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/THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
“Spencer will make a hit.”
Misses Katie Price and Mary
Bailey returned to their studies
at Willis institute Tuesday, after
spending a few days at home.
Both of these young ladies are
in the senior rdass and will erad
uate in June.
C. E. Johnson left Tuesday
noon for Walnut Ridge, where
v he will engage in the mercantile
business with John W. Hunt.
f. He and his family have made
many friends in Newport, who
regret to see them leave.
Mrs. Reynolds of Batesville,
who has been visiting friends at
Holly Grove, arrived Monday aft
ernoon and was the guest until
Tuesday of Harry Herring and
family, when she returned home.
She was met here by her hus
band, Dr. Reynolds.
Bell & Maynard have opened
a neat restaurant in the rear
of the Grand Central Hotel, the
"■timing room of the old Planters’
House, to be known as "The
Little Gem.” Same cooks, the
best of everything to eat and
good service will continue to up
old the reputation of “The Lit
tle Gem” as a first-class regular
and short order eating house. 87
Many people of this city have
requested the Independent to ask
the question, What has become
of the cemetery association? The
people feel that the beautifying
and care of this sacred spot
should appeal to all who are in
terested in this silent home of
the dead. The grass is beautiful
and if the leaves and trash were
cleared away would make a far
different appearance. Will not
some one take this work in hand?
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and one good hand, who will do
good average work, to write
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Simplified Shorthand in three
months or make no charge.
It will make any one a present
of a scholarship who will find
any other school using any other
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this.
Students of other systems at
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of the south to learn the Byrne
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perts trained by its author. We
offer a free scholarship to any
one who will find a single stu
dent that ever finished the Byrne
and then laid it aside and be
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THROUGH SERVICE
BY JULY FIRST.
Progress of Work at Different
! Points on White River Route
—Contractors Rushing
the Work.
It is given out on what is be
lieved to be good authority that
| through service will be estab
lished over the White River route |
July 1, says the Yellville Repub
lican.
It i3 not to be understood that
this contemplates tiie completion
i of the line by that date, but that
i it will be in condition to allow
j the passage of trains from New
■ port to Carthage. There is a
time limit within which the con
tractors in charge of the con
struction work must have the
! steel down, and that expires a
! few days before July 1. Heavy
bonds secure this performance
and the railroad company will
not be slow in exacting com
pliance with the terms of the
agreement.
Every available man on the
entire line has been rushed to
the “front,” all work at other
points being stopped. There is
but one engine now in the Cot
ter yards, and it is used for
switching and making up supply
trains hauling material up the
line. The large piles of timbers,
ties, rails and bridge steel long
stored at that place are being
unnl/ILr 4- 1 r •*-* 1ir\ 4-La Uma nnr^ f A_
lajMuij tunvii va^ vhv **■»*'-' ~v
day the yard bears little sem
blance of its appearance a month
ago. All work has been stopped
there pending the completion of
the remaining gap between Ore
gon Flats and Branson, a dis
tance of something like fifteen
miles.
The steel has reached Marble
Hollow, seven miles west of Ore
gon, at which place the Ameri
can company will this week com
plete the highest bridge on the
line. This work is under the
direction of Superintendent Ken
nedy, who will next put in the
Bear creek bridge. The lighter
bridges and trestles are being
put in by Ben Reynolds and these
will be ready for the steel within
thirty days.
The heaviest work on the line,
and that which is causing the
delay, is the Omaha tunnel and
! the big cut at Oregon. The tun
nel is being done by Kennifick &
Hammond, who are putting for th
every possible effort to finish it
within the time limit. This it is
thought they cannot possibly ac
complish, but a shoo-fly, or sup
ply track, has been laid around
the tunnel, as at Oregon, and a
| train may go through over that
[ and save the penalty of the com
pany. The work at Oregon is
J being done on a sub-contract,
and while it cannot be completed
before fall, trains will use the I
! supply track and go around the
cut.
j High water at Branson has de
layed the construction of the
bridge over White river at that
| point. The shore piers are being
put in and everything is on the
ground for the construction of
; those in the river channel. This
■ work will not take over thirty
| days to complete, and the steei
will be put up in another thirty
days. North of Branson, in
Missouri, are a number of trestles
and one steel bridge to go up.
There yet remains about ten
miles of track to lay before the
trains can reach Branson. This
is expected to be done by the 1st |
of May, when the steel for the
White river bridge will be taken
to that point. It is now at Reed
Spring, a siding ten miles north,
awaiting shipment to the river.
Every foot of the roadbed from
the Omaha tunnel to Reed Spring
is ready for the rails.
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Paper from Rye Straw.
Expert* who have examined rye
•traw are of the opinion that a very
high grade of paper, not only adapted I
to newspapers, but suitable for books
aa well, :an be made from that mate
rial, of which Louisiana produce*
thousand* of tons .that are now got
ltd of aa a waste prbducL
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MOCCASINS FOR SOLDIERS.
Inquiries Made by Representatives of
Powers at War for “Bangor's
Golden Slippers.”
Inquiries have been received in
Bangor, Me., from persons sup
posed to represent either the Rus
sian or the Japanese government
concerning prices for moccasins
in large quantities and the earli
cst date of delivery at Atlantic or
Pacific ports. It Is supposed that
the moccasins are wanted for sol
diers campaigning In Manchuria.
For that purpose they would be
eminently suitable, says the New
York Sun.
The moccasin is the favorite
footwear of the lumbermen of
Maine, and was first made in Ban
gor in 1851. At first only one or
two styles were made, but now
moccasins are manufactured in
great variety, ranging from slip
pers for women and children—
soft as kid and embroidered with
beads—to the stout boots and lar
rigans of the Penobscot lumber
men.
Much of the sewing is still done
by1 hand, being let out by the piece
to French Canadian families in
the neighborhood of Bangor. All
moccasins are made of a specially
prepared leather, rendered a gold
en yellow by a peculiar process of
tanning.
The common moccasin is not
proof against water, but it has
100m for several pairs of stock
ings, and that is a strong point in
its favor. For keeping the feet
warm ana ary in cold weatner tne
moccasin has no equal.
The greater part of the mocca
sin leather still comes from the
place of its origin, Pawtucket,
R. I., although a considerable
quantity is tanned in Bangor.
Some years ago Bangor men es
tablished factories at Red Wing,
Minn., and Racine, Wis.
The dainty bath slippers, which
ai<e not really moccasins, but are
made from soft elk skin, are in
greatdemand at home and abroad,
and are especially favored by the
ladies of Japan, to which country
Bangor sends large quantities. It
now seems likely that “Bangor’s
golden slippers,” as moccasins are
called, may be worn by ^fhe con
tending armies in Manchuria.
JAPAN’S FIRST IRONCLAD
Hjr Crew Made a Brave Start, But
Couldn’t Stop Her Till Fires
Went Out.
That the role of Japan as a mar
itime power is a new one is
brought strongly to our notice by
recalling the quite well authen
ticated story of the first adven
ture of the first Japanese iron
clad, says Country Life.
She was built in England.
While she was building her erew
were also in England practicing,
in other ironclads how to drive
her. When she was finished the
Japanese seamen took possession
of her, bravely maintaining that
they were fully equal to the task
of starting her.
And that, to be sure, they were,
for she steamed out finely. The
trouble only began when shecamo
DacK to port again, men, wnen
they wanted to slow her down and
■top her, they were unable to do
80.
They had to put her out to sea
again and go on steaming her
about till her fires went out, her
engines stopped for want of
■team, and she could be towed in.
From this to having the best
mentally-equipped crews, perhaps,
of any nation seems a long step,
but it has been a very rapid one.
Insect Senses.
Naturalists have decided that
many insects have senses which
human beings lack. That of loca
tion, shown by the wasp, for in
stance, is remarkable. One spe
cies builds its nest in a sandbank
that is only a part of several acres
of such soil, and when it leaves in
search of food it covers the nest so
carefully that no ordinary eye
could discover its location. That
is to say it is just like all the sur
rounding location, and yet the
wasp flies back to it without hes
itation and finds it without mak
ing a mistake. There is another
wasp tlat unerringly locates the
eggs of the mason bee under a
thick layer of sun baked clay, and
deposits her eggs in the same
cells that her young may have
food when they are hatched.
Timber for Cigar-Boxes.
Practically all the timber used
toe cigar boxes comes from Cuba.
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With its attendant risks, and
which involves absence from
your home and neglect of your
business? In nine cases out of
ten the necessity for this can be
obviated by the use of the
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Dentist
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of the Teeth.
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Newport, - Arkansas.
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We examine your eyes with ex
pert wisdom, charge you nothing
for that, if you don’t require
glasses or spectacles tell you so
and ask only a moderate recom
pense for them if you need them.
Is it wise to see us?
Dr. A. J. FRANK,
Expert Optician.
Office, 306 E. Front street, up
stairs, next Dr. A. Kellett.
Office Hours—10to 12 a. m.,
4 to 6 p. m., except Sunday.
Call Central (3 rings) for Dr.
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he will call on you.
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