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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918
VOL. 18, NO. 39
ARKANSAS BOYS
ARE EN ROUTE HOME
FROM FRANCE
NOW ON HIGH SEAS
HOMEWARD BOUND
Transports Carrying Home
Boys Expected to Arrive at
Newport News Soon
Transports carrying the
Thirty-ninth Division of the U.
S. Army made up of Na
tional Guardsmen from Arkan
sas, Loui^ianna, and Mississippi
are now on the high seas en
route home, having sailed from
a French port last Friday.
There are many Arkansas
nien from this section of the
state in the 39th Division, the
Division being made up large
ly of Arkansas men. There
are a large number of Inde
pendence and Jackson couny
men in this Division.
Transports carrying the men
are expected to arrive at Newr
port News, Va., about next
Tuesday or Wty^nesday and
the men will be sent to Camp
Pike and Camp Beauregard
tor demobilization. Afcout 80
per cent of the men, being
from Arkansas will go to
Camp Pike to be mustered out
while most of the emair.der
will go to Camp Beauregard
and a few will go to Camp
Fh el by.’
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PRISONERS BREAK JAIL
• Searcy, Dec. 23.—Three
prisoners, **■ white man named
Ray, and his wife, and a negro
woman named Rachael Han
kins, escaped from the White
county jail about 2 o’clock
Monday morning. None of the
three has been recaptured.
CARAWAY CANDIDATE
TO SUCCEED KIRBY
Congressman From First Dis
trict Will be in Senatorial
Race in 1921
In letters to friends at home |
IT. H. Caraway, congressman*
from the First District, hasj
given out the information that:
he will be a candidate to suc
ceed Senator W. F. Kirby in
the next primary.
Senator Kirby’s term expir
es March 31, 1921, and the pri
mary and general election for
^he office will be held in 1920.
Although no announcement
has been made by Senator
Kirby it Is presumed that he
will be a candidate to succeed
himself, inasmuch as he is now
serving his first term in the
Senate, to which he was elect
ed to succeed the late Senator
James R Clarke at a special
election held November 7,
1916.
Governor Brough will also
be a candidate to succeed Sen
ator Kirby, according to
friends of the governor.
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QUARANTINE RAISED
Notice is herby given that
the influenza epidemic having
subsided to the point where it
is considered safe to raise the
quarantine restrictions hereto
fore in force in Newark, the
restrictions are hereby lifted,
effective on and after this*
date.
Given this 26th day of De
cember, 1618.
J. R. KETCHEM, Mayor.
The iwar\ with
moi\ey does i\ot
fear adversity
i\or poverty.
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Poverty in old age slowly but surely ap
proaches every man who spends all he earns and
drifts into merciless debt.
While you have EARNING POWER open a
bank account. Your bank book will be guiding
light which will steer you away from failure and
poverty. You only need to open a bank account;
accumulating money will then be easy. Try it!
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
FARMER KILLS ONE
WOUNDS ANOTHER
St. Francis County Man Killed
On Crhistmas Eve as! Re
sult of Old Grudge
Forrest City, Dec. 24.—Fol
lowing a (juarrel at 3 o’clock
this afternoon in front of the
Palestine meat market at Pal
estine,a small town seven miles
west of Forrest City, Avery
Blount fired two shots from
his revolver, killing one man
instantly and seriously wound
ing another. Abe Young was
shot between the eyes and fell
dead, and Otho Jordan was
shot behind the ear and is not
expected to live. Jordan was
rushed to a hospital at Little
Rock.
The immediate cause of the
shooting is not known, al
though it was known that
Blount and Young had been
on bad terms for some time.
Jordan was in partnership with
Young in the cattle business,
and it is supposed that he took
up the quarrel on behalf of
Young.
The three men met this af
ternon in front of the market,
and after the exchange of a
few words, the two shots were
fired. Blount immediately
surrendered to the officers,
and said he was justified in
shooting the two men. He is
held under guard but is not in
jail.
Young and Jordan lived at
Palestine and are well known
there. Young was about 27
years old and Jordan 24. Blou
nt is a well-known farmer liv
ing near Palestine.
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HOME BOY DIES IN FRANCE
W. M. McKinney who lives
about two miles south of town
received a telegram from the
war department last Snndav
announcing the death of hisson
Charles McKinney, which oc
curred in France November 23.
Young McKinney was 21
years old and was in a contin
gent of men which -left this
county for Camp Pike on Au.
gust 27. He arrived in France
the day before the armistice
was signed and his parents
had heard nothing from him,
except a card announcing his
safe arrival overseas.
Death was caused from ap
pendicitis. His father and mo
ther, three sisters and a num
ber of other relatives survive
him, besides a host of friends
who regret to hear of this
splendid young man’s untimely
death.
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LOST CATTLE
Strayed from my place near
Newark, live or six head of
yearling calves and one three
year old steer, all marked with
two underbits in each ear and
branded with “Seven Up”
brand. Liberal reward will be
paid anyone who will take up
the missing stock and notify
me, or for information leading
to their recovery.
C. E. JIMERSON.
CIRCUIT COURT WILL
CONVENE NEXT WEEK
List of Jurors for Winter Term
of Independence Circuit
Court
The fall term of the Inde
pendence Circuit Court will
convene at Batesville next
Monday, having been continu
ed to that date on account of
the influenza epidemic preva
lent at the time when the
court should have convened in
October.
There are no cases of great
importance but the docket is a
rather large one on account of
the fact that no court has been
held in the county in consider
ably more than a year.
Following is a list of jurors
for the term.
GRAND JURORS
John C. Rone, Ruddell town
ship.
Steadman McClendon, of
Greenbrier.
J. A. Pearson, Liberty.
G. G. Wilson, Fairview.
J. A. Kaneaster, Salado.
J. L. Outlaw, jChristian.
J. A. Baker, Oil Trugh.
Tom Hess, Washington.
E. L. Griffin, Cushman.
A. <G. Gray, Barren
Wm. Ottinger, Ashley
W. C. Caldwell, White Riv
er.
T. H. Hearing, Big Bottom.
A. E. Fallis, Dota.
Ben Owens, Magness.
N. A. Winston, Black River.
J. B. Wright, Ruddell.
Wm. Milligan, Jefferson.
Wm. McKnight, Hill.
Henry Hooper, Rosie.
W. E. Self, Rig Bottom.
W. M. Keith, Wycough
Randolph Chinn, Ashley.
W. R. Albright, Barren.
PETIT JURY
J. S. Griffin, Ruddell.
W. B. Pate, Greenbrier.
G. D. Hall, Fairview.
J. G. Hazelrigg, Salado.
Tom Kramer, Rosie.
C. L. Jennings, Cushman.
John Dobson, Union.
J. A. Tugwell, Barren.
W. J. Bice, Wycough.
Walter O’Neal, Washington
G. W. Wilson, White River
Marvin Fallis, Dota.
Ben Smith, Magness.
R. M. Galloway, Big Bottom
M. E. Moore, Gainsboro.
Jim Herrington, Black River
Lee Caldwell, Craig.
Leander Davis, Oil Trough.
J. M. Milam, Christian.
Sam Tugwell, White River.
J. J. Hall, Relief.
M. C. Weaver, Ruddell.
Isaac Harris, Fairview.
Walter McGuire, Greenbrier
J. H. Fetzer, Logan.
T. N. Robertson, Hill.
Joe Keith, Craig.
T. S. Ottinger, Gainsboro.
Chas. Perkey, Barren.
J. W. Scott, Salado.
K. Crabtree, Oil Trough.
W. E. lotty, Jefferson.
Hick Calaway, Washington
Edward Blount, Fairview.
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Trade with the merchant
who advertise in the Journal.
BOY KILLS HIMSELF
WHILE OUT HUNTING
Howling of Faithful Dog At
tracts Attention of Broth
er of Dead Youth
Searcy, Dec. 24.—Attracted
by the howling of a dog Mon
day, the young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Marsh of Letonia ran
cut into a field near-by and
found his brother, Roy, 16
years old, had accidentally
killed himself while hunting.
The boy’s faithful dog was
standing guard over his dead
body and would allow no one
It touch it for some time.
The tragedy occurred on al
most the same spot where, two
years ago, on Christmas day,
Bruce Whisnant, a 12-year old
cousin of young Marsh, acci
dentally killed a boy friend
while they were out hunting.
Young Marsh was oukhunt
nig alone. Some section hands
passing at a distance heard a
shot and the boy’s cries and
then saw him run a short dis
tance and fall. They thought
he was after a wounded squir
rel and passed on with out. in
vestigation.
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WAS STRONG AGAINST
NEW CONSTITUTION
Official returns show that
Hot Spring's county, of which
Malvern is the county seat,
polled the strongest vote again
st the proposed new constitu
tion of any county in the state.
Hie official returns from that
county show 92 votes for the
constitution and 1.0G7 against
it.
TRIG BREWER MUST
SERVE PEN SENTENCE
Supreme Court Affirms Deci
sion Against Man Impli
cated in Bank Robbery
The Supreme Court last
Monday affirmed the verdict
cf the Woodruff Circuit Court
in sentencing Trigger Brewer
to three years in the peniten
tiary as an accessory to tie
robbery of the Bank of CottoW
Plant.
The bank at Cotton Plant
was robbed January 8, 1918
by Ben Crews who held up the
cashier and took about $3,400
in cash.
Crews was captured a few •
days after the robbery. He
was sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary. He appealed
to the supreme court, and the
supreme court affirmed the
verdict of the lower court.
Brewer is well known in
Newark, having once been a
citizen of this place, but for
the past few years has made
his home at Kensett.
MRS. MARY NEILL DEAD
Mrs. Mary A. Neill died at
her home in Batesville Monday
after an illness of several
weeks.
She is survived by three
sons and three daughters, Er
nest Neill of Batesville, Hugh
Neill of New York, and Rob
ert Neill of Hot Springs, Mrs.
S. R. Phillips of Newport, Miss
Elanor Net'll of Virginia an
Miss Esther Neill of Batesvj
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Begins With The Arrival ofThe 5tocK|
When material is received atVthe immense StudebaKer
lumber yards it is inspected piece by piece as it is being un
loaded from cars every piece must be up to specifications—no
brashness, windshaKen or worm holes in StudebaKer materials
The StudebaKer lumber yards cover almost 80 acres and
every piece of wood stocK in
them is carefully inspected
before being piled for air
drying.
Come in and see the
StudebaKer. Let us show
why it's the best wagon
■ on the marKet.
We Have Handled 1
Studebakers 1
For Over Forty Years and Know There I
are None to Compare With Them I
C. W. MAXFIELD CO j
Batesville, Arkansas