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On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR STATE SENATOR.
We are authorized to announce W. F. Harrison
of Osceola as a candidate for the State Senate
from the Twenty-ninth senatorial district, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic primary
election.
FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
We are authorized to announce the candidacy of
W. A. Oldfield for re-election to the office of*
prosecuting attorney, subject to the Democratic
primary election.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
We are authorized to announce T. T. Ward as a
Candidate for the office of representative of Jack
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
elect ion.
We are authorized to announce J. U. Ard as a
candidate for the office of representative of Jack
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
election.
FOR SHERIFF.
To the voters of Jackson county.
I am a candidate for re-election to the office of
« sheriff of Jackson county, subject to a Demo
cratic primary, if one is held. Feeling. that 1
have diacharged the duties of that of fice in such
a manner as to merit, your confidence, and thank
ing you for your supjs.rt in the past and asking
your help in the future. If elected I will do my
duty. Your fellow citizen, R. W. BAND! .
We are authorized to announce Snell Simmons
as a candidate for election to the office, ofjsheriff
of Jackson county, subject to the action,of the
Democratic party.
FOR COUNTY AND PROBATE JUDGE.
We are authorized to announce E. L. Boyce as a
candidate for the office of county ami probate
judge of Jackson county, subject to the Demo
cratic primary election.
We are authorized to announce Otis W. Scar
borough as a candidate for the office of county
and probale judge of Jackson county, subject to
the Democratic primary election.
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK.
We are authorized to announce John D. Neal as
a candidate for the office of circuit clerk of Jack
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
election.
We are authorized to announce James S. Jones
as a candidate for re-election to the office of cir
cuit clerk of Jackson county, subject to the Dem
ocratic primary election.
FOR TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce Dr. F. G. Smith
as a candidate for the office of treasurer of Jack
sop county, subject to the Democaatic primary
election.
We are authorized to announce Capt. W. A.
Joyce as a candidate for re-election to the office
of treasurer of Jackson county, subject to the
Democratic primary election.
FOR COUNTY CLERK.
We are authorized to announce E. C. Water
man as a candidate for the office of County
VICIIV) BUUJCVl W IIIV ObViv/M v* *“V --
primary election.
We are authorized to announce G. A. Lockard
as a candidate for the office of bounty clerk, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic primary
election.
We are authorized to announce George L. Rob
inson as a candidate for the office of county clerk,
subject to the action of the Democratic primary
election.
FOR ASSESSOR.
We are authorized to announce Passmore
White as a candidate for re-election to the office
of assessor of Jackson county, subject to the
Democratic primary election.
FOR CONSTABLE.
We are authorized to announce Robt. M. Laird
as a candidate for re-election to the office of con
stable of Union township. subject to the Demo
cratic primary election.
FOR MAYOR. •
We are authorized to announce James W.
Grubbs as a candidate for re-election to the office
of Mayor of the city of Newport at the ensuing
April election.
FOR CITY MARSHAL.
We are authorized to announce Abe Ballew as a
and idate for Marshal of the city of Newport,
t the ensuing April election.
We are authorized to announce T. S. Stephens
as a candidate for re-election to the office of Mar
shal of the city of Newport at the coming April
election.
FOR CITY RECORDER.
We are authorized to announce Riley May
han as a candidate for re-election to the office of
Recorder of the city of Newport at the ensuing
April election.
SWEET CLOVER
PAR EXCELLENT.
A large house was out Wed
nesday evening to see what may
be most truthfully ascribed, the
best production ever rendered
upon the Newport stage. From
the rising of the curtain to the
final drop at the end of the 4th
Act, interest never lagged, and'
and the admiration of the audi
ence for so excellent a company
increased with every shifting of
the scenes in this refreshing
comedy drama ‘ ‘Sweet Clover.
The play is simple, yet power
ful; it follows along the old lines
of woman marrying another than
the one loved and leads the
hearer to believe that the sins of
one generation are visited upon
greatest attention. Jerome Hol
;ombe, the old farmer, and a
genuine one, too, in the person
)f Otis B. Thayer, and Marie
Del Vecchio as Abigail, his sis
ter, are intensely interesting and
true. Through them is much of
the richest comedy introduced,
though Sunny and her young
doctor, who has three patients
promised upon which to start
married life, furnish valuable
contributions.
Interest centers about Miss
Edna Robb, however, the queen
ly daughter of old farmer Hol
combe, whose beauty is not s age
made, ’tis evident. Grace, ease
and comely features are all hers.
Nor is this fair picture spoiled by
a disappointing voice. In her,
and through her sweetly modu
lated tones, are expressed well
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In the rural home and the city
mansion, in the humdrum of
simple life and the crises of a j
destiny, she is ever capable. She j
easily wins and fastens the ad-j
miration of her hearers.
The scenery was good and cos- j
tumes handsome, but they were I
slight factors in the success of
“Sweet Clover.”
MOTHER’S FRUIT CAKE.
It Was n Big One, But the Express
Charges Were a Little
Bit Bigger.
The woman who was telling the story :
was the best gowned of all the women
in the cafe. It seemed to amuse the
company around her table and some at
near-by seats couldn’t help listening to
it, relates the New York Sun.
“I never see a piece of fruit or pound
cake that I don’t think of my poor dear
mother out in Kansas,” she was saying.
! “Did I ever tell you about the cake she
sent me? Well, it was the first Christ
mas 1 was in New York.
“From my chill little bedroom in a
rooming house half way up town I used
to write to her the rosiest letters of my
progress and expectations. It used to
cheer my gloomiest hours to see what
lies I could put down on paper for the
gratification and couJfort of the little
old lady. One night when I hadn’t had
any dinner, I remember sending her a
long letter about plans I was making
to bring my little sister east and give
her the education she ought to have.
“A few days before Christmas I got a
letter in mother’s own labored writing.
Sha ofiiri aha know T hfl.nkprpd for &
taste of the fruit cake we always had
at home at Christmas time and she had
made a whole big one for me and had
shipped it by express.
“I promised myself that with one of
mother’s nourishing fruit cakes at hand
I would be able to sustain myself on the
off days, and I sat in expectancy next
day when the bell rang and the maid !
came tolling up the two flights to tell
me that there was a package for me.
“The expressman climbed up with a
round parcel almost as big as a wash
tub. He held up the book for me to
sign and remarked, incidentally,'
‘charges are $6.45 ma’am.’ Mother had
sent it collect, all the way from the lit
tle Kansas town.
“Six forty-five! The fruit cake was as
far beyond my reach as a Tiffany tiara.
So the expressman bore it away while I
muttered something about dropping
into his office with the money as soon as
I had been to the bank. Then I wrote
a strictly private note to my little sis
ter telling her to tear up any notice
that might be sent to mother by the
company telling her the parcel was un
delivered. I have an idea they have
some such system. Haven’t they?
“Then I sat down and wrote a fresh
letter to mother telling her how much
I had enjoyed the cake, and describing
all the fictitious persons who had shared
it with me, and who sent their con- j
gratulatious to her on her skill as a
cakemaker. I ran out and mailed the
letter and went back and cried myself
to sleep.”
“And that was the end of the cake?"
asked one of the women at the tables
“Oh, no,” continued the narrator.
“Three months later I went to the auc
' tion sale of unclaimed express packages
1 and bid it in for 45 cents. Mother’s
i fruit cake is so wholesome and solid that j
"it will keep for a >tar. If you’ll all
| come up to the house nowr, each of you
shall have a small piece.”
“What!” exclaimed one of the men.
; “Was this event as reoent as that?”
The story-teller smiled bewitchingly.
i “You know',” she said, turning her look
i to the fiat and apoplectic person who
! w’as presumptively the husband, “it was
a case of love at first sight with Mr.
| X-and me."
“Yes,” assented the fat one, “and
we’ve Just shipped to mother a fruit
cake that’s so crammed w'ith $20 gold
pieces that there's no room for raisins.”
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