VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. MONDAY JULY 7, 1902. NUMBER 65
Clearance
©f Colored and Fancy
Dress Goods
COMMENCING JUNE 27TH.
* SALE FOR CASH.
[ FOR TEN DAYS ONLY.
MATCHLESS BARGAINS IN DRESS
LENGTHS, WAIST LENGTHS
AND FULL PIECES
Fancy Cottons, Hadrasses, Linen Waistings,
Lawns, Swisses, Organdies (except
Fancy White Ginghams, white and black.)
Goods, Wash Silks, Fancy Silks,
Mercerized Fabrics.
Parasols at half and three=fourths former
prices.
Millinery, hats trimmed and untrimmed at half
price. .
Flowers at half price.
20 per cent off on all fancy hoisery.
| FOR TEN DAYS ONLY.
Newport Builders' Supply
and Hardware Company
HIGH GRADE GOODS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Quality ©ur First
(Consideration
■■PRICES ALWAYS REASONABLE..
* PEARLS.
We pay the highest prices for
Pearls, Slugs, Points or Baroques.
Send your pearls to us, if our offer
is not accepted, we will return them
at our expense.
Try us on a small lot.
Wm. Barthman,
174 BROADWAY, CORNER MAIDEN
LANE. NEW YORK, N. Y.
DEALER IN DIAMONDS, WATCHES
AND JEWELRY.
DRS. 8. A. & W. R. WASHBURN,'
Physicians and Surgeons.
Special attention given to diseases
of Ear, Nose and Throat. Also Dis
eases of Women.
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Offices: New Watson Building,
Rooms 12, 14 and 15.
Newport, Arkansas.
A. H. MIZE & CO.
Manufacturers of
and Dealers in (§)
Fine Photos,
Photo Buttons,
PICTURE FRAMES. ETC.
Pictures Copied and Enlarged, any
Size or Style. View Work on
Short Notice.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
Give Us A Call.
Studio 114, Walnut St.
Next door to Herald Office.
DR. H. O. WALKER,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office: Redman’s Drug Store.
Newport, - Arkansas
CRYSTAL WEDDING.
Fifteenth Wedding Anniversary Of
Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Minor Cel
ebrated Saturday Evening at
Their Home on Third
Street.
Notwithstanding the season of the
year, when a midsummer sun is wont
to drive into temporary retreat the
deities who preside upon festive oc
casions in the social world, Newport
continues to enjoy and still holds forth
promises of events, such as society
revels in,—weddings and their anni
versaries. They are closely akin in
nature, if not in the intervening
years, and the receptions which at
tend them are ever delightful occa
sions, as well as refreshing memories
in older years.
The event of the past week was the
reception of Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot
Minor, to which a large number of
friends had been invited, in celebra
tion of their fifteenth wedding anni
versary. The guests upon arriving
could not help but note the beauty of
the scene, the yard being lighted with
Japanese lanterns and the interior of
the home so nicely arranged, that
under the enchanting influence of
sweet strains of music furnished by
Criswrell’s orchestra and the abundant,
charming evidences of the true
Southern hospitality of host and
hostess, assisted by Miss Lou Minor,
the oppressive heat of the evening
and other mundane embarrassments
were forgotten.
The dining room, cooled by a motor
fan, was beautiful in green and yel
low, the decorations being of aspara
gus and sunflowers, carrying the guest
back to fifteen years ago when these
flowers were used to the same pretty
effect at the wedding reception. For
a center piece, a huge block of ice
was mounted upon the table, and
from the ice stood forth a handsome
boquet of roses, a thoughtful remem
brance from Mr. B. M. Stainback.
The refreshments v.pre both dainty
and daintily served, consisting of
brick ice cream, in which the color
scheme was carried out, assorted cake,
bon bons and olives.
Messrs. J. O. Taylor and Alcorn
Ferguson took the places of the young
misses who are habitually accorded
places at the punch bowl and presided
with exceptional grace and dignity.
Their nook was in the yard but so re
freshing was the beverage they served,
that it proved a popular resort with
the company present.
Mr. and Mrs. Minor were the re
cipients of many beautiful and costly
pieces of cut glass, evidences of the
esteem and friendship of their guests
and several who were unable to attend.
The out-of-town guests were Mrs.
M. M. O’Neal, of Augusta, and Miss
Nellie Fitzhugh, of Fitzhugh, the lat
ter having been one of the brides
maids in the Minor-Ferguson wedding.
Telegrams, bearing happily framed
greetings, were received from Mrs.
Sigmund Wolff of St. Louis, and Mr.
and Mrs. Ike Goldman, now at Col
orado Springs.
The Independent offers con
oTflt,illations to host and hostess unon
this happy celebration of their crys
tal wedding and hopes that with the
half-way mark more than passed,
their silver anniversary may find
them even more prosperous, happy
and contented and in that youthful,
genial frame of mind, when it will
still be a pleasure to entertain friends
so delightfully as upon this past oc
casion. N
HOME TEAM WON AGAIN.
The Newport boys on Saturday
afternoon again demonstrated to the
aggregation of drummers, that they
could put up a far better game of ball
than their opponents, by defeating
them in a score of 30 to 17.
The Newport boys have a way of
winning the game in the first inning,
at least in taking a lead that cannot
be overcome, which destroys interest
in the game and makes the players
careless for the remaining innings.
Robert Bandy, a pitcher in the em
ploy of Augusta this season, twirled
the ball for the drummers. A ball
from his hand does not lack speed
and though he wras hard to hit, he was
just as difficult to catch and his wild
throws made many numerous and
costly errors.
Kyler of El Dorado, Davidson and
Owen served In the pitcher’s box for
the home team and had they been
wrell supported, would have kept the
score down to a number of one figure.
The crowd present was not a very
large one and the game was not one
to .arouse much enthusiasm or even
interest.
SMITHEE’S SUICIDAL SHOT.
Little Rock, July 5.—Col. J. N.
Smithee, one of the best known news
paper men of this section, committed
suicide some time Friday and his
body was found this afternoon.
Col. Smithee is known to have gone
to his room yesterday afternoon in
the Merchant’s Hotel. Nothing more
was seen of him. This afternoon the
chambermaid went to his room for
the purpose of attending to her work
and found the door locked. This was
reported at the office and aroused the
suspicion of the clerk, who at once
notified the authorities.
Chief of Police McMahon and a
party of officers and others went to
the hotel and, forcing their way into
the room over the transom, were as
tounded to find the veteran journalist
dead with a pistol grasped in his hand.
He had fired the fatal shot into his
right temple and had evidently been
dead about twenty-four hours. A 32
calibre weapon was used.
A WORD TO THE KNOCKERS.
Here is one that is being passed
around by the newspapers that is
applicable to all towns. “There is no
reasonable excuse for a man living in
a town if he doesn’t like it. If you
have no word of commendation to
say for your town, its institutions or
its people, emigrate. You won’t stop
the course of events by going away,
neither will your carping criticism
cut any figure if you remain. The
church bells will have tne same mus
ical ring; the dogs will play just as
briskly, the fish will bite just as well
and the pure air and sunshine will
have the same health-giving proper
ties. Speak a good word for your
neighbors if you can; if you can’t
don’t everlastingly enlarge on their
faults. If you have become thor
oughly sour and disgusted and can
not see any good in your town, move
away; go somewhere where things
suit you.”
WASHINGTON JAIL DELIVERY.
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A jail delivery occurred at Wash
ington, Hempstead county Saturday.
The prisoners ran over Jailer A. D.
Monroe while he was giving them
their breakfast and Monroe was badly
beaten up, but managed to one of
them until he was assisted by another
prisoner. Tom Simms, D. Noland
and three others escaped. Monroe
shot Noland as he ran, hitting him in
the back and inflicting a fatal wound.
He also shot at Simms but missed him
The town was aroused and all the es
caped prisoners recaptured.
Simms and Noland were condemned
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were affirmed by the supreme court
last Saturday. Noland is dying. Mon
roe is badly bruised up.
GRAND LODGE MEETING.
The grand lodge of the colored
Knights of Pythias convenes in this
city Tuesday and the delegations of
outside points have already begun to
arrive. „ A special car attached to No.
4 brought in the Hot Springs repre
sentatives Monday noon.
The meeting will be in session three
days and arrangements have been
made for a game of base ball every
afternoon at the fair grounds. The
old livery stable of Stephens & Hob
good has been rented for headquarters
and the exercises will be conducted
in the opera house. The number of
delegates expected is about 700 but
may reach 1000.
SPECIAL FAN SALE.
500 drummer’s samples of fans from
5c to §1.50 on sale at less than 50c on
the dollar at Charles Meyer’s Great
Bargain Store. 55 dtf
DROWNED IN VILLAGE.
rhirteen Year Old Son Of Thomas
Sconyers Drowned Sunday After
noon In Village Creek Near
Murphy Bridge.
Johnnie Sconyers, aged 13 years,
the son of T. J. Sconyers, a well known
and respected planter, living east of
this city, lost his life Sunday after
noon by drowning in Village Creek,
one mile below the Murphy bridge, at
what is known as the Russian ford.
The boy in company with two or
three other young fellows about his
age, had gone bathing in Village and
young Sconyers was crossing the
creek on a log when he slipped and
fell into a hole of water about 8 feet
deep. Not knowing how to swim and
his companions being too young to
rescue him, he was drowned at once.
About three quarters of an hour
later his body was recovered by a
diver and was buried Monday.
COFFIN CONFIDENT OF CHANGE.
Hon. Charles Coffin of Walnut Ridge
while in Little Rock Saturday, gave
out the following interview to a Dem
ocrat reporter, relative to the im
provements to be secured by Hoxie
from the Iron Mountain:
“We are preparing to take advan
tage of any of the boom that may
come to us through the establishment
of the Iron Mountain division at Hox
ie. Of course that goes to Hoxie, but
it is all in one community, Hoxie be
ing only a mile and a half from Wal
nut Ridge. There was not sufficient
land at our place for the purpose, so
General Superintendent Cotter went
to Hoxie, where Mrs. Boas gave the
road all the land needed, ninety-one
acres, for the roundhouses, repair
shops, office buildings and yards. It
is a strip 350 feet wide by two miles
long. Work is to commence at once,
and Mr. Cotter thinks it will be com
pleted within ninety days. About
§100,000 is to be expended there.
Grading is now being done at Pied- '
mont, and the force will come from
there to Hoxie, and give the city an
increase of at least 1,000 people in ten
days. The new division will be just
below the crossing of the Frisco and
the Iron Mountain.”
WHITECAPPERS JAILED.
Mammoth Springs, July 4.—Sex
ton’s trial has been put off until Mon
day. The Sheriff has the entire white
cap gang in jail. Feeling is running
high against them.
This is the second stage of the pe
culiar affair in which Pink Gibson met
instant death through the explosion
of a stick of dynamite in his pocket
by a shot from Sexton’s rifle.
NOTICE TO OUR PATRONS.
The up-town office of the Newport
Laundry Co. has been moved from the
Planters House to the Post Office
Store.
Customers will take notice and
govern themselves accordingly. d4t.
The NEWPORT
LAUNDRY
COMPANY.
Has the Largest Plant in
Arkansas.
Equipped with Latest Improved
Machinery.
Uses Filtered and Condensed
Water and Positively Guar
antees all work.
Give Us A Trial.
We Will Please You. Prompt
Service and Special Work
Everyday.
Qut of Town agents wanted.
NEWPORT LAUNDRY CO.
W. F. Williams, Mgr.