THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS
HALLOWE’EN
ENTERTAINMENTS
Monday, October 31st, wa:
Hallowe’en, the time whei
ghosts, witches and fairies ar<
supposed to be walking the eartl
and in various ways give mortal!
an idea of the future.
This night was well observec
in Newport, there being thra
Hallowe’en entertainments, anc
many were the youths and mai
dens who looked into mirrors
and counted apple seeds, trying
to get a peep into the future.
Probably the most elaborately
planned social function on this
night was the one given by Mr.
and Mrs. A. T. Hubly at their
pretty home on Hazel street. The
decorations, which were very
elaborate, were of autumn leaves
and red berries. The lights were
placed in pumpkins, in which
UAcanny designs had been carved,
which made the occasion seem
all the more serious.
Alter the many usual Hal
lowe’en pleasures were indulged
in> dancing was enjoyed by those
present until a late nour. misses
Irma Wolf and Hazel Jones pre
sided at the punch bowl during
the evening, twhilel the hostess,
assisted by Mesdames J. C. Her
ron and Baxter Watson, served
a delightful course lunch.
Among those present were
Misses Laura Johnson, Louise
Irby, Sue Armstrong, Janie Ste
phens, Tillie Sprigg, Lula Wolf,
Jennie McCauley and Aubrey
Arnold, Messrs. George Ste
phens, Ed Sprigg, Ernest Mc
' Dopald, Curry Stephens, Sprigg
Foushee, Ira Erwin, Charles
Holmes, Tom Dillard, H. 0.
Powell, Ralph Richardson and
W. C. Daniel.
Miss Mary and Joe Younger
entertained about twenty-five of
their young friends with a Hal
lowe’en party Monday evening,
at which time all the sports con
nected with Hallowe’en were in
dulged in by the young people
present.
Though this merry sport dates
back to ancient paganism, we
find the young folks of toda>
trying their fortunes in much the
same fashion, and those wh(
laugh at the witches’ broom
.stick are nevertheless trying t<
ride it.
All present on this occasion ha<
a delightful time and enjoyed th<
delicious refreshments served b;
the young host and hostess.
Miss Minnie Minor entertained
with a Hallowe’en party Monday
evening, an admission of ten
cents being charged, the pro
ceeds going to St. Paul’s church.
The home of the little hostess
was beautifully decorated for
this occasion, everything being
made to look as scarry as possi
ble. A wigwam was made in the
room, in which was an old gypsy
who told of the many good things
that were to come to all present.
The little folks were present
in large numbers, and were all
masked which made the occasion
a very pleasant affair.
COUNCIL ADOPTS
TWO ORDINANCES.
At the meeting of the council
Monday evening with all the
members present except Aider
man Wilmans, two ordinances
were adopted, one granting the
Iron Mountain right to run a
spur from the house track of the
new yards to Wolff-Goldman's
warehouse across Beech street.
The other ordinance grants the
Rock Island right-of-way *for
twenty-five years for two spur
tracks, one running from the
main line south of the depot
across Second street, through the
Doherty lot and the alley to the
rear; the other spur running from
the intersection of First and Plum
streets northwestly to the Iron
Mountain right-of-way.
The Rock Island was requested
. to put in additional tiling and the
- mayor was instructed to take
steps for the collection of the
road tax.
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NOTICE.
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1 The city attorney at the meet
; ing of the Council on Monday
i night furnished the mayor with
> a list of the names of one hun
dred and twenty persons who
I had been warned to work on the
! streets of the city and had failed
I either to work or pay the amount
■ required by the ordinance in lieu
1 thereof. The City Council in
structed the mayor to proceed
against all persons so failing as
provided by the ordinance. And
all persons who have been warn
ed to work on the streets are
hereby notified to perform the
work or pay to the treasurer of
the city the amount necessary in
lieu thereof, or they will be pro
ceeded against without furthur
notice. If you have received no
tice and not paid your street tax,
this means you.
J. W. Grubbs, Mayor.
GOVERNOR DAVIS
ON A DEER HUNT.
Gov. Jeff Davis was entertain
ed on a deer hunt here this week,
says the Camden Herald, and
took a hunk of Calhoun county
venison home with him to prove
the luck of the party. He was
met at the depot Monday by the
Third regiment band of the state
guards and immediately joined
the party in camp at Mustin
lake. With him were J. A. Mc
Donald, G. W. Hays, E. 0. Ma
honey of El Dorado, Ches. De
base of Lewisville, Ham Smead
and son, Tom Rumph, Ed ; Har
per, Ben Stuart and Julius Line
berry. They succeeded in bag
ging one deer and a great deal
of small game. Ben Stuart killed
the deer.
QUIET HOME WEDDING.
Mr. Arthur E. Barefield and
Miss Nora Vermillion were
quietly married Monday evening
at 8 o’clock at the home of W. G.
Santeney on third street by
Esquire Guy Smith.
Only a few friends were pres
s ent to witness the ceremony and
* offer congratulations. The bride
was formerly a compositor for
' the Herald and an excellent
young lady. The groom is in the
employ of Elfrank and has manj
J friends in Newport.
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A BARGAIN IN LUMBER.
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The Kelley Lumber Company
are closing out their stock at ]
very low prices. 2 inch rough j
plank, gum and oak, at 50 cents
per load. Good 2x4 and 2x6
gum at 75 cents per 100 feet. 1
inch cull oak 75 cents per load.
Also a lot of short stock for board j
and picket fences at 50 cents per J
100 feet. T. J. Hawk,
60dlwSalesman.
WARNING ORDER.
Mattie Couch. Plaintiff,
Vi.
Anthony Couch, Defendant.
Jackson Chancery Court.
The defendant, Anthony Couch, is warned to
appear in fhis court within thirty days and an
swer the complaint of the plaintiff, Mattie Couch,
filed herein. «i»
This November 1st, 1904.
[SEAL] J. D. NEAL. Clerk.;
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REGARDING MEN AND WOMEW
According to a Woman Writer Xexu
Are Loyal and “Easy to Get
Along With.”
Various apt, Incisive comments made
by Qail Hamilton almost half a century i
ago on “Men and Women” are in most
respects equally full of force to-day, !
with all the vaunted progress woman
has made, says the New York Tribune.
"Men are strong; they do things, and !
don’t mind it,” admits this vigorous
woman writer. “They can open doors ,
in the dampest weather. They can un
strap trunks without breaking a blood j
vessel, turn keys in a moment which
women have lost their tempers and
lamed their fingers over for half an j
hour; look down precipices and not be
dizzy. . . . You may strike them
with all your might on the chest, and it
doesn’t hurt them in the least (I mean <
if you are a woman.) They never grow
nervous and cry. They go upstairs !
three at a time. They put one hand J
on a four-rail fen?© and leap it without
touching. In short, they do everything I
easily which women try to do and can
not.
"Moreover," continues this commen
tator, “men are so ‘easy to get along
with.’ They are conveniently blind and
benevolent. Women criticise you, not
unjustly, perhaps, but relentlessly.
They judge you in detail, men only in
the whole. If your dress is neat, well
fitting and well toned, men will not no
tice it, except a few man-milliners and
a few others who ought to be. If you
will only sit still, hold up your head
and speak when you are spoken to, you
can be very comfortable. I do not mean
that men cannot and do not appreciate
female brilliancy, but if your are a good
listener and in the right receptive mood
you can spend an hour very pleasantly .
without it.
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uub mb vruuiau uuuo uui> iu uuv ut
three minutes that the fringe on your
dress is not a match. In four she has
discovered that the silk of your sleeves
is frayed at the edge. In five that the
binding of the heel of your boot is
worn out. By the sixth she has satis
factorily ascertained what she suspected
the first moment she ‘set eyes on you,’
that yon trimmed your bonnet? your
self. The seventh assures her that your
collar is only ‘imitation;’ and when you
part, at the end of ten minutes, she has
calculated with tolerable accuracy the
cost of your dress, has leveled her men
tal glasses at all your innocent little
subterfuges and knows to a dead cer
tainty your past history, present cir
cumstances and future prospects. Well,
what harm if she does? None in par
ticular. It is only being stretched on
the rack a little while. You have no rea
son to be ashamed. Your boots are only
beginning to be shabby, and we all know
the transitory nature of galloon. Your
fringe is too dark, but you ransacked
the city and did your best, ‘angers cou^d
do no more.’ You tyimmed your bonnet
yourself and saved two dollars, which
was just what you intended to do. Your
lace is not real, according to the cant of
the shopkeepers, but it is real—real j
cotton, real linen, real silk, or what
ever the material may he, and you
never pretended it was Honiton or
point. . . .
“But if men, in their strength and
courage and Independence, are enviable,
men in their gentleness are irresistible,’’
concluded the writer. “You expect gen
tleness in women. It is their attribute
and characteristic. You do not admire
its presence so much as you deplore or
condemn its absence. But manly ten
derness has a peculiar charm . . .
and you meet It everywhere—in the
house and by the wayside in
city and coimtry, under broad
cloth and homespun. You may
travel from one end of the country to
the other, and meet not only civility,
but the most cordial and considerate
kindness. You may be a9 ugly as it is
possible for virtue to be, and tired and
travel-stained and stupid, and your
neighbor of a day will show you all the
little attentions you could claim from a
father or brother or husband. . , .
rights they have before going mad after
others they know not of. If men will be
so good as to do the law making, and
stock jobbing, and bribing, and quarrel
ing and stump speaking, I shall be great
ly obliged to them. . . . Am I en
thusiastic over this involuntary out
gushing of the stream of kindness which
flows so continually from men to us
ward? I have a right to be. A nation
of men loyal, not to grace, beauty, mag
nificence, but to womanhood, to the
; highest impulses of human nature, to the
love element of the universe, is a thing
to be enthusiastic about.”
The Picture Hat.
“I witnessed an amusing incident at
one of the local theaters the other
evening,” remarked the theater-goer.
■ "A woman, wearing a large picture
' hat, was seated directly in front of an
1 elderly man, who was straining his
I neck in an endeavor to see what was
I happening on the stage, and, of course,
it was only possible for him to see but
. one-third of the performance.
"The second act had begun, and I
could plainly see that his anger was
; increasing. At last, when he could
stand it no longer, he lightly tapped
I the woman on the shoulder, and, in as
gentle tone as he possibly could mus
ter, said:
“ ‘Madam, pardon me, but I paid two
dollars for this seat, and your hat—’
“ ‘My hat cost $25, sir-r-r!’ came the
haughty reply.
‘‘The conversation was at an end.”
—Philadelphia Press.
A Busy Family.
"Whar’s Bill?”
“Huntin’ rabbits.”
"An’ Dick?”
"Haulin’ firewood to cook ’em.”
"An’ the old man?”
“Tradin’ a bale o’ cotton fer a box
o* matches!”—Atlanta Constitution.
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