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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
thorized to make the following
announcements of candidates,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic Primary.
For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Railroad Commissioner:
T. J. RANEY
T. E. WOOD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C. CASEY
H. U. WILLIAMSON
For County Judge—
W- D. McLAIN
JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
O. W. SCARBOROUGH
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW
For Representative—
J. M. MAPDIS
W. M. SHAVER
J. U. ARD
R. T. SIMMONS
For Treasurer—
JOHN H- CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J. M. IVY
J. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J. M. BALCH
G. E. LAND
For Coroner—
HENRY GRANT
J. T. CRAFT
W. H- NOLEN
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS.
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Justice of Peaee—
L. B. HARRIS
H. C. NUCKOLLS
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
C. M. IVY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.
For Road Overseer—
CLARENCE PENIX
CLAY ROBERTS
J. B. THOMPSON
BIRD TOWNSHIP
For Road Overseer
R. L. HURLEY
MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Mayor—
JOHN P. PAUL
A. T. HUBLY
For Recorder
B. G. GRAHAM
H. G. BRANDENBURG.
For Marshal—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
GUS C. MARTIN
For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
For Aldermen First Ward—
T. P. UMSTED.
C. R. PATE.
JOHN R. LOFTIN, JR.
S. HEINEMANN
For Aldermen Second Ward—
W. B. GRANT.
W. H. SNETSER.
E. L. WATSON
0. I. HUBERT
Women In The Courts.
Women are instinctively more
reverent than men; they are
more religious and more devoted
to their churchly duties. This
does not apply to all men, for
home share on equal footing their
religious responsibility with
women, but as a rule the average
man is so absorbed in worldly
matters that he confines his
church duties to Sunday.
A notable instance of how the
Holy spirit affects women in all
that she does is shown in a re
cent jury case reported in Kan
sas.
A jury of women had been se
lected and sworn to hear a rath
er important case. None of the
jury had ever served before and
the 12 were somewhat disturbed.
They all wished to do what was
right and to give a just verdict,
but they were confronted with
many difficult problems. The
testimony had been conflicting,
the evidence confusing and the
charge of the judge anything but
lucid
Having been retired to the jury
room, the gravity of the situa
tion was impressed upon the
minds of each and before any i
action was taken one of the jury j
proposed that they kneel and ask
Divine guidance. The suggestion
brought immediate relief. They
knelt and directed a prayer to the
Great Judge on high and asked
that He direct the jury in its de
liberations and bring them to a
just and fair verdict.
The first ballot taken showed
that the 12 stood as one. Confi
dent that Divine power had in
spired the verdict, they returned
to the courtroom with clear con
sciences and with a confidence
gained only through the power
of prayer. The verdict was a
most satisfactory one.
How much of the all-prevail
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ing bribery of jurymen would be
abolished in our great cities if
such women as these were drawn
on the panel of various juries?
How much of graft would there
be in the letting of public con
tracts, in the purchase of public
supplies, in the granting of fran
chises and in all the functions of
our municipal administrations if
praying women had something to
say?
How long would white slavery
endure under police protection if
decent women had a voice in the
management of the police de
partments of our country ?
Women as jurors may at times
be moved by emotion and may al
low their personal feelings to
dominate, but this is also true of
men, and so far the woman jur
or of the west has excellently ac
quitted herself, her judgment u
sually being sane and sure and
based on the truth in the case.
Good women are bound to make
good jurors.—Memphis Com
mercial Appeal.
The Radium Cure.
* Now that the press all over the
country is carrying news stories
daily regarding the wonderful
things being done for cancer
sufferers by the new treatment
with radium, a word of warning
is not amiss.
While newspapers endeavor to
be most careful regarding bene
fits derived from new “cure-alls”
and remedies, the press cannot
control impressions the ordinary
report or story will create in the
reader’s mind- Radium, no
doubt, can work wonders in the
arresting of the dread disease,
but radium, like everything else
used in medicine today, must be
properly administered. Also,
like anything else said to be use
ful in any way today, radium,
has many substitutes, heralded
?ither as “radium” or just as
food.”
About two years ago, in Col
lmbus, Ohio, Dr. Early, one of
-he original experimentors with
he X-ray, died as the result of a
-low cancer. He was treated for
:ome time there in a hospital
vith “radium water.” At the
ime, physicians were reticent
egarding its effect, and one of
he Columbus papers, taking the
statement of a hospital attend
ing published a story saying
hat Dr. Early was improving.
After Dr. Early’s death a cit
zen of Columbus made an agon
zed appeal to another Columbus
taper for justice. He said that
“eading of the alleged improve
ment being made by physicians
n Early’s case, that he had paid
•t the rate of $5 a bottle for
something shipped to him from
Chicago as “radium water” for
use in the treatment of his wife,
who was suffering from cancer.
He also stated that she grew
worse immediately after this
treatment was begun, and that
her death, a few months later,
he attributed as being directly
hastened by the use of the so
called beneficial radium water.
So while there is without doubt
igreat hope for the hundreds of
i cancer sufferers in the words of
cheer sent out by the reputable
physicians in the country’s lead
ing hospitals regarding the won
derful progress being made
against the disease through ra
dium, yet it would be wise to
wait awhile before rushing mad
' ly to secure anything called “ra
dium” or to accept promiscuous
ly so-called “radium” treatment.
—Memphis News-Scimitar.
t C. T. Rosenthal Dead.
Batesville, Feb- 3.—Retiring
last night in good health, C. T.
Rosenthal, 75 years old, pioneer
merchant of Batesville, was
found dead in bed. Physicians
declare death resulted from a
hemorrhage of the brain. Fun
eral services wil be held at 2:30
o’clock Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Rosenthal was born in
j Germany, came to America when
young. He conducted the only
exclusive hardware business in
Batesville and has been a mer
chant of this city during the last I
40 years. He is survived by his
wife, three daughters, Mrs. Al
len Maxfield, Oklahoma City;
Mrs. R. C- Dorr, and Miss Nora
Rosenthal of Batesville. He also
is survived by two sons, George
and Clarence Rosenthal of Bates
ville.
Trouble At Hickory Ridge.
Recently the Cotton Belt rail
road has been having trouble
with the Telegraph Operator’s
Union, and so far has it advanc
ed that the operators charge
that some members of the union
have been discharged from the
service because they are mem
bers of the union.
Whether this is true or not
outsiders do not know, the offi
cials claim they do not want
their operators to be members
of the union, but they deny that
they have used this as grounds
for discharging any operators.
However, several operators have
been discharged and others have
quit, and there is no immediate
settlement of the trouble in
sight.
Last week at Hickory Ridge, a
little station to the north of
Stuttgart, the road discharged
an old time agent and operator
this stucture.
An institution, in order to have . ^ [h
think honestly, act honestly, breathe hoJ,
people soon determine between the genuin/'
counterfeit. They know the ring ofthetm!
and the base. ™
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NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
who had held the respect and
confidence of the people of the
village to a marked degree, and
when the road sent other agents
to take his place in each instance
the populace refused to give
board and lodging to the new a
gent. The last one remained in
the office two days, and left,
leaving 15 cents in the drawer
with a note saying, “I can’t get
grub here, and unless I eat, I
can’t work.” Then the auditor
and cashier went down to check
him out and when they went to
the only hostlery in town for
dinner, they were politely told
they could get nothing to eat.
After subsisting on canned goods
for a couple of days they left,
and at last accounts the station
at Hickory Ridge is without an
agent or operator, and the citi
zens declare unless the old a
gent is installed there will nev
er be another agent in that burg.
—Stuttgart Arkansawyer.
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