Erse judgment
I against shirey
■ Not Including Widow
B^hich Was Secured By
III Mrs. Mai Bryant.
Bal to Independent.
Btle Hock, May 5.—The su
Be court today reversed and
^Eded for new trial the suit
BJht in the Lawrence circuit
|Eby Mrs. Mai Bryant, where
Becured $10,000 judgment
Kt the Odd Fellows lodge
Bther heirs of the late A. W.
By. not including the widow.
gBlaim of Mrs. Bryant was for
Bees rendered Mr. Shirey in
|Bng the return of letters
B a Little Rock spiritualist,
JH]ee alleging that her claim
Biased upon a contract with
^|sed.
|Empbell & Suits, Stuckey &
Bcey represented the appel
■ before the supreme court
Bor appellee, Clyde Going
B. N. Beakley of Walnut
He were counsel.
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|B’il Service In Police Force.
Hal to Independent.
Httle Rock, May 5.—“ Fort
Hh has a civil service re
Ement for its police force
§ I think will benefit any
H or city using it,” stated
m m. xim, oi run omim,
er Chief Justice of the
tnsas Supreme Court and
ng counsel for Arkansas in
ailroad rate litigation,“ and
rtainly would do them no
1. We have, as the first re
ement, good habits, and as
ites, which counts fifty per
in th'e examination. I think
the commission form ofgov
lent in our city is going to
c out so well that others of
state will be patterning af
1S.”
idge Hill intimates that a
must have a reputation, in
d of notoriety, to get on the
; Smith police force.
Dry Summer Wood
Fee-Crayton’s delivered,
ed from cull lumber. Phone
or see Hopper or Fisher.
ve orders with P. S. White.
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Memphis to Entertain Editors.
I Little Rock, May 5.—James
Holt, southern representative of
the American Type Founders
Company, who is a member of
;the excursion committee of the
Arkansas Press Association,
! writing to newspaper men in Lit
tle Rock, announces big prepar
ations being made for the enter
tainment of the Arkansas edit
ors when they visit Memphis,
May 15. On the arrival of the
squirrel heads in Memphis, the
members of the Business Men’s
Club will meet and greet them,
going direct to club room where
a luncheon will be served. This
will be followed by an automo
bile drive over the city, taking in
the principal parks, including
the Zoo, Riverside drive and
park, and the Tri-State fair
grounds where a Bohemian
lunch will be served.
The program will be continued
in the evening, when there will
be some real speech making. A.
S. Caldwell, president of the
Mississippi River Levee Associa
tion, will address the editors on
“The Protection of the Delta
from overflow, a National Duty.”
Many editors from Kentucky,
Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi
and Louisiana, together with
Congressman from all these
states, will be in attendance.
Judge Hays in Rogers.
Judge George W. Hays of
Camden, candidate for governor
against Hon. Stephen Brundidge
of Searcy, spoke to the voters
of Rogers Tuesday morning. Or,
to be more exact he spoke to a
few Rogers voters. The meet
ing had been poorly advertised
and less than fifty persons heard
the address. At first, an attempt
was made to hold the speaking in
the park but it was too noisy and
an adjournment was taken to
the city hall.
Judge Hays is a good talker
but he was in the enemy’s coun
try, at a very busy time of the
year, and at a poor time of the
day to draw a crowd. Little in
terest has been manifetsed here
in the race but we believe that
Mr. Brundidge will carry this
town and county three or four to
one. Not because Hays may not
be a good man, but Brundidge is
known and his opponent is not.
There is also a strong sentiment
in favor of Brundidge because of
his defeat for U. S. Senator and
because he is known to be a cap
able man.
Judge Hays has no particular
claims to advance as to his qual
ifications for the office but he is
seeking it on general principles.
As there are no questions of is
sue between himselt ana ivir.
Brundidge, he has declined to
join the latter in a joint canvass
of the state. But we believe it
would pay him to do so if for no
other reason than to draw a
crowd. A debate brings out an
audience where one man going it
alone cannot get a hearing.
We are glad to have had the
chance of seeing and meeting
Judge Hays but we don’t believe
any votes were changed by his
visit to Rogers Tuesd^.—Rog
ers Democrat.
George Davis Arrested.
Sheriff J. F. McCuistion was
called out to Village township
Sunday night to arrest George
Davis who was charged with an
assault on Lon Smith, having
struck him with an iron bar,
inflicting a right serious wound.
Davis was placed in jail here.
and will be given a preliminary
hearing in a few days.
TUCKERMAN h. S.
COMMENCEMENT
Miss Clara Harvey the Only
Graduate Reads Essay—
Class Address by I)r.
Rrough.
Special to Independent.
Tuckerman, May 5. — The
commencement exercises of the
Tuckerman High School were
held at the Masonic hall, Mav
3, 1913.
The invocation by Dr. Brough
of the State University was fol
lowed by his address to the grad
uating class. It was a masterly
effort, in which he stressed the
importance of higher education.
The audience showed their ap
preciation by their attention.
The piano duet by Miss May Da
vis and Miss Sylla Harvey was
followed by a vocal solo by Mrs.
Williamson, which was rendered
with her usual ability.
Next came the essay “What j
Constitutes a Woman’s Educa
tion”, by Miss Clara Harvey, the
only member of the graduating
class.
Miss Harvey is the accomplish
ed daughter of S. W. Harvey, a
prominent business man of Tuck
erman. Miss Harvey has shown
marked ability throughout her
high school course and in recog
nition ot her perseverance m her
work, the school board presented
her with a handsome signet ring.
She was also the recipient of
many beautiful presents sent by
numerous friends.
The readings by Miss Lucy
Lindley were well selected and
enjoyed by all.
Mr. Shaver, our county super
intendent, then presented the
certificates to the grammar
school graduates, with appropri
ate remarks.
Miss Sallie Williamson, who
received the highest grade in the
high school, was presented with
a scholarship iriedal, which was
a gift from John Scally of Lake
land, Florida.
The orchestral selection by
Mrs. E. R. Williamson, Miss
Sylla Harvey and Tom Jones,
concluded the program.
Judge Hays Here Tonight.
Judge George W. Hays of
Camden will speak at the Court
House tonight at 8 o’clock and
should be accorded a consider
atehearing. We hopethat alarge
crowd may greet him and hear
what he has to offer the state
and learn his position upon is
sues now before the people.
While Judge Hays is speaking in
the old congressional district of
his opponent, he will find the
same courteous attention upon
the part of his audience that he
receives in South Arkansas.
Button Factory to Reopen
Manager John Bond of the lo
cal button factory to a reporter
for the Independent, announced
that the factory would resume
regular running Tuesday morn
ing, May 6, and all cutters should
be on hand.
The button factory has be
come quite an industry in the
commercial and business life of
Newport and the merchants will
all be glad to note the resump
tion of work.
For Sale.
My fancy Rhode Island Red
chickens at a bargain; too good
to kill.—Mrs. J. B. Jefferies, Cor
ner Third and Elm. 26d6
Hays Invades While County.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, May 5.—Both po
litical candidates, Col. Stephen
Brundidge and Judge George \V.
Hays spent a portion of Sunday
in Little Rock and departed for
another week's speech-making
this morning. Judge Hays con
tinues to travel North Arkansas,
and this morning goes right into
the home county of Judge Brun
didge, speaking at Beebe, where
a royal reception is promised
him. Col. Brundidge has shifted
the scene of his action to South
east Arkansas, making a num
ber of speeches in the judicial
circuit of Judge Hays, though
skipping Camden, the home town
of his opponent.
Judge Hays spent all of Sun
day in Little Rock, and was all
during the day in consultation
with about forty advisors from
different parts of the state. Col.
Brundidge left Sunday morning
to spend the balance of the day
at his home in Searcy.
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LAMB CONFESSES
RIFLING MAIL
Government Mail ( lerk on White
River Division Admits Theft
of Registered Mail.
_
John A. Lamb, a resident of
Joplin, Missouri, and for the I
past your years a mail clerk on
the White River division, run
• ning between Newport and Jop-1
lin, has confessed to the postal1
authorities the rifling of the reg
istered packages of mail con-!
taming currency, claiming that 1
he was hounded by his creditors;
and in order to meet these obli-i
i gat ions and retain his position,!
| he opened packages that contain-1
ed money and appropriated part \
of the same to his own use.
Lamb, as a rule, had the same j
run as our friend and fellow
townsman, Dick Robertson, and i
the government agents were j
here Saturday, questioning the |
latter. Our whole city was up
in arms over the suspicioning of j
; our esteemed citizen, who is the
n/Mil T L rv n n u J L. il_ 1 . 1
made here yesterday at noon
to postoMice inspectors. There
was but $11 in the envelope. He
says he took $5.
"Lamb says the letter was
sent from Bay Harbor, Me., to
Daisie Ferguson at I)olph, Ark.
He rilled the mails, he says, hop
ing to meet debts contracted
years ago added to by expens
es incurred during his resrde.net
in Joplin. He was arraigned be
fore United States Commission
er E. F. Keyton yesterday. L
H. Hodge of Carthage, W. M.
Means of St. Joseph, W. A. Rose
of Springfield and W. II. Lewis
of St. Louis, government inspec
tors, traced the loss.
WIFE SHARES BLAME.
“T realize the wrong that f
did,” said Lamb, “and I am anx
iuos to make restitution. I. con -
fessed to the theft to save my
partner in the mail car, who was
also suspected of being an ac
complice, and because I believed
it useless to deny the charges..’"”
“ ‘I feel that it largely was n^v
fault that John committed the
theft’, said Mrs. Lamb in speak
imr of the choree, ‘but I did not
Road Building Planned.
Batesville, May 4.—The plan
to build the 50 miles of good road
in this county to Little Rock, or
in that direction, will be aban
doned now for the time being,
but there is no doubt that it will
be revived at some future time.
The incentive that caused the
project to be agitated now was
the offer of the government to
contribute $10,000 toward the
expense, provided the. county or
the section through which the
road went would double that
amount, and build 50 miles of
good road.
Fifty miles of good road from
here in the direction of Little
Rock and by way of Pleasant
Plains, would put the state capi
tal in very close touch with all
the north section of the state.
There is no doubt but what Izard
and Stone Counties are going to
soon be a net work of electric
lines on account of the proposed
power that will come when the
power plants are erected at
Batesville and Cotter, and if
these people could reach a good
auto highway at Batesville their
visits to Little Rock would be far
more numerous.
uuuwi ami v-u |yjy n 111c: «U” 1
! solute and unlimited confidence |
of every man who knows him.
, News of the confession of
Lamb however, was received
! here Saturday and the postal in
spectors have completely exon
erated Mr. Robertson, wrhom
l they could never have suspicion
(in the least had they made a
proper investigation. The in
, spectors had placed marked bills
in a package rifled by Lamb, and
, the latter had removed a $5
bill from the letter, but when
searched by the government a
gents managed to hide this cur
. rency and later drop it into a
sewer in order to escape detec
tion.
The Joplin Globe of Saturday
gives the following narrative of
the confession and arrest of
Lamb:
| “To save himself from being I
forced into bankruptcy and the |
loss of his position by his cred
itors, John A. Lamb, No. 2019
Pennsylvania avenue, for four
years a government railway mail
clerk on the Missouri Pacific and
Iron Mountain railroad between
Newport, Ark., and Joplin, open
ed a registered letter on April
24, according to a confession
realize that we were living too.
high or that he was in debt.'
“Lamb declares that his credit
ors have ‘hounded’ him inces
santly for months, threaten iny
to have him dischargeaSfrom the
government service if Vhe <lid
not get the money with wlwdi to
pay them.”
Milk Chocolates Begging.
Special fo Independent.
Little Rock, May 5.— Milk
shakes and milk chocolates are
going begging about local soda
fountains today, th^ last of the
high school and college students
who came to attend the staslte
meet leaving for home Sunday.
It was a great thing for the soda
fountains while it lasted, though
one soda dispenser stated he
had sold as high as sixty gallons
of milk in one evening during
the field meet, all of which went
into the favorte drink of the
school boy and girl.
Rev. B. L. Wilford spent Sun
day at Cabot, where he preached
at the Methodist church that
morning.
THE man who sees a few of these new
suits we are showing will want to try
them on.
When he tries them on he is sure to
want to buy one.
And when he buys one, it will give him
such excellent service that we will be assured
of his future patronage.
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“To satisfy the customer always” is the
guiding rule under which we all work here.
Come and test the advantages offered
you here for satisfactory trading.
Once you try us,
You’ll always st!ck\by us
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