Tiie Newark Journal.
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published In The Famous white Riven Country. Where Alfalfa Is kino
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 13, 1909
Vol. 9. No. 18
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SKETCHES FROM SALADO
Doings of the Week Among Our
Neighbors Across the White
We had a fine rain Friday night.
Elbert Burt of Newark in town
Wednesday.
EJ Fowler is doing some repair
work on his residence.
Quite n number of our citizens
attended the picnic at Sulphur
Rock Tuesday.
W. E. Hooper and family visit
ed relatives in Oil Trough Satur
day and Sunday.
Our road overseer, W. A. Tay
lor, is doing some much-needed
work on the roads.
* Jesse Fowler is having a resi
dence built, which he will move
into in the early fall.
J. A. Kaneaster and C. C. Tay
lor went to Little Rock Thursday,
returning home Sunday.
Mrs. A. C. Scott visited R. H.
Scott and family at Rosie Monday,
returning in the afternoon.
Cally Nared and family, of Shi
loh, are visiting relatives and at
tending the meeting here this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Collum and
E. I>. Uhles were viewing the
crops on the north side of the
river Saturday.
Dr. J. M. Hooper came in last
week from Ennis, Tex., an a short
visit to his family. He left Sun
day for Dallas and P'ort Worth.
Mrs. Cynthia Thomas, a widow
lady and hwr family, returned a
few days ago from Texas, where
they have lived for the past two
years.
Eld. O. Dawson of Clay, Ark.,
will begin a protracted meeting at
the Christian church next Satur
day night and will continue it
through next week.
CHILD EATS STRYCHNINE
Little Adler Kuddell, the two
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. S.
A. Kuddell, who live near llates
ville, found some strychnine pills
in a box in open trunk while play
ing around it Monday and swal
lowed a number of them.
The little fellow was taken with
convulsions just after swallowing
the pills and died in about three
hours, physicians being unable to
save him.
It is not known how many of
the pills were eaten by the child,
but possibly 12 or 15.
The funeral was held Tuesday,
the remains being buried at Oak
lawn cemetery, at Batesville.
ANNOUNCEMENT
It is hardly necessary for me tc
announce that I have tendered m.\
resignation as cashier of the Mer
chants & Planters Bank. Having
sold the interests of several of the
I stockholders to Messrs. Alfred A.
j Heeb, Leslie K. Acton and R. F.
j Kelker ,Jr., of Chicago. I resign in
favor of Mr. Leslie R. Acton, as
Cashier.
These gentlemen come among us
well recommended, ns men of
honor and integrity and business
ability. They are worthy of the
favorable consideration of our
people, and I commend them to my
friends, as being worthy of your
patronage.
The bank is amply able to take
of its business, and is on a solid
footing, and every courtesy will
be extended to its patrons, that is
consistent with good business.
I can hardly express ray thanks
and appreciation to ray friends
for the kiitdness given me since I
have been connected with the bank
and trust that you will still con
tinue to be as loyal to it as you have
in the past. Very Truly,
A. A. Henderson.
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The Merchants and ^Planters
Bank beg to announce that Messsr
Alfred A. Heeb, Leslie R. Acton,
and R. F. Kelker, -Jr., have ac
quired somewhat extensive hold
ings of the Capital Stock of this
Bank; that Mr. A. A. Henderson
has resigned as Cashier, and that
Mr. Leslie R. Acton has been
elected as Cashier,
While we regret that we shall
lose the services of Mr. Ilendersou
as Cashier, we are pleased to state
that we shall continue to have the
benefit of his advice and counsel
as a member of our Board of Di
rectors, and we beleive that the
interests of the town and commun
ity will be best advanced by the
introduction of new men and new
money.
We beg further to state that the
well kno wn liberal conserative pol
icy of this bank will be continued
and every conrtesy consistent with
.sound banking principles will be
extended to our patrons.
We thank you for your patron
j age in the past and assure you
| that we shall do everything in our
| power to merit a continuance of
'the same liberal patronage.
| Bank will open at *:30 a.ra. and
■ close at 4 p. m.
Leslie R. Acton, Cashier.
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The purpose of a bank is to be useful
and helpful to a community; to facilitate
business by the exchange and extension of
credits, thereby making it possible to carry
on a vast amount of business with a com
paratively small amount of actual cash.
It is wrong to hoard money and bury
it in some old cellar and thereby take it
entirely out of circulation.
Bring it to this bank, where it will be
much safer and will help to earn you more
money, and yet be at your command.
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK
Geo. L. Green, President
Leslie /f. Acton, Cashier
POSES OF A BANK
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FROM COLUMBIA COUNTY
Rev. J. L. Brown Writes About
Progressive Hagnolia
Dear Journal:-Thinking it not
amiss, 1 will write you a few lines
about Magnolia, the county seat
of Columbia county.
This is a town of 2500 people.
It is on the Louisiana <& North
western railroad, six miles south
of McNeil on the Cotton Belt.
We dm! a splendid people here,
I full of the spirit of get-up-and-go.
■ They have a $40,000 oil mill, to
which is connected a fertilizer fac
tory. They also have a stave fac
tory, ice plant, elect ric light plant,
a $10,000 canning factory, cotton
compress, a $10,000 hotel, four
banks, two newspapers and tive
white churches.
I saw 29 women and girls peel
ing tomatoes in the canning fac
tory.
The farmers around here are
trying diversified farming. This
land is very poor, but they are
using large quantities of fertilizer
| which they buy from the oil mill
at $21 a ton.
I am making my home while
here with Bro. W. W. Boyd, a
large stockholder and the general
manager of the oil mill and ferti
lizer plant. He informs me that
their entire output of fertilizer is
taken by the local trade.
I find hundreds of acres of land
planted in beans, tomatoes and
sweet potatoes, but the crops have
been injured by the continued dry
! weather this summer. The canning
factory company contracts for all
i these crops before they are plant
; ed. The bean crop has been can
ned. They pay $30 to $40 a ton
for beans, and $10 a ton or thirty
cents a bushel for tomatoes. To
matoes are being canned now.
They have a kind of sweet potato,
which they say is unfit for use
here, on account of being too hard
and tough, but which they can
and send up North where they can
get nothing better.
We have very good interest in
our meeting. Four have been con
verted and two have joined the
church. 1 will go from here to
Grant county.
Good wishes to all.
J. L. Brown.
CHARLOTTE CIPHERS
A. P. .Yates made a business
trip to Batesville Friday.
Several from here attended
church at Antioch last week.
Quite a large crowd attended the
W. O. W. picnic here Saturday.
Owen Walden visited friends at
Cave City Saturday and Sunday.
Several from here attended
church at Eaves Springs Sunday
night.
Miss Annie Baker visited rel
atives at Antioch Saturday and
Sunday.
There will be an ice cream sup
here Friday night for the benefit
of the church.
Several from here attended the
picnic at Sulphur Rock Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kent visited
! relatives and attended the picnic
at Oil Trough last week.
George Walden and family of
Hazel Grove attended the W. O. W.
picnic here Saturday and visited
; Mrs. S. E. Fall is Saturday night
1 and Sunday.
BALL PLAYERS CHALLENGED
J. R. Waldrip, manager of the
Magness baseball team, challenges
any amatuer team in Independence
or any of the surrounding counties
I for a series of games for the am
[ atuer championship of these coun
I tics.
' He claims to have the best team
[ in this section of the state.
THE OLD SCHOOL BIRCH
Protest Against Abandonment of
its Use in the Schools
A Chicago school principal de
clares that the public schools of
that city are training boys to be
thugs and bandits- and the police
records certainly seem to prove it.
An Ohio institute of teachers
the other day vigorously applaud
ed a state examiner’s assertion
that disrespect for authority is the
inevitable result of a knowledge
that discipline must not be enforc
ed by punishment.
We talk glibly about times hav
ing changed since the fathers of
today were very properly brought
up on the birch. Ilut boys haven’t
changed a bit.
Who can ever, while life lingers,
forget the old school birch.
But the old school birch is one
of the boyhood tilings never for
gotten. Its slender and supple
stem securely bridges youth and
age; it straightens your morals and
conduct all through life; and its
memory is one of the few things
immortal that will go with you to
the grave, as a preparation, per- ;
haps, for what awaits beyond.
Yes, the old school birch made
an impression on tender minds— |
and other spots which passes not
soon away.
It furnished your first object
lesson that the way of the trans
gressor is hard. It was beneath
the uplifted birch that you first
learned the beneficent charms of
diplomacy which makes statesmen
and controls the destines of nations.
The birch it was which caused
you to walk in the straight and
narrow way, very, very carefully,
or at least strenuously pretend to
sit down more carefully still, with
out any false pretense whatever.
How often and with what tre
mendous seriousness you swore—
under your breath, of course—
that when you had got big enough
you would thrash your teacher!
Well, you have long been as big
as you ever will get, but the old
teacher is still safe. Maybe he is
weighted with years and feeble
now and easily thrashed. You
meet him on the street, salute him,
grasp his hand, help him over a
rough place, involuntarily lift
your hat to him, and make the
uuarust approacu ui wiiiuii
capable to say ing “God blessyou.”
You long have known in your
heart that not a lick in the old days
was amiss. You kuow you deserv
ed every one you got—or if you
got any you didn’tdeserve anyway
you deserved a lot you didn’t get,
so the average was fair.
It trimmed down and traimd
the exuberant zest of youth. It
gave you foretaste and prepara
tion for the hard knocks of life.
Squeamish-hearted theorists
have about succeeded in having
the birch abolished from the j
schools. New fangled fads and
fancies leave no room for teaching
discipline except in so called mor
al suasion, that operates on the
average boy as water does on a
duck’s back. — Memphis News
Scimitar.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
A meeting of the stockholders
of the Farmers Union Warehouse
| Company will be held at the ware
house at Magness, Ark., on Sat
urday, August 21, 11)09, at 10
I o’clock a. m. Every stockholder
i is requested to be present, as there
is business of importance to come
before the meeting.
A. H. Say urns, Pres.
J. D. Martin, Secretary.
LOOK HERE, HR. MAN
If you want to sell your farm
see the White River Land & In
vestment Co.
/TAKING QOOD
The man wlio mukes good may
uot dr(‘.«s in the latest style, but he
gets there with n large-size package
of satisfaction when it comes to a
counting up of results.
The man who makes good is the
one who does things as they should
be done.
If he digs ditches, he digs them
the right width, the right depth
and in the right space of time.
If he plows or hoes, he does it
better than the other fellow.
If he goes after business he puts
his heart into the going and he puts
the proper energy and enthusiasm
in the work. The result is he gets
business.
If he is a lawyer, he is the kind
that makes the right kind of work
bring the right kind of results.
If he is a doctor, he devotes his
thoughts to an earnest study of
his patients, and they know it and
tell their friends that he is the best.
If he is a banker, he is the kind
who knows how to make money
without hurting his fellow man or
his tow n.
Making good is the knack of do
ing things right and doing them
now.
The graveyard of failure is fill
ed with men who could have made
good if they had only tried in the
right way and tried hard enough.
The men we all envy are the
men who have made good.
WILL BE RECORD-BREAKER
A record-breaker in more than
one way is what the Tri State Fair
at Memphis promises to be this
fall. The fair will last from Sept.
2Sth to Oct. bth—two weeks. The
grounds have been beautified and
md new buildings erected. The
track has been resoiled and is now
is fast as any trotting course in the
country.
Liberal cash premiums are off
ered for horses, mules, jacks, jen
nets, beef and dairy cattle, sheep,
swine, poultry, all products of the
farm, garden, orchard and dairy.
In addition, there will be a com
plete Woman’s Department, Api
ary Department, Dog Show, Pure
Food Show, etc—in fact there is j
nothing overlooked. The races for
profeosional and amatuer drivers I
will include events for all kinds of,
trotters and pacers There are
classes for professional exhibitors
and also for persons who have
never taken part in a fair. Every
farmer, horse owner, cattle man
and planter in the South should
send for a catalogue to Tri-State
Fair, Memphis, Tenn.
CHANGE IN M. & P. BANK
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And Incidentally Newark Acquirf*?
Some More (iood Citizens ij
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A deal was consumated Satin
day afternoon whereby A. A.
Iloeb, I^eslie K. Acton and R. F.
lvelker. of Chicago, acquired con
siderable interests in the Merch
ants and Planters Hank of this
place.
A. A. lleeb and L R. Acton
succeed Jno. M. Martin and O. F.
Craig on the Hoard of Directors,
and Mr. Acton succeeds A. A.
Henderson as cashier, Mr. Hen
derson having resigned in favor
of Mr. Acton.
The following gentlemen now
compose the Hoard of Directors:
Geo. L. Green, F. T. Edwards,
L. R. Acton, J. G. Edwards, D.
P. Whisnant, A. A. Hennderson
and A. A. Heeb.
The new stockholders and di
rectors are all successful business
men of good reputation, and The
.Journal is pleased to have them
become identified with the business
interests of our community.
Mr. and Mrs. Acton have taken
up their residence here and will
become permanent citizens, and
Mr. lleeb will probably locate
here in the near future.
STICK TO THE OLD FARG
Stick to the farm, boys, even if
the old man does make you work
hard and sleep on the floor in the
garret. So many people are flock
ing to the towns and cities now
who become non-producers that in
a few years the man who farms will
be the financier of the land and
will have money to lend instead of
having to borrow. There is noth
ing that lends so much dignity to
a man as to study nature at first
hand and old Hack’s anatomy at
second hand as she wends her way
to and fro and up and down the
corn and cotton rows. Stick to the
farm, boys, and be independent
instead of with the thousands in
the cities who are living from
hand to mouth with no hope of
the future like you have on the
farm.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
County Clerk Sims has issued
the following marriage license dur
ing the past week.
Harry Ives, 23, to Miss Char
lotte Huggins, 15.
Herbert Ward, 22, to Miss Ma
bel Hailey, 20.
Harrison Morgan, 20, to Miss
Rosa Hannan, 26.
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