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Ifiville, Nov. 12.—Consicf-'
purprise was created here
pvh'en Sheriff Fike Served
;ant on Mrs. A. L. James,
of J Jan James, charg
r with the murder of her
id, on July 1, 1911. The
|jury which met here last
|ay returned the indict
for murder in the first de
■eging that Mr. James
■ his death by Unknown
Fat the hands of* Mrs.
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the morning of July 2i Jor
jimes was found dead at
| Creek, which runs" in
jtf the James ryill, six miles
pis.city. As the old man
jteble. it' was ^upposed at
|ne that he had fallen face
lard in the water as he
; over to get a> drink. It
is custom to w'alk to the
|very morning. No inves
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Walton-Darling Wedding. -
A wedding of much interest
I was quietly solemnized Sunday
evening at 8 o’clock at the home
' of Mrs. L. A. Darling on Main
; street when her daughter, Miss
i Bertie Darling, became the
j bride of Mr. Charles H. Walton.
LRgv. J. F. McKenzie of the Pres
byterian church performed the
impressive ceremony in the pres
ence of the family and a few
neighbor friends..
The bride wore a stylish tail
ored suit of white serge, with
gloves and shoes to match and
carried an arm bouquet of white
carnations.
Shortly after the ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Walton went to
their newly furnished home on
Hazel street, where everything
was in readiness for housekeep
ing and where they are now at
home to their friends.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Walton
have been raised in our city and
have a large circle of friends
who join the Independent in
wishing for them a happy wed
ded union.
Those who witnessed the cere
mony were Mr. and Mrs. William
Mosby, Misses Corinne and Aline
Mosby, Mrs. Joe Bell, Mrs. Hal
Dyer, Mrs. Henry Owen, Mrs. H.
G. Bunn, Mrs. Ellen Tyler, Miss
Fannie Smith, Miss Emma Dent
and Mr. Ed Claxton and Walter
Darling.
Jonesboro Campers Off.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Williams,
Misses Agnes Mason and Anna
Childress Clark, and Messrs. A1
Langford and Fred Shauver left
today for Newport, where they
go for a hunt up the river. They
will be joined at Hoxie by Mrs.
T. H. Catlette of Pocahontas, al
so Gen. W. K. Surridge and the
Misses Dowell of Walnut Ridge
and Col. Jack Burke, whose
guests they will be. At Newport
they will get aboard of Mr.
Burke’s boat and go up the river.
They will strike camp at a4 suit
able place and will doubtless
spend several days of genuine
pleasure in the bottoms. They
carried along everything good to
eat, and it is certain that no jol
lier party has ever gone out on
a mission of this kind.—Jones
boro Tribune.
Cold Wave Hits Arkansas.
In real blizzard style, a gale
from the northwest carrying
rain and sleet struck this sec
tion about 9 o’clock Saturday
night. The maximum register
of that afternoon had been 73
degrees and by next morning the
mercury registered only 20
above zero and the ground was
frozen hard for the first time
this winter. The low register of
Sunday night was 19 degrees
above zekp.
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2,000 Feet Pumpkin Vine.
Harrison, Nov. 12.—A phe
nomenal pumpkin vine, spread
2,000 feet of vine and
aring 700 pounds of pumpkin,
boast of Capt. W. H. Har
near Bellefonte. The main
the plant is over sixty
, „x.d there are fourteen
s weighing fifty pounds
is a volunteer of
' From Jail On Bail Pending Trial
Of Indictment For Mur -
der.
A large number of people from
the northern part of Poinsett
county and southwest part of
Craighead county, are in Jones
boro, says the Tribune, for the
hearing of the case of Ben San
born on application for bail, on a
wrjt of habeas corpus before
Chancellor C. D. Frierson.
Sanborn has been, since the
sitting of the Poinsett county
court, confined in the jail at this
place on an indictment charging
him with assaulting a woman
last summer near Fisher, he
having been committed without
bail.
In order that their client may
be released, Attorneys S. R.
Simpson of Paragould, J. J. Mar
dis of Harrisburg and Eli Mc
Gowan of this city, have made
application before Chancellor
Frierson asking that he be al
lowed bail. The application is
opposed by Prosecuting Attor
ney T. H. Caraway, who will ap
pear for the state.
banoorn win oe ame to give
most any sort of a bond, if al
lowed by the court. There are a
great number of peopl here who
are of the opinion that the de
fendant will have no trouble in
furnishing sufficient testimony
to justify a jury in rendering a
verdict of not guilty.
Killed Four Prong Buck.
Dr. George K. Stephens has
moved from the columns of the
small game hunters into the rank
of the nimrods of big game, for
last Saturday morning while
on a deer stand in the Bayou de
View bottoms, a big four prong
ed buck strolled his way and
while grazing at 70 yards from
the young doctor, was brought
to the ground by a shot from his
trusty Remington automatic
shotgun. Dr. Stephens was us
ing a shell loaded with one ball,
which struck the deer in the
head back of the ear and felled
him. The doctor was not many
seconds in making that 70 yards
and when he reached the spot,
the crippled animal arose and
tried to get away, necessitating
a second shot.
Dr. Stephens was too proua 01
his kill to stay longer in the
woods and brought his trophy
to Newport that day. The other
members of the camping party,
who have killed turkeys, ducks
and squirrels are expected home
the latter part of the week.
• Has Some Advantages
There is one advantage in an
automobile accident. The thing
doesn’t get up and kick the har
ness off after.the smash-up is all
over.—Fort Smith Times-Record
No, but it does worse than that
First it douses you with gasoline,
then it pushes your head in the
| mud, and while the wheels of the
! overturned machine are whir
‘ ring you get a vibratory massage
'equal to 16 barbers and a flock
J of bath rubbers all working at
! the same time. And after you
jare dug from under the wreck,
some fool walks up to you and
says, “What’s the matter; did
she turn over?” — Arkansas Ga
zette.
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Will Ruffner arrived Saturday
r:e-ht fyom Pine Bluff on a short
vMt to*his family.
(rlovcl- and thrilling experience
Sunday night, when returning
Home from the 7:30 train. They
had turned down Walnut, when
they noticed a machine coming
their way without a driver. Both
ran into the alley to the rear of
the Standard Grocer Company
but the machine turned in
after them and ran down Mr.
Bishop, who received several
scratches and bruises.
Mr. Bishop is large and portly
enough to stop an ordinary au
tomobile and managed to do so
in this case, but not from choice
however, as his get-away was
not sufficiently fast to escape the
on-coming machine. Mrs. Bish
op was naturally very much
frightened, for who wouldn’t be
when chased down by one of
these gasoline propelled affairs.
Both escaped any serious injur
ies and are congratulating them
selvs the experience was nc
worse.
The automobile is a coupe af
fair owned by Dr. Neal of Au
vergne and was being worked
upon by Mr. Bayles, who had
about given up trying to start it,
when the machine started off,
without anyone at the steering
wheel.
Sunday At The Tent.
Despite the bitter cold Sunday
the gospel tent had about all it
could hold at the afternoon and
evening service.
At the three o’clock service
Evangelist Burke preached to
men only and to most of the big
crowd it was a service that will
linger long in the memories of
those who heard it. At this ser
vice Mr. Burke told in a dramat
ic way the story of his life,which
reads like a book. He pictured
himself as the prodigal son of a
well-to-do farmer in the state
of Texas, who left home in his
young manhood, accumulated a
fortune, but by dissipation of all
kinds, which he considered was
having a good time, he lost his
wealth and was forced to beg
from door *to door, slept in the
streets and alleys at night and
was as vile and wretched a sin
ner as ever lived, who had lost
all his hope. But in the midst
of all this suffering of cold and
hunger, which he brought upon
himself, his mother’s prayers
came to him and the prodigal
came to himselt ana went uuck
to his father’s house where he
was received and blessed. The
service had splendid results, for
many pledged themselves to live
a better life.
At 7:30 Rev. Burke preached
one of his best sermons on “The
fool hath said in his heart, there
is no God,” and the speaker told
the truth in all his illustrations
which were to the point and ver^
forceful.
It is a good thing to be at the
appointed place of worship am
those who stay away from this
union meeting are missing :
treat in the way of pure gospe
! sermons.
Charlie, the boy who keep
the fires going and the stove
red, is serving the Lord in thi
way and no one will ever be col*
in the big tent.
Reporter.
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ISSUE NOT MEN
W. C. T. U. Refuses To Take Up
Donaghey End Of Guberna
torial Campaign.
Pine Bluff, Nov. 12.—Mrs.
William MeGuigan, wife of “Um
brella Bill” MeGuigan, >f»ho has
figured prominently in the re
form movement at Hot Springs,
was somewhat embarrassed yes
terday while reading a paper be
fore the state convention of the
Women’s Christian Temperance
Union, in session here, when
Mrs. Lula A. Markwell of Little
Rock, president of the state or
ganization, arose, interrupted
, her and informed the ladies that
the W. C. T. U. as an organiza
j tion was not in session to indorse
I any candidate for governor, but
was fighting for a principle.
She said that the convention
was in favor of statutory prohi
bition and later the state body
went on record as being in favor
of it. The interesting incident
which created a stir among the
many women in the convention
occurred when Mrs. MeGuigan
was in the midst of a flattering
tribute which she was paying to
Gov. George W. Donaghey, to
whom, she said, the delegates
owed a debt of gratitude which
we are called upon to acknowl
edge and repay to the best of our
ability.” Mrs. MeGuigan was
permitted to finish the reading of
her paper, the president merely
arose to inform the delegates
that the W. C. T. U. did not gath
er to indorse any candidate, and
probably her statement was
made to “nip it in the bud,”
should some one suggest such
action.
The statement of Mrs. McGui
gan that Gov. Donaghey had al
ways been for prohibition was
resented by several of the dele
gates in a heated discussion that
followed the reading of the pa- ^
per, and in which many dele
gates took part. It was argued f
i that Gov. Donaghey had not al- j
i ways been for prohibition, but
, had only recently “flopped” to
the prohibition side. Mrs. Mc
Guigan’s paper, so far as the ac
complishments at Hot Springs
were concerned, was compli
mented by the organization, but
no indorsement was given it.
McGuigan did not offer any mo
tion for its approval nor did she
request that any action be taken
on Gov. Donaghey’s candidacy
aside from her first staterhent in ,
reading her paper, in which she '
said the “debt of gratitude ought
to be repaid.”
Reduced Fares Via
Iron Mountain.
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Little Rock, Nov. 18th to 20th,
inclusive, account Grand Lodge,
F. & A. M.; fare $3.40 round
trip.
Pine Bluff and return, tickets
on sale Nov. 12th to 14th, inclu
sive, good returning Nov. 21st,
account of Arkansas Baptist
Convention; $4.85 round trip.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 12th,
to 14th inclusive, good return
ing until Nov. 20th, account An
nual Trans-Mississippi Commer
cial Congress; fare via Car
thage $16.90, via St. Louis
$19.30.
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