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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, April 20, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 17.
GOVERNOR LEAVES FOR COLORADO
t Governor and Mrs. Davis Will
Spend a Month in the Moun
tains of Colorado
Little Rock, April 16.—Gover
nor Jeff Davis and wife left last
night for Colorado, via St. Louis,
to spend a month among the
mountain resorts, recuperating
from the stress 01 the long politi
cal campaign through which he
has passed. He will respond
Tuesday night in St. Louis to the
toast, “Arkansas,” at a business
men’s banquet, and will then in
spect the reform school of Illinois
and Indiana before leaving for the
West. He expects to return to
Little Rock a short time before
the opening of the state conven
tion in Hot Springs on June 5.
In the meantime Senator John
P. Lee, of Clarendon, president
pro tem of the senate and ex officio
lieutenant governor, will preside
in the executive chair, having
entered upon the duties this morn
ing. This is the first time he has
been called upon to exercise the
gubernatorial power since he was
elected in May, 11)05. This is the
first time that a lieutenant-gover
nor has acted since 1002, when
Senator M P. Huddleston was
called upon.
CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES.
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Health is very good in this vi
cinity.
Owen Walden made a business
trip to Batesville Saturday.
J. C. McGill and family visited
Mrs. Fallis of Sharp Sunday.
Clyde Rogers of Sharp was the
guest of Chas. Moore Sunday.
Mrs. Yates of this place was
shopping-in Batesville Monday.
Ewing Lane of Sulphur R >ck
visited home folks here Sunday.
Mrs. Minnie Jernigan of East
-Charlotte visited Mrs. Yates Sun
day.
Miss Nettye Bevens of Sulphur
Rock visited Miss V ela Jernigan
Sunday.
.Several people from this place
attended church at Center Grove
Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Sorrells of Cord \s
visiting friends and relatives here
this week.
Mrs. Lizzie Churchill is think
ing of getting her a new “Moore”
us the clover crop is good.
Mrs. Cecil By rum visited her
mother, Mrs. Hugg, of the Cen
ter Grove neighborhood Saturday
and Sunday.
NEGRO EXPOSITION.
The Negro Educational and In
j dustrial Commission of Little
h Hock has decided to hold a negro
i exposition in that eit.v during 1907.
f It is proposed to place on exposi
tion the handiwork of negroes and
portray the progress of the race
by gathering together every fea
ture of tiie negro production. The
commission was formed following
the recommendation of the State
Negro Business Men's League at
their last session. The commis
sion will hold frequent meetings
to determine upon plans for the
exposition.
KILLED HIS FATHER.
,1. V. Keith shot and killed his
father, C.S. Keith, at the latter's
home five miles south of Camden
f Thursday of last week.
Young Keith, who was about
•
! '55 .years old, had had trouble with’
j his wife, of whom it is said he
was insanely jealous, and she had
left him. He had brooded over
the matter until his mind is sup
posed to have become unbalanced
and he had made frequent threats
I to kill his wife, her mother, his
father and others, but little atten
tion was paid to them.
The son had borrowed a shot,
gun, went to his father’s home and
sat down on the front porch. The
father was out in the field oversee
ing some wo^k and when he went
to the house his son shot him as
he entered the gate, without say
ing a word. He then fled to the
woods, but was later captured and
placed in jail.
WEEKS DOINGS AT SULPHUR ROCK
Short Items of Interest Picked Up
at the Metropolis of White
River Township.
J. H. Jimmerson went to Bates
ville rues day.
Will Ward of Batesville was in
town Tuesday.
T. A. Bullington of Dota was in
town Saturday.
John Baker of Batesville was in
town Saturday.
We are glad to see I>r. L. R.
Wright out a^ain.
E. R. Moore of Newark was in
our town Tuesday.
T. C. Knox and W. S. Moore
went to Batesville Monday.
Miss Hula Moore of Batesville
spent Sunday with home folks.
Pete By rum and John Yates of
Charlotte were in our burg Satur
day.
Ask Isaac Crafton if he wants
to trade for Bill Adams’ gray
mule.
Dr. Clint Meriwether was visit
ing relatives here the first of the
week.
Gibson makes faces over, but
don't think he could do anything
with his own.
Misses Edgar and Smith of
Magness were shopping here one
day last week.
Quite a number of people from
here attended the quarterly meet
ing at Lebanon Sunday.
Miss Nettye Bevens spent Sun
day with her cousin Miss Vela
Jernigan near Charlotte.
Rev. Jas. F. Jernigan preached
to a large congregation Sunday
night at the M. E. church.
Mrs. Stovall of Batesville is
spending a few days with her
cousin Rev. C. H. Newman.
Read (). L. Hoover Com
pany’s new advertisement on the
eighth page of today’s paper.
T. D. Lindsey and Miss Lee
Hogan of Magness were visiting
friends here Sunday evening.
Dr. and Mrs. T. A. Bevens
went to Batesville Tuesday to vis
it their son George, and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Pickens
returned home Sunday from Dota
where they spent a week with rel
atives.
,Jasper Hutchison of near Even
ing Shade drove a car load of hogs
down Saturday and shipped them
to St. Louis.
W. V. Gibbs, the depot agent
at this place, will have another
car of corn for sale this week at
sixty cents a bushel.
(eoNTixi:kd on pack 4)
W. I). Magness, a, good citizen
and substantial business man of
Magness, was transacting business
in town Tuesday.
,J. \V. Barnett is having his res
idence painted and other repairs I
made which adds greatly to the
appearance of his place.
T. P. Lawton left Tuesday for
Bicknell, Ind., after a pleasant j
visit here with his parents, I)r
and Mrs. \V. P. Lawton.
II. B. Johnson of Batesville i
spent Tuesday in town visiting
relatives, and left Wednesday for
Des Arc to spend a few days.
The city council held a meeting
Monday night but transacted no
business of importance, except to
approve the bonds of some of the
newly elected city olhcers.
.John Taylor, who had the end
of his finger bitten off by Tom
Dorothy in a tight some time ago
in Oil Trough bottom, has had to
j have his entire finger taken off.
County Treasurer T. M. Wal
| drip, wlio has been confined to hi*
home at Magness for some time
with rheumatism, is able to he out
again and was in town Tuesday.
8 F. Lawton of Judsonia spent
a day or two here this week visit
ing his parents, Dr. and Mrs. W.
I*. Lawton and his sister, Mrs. A.
L McClard.
We are in the mower and rake
business* to stay and would be
pleased to show the Ideal Deering,
the lightest running machine on
earth. (). L. Hoover & Co., Sul
phur Rock, Ark.
Jesse L. McDaniel, whoisclerk
ing for the Wade Mercantile Co.,
was in town Wednesday. He
says there is considerable sickness
in his neighborhood and that ev
erybody is busy planting corn and
cjtton. They have named tl e
village at that place Wadesville.
During the^lectrical storm Fri
day morning lightning struck the
r sidenee of l*rof. and Mrs, A. A.
Henderson, shocking the fami y
c msiderabl.v, but doing no mater
ial damage. The wall paper was
rent on each side of the room
in which the family were sleeping
and a picture hanging on the wall
hail a large hole torn in it, but
'otherwise the building was not
damaged.
BUSINESS FOR SALE
I will sell my entire stock of
! staple and fancy groceries at a bar
gain, for the reason that I am en
gaged in bee culiure, wjiicli de
1 mands my time and attentiou to
‘the detriment of other business.
! Am doing a good business, but
will sell out at a bargain owing to
; the reasons above stated.
\V. ,1. LlTTI.KFlKLl),
Newark, Ark.
SPOOK CREATES A SCARE
Quite a little excitement was
I created a few da.\ s ago by the re
port that a ghost had taken up its
abode at the home of Mrs. Tina
Kdwards on the west side of town.
Uncanny noises and knocks wen*
, heard around the house for sever
al nights and some of the neigh
bors gathered in for a night or
two with the avowed intention of
forming an acquaintance with his
royal spookship, but evidently he
did not care to meet them and did
not show up. •
Wednesday night, however, two
unknown men were seen around
the place, but when discovered
they tan and disappeared in the
darkness, and it is not known what
their intentions were.
A few of the more superstitious
l.v inclined were considerably
worked up over the matter for a
time, but Mr. Spook seems to
have changed the ba«e of his oper
ations and the excitement has
about subsided.
THE NEW BANK ELECTS OFFICERS
Stockholders Meet and Effect Or
ganization---W. L). Mag
ness is President.
A meeting of the stockholders
of the Merchants and Planters
Bank was held at the city hall
Tuesday afternoon, at which com
plete organization was effected
and the affairs of the institution
turned over to the officers and di
rectors.
All the stockholders were pres
ent either in person or by proxy,
and the following directors were
chosen: W. I). Magness, AVr. T.
Magness, H. E. Hawthorne, F. C.
Ho.vt, .1. W. Sisk, I. C. N uckolls
and -I. T. Tharp.
• A meeting of directors was held
immediately after the adjourn
ment of the stockholders’ meeting
and the following officers were
elected: \\\ I). Magness, presi
dent; W. T. Magness, vice presi
dent; T. M. Waldrip, cashier.
The entire personel of the offi
cers and directors could not have
been better chosen. Every man
connected with the institution is a
man of good standing, both as a
citizen of the community and in
the business world, and their in
tegrity and business ability is
above question.
The safe and other necessary
equipment will be purchased at
once and it is thought that the
bank will be ready for business
within sixty days.
NEWPORT NEGRO DEFAULTS
Thad Arrington, formerly a re
spected colored citizen of New
port. and supposed to be in good
circumstances, being the owner of
several pieces of city property, is
alleged to be a defaulter in the
sum of $10,000 to the colored
Pythian lodges of this state. He
left Newport Wednesday night,
presumably for Jonesboro and
Marked Tree where he had death
claims trfsettle and has not been
seen or heard from since that
time.
FATAL STABBING AFFRAY.
Joe Gibson and Jake Driskell,
living near Lauratown, Lawrence
j county, became involved in a dif
ficulty over some trivial matter si
few days ago and Driskell wa
stabbed b.v Gibson, from the ef
fects of which lie died in a short
time.
NEGRO TEACHER IN TROUBLE
G. W. White, a negro teacher
at DeWitt, has been indicted foi
forgery and uttering forged in
struments by raising three schoo
warrants from $.‘50 to $J00 each.
BIG FIRE AT NEWPORT MONDAY
Creighton Hotel, Christian Church'
and Parsonage Were To
tally Destroyed
Newport was visited by anoth
er disastrous fire Monday morn
ing about one o’clock, the fire
j originating in the laundry of the
! Hotel Creighton, which was to
i tally destroyed together with the
; Christian church and parsonage on
an adjoining lot.
A very slight breeze from the
northeast carried the sparks sev
eral blocks and set fire to the
roofs of three residences, those of
J. S. Williams, W. J. Knox, dr.,
and the cottage owned by li. T.
Simmons, ad joining his home on
the south. The losses in these in
stances were light, and fully cov
ered by insurance.
The aggregate loss will exceed
#15,000, with only about #10,000
insurance.
Several narrow escapes were re
ported by the lodgers at the
[Creighton hotel. Among those
who had close calls for their live*
were J. B. Keithley, Charles Hip
polite and F. E. Vining. All had
rooms on the third floor, and were
awakened barely in time to escape
partially clothed.
Friends of F. K. Vining broke
j open his door and aroused him
just in time to escape before flames
I cut off the stairway. Nearly all
' the lodgers on this floor lost most
of their effects. The lights were
cutoff', and fearing to be lost in
the smoke they were forced to
make a hurried departure.
Capt. .1. H. McHugh, owner of
the Creighton Hotel, which was
valued at $8,500, carried $5,500
insurance. The furniture and fix
j tores were worth $2,500, and
were insured for $1,000; annex
; building and furniture, loss about
$400 covered by insurance. F. E.
Watson, lessee of the Creighton
hotel, suffered $1,200 loss on the
hotel with $000 insurance.
The Christian church was val
ued at $2,500, and is a total loss
with insurance at $000 on the
building. The organ and seats
were saved, but the loss on furni
I ture exceeds the insurance of $100.
The church parsonage was a total
loss, and was valued at $750; in
surance, $500.
STATE NEWS ITEHS.
Last Saturday Governor Davis
passed upon and refused eighty
six petitions for pardon.
Mrs. Nancy Stewart aged 76
years, was burned to death at her
home in Camden a few days ago.
W. li. Mi/e, a merchant of
Strawberry recently hauled a load
of eggs to Imboden containing ‘ 1,
170 dozen.
Two Greek laborers were killed
in a drunken brawl among a gang
of railroad laborers at Gurley, ia
Phillips county, Sunday evening.
Mrs. Margaret Johnson of Par
agould, aged SO years, was burn
ed to death Tuesday, her clothing
igniting from a pile of burning
trash in the yard.
I he Republicans of Lawrence
County have nominated a com
plete county ticket, as follows:
Representative, T. J. Sharum of
Walnut Ridge; county judge,
George Dent, Annieville; sheriff,
John Mill, Powhatan; county
clerk, James McKamey, Imboden;
{circuit clerk, liay Pace, Hoxie.