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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, May 29, 1908
Vol. 8. No. 23
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
CONVENTION NEXT WEEK
•Contest Over Election of Big Four
Expected to be Warm
Possible, Also, That Spirited Struggle
May Result Over State-Wide
Prohibition Question
The Democratic State Convention
will assemble in Little Rock next Tues
day, June. 2.
The matters of chief interest to be
dealth with by the convention are the
•election of the “Big Four” delegates
at-large to the national convention at
Denver and the question of state-wide
prohibition.
The intensity of the tight in the con
vention over election of delag|tes-at
large depends entirely on the course
to be pursued by United Stater Senator
Jeff Davis. Acting Governor X. O.
Pindall has already announced in an
other letter that he will be a candidate
for delegate-at-large from Arkansas
against United States Senator Davis,
thus in his communication expressing
a desire to keep Davis from lading
sent to the national convention, and
also a desire to have the issue narrow
ed down to a point where the conven
tion must chose between Senator Davis
and himself.
Until the present tune Senator Davis
has kept “mum” on the subject, as
have liis friends, and nothing is known
as to what line of action the Davis
followers will take on the floor of the
convention. It is generally believed,
however, *hat the Davis forces will
enter themsts against Governor Pin
dall and attempt to send the senator
to Denver. ^
Heretofore both United States sena
tors have been sent as delegates-at
large from Arkansas the the national
convention.
Friends of Judge Frank Milwee,who
managed the campaign of George W.
Donaghey, have started a Milwee
boom for the office of chairman of the
State Central Democratic Committee,
and it is understood that Mr. Milwee
will l>e a candidate.
Rumors have it that Congressman
Joe Robinson will be slated as a can
didate for permanent chairman of the
convention. Friends of Congressman
Robinson are booming his name in
connection with that position. As far
as can be learned no one else has
been mentioned as probable opposing
candidates to either Mr. Robinson or
Mr. Milwee.
It is said that a warm tight may
develop on the floor of the convention
over the question of whether the party
should declare for state-wide prohibi
tion or include any prohibition plank
in its platform. It is rumored that
Anti-Saloon League members will
make an attempt to have such a plunk
inserted in the platform, anil opposi
tion is anticipated, judging from state
ments made several weeks ago by
prominent Democratic politicians.
THE RESOURCEFUL SOUTH
R. H. Edmonds, editor of the Manu
facturers’ Record, says, that of known
iron ore the South has more than all
known ore supply of the rest of the
-country, and that in this it has the
foundation for duplicating all the iron
and steel industry (ftthe United States.
Here is potential wealth inconceiva*
ble in amount, potential wealth that is
more and more being made actual
wealth.
The south’s cotton will always la* a
great gold mine. Its lumber will last
for many years, and there are other
resources too numerous to mention.
The south is the land of opportunity.
•—Arkansas Gazette.
WRECK NEAR COTTER
An extra freight running north from
Cotter was wrecked Tuesday morning,
the caboose turning over and rolling
down an embankment.
Conductor Ed Hogue was badly
bruised and was taken to the hospital
Wednesday. Hub Holmes and Jerry
Gamble, brakemen, were considerably
shaken up, but were not seriously
hurt.
SULPHUR ROCK HAPPENINGS
Items of Interest Picked up at the Hub
of White River Township
Sulphur Rock, May 2<».—Miss Sue
Braden entertained a number of her
friends Monday night. Among1 the
number was Messrs. Vaughan. Terrell
and Edwards of Newark and Messrs.
Pierce and Simpson of Batesville.
All report an enjoyable time.
Miss Elva Mae Emmons of Bosccjbel,
Wis., arrived here Thursday and
closed a deal with G. W. Wood for
222 acres of land near town, for the
purpose of fruit culture and stock
raising.
The Sulphur Rock Telephone Com
pany is putting in a line to the Moore
tield neighborhood. There will l>e 12
phones on it.
Mrs. Hugh Moore returned home
Monday, after spending a few days at
Batesville visiting her daughter. Mrs.
Simon Ball.
Deputy Circuit Clerk Annie Houses
of Batesville s[>ent Saturday night
and Sunday at this place visiting
hotnefolks.
Mrs. George Bevens and children,
Lucy and George, of Batesville are
visiting Dr. T. A. Bevens and family.
Miss Kate Hodges of Magness, who
has heen visiting friends and relatives
at this place, returned home Sunday. .
Mrs. Massey was down from Moore
lield thy last of the week and visited
for several days.
Mrs. Minnie Dean of Newport spent
Sunday and Monday with her mother,
Mrs. Harvison.
A number of Newark young people
attended the dance at the City Hall
Monday night.
Mrs. Ethel Hogue of Newport came
up Sunday afternoon and returned
that night.
W. B. Knight left Monday for
Sputheast Arkansas on insurance
business.
W. J. Ward was down from Char
lotte Saturday to attend the Masonic
lodge.
Mrs. Eva Cunningham- was down
from Batesville Sunday to^Tsit home
folks.
Geo. Saffroe of Newport spent Sun
day in our town visiting a "friend."
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Nesbit of Fay
etteville were visiting here last week.
Mrs. I'lah Kent who has l>een sick
several weeks is slowly improving.
Tom McDoniel of the Dota neigh
borhood was in town Saturday.
Miss Irene Huddleston is visiting
her uncle, Ed Fallis. this week.
Circuit Clerk Cul. L. Pearce of
Batesville was in town Tuesday.
There are quite a number of cases
of whooping cough in town.
\V. I). Baker of Charlotte was seen
on our streets Friday.
Mrs. J. D. Kelly is right sick at
this writing.
Estus Kinman was up from Newark
Monday.
Jim Jimerson went to Newark Mon
day.
Sam Bevens went to Batesville Mon
day.
Stamp photos a specialty at Gibson’s.
TWELVE MILLION LOSS
The past week has witnessed the
most disastrous storms and floods
throughout Oklahoma and Texas ever
known in that paft of the country.
Ten |>ersons lost their lives at Fort
Worth, eight at Guthrie and three at
Dallas.
The damage to crops, railroads and
other property in Oklahoma is esti
mated at ten million dollars. The
damage in and around Dallas, Tex.,
is estimated at one million dollars and
the same estimate is placed upon the
damage done in and around Fort
Worth. ' ‘
DISTRICT UNION
The N. E. District Union F. E. & C.
U. of A. will meet with Mountain Gap
Union the first Saturday in June. All
local unions are urged to send full
delegation. T. A. BULLINGTON,
Secretary.
' STATE UNION MEETING
Farmers Will Hold State Meeting at
Little Rock August 4-6
The annual state convention of the
Arkansas Farmers Union will he held
in Little Rock August 4, 5, and li.
This was decided upon at an ad
journed meeting of the state executive
committee of the Union held at Little
Rock Friday. ‘Hot Springs made a
strong effort to secure the convention
but the committee decided to hold the
state meeting in Little Rock.
This will he the fourth meeting since
the organization of the state Union
and it is expected that about 2o0 dele
gates will be in attendance.
CAPT. JOYCE EXONERATED
Master of the Ill-Fated Miriam Not
Responsible For Wreck
('apt. W. A. Joyce of Newport,
owner and master of the ill-fated
steamer Miriam, sunk near the mouth
of the St. Francis river April 2(>th in
a hurricane, has l»een exonerated of
blame by Capts. Waltz and Hodge,
government inspectors. Fourteen peo
ple lost their lives in the wrecking of
the steamer.
Charges were made that ( apt. Joyce
was intoxicated at the time the storm
struck his boat, that he was careless
in the care of his boat and failed to
heed warnings of the approaching
! danger.
None of these charges were proven
but on the other hand it was proven
that ('apt. Joyce was aware of the
danger and did all in his power to
steer the vessel to shore.
WOMEN AND OVERALLS
Attorney General Kirby recently re
ceived a letter from a woman asking
if there was any law in Arkansas to
prohibit a woman wearing' overalls,
says the Arkansas Democrat. He sent
the following reply.
Dear Madam: yours of the 2.'5rd
inst. is received. There is no statute
in the state of Arkansas prohibiting a
woman from wearing “overalls" when
she does not disguise as a man. It
may l>e that the wearing of them by
women is at some times desirable,
since “there is a-time for all things,”
but personally and individually, I
hope it will not become a general pre
vailing style.
Yours very cordailly
W. F. Kirby,^Attorney General.
HORSE-SPORT TO GOAT-SPORT
No real lover of a horse should
blame Governor Hughes for his ac
tion in approving the anti-betting bill
which was so nearly passed by the
New York legislators. No one is to
blame for the state of affairs which
made the sport of the gods a byword
for cheap gambling and all manner of
l>etty rottenness but the gamblers
themselves. Just as in the case of the
whiskey men, who now behold their
doped and nefarious calling melting
away before the indignation of a long
suffering and patient public, so do the
gamblers on horse races who have
turned a glorious and splendid sport
into a gathering of Fleecers of the
Youth, see their business swept away.
—Taylor-Trotwood Magazine.
TRIED TO BEAT THE EDITOR
The recent revision of the postal
regulations in regard to newspapers is
very strict on both newspapers and
subscriber. A newspaper publisher
recently brought suit against 4.1 de
linquent subscribers who refused to
pay their subscription, and obtained
judgment in each case. Of this, 28
made affidavit that they owned no
more that the law allowed, thus pre
venting attachment. Then under the
decision of the supreme court they
were arrested for petit larceny and
bound over in the sum of $.100 each.
All but six gave l>ond while six went
to jail. The new postal law makes it
larceny to take a paj>er and refuse to
pay for it.—Star City Journal.
See the Henderson Heal Estate Co.,
if you want to buy or sell property.
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Short Items of Interest Gathered Fresh
From the Daily Papers
The Socialists have put out a full
county ticket in Benton county.
The Methodist church building’ at
LaCrosse is offered for sale for
it is said that trains will be running
over the M. & N. A., railroad into
Heber within two weeks.
A canning factory is l>eing put in at
North Yellville, the machinery having
l>een received a few days ago.
A company has been formed at
Jonesboro for the purpose of estab
lishing a plant for the manufacture of
incubators.
Jeff Bell, a boy at Ratcliff, attempt
ed to board a moving train, fell under
the wheels and one of his feet was cut
off at the ankle.
Stuart Smith, aged eight, was acci
dentally shot and killed at Pint' Bluff
Thursday while he and some play
mates were playing with a revolver.
Alec Hector was killed by a train
near Marked Tree. He was walking
along the track when struck by the
engine and several cars passed over
his body.
At the recent meeting of the Cum
berland Presbyterian General Assem
bly, held in Corsicana, Tex., it was
decided to hold the next meeting at
Bentonville, Ark.
A revival meeting at Camden has
respited in about .'4*H> conversions. Pne
hundred persons joined the various
churches there last Sunday, and the
meeting continues.
Charles Smith of Eureka Springs'
was stabbed by his wife with a pair of
scissors, the scissors severing an
artery in his groin, and he came near
bleeding to death.
John Williams, a farmer and suc
cessful rice planter living near Lonoke,
was accidentally killed Monday by a
scantling falling upon him while he
was at work in a well.
Rirgins Itois and Morris Mitchell,
negroes, became involved in a difficul
ty near England Sunday morning and
each shot the other, one dying almost
instantly and the other living but two
hours.
Five people were poisoned near
Beebe a few days ago from drinking
coffee that is supposed to have been
poisoned in some manner. Their con
dition was very critical for several
hours, but they finally recovered.
The Socialist state convention will
meet in Little Rock on June 1, 2 and
3. The convention will l»e composed
of 185 delegates, representing about
half the counties of the state E. W,
Perrin, the well known Socialist leader
of Little Rock, will very likely l>e
nomined for governor.
NORMAL TEACHERS SELECTED
The Arkansas State Normal School
board met at Little Rock Friday and
elected the following teachers for the
State Normal which oj>ens at Conway
September 21: W. O. Wilson, Fort
Smith, mathematics: O. D. Longtreth,
Little Rock, the sciences: L. A. Niven,
of Raeford, N. C., agriculture; Miss
Katherine Wicker, of Tampa, Fla.,
history and geography: Miss Ida
Waldron, of Fort Smith, English;
Miss Emma L. Pasor, of Columbia.
S. C., drawing and jienmanship.
On account of the small force of
teachers, Piesident Doyne will teach
pedagogy and Latin until more in
structors can be secured.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to return our heartfelt
thanks to the many nohle friends of
the Madness neighborhood who stood
by us with such unwearying kindness
during’ the illness and death our be
loved wife and mother. Although
such devoted friendship cannot re
move the sad memories that linger
around our vacant chair, it brings
into view the brightest side of human
ity and throws the pure light of an un
selfish friendship into a darkened
home. M. E. Burt
and Children.
FOR COUNTY EXHIBITS
AT THE STATE FAIR
Prizes to be Given Counties Mak
ing the Best Showing
Special Effort Being Made to Gather
Better Display of State’s Re
sources For State Fair
Special prizes will l»e included in
the State Fair premium list this year
for the counties of Arkansas making
the most creditable showing at the
State Fair and Industrial Exposition
of Arkansas, wluch will take place the
week of October 12 to 17 at Hot
Springs.
Special effort is Iteing made by the
fair association to have organized in
each county a State Fair < 'ommittee or
Auxilary Board, the appointment and
organization of which is left entirely
to the respective counties. This is a
State Fair in every sense of the term
and every effort is being made to make
the interest state-wide and the exhibits
representative in a very broad way of
the vast and varied resources of our
glorious state.
It matters not whether a county ex
hibits livestock, farm or forestry pro
duct^, ores, art works or what not.
The county from which the citizen*
send the most premium winners will
receive prizes with which to help de
fray the expense of assembling ex
hibits to the state fair next year.
The basis of award will be four
point for each first prize and two points
for each second. No county will be
eligible that has not received at least*
seventy-five points and has not or
ganized a.State Fair Board or Com
mitte before the opening of the state
fair and registered the names of said
committee with the secretary 6f the
State Fair Association.
CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES
Charlotte, May 19.—Miss Sallie
Nuckolls returned home last week,
after visiting friends and relatives at
Newport for a few days.
Harrison Crigler and sister, Miss
Beulah, and Miss Laura Nuckolls
made a business trip to Batesville
Saturday.
Miss Annie Bolding of Sulphur
visited her cousin, Miss Ether Church
ill, a few days last week.
The W. O. W. will unveil the J. W.
Blair monument at this place the first
Sunday in June.
Rev. Walter Wayinan preached at
this nlace Sunday night.
Several from here attended church,
at Mr. Herman Sunday.
J. C. McGill and family spent Sun
day at Sulphur Rock.
Owen and Curtis Walden went to
Batesville Saturday.
Will Baker made a business trip to
Magness last week.
A. P. Yates made a business trip to
Newark Monday.
BIG BOTTOM FARM FOR SALE
We have for sale one of the finest
farms in the famous Big Bottom, only
34 miles from Newark, consisting of
342 acres, 250 acres of which is in culti
vation, and produces 50 to 75 bushels
of corn or a bale of cotton j>er acre.
This is one of the finest farms in
Big Bottom which is noted for its
immense yields of cotton, corn and
alfalfa.
There are five tenant houses on the
farm, of two to four rooms each and
two good large box barns.
A genuine bargain if taken at once.
Henderson Real Estate Co., Newark,
Ark.
WHY MARRIAGE WAS A FAILURE*
This is why marriage was a failure:
He did all the courting before marri
age. He never talked his affairs over
with his wife. He thought of his wife
only as a cheap housekeej)er. He
never dreamed that a wife deservedi
praise or compliments. He married
an ideal, and was disappointed to find
it had Haw's. He paid no attention to
his personal api>earance after marri
age. He treated his wife as he would
not have dared to treat another wo
man.