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The Newark Journal.
Published In The Famous White River Country. Where Alfalfa Is King
Newark, independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 27, I9()d
Vol. 9. No. 20
SULPHUR ROCK SKETCHES
Items of Interest From the Hub
of White River Township
George Wilson spent a day or
two in Little Rock last week.
Doc and Marshal Rodgers of
Sharp were in town Tuesday.
A daughter was born unto Mr.
and Mrs. Fay Wilson Friday.
Prof. Sidney Pickens and fami
ly moved to Iiatesvilie Tuesday.
Miss Sue Braden, who has been
quite sick, is slowly improving.
Minor Porter and Hugh Bar
nett were up from Magness- Mon
day.
Mr. Lawrence, the telephone
man, has been on the sick list this
week.
Mrs. Mattie Ford returned Sat
urday from a months visit in St.
Louis and other points.
Miss Alice Batejmun of Newport
spent several days here visiting
her sister, Mrs. Braden.
Miss Anna Morris, who is teach- !
ing at Hot Springs, is visiting rel- i
atives here for a few days.
Roe Patterson and family were
down from High Rock Sunday,
visiting Landy Allen and family.
Rev. James preached at the
Baptist church Sunday at II a. m.
and at night to large congrega
tions.
Miss Willie Moore, who has
been quite sick with slow fever
for four weeks, is improving
nicely.
Judge Cul. L. Pearce of Butes
ville was in town Sunday. We
are always glad to see his smiling
countenance.
Prof, and Mrs. Sidney Pickens
entertained the young people with
a party Saturday evening, which
was highly enjoyed.
Mrs. Berry Best of Newport has
returned to her home, after spend
ing a few days here with her sis
ter, Miss Sue Braden.
J. O. Burns came in Sunday
from Texas, where he had been to
visit his father, who had been very
sick, but was better when he left.
Johnson Moore, who has been
here on a visit to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. Moore, returned j
to Bald Knob Saturday, accom-:
panied by his sister, Miss Cora, i
Mrs. Lutie Ashley and daughter, j
Ruth, left last week for their home I
in Chattanooga, Tenn., after a
three weeks visit here with her
daughter, Mrs. O. T. Jernigan,
and other relatives and friends.
CHARLOTTE CIPH'IRS
Miss Beulah Crigler is visiting
relatives at Ash Flat this week.
Several from here attended
church at Walnut Grove Sunday.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. dno.
Churchill, on the 22nd, a tine boy.
Several of the young people at
tended church at Hopewell Sunday
night.
Prof. (). T. Jernigan of Sulphur
Rock was transacting business here
Saturday.
G. J. Lindsey left Tuesday for
an extended visit to friends and rel
atives near Floral.
Mrs. liebbecca Moore and child
ren visited relatives at Magness
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Lizzie Lindsey and little
daughter Jimmie made a shopping
tour to Batesville Tuesday.
There will be an all day singing i
at Pleasant View next Sunday.
Everybody invited to attend.
Mrs. Lizzie Huddleston and
children of Sulphur Rock visited ;
relatives here Friday and Saturday
Mrs. G. J. Lindsey and Miss
Beulah Taylor visited the family of
J. L. Brown near Walnut Grove
Saturday evening.
PRIZES FOR CORN AND HAY
Special premiums for corn and
hay are announced by the Tri- j
State Fair for its second annual
exhibition at Memphis, Tenn.,
Sept. 28th-Oct 9th. The two
crops are as important to the South
is cotton, and should, in a short
while, bring thousands to the
pockets of Southern farm owners.
Prizes for corn clubs aud for hay
will be a feature, and some liberal
premiums are offered.
EVER SEE ANY RICE?
A bunch of rice cut from a field
of growing rice near Carlisle was
eft at The Journal office Tuesday
o.y Rev. «J. I. Martin of Cord, who i
lad just returned from a trip I
hrough Lonoke and Prairie coun
ties. Rice is becoming a very im- :
portant crop in many sections of 1
Arkansas and the crop this year is j s
said to be tine. :
. I
If you never saw any growing
rice call at this office and see it. <
24 CANDIDATES IN GREEN
Candidates are getting thick 1
over in Green county. The l’ara
*ould Soli phone is carrying twen
ty-four announcements.
PURPOSES OF A BANK
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The purpose of a bank is to be useful
and helpful to a community; to facilitate
business by the exchange and extension of
credits, thereby making it possible to carry
on a vast amount of business with a com
paratively small amount of actual cash.
It is wrong to hoard money and bury
it in some old cellar and thereby take it
entirely out of circulation.
Bring it to this bank, where it will be
much safer and will help to earn you more
money, and yet be at your command.
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK
Geo. L. Green, President
Leslie R. Acton, Cashier
FROM THE RICE BELT
Rev. J. 1, Martin Writes of the
Rice Fields in Lonoke County
Editor Journal:-1 began a meet
ing several days ago near Carlisle,
ind mu having large congregations.
This country is partly prairie
md partly timbered. No rocks
ind the land is comparatively lev
}1. The soil is of a light or whitish
jolor, and the average yield is
ibout fifteen bushels of corn or
me-third of a bale of cotton per
icre.
On the prairies they have large
prairie-hay farms, and this hay is
now selling at #4 a ton from the
aaling machines. That looks
iheap enough.
Much rice is being raised on the
arairies, and as I came out from
Little Rock I saw large fields of it
growing. It is a water plant, and
hey have wells with steam en
gines to pump water for irrigating
he rice fields. They keep the
growing lice flooded all the time,
rhey sow and harvest it much ns
hey do wheat. They are now
auilding a large rice mill at Car
isle, and when that is in opera
ion the rice will be hulled and
feaned, just as we buy it from
he stores. Rice yields from forty
:o sixty bushels per acre, and usu
illy sells at a dollar a bushel. It
<eems rather expensive farming,
aut is said to be profitable. Rice
,s now in the “dough’* stage. It is
jsually harvested in September
ind October. 1 am told this rice
and is worth ?50 an acre.
1 expect to get home in time to
aegin our meeting at Cord on the
ifth Sunday. Bro. J. F. Clark of
Jonesboro is to assist me.
It is very dry here. Crops are
rery poor and farmers have the
alues. J. I. Martin.
TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT
Vlost Successful Men are Those
Most Widely Known
If you would succeed in business
lowada.ys you must make your
msiness known.
You must let people know what
rou are doing. Tell them what you
lave to offer, not once nor occa
ionally, but every day, in season
md out of season.
These be strenuous days when no
me will wait on you, and success
lues not come by accident. Noth
ng comes by accident. You must
?o after it if you would have it.
it is prudent to conceal evil, but
what is good should be given pub
icity. Keep your name and your
msiness in the public eye and
nind. The successful man is the
nan who is best known for what
le has.
The merchant who depends sole
y on the excellence of his wares
will be outstripped by the man
with inferior wares who keeps be
fore the public. The man who
lides or hoards what he has to sell
will have few customers.
COUNTY UNION HEETING
The Independence County Farm
ers Union will meet at Sharp
Methodist church three-fourths of
a mile southeast of Center Hall, on
the first Friday and Saturday in
September, 1009. All locals are
requested to send a full delegation
as much business of importance
will come before this meeting; also
the election of officers for the en
suing year.
T. L. Sueberth, Sec.
BIG BARN BURNED
Yank Massey’s large barn, near
Jacksonport together with a large
(inanity of feed, was totally de
stroyed by tire Friday morning.
The loss is partly eoverd by insur
ance. The origin of the tire is un
known.
See The Journal for job printing.
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GIRL ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Miss Elsie Cypert of Batesville
Drank Carbolic Acid
In a fit of despondency Miss
Eksie Cypert swallowed a half
ounce of carbolic acid at her home
in Batesville Monday morning in
an attempt to end her life.
Physicians were immediately
summoned, and after battling
with death for several hours, it
was announced late Mouday after
noon that the physicians had prob
ably routed the Grim Reaper and
saved the young lady’s life, as she
regained consciousness about 7
o’clock and indications were favor
able for her recovery.
It seems that while the house
work was being done Monday
morning a disagreement arose be
tween the young lady and her
mother with regard to some work
the young lady was required to do,
and after a slight reprimand from
Mrs. Cypert, Miss Elsie went to
her room upstairs. In a few mo
ments she was followed by her sis
ter, Mrs. Gideon, who remonstrat
ed with her for disobeying her
mother. Miss Elsie made some
remark that indicated that she had
done something desperate, and an
immediate investigation showed
that she had drank the contents of
an ounce bottle of carbolic acid
which was about half full of the
deadly drug.
Reports from Batesville yester
day say that she is doing as well
as could be expected and will per
haps recover.
Miss Cypert is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Cypert. She
is 18 years old and is very popular
in Batesville society.
OUR FIRST BALE FOR 1909
First Bale at Newport Tuesday
Was Grown in This County
Independence county’s first bale
of cotton of the 1909 crop was sold
in Newport Tuesday morning by
J. II. Henderson who lives near
Dunnington.
The bale weighed 47+ pounds,
classed as middling, and sold for
13l cents per pound, the Woltf
Goldman Mercantile Company be
ing the purchasers.
The cotton was grown on the
Jones farm, near Dunuington, in
Oil Trough bottom.
The business men of Newport
had raised a nice little bonus in
money and merchandise for the
first bale, and this, added to the
price of the cotton, realized quite
a neat sum for Mr. Henderson.
PRETTY GOOD SNAKE STORY
Col. John Qualls tells a pretty
good snake story. He and Doc
Gamble killed a big diamond moc
casin down on Swan pond a few
days ago, and when the snake was
cut in two near the middle of its
bod.y, sixteen little ones ran out of
the old snake, some of them a foot
long.
FINE FARIT FOR SALE
Fine Oil Trough farm near
Dunnington for sale at a bargain.
185 acres; 14o acres in cultivation;
three houses, two barns and all
improvements good. Will pay 12
per cent on investment in rent.
See or write White River Land
Investment Co , Newark, Ark.
LADIES’ COLLARS AND BELTS
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1 have just received a complete
! assortment of Ladies’ Collars and
! Belts in all the new and latest
I styles and strictly up-to-date in
every respect. Ladies invited tc
call and see them. R. L. Goad.
LOOK HERE, HR. MAN
If you want to sell your farn
| see the White River Land & In
vestmeut Co.
TO KILL FLIES
The London ‘'Lancet” the lead
ing medical journal of the world,
says that the host and simplest fly
■ killer is a weak solution of for
j maldehyde in water, two teaspoon
fuls to the pint. Place in plates or
saucers throughout the house. Ten
j cents worth of formaldehyde will
last an ordinary family all summer.
Is has no offensive smell, is fatal
to disease organism, and is practi
eaily non poisonous except to
| insects.
j SOflE OF ThEH IN NEWARK?
There are hundred of men and
boys in Arkansas who devote so
much attention to baseball that
they can give the name, and bat
ting and tickling record of every
player in the Southern League and
of many of those in the Major
Leagues. However, if many of
these same men and boys were
asked to name the officials of the
state they would be utterly unable
to do so.—Carlisle Independent.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Every normal person is born
with a message for humanity, with
agreatsicred obligation to give
1 his best to the world. Your talent
was not given you merely to pro
vide bread and butter and luxuries
for yourself and family, but to
make the world a little better
place to live in, to pay your debt
to humanity, to make the largest
possible manor woman of yourself.
—Success Magazine,
INJURED IN A SAWMILL
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George Wright, who operates a
sawmill near Moorefield, was pain
! fully injured on the right hand
while at work in the mill Monday,
j His sleeve became entangled in a
belt drawing his hand down against
a shafting in which there were some
; protruding screws, and the screws
ground considerable flesh from his
hand and wrist before the machin
could be stopped.
$52.50 DISAPPEARS
Sometime Saturday morning
| someone entered the home of Mad
den Gilbert, a thrifty farmer who]
| lives two miles south of Luneburg
and stole f>52 50. The money was
placed between a matress and
feather bed Friday night, but Sat
; urday before noon when Gilbert
reached between the beds for his
roll it was gone.—Melbourne
Times.
NEWARK'S FIRST BALE
S. L. Brownlow Brings First Bale
and (Jets Thirteen Certs
S'. L. Hrownlow of Dunnington
brought in the first bale of cotton
of the 1909 crop Tuesday after
noon.
The bale weighed 5:54 pounds,
classed as middling, and sold for
13 cents a pound. It was bought
by C. M. Edwards.
The cotton was grown by Mr.
Hrownlow in Oil Trough bottom
and was ginned at the Pel ley gin
at Dunnington, Mr. Pelle.y also
ginning the first bale sold at New
port by Mr. Henderson.
The first bale received in New
ark this year is considerably ear
lier than last season, the first bale
last year being brought in by Noel
Norris on the 3rd of September.
'L’lie first bale last year was also
purchased by Mr. Edwards, but
the price was not so good as this
year, Mr. Norris receiving only
9.90 for the first bale last year.
E. J. MAUN ESS SERIOUSLY ILL
E ,1. Magness was suddenly
stricken with something like epi
lepsy at his home Sunday after
noon about 2 o’clock and was in
a critical condition for several
hours. He has improved consid
erably, but is yet quite sick. He
was reported Thursday noon as
getting along very nicely and is
resting well.
WILL BUILD CHURCH
The Methodist congregation at
Charlotte is preparing to erect a
neat and substantial church build
at that place, and material is now
: being placed on the ground. Work
1 will probably In; commenced on
the building within a short time.
MADNESS VS. CAVE CITY
Magness and Cave City will play
a series of ball games on the Mag
diamond today and tomorrow. The
first game will take place Friday
afternoon about 3 o’clock and two
games will be played Saturday, one
in the morning and one in the
afternoon.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
County Clerk Sims has issued
the following marriage license dur
ing the past week.
Eugene Smith, 25, to Miss Mary
Elizabeth Allen, 17.
Warren Ward, 21, to Miss
Myrtle Scroggins, 22.
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