NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. TUESDAY JULY 22, 1902. NUMBER 78
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Fancy White Ginghams, white and black.)
Goods, Wash Silks, Fancy Silks,
Mercerized Fabrics.
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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.
Newport Builders’ Supply
and Hardware Company
HIGH GRADE GOODS
fcF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Quality Our First
Sonsideration
..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.
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NEW POSTALS AND STAMPS.
The McKinley Card and Thirteen
Cent Stamp the Latest.
New postals have been in use in
some of the lhrger cities since the 1st
of July.
The McKinley postal is said to be
one of the handsomest ever issued by
the department. The portrait of Mc
Kinley, while satisfactory, is not all
that could be desired. The eyebrows
show too much shagginess and there
is a turn to the lower lip which hints
at a troubled or somewhat sad ex
pression which was not shown in the
original. This however is said by the
bureau experts to be unavoidable
under the process by which
the postal plates are made, which is
just the reverse of that of making
postage stamps, the specialty of the
bureau.
Opposite the medallion containing
the picture of McKinley on the neW
cards, i s one containing the figure of
an eagle with outstretched wings and
carrying in its claws a bunch of
arrows and a branch of olive. Both
pictures are said to be Very fine and
make the prettiest card ever pro
duced by the department.
The new stamps which were to
have been issued by the department .
about this time have net yet come
out from the printers,^nd there will
be some further delay. According to
tVic nnctnm r»f Hfinnrt.mftnt t.hfi ftri
tire series are changed about every
ten years, but in addition to the reg
ular series, a new stamp will be
among the number this time, to be
known as the 13-cent stamp. The
object of putting this stamp out
is to fill the demand for a value cover
ing postage rate on a registered let
ter mailed to foreign countries.
The department has also decided
that the portrait of a woman shall
adorn one of the new series of stamps
but just whose picture shall be used
is still a question. It is given out that
she must have been a married|woman,
and in all probability the portrait of
Martha Washington will be selected
for this honor.
STATE SCRAPS
Scissored from Our Exchanges—Ac
counts of Things In General.
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The prevailing idea over the State
seems to be that Arkansas should
have a $100,000 building at St. J^ouis,
and present indications point to the
realization of the hope of the enter
prising citizens of the state. The
next legislature will be asked for an
additional appropriation.
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C. C. Parker, living at Harrison,
killed a large black snake, which had
partially swallowed a rattlesnake.
The reason the black snake was u -
able to finish his job was because the
rattlesnake had swallowed a frog a
short time before, and his waist line
was entirely too much extended.
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Prohibition leaders and the officers
are making it hot for “blind tigers”
at Hope. Four proprietors of these
alleged resorts were assessed fines of
§100 each and costs and one of them
languithes in jail in default of pay
ment. The mayor is also enforcing
the Sunday closing law vigorously.
One druggist was fined §10 for selling
cigars on the Sabbath.
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The Magnolia Oil and Fertilizer
Company began its corporate exist
ence yesterday upon the filing of their
articles wfith Secretary of State
Crockett. The new company will es
tablish a cotton seed oil mill at Mag
nolia, Columbia county, and w)ll also
manufacture fertilizers. The capital
stock is §25,000. They retain the
right of increasing this stock to §100,
000 at the will of the directors.
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Complaint was sent to First Assist
ant Postmaster General Ityibert J.
Wynne signed by several prominent
citizens of Magnolia, charging James
Curry and Oscar Barron, editors of
the Magnolia (Ark.) News, with
having circulated vile, obscene and
slanderous matter in the United States
mails, which was contained in the
issues of July 2 and 16. The maximum
penalty for the offense with which
they are charged is $5,000 fine and
five years at hard labor in the peni
teritiary.
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The Bank and Trust Company of
Walnut Ridge was incorporated Mon
day, with a capital stock of $100,
000. The shares are $25 each, and
$37,500 of the stock has already been
subscribed. The articles of incorpo
ration were drawn up July 7 and they
were Monday filed with the secre
tary of state. It is the purpose of the
company to do a general banking
business, deal in real estate and rep
resent life, fire and accident insurance
companies. The incorporators are:
r. J. Sharum, W. G. McClamroch,
0. P. Merriweather, S. Riegler, J. N.
Beakley, H. A. Culver, A. Arndt, P.
B. Hill, J. G. Richardson, I. Less, A.
B. Israel, B. F. Graff, D. Sloan, S. T.
Oanningfteld, J. B. Kerchival, W. R.
Lan, F. W. Tucker, M. A. Isaacs,
Rachel Pitzele and Z. S. Block.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Another railroad is being projected
from Hoxie South, either to Newport
or Brinkley.
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Mert Stewart, a brakeman on the
■jearcy and Des Arc road had the mis
fortune to get his foot badly crushed
while making a coupling at Higginson
Monday.
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Before through trains are put on
the St. Louis, Memphis and South
eastern railroad, the thirty-five pound
3teel now down, will be removed and
3ixty-flve pound steel used.
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On account of the prospects of
Hoxie being a railroad center in the
future, some of the shrewd business
men are taking in real-estate bar
gains two and three miles from town.
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Some time ago there was a report
sent out from New York to the effect
that the Pennsylvania railroad had
decided not to allow any more kissing
at its stations. It was done without
the authority of the road officials and
has caused them much worry. They
have seen fit to officially deny the
reporj: and denounce it as a fake.
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J. S. Jenkins, architect and con
tractor, of this city, is in receipt of a
proposition for a bid on a 15-stall
round house, concrete foundation,
turn table pit and coal chutes to be
built at Hoxie, Ark. This confirms
the rumors that changes will be at
Walnut Ridge or Hoxie and that
Hoxie is the place where the improve
ments will be made. It also settles
nhe question as to the magnitude of
she work to be done at that place. In
jtead^jf being big improvements, it
will be simply to accomodate the
freight division which is now too long
md will have little or no effect on the
railroad interests at Poplar Bluff. The
r\nnrv\ onor»f imni»A\ramQnl'.o m Q H A
last year, including a new 22-stall
brick roundhouse, and the latest im
proved turntables and coal chutes
will not be cast aside but, from the
information we have received, there
is every indication that there will be
some startling news along this line
soon that will redound to the benefit
of Poplar Bluff.—Sentinel.
CIRCUIT COURT.
J. C. Alexander, charged with ag
gravated assault for whipping a little
girl in school was acquitted by the
jury Monday evening.
State vs. W. C. Latta, larceny; ac
quitted.
State vs. J. H. Morrison house
breaking. Thi's* trial is now being
heard and will probably occupy the
attention of the court for the balance
of the day. Morrison is charged with
forcibly entering the meat shop for
merly owned by Tom Giliiam, now
dead and taking possession thereof.
LODGE MEETINGS.
I. O. O. F.—Every Monday.
Red Men.—Every Tuesday.
Royal Arch—1st and 3rd Friday.
Jackson Lodge-—2nd Wednesday.
Jackson Chapter—4th Thursday.
K. of P.—1st and 3rd Wednesday.
A FISH STORY,
Which Has Its Origin at Arkansas
City—Story of Capture of a
Monster Gar.
That the Mississippi contains other
species of fish besides game, drum
and the regulation “cat” was proven
last Monday. For more than two
weeks two monster Annies played
hide and seek in the immediate neigh
borhood of the “It,” moored below
the warehouse, much to the annoy
ance of its occupant. Monday fore
noon the two again appeared, and the
Hoover brothers, Guy aad Charles—
Ashermen anchored near—concluded
to bag, at least, one of them. Ac
cordingly an immense steel hook was
baited and fastened to a three-eights
line and cast overboard from the rear
of their cabin boat, Guy retaining the
line in his hand. In less than twenty
minutes Guy’s heels Aew up, and but
for his brother coming to his assist
ance just in the nick of time, would
have been jerked into the river. Now
the “play” began in dead ^earnest.
Guy, with both hands badly burnt by
the quick passing rope through at the
outset, still held his own. The gar
one of the alligator specie—was a
monster in size and strength. Both
men were pulled about, and when the
fellow was brought to the surface
near the boat to be dealt a blow he
would fairly turn himself and get
away to the end of the line. After a
Aght of a half hour his strength failed.
He was given two well directed blows
with a hatchet and pulled ashore. Hie
length was seven feet and nine inches
and weight 264 pounds.—Arkansas
City Journal.
A RATTLESNAKE BANQUET.
Capt. A. L. Dabney the Calhoun
county, Mias., civil engineer who is
preparing to give a banquet to his
friends within the next few weeks at
which rattlesnake on toast will be the
principal delicacy, has just succeeded
in capturing another monster rattler,
and the success of the feast is now
assured. Oapt. Dabney feels confl-^
dent that he will be able to fatten the
new acquisition, for the reptile is eat
ing voraciously, whereas the pair of
rattlers captured some time ago have ,
refused to eat for more than two
months.
Captain Dabney’s new snake is one
of the largest ever oaptured in Mis
sissippi. It measures nearly 8 feet in
length, is nearly 20 inches in circum
ference and carries twenty-seven
rattles. The snake made a desperate
fight when captured, and on account
of his hostile proclivities Captain
Dabney has named him “Joe Bailey.”
The capture was effected by means of
a forked stick while Captain Dabney
was on a surveying trip, and having
no box at hand in which to confine
the reptile, he was securely strapped
to a long pole and carried home in
triumph.
NEW WASH GOODS.
16 and 20c dimity, lawn and baptiste
all go for 10c a yard at Chas. Meyer’s
Great Bargain Store. 67dtf.
Huffman bakes bread every day.
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