The Newark Journal.
Published In The Famous white River Country. Where Alfalfa Is kino
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 21, 1908
Vol. 8. No. 35
STATE FAIR PROGRAM
Special Features For Every Day of the
Exposition at Hot Springs
The six days of the Arkansas State
Fair at Hot Springs, beginning Octo
ber 12 and closing Saturday night Oc
tober 17, will l)e a succession of events
of extraordinary interest, especially
to the people of Arkansas. There is
not a weak place in the program,
which, briefly sumraeraized. is as fol
lows:
Monday, October 12, Arkansas Day
—Grand inaugural ceremonies pre
sided over by Gov. X. O. Pindall;
gigantic trades, floral and carnival
parade.
Tuesday, October 1.'!, Farmers’
Union and Old Soldiers' Day—Ad
dresses by noted speakers and special
program in the arena.
Wednesday. October 14, Club Wo
men's Day Horse show, riding and
driving contests in front of grand
stand, reception of federated clubs.
Band concerts.
Thursday. October 15, Poultry and
Livestock Day—Largest of show
classes ever witnessed in Arkansas:
anniversary exercises of state poultry
and jjet stock association: special
auction and private sales of exhibit
stock.
Friday, October hi, Educational and
Childrens Day Special program in
Auditorium; grand baby show and
parade; football game.
Saturday, October 17, Arkansaw
Travelers' Day • Special musical and
oratorical program; football game: ;
magnificent floral show.
RATS ROB NEWPORT SALOON
Rats carried off a roll of currency i
amounting to $437 in W. R. O'Neal
& Co.'s saloon at Newport, Friday
» night, and used the money in building
nests. Before closing his saloon, as
it was his custom, Mr. O'Neal count
ed the money on hand. He counted
out in currency, which he placed
upon a box at the side of the safe
while he checked up the silver. Being
in a hurry he put the silver in the safe
and forgot to lock up the paper money.
Saturday morning, the porter, in
sweeping out, found several bills
torn and scattered about the floor.
The balance of the money the rats
carried into the holes. Fart of the
flooring was taken up, and it was
found that some of the money was
used by the rats in building their
nests.
A DOUBLE WEDDING
Clark Duncan and Miss Lenora
Bridgeman and Homer liridgeman
and Miss Artelie Shelby were parties
in a double wedding near Desha re
cently. Miss Bridgeman and Mr.
Bridgeman are the daughter and son
of Mr. and Mrs Wilson Bridgeman,
one of the best families of the county,
and for many years residents of near
Desha, where they now live. If the
children make as good citizens as their
parents have been Independence coun
ty will have no regrets. Miss Shelby,
who decided to make a life companion
of Mr. Bridgeinen, is a charming little
lady and will make him a good wife.
Mr. Duncan is a substantial citizen of
Oil Trough bottom and is well thought
of by all who know him.—Batesville
Guard.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
There will lie a meeting of the stock
holders of the Farmers' Union Ware
house Co., of Madness, Ark., on Sat
urday at 10 o’clock a. m., August 20,
1908 for the purpose of electing twelve
directors for the ensuing year, and
such other business as may properly
come before the body.
W. C. Sanders, President.
W. D. Burlington, Sec.-Treas.
ARKANSAS’ FIRST BALE
Warren, Aug. 14. — B. H. Bowman,
who lives about 10 miles south of here,
m yesterday brought to Warren the first
bale of cotton of the season, which
breaks the record, as far as this town
is concerned. Two years ago a bale
was brought here on the 16 of August.
Mr. Bowman's cotton, which weighed
£00 pounds, was sold to J. T. Eider
ington A Co., for 15 cents.
DEATH SHROUDED IN MYSTERY
Dead Eody of Prominent Lady Found
in Cistern at Pocahontas
Pocahontas, Aug. IK.—Jumping or
falling into a cistern full of water,
Mrs. 1). N. Dial, wife of Dr. Dial, one
of the most prominent women of this
place, came to her death b.v drowning
this morning. No cause is known for
the action, which has created a big
sensation here owing to the social
prominence of the lady.
Mrs. Dial was missed at her
home early this morning. Nothing
was thought of her absence at first,
but later, becoming uneasy. her family
instituted a search. About that time it
was noticed that the covering of the
well at tiie Dial residence had been
removed and the bod\ of Mrs. Dial
was found floating- in the water.
Theories to the effect that it was an
accident have been discredited by
some because of the allegation that
Mrs. Dial could not have fallen into
the wpll accidentally.
INQUEST FAILS TO SOLVE MYSTERY
SURROUNDING WOMAN'S DEATH
Pocahontas. Aug. 17.—The death of
Mrs. D. N. Dial, a prominent Poca
hontas woman, whose body was found
in the cistern at her home yesterday
morning at 7 o’clock, is still shrouded
in mystery. A coroner’s jury, after
hearing all the evidence in the case all
;lay yesterday, could not agreee on a
verdict and the members of it were
discharged last night. Of 1U jurors,
10 believed death had been caused by
drowning*, while six were of the belief
that the body was lifeless before it
went into the water.
Mrs. Dial was apparently well and
in the best of spirits when the family
retired Saturday night. When her
husband and children awoke early
yesterday morning they could not find
Mrs. Dial and discovered the cistern
to be open. A few minutes later grab
hooks revealed her lifeless body in the
bottom of the cistern. The body was
taken from the cistern about S o'clock
and physicians say life had been ex
tinct about two hours.
No one seems to believe that it was
a case of accidental death, the theory
being that it was either suicide or
murder. So far as can he learned
there had been no family trouble in
the past nor any threat of suicide.
The family, consisting of Mr. and
Mrs. Dial and three small children,
came here about a year ago from Illi
nois.
The body of Mrs. Dial was buried
today, but her father, a prominent
business man of East St. Louis, from
some unknown cause, would not attend
the funeral.
FARM FOR SALE
Good farm of 1(50 acres near High
Rock. 11 miles north of Batesville, 75
acres in cultivation 25 acres of which
is line creek bottom land which grows
75 bushels of corn per acre. Good
frame dwelling with two tenant houses.
Two orchards with an abundant varie
ty of fruits. Good oak, hickory and
cedar timber on land not in cultiva
tion. Fine water, both well and spring,
with fine creek running through farm.
Good mill-site on farm. Fine cave
near dwelling where 10,000 pushels of
vegetables may be kept the year round.
Convenient to school and church.
Will be sold cheap and on easy terms.
Henderson Real Estate Co., Newark
Ark.
$2,600 HORSE DEAD
Calico Rock. Aug. IK. — A fine Ger
man coach horse which was brought
here about two years ago by a stock
company, died yesterday. The com
pany paid $2,600 for him. The insur
ance on him had just run out. It is
believed that he was poisoned.
DISTRICT UNION MEETING
Northeast District Union of Inde
pendence county will meet with New
ark Union the lirst Saturday in Sep
tember. John Caldwell, Sec.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Notary work of all kinds done in a
careful and correct manner by A. A.
Henderson at the Merchants and
Planters Bank.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
Program For Meeting to be Held at
Salado August 21-22
The following1 program has l>een
| arranged for the meeting of the Inde
pendence County Sunday School Ah
I sociation, to be held at Salado to
! day and tomorrow, the 21st and 22nd:
FRIDAY. 2 P. M.
Calling Association to order and
opening with Devotional exercises.
Calling roll of Sunday Schools and
enrolling delegates.
Receiving reports of Sunday schools.
Reports of the President, Secretary
| and Treasurer.
Appointment of Committees.
The State Convention—F. W. Pear
son, O. T. Jernigan.
The Intertational Convention—J.
W. Glenn, Rev. W. Fred L<mg.
FRIDAY, 8:20 P. M.
Class Organization Rev. W. M.
Findley.
Address—Rev. W. Fred Long.
SATURDAY, H to 0:30 A. M.
Sunrise Prayer and Praise Service.
SATURDAY, 0 A. M.
The Cradle Roll—Mrs. Sidney Pick
ens.
The Home Department—Mis. J. M.
Watkins.
The Teachers' Meeting- Mrs. Frank
Wright.
Township Organization — Elmer
Hook, Geo. E. Hogan.
The Pastor and His School—Rev.
E. P. J. Garrott.
Round Table—Conducted by Rev.
W. Fred Long.
SATURDAY, 2 P. M.
The Blackboard in the Sunday
School—J. F. Scherer.
The Sunday School Aim Judge G.
.1. Lindsey.
Teachers’ Training—Miss Jessamine
Perrin.
SATURDAY, 3 P. M.
Business Session.
WRITE IT EVERYWHERE
Write it on the workhouse gate,
Write it on the schoolboy's slate,
Write it on the copybook
That the young may often look,
“Where there's drink, there's danger.”
Write it on the churchyard mound
Where the rum-slain dead are found:
Write it on the gallows high,
Write it for all the passers by,
“Where there'sdrink, there’s danger.”
Write it in the nation's laws,
Blotting out the license clause:
Write it on each ballot white
So it can be read aright,
“Where there's drink, there’s danlier."
Write it on our ships that sail,
Borne along by storm and gale;
Write it large in letters plain,
Over every land and main,
“Where there’s drink, there's danger.”
Write it over every gate,
On the church and halls of state,
In the hearts of every band,
In the laws of every land,
“Wherethere's drink, there's danger.”
—Frances E. Willard.
KILLED BY TRAIN
Jonesboro, Aug. 18.—Frank Thomp
son, a brakeman on a through freight
on the Frisco, fell off his train Satur
day night about !* o’clock near Nettle
ton, and was not missed until
the train arrived at Jonesboro. When
the engine was sent back to lind him,
his remains had already been picked
up by another party. Ilis body was
horribly mutilated, as No. (i, a fast
train, which was in two sections,
passed over him. Mr. Thompson
leaves a widow and two small chil
dren. He was about .'14 years of age.
HEAVY STORM AT JONESBORO
Jonesboro, Aug. 18.—A terrific wind
and lighting storm visited Jonesboro
this afternoon and lightning struck
the tower of the First Methodist church,
tearing off most of the slate shingles.
A dewelling house was struck by light
ning.
List your property for sale with the
Henderson Real Estate (Jo.
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Short Items of Interest Gathered Fresh
From the Daily Papers
Woodruff county has more colored
than white voters.
Deeds of trust and legal blanks for
sale at The Journal office.
The depot at Minturn was entered
by butylars recently, the safe opened
and robbed of *100.
W. S. Carson’s barn near Fayette
ville was struck by lightning one night
recently, the building' and HO tons of
hay being destroyed by tire and two
horses killed.
Joe H ire's horse fell off a steep br.nk
into the Mississippi river near Osceola
two weeks ago and was belived to l»e
drowned, but was found on a sand
bar Saturday, seven miles below where
it fell in. .
S. M. Lewis, who lives near Moun
tain Home, is gathering apples from
a tree his father planted lifty years
ago. The trunk of the tree is 7 1-1! feet
in circumferances and imeasures 40
feet across the branches.
The boiler in Ingram's saw mill near
Rogers , on White river, exploded
Tuesday afternoon, killing Hart
Clinton, an employe of the mill, and
seriously injurying Charles Ingram, u
son of the owner of the mill.
The three-year-old son of I. C. Tur
ner of Tinsrnan was accidentally shot
and seriously wounded a few days ago
by Sam Brown who shot at a chicken.
The little fellow was standing near
the chicken but Brown did not see him
until he shot.
John Kelley, 14 years of age. who
lives near Hamlin, was accidentally
shot and killed Saturday while hunt
ing squirrels in the L’Anguille swamp.
Sam Nation, a boy of the same age,
was with him. Kelley was smoking
a pipe and tried to blow smoke down
the barrel of Sam's gun. The latter
jerked the gun back and the weapon
was discharged, the entire load pass
ing through Kelley’s head, killing him
instantly.
Ernest Paullette, 16 years old who
lived near Mammoth Spring, was in
jured while at play recently and died
in great agony the following day.
Ernest and a younger brother were
playing with an old wagon, having
raised the axle so the wheel would re
volve. Ernest got on the wheel and
told his brother to turn it. The youn
ger brother turned the wheel and it
Hew off the axle, the end of the hub
striking Ernest in the abdomen, inflict
ing an internal injury \yhich caused
his death.
THE LITTLE ROCK PAPERS
One of the Little Rock papers is re
ported to have given more than double
the space to the story of a parrot than
it gave to an acount of h large tem
perance meeting. And still they want
us to believe that they are not out of
sympathy with the prohibition cause.
But do they love the parrot more?—
Baptist Advance.
JUDGE FULKERSON TO RESIGN
It is s;tkl tiuit Circuit Judge Fulker
son will resign liis position in the
near future and move to Oklahoma.
The report comes from Little lio(jk
that Governor Pindall will appoint
W. A. Cunningham, a prominent at
torney of Imboden, to succeed Judge
Fulkerson on the circuit bench.
OUR TRADING GOVERNOR
When a governor goes to trading
election commisioners for whiskey
men's support for his candidates, as
Pindall, the acting governor has done,
it is time for the lovers of temperance
and sobriety to rise up and administer
a rebuke that will never be forgotten.
— Baptist Advance.
BOY FINDS 31,000 PEARL
Black Rock, Aug. 18.—WhHe wad
ing near here yesterday, Willie Foster,
a 14-vear-old boy, found in a mussel
shell a 48-grain globe pearl, the esti
mated value of which is $1,000. It is
the finest pearl which has been found
here this season.
THE DEAF-MUTE INSTITUTE
An Excellent Free School For DeaF
Children of the State
The Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute,
which opens at Little Hock October I,
is a free school for all the deaf chil
dren of sound mind in the state: not
an “asylum” for the feeble-minded,
crippled or infirm. Every good citizen
ought to see to it that parents of deaf
children in his neighborhood know of
the school and urge them to take ad
vantage of its privileges. It is an
educational institution of which every
citizen should feel proud. It is doing
a noble work for these afflicted chil
dren.
The public schools are free to the
hearing. This school is free to the
deaf. The parents of deaf children
who have kept their children away
from school, have robbed them of the
privileges justly due them. This is the
only place in the state where they can
be taught, and to leave them uneducat
ed is dangerous. Educated, they are
a support to the family and society;
uneducated, they are usually a burden
to both. Parents ought not to let a
mistaken idea of love and a dread of
separation drive them to make the
lamentable error of keeping their deaf
children at home.
The Institute has 21 teachers in the
school proper and 8 instructors in the
trades. Last year 315 pupils attended
the school. You send your children
to school untrained and we send them
back as educated workmen. There are
a physician, aurist, dentist and two
nurses who are paid regular salaries
to look after the children; three wo
men who are constantly with the girls
when they are not busy at lessons and
a man and woman to be with the boys,
the woman to be with the little boys.
Besides the common school branches
To the girls—Dress-making, tailor
ing, cooking, house-work, fancy needle
work, basket-weaving and art.
To the boys—Printing, painting,
cabinet-making, turning, carpentry,
paper-hanging, plastering, tailoring,
harness-making, shoe-making, etc.
The buildings are all most beauti
fully situated on the highest hill near
Little Rock, making good health cer
tain.
Everything is free to the deaf, ex
cept clothing and railroad expenses,
and even that is free to those who are
too poor to pay it.
Following is the Board of Trustees:
J. L. Yates, president and state treas
urer, Little Rock: W. O. Troutt,
Jonesboro: E. ('. Parsons. Melbourne;
W. C. Braly, Fayetteville: E. L. Mat
lock, Van Buren: Judge A. M. Duffle,
Malvern: C. E. (Jruce, Morrilton: .Too
L. Davis, Magnolia: H. C. Hampton,
secretary and purchasing agent, Littlo
Rock.
We have a separate department for
the colord deaf which is located about
J00 yards from the white school. In
dustril training will l»e the principal
feature of this department and we shall
try to teach every yhild some trade
hy which he or she can make a living
after leaving school; for we believe
that it is a greater blessing to them
and humanity to train the hand of the *
negro to make an honest living than
to teach his brain to dissipate in the
sciences. Write for catalogue, blanks
and other information to.
Arthur G. Mashhurn, Supt.,
Ark. Deaf-Mute Inst., Little Rock
FIRE AT CHARLOTTE
The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Win
field Jernigan at Charlotte was de
stroyed by fire Wednesday night
about 0 o’clock. Mrs. John Blair and
family of five children were living1 in
the same building. All escaped alivo
and unhurt, but the household good*
were nearly all lost. The fire is sup
posed to have resulted from a lamp.
The family had barely time to escajie
in their night clothes.
CAMDEN’S FIRST BALE
Camden, Aug. 18.—The first bale of
cotton was marketed here today by
H. W. Wright, living two miles soiith
of Buena Vista. The bale weight
452 pounds and sold at 20 5-8 cents
per pound.
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