School Fairs Popular.
cial to Independent.
little Rock. Sept. 13.—The
ularity of the School Fair is
•easing in Arkansas,^ as is
vrn by the number of coun
that are taking up the work,
at are carrying it on as
ted recently. Reports have
made at the State Depart
t of Education of the plans
the second annual exhibition
he Union County School Fair,
,e held at ElDorado, October
In addition to the exhibits
re will be a series of contests,
which prizes are offered. -J
Rogers is chairman and Mrs.
ft' Bryant secretary of '.n
imittee in charge.
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Bridge Over Black River.
Washington, Sept. 14.—Two
bills, one authorizing the con
struction, maintenance and op
eration of a bridge across the
Little river, at or near Lepanto.
Ark., the other authorizing the \
construction and operation of a
bridge across Black river at or
near the second line between j
Sections 8 and 9. in Township 20 I
North, Range 5 east, a short dis-1
tance south and east of Corning.
Ark-, have been favorably re
ported to the house from the
committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce.
AH He Was Interested Irt
Mother—"What do you thiak you
A’ill make out of my daughter’s tal*
•lit?” Professor- -“About ?2 a lesson, |
f the piano holds out.”--Stray Sto- i
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NEWPORT
Wednesday Sept. 17
fternoon and night
« KIT CARSONS WJf
jUFFALO RANCJUl
BIG "THREE RING
WEST CIRCUS
Trained Wild Animal Exhibition and
Colossal Hippodrome.
TENTH TRANS-CONTINENTAL TOUR.
TIE LAMEST WILD WEST SNOW ON EIRTN
OWING DIRECT ON THEIR OWN SPECIAL. TRAINS OF FORTY
DOUBLE LENGTH RAILROAD CARS FROM THE
BIGGEST RANCH IN THE WORLD.
M KIT CARSON’S$25.000HERD OF*gk fr£^ I '
PERFORMING BUFFALOES fi&fe-, | |
enagerie of Trained Wild Animals
From all parts of the Globe. Daring and Death Defying Acts almost
beyond the realms of lucid imagination.
OSMOPOLtTAN COLLECTION OF COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS, VAQUEROS,
S SENORITAS, GUARDIS RURALES, CHAMPIONS OF THE LARIAT,
ROUGH RIDERS, PONY EXPRESS VETERANS, DARING,
ATHLETES, COMICAL CLOWNS, THRILLING
INDIAN FIGHTS AND WAR DANCES
MCE JIMMA’S TROUPE OF RUSSIAN COSSACKS,4
The Most Daring Horsemen in the World.
I®S of SIOUX, CHEYENNE and COMANCHE INMANS}
Fresh from the Camp-fire and Council, making their first
acquaintance with pale-face civilization.
b Grand Ethnological Performance concludes with the Superfl
Spectacular, Dramatic Historical Fantasy,
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BATTLE oFwcTuNDED8KNEE ^ j
he Battle of Wounded Knee'
°^that’.*,Va?,t an<* mot,ey horde of Indians, Scouts, Trappers and Soldiers
stn U i y too't act‘ve part in the last brave stand and hopeless
•“ggle the noble redskin made for his freedom and rights.
1,0 PERFORMANCES daily, rain or shine
Afternoon at 2. Evening at S. Doors open One Hour earlier.
Water proof canvas. cannot leak.
Gold Glittering Free Street Parade
WO MILES LONG at xx a. m. daily on the main thoroughfares.
FREE EXHIBITIONS on Show Grounds immediately alter the Parade.
f/v YOUR bad horses and mules
0ur Cowb°y» Will ride them FREE OF CHARGE.
M Be Paid to any person bringing a horse or mole they cannot ridm
Will Positively Exhibit at
SEED SEIECTION |
FOR NEXT YEAR
A Matter The Farmer Should 1
Consider Now and Lay Aside
Best.
_
1 ;_1& time is drawing near at
hai ■ to begin preparations for
ne:. year’s crops. Two matters
of importance should be consid
ered right now. One is seed se
lection and the other is deep,
tall plowing. The seed corn for
planting next spring can be se
lected during October and No
vember. The best plan is to go
through the field and select the
best ears by hand,, and put them
away to dry. You can make a
good rack for drying corn for
seed by the use of woven wire
fencing. Take two strips six
feet long, and place a sufficient
number of six inch blocks be
tween the strips and fasten
them with staples, so they would
have the same appearance as if
two strips of wire fencing' were
fastened on each side of fence
posts. The ears of corn can be
placed through the wire mesh
es, letting one end of the ear
rest in the mesh of one strip of
wire and the other end of the
ear in the mesh of the other
strip. This will make a simple
home-made rack that can be
suspended from the rafters in
the barn if you like, and will
make a good way to dry the
seed corn. In selecting the
ears get. the best filled,.put ones
from strong stalks.
There are various simple
methods of testing the seed for
germination. You can take a
piece of domstic and mark off
squares and number the squares.
Then take three or more grains
from each ear, and place them
in the squares, and number or
tag the ear accordingly. Tatco
the grains from different parts
of the ear. Then cover the
cloth with another, and roll up
and wrap it in a piece of old
sack, or some such material. Af
ter this ,soak it in warm water
for about thirty minutes and
then take it out and lay away
where it cannot freeze- Keep it
moist until the corn sprouts
well. Then make an examina
tion of the grains. If they ger
minate well and the roots put
out are strong and healthy, save
the corresponding ears- If not,
discard them. Continue these
tests thiough the winter, as you
have time, and when spring
comes you will have good and
reliable seed to plant. Seed
corn that will germinate only
80 per cent will depreciate your
yield ten bushels per acre, if
your land will produce at the
rate of fifty bushels per acre.
Test your cotton and grain
seed too. By all means select
your cotton seed this fall, tak
ing into consideration the stock
development, and the boll and all
the characteristics that make
good cotton. You will profit by
it. By all means break your
land, or as much of it as possi
ble this fall, and break it deep.
It is safe to go tv/o inches deep
er than you have plowed during
the past year. It will pay in
most instances to use a sub
soiler after the turning plow.
Remember that just as deep as
you plow your land this fall you
will have a storage for water
and plant food next year when
the crop is growing. The drouth
of the past season should em
phasize the importance of deep
fall plowing.
We have good folks and good
farmers in Arkansas, and I
want to see all of the farmers
getting the benefit of the best
methods. Begin now to pre
pare for better farming next
year. Do not overlook the im
portance of stock. Look well af
ter the brood sows- Now i% the
time to get a good male if you
haven’t one. With a good male
you can take the scrub hogs and
soon have a good strain of stock
hogs- Breed the sows in Nov
ember and December, so the pigs
will come early in the spring,
and make mature hogs next fall
and winter, and be ready for
meat instead of having to be
wintered.
JOHN H. PAGE,
Commissioner
Negro Preacher Speaks
Rev. J. G. Robinson, D. D,
pastor of the African Methodist
Episcopal church. Corner Sixth
and Main Streets, in addressing
his congregation last night,
said:
“I have now been in Newport
long enough to somewhat under
stand the condition of things. I
have pastored in Mississippi,
Georgia, Kentucky and Ohio. I
have also pastored in several Ar
kansas cities including Little
Rock and Fort Smith, and I can
say of a truth there is no place
where I have ever served, where
the white people are more kindly
disposed toward our people than
they are in Newport. The offi
cers are kind and just, the mer
chant' are accommodating and
ever ready to lend a helping
hand to those who are honest
and upright, and in many ways
a general good feeling exists be
tween the races.
I have also found that some of
the best and most progressive
negroes of the state live here in
Newport, and in Jackson county.
We talk about a race problem.
There is no race problem where
conditions exist as they exist
here. So long as the better ele
ment of the white people,’and
the better element of the colored
people understand each other,
and get along, as do the people
of Newport, just that long will
there be no friction. But, there
is an element of people amongst
us, that I wish all the people of
Newport—good people— white
and colored would get after, and
get them to do better, and that
is that class that are living to
gether, and openly breaking the
laws of God and the land by liv
ing as man and wife, or in
houses as such and are not mar
ried.” “Again: I had occasion
to meet the Honorable Board of
Education last night, and I find
that every member of that board
has the betterment of the ne
gro at heart. And they are sur
prised that we are so careless
about the keeping of the school
house in decent and sanitary or
der. The State Superintendent
said while here attending the
county institute, that we ought
to keep that house in better
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that we want a better building,
but that the board could and
would only be convinced, by the
patrons and teachers keeping
the present house and yards
clean, decorated and in decent
condition. I am going to call a
meeting of the Negro citizens
together at an early date, and
ask them to form a school im
provement association, and if
there is already one here, I am
going to ask that it be reorgan
ized, and get to work. I shall
ask the school board to meet
with us
My last word to you tonight:
I want to call the attention of
the public to the fact, that the
Arkansas Annual conference of
our church will convene here the
first week in November, and I
want you all to do all in your
power to help entertain it in the
proper way. We shall have to
call on\our white friends to aid
us in getting the church in
shape, and in giving us a little
aid on our report. I know they
will help, and I want every one
of you to do your best to help me
make as good showing, both in
caring for the conference, and
making my report as is the cus
tom of this church.”
Judge Reed Tempers Justice. |
ileber Springs, Sept. 14.— Ar-j
kansas has a judge who is put-1
ting into practice the ideas ad
vanced by modern thought in re
gard to juvenile offenders. This
[judge of the Ben B. Lindsay
type, is Judge George YV. Reed of
the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit,
who resides at Heber Springs.
Since the judge went on the
bench lie has suspended sen
tence against 450 youthful of
fenders in misdemeanor cases,
allowing them to go their way
on probation, but warning them
that if they should again be
brought into his court for other
violations of the law, he would
not only give them the full pen
alty in the new cases, but would
revive the old ones against
them. As a result of this hu
mane course of handling the
young hoys many poor boys
who thoughtlessly got into trou
| ble, have been saved the stigma
of a jail sentenie and have been
put on the right road to man
hood. Of lie 450 boys and young
men thus paroled, only one has
ever been brought before Judge!
Reed again, and his offense was !
of such a nature that he was
not subject to punishment. I
Judge Reed is a strong practi
tioner of giving the erring boy
a new start, and is receiving
much favorable comment all
over the state.
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Cure Pellagra Cases
Special to Independent.
Little Rock. Sept. 15.—The
fact that during the six months,
six out of seven cases of pellagra
treated at the Little Rock city
hospital have recovered is inter
esting alike to the public and the
medical fraternity. The seventh
patient, Mrs. I). S. Branham,
aged 37, died last Friday. It is
said that there is no known spe
cific for the disease in its ad
vanced stages.
Rainy Weather Injures Cotton.
Rainy weather continues in
this section, though the rainfall
according to the government
gauge is much lighter than gen
erally supposed. The precipita
I ion for Saturday night, Sunday
and Sunday night amounted to
only 1,07 inches, but the damp
weather and showers are not on
ly damaging the grade of cotton,
but may soon cause a second
growth' through the sprouting
of the seed in the bolls.
Marking Arrival of Ago.
When I get to be ohi I ain't goln*
to find it out by countin’ up to see,
nor by nr lilukcrs. nor by my gumi,
nor !• ,;? of thorn signs. They’ll all
fool you. No, sir! But one of these
times I'll get throwed down, and I
won't bounce back. Then I’ll know
iff. all over. When a man gets tbat
way, he's old. Old. see? It don’t
make any difference how much longer
he lives after that, ho don’t ever gat
any older.—“Billy Fortune.”
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I “Fire! Quick! f
| The Bell Telephone!” |
I *
| 13 LANTATION buildings are often in dan
i X ger of fire.
| Every moment is precious when the flames
| break out.
| To save his property the planter must have
| aid at once.
1 A call on the Br.il Telephone brings help
| promptly.
1 The wise planter protects his property
1 with Bell Telephone Service. Do you ?
| The Southwestern Telegraph
| and Telephone Company
1 J. P. WHITSON, Manager,
| Newport, Ark.
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Do You Know—
The best way to pay bills is by checks. It’s less trouble
and saves time. A cancelled check is the best receipt.
There is no reason why you should not keep an account
with us.
The Fanners Bank
of NEWPORT. ARKANSAS
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1 Announcement
8 We are pleased to announce that we have secured the |!|
0 services of Mr. G. T. Mil wee of Cincinnati as our repre- | j;
8 sentative. Mr. Milwee is an expert shoe fitter and will j j |
8 take pleasure in going over you shoe troubles on |
|Tues. and Wed., Sept. 16-17
§ Our Snappy Fall and Winter Footwear will be shown by j j
g him at the i|
| New Hazel Hotel jj;
8 We will be pleased to have you call and inspect our ]|;
8 line. Respectfully, p
I KEMPNER’S
1 Thc' largest shoe store South Little Rock, Ark.
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