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On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
We are authorized to announce T. T. Ward as a
candidate for the office of representative of Jack
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
election.
FOR SHERIFF.
To the voters of Jackson county.
. I am a candidate for re-election to the office of
sheriff of Jackson county, subject to a Demo
cratic primary, if one is held. Feeling that I
have discharged the duties of that office in such
a manner as to merit your confidence, and thank
ing you for your support in the past and asking
your help in the future. If elected I will do my
duty. Your fellow citizen. R. W. BANDY.
We are authorized to announce Snell Simmons
as a candidate for election to the office ofJSheriff
of Jackson county, subject to the action“of the
Democratic party.
FOR COUNTY AND PROBATE JUDGE.
We are authorized to announce E. I.. Boyce as a
candidate for the office of county and probate
judge of Jackson county, subject to the Demo
cratic primary election.
We are authorized to announce Otis W. Scar
borough as it candidate for the office of county
and probate judge of Jackson county, subject to
the Democratic primary election.
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK,
We are authorized to announce John D. Neal as
a candidate for the office of circuit clerk of Jack
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
election. —
We are authorized to announce James S. Jones
as a candidate for re-election to the office of cir
cuit clerk of Jackson county, subject to the Dem
ocratic primary election.
FOR TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce Dr. F. G. Smith
as a candidate for the office of treasurer of Jack
son county, subject to the Democaatic primary
election.
We are authorized to announce Capt. W. A.
Joyce as a candidate for re-election to the office
of treasurer of Jackson county, subject to the
Democratic primary election.
FOR COUNTY CLERK.
We are authorized to announce E. C. Water
man as a candidate for the office of County
Clerk, subject to the action of the Democratic
primary election.
We are authorized to announce 0. A. Lockard
as a candidate for the office of county clerk, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic primary
election.
FOR CITY MARSHAL.
We are authorized to announce Abe Ballew as a
candidate for Marshal of the city of Newport,
at the ensuing April election.
FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
We are authorized to announce the candidacy of
W. A. Oldfield for re-election to the office of
prosecuting attorney, Bubject to the Democratic
primary election.
Congressman S. Brundidge
has presented a petition in con
gress from the merchants of
Newark, protesting against the
parcels-post bill, which was re
ferred to the committee on post
offices and post roads. If the
merchants of our whole country
would thus manifest their inter
est in national legislation the
mail order houses and business
against which they complain
would receive a solar plexus.
The Fort Smith News-Record
takes the following view of the
gubernatorial race: “Davis is
on the run. He is a great bluffer
—take away his bluff, his hum
bug and his self conceit and
there would be precious little left
of this man—and he is only
bluffing when he pretends that
he is certain of re-election. He
is afraid of Wood and he shows
it by refusing to any longer meet
him in joint debate. Davis sees
the handwriting on the wall and
despite his illiteracy and over
whelming coarseness he can read
the chirography. ”
PROGRESS OF WORK
ON JOPLIN END.
Joplin, Mo. Jan. 21.—The work
of laying steel for the White
River Missouri Pacific line is be
ing rushed at a lively rate. One
hundred and fifty cars of rails
have arrived from the East foi
.he new line. With favorable
■/eather the track will be com
pleted to Aurora within thirty
-.v;/ ... *
days. The road will be ballasted
from the mines of this city as
soon as the construction work is
completed. The local contractors
say that an accurate estimate can
hardly be placed as to the time
when the road will be ready for
operation through to Memphis.
The workmen saw daylight
j through the White River tunnel
last week and ara now laying
track across the bridge. The
track will soon be put through
the tunnel and will by March 1,
it is expected, reach the new
i town of Flippin, six miles west
! of the river.
NECROLOGICAL.
PROMINENT FARMER KILLED.
Black Rock, Ark., Jan. 21.—
Yesterday afternoon, about one
and a half miles from this place,
I George Pifer, a prominent far
; mer, while hauling corn, fell
from the wagon, both wheels
j passing over his body, killing him
; almost instantly.
MARION COUNTY PIONEER.
i Cotter, Jan. 21. — Dr. H. S.
Dodd, a pioneer of Marion coun
ty, died at Dodd City this morn
ing, aged 76 years. He has been
a resident of Arkansas for thirty
two years.
A Good Sal*.
"Jones has sold all of his manu
scripts and decided to stop writing.”
"I should think selling them all would
be an incentive to him to write more."
‘‘But he sold them to the junkman.”
—Brooklyn Life.
To Keep Lemons.
Lemons will keep for a long time if
placed on a shelf in a cool, dry place and
covered with glass tumblers.
Bakingr Powder Biscuit.
To be just perfect, baking powder
biscuit should begin to rise the min
ute the pan is in the oven.
ALL EYES ON ST. LOUIS.
The eyes of all the world will
be turned toward St. Louis dur
ing the year 1904. Everybody
will want to get, from first
hands, the news of the greatest
World’s Fair which the world
has ever seen. Our readers are
advised, therefore, to subscribe
for the greatest St. Louis news
paper—a newspaper which ack
nowledges no equal or rival in
all the West, and which stands
ia the front rank among the
great newspapers of the world.
Subscribe for the St. Louis Globe
Democrat and get all the news
of the World’s Fair, all the news
of the national campaign, and all
the news of all the earth. See
advertisement elsewhere in this
issue. 24d6x
METCALF-GLENN MARRIAGE
Batesville, Jan. 21.—C. D.
Metcalf and Miss Nora Glenn
were married this evening at
15:30 o’clock at the Methodist
Episcopal church by Rev. Z. T.
Bennett and took the evening
train for a bridal tour, which
will embrace Baltimore and other
Eastern cities.
The bride is the eldest daugh
ter of John W. Glenn and her
beauty, charming manners and
many accomplishments have
made her one of the reigning
belles of the city. The groom is
a prominent young business man,
at present assistant cashier of
| the Bank of Batesville.
Don’t forget that I. D. Price
has on hand at all times a full
supply of the famous “Water
man Ideal’’ fountain pens. This
pen is sold under an absolute
: guarantee and is without doubt
the most practical fountain pen
on the market. 29btf
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Test your eyes with one of our
Vitroscopes and you will get bet
ter results from the glasses fur
nished you at one-third the usual
cost. Our lenses give double the
seeing power with half the strain
on the eyes. Vitroscope sent
free. Vitro-Resilient Optical
Co., 152 to 158 Lake strbet, Chi
cago, 111. 225 4w
For the news read the Daily
Independent.
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ANCIENT MILITARY SCHOOL.
—
Historic Ground on Which the Young
lien of LoutKlaiiH Receive
Their Training.
The Louisiana state university and
agricultural and mechanical college is
known as the military college of the
south, says the Baltimore Sun. It is lo
cated at Baton Rouge, and numbers
among its graduates many men who are
now officers in the regular army. Gen.
W. T. Sherman was the first president
of the institution before the civil war,
and, notwitstanding his espousal of the
northern cause, his memory is still rev
ered at this scene of his former labors,
and his life-size portrait in oils occupies
a prominent place in the handsome as
sembly hall of the college.
The site of the university is historic
| ground. It was for many years a mil
i itary post, and the garrisons of France,
! England, Spain and the United States
have all at different periods occupied
! it. After it w*as abandoned for military
J purposes it was turned over to the state
| of Louisiana for purposes of education,
j The original buildings, however, still
j stand, and, with the flag floating over
j them, present a striking and beautiful
appearance.
Here, in 1779, Galves, the Spanish gov
i ernor general of Louisiana, after an en
| gagement that lasted for three days, cap
| tured the British garrison. The Span
! iards were in turn driven out by a party
| of Americans, and this marked the
passing of west Florida from the do
! main of Spain. In 1861 the confeder
ates captured the post, and the next year
a desperate batLe, involving both land
i and sea forces, was fought near by,
and the confederate ram Arkansas was
blown up in the view of the land bat
Many distinguished officers served
here while it was still a military post.
Among those whose names are associ
ated with the place are Wilkinson and
the first Wade Hampton, Winfield Scott
and Zachary Taylor, Grant and Lee and
Stonewall Jackson, McClellan and Joe
Johnson, Bragg, Roseerans, Longstreet,
Harney, Thomas and Beauregard, For
rest and Phil Sheridan, Hardee and
Hood, Hancock and Custer, Admiral
Porter and “Bishop” Gen. Polk. Among
the great civilians we recall the names
of Abraham Lincoln, Clay and Calhoun
and Jefferson Davis. There is hardly
a place elsewhere in the south so rich
in historic associations.
The university is true to its traditions.
The sons of Louisiana are soldiers by in
heritance, and while they revere the
cause for which their fathers fought, no
northern boys are to-day more loyal to
the flag which is lowered at sunset every
evening to the well-known strains of
retreat, while on parade of over 300 ca
dets stands on parade at attention.
Everything about the university is'con
ducted on military lines, and by means
of frequent inspections a proper system
of discipline is constantly maintained.
CURIOUS HABITS OF WRITING.
The Scribbling Microbe Never Leaves
One After It Gains a
Lodging.
“The habit of writing is a curious
habit and one w'hick may not be out
grown,” said an old scribbler, in the
New Orleans Times-Democrat. “It
seems to be born in the blood. It is a
part of the nature of some men to write
things. Early in life they begin to yield
to an inclination to jot things down; to
scribble off a few thoughts at idle mo
ments, and between times, as it were;
to versify a bit; to philosophize; to put
down maxims and axioms, and to scrawl
a thousand and one little nothings
which appeal to the fancy from time to
time. Once acquire the habit and it is
thine for aye. No amount of change in
life’s course; no upheavals of fortune,
no sudden shifts of fate and destiny; no
nothing that may come with the fleet
ing years will ever once break the mind
from the bent which prompts it to trace
in the queer curling symbols which roll
out from the pencil’s point the little
playful nothings about which the soul
is wont to dream.
“Dainty, delicate children are these
little vagrants which one idly scrawls
into existence between times. Often
they are bright, deep, subtle and of the
verities; sometimes wiey are morose,
gloomy, of that sterner stuff which feeds
the soul of the hungry pessimists; some
times as light and airy as the very foam
which bursts laughingly around the
ankles of Aphrodite; but whether light,
or profound, whether gay or sad, these
things of mental loafing, these little
pet nothings of mental vagabondage,
are scintillants which cheer and amuse
a fellow' as he hurries on from on" mile
post to another. Ah, for the ’ .tbit of
writing! It pays when the bank fails
—pays in the sweet consolation one may
know from close communion with one’s
own soul, for man hath not known his
soul until it glare at him in such cheap
symbols as he may employ in efforts,
always short of weight, to speak Its
weighty sentiments.”
A Tall One.
An American in Paris was one day
looking at the Eiffel tower, when he
was accosted by an enthusiastic French
man with; “Ah! my friend, that is a
beautiful tower, and I doubt very much
whether you have anything to beat it
in America.”
"Wal. stranger,” replied the Amer
ican, “I guess it’s good for France, but
in America we have a tower so high
that we have to lower the top at night.”
“Lower the top at night?” replied the
Frenchman. “For what reason?”
"Wal, I guess it is just to let the moon
pass, stranger. Good-day.”—London
Tit-Bits.
In Time to Celebrate.
Physicians in Munich have noted that
a number of patients in the hospitals
suddenly get ■well when the time comes
for the great event of the year, the fair
which is called the Octoberfest.
Sweeping
Reductions
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They can better be
sold cheap than car
ried over to another
season and during the
month of January
prices will be made
Isuch as to make the
goods move*
On Many Lines of Win
ter Goods in Both the
Furniture
and
Hardware
Be p artments.
I Newport Builders Su£y Hardware Co.
II Newport’s Leading Home Furnishers
Business
Houses
Having widely distributed
interests will find an able
assistant in the Long Dis
tance Telephone.
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The Southwestern Telegraph
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fLow^t Colonist
I Rates
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This is a good route to the
I new and fertile fields of
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“BOB'S IN TOWN”
He buys cotton seed and
don’t forget it. With no ill
will to any company, he
buys for himself and pays
for the same.
R. L. JOHNSON
CH AS. R. HITE
Farm, City and Timber
Lands Bought and Sold.
Farm Insurance
| Notary Public.
Will Pay Your Taxes.
Call- or write, No. 107 Hazel
street, Newport, Ark.
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NEW ORLEANS
LOUISIANA
FEBRUARY 16, 1904
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