JflOMlWNER
j ends his life
■ !skTo*» F»r °f
Edridge- Who K,lb
■ jf at Stui<gart
If;^ell-known rice
Kd cattle man, ended
■ blowing top of hit,
■ with a shotgun in the
■ 0f his home at 11 Ao
Edge hod returned
| ranch this morning, ap
| jD the best of Health
•its. Going to his home,
it immediately to the
oof his home. There
,ved all his clothing save
msers and undershirt.
0 at down in a chair, plac
muzzie of the gun at his
id pulled the trigger with
Death was instantan
I use for his act is known,
loldridge was active in
ties. He is survived by
and six children.
> Hays Name Off Ballot,
tana, July 14.—The
junty Board of Election
loners, composed of
3. Sanderson and John
in, Democrats, and W.
s, Republican, decided
jmous vote that the
Judge Hays shall not be
n the ticket in this
lespite the request of
of State Hodges;which
received.
nderson left on the
a for a camp hunt in
? mountains and prob
nc-t return for a month
uger.
sralogist To Visit This Sec
lion.
idrew D. Meloy of Memphis,
.Finley of New York and C.
Irene of the University of
eonsin, are to visit the north
and northeast sections of
state to make a study of
mineral resources of those
ions.
supposed to start in
-y cf Black Rock and
t of Black river, Inde
?ounty coming for her
ispeetion cf her many
njf Pictures
Opera House
t*eb Per Week.
^GENERATION OF
NANCY
Orine .Hawley in a
(LUBIN)
USE KEEPER OF
CIRCLE C”
estern comedy, show
wboys kidnapping the
keeper. One of the
ise as a lady but is
,
era—ESSANAY) *
the MOUNTAINEERS
[ story of the Kentucky moun
moonshine stills, revenue
0 cers and a preacher, told
anud beautiful mountain scen
fry- (EDISON)
^W>d music by the orchestra.
ADMISSION 5 and 10 CENTS
Arkansas Rural Letter Carriers
At Batesville.
!■ The state convention of Rural
1 Letter Carriers of Arkansas will
(meet in annual convention at
Batesville next Friday and Sat
urday. Following is the program
for the two days’ session, which
I is the 18th and 19th. The pro
gram is a very fine one and letter
carriers all over the state are
; expected to attend.
MORNING SESSION.
Opening Song—America.
Invocation—Rev. T. Y. Ram
; sey.
; Address in Behalf of the City
—Mayor Chas. P. Coffin.
Address in Behalf of Post
office—Victor M. Wade.
Address in Behalf of Carriers
Chas. L. Davis.
Response—Alex J. Campbell.
Cabot, Arkansas.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Convention called to order at 2
o’clock.
Query Box (30 minutes) In
spector O. C. Pierce.
Parcel Post (30 minutes)—A.
C. Mayes, Carrier, Lowell, Ark.
State and National Aid For
Good Roads—W. A. Oldfield. M.
C.
necitation—miss yecn sneipy.
Strength in Organization—Ben
J. Daniels. Prescott, Ark.
EVENING SESSION.
RECEPTION.
Toastmaster—Hon. Dene H.
Coleman.
SECOND DAY.
9 a. m.—Song— America.
Invocation—Rev. E. L. May
field.
Address—W. S. Go >dwin, M.
C.
Song — Miss Esther Living-1
ston. 1
Address—Editor W. D. Brown
R. F. D. News.
Genera! order of business.
Wife W7ants Divorce.
New York, July 14.—An in
voluntary petition in bankrupt
cy was filed today against Phil
lip Van Vaikenburgh, whose wife
now suing him for separate
maintenance and alimony was
known as the $10,000,000 widow.
The petition states that Van
Vaikenburgh has not been seen
about his place of business nor
his abode, the New York Ath
letic Club, for some time, al
though diligent search has
been made for him. The claims
against Van Vaikenburgh aggre
gate $12,309.97.
Van Valkenburgh was sued
some time ago by his wife, who
was the widow of Edward Chap
man, a broker. She asked for
$100,000 she had spent for
maintenance during two years
of their married life, sued tor a
separation and asked for $10,000
a year alimony.
County Sunday School Conven
tion.
The Jackson County Sunday
School Convention will meet at
Swifton Friday and Saturday of
this week, and the attendance
from all over the county is ex
pected to be large. All schools
in Newport expect to be repre
sented by different ones each
day who can go up on the morn
ing trains and return the same
evening.
The state workers are to be
present and the program is an
interesting one. Swifton will
entertain all visitors and the
pastor of the Swifton Methodist
church. Rev. V. T. McCaffery,
jwho is chairman. Hopes all who
j can will attend.
1
SECOND EFFORT j
TO WRECK TRAIN
Obstructions Are Found On |
Track Near Prescott Bridge
Was Fired Sunday.
Prescott, July 14.—Wreck of
the south-bound fast mail train
of the Iron Mountain again was
averted today when three cross
ties and pieces of iron were
found across the rails by a tele
graph lineman just 10 minutes i
before the mail train was1 due.
The cross-ties and iron had
been fastened on the rails at a
cattle guard about 25 yards
from the bridge which was dis
covered burning yesterday by
little Miss Mary Landers. The
bridge has been found burning;
twice within the past few weeks
and with the discovery of the
effort to wreck the train today,
it is believed that deliberate at
tempts are being made to wreck
the mail train.
The train is due in Prescott at
1:20 o'clock and the cross-ties
were found on the rails about
three miles north of Prescott by
the Western Union lineman at
1:15 o’clock. Had he been a
few minutes later a destructive
wreck would have occurred. An
investigation will be made.
Decisions Upheld.
In the past two weeks the su
preme court judges of Arkansas
have handed down eight decis
ions, seven of them criminal
ones, which were appealed from
this district and in all except
one, that of Poindexter, the low
er court’s decision has been up
held. This certainly speaks
creditably indeed for Judge R.
E. Jeffery and also States Attor
ney Claude hi. Erwin, who is al
ways on the ground to look after
the prosecution, then to know
their decisions are true and just
is a source of gratification to
the two court officials as well as
their friends, who always watch
them with interest. In the de
cisions handed down Monday,
which we failed to mention was
that of Lon Easley, marshal of
Hoxie, who was given a long
term in the penitentiary by the
lower court for killing Pinnell
of Walnut Ridge, and the su
preme court upheld the decision.
—
Hits Cow; Auto Wrecked. |
Texarkana, July 34.—While J
motoring on the New Boston
road, five miles west of Texar
kana, today. J. H. Scott ran into
a cow and completely wrecked
his car. Scott was caught under
the machine, where he remained
for an hour. He was badly
bruised, and it is feared he
sustained serious injuries.
Lem Bobo, who was also in the
car, was badly cut on the head
and across the face, but his in
juries are not considered dan
gerous.
The car was making 20 miles
an hour when the accident oc
curred.
Assessment Notice.
The assessment of local im
provement No. One—Bridge Im
jrovement No. One of the City
of Newport, Arkansas— was
filed in my office on the 14th day
of July, *3913, and the same is
nowT subject to inspection.
* B. J. GRAHAM,
Clerk of the City of Newport,
Arkansas.
July Work and Live Stock Farm
ing.
“A dry dune for a good crop"
is an old and true saying in Ark
ansas. We have had the dry
June—the driest for 12 years,
and within the last ten days,
rains have been pretty general, j
Report- to this office indicate |
bumper crops. The long dry pe- ;
riod has given our farmers an I
opportunity to get their crops
free from weeds and grass, and
the recent rains came at an op
portune time.
At this particular time it is
especially important to save the
moisture that the recent rains
have given us. Crops require a !
great deal more water during
fruiting season than they do at
any other time, and the mois
ture must be saved by shallow
cultivation. It takes from two
hundred to five hundred pounds
of water for each pound of dry
matter during the growing sea
son. The plant must have mois
ture during the fruiting season.
Good cultivation will make July
a busy month.
If side applications of fertiliz
er are to be used, and they
should be especially on cotton,
unless a sufficiency was applied
at the time of planting, They
should be applied now. Watch
the plant growth and soil so that
you may determine the kind of
fertilizer to use. Nearly all of
our soil? need nitrogen, and if
you decide you need to apply no
thing but the nitrogen use either
seventy-five or one hundred
pounds of nitrate of soda per
acre or 50 pounds each of cotton
seed meal and nitrate of soda
per acre. Apply on cotton early,
before the week of general
blooming ; while on corn about
the time it begins to tassel.
The above plan is good to put
nitrogen Into the soil for the
ent crop, but now is also the
time to think about the soy
beans and cow peas, in prepara
tion for future crops. Sow the
land that grew oats to cow peas
or soy beans. Land that will
produce fifteen to twenty bush
els of corn to the acre will pro
duce a ton of cow pea hay—val
ued, say at $10—and will store
$3 worth of nitrogen in the soil.
The soy bean will produce as
IT,ulCIi IJsiv, WiJi a limits auiiicwiicit
more nitrogen and it will pro
duce more seed. When this hay
is fed to live stock, 80 per cent
of it manurial value may be re
turned to the soil. Soy beans
and cow peas not only work for
nothing, but board themselves
and pay for the privilege.
Over $6,000,000 was spent
last year in Arkansas for hay
and feed, nearly all of which
could have been raised at home.
Grazing crops will save feed
bills this fall, and hay crops will
reduce the item materially next
winter, and they both will build
up the land and encourage the
live stock industry. The num
ber of people in the United
States is increasing at the rate
of about 20 per cent, and the
number of live stock is constant
ly decreasing. There is a place ,
for live stock and live stock
farming in Arkansas. The hay
and grazing crops that can be
planted now are an important
item in live stock farming.
John y. Page,
Commissioner.
I »
For Weakness and Loss of Appetite
The Old Standard teneral atrenctbenlnsr
GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives t
Malaria and builds up the system. A true tom
i md §ure Appel.zer. Tor adults and children. 5
Crop Report Favorable.
Newport, Ark.. July 14. 13.
Dear Sir:
Drawing our conclusions from
fifty-two answers to our recent
crop inquiry; Weather for the
past two weeks has been gener
ally favorable. More or less
rain has fallen all over the terri
tory and over the greater part of
the territory the rain fall has
been ample. The plant is heal
thy and in good condition al! ov
er the territory and the report of
best state of cultivation in years
is unanimous. In our .judgement
this territory never has had a :
much better crop prospect than
today. True, the plant, is small,
but it has excellent root and is
limbing well, and recent rains
insure ample growth. With the
good state of cultivation the
crop is now in there should be
little difficulty in keeping it
clean. Our advice and our slo- j
gan is KEEP PLOWING. Keep
working it. Don’t lay by. Plow
as long as is possible. The dif
ference in yield will more than
pay for the labor. Prospects are
good all over the Cotton Pelt, in
Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma 1
especially so. We will make an
other inquiry about the first of
August.
Yours truly,
Lesser-Goldman Cotton Com
pany.
Tom ,T. Gregg,
Manager.
If you want your money to
bring you the biggest value and
you need summer merchandise
then you ought to attend Heine
mann's Semi-Annual Clearing
Sale. 79b7t 1
Peach (Top Moves.
Fort Smith, July 15.—The
peach crop began moving in
earnest today, when the first
carload shipments were made.
They were out of El Dorado, De
Queen and Horatio. Rains, fol
lowed by hot weal her, are caus
ing the crop to ripen fast, and
from reports received by rail
roads from the southwestern
part of the fruit belt today it is
possible that the number of flick
ers will be inadequate to move
the crop as soon as it is ready
for shipment.
Although the crop from Soul
west Arkansas will be short,
its quality will be unexcelled.
Unlike the crop from many of
the northern sections, where
the yield will be large, the fruit
will not have a wormy appear
ance.
The first carload shipments
from the Johnson orchard at.
Highland begin this week. Tin
orchard will produce 350 car
loads this year, compared with
1.000 last year.
Cantaloupe shipments in car
loads began for the first time
this year when two carloads
were sent out of Van Buren.
The Darky Cure for Chills.
No matter what the doctors:
say the country darky knows
that the only sure cure for chills
and fever is to place a toad frog
in each breeches pocket and car
ry it there until it dies. Anyone
who will try this remedy will be
lieve with the country darky.—
News Scimitar.
Charles Walton was quite
sick today.
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