The Newark Journal.
Published in The famous white River Country. Where Alfalfa Is Kino
$1 Per Annum Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 28, 1908 Vol. 8. No. 36
NEWARK THEN AND NOW
Comparisons of The Town Revenues
With and Without Saloons
Mr. Editor: I will give a few obser
vations of conditions and the changes
in Newark from wet to dry. Four
vears ago saloons were in full force.
By reference to the files of The Newark
Journal I find that in April 1904, there
was $101.78 in the town treasury. Now
by reference to the treasurer's books,
we find there is in the treasury $1,
078.69.
You remember the county voted
against license September, l!M)4, and
since December 31, 19<>4, we have had
' no saloons. Now compare the amount
on hand in the treasury when saloons
bad been running many years in New
ark, with the amount now in the treas
ury, when we have lieen without sa
- loons nearly four years.
It is contended by some that we need
the revenue. The above figures show
differently. I know many good men
have thought that way and consequent
ly have heretofore voted for license,
but since we know the above figures
show we do not need such revenue,
id's turn about and keep out the
licensed saloon. When you vote
against license you are not responsible
for the evils resulting from the sale of
intoxicants.
When we had saloons there was a
well-beaten road to the calaboose.
Now the weeds have grown up in the
road, and doubtless the hinges on the
door would need oiling to prevent them
from squeaking. Then if a lady was
on the sidewalk and wanted to pass
the saloon the crowd was often so
great on the sidewalk, especially on
Saturday evening, she would have to
elbow her way through the crowds or
turn off the sidewalk and pass the
crowd by walking in the street. Now
a lady can safely walk on the side
walk any day or any hour of the day
without meeting such obstructions and
be forced to inhale the fumes of whisky
and beer from the saloons.
heard obscene language commonly
uttered in such crowds, thereby contam
inating his mind. Now he may stand
around and'hear men discuss the topics
of the day, the crop prospects, and so
on, but seldom hears any swearing or
vulgar language.
Then we had preaching once a
month in each church. Now we have
preaching every Sunil a \ in one church
and two Sundays in each month in two
other churches.
Then we had one little Sunday
school in town; now we have three
well attended schools at the same hour
each Sunday.
Then the Sunday closing law was
commonly violated: now the law is
strictly enforced, consequently you do
not see men carry packages of mer
chandise home Sunday, as they
did then.
Now let’s roll up a good majority
against license in Big Bottom town
ship on the 14th day of September,
and for fear of making a mistake it is
a good plan to go to the bottom of
your ticket and be sure to mark out
“For License’’ and see that you have
that right before you are tired and
confused in going over the long ticket.
Hoping this will cause some to re
flect, and that we will poll a big ma
jority against license, I am,
Yours very truly,
W. P. Lawton.
JEFF IS ON THE WATER WAGON
Danville, Auj;. 24.—Before a crowd
estimated at 1,000 persons United
States Senator Jeff Davis today de
clared that he was on the “water
wagon" and that he never intended to
take another drink of intoxicating
liquors. He prefaced this statement
by the ^declaration that he had not
touched a drop of whiskey since last
March.
11 is speech was of an unusual nature,
l>eing devoid of his characteristic in
dulgence in personalities.
DISTRICT UNION MEETING
Northeast District Union of Inde
pendence county will meet with New
ark Union the first Saturday in Sep
tember. John Caldwell, Sec.
GOVERNOR DONAGHEY OUTLINES THE POLICY OF HIS ADMINISTRATION
COUNTY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Program for Meeting to be Held at
Batesville Saturday Sept. 12
The Independence County Teachers’
Association will meet at Batesville.
Ark., on Saturday, September 12,
1908. 10very teacher in the county
is expected to be in attendance. The
following is the program:
MORNING SESSION
10:00-10:15—Open i n g Ex ere i se s.
10:1'>-10:.10—President's Address.
10:30-11:00— Paper, “Howto Prevent
Whispering in School,” W. E. Dodd.
Discussion led by Ed. Martin.
11 :<X)-11:10—Recess.
11:10-11:40—“What I have done
with the graded course of study for
Rural schools,” Miss Ella Albright.
Discussion led by W. R. Morris.
11:40-12:40—Miscellaneous business.
12:00-1:00— -Recess.
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:00-1:30—The importance of teachers
Ireing organized, J. T. Powell. Dis
cussion led by C. W. Aldridge.
1:30*2:00—Paper, “How to secure
the best attendence,” Miss Lula Lene
han.
Song— M aie Quartette.
Declamation—“The New South”
Victor Wade.
2:15-2:30— Relation of the public
school to the Sunday school, Sidney
Pickens.
2:30:3:00—The use and abuse of
prizes and rewards in school, M.
Myers. Discussion led by W. J.
Jernigan.
Miss Dollie Aydelotte,
Earl Wade,
W. T. Jerniuan,
Committee.
The regular public examination will
be held at Batesville on Thursday and
Friday, September 17 and 18, 1908.
The examination will l>egin promptly
at 8:30 a. m. Sidney Pidkens,
County Examiner.
SOME GOOD MEETINGS
Dear Editor: l want to tell you
about my trip over in Jaeksoif county,
j I left home Saturday evening before
the first Sunday in this month for
Tuckerman. 1 ran down to Newport,
then up to Tuckerman. There I stayed
all night with Bro. Hall, pastor of
our church. He sent me to one of his
good churches at Kenyon. There I
met a host of as good people as can
be found on the globe. Hut 1 find good
people most everywhere I go. Well
we had as good a meeting as it has
been my pleasure to be in for some
time, though I left Bro. Kelley at
Charlotte in a good meeting and did
hate to leave him, but my time was
up, so I had to go to Tuckerman. I
stayed two weeks; came home last Sat
urday morning, and thought l would
stay at home, but I was called to New
ark to bury Mack Black. So 1 then
came home and stayed till Sunday
morning, when I went to Lebanon to
l»e in a big meeting there, i found
our dear Bro. Gibson who preached
us a fine sermon. Then L was called
back to Newark to bury John Dawson
Sunday evening.
So we have had work all week,trying
to help in the meeting and in the
shop, and the worst of all, when I
came home my wife put me to digging
potatoes and cutting weeds. So I
have my grip packed to go to Cave
City to help Bro. Ellis and will go
from there to Lockhart.
If I stay at home I have to work
and if 1 go away from home I have to
work.
Well, Mr. Editor, if you are kind
enough to print this I may blow my
horn again, as it has got to be the
style for a fellow to blow his own
horn. W. F. Wayman.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
There will l»e a meeting of the stock
holders of the Farmers' Union Ware
house Co., of Magness, 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. Bueeixoton, Sec.-Treas.
Wants to Do Something Useful
Which the People of Arkan
sas Will Appreciate
Would Drain Low Lands, Build Good
Roads, Have State Board of As
sessors and Abolish Present
Convict Lease System
Geo. W. Donaghey, Democratic
nominee for governor of Arkansas,
who will l>e elected by the largest
majority ever given a gubernatorial
candidate in the state, opened his cam
paign at Greenwood last Friday, and
outlined the policy of his administra
tion.
Following are the most important
subjects dealt with:
“One important thing 1 want to do
is to have the lowlands of the state so
drained that wealth will spring from
where water, catfish and frogs now
live. A man from Georgia laughed
at me the other day and said he had
never seen any land in the eastern
part of the state; that in his travels
there he had seen nothing but water
and it looked to lie 20 feet deep, but I
told him to watch us. In a few years
we will have corn, cotton, rice and
alfalfa growing there.
“Let me tell you gentlemen, in twelve
states of the south the cotton crop is
worth each year $700,000,000 and the
products from the seed $200,000,000.
Iowa farmers never get that in pro
portion to like acreage of the states.
“We have the most favored county
in the world.
NO CONVICT LEASING
“Now fellow citizens, the convict
lease system is an important question,
and it is a system that is difficult for
officials to control properly, to the
satisfaction of the pe.ople of this great
state, and I want it understood now
that I will not dictate to the legisla
ture in the least, but should a bill ever
reach my table when elected governor
installing a convict lease system, 1
will veto them as fast as they come.
“I also think the pardon record of
300 per year is too much and while I
am not sure, I do believe that I can
reduce that. But don’t understand me
to say that I will refuse all, for I
want to assure you that no man will
be refused a pardon that deserves it
according to law.
THE PENITENTIARY QUESTION
“I favor, on a basis of 1,000 men in
the penitentiary, putting 4<M) on state
convict farm anti letting them not only
support themselves, but four hundred
to live hundred more on the public
roads of the state.
“1 want to do somethin'*- the people
will appreciate. I have never seen a
time when u person really did some
thing for them but that they appreciat
ed it, and it shall be my ambition to
do this. On this system 500 convicts
on the roads, absolutely kept up by
those on the farm, would be worth at
least $500 per day to the state for 250
working- days in the year which would
amount to $125,<XK) and for 20 years
$2,500,000, and this amount spent on
the roads at practically no expense to
the stale, except a small appropria
tion to begin the system, would we
worth a billion dollars to the j>eople.
Besides, under this system the wardens
would real/.e that the convicts were
working for the state and not for an
individual, and would be his friend
and see that he got proper treatment.
THE WHISKEY QUESTION
“The Republicans have raised the
whisky question. They have all be
come perfect teetotalers. Judge Worth
ington has come out on this question
in great earnestness. Yet gentlemen,
the Republican party, who have per
fect control of the United States gov
ernment, have allowed the mothers of
our great land to fall at their feet in
submissive supplications asking that
a law be passed to prevent the ship
ping of whisky into dry territory, but
they have turned the* deaf ear to these
noble women. Does that show sinceri
ty on their part, or have they merely
sprung this question hoping to get a
few votes? As for myself I have al
ways voted for local option a every
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SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
Pleasant and Profitable Meeting of
County Association HeldatSalado
The annual meeting of the Indepen
dence County Sunday School Associa
tion was held at Salado last Friday
add Saturday with about seventy
Sunday school workers in attendance.
It was a great convention and is pro
nounced by many to have been the
most pleasant and profitable meeting
in the history of the Asseiation.
All went away helped and with a
vision. Reports were had from the
Ktate( onvention and the International
Convention. The Cradle Roll, Home
Department and Teachers’ Training
were discussed.
M. E. Moore was elected president,
George Hogan, first vice-president, F.
W. Pearson, second vice-president,
and Sidney Pickens was re-elected
secretary-treasurer. The following
county and township officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
Superintendent Teachers' Training
Department, Miss Jessamine Perrin,
Bates ville.
Superintendent Home Department,
Mrs. J. M. Watkins, Batesville.
Superintendent Primary and Junior
Department, Mrs. Frank Wright, Sul
phur Rock.
Superintendent Temperance, Hon.
C. F. Cole, Batesville.
Township vice-presidents were elect
ed as follows:
Black River, Judge G. J. Lindsey.
White River, Magness and Logan.
Frank W right.
Greenbrier and Salado, C. D. Mc
Clendon.
Ruddell, C. D. Metcalf.
Fairview, Liberty and Relief, Elmer
Hook.
Washington, Cushman and Jeffer
son, W. H. Calaway.
Big Botton, Oil Trough and Chris
tian, O. F. Craig.
Ashley and Barren, Dr. C. C. Gray,
Gainsboro, Will Morgan, Jr.
The exective committee are J. C.
Bone, Frank Wright and W. R. SKelp
man. Salado entertained the conven
tion royally. Some of the best in the
world live over there.
Indepenpenee county has been one
of the banner counties of the state in
Sunday school work for the last two
years, and it is hoped to attain greater
aehievments in pushing the good work
along practical lines during the en
suing year.
Church statistics show that ninety
per cent of the conversions are from
the Sunday schools, and when we con
sider the fact that only about twenty
per cent of the people attend the Sun
day schools, we readily see that Sun
day school work affords a wide field
for usefulness.
The next convention will be held at
Sulphur Rock.
APPLE CROP A FAILURE
Fayetteville, Aug. 25. For the first
time, it may almost be said, in the his
tory of the industry, the apple crop of
northwest Arkansas is this year a total
failure. The conditions this year are
said to be worse ttian have been ex
perienced at any time since the apple
raising business reached anything like
its present proportions in this territory
and it is the first time that there has
been anying like a complete failure
of the crop for 10 years.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many friends
and the people generally for the kind
ness shown us in the burial of our
beloved son and brother, Mack Black,
who died at Denton, Tex., August 13
and was hurried at Blue Springs
cemetery at Newark, on Saturday,
August 15.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Black
AND CHILDKKN.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Notary work of all kinds done in a
careful and correct manner by A. A.
Henderson at the Merchants and
Planters Bank.
THE VALUE OF SYSTEM
Some Timely Thoughts For Farmers
by a Farmer Girl
I)t>ar Eitor: I thought T would write
a few lines in regard to the Farmers’
Union. I belong to Oak Hill Local
No. 808, of which there is a member
ship of 50, 12 of whom are ladies.
Papa is secretary. He never misses a
meeting. We have a very good work
tng local, but it gets on the drag
sometimes, but we just push ahead and
make her boom. I would like to ap
peal to all farmers ( ! mean the wo
men as well as the men, for I believe
there are more women farming than
men) push ahead and we will keep
ahead.
i ime was wnen tile farmers got along
fairly well without having to figure
much on the cost of things, hut that
day is past. He no longer farms out
of-doors and gets the land for a song.
He is no longer satisfied with the sim
ple life of fifty years ago. The new
way of living costs more. His land
costs more and raises less, so it lie
hooves him to use business methods.
We do not refer to book-keeping, hut
that is quite essential, at least in its
simpler forms; hut there are certain
habits which build up business suc
cess, and these apply as well to the
farmer as anyone. We are creatures
of habit, and when we form the habit—
well, you know how enslaved some
folks are to had habits.
A farmer who tries to act as land
agent, or run the mercantile world, is
liable to let something go wrong at
home. Application does not forbid
vacation, and all that, hut it does for
bid letting other thoughts sidetrack
farm interests. How great is the loss
every year because people do not ob
serve the mistakes they have made; do
not see the mishaps that may accur: do
not take notice of things to prevent
their going wrong.
Keep a good fence around your crop
and keep the gate shut. It will save
you time and money.
To accuracy we must attribute a
great share of the world’s confidence
in business affairs. The books must
not only balance in business affairs,
but we must have confidence in our
selves and in each other. It is almost
as great a crime to lie a blunderer as
to he dishonest, and it might cost you
more. Obedience to orders is what
makes a man valuable, therefore you
understand that if every I’nion man
and woman will live up to the princi
ples of the Union, we will not make
these blunders, therefore lie useful to
each other.
How great is the loss each year lie
cause we do not observe the mistakes
we make; do not take notice of things
to prevent their going wrong: do not
•ee the open gate until the stock have
destroyed the crop. The farmer must
he brains and eyes for the whole force
if he would keep things moving at a
profit. He must try to get the most
out of his farm without ruining it; he
must get the most out of life he can to
he profitable to himself, his neighbors
and his God.
Use your backbone and your jaw
bone, and say “no” to every foolish
scheme; and if undecided, ask your
wife. She will warn you of swindling
schemes if you give her a chance.
“No” is a little word, hut it will often
prevent a multitude of regrets and
worries. I>earn to say no. '
1 will close for fear 1 am writing too
much, as this my first attempt at
writing for publication.
uora Curtis.
FARM FOR SALE
Good farm of 100 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 line 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.