The Newark Journal.
published In The famous white Riven Country, where Alfalpa Is King
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, January 29, 1909
Vol. 8. No. 42
12.667.231 BALES GINNED
Cotton Crop Shows Two Millions In
crease Over Last Year
The census bureau report, issued
from Washington last Saturday,
shows that there were 12,667,231 bales
of cotton ginned of the 1908 crop up to
January 16. The total amount ginned
to the same date last year was 10,339,
551 bales. The total number of active
ginneries was 27,441, against 27,366 a
year ago.
The total bales ginned to January
16, 1907, was 12,176,199.
The report shows the number of
bales ginned in the various states
from the 1908 crop as follows:
Alabama__1,317,266 bales
Arkansas .. 931,540 bales
Florida_ 68,578 bales
Georgia. 1,951,740 bales
Kentucky.
Louisiana_
Mississippi_
Missouri.
North Carolina
Oklahoma.
South Carolina
Tennessee.
Texas.
Virginia.
Total.
1,787 bales
. 458,723 bales
.1,551,265 bales
55,182 bales
. 661,295 bales
. 612,618 bales
.1,193,520 bales
. 321,677 bales
.3,529,426 bales
. 12,614 bales
12,667,231 bales
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF LAND
Whereas, W. 11. Fausel and his wife,
Nancy E. Fausel, by their certain deed
of trust, executed on the 23rd day of
January, l!K)7, and now duly of record
in Book M2, page 195, of the record
of deeds of trust in the recorder's of
fice of Independence county, conveyed
to Zed Griffith, as trustee, to secure
the payment of a certain indebtedness
due John M. Martin, the following de
scribed lands, lying in the county of
Independence and State of Arkansas,
^ 'io-wit:
All of block numlter thirty-five (35)
n the Eastern Division of the Incor
porated Town of Newark
And, whereas, said indebtedness, lie
ing now due and unpaid, I, the under
signed, as substituted trustee, will,
pursuant to the terras of said deed of
trust, on
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1909,
Between the hours of 10 a. m. and 3
p. tn., at the Main street door of the
Court House in the City of Batesville
and County of Independence, proceed
to offer said lands for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash
in hand, or so much thereof as may be
necessary to pay the indebtedness
aforesaid and the expenses of this
foreclosure.
Given this 27th day of January, 1909.
E. H. Williamson.
Substituted Trustee.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that letters of
administration, with the will annexed,
on the estate of Jno. N. Tomlinson, de
ceased, were issued to the undersigned
by the Clerk of the Probate Court of
Independence county, in the State of
Arkansas, on the 8th day of January,
A. D. 1909; and all |>ersons having’
claims against said Estate are there
fore hereby notified to exhibit the
same to the undersigned, properly au
thenticated, within one year after the
date of such letters of administration
or they may be precluded from any
* benefit in said Estate And if such
claims be not exhibited, as aforesaid,
within two years after the date of such
letters, they will be forever barred
and precluded from any benefit in
said Estate.
Given this 22nd day of January, A.
D. 1909. T. Dovk Edwards,
Administratrix with will annexed of
the Estate of Jno. N. Tomlinson, dec’d.
Soldier Balks Death Plot
It seemed to J. A. Stone, a civil war
veteran of Kemp, Tex., that a plot ex
isted between a desperate lung trouble
and the grave to cause his death. “I
contracted a stubborn cold,” he writes
“that developed a cough that stuck to
me in spite of all remedies for years.
My weight ran down to 130 pounds.”
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TRIBUTE OF RESPECT
Whereas, It hath pleased the Grand
Master of the Universe to remove
from our midst our dearly beloved
brother, Walter Haddock, admonish
ing us that sooner or later we must
all, at the will of the Father, pas*
from this transitory of earthly exist
ence to that uudiscovered country
from whose bourne no traveler re
turns; therefore l>e it
Resolved, That in the death ol
Brother Haddock, Newark Lodge No.
248 F. & A. NI. has lost a good and
faithful member, his partners in busi
ness, his relatives, friends and asso
ciates, an honest, upright, courteous
friend, and the town of Newark and
surrounding country has lost a wor
thy young man and an upright citizen.
Be it further
Resolved, That while we mourn the
untimely death of our dear brother,we
must bow in humble submission to the
will of Him who knoweth and doeth all
things well; and console our minds
with the blessed thought that he has
gone to face judgment in the. presence
of an all-wise and merciful God. Be
it further
Resolved, That a copy of these res
olutions be spread upon the minute?
of our Lodge and that a copy be senl
The Newark Journal and the Bates
ville Guard for publication.
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T. H. Dkaring,
J. I. Sturdivant,
Committee.
RURAL SCHOOLS
After the pilgrim fathers had land
ed in 1620, the very first act of the
English colonists was to establish a
high school, but these were for very
few people. In 163C Harvard was
founded, and soon after that Yale and
Princeton. About 150 or 160 years
after that Thomas Jefferson, who was
the father of the country school sys
tem; Washington, the great promoter,
and Alexander Hamilton, the great
teacher, gave time and thought to
this cause, and made it possible for
education to reach the masses of me
people. Washington said; “Lay broad
and deep, then, the foundation of the
g< neral diffusion of knowledge.” The
old method of teaching is pretty near
ly eliminated. The education of to
day has come to our homes through
the rural schools. Very often the
rural school children do not go to
high school or to college; therefore,
we must give our rural school child
ren e\ery advantage.
We believe that the country schools
a-e doing a great work, but we must
add domestic science and agriculture.
Good results will come then through
the little school house in the country,
and it will bring sunshine, prosperity
and good citizenship into the future
homes of these children.
BIG BOTTOM FARM FOR SALE
We have for sale one of the finesl
farms in the famous Big Bottom, only
3i miles from Newark, consisting ol
342 acres, 250 acres of which is in culti
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of corn or a bale of cotton |>er acre.
This is one of the finest farms ir
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 Ileal Estate Co., Newark.
Ark.
The Secret of Long Life
A French scientist has discovered
one secret of long life. His method
deals with the blood. But long age
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it worth living. It purifies, enriches
and vitalizes the blood, rebuilds wast
ed nerve cells, imparts life and tone tc
the entire system. Its a godsend to weal
sick and debilitated people. “Kidnej
trouble had blighted my life for month*
writes W. M. Sherman of Cushing
Me., “but Electric Bitters cured me
entirely.” OnlySOcat J. I. Sturdivant’s
If you have property for sale list ii
with the Henderson Real Estate, Co.
Deeds of trust and legal blanks foi
sale at The Journal office.
The Journal is seriously handi
capped by the lack of help in the of
fice and we have lieen unable to get
around to see all those who might
want work done or an ad in the paper.
J. H. Davidson and family left
Thursday night for Texas where they
expect to make their future home.
Thay are mighty good people and their
many friends regret to lose them from
the community.
The many friends of \V. A. Troy
who moved from Magness to Cleburne
county some time ago, will regret to
learn that two of his children have
died since his removal from Magness.
Mrs. Troy also suffered a severe at
tack of dropsy but is recovering.
Aunt .lane Walker fell while at her
housework Friday morning and sus
tained a painful injury. She soon re
covered, however, and is again enjoy
ing her usual good health. This good
woman is one of the oldest ladies in
Newark, vet she does all her own
work and gets around as well as many
women twenty years her junior.
S. W. Clark and J. W. Barnett
have bought the county right for mak
ing and selling concrete monuments
and headstones in this county. This
is something entirely new in this line,
and as it affords a cheap yet perma
nent and lasting way of marking the
graves of the dead, it will likely prove
very popular. Messrs. Clark and
Barnett are excellent men and The
Journal wishes them much success.
SULPHUR ROCK SKETCHES
Items of Interest Picked up at the Hub
of White River Township
Sulphur Rock, Jan. 2(5.—Mrs. Har
vison, who has l>een visiting her
daughter. Mrs. Dean, at Newport, for
several weeks, returned home Satur
day and seems to l>e improved in
health.
Quite a crowd of young people came
up from Newark last week to have
Gibson make their bices over.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Kent were down
from Charlotte Tuesday visiting U.
P. Kent and family.
Profs. Jud Bullington and Ben Jer
nigan made a business trip to Bates
ville Saturday.
O. L. Hoover arid family left Wed
nesday for Heber where they will re
side in future.
Prof. Sidney Pickens and J. W.
Lawrence went to Batesville Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hoover of New
n.rk tvppp vi^itintr Lppp SinnHav
Will Kerr is building' a new resi
dence on lower Main street.
James Huddleston was down from
Sharp Monday.
FOUNTAIN PEN FREE
As a special campaign offer to
anyone who will secure 20 new ten
weeks’ supscriptions to the Weekly
Commercial Appeal, (remitting $2.00
for same) will be sent a Diamond
Point Fountain Fen, guaranteed finest
grade, 14-kt. solid gold pen. Act
quick, as this special offer will be
withdrawn in a short time. Address,
Weekty Commercial Appeal, Memphis,
Tenn.
A DOMESTIC HOLOCAUST
“Bridget, what in the world have
i you done with the dishcloth? I can’t
find it anywhere.”
“Shure, mum, there wasn’t nuthin’
left uv it but the hole, so I jist burnt
it up to git it out uv the way, mum.”
ONE OF THE LOSSES
Civilization has its drawbacks.
There are not nearly so many hazle
nut patches as there used to be.
THE FARMERS’ PROSPERITY
The remarkable progress in power
of production in the agricultural
world was uniquely summed up by
the president of the National Farm
ers' Congress, Mr. John Stahl, in
opening his address at the last annual
convention at Rock Island, when he
said:
“I congratulate you, as representa
tives of the United States, on ma
terial prosperity. To the nation's
production the farmers of the United
States this year contributed six bil
lion dollars.
“We hear much of the Standard
Oil Company, and its wealth, but our'
annual exports—not production, but
export—of cotton alone has a value
four times as great as all the petro
leum produced in the United States
in a year.
“From the attention given disturb
ances in coal mining one might con
sider that coal is a very important
production in this country.
“But year after year the farm prod
ucts of the United States have on
tho farm a value more than sixteen
times the value at the mine of all the
coal dug in the United States.
"We have become the greatest pig
iron producing country in the world,
yet each year the grain of one crop
corn—has a value five times greater
than nil the pig-iron produced in this
country.
“Why, the corn grown each year
hv flip fnnnprs of Illinois nlnnp has
a value about equal to our entire pro
duction ot pig-iron.
“Every time our miners dig a dollar
from our gold mines, we farmers dig
$70 dollars from (he ground, and
every time our miners dig a dollar of
silver from our mines, we dig $165
from the ground.
“The farm products of the United
States have a value more than twelve
times greater than all the gold and
silver mined in all the world.
“With their products of one year
only, the farmers of this country
could buy at par all the stock of all
the national banks of the entire coun
try, not once or twice, but eight
times over, and they could pay all
the wages and salaries in our great
iron and steel industries thirty-four
times and have money left.
“During the past sixteen years our
exports of all articles have exceeded
our imports by $5,092,000,000. In the
same period our exports of farm
products exceeded our imports of
farm products by $5,635,000,000.
“The farmer is responsible for our
enormous favorable balance in inter
national trade.
“In all the world no other class in
any country produces as much wealth
as the farmers of the United States.”
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
Notice is hereby given that I will at
tend in person, or by deputy, in the
different townships throughout the
county, for the purpose of collecting
the State, County and Special Taxes
for the year 1908, on the days and
dates specified below. Each taxpayer
is requested to bring his last year’s
tax receipt.
I would sinryest that as manv as
can make it convenient, meet me the
day I am in their township and settle
their taxes and thereby avoid the rush
which always comes later.
Gainsboro, at Ham’s school house,
Friday, January 2!*.
Washington, at Calloway’s store,
Saturday, January JO.
Cushman, at Cushman, Monday,
February 1.
Big Bottom, at Newark, Tuesday
and Wednesday, February 2 and 3.
Magness, at Magness, Thursday,
February 4.
White River, at Sulphur Rock, Fri
day, February 5.
Ruddell, at Batesville, Saturday,
February 0.
After Feb. «, In my office in Court
House until the loth day of April,
1909, taxes can be paid without the
penalty, and after the said 10th day
of April, l‘.K>9, the law requires a pen
alty of twenty-five per eent to be im
posed for non-payment.
W. T. Gray, Collector.
TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
If your district needs desks, black
boards or school furniture of any kind,
call and get my prices. I handle the
best desk made and can make prices
as low as the lowest. A. A. Hender
son, Newark, Ark.
WELCOMES THE JOURNAL
Citizen Says People are Glad to Wel
come Paper Back to Newark
Dear Mr. Editor: - Allow me to say
on behalf of myself and all the patri
otic citizens of Newark and the adjoin
ing- country, we are delighted to know
that you have returned to the Queen
City of South Independence for the
purpose of resuming your noble work
of editing The Journal.
We all felt that we had suffered an
irreparable loss when we were depriv
ed of The Journal, but now we rejoice
that it was only temporary, and are so
elated at its revival, and that, too, by
your able hand, that we feel sure The
Journal will take on a newer, grander
and more permanent life, caused by
the rest it has taken.
We think that inasmuch as you have
traveled abroad during the time The
Journal was suspended, you have
gathered much valuable information,
ideas and experience that will be for
the good of all, both The Journal and
its patrons, because travel is good
for anyone—it broadens a man.
There are a few knockers in Newark
WI1U MlUUiU UUVCl t? A l\r Ll Si VClji IIICJ
should get on the train and go to Par
oquet, and on down to Diaz, if
their time and money will permit, and
see some of the world, with a view to
growing larger and nobler. And best
of all, they would return much im
proved and with a resolve never to
knock again, and best of all, would
be more patriotic and have more
pride in home enterprises, esj>eeially
the public press and the public
schools—the two giants oPcivilazu
tion—and the knocker would then be
better qualified to appreciate a live
home newspaper, as The Journal has
ahvays been.
When a very small boy I wanted to
travel. I always liked to travel. My
step-mother would often say, after she
discharged her motherly duty with a
numlier seven slipper, ‘*1 do wish that
boy would travel.” And numberless
times, in my neighborhood, when
some accident would happen, the
neighbors would get together, talk
over the matter and unanimously con
cur in the opinion that ‘‘That step-boy
should travel, for the good of the
country he would leave.” At last
manhood was near at hand, but as I
thought myself full-rij*- and old to be
single, 1 sought the hand of a comely
lass who had grown up in the same
vicinity. But her stern father and
talkative mother cornered me in the
parlor one ev'ening and gave me a
lecture, occasionally punctuated with
expletives not exacted to be used be
fore a Sunday school class. Then her
mother and father, and to my horror,
the lass also, held a primary and vot
ed unanimously that it would be good
for me to travel.
And I venture to say there is not a
knocker who reads this article but
who has already said, deep down in
I his soul, ‘‘I wish the writer had trav
eled before ne wrote tins article, lor
he seems to be dead on to us and
may cause some of us to be censured
because we won't travel as he advises
us to do.”
But in conclusion. Mr. Editor, let
me say in all seriousness that many
of us did not realize the value of our
home paper until it appeared to lie
gone. We now fully realize that a
good home newspaper is one of the
greatest factors for progress that we
have ever had in our community, and
I feel sure that I express the heartfelt
sentiment of every citizen of the south
eastern portion of Independence coun
ty who has a home and a family, that
we are all, each and everyone, more
than glad that you have returned to
Newark. We need you and your pa
per. You fill a place with your good
work that nothing else will or could
supply, and we further pledge you that
we will make every reasonable effort
to make your life pleasant and your
business profitable in Newark.
Very sincerely your friend,
J. R." Alexander.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Notary work of all kinds done in a
careful and correct manner by A. A.
Henderson at the Merchants and
Planters Bank.