The Independent
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front St„ NEWPORT, ARK.
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Every public spirited citizen,
good farmer or progressive land
owner wants good roads. The
cost of them has frightened
many. Come to Newport Sat
urday, May 31 to hear and see
how D. Ward* ving- proposes to
huild them cheaply.
Practically one-third of New
port’s business comes from that
section of Jackson county east
of Village Creek. The mer
merchant or business man, who
will ride over the roads of that
section leading into Newport
will wonder why the farmers of
that, section ever come to New
port.
D. Ward King was a North
.Missouri farmer, who tired of
the mires and mud along his
own farm. He began grading
the road in front of his place
and leveling it after every rain
through the use of a simple
drag, that can be constructed by
any blacksmith at a cost of
about $2.50. He soon had his
neighborhood talking about him
and adopting his methods and
now the whole world knows him
and road drags are recognized
creators of good roads, except
.ih sandy soils. Come to New
port Saturday, May 31 and hear
him, also witness his own dem
onstration work.
If the road drag law of our
border state applied to Arkan
sas and county seat highways
were thus created, Newport
would be connected with Bates
ville, Searcy, Augusta, Harris
burg, Jonesboro and Walnut
Hidge by regularly dragged
rpads at an expense to the
state of less than $1500 per
year. A road from Newport to
the county seats of surrounding
counties means a road into prac
tically every section of the
county and would benefit the
whole county. Jackson county
could well afford to lead in an
improvement work of this char
acter and pay the expense from
her own revenues.
The Citizen And The Fly. .
The following is practical and
sage and timely advice:
The summer is now upon us
, ..
and already the common house-,
fly and others are appearing in
small numbers. God bless the
man who first invented screens!
Now is the time to get them
up before the flies get in. But if
they are in, kill everyone of
| them.
The best way to kill flies how
ever, is before they are born.
This can be done easily with
paris green in the same watery
solution that has proven so ef
fective as a maggot killer when
i mixed in a ratio of one pound
to twenty-five gallons of water
and sprinkled on stable manure
and other rubbish. A common
gardening water pot of water, a
j teaspoonful of paris green stir
red in and spninkled on fresh
manure, a fly’s favorite nesting
place, and the flies from the sta
ble will not need swatting. Par
is green in this weak solution is
not injurious to stock and every
maggot killed means one less
fly to dodge next week. Neither
does paris green injure the fer
tilizing (qualities of the manure,
but in a negative way increases
if
Be careful to keep the flies a
j way from the milk you feed to
your babies. Prof. Rosenau has
discovered that the common sta
ble fly will transmit paralysis
from one monkey to another;
Furthermore, the virus of the
infantile paralysis has been
found to live for several days on
the body of the common house
fly.
And finally when the open gar
bage can and the pile of fresh
manure have been treated with
paris green and no slops are
j thrown into places for this ver
J min, the fly question will be
| solved. In short, if you do not
| want flies do not provide places
for them to breed in.—Fort
Smith Times Record.
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Assessments Considered by
Court.
County court convened again
Monday morning to hear com
plaints against assessments
made in the Cow Lake drainage
district, the first to be heard be
ing that of S. M. Stuckey. Many
witnesses for and against the
proposed ditch were heard upon
the issue of whether the better
ment assessment was in line
with what the benefits would be
and a comparison of the better
ment tax with present values
and acquired values by reason of
the ditch.
The district’s commissioners
George R. Hays, J. M. Gibson
and R. D. Dennis and the en
gineer in charge W. A. Bowman
are in attendance upon the hear
ings. Phillips. Hillhouse &
Boyce are counsel for the dis
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trict and Fred Suits, S. M. Stuc-1
key and Judge Otis Scarborough
represent those who are asking .
a reduction in assessments, as
about 12 land owners are pray
ing a reduction in their assess
ments. The hearing of these
cases before Judge Coe will pro
bably occupy several days and
many citizens of Richwoods and
Cow Lake Townships are pres
ent as witnesses or parties to
the proceedings.
Swatting The Fly Right.
Among the many places lined
up to swat the fly this summer
and swat it right, is Atlantic
City, N. J. The county has ap
propriated $25,000 to eliminate
the pests. At a public meeting
held a few days ago it was de
cided to offer prizes to the best
fly swatter and to bill the town
and show moving pictures of
the dangers incident to the fly.
Prominent citizens were ap
' pointed to take charge of the
campaign.
Cleveland, Ohio, is another
town where vigorous work is
being done on the same line.
The records for one day for the
season were broken the other
day when 100,000 dead flies
were piled upon the tables of
campaign headquarters, and the
city’s general fund was deplet
ed by $12 in payment for them.
This was the result of the
work of school children. St.
Clair school headed the list
with 9,150 flies to its credit.
One room in the building con
tributed 2,200 carcasses of the
disease-breeding insects. Chil
dren of other schools contribut
ed their quota.
At Rome, New York, the city
authorities and the Chamber of
Commerce distributed 1,000 fly
swatters, and will pay five cents
per hundred for flies swatted
and delivered during the next
three weeks. The person bring
ing in the largest number will
receive a $5 gold piece.
It is a great campaign and
should be kept going. Maybe
you smile every time you see
the phrase, “swat the fly,” and
maybe you call the people who
are wielding the swatters
cranks, but all the time the flies
are spreading filth and disease
over your homes, infecting your
self and your family, and in
creasing the profits of the drug
gist, the doctor and the under
taker.
Go after the fly, go after him
right now and keep going after
him.— Fort Smith Times-Re
cord.
Found $150 Pear!.
One day during the early part
of last week J. M. Shutzl and
Steve Langston of Mt. Olive had
the good luck to find a $150 pearl
in the river at that place. The
two men had gone over to the
river to hunt an axe that had
fallen into the river a short time
before. After the axe was recov
ered Mr. Langston got into the
water and gathered several mus
sels while Mr. Shultz opened
them. The pearl was of good
size and lustre, but a few sand
specks brought the sale price
down to $150, which was paid by
0. H. Dixon, the Mt. Olive pearl
buyer and merchant. —Calico
Rock Progress.
Bond Jumping Charged.
Fort Smith, May 18.—D. P.
Coggins, charged with forfeit
ing his bond in Commanche ,
county, Texas, and for whose
arrest a reward of $300 had
been offered, was taken to
Texas today by Sheriff Cunning
ham of Commanche county.
Coggins was arrested at Col
linsville, Oklahoma, by Deputy
Sheriffs Dan Folsom and John \
Baker of Haskell county, Okla-!
homa, after he had fled from
Tamaha, where he was located.
He was apprehended as he
was in the act of boarding a
freight train.
Randolph Awake on Good Roads ^
Pocahontas, May 18.—Inter
est in road building in Randolph
county has been renewed with
what seems to be a determina
tion to put the main roads of the j
county in a condition that will
enable travel at all times of the ,
year. During the administra
tion of the late Judge Jufstedler
good road building was made a
leading issue. Road building
machinery of the latest type
was bought and put into the
hands of the different overseers
of th'e county. i
Under the administration of
County Judge M. R. Armstrong
a greater improvement in the
work of repairing and building
first-class roads in this county is
expected.
B. F. Biggers, one of the weal
thy and influential land owners
of this county, is behind a pro
posed road from Maynard to Big
j gers, a distance of 10 miles. This
road would connect Maynard
with a railroad shipping point at
Biggers and with one of the
richest farming belts in this
1 section of the state. Mr. Biggers
also proposes to get behind the
extension of this road to Knobel,
a point on the Iron Mountain
Railroad in Clay County. This
would put a road through a very
fertile section of country, and
such a road would add much to
the commercial interests of this
section.
A. J. Weaver, a leading busi
ness man of Maynard, is heading
a mlovement to build a first-class
road from Maynard to Pocahon
tas.
The citizens of Maynard are
taking interest in this proposi
tion, as it means much to that
town, as it is a school town, hav
ing located there a branch of
Ouachita college.
The matter has been put be
fore the business men of Poca
hontas, and it is receiving much
encouragement. Liberal dona
tions have been subscribed for
this fund. The Commercial
Club will take the proposition up
at an early date and further the
w7ork. The estimated cost of a
first-class road from Pocahontas
to Maynard is $15,000; from
Maynard to Biggers, $7,000. A
road is proposed from Biggers
to Pocahontas, costing $5,000.
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Call for Democratic Central
Committee Meeting.
A meeting of the Democratic
County Central Committee of
Jackson County is hereby called
to meet at the city hall in the
City of Newport, Arkansas, at ;
two o’clock p. m. on May the 24,
1913. The object of the meet
ing is for calling the primary i
election to De neia in tne various
wards and precincts of the coun
ty to nominate a candidate for
governor to be voted for at the
special election to be held on the
23rd of July, 1913.
Under the rules no proxies
can be allowed and each member
is requested to be personally
present.
Respectfully,
W. D. McLain,
Chairman Democratic County
Central Committee of Jackson
County, Arkansas.
Attest:
L. L. Mack, Secretary.
May 9, 1913.
Two Men Break Jail.
Paragould, May 18.—“Sleepy”
Hansford and Gars Daniels, two
ihronic violators of the local op
tion laws, broke out of the jail
here Friday night and made a
successful getaway. Taking ad
vantage of the temporary ab
sence of the jailer, Hansford
and Daniels tore up a cot, using
the timbers to pry loose the
iron bars from a window, and !
with the aid of some blankets
lowered themselves to the
ground.
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