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© TUCKERMAN NEWS. ©
S. W- Harvey and family are
expected to come in home on
Thursday from Nashville Ten
nessee, where they have been
making their home for the past
SLw'o years.
If you want to sell your farm
or town property list it with |
Jackson County Realty Com-;
pany at Tuckerman, Arkansas, j
They have sold several hundred!
acres of land in the last few j
months- lw.
Penn Davis left Tuesday for!
Harrison, Arkansas, on busi
ness.
Judge Fulkerson spent a few
days, in this town last week.
Nathan Graham who is at
tending school in Alton, 111.,
spent a few days with home
folks las£ week.
John Williams of Grubbs spent
last Friday in this town on bus
xness.
Miss Buelah Shaver of Swifton
spent a few days in this town
with her friend, Miss Willie Pen
ix.
For insurance see Judson N.
Hout, with Jackson County
Realty Company, at Tuckerman,
Arkansas. We have nothing
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dered: a splendid program with
Mrs.Majors leading. Prayer ser
vices next Friday evening.
Preaching Sunday morning and
evening by the pastor. Come to
all of our services. There is a
place for you.
Sunday, May 16th, Mothers’
Day was observed at the
! Methodist church, with a fine
program, very appropriate to
the occasion. Misses Pauline
Dunn and Helen Kimberlin each
delivered a fine recitation which
touched the hearts of all pres
ent. Mrs. May Crawford and
Mrs. K. Iv. Kimberlin each read
a splendid recitation and when
they finished there were not
many eyes i nthe large audience
that had not shed tears. Sev
eral fine selections were render
ed by the choir, among which
was a duet 1 y Mrs. Ralph Smith
and Mrs. K. W. Bandy, which
had telling effect on the congre
gation. Ere Umsted then clos
ed the service with some fitting
remarks, which were well re
ceived. Quite a goodly number
of old ladies of the town were in
attendance on this service and
enjoyed it very much. Otis
Armstrong with others did good
service in bringing the elder la
dies to this service in their au
tomobiles, which will be long re
membered by the mothers of our
town.
JOHNSON SLASHED
IN ENCOUNTER WITH
LAWSON WOOD
James Johnson, who is em
ployed upon the traction grader
was badly slashed about 4:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon in an
encounter with Lawson Wood in
a room in the Newport House.
Johnson says that he was in
vited into a room occupied by
Hill and several other men and
there assaulted by Wood, who is
a pearler, living below White
River bridge.
Johnson received a bad stab
in the right temple, another
slash twenty inches long from
his neck down, across his back
to his hip, another across the
neck, another one over each
breast and a ten inch gash a
long one arm
He says he finally took a cane
away from one of the men and
hit Wood over the head, thus
managing to escape with his
life.
Johnson was taken to the of
fice of Dr. Gray, where Drs.
Gray and Best dressed his
wounds and examined the wound
on his head, fearing the stab
there had penetrated the brain.
Wood was later arrested and
jailed. The assault is said to
have been the result of a drun
ken carousal.
NEW YORK SOCIETY
LEADER, MRS. FISH
DIES, AGED 60
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United Press Dispatch.
New York, May 26.—Mrs.1
Styvesant Fish for many years 1
the dictator of New York society j
and acknowledged leader of the:
“400”, died of paralysis last
night, aged sixty years. I
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Heard In the Garden.
Why are corn and potatoes like the J
idols of old ? Because the corn hare j (
ears and they hear not, and the po- j j
tatoes hare eyes and they see not. I j
Car Went Into Ditch.
Henry Grant, while bringing
George Sink’s car home from
near Bergen Lake this morning,
had a close call from a serious
accident. The steering gear was
broken and allowed the car to
plunge down an embankment,
into the deep ditch along the
Rock Island track near the point
where the Bergen Lake road en
ters the Newport and Jackson
port road.
The front wheels went down
into such deep water that the
car had to be abandoned for
the time and later another car
was sent to the scene to snake
it into Newport
NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION
FOR NEW ROAD.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned citizens and freeholders of
Jackson county, Arkansas, with oth
er citizens and freeholders of said
county, will on the first day of the
next July, 1915, term present to the
Couhty Court of Jackson county, Ar
kansas, a petition to establish a new
road in said county to run as follows, (
to-wit:
Beginning at the Southwest corner
of the Southeast quarter of the
Southeast Quarter of Section 15,
Township 11 North, Range 2 West,
run thence east on the section line
between Sections 15 and 22 and 14
and 23 in Township 11 North, Range
2 West, to the intersection of the
Martin bridge road.
R. H. HOWARD,
ALBERT NANCE,
but the largest Eastern compa
nies- wl
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cook spent
Sunday at Searcy, visiting rela
' tives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lindley of
Kenyon spent a few hours in
town last Friday.
George Churchman lost a
nice Masonic watch charm and
anyone finding same will please
[ return it to the owner
I W. M. Shaver came in home
PMonday after spending several
i days with relatives in Sharp
> county.
j Liman Lawrence, son of Mr.
j and Mrs. L. D. Lawrence, died
i at the home of his parents on
I last Monday morning about 9
i o’clock and was buried Tuesday
at Pleasant Grove. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev.
\ M. B. Umsted at the home Sun
! day
" Mrs. A. W- Jernigan who has
been in our town for several
days, left this week for Little
Rock, where they will make
their home.
The Tomato Canning Club
‘ Girls met last Saturday even
l ing for the purpose of talking a
bout our tomatoes now and what
f we are to do with them when
1 canned. Two wholesale houses
| in Newport are going to buy all
i the tomatoes we can put up,
canned under the government
instructions. Tuckerman and
’Swifton dubs are going to fill a
car with tomatoes to send to
them. This will be something to
the credit and wealth of our
county. The tomato girls are
expecting a good year’s work,
with the tomatoes this year
A Tomato Club Girl.
Sunday school at the Baptist
church was good last Sunday
morning—good attendance and
a lively interest and the B. Y. P.
j U. had a good turnout and ren
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