THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING.
Goes to People at the Right Time
and in the Right Way.
Newspaper advertising is the
best for every business, no mat
ter what its nature, if it relies
upon the patronage of the public
generally.
What would you think of a
man who overlooked the very
best in a line of goods and took
up with the middle or fair or
poor or absolutely worthless?
When you buy publicity you
want above all else to be sure
that you are getting what you
pay for. The daily newspaper
goes into the very homes of the
people and is always read by
some of the family, and usually
read by all of the family.
If your ad is breezy or catchy
or if it has a message that will
mean dollars and cents to the
reader you can depend upon get
ting results.
If your business is so . dead and
dull that you can't say anything
fresh or breezy about it you'd
better change your advertising
man or quit your business.
If you can't find any plausible
reason why it should be advan
tageous for people to buy goods
from you instead of from the
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cuse for being in business. Bet
ter apologize for taking up val
uable space and get out of busi
ness.
Are newspapers the best me
diums for advertising?
Yes—emphatically yes.
* Why shouldn’t they be the
best?
They present your advertise
ment to a man while he is in a
receptive frame of mind. He
has nothing to do just then but
read, and he reads the headlines
of your ad as readily as he does
the headlines of the news arti
cles. If your ad interests him
he’ll read the ad-just in the
same way as he reads the news
he cares to read.
The chance to talk to a man
about your business and to talk
rto him when he is not busy with
' other things is just what you
want, isn’t it?
The logic of newspaper adver
tising applies with added force iJ
you are appealing to women.
Not only do women read ads
when they read the paper, bul
they look for the ads of regulai
advertisers. When you get pea
pie to look for your ad you car
depend on getting a liberal shar<
of their patronage.
If you do have a reason for be
ing alive, then you’d better tel
people about it. How shall the:
know about you unless you tel
them, and how can you tell then
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you advertise best if not in the
newspapers?
Successful advertisers always
use newspapers largely.
If you would succeed, do like
wise.—Edgar A. Pettingill.
PECK’S BAD BOY.
Coming, the funniest troupe of
fun makers on the road, in that
famous old farce comedy Peck’s
Bad Boy, at the opera house next
Wednesday night. You saw it
when you were children and
laughed. Why not let your chil
dren see it and laugh, too? Miss
Pauline Seldon will act the part
of the bad boy, the part for
which she was born, while Harry
Willis as Schultz can keep a
Dutch grocery better than ever.
Besides all this there is vaude
ville galore. The Bartletts’ mu
sical act is rich, while the Grier
son sisters in their unique sing
ing and dancing specialties are
the best on the road. Don’t fail
to see it.
Fresh oysters just received at
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
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I. D. Price for alarm clocks.
Robert Robinson, a popular
Iron Mountain conductor, who is
as good at telling funny stories
as he is well up in railroading,
has taken charge of the branch
passenger.
Mrs. R. W. Bandy received a
telegram from Miss Bennie Hum
ble Wednesday morning stating
that her grandfather, Col. G. W.
Humble, died before she reached
him at Huntington, Tenn.
Miss Armour, of Somerville,
Tenn., wishes to organize a class
in art. She teaches drawing,
oil painting, water colors, pyro
graphy and pastelle. Prospec
tive pupils will please call at ?12
Laurel street. Terms very rea
sonable. Specimens of work
shown with pleasure. By per
mission I refer to Prof. Hopkins
and Rev. C. Pope. 52-d6t
SELLS & DOWNS *
MADE A HIT.
The performance given by the
Sells & Downs’ circus is the
equal of any that has visited
Newport in recent years. Many
star performers and families of
established reputations as gym
nasts and acrobats, bicycle
riders, horseback riders and
aerial artists are under contract
with this show and made the
program one of interest and ex
cellence from first to last.
The afternoon performance
was witnessed by a comfortably
filled tent, but at night the
crowd was small and the exhibi
tion badly, cut.
Several' grafting games were
running in the side shows and
many fleeced, but little sympathy
is due the man who goes up
against one of these sure-thing
devices.
The side show and concert of
the main show were up to the
usual standard, which is hardly
a boost, but rather a knock.
BRUNDIDGE WILL
SPEAK AT NEWPORT.
Congressman Brundidge is
‘ making a campaign tour of the
■ Second district and will speak in
1 Newport Saturday, November 5,
• at 2 p. m. in the court house.
As only one date has been
’ given each county a large crowd
I should greet this eminent speaker
r here.
POLICE COURT NEWS.
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On circus days there is always
“something doing” in the may
or’s court, and as some drunks last
over, the day following comes in
for a share of the business.
On Monday Acting Mayor May
han fined the following parties
$5 and costs for drunkenness:
Jim Williams, D. Little, John
Eyre and John McCoy.
THE FAST" TRAINS.
To California are run over the
Union Pacific. Via Omaha 16
hours quicker to San Francisco
than any other line. No change
of roads, no detours, “The Over
land Route” all the way. Be
sure your ticket reads over the
Union Pacific. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
PRIZES EVERY WEEK.
For the best scores made at
Million’s bowling alley during
each week, the following prizes
are awarded every Saturday
night: $5.00 ticket in ten pins;
$2.50 ticket in “five back;” $2.50
ticket in cocked hat. 41dtf
HOLD FUNERAL IN A TENT.
Big Canvas Put to Many Strange Uses
—Serves as Church to
Mourners.
In Kendall county, 111., there ts a big
canvas tent that has been made to serve
for an odd mixture of purposes. For
many years it covered a regulation saw
dust ring in which there were all kinds
of performances by man and beast On
other occasions it was made use of for
revivals, and has been hauled around
the country from place to place for
many purposes. This year Aurora
bloomed out as a Chautauqua town, and
the tent sheltered big audiences intent
on hearing lectures, recitations, and
speeches from well-known talkers.
Music of all kinds has at odd times filled
the big lnclosure. However, the oddest
purpose to which it was ever put came
when Nels 0. Cassem, a well-known
Kendall county man, fell from bis
wagon as he was driving along the pub
lic highway and broke his neck. Cas
sem was a well-known character, a
farmer wbo in all of that section was
known as the “king of the Norwegians."
He was known to be worth several hun
dred thousand dollars in valuable lands,
and the funeral promised to be larger
than any church in Yorkville or Aurora
would hold. One of the sons resorted to
a unique expedient. He hired the big
tent and stretched it out on one of the
beautiful meadows over which his fa
ther had roamed for so many years, and
the funeral sermon was thus preached
under canvas.
PAPER TRADE IN TURKEY.
Ti» 1003 $400,000 Worth of the Ar
ticle for Making Cigarettes
Was Imported.
In the year 1903 Turkey in Europe
imported paper and cardboard to the
value of about $500,000 and cigarette pa
per to the value of $400,000. Austria and
Italy were the chief sources of supply,
The German consul at Saloniki says
large quantities of all sorts of paper,
including wall paper, enter that port for
distribution throughout Turkey. This
paper trade is in Austrian hands. Dif
ferent manufacturers in Austria com-r
bine in sending out commercial travel
ers to Turkey, one traveler showing the
products of several Austrian paper
mills. The German consul general at
Constantinople, in a report to his gov
ernment, says that Turkey iB one of
England’s best markets for cotton yarns
and cotton piece goods, taking in 1903
nearly $2,500,000 worth of cotton yarns
and $15,700,000 worth of cotton piece
goods. Within the last few years Italy
has greatly increased her exports of cot
ton textiles to Turkey and is becoming
a strong competitor of England in that
market. If American manufacturers of
cotton goods were to give energetic and
intelligent attention to the Turkish mar
ket, they would probably find, it a good
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TORTOISE FIGHT IS FUNNY
Battle Between Shell-Covered An
imals May Continue a Long Time
Without Injury to Either.
“Listen,” said the farmer, leaning on
his hoe. From the next field came a
sound of rapping, a sound as of sharp
tnocks on a door. “What is that?” said
the city man. "A tortoise fight,” the
farmer answered. “We’ll go and see it.”
They made their way toward the rap
ping sound, relates the Baltimore Her
ald, and in a little while they came upon
two box tortoises that were fighting
hard. The creatures fought in a strange
way. They made at one another with
their heads protruded, but, at the mo
ment of collision, each tried to use his
front flap for a shield, and the result of
this prudence was that not the heads but
only the shells of the tortoises hurtled
together. There was a bang. Then the
fighters backed oil and prepared for an
other round. The two men watched
i them till the spectacle became weari
some. Then they returned to the pota
to patch.
BLIND GIRLS GOOD WIVES.
Official of Chicago Association De
clares Sightless Maids Are
Ideal Helpmeets.
Mrs. Lena Osborn, chairman of th<
lady board of managers of the Social anc
Mutual Advancement Association of thi
Blind in Chicago, a free organization, ii
a blind woman herself. She says tha'
the life of a blind person is not th<
great misery that it is generally
thought by seeing people, and it la thi
purpose of the organization to show tha
even blind people may have a happj
time of it. Mrs. Osborn says:
"If men knew what ideal wives blin<
girls make the blind girls would sooi
be all taken. I can cook, sew, darn, an<
do almost anything except to venturi
far from the house. I can write the or
dinary handwriting from the memor;
of the letters I was taught 40 years ag<
in the public schools. We become si
sharp in our observation that we cai
almost describe the appearance of tin
person we address."
Bad Effects of “Bashing.”
Prof. Thomas Oliver, addressing thi
industrial hygiene section of the sani
tary congress in Glasgow, said the sys
tem of "rushing” work introduced inti
Britain from America not only cause*
unwholesome fatigue and many acci
dents, but "predisposed the individua
to ill health and created a taste for stim
ulants, unhealthful recreation and lov.
of excitement su£h as was offered b;
theaters and music halls."
Church as Whisky Storehouse.
Thorverton church, Devon, England
was recently used as a storehouse to
whisky which had been taken from tb<
village isn during a flra.
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