Hews of The County |
Contributed by the Independent’s jj|j
Special Corps of Correspondents W2
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■The J.ackSSlCbenheld in Swifton,
■^1C?4, 15- . nf the Kelsey
W was here last week
Kiel ComP*"* machinery from the
■ shipPedih Mile Crossing to
MSfog *»■has a
m&&i£g£ss£3
K«u' Sol'Say Wking after bus
I, here Sat“ his company. .
Bss interest.s has taken a logging
tl Pe^the Southern Cooperage
purchased
K Robbins Pr0R®rtt(e first to report
Balias Morg j Morgan had new
K potatoes- •“ d for dinner
Btatoes from hi. gar
Bnday. i cphool election hela
By the .""U"1 S°s, Roy Moon
Bturday> e elected direc
»■'■& Si sTven mill tax was
pdo^dw^twSuu-1
Eg Victor Goodw ,n the breaklng
Bent which re.u a horse stumb
the h°rr'
■ the saddle. ,eDhone line has been
■The l°cal , village creek and
■tended east Jo vu » further ex
fcon^the Promised Land neigh
Krhood. wiles assumed charge
Swifton postoffice Thursday,
I V H Goodwin, resigned.
|j5g| Altman has been named as
Kf^dies Aid Society of the MethJ
■fhe h* , hpld an ice cream social
k, at "h. homo of Mrs.
KEj' p^Floyd has purchased the
L^Havnes farm on Village creek,
fe^fann includes Haynes lake, one
"the noted fishing resorts on Vil
f? C^wio. Mav 1. T. M. Rorex as
^duties of rural mail car
®*J the new route, established from
• Swifton postoffice. Mr. Rorex wjU
1SUto wrry the mail pending the
nf nermanent carrier, an
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tion is: Brundidge or Hays, which?
While Judge Hays is a stranger
to the people of this neighbor
hood we cannot say anything against
him, but we cannot see why he refus
es to meet his opponent in joint de
bate. .The Hon. S. Brundidge and
former congressman from our dis
trict is well known to the people here
and is known to be capable and effi
cient to hold the office to which he as
pires. Brundidge has been tried and
found true and we feel safe in saying
that he is out for clean politics and
will make the state one of the best
governors we ever had. Brundidge
is the people’s choice and he will be
elected by the largest majority that
was ever given a gubernatorial can
didate.
Miss Willie Hurley of Tuckerman
spent Friday here the guest of her
sister, Miss Vertie Hurley.
H. B. Bradford has been placed on
the 2nd trick telegraph force here
temporarily, relieving L. H. Daven
port, who we understand goes to the
Rock Island.
Miss Vertie Hurley attended a re
ception at Tuckerman Thursday ev
ening given in the honor of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Coe, who were married
Wednesday at Salem. The many
friends of Mr. Coe here wish for him
and his bride all the joys of a happy
wedded union.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harris went
to Newport Friday evening to attend
the graduation exercises of the Class
of 1913 of the High school of which
Master Robert was a member.
A. C. Meeker of Wideman came
down Thursday and has relieved
George L. Dameron as foreman on
the White River Division. Mr. Dam
eron goes to the yards at Carthage,
Mo.
Miss Belle Phillips and a number
of her pupils from the East Newport
school visited the school here Thurs
day.
Roadmaster Wm. Weiland of the
White River Division was here on
business Thursday.
Mrs. H. M. Anderson is quite ill,
suffering a severe attack of appendi
citis.
Mrs. Mollie Robinson, who has
been visiting the past two weeks
with her daughter, Mrs. Rufe Stev
ens, returned Saturday to her home
at Corning.
ivir. ana Mrs. Austin uameron are
visiting relatives here this week.
The annual school election was
held here Saturday afternoon and a
good vote was polled. R. D. Wilmans
was re-elected director by a good ma
! jority over his opponent, Wm. Chis
holm. A 7-mil! tax carried by a
large vote.
Mrs. M. A. Dameron, Mr. and Mrs.
Austin Dameron and Miss Bertha
Dameron are visiting this week with
relatives in Batesville.
Austin Monroe spent Sunday at j
Hoxie. |
W. P. Shelley of Newport was here
Tuesday on business.
Do not forget the big entertain-1
ment at the school house Friday |
night, given by the pupils of the I
Diaz High school. A full evening’s I
entertainment has been prepared j
with one of the best programs ever
put on by the school. “The Deacon’s
Second Wife” a comedy in three acts,
which will be presented by a cast of
the larger students, is far ahead of i
any play ever put on here and is sure j
to please all who like a good play that!
is a laugh from start to finish. If 1
you enjoy laughing do hot miss this, j
In addition to the play, dialogues,,
drills and recitations and etc., will |
make a nice long program. An ad
mission of 10 cents will be charged to
help defray expenses as the club has
gone to considerable expense in get
ting this up. We guarantee to
please you, so comb and be convinced.
L. E. PHANT. |
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GRUBBS.
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Mrs. Hight of East Newport is
visiting her daughter here, Mrs. Mc
Murry.
Mr. and Mrs. John Coulter of Jones
boro were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. Nance Friday night.
Mr. R. B. Hart of Memphis, a fire
adjuster, was here last Thursday,
taking the loss of John Grizzle in a
fire that burned his home some time
ago.
Dr. C. E. George and R. P. Will
iams were elected directors Saturday
in our school election to succeed J.
M. Gibson and J. S. Pennuington.
Mrs D. J. Browning returned home :
last Monday from Ash Flat, where i
she has been visiting for the past;
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Mr. E. H. Bowman of Remmel and
Miss Nona Loftin of this place were
married in Jonesboro last Sunday and
returned here on the local Monday.
Mr. Bowman is teaching school at
the Ballew school house and is a very
capable young man. We join many
other friends in congratulations and
good wishes. I
J. N. Nance and John Grizzle had
business in Newport last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Goss of Denton
Island were visiting in our town Sun
day.
We will have two trains a day,
commencing on the nineteenth, one
going east in the morning and one
going west in the evening. This will
be all right if they make schedule
time. , , ,
Mrs. Harry Toland has been con
fined to her bed with typhoid for
several days. She is attende. bj
Dr. Willis and is reported better at
this writing.
J. S. Pennington and M. bribson
made a business trip to Newport .a-.
Thursday. ' „ _ ......
J. N. Nance and R. P. Williams
have been on the sick list for the pa^.
few days. , ,, . ,,
The school election was neld in the
new school building Saturday and a
seven mill tax was voted, two mills for
building fund and five for genera: pur
SWIFTON.
Claude Bullard and wife of New
lort spent Sunday here.
G. M. Dudley left Sunday night
or Hot Springs.
Mrs. Dr. Pascoe of Newark was
risking her daughter, Mrs. Van Ben
wn, the latter part of last week.
A. A. Keedy returned from Hot
Iprings Sunday.
J. G. Smith, S. E. Dukes and Cur
y Carlin spent Tuesday on Cache.
Mrs. C. F. Nicholson visited at
walnut Ridge Sunday.
At the school election Saturday, a
•-mill tax was voted and Roy Moon
Ws re-elected a member of the
school board.
_ Artemas Shell returned from
Sharp county Saturday.
Miss Claudia Smith has been em
ployed as second assistant in the
*bool here next term.
Mw. W. R. Harvey and Miss
Claudia Smith returned from a week’s
TOw at Strawberry Saturday.
Clinton Rorex of Harrisburg, Ark.
came in Sunday.
.Cosier of Tuckerman was in
»wn Monday and Tuesday.
T„ Jar£e crew of workmen arrived
inesday and work on our new depot
has begun.
H. Goodwin happened to a se
v "sv a?cident Sunday while out
mZJ* r^'nS' His horse stum
tolla^b^ ^rew him off, breaking his
E. C. Toler and little girls are
P,ln£ ft Bradford this week,
nf 1 Cawley has had forty acres
•and cleared this soring.
w, DIAZ.
Dp„„ •’e Y, numerous writers are ex
eW«„ng^heir opinion of the coming
fill n’ tae eJect'on of a candidate to
“p.unexpired term of the former
rnor Joe T. Robinson, the ques
poses.
The city marshal placed behind the
iron bars Sunday morning a friend of
booze.
-J. E. Williams had business in Har
; risburg Monday and Tuesday, return
ing Tuesday evening.
Several of our citizens have gone
into the peanut industry here. Some
have as high as ter. acres planted.
M. S. Littleton of Newport was ir.
our town on business Monday.
L M. Gibson made a trip to New
p ' Monday.
A. G. Steadman, whose home is in
Pa -agould, and for the past two falls
an 1 winters has been employed at
Newport, is here in the interest of
Tick Eradication.
Grizzle & Son will be ready to start
their stave mill about Thursday.
J. T. Webster, the axe handle man,
is visiting his family at Dexter, Mo.,
this week.
C. M. Ivy and wife of Newport are
visiting friends and relatives here.
Happy Jack.
THE ISLAND.
Miss Lena Phillips is spending the
week at Weldon with Miss Lottie Bal
lew.
Mr. Blevins, the Methodist minis
ter of Auvergne, preached on the Is
land at about 4:30 Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Ray of Grubbs is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Porter Chestnut.
Mrs. Winburn, Mrs. Butler and Mr.
and Mrs. Arch Qualls visited at the
home of W. L. Smith Sunday.
Mr. Edgar Coe of Litchfield wa.~
over on the Island Saturday after
noon. „
The school election here passed
off very quietly, only 18 votes being
polled. Quite an interest is shown in
school matters (, ?) How can people
live so unconcernedly, especially in
regard to those things that are so
vital to the future of our land? The
community needs you, Citizen, so why
don’t you put forth your strongest
efforts to advance education? Mr.
Seab Free was elected as the new di
rector.
Mr. Sherrill, the Baptist minister
of Sand Hill; will preach at the school
nouse next Sunday night at 7:.JO. Al
so Mr. Will Mink of town will preach
the Second Sunday in June.
Mr. W. C. Herring and family
spent Saturday and Sunday at his
brother’s home in the Harper Settle
ment.
The question “Which is worse, 6
open saloons in Newport or no open
saloons?" will surely be answered
this year. With six open saloons it
is rather difficult to walk half the
length of Front street on Saturday
without coming in close contact with
a great number of so-called men who
have so completely lost control of
themselves that it takes a walk
8-foot wide for them to walk on. Al
so w'hen they purchase their “booze"
and have taken as much of it in
town as they can consistently with
out being provided with a “cozy little
room near the city fire department"
they very meekly start for home and
on the way stop directly in front of
people’s homes and imbibe the re
mainder of the “fiery liquor,” give
several savage yells, and most times
curses, then proceed on their home
ward course. Is this justice? Should
peaceful, law'-abiding citizens and
their familes continue to endure
such? How long will civilized men
allow this evil to remain when it is
making our citizens wreaker physical
ly and morally.
Mr. O. J. Cox and wife will proba
bly leave in a few days for Des Arc,
which place will be their future home, i
Mrs. Ray and Mrs. Leola Chestnut
spent Monday with Mrs. W. C. Her
ring.
Brother Z. D. Barber of Beedeville ;
will preach for us Saturday night I
and Sunday of the Third Sunday in
June.
A crowd of about 20 boys of New
port are camping this week on Wat
son lake. '
Bettye Breeze.
BATTLE AX.
W. B. Straubie and wife have been
visiting Mrs. Straubie’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Craige. “Tip” has
the same old pleasant smile, and
seems to enjoy being among old
friends again. Just returned to their
Missouri home.
Fletch Richie and Mrs. Davis were
quietly married last week by R. F.
Tyer. Think they have been contem
nlnlin/v f Ul’ C nfork All! f A QUrVlllo UtlH 1
now seem as happy and care-free as a
boy with his first red topped boots.
An unusually large congregation to
hear Elder J. L. Brown Sunday
morning. In the afternoon a much
larger gathering to witness the un
veiling by the Woodmen of two mon
uments, Chas. T. Bowden’s and Ben
nie Doyle’s. After the unveiling cer
emonies, Mr. E. R. Miller of Little
Rock delivered a practical, eloquent
address, explaining the purposes and
principles of the fraternity.
J. W. C. Gardner, the gardener, has
had regularly from his own garden
fresh onions (not eschelottes) since
February, mustard, lettuce and rad
ishes since March, and fresh Irish
potatoes since April.
No rain yet, good shower near by
yesterday and indications favorable
here now. Farmers who planted
cotten late are failing to get plant
up. Good stand on early planting,
and cultivation going on nicely and
rapidly. Many hoeing this week.
J. W. Lindley is making heroic ef
forts for crop of com on river bot
tom fields; but those not planted are
too dry for satisfactory planting, and
cutworm destroying stand where he
succeeded in planting earlier. So his
plans are frustrated on every hand.
Wire worm situation still quite
grave. Getting in his work on both
corn and cotton, seemingly having
become a little hungrier or more in
dustrious within past few days.
J. F. Guiltner’s baby has an at- j
tack of erysipelas. Quite sick last j
night, having attention of Drs. Slay- j
den and Norris. Reported better to- ■
dav.
Battle Ax Boulevard last Saturday i
would have, reminded you of Main
street in some flourishing city. _ Bar
ber shop, blacksmith shop, gristmill
and Guiltner’s mercantile establish
I
ment all on the hustle.
Nobody has time for fishing or
hunting. Last week, through the
! kindness of local sportsmen, ye scrib
ibler fattened pereeptably on fish and
young squirrels.
Longfellow, in his “Psalm of Life",
spoke of “footprints on the sands of
time." The sands of time must r.ot
be similar to the sand out our way,
for a footprint here doesn’t last very
long—not long enough for “a forlorn
and shipwrecked" brother to -ee—
goes at once like June frost.
H. Hawley is our new school direc
tor, succeeding J A. Lindley, who ha
been serving u- faithfullj in that
capacity almost a- long as we can
remember.
Mrs. I). A. Tyer of Wynne is just
in for a few weeks' visit among her
children here. She is the mother of
C. A. and R. F. Tyer. and Mrs. <1. W.
McElroy. With her came Miss Maud
Tyer, who has been attending the
public school at Wynne.
We feel that Brundidge will re
ceive the nomination and be our
next governor
Scribbler.
\U\ ERGNE.
Mrs. M. B. Har*> returned >m li
ber Springs last week
C. C. Dawson from the ottonis was
at the school election here Saturday.
Eamev Wik-on wa- down from New
port visiting home folks last week.
John Gipson and family went fish
ing on Bear lake Thursday. They re
ported a nice time and ai! the fish
they could eat.
Dr. G. D. Clement- and wife have
returned from Heber Springs, where
he has been for his health.
John Connor and family of Augus
ta were up visiting Mr. and Mrs. F.
L. Bleakley Sunday and Monday.
We are going to have Children’s
Day at Auvergne at the Methodist
church the third Sunday in June, at
10 o’clock a. m. Everybody is invit
ed to come
We are still needing rain. We had
a rain Thursday, but did not get
half enough.
Some of the farmers have begun to
chop their cotton.
Miss' Stella Sherrill from Shoffner
nroe im haro tricifirwr hAr Mrs.
Tom Nea! Saturday and Sunday.
Bunch of Violets.
NEW' PROSPECT.
Jim Rodgers, Mrs. Vela Mauldin,
Mrs. Hawn and some others, un
known to the writer, from Elgin, vis
ited Sunday School at this .place Sun
day, May 18.
Clay Padgett, Otto Julian and Milo
Goins were fishing on Guthrie lake
Saturday and made a very good
catch.
Ed Julian and family visited his
father, John Julian, Sunday.
Brother Talkington of Tuckerman
delivered an able sermon at this place
Sunday afternoon. He is to preach
for us the third Sunday in every
month this conference year. We in
vite all who are interested and can
come. Sunday School is progressing
nicely. A lively interest is shown.
There will be no Sunday School at
this place next Sunday so that every
one here may attend Children’s Day
service at Elgin. Let everyone come
the next Sunday, for there wall be
regular services.
The teachers of the Sunday School
are: Tad Bradley, Bertia Padgett,
Mrs. Barnet and Mrs. Sorrells.
Walter Padgett has ben real sick
of malarial fever the past week, but
is some better.
Mrs. Grace Russian has returned
from Judsonia, having gone there to
pick strawberries. Two children were
with her.
HARPER’S SCHOOL HOUSE.
The farmers near here have their
crops in fine shape and are needing
a rain.
Our Sunday School is progressing
nicely. . ....
Alvis Jackson was in our vicinity
Sunday.
There was singing at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Judd Sunday ev
ening and a large crowd attended.
There will be church at the school
house Saturday night atid Sunday.
Everybody is invited to come. Miss
Gracie Davis and sister visited the
home of Mrs. O. B. Judd Sunday,
where they met their cousin, Miss
Cora Pitts.
Claude Lambkin of Grubbs was vis
iting relatives here last week.
Cecil Melville was at Sunday School
Sunday and we hope he will attend
regularly, for he is a great help in
Sunday School.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Luker of Litch
field were guests of this place Sun
day.
BRIDGE SCHOOL HOUSE.
Will Oligan from Grubbs, was out
yesterday after his little girl who had
spent a few days with her friends.
Mrs. Murphy is at Mr. and Mrs. Dee
Moon’s on the account of sickness.
Mr. McDaniel and son happened
to bad luck yesterday. While they
stopped to have some plows fixed at
the blacksmith shop, their team ran
away and tore their wagon up and the
harness off of them. No one was in
the wagon when the runaway occur
red.
If you keep your property well
painted you’ll be more likely to
keep it a long time.
Paint is one of the best pre
servers of property; and De
voe Lead-and-zinc Paint is made
to go farther and last longer
than ordinary paint.
You’ll need fewer gallons of
Devoe than you expect; and it
will cost less to put it on than
with ordinary paint.
It is economy for you; and
your painter will do a better job
with it. Johnson-Avera Hard
ware Company, Agent.
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