VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1902. NUMBER 162
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The High Art Insurance Policy
I nr HE world rotated daily all the thousands I
* of years before the 15th century without
knowing how to make an egg stand on its
. * B end. Then Mr. Christopher Columbus
| came along and made the world look very p
I 'T'HIS Insurance x>lan of ours is a sort of
* second egg of Columbus—ever since the
clothing maker has plied his craft, he has
i been on the lookout for some manner in
which he could pre-eminate his product.
IT took us over five-and-thirty years to
I- * hatch the Insurance “Egg,’’and how sim
ple it is after all! Of course, there has
been guaranteed clothing—there are a doz
en makes for which the manufacturer “high
claims goodness enough to stand warranty. art.
'•high 13UT their guarantee is just a word—not
art.” £3 a txeed. A word so flexible—so elusive
—so back-doored that it doesn’t amount to
Copyrighted 1902. ^ tinker’s rap. C°pyrightedl902
HIGH Art Insurance is not a guaran
tee. That word has gotten to mean
nothing. It has been so abused—so
stretched and warped that all its spirit is
departed.
THERE are no family exits—no back
doors to our Insurance. We must
live up to our pledge. It is so unequivocal
—so absolute that the consumer has a
legal right to satisfaction from us.
IT would be commercial suicide for us to |j
* enter into this policy—to place our- I
selves in a “cul-de-sac”—were we not pre- I
pared to carry out our promises to the last I
letter of the last word.
/HkNLY a perfect product could give us a
confidence so great as to justify such
a stand. But there is not a tittle of risk!
Our goods are perfect enough—honest
enough—qualitied enough to withstand
any test of service.
WE, the makers, know how well
and honestly we manufac
ture. ^
\\/E know that finer clothing
* * cannot be produced than the
High Art make.
AND these claims must impress
you as being more than mere
Words when we back them up by
the most unequivocal pledge ever
made by a manufacturer.
Wl HERE conditions of price and
quality are parallel, High
Art Insured Clothing must have the
best of the argument. Any con
sumer will choose our product in
preference to goods against whose
bad service he has no redress. copyrighted 1902
I In addition we verify and guarantee everything j
stated above. I
HUFFMAN’S EXPANSION.
Work was commenced Monday on a
building 25 by 35 feet and two stories
high to be used by Ira P. Huffman for
a bake shop. A brick oven 14 feet
square inside is to be built in connec
tion with the building.
Mr. Huffman’s business has increas- j
ed to such proportions that
his present shop has become too
small, though, he started his bak
ing business in a shop 12 feet square
with an oven of 40 loaves capacity.
His new oven will have a capacity of
over 450 loaves every forty-five min
utes. If the people of Newport will
continue to show Mr. Huffman their
appreciation of good goods in the
«
future as they have in the past, New
port will soon have a bakery equal to
any city ten times her size.
ESCAPED WITH BOOTY.
A party of pearlers came down on a
launch from Black Rock, bringing a
young man with whom the others
were not acquainted. The owners of |
the boat carried a $100 in gold, stowed
away in the boat and it seems trusted
the young fellow too far.
While they were away, he secured
the yellow coin and upon their return,
told them he was going over in town
for Borne cigarettes. But he ran
across a handcar, which he made use
of to a point beyond Diaz. His
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thievery was soon discovered and the
victims started in pursuit on another
handcar. They managed to overtake
him, but when about fifty yards away,
he took to the brush, which skirts the
track.
Sheriff Bandy was telephoned for
and has gone in pursuit with his blood
hound. At press hour, nothing fur
ther had been heard and it was im
possible to learn the names of the
parties to the affair.
Mrs. Robt. Harder, who received
quite painful injuries Saturday after
noon, caused by a failing limb while
out pecan hunting with a party from
Newport, continues to improve.
SKAGGS IN SCRIMMAGE. j
Pugilistic Paragould Pedagogue Has
Another Rough and Tumble Fight
in Which he Comes out Victor.
A lively little scrimmage occurred
Saturday night in Paragould says the
Soliphcne between Prof. W. L.
Skaggs, formerly of Newport and Dr.
W. A. Sims.
Strained relations have existed be
tween the two men for the past year
on account of trouble growing out of
the management of the city public
schools and they have heretofore had
some words. Last Friday Prof.
Skaggs punished a son of G. W. Cox
and Dr. Sims complained to one of
the directors, Jason Light, that the
punishment was excessive and criti
cised the board for maintaining Prof.
Skaggs in the position of Superin
tendent, according to Mr. Light’s
statement. Saturday night the board
of directors met and considered the
case of punishment administered to
the Cox boy and sustained Prof.
Skaggs and ruled that the boy should
submit to the discipline prescribed
by Prof. Skaggs or he would be denied
the benefits of the Behool.
Saturdays night after the board
meeting the two men met and Prof.
Skaggs accosted Dr. Sims for med
ling with his business, as the pro
fessor called it. The doctor said he
had not done so and told Prof.
Skaggs to get out of his way; this the
professor refused to do but continued
his remarks, when the doctor drew’
his pistol. Prof. Skaggs grabbed the
weapon and a scuffle ensued in which
both men went to the side walk, Dr.
Sims trying to hold the weapon and
Prof. Skaggs trying to wrench it from
him. In the melee the pistol was dis
charged but no one was hurt by the
shot. By this time parties who were
near the scene of the trouble rushed
in and seized the pistol and separated
the combatants. Dr. Sims received a
a blow on the head wljich gave him a
scalp wound, which was sewed up,
Prof. Skaggs eceived no injury.
After the two men were separated
Dr. Sim’s hat and cane were left lying
on the sidewalk, and Prof. Skaggs
proceeded to demolish them by tear
ing the hat into | carpet rags and
breaking the cane into kindling
wood.
There was mvone in the immediate
presence of the two men when the
difficulty began, but the pistol shot
and the noise soon attracted a crowd.
The pistol was a 38-caliber with ham
mer, but Prof. Skaggs said it sounded
to him like a cannon.
Dr. Sims is not a patron of the pub
lic schools, refusing to enter his
children because of Prof. Skaggs’
mode of administering punishment to
recalcitrant pupils, to which the doc
tor very much objects. The board of
directors, on the other hand, have sus
tained Prof. Skaggs in every difficulty
thathas come up under his management
of the schools and seem to be of the
opinion that a little pugilism mixed
with pedagogy is essential to the
subordination of the pupils and pa
trons of the city schools and Prof.
Skaggs evinces the ability to supply
both in a measure equal to all de
minds.
SMALL BOY’S SKULL
CRUSHED BY BEAR.
Hot Springs, Oct. 27.—This after
noon in what is known as Happy Hol
low, a resort for visitors, who go there
to view a collection of wild animals,
little Robert Tatman, an 8-year-old
lad, when passing close to where a
large black bear was chained, was
caught between the paws of the ani
mal, and the latter dragged him close
to his body and, placing the youth’s
head in his widely-opened mouth, was
crushing his skull, when the bear’s
keeper rushed to the scene, and,
using only his hand, pried open the
mouth of the now ferocious monster
and took the boy from him. The
little one was unconscious, and an
examination revealed the fact that his
skull had been badly fractured. He
was also torn about the lower limbs
by the bear dragging him to his lair.
Physicians have no hope for the re
covery of the boy.
Fresh bulk oysters at Huffman’s.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. ‘ {mm
At the meeting of the city council
Monday evening with all members
present except Alderman Wilmans,
little was accomplished of any interest
to the public. The minutes of Oct. 21,.
were read and approved and all the
accounts approved by the finance
committee were allowed.
The advocates of sewerage have
not a vote to spare in the council and
a communication from the sewerage
commissioners asking for an appro
priation of $50, for stationery, postage
and etc., was laid over until the next
meeting, owing to the inability of the
supporters of sewerage to pass same,
without the presence of all three mem
bers friendly to the improvement. 4
IN HONOR OF MISS PENCE.
Miss Nelle Pence of Van Buren was
the guest of honor at a very pleasant
evening function Monday at the home
of Mrs. William Mosby on Hazel
Street. As the invited guests in
cluded three gifted and excellent per
formers on the piano, Misses 'Claire
Johnson, Nelle Pence and Bessie
Vann, music proved quite a feature of
the entertaining and contributed to
the pleasure of all.
Mrs. Mosby was very cordial in the
role of hostess and the refreshments
of brick cream and assorted cake
were nicely served.
Those present were Misses Hal
Phillips, Minnie Redman, Claire
Johnson, Bessie Vann of Vandale,
Nelle Pence of Van Buren, Messrs.
John Prewitt, Harry Brandenburg,
O. D. Hawn and Frank Gullett.
J. A. Holmes of Batesville was here
Monday evening on his way north.
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