The Newark Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1920
VOL. 20 NO. 29
EIGHT MEN HELD ON I
N1GHTR1DER CHARGE
Alleged to Have Po ted Gins
at Bald Knob Bradford
and Pleasant Plains
Bald Knob, (‘ i 15.—ar
raigned before Justice John
M. Collison at Bald Knob this
morning on charges of night
riding, the eight men arrestei
near here were held to the
White county Grand Jury af
ter waiving examinations, j
They are: Frank Withers,
Luke Bone, Irving Cribbeston,
Fate Sterling, Walter Bone,
Tom Smith, J. W. Fuller and
Charles Meachel. All the de
fendants except Fuller and
Meachel made bonds of $S00
■each and were released.
The charges against the
men, all of whom are farm
ers, living in the vicinity of
Velvet Ridge, 10 miles north
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of threats of burning gins j
against various operators in
the county. Threatening let
ters enclosed in envelope'
which also coritained matches,
were received by Will Mason,
Bradford; Ernest Patterson.
Russell; and Bart Woods.
Pleasant Plains, ginners. They
were ordered to close down |
their plants until the price of
cotton advanced to 40 cents a
pound. Unless operations
ceased immediately, the letters
warned, matches would be ap
plied to the gins. These no
tices were received last Thurs
day.
Another notice was found
the following day posted at
the gin operated by J. Colli -
son at Bald Knob, warning
the ginner to discontinue op
erating his plant. The notice
also contained the threat that
if guards were placed around
the gin “they would go with
it.”
All the notices were scrawl
ed on cheap tablet paper, and,
officers say, appeared to have
come from the same source.
The wording of all them was
practically identical, it was
said. One of them read as
follows:
Copy of Notice
“You must close this gin un
til cotton goes to 40 cents. If
you do not, then the gin will
go into ashes, and if any guard
i there he will go with the
gin.”
SULPHUR ROCK
DEFEATS NEWARK
On Monday afternoon the
basketball team of the New
ark High School went to Sul
phur Rock to play the school
team of that town. Our boy.',
three of whom had never
played basketball, were no
match in the skill of the game
or the Sulphur Rock team as
was evidenced by the score of
fn T in fcnm-.* nf tVin laftov
team.
One of Sulphur Rock’s team,
Henderson Weaver of Char
lotte, has been a star player
before this year, and he cer
tainly lost none of his laurels
as forward in the game Mon
day. The whole team was
composed of manly young fel
lows, whom our boys think
: will be a great honor to de
feat in another clean game a
little later on.
The next game will be play
ed at Newark.
CARPENTER FALLS
Will Tate, a carpenter on
the bridge gang working near
Criekett on the White River
division, fell from a bridge a
ew days ago. He was badly
bruised and some bones were
broken. He was taken to a
hospital at Springfield, Mo.
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CIRCUIT COURT IN
SESSION THIS WEEK
Juries are Selected and Few
Cases Disposed of By
the Court
The regular fall term of the
Independence Circuit Court
convened at Batesville Mon
day with Judge Dene H. Cole
man presiding.
The juries are made up of
the following citizens.
Grand Jury.—Ran Chinn.
W. R. Albright, Geo. L. Moore,
W. W. McLendon, W. H. Les
ter, W. L. Lanier, Ed Cun
ningham, John Q. Wolf, John
Hughey, G. D. Hooper, Jim
Stephens, Tom Gray, Chas.
Jimerson, J. H. Coles, Blake
Evans, E. R. McGuire.
John Q. Wolf, Foreman; W.
A. Lanier, Clerk; J. Frank
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Petit Jury—Sherman Smith
V. 0. Gray, James Herring
ton, Lee Caldwell, W. H.
Wren, Ed Fallis, Henry John
son, Wat Searcy, Major Har
ris, Kelley Crabtree, Ed ’Sher
rill, Frank Wright, Deck;
Hayes, Dave Lawrence, Hugh
Kennard, Bill Winston, Clar
ence Vaughan, Neil Ruther
ford, Will Smith, Claud Lov
ell, L. E. Cavenor, J. U. Mar
tin, G. F. Pace, Ben Magness.
The following cases have
been disposed of by the court.
T. F. Adams v. A. E. Enoch,
plaintiff takes non-suit.
Union & Mercantile Trust
Co., executor, vs. Henry Ma
gar, continued.
W. W. Haley vs. Chess-Wy«
mond Co., plaintiff takes non
suit.
Pfeiffer Stone Co. vs. A. 0.
Pottarff, dropped from docket.
Paul Johnson Harding vs. J.
D. Magness, non-suit.
C. M. Edwards vs. A. A. Ev
ans, et. al. judgment by de
fault for $5,000.00 and inter
est.
W.D. Murphy and J. R. Case
vs. Marion Dickens, et. al. dis
missed at plaintiff’s cost.
O. S. Adams vs. Laura E.
Adams, appeal dismissed.
G. W. Hampton vs. Will
Patterson, jury trial, verdict
for plaintiff for $150.
Frak Butler v. M. B. Updike
appeal dismissed.
Clara Dealey v. Ray Gary,
[judgment for plaintiff for
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Luther A. Davis, disability
of minority removed.
Union and Mercantile Trust
Co. v. W. H. and Frank Hand
ford, judgment for plaintiff
for $712.93.
Maryland Casualty Co. vs.
Eureka Manganese Co., con
tinued.
J. L. Davis, et. al. vs. Rod
man, Roe and Bone, demurrer
sustained and appeal granted.
J. L. Brown vs. Batesville
Hardwood Lumber Co., judg
ment for plaintiff fzor $400.
NOBODY LOVEI) THE
THIN GIRL
The whole country sagged
and groaned under the weight
of 250 pound maidens. Poor
little “Slim Princess” weighed
only 98 pounds and nobody
wanted her. See “The Slim
Princess” at the Royal Friday
night. o „
HIGH ENDORSEMENT
OF LITTLE SHEPHERD
Magazine Says it is One of
Most Successful Produc
tions of the Year
The highest recognized au
thority on picture show films,
The Motion.Picture News, has
the following to say of “The
Little Shepherd of Kingdom
Come.”
“Once in a long while a pic
ture is released that every
exhibitor wants to play be
cause he knows that every pa
tron of his theatre and a lot
of people who seldom go to
the picture show will be sure
to want to see it. Such a fea
ture is “The Little Shepherd
of Kingdom Come,” adapted
from the novel by John Fox,
Jr., with Jack Pickford in t'
leading role.
“Even the uninitiated will
readily see that this great
novel was ideal material for
the photoplay because of its
wealth of dramatic situations
and the unusual amount or
descriptive incident. Wallace
Worsley, who directed the pro
duction for Goldwyn release
has succeeded in bringing Mr.
Fox’s great story to the screen
practically in its entirety. Nc
liberties have been taken wi*P
the plot, something which of
ten spoils many a good boot
picture in the minds of an au
dience. All the unusual char
acters of the story are in the
picture with a most wonder
ful realism. Jack Pickford
has one of the most likeable
roles of his career. Pauline
Stark is the unfortunate little
“Melissy” who loves “Chad”
so well that she is willing to
give him up to her “Bluegrass’
rival, “Margaret,” a role play
ed by Clara Horton.
“It is a very sweet story,
iust the kind that pleases all
classes and all ages.”
RAISE PHONE RATES
The White River Telephone
Company has filed a petition
with the' Arkansas Corpora
tion Commission asking for
permission to increase their
rates for service in Newark
and Sulphur Rock.
J. E. Armstrong, manager
of the company, states that
the company is unable to op
erate the telephone system on
the present rates and pay ex
penses and upkeep of the sys
tem.
FIND STILL IN BAKERY
North Little Rock office*1.'
a few days ago raided a bak
ery in the center of the city’s
business section, seized
“moonshine still” and a gallon
of whiskey and arrested the
proprietor, I, Swartz. The of
ficers said that the odor of
baking bread had overcome
the smell of the mash and en
abled Swartz to carry on his
operations for months with
out being detected.
STATE HAS 55,000
WAGE EARNERS
Statistics completed by the
state department of mines
manufacures and agriculture
show that there are 55,000
wage earners employed in Ar
kansas industries during the
! present year. The value of the
industries employing these
wage earners, is given in the
bulletin as $100,000,000.
Lumber mills and wood
working plants outnumber all
other industries of the state,
according to the bulletin, al
though thpre has been a total
of 30 new industries establish
ed during the past year.
BOOSTS CAMPAIGN FUND
In about an hour, Tuesday,
J. F. Cossey secured $28 for
the National Democratic
Campaign fund, which he sent
the treasurer to help defray
the expenses of the National
Campaign. The following
wer^ me coniriDUiors:
.1. F. Cossey*_$5.0C
0. F. Craig_5.0C
Fisher & Saylors_2.0C
Dr. Pascoe _2.0C
J. B. Ketehem_2.0C
Newark Gin Co_1.0(
A. J. McSpadden_l.OC
A. A. Evans_l.OC
J. E. Snell_l.OC
Eli Magness_l.OC
G. 0. Magness_l.OC
E. E. Allen___l.OC
W. W. Jernigan_l.OC
Hugh Vaughan _1.0c
T. N. Rodman_1.0<
T. H. Dearing__l.OC
H. E. Hawthorne_1.0<
GOVERNMENT TO USE
MOVIES TO AID FAIO
Washington, Oct. 18.—T<
aid Southern cotton grower:
in the fight against the bol
weevil the Department of Ag
riculture is planning to shov
by motion pictures the meth
ods used in controlling the de
stroyer by means of caleiun
arsenate poisons as applied
dusting machines.
BOY IS HELD FOR
FORGING CHECK
Willie James Alleged to Have
Forged Check on Tom
Jones for $150
Willie James, a young man
of the Magness neighborhood,
was arrested yesterday charg
ed with having forged a check
on J. T. Jones of Magness for
$150, which he is said to have
attempted to cash at the First
National Bank yesterday.
The young man who is
about 19 years old, went into
the drug store and asked Paul
Crow to make out a check for
left the drug store, saying
that he would sign it later.
Some time later he presented
a check at the First National
Bank signed by J. T. Jones for
i $150. Assistant Cashier T.
i M. Harrelson suspected there
i was something wrong with
• the check and told the boy he
• would cash it as soon as he
i telephoned Mr. Jones. The
> boy became frightened and
I ran away, leaving the check
> lying in the cashier’s window.
) He left town on the run and
) escaped through a field south
) of town but was later arrest
ed by the officers.
The boy was gone before
j Mr. Jones could answer the
telephone call from the bank,
> but stated later that he had
; not given him a check for
j any amount.
SUFFRAGE PROBLEM
Some grouch wants to know
■ if the election boards will be
1 expected to provide mii*rors
and powder puffs for the vot
ing booths.—Shreveport Times
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