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« I, tllbh
Iainst autoist
Wl5 | „ Blamed
’IDS ’ ■ Touring "
Kving Machine At
Kcessive Speed.
■ ?nouest over the body
■ H Harrod, the distin
Kttorney who was kill
noon, began at 9
Saturday morning, and
■ of the day will proba
■nsumed with the exami
VC.M witnesses. While it is
■bythe defense that the
Judge Harrod was an
and it is admitted that
K Madding, the young
L King the high powered
■h'flch crashed into the dis
^■ed citizen, had no crimi
«Kt, yet public feeling is
SjKinst him, because it has
mKwn by many witnesses
^K car was traveling at a
Kef speed at the time of
K'dent. There has never
Ally danger cf personal vio
wKward young Madding.
is sn strong that
!don and conviction, for
manslaughter, is de
li neighbors it was
[grrod’s custo mto walk
ty every morning, he de
bat his health demancl
xercise. At noon he us
de home in his touring
Friday he decided to
treet car home, and did
for his son and the ma
is he stepped from the
heavy truck crossed
y, headed in the same
as the car. The rapid
iching car driven by
adding, and occupied by
racie and Miss Mary
iddition, could not be
udge Harrod. The car,
2 an opposite direction
street car, was driven
the standing street car
ruck, in order to avoid
i. I'unning full force in
Harrod and James
ie small son of John E.
Bs> a well known insurance
of Little Rock. Judge Har
was thrown against the
ing, the top of his head be
■rushed in as though it was
Kg shell. He died instantly.
rs Coates received a deep
) in his throat, which ex
led irom ear to ear, and an
f Pictures
^ra House
>er Week.
> CLERK.”
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BROADWAY”
a show troupe,
i as leading lady,
dashing blonde.
essanay
HE SMOKE from LONE
BILL’S CABIN”
extra good Western fea
lre' Mary Charieson and Fred
orns. A
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,0°MUSIC BY THE ORCHES
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other in his forhead. He will
probably recover,
j Judge Harrod has been very
prominent in legal affairs of Ar
i kansas for many years. He was
lone of the most active of the
| State’s attorneys in the recent
i rate litigation, and was slated to
: become United States District
1 Attorney for the Eastern Dis
tinct of Arkansas. He was a
class mate of President Wood
row Wilson, and was the per
i sonal selection of the President
for this place.
The funeral will probably take
place Sunday afternoon, with in
terment in Mt. Holly cemetery,
beside the grave of his young
j son, Thomas, who was drowned
I at Ludingion, Mich, two years
: ago, just as he was reaching his
majority.
Cleared Of Contempt Charges.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 12.—B. D.
Crane, a wholesale grocer of
Fort Smith, passed through Lit
tle Rock Friday night on his
way home from Birmingham,
Ala., where he was summoned to
! ai ver contempt charges as a
; director of the Southern Whole
! sale Grocers’ Association. He
states that all Arkansas direc
I tors were discharged, and the
cases against about forty of
those under indictment, had
been dropped because of want of
evidence, the government being
unable to make out a case. The
Arkansas directors discharged
were. Max Mayer of Little Rock,
B. D. Crane of Fort Smith. Hen
ry Patterson of Searcy, Drury
Adams of Batesville, G. W. Rat
tenberry of Fayetteville and T.
S. Mullins of Texarkana.
The directors of the associa
tion were indicted following
charges that they had formed a
combination for the restraint of
trade, in violation of the anti
trust laws of the United States.
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Only One License Required of ;
Auto Dealers.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 12.—Several
counties in which the sheriffs
have become quite active in the
enforcement of the automobile
tax collections especially Pulas
ki county, will miss considerable
through the strict enforcement
tof the law. When these sher
iffs started out to make the col
lections they thought the auto
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lar harvest, being required to
pay the state tax on every car
owned by them. Instead, the
dealer pays only on one car. He
may have copies of this license
j tag made, and place one on each
| car used for demonstration pur
poses. Otherwise the dealers
would have to pay several thous
and dollars annually into the
^treasury, that is, if they had any
business.
Marry At Jacksonport.
; Dixon Massey and Miss Delia
Sawyer, both popular young peo
ple of the Jacksonport social
| set, were married Friday even
ting at the home of the brides
'father, Joe Sawyer, Justice of
I the Peace Henry Grant officiat
; ing.
| World's Sunday School Day
; will be at the Christian Church
Sunday. July 13th, at 9:30 a. m.
A special program will be ren
dered and everyone is invited to
attend. All parents having chil
dren attending the Christian
Sunday school are urged to be
present Sunday July 13th at
9:30 a. m.
Arkansas Guard Not Short.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock. July 12.—Major
E. B. Jett, disbursing officer of
the Arkansas National Guard,
and Captain Slor.n. the regular
Army officer detailed for duty
with the Arkansas Guard, leave
for Washington Saturday night
to meet officials of the War De
partment, with a hope of con
vincing them that the Guard is
not short the supplies or the
cash charged against it. They
will remain in Washington only
a few days, but one day is all
they think necessary to con
vince the officials that the Ark
ansas Guard has been more sin
ned against than sinning.
“I may not be able to make
a complete showing on the rec
ords I now Have,” stated Major
Jett Saturday, “but I will wager
my hat to an old doughnut that
I will leave Washington with
things so well along that the De
partment will give a clearance
after they have received others
I will send in on my return. We
are having to leave in such
haste that I have not been able
to get records of certain supplies
that I desire, but I can send
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ill v> hcti 1 cuilitt IlUirie.
The Department alleges the
Guard is short $54,000, but an
error of $13,000 has been dis
covered by clerks there, which
will be credited to the Guard.
Secretary of War Garrison of
fers to wipe off the balance if
the shortage can be reduced to
$15,000. With the application
of a $15,000 balance the Guard
has in keeping of the War De
partment, this leaves but a
shortage of $11,000 to be ac
counted for. Major Jett says
He can account for over $30,000,
which will leave the Guard with
cash on hand at the end of the
investigation.
Compiling List Of Trade Unions.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 12.— Be
cause Commissioner Clary had
conflicting engagements, Depu
ty McMahon of the Department
of Labor, went to Hartford Fri
day night to begin the coal
mine investigation in Sebastian
county. Deputy McMahon is
compiling a list of every trade
union in Arkansas, and its
strength. He has a report on
the barbers, finding there to be
over 700 union barbers in the
stnfp fhp largest local of which
is located in Fort Smith. His
fleport shows over 1,000 loco
motive engineers in the state.
Buys Valuable Pearl.
.J. L. Evans this morning
bought a 45-grain pearl which
was found in the White river
yesterday, and has it on display
at his store. It is a very perfect
and pretty gem. Mr. Evans de
clines to give the name of the
man from whom he purchased
or the amount he paid.
This is the first good find of
the piesent season, but not
near all the pearl hunters have
become active yet, because many
who will join them later are
still busy in their crop‘s.—Bates
ville Guard.
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Dead! Dead! Dead!
The deadest things on earth,
are bedbugs, ants, fleas, roaches,
chicken mites, lice, and other in
sects sprayed with Ross’ ‘'Dead
Quick” spray. It kills their eggs
and breaks up the t.- es. Kills
and keeps away mosquitos. Nice
and clean. Nothing like it. Sold
in Newport by your druggists,
(adv.)
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James 1*. Coffin.
James P. Coffin of Batesvil'le.
a forme;- Lawrence county citi
zen, was a Walnut Ridge visitor
Monday. Mr. Coffin was county
clerk for a number of years in
Lawrence county and was the
first cashier of the Lawrence
County Bank. While talking to
the architect of this column he
recited the following joke per
pertrated by the late Ike Bag
ley on his friend, the late W. M.
j Ponder. It seem.- that at one
time Col. Ponder conceived the
idea of raising a big lot of mules
'and purchased a big lot of Tex
as mare ponies for this purpose.
He kept them in the Cache river
; bottoms, but the enterprise was
not a success. First one thing
happened then another. Finally
the remnant of pony mares
made their escape and there a
feeling of relief came over their
owner. About this time the
Ponder gin burned and Bagley
met Col. Ponder and told him
how he sympathized with him
in his bad luck. The Col. said:
“Well, it is not so bad, I have
had the gin for a great many
; years and it has well paid for
itself.” “T don't *r>e»rt +b»t ”
isaid Bagley, “I was sympathiz-'
ling with you because somebody j
[found your Texas ponies and
have just brought them home.”
—Walnut Ridge Blade.
Brundidge Returns To Searcy.
Little Rock July 12.—Beaten
in the courts of highest appeal,
fromer Congressman Stephen
Brundidge last night announced
he had withdrawn from the gub
ernatorial race and that today
he would return to his home in
Searcy to resume his practice
of law.
“I never have run a political
race or fought a political fight
as an ‘independent’ Democrat,”
Mr. Brundidge declared, “and i
never shall. I do not consider
I the decision of the supreme
[court makes it binding upon the
[Democrats of the state to .-up
port Judge Hays. Personally, I
have not decided for whom I
[shall vote.”
If you want your money to \
bring you the biggest value and ,
vou need summer merchandise
*
then you ought to attend Heme- j
mann’s Semi-Annual Clearing)
Sale. 79b7t
“OI R Lll E AFTER DEATH."
At the request of a number of
the readers of the Independent,
the >ermon delivered by Rev.
Henry E. Spears, rector of St.
Pauls, on last Sunday, on "Our
Life After eath" is published be
low :
“OUR LIFE AFTER DEATH."
Text I Peter, 3:18 and 10:
“Christ * * * being put to
death in the flesh, butquickened
by the Spirit, by which also He
went and preached unto the spir
its in prison."
This old Cchurch of ours, hav
ing the Apostles or Nicene Creed
recited at every service, presents
the Life of Our Divine Master in
a wonderful order. This is true
since that Life of all Lives is [
presented in a wonderful way
from Advent to Trinity. For
this, we may well thank God;
and yet, it needs to be remem
bred Our Lord Christ has not ;
given us this knowledge of His ;
life and death, simply that we
might know something, but that
we might Do and Re something.
It is only as the Knowledge of'
the Creed or Bibie reacts upon
TVlilv T n t f 1'1/M*
have the least chance to do us
any good. In other words,
Knowledge is not power, until it
is applied. You may know that
water will put out fire, but what
good can it do you, if’ you do not
pour the one on the other, when
your bou-e is in flames? None
at all. And so it is about the
Gospel truths. It is not enough
to have a knowledge of them, for ;
it is only as that knowledge is ,
applied that we can either Do or >
Be that which leading the •
Christian life implies. Too ;
many are all their lives through j
prone to forget that each Art icle 1;
the Christian Faith carries with
it a Moral Significance or Mean- 1
ing that can not end in having ;
had the first Theatre of its ac- 1
lion in the Person of Christ Je- ■
sus, Our Lord. In other words, ■
the Moral Significance of the
Creeds is that they must be , j
made part and parcel of our Dai-. ■
ly lives. That Christ be born in (
them: that Christ be raised in
them; that Christ ascend, not ,
into Heaven, but to the Throne ■
of our hearts, so that He may
sweeten and gladden and full
them with unselfish service.
However, il is not a question of
service that is to be foremost in
jur thoughts today. Not not
that, but as this Flesh and
Blood life is so uncertain and
Death so near, making it obliga
tory for each of us to pass out of
this life into one of which we say
in the Creed so often, “He des
cended into He ll,” let us in view
)f 1 hose things, t hink of the (Jos
pol of Hades, or Our Life After
Death. Let us do so that we
may find out what we can from
the Word of Cod about the \
in the I’nseen World.. Then
cast deal to be said about it, but
it is impossible to do mon
at present than pick up a few
drains of gold here and there.
The world is full of people who
say, “We do not know anything
about the Life in the Oeat Be
yond. This is true, if we admit
the Bible cannot be relied upon.
However, I take it as a matter of
course that 1 do not speak to
minds of that type. Be that as
it may, let us get an answer to
the question, “What does it
mean, when we say in the Creed,
“He descended into Hell?” Does
it moan Dm* 7 ('liriut miiit
into (he Place of Everlasting
Punishment, he it a place of Fire
pr what not? Then it must be
said, it does not, for the word
‘Heir means the Place of De
parted Spirits, or the State be
tween this Earth—Life and
Heaven.
The Jews believed in such a
Place, and so could understand
what Our Lord’s words to the
Penitent thief meant, “Today
'halt thou be with Me in Para
iise.” Now this is true since
‘Paradise” does not mean Hea
ven, but the Place of departed
Spirits, as we can see from the
words of the Apostle, St. Peter.
Slow St. Peter was beyond ques
ion aJew and shows in his Epis
le what the Jewish belief was,in
•egard to Life in the Paradise
iVorld. He does this in this
/ery Epistle where he writes
‘that after His death Christ \
vent and preached to the Spirits
n prison, which sometimes
were disobedient.” It is evi
lent, therefore, the Judg
nent Day had not come
or those “Spirits,” for if it had,
vhy should Our Lord have gone
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