres of land in north part of
town, all fenced and in cultivation,
tine well of water, good garden and
barn, good orchard for family use,con
sisting of apples, peaches, plums,
grapes and black berries. Very desir
able location.
95. Ten acres nice residence proper
ty in northest part of town, four room
box house, small barn and good well
of water, 100 peach trees, 25 grapes
and 12 plum trees; good property.
97. Good two room box house and
two lots, with good small barn; near
school building.
98. Good farm of 80 acres, 60 acres
in cultivation, one twm room log house
and one two room box house, good
well of water; located 8 miles from
Newark, half mile from postofflce and
one mile from school and church; a
small orchard for family use.
108. Farm of (50 acres. 1 mile from
Magness, 30 acres in cultivation, good
house and barn, fine well and good
spring on the place; nice young orch
ard of 150 apple trees, 00 peach trees
and several pears, plums and grapes;
also five acre pasture under fence.
113 Good farm of 160 acres three
miles from Charlotte; 45 acres in cul
tivation, good four room house with
good barn and smokehouse and good
well of wates; good timber on land
not in cultivation. Price $450.
114. Fine White river farm of 60
acres near head of Oil Trough bottom,
30 acres under fence and 25 acres in
cultivation; good seven room house
nearly new, and good large barn,
smokehouse and other improvements;
fine young orchard, good well of water
and abundance of stock water; near
good stock range and only half-mile
from post-office and school. If taken
at once, can be bought for less than
cost of improvements.
117. Ten acres of land and five
room house II miles west of Newark;
good large log barn, smokehouse, good
well and good orchard of about three
acres. A big bargan in this if you
want a home.
124. Nice two story, seven room
residence and lull block of land near
business portion of town; tine water,
good bar;n and all conveniences: well
finished in every respect. Price $1800.
hh. tract ol 680 acres timber land
east of Newark; enough white and red
oak timber on land to pay for it, and
will make good farming land ’after
timber is cut off. Price $6.50
Henderson Real Estate Co. %
NEWARK, : : : ARKANSAS.
the country could get along with
fewer and smaller penitentiaries,
and breed a great deal better class
of citizens. I hope the day is not
far off when all children offenders
from police and justice courts will
be sent to places like this, so that
they may be turned from tho
downward road while yet there is
time. County farms and working
on the city streets only tends to
breed criminals.
Tell cm you saw it in The Journ&l
»