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DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES
For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Circuit Judge—
R. E. JEFFERY
For Prosecuting Attorney—
HUGH WILLIAMSON
For Representative—
W. M. SHAVER
For County Judge—
W. D. McLAIN
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
For Circuit Clerk—
C. E. SMITH
For County Cleric—
G. L. ROBINSON
For Treasurer— j
J. H. CAMP
For Assessor—
W. M. TIMS
For Su*"veyon—
J. H. AtTKENS
For Coroner—
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|! Mr. A. D. Zachry of Strouse & |j
Brothers, Baltimore, famous custom tail- ^
ors will be at our store FRIDAY and
SATURDAY, July 3 I and August 1
to measure patrons for custom-made
clothes.
You are invited to call and inspect ^
his beautiful line of samples for Fall and
Winter, Suits and Overcoats.
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“ DRY GOODS STORE
For School Superintendent—
E. H. BOWMAN
For Justices of Peace—
J. M. BELL
L. a HARRIS
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN
For Road Overseer—
W. F. HURLEY
Additional Local
For Rent—4 room cottage.
* Apply to Mrs. L. B. Grant, 403
Leona St. 53dtf
Red Cross Ball Blue should be
in every home. Ask your groc
er for it Large 2oz. package, 5
cents. blm.
Steamboat Excursion.
We will give another excur
sion Tuesday evening, July 28,
aboard the City of Muskogee,
leaving Newport at 8 o’clock for
a trip down the river. Music and
dancing. Round trip 50 cents.
95d6. Captain F- L. Inman.
Identifies Train Robbers.
United Press Dispatch
New Orleans July 2r> — Con
ductor Potter of the Louisvillle
& Nashville railroad today iden
tified the photos in the Rogues
Gallery of Clarence Boatwright
of Chicago and Alfred Oliver of
S- Louis as the men who held up
the train and killed the brake
man.
The bandits are still at large,
but a lynching Is probable if
they are cought.
Citrolax For Children,
i Citrolax For Grown-ups.
| Citrolax For Invalids and Deli
l cate Ones.
} Children love to take CITRO
LAX—tastes like lemonade and
is the nicest physic in the world
for them. A grown up writes:
“It gives the best flushing of
any cathartic I ever used;” and;
an invalid says: “It suits me
exactly—its action is so mild,
yet thorough, I can not afford to
be without it.” Nothing better
for constipation, sour, distended
stomach and bad breath or bil
iousness- Stops headaches quick
ly. For sale by City Drug Store.
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ST- PAUL’S CHURCH.
Holy Communion 7:30 a. m.
Sunday school in Parish
House 9:30 a- m.
Morning Prayer and Sermon
11a. m.
The Rector will continue and
!complete tomorrow morning last
; Sunday's lecture on the last ar
ticle of the Apostles creed. The
subject of the lecture will be
j “The Last Judgment.” So
much interest has been mani-,
tested that the talks will be
continued through August, j
Children of the Sunday school
are urged to return their text j
books tomorrow —Promotion
Sunday—so that new' lesson
books may be given them
Rev- L. W. Heaton, j
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What It is Costing The United
States to Improve Its High
ways and What It Gets In
Return.
Washington, I) C., July 25—
Approximately $206,000,000 was
spent last year on public roads
in the United States, according
to statistics prepared by the U
S. Department of Agriculture.
In 1904 the total was only $79,
000,000. In nine years, there
fore, the increase has been over
250 per cent.
This awakening on the part of
the country to the importance of
good roads has, experts say,
been due in great measure, to
the principle of state aid to
counties and other local commu
nities. New Jersey began the
movement in 1891 when it pass
ed its State Highway law. Mas
sachusetts and Vermont fol
lowed a year later, but for the
most part the other states were
slow to move In 1994 only fif
teen had state highway depart
ments; today there are only 6
that have not. In 1913 the in
dividual states appropriated a
total of $38,755,088 to supple
ment local expenditures
The value of this state aid is, j
however, not to be measured by
the figures alone, for the bulk of
the money comes, and always
must come, from the counties
ind townships- Thus, in 1912,
:he cash outlay by counties and
townships, was $137,493,985.
Complete figures for 1913 are
lot yet available, but it is safe
;o estimate the sum at approx
imately $151,000,000. To this
must be added some $15,000 to
•epresent the value of labor con
ributed instead of cash in dis
ricts w'here this practice pre
ails. Last year, therefore, lo
al communities contributed, in
ound numbers, one hundred ana
ixty-six millions of dollars, as
gainst appropriations from
tate treasuries of $38,755,099
’he true importance of this
hirty-eight millions lies in the
act that it means expert super
ision of the expenditure of a
onsiderable portion of the vast
um of two hundred millions. :
VThen each county built as it
hose, the services of trained en
ineers were usually out of the
uestion. There was little op
ortunity to test innovations, lit
le advance in the science of
oad-building, and there wrns also
ifficulty in arousing each coun
y individually to do its best
o improve conditions within its
wn limits. State aid has chang
ed all this. The best engineer
ng skill is available for all work
if importance, there is co-opera
ion and a constant stimulus to
urther improvements. The
noney contributed by the states
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does not only build more roads,
it makes better those that oth
er money builds,
j At the present time there are
in the United States 20,741
miles of roads improved either
wholly or in part by the state
aid- This is nearly the mileage
of the French routes nationales,
the system of great national
highways which is the envy of
every civilized nation. The
routes nationales are, of course,
only a small part of the total
mileage of France, where prac
tically every road of any im
portance is an improved road,
and France is a vastly smaller
country, both in area and in
population, than the United
States, so that this comparison
; is not, in itself, very flattering
j to our progressiveness- It shows
however, that we have at least
made a beginning. Of the 2,
| 226,842 miles of roads in the U
nited States, 223,774 miles, or
approximately 10 per cent, are
classed as improved
To improve the remaining 90
per cent may well seem a big
job- It is, in fact, only made pos
sible because the work really
pays for itself. From material
gathered by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, it is now
possible to prove not only that
good roads are a profitable in
vestment, but to determine ex
actly what dividends they pay.
An iiiirootirt-at-r»r aasicrnoH this
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problem in any given locality
first ascertains the extent of the
territory tributary to any main
road, much as one might ascer
tain the territory tributary to
some river The next step is an
accurate estimate of the total
products of this territory; so
much grain, so much tobacco,
so much garden truck, etc-, etc.
Of this quantity a certain por
tion is consumed on the farm;
the rest is shipped over the
road in question. The whole
calculation can then be checked
by investigators at the shipping
point to which the road leads.
In general it has been found
I that the two methods yield much
| the same information—the to
| tal amount of produce hauled ,
over the road- Next, the length'
of the average haul is calculat
ed, the size of load permitted by
the character of the road ascer
tained. and the cost of teams and
drivers figured. With these
facts before him, the investigat
or is now able to state positively
the cost of hauling a ton of
produce on that road, to express
in terms of these “ton miles”
the freight traffic on the road
and finally the total cost to the
community of hauling its goods
to market. Armed with this da
ta, it is easy to decide how much
can be profitably spent in im
proving the road and what are
the returns that the investment I
fA ■fin,a AAfmvmnift*
Garland of Gardena,
You must have lovely cities, said
Raskin, crystallized, not coagulated,
into form; limited in size, and not
casting out the scum and scurf of
them in*o an encircling eruption of
shame, but girded each with its sacred
pomoerium, and with garlands of
gardens, full of bio oming trees and
softly-guided streams.
NEWPORT. ARKANSAS
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
IRON MOUNTAIN
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SOUTH BOUND |
No. 17 braves.4:43 a. m. j
No. 3 leaves.5:20 p. m <
No. 5 leaves.5:10 a. m. I
No. 7 leaves.9:06 a. m.
No. 23 (arrives 7:20) leaves 7:45 p. m :
No. 91 (local freight) leaves 8:25 a. m.
No. 29 (arrives 6:28) departs
at.6:38 a. m. ,
NORTH BOUND.
No. 24 leaves......9:20 a. m.
No. 4 leaves.10:20 a. m.
No. 28 leaves.8:35 p. m. ji
No. 18 leaves.10:15 p. m. c
No. 6 leaves.10:45 p.m. 0
No. 92 (local freight) leaves 2:10 p. m.
WHITE RIVER DIVISION. D
WEST BOUND
No. 210 leaves.7:00 a. m. 0
No. 232 leaves.9:00 p. m. '
No. 246 (local freight) leaves
.11:15 a. m, !
EAST BOUND. Jj
No. 209 arrives.7:30 p. m. n
No. 231 arrives.6:18 a. m. c
No. 245 (local freight) arrives n
..9:40 a. m. c
No. 607 arrives 12c35 p. m. [i
No. 608 departs 1:59 p. m.
Local freight arrives Monday, Wed- [■
aesday and Friday; departs Tuesday,
rhursday and Saturday.
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of our large accounts begpn with a small deposit. The
small depositor of today becomes the large one of the
future. A checking account here is the future step to
wards financial growth. We will gladly handle your ac- l
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The Farmers Bank
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
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